All right, we are ready to start. It is monday, january 25, Small Business commission meeting. It is 2. 10 and we are going to call the meeting to order. Before we do that just again announcement that i do not have speaker cards so for this meeting for when the item that you are interested in speaking on is called, just line up and say your name if youd like to before you start to speak. So id like to thank sfgovtv for recording and airing the Small Business commission meeting. So, mr. President , i will go to item no. 1. Call to order, roll call. Do your announcement first. So were going to start make ago monthly announcement or an announcement for every meeting to let you know and to reinforce the notion that the office of Small Business is the only place to start your business in San Francisco. A lot of people dont know that and when starting a business in San Francisco, the first place you want to go is either in person or online to sfosb. Org and or come to our desk here at city h
So, mr. President , i will go to item no. 1. Call to order, roll call. Do your announcement first. So were going to start make ago monthly announcement or an announcement for every meeting to let you know and to reinforce the notion that the office of Small Business is the only place to start your business in San Francisco. A lot of people dont know that and when starting a business in San Francisco, the first place you want to go is either in person or online to sfosb. Org and or come to our desk here at city hall and you will learn everything you need to know about starting your business and where you go from there. We are also letting all the other desks throughout city hall know that if someone comes to them and says, im starting a business, they say, well, if you havent been to the office of Small Business first, go there first and we will see you when the time is right. Okay, so thats our Public Service announcement for today. Thank you. And its free. And our advice is free. That
Changing and colleagues, can we take that same house, same call . Well take that without objection. Oh, the house has changed so well call the roll on rescind the votes on items 5 and 6. On the motion to rescind the vote. Commissioner kim did you want to Say Something or and schelgz has left so then ill withdraw he had voted on those items; right . So the motion commissioner tang do you agree to that okay. The motion is withdrawn. Item 11. Public comment. Any Public Comment . Thank you, thank you the state of mercy to see everyone equal and one body in leadership so as one can have a full heart of selfcontainment once isolation of good cause could be served a dream would come through because of the mercy one engages of coloration or selfimprovement in all realistic aspects avenue their works selfcult vacation of works of true heart and selfdirection and good experience for a extension of aids to the brothers is true mercy. Okay any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed
Has the power to refer under 67. 30. Mr. Sheffield . Mr. Pillpais correct there is no specific provision. However, i believe through the conversations that we have had, one concern was say the supervisor of records makes a determination that they believe there was a willful violation. It would not necessarily prohibit them from bringing it forward to hear. It was a cover all basis kind of thing so we didnt preclude something that may have come from a different body. It certainly could be stricken, but in event it may happen that way, although it hasnt ever, the commission didnt want to foreclose on that option. Would the question then be whether the definition referral presumes a particular handling and whether something sent to us, lets not use the technical term referred but sent to us from the superintendent, but handled in the same was from the task force . Are they the same basket of definition . Right now they are . The supervisor the records makes the same types of determination
Together with our supervisors and Mayors Office have come together and put this program together and we want to announce and launch it today in front of martin lams good will shop here because hes been a real great leader in helping many of the Small Businesses, and particularly those that dont speak english owned by proprietors that maybe english is not their first language. Over the past couple years, supervisor chu and i have been talking about these driveby lawsuits that have been occurring and how shocked some of these businesses are to the sometimes abusive process that are used by litigators to get at them. But in the context of overall our citys willingness to comply with ada, with title 24 of the state, and our own access through our Mayors Office of disability. We want everybody to comply. We dont want them to be victims of irrational and abusive lawsuits. And at the same time, we want to give them the help that they so well deserve. And, so, with the extra monies that we hav