About policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here at the office of Small Business. Thank you. Please call item 1. Item 1, call to order and roll call. [roll call vote] commission dooly is absent. Commission huie is running late. [roll call] you have a quorum. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 2, general Public Comment. Allows member of the public to comment on matters that are within the Small Business commissions jurisdiction but not on todays calendar and to suggest new agenda items for the commissions future consideration. Discussion item. I presentedd to on your binders a Public Comment that was received before the start of the meeting. That would be applicable under general Public Comment. Great. Do we have to do anything to recognize that comment . Nope okay. So are there any members of the public who wish to speak on any matter that is not on todays agenda . Seeing none, comments
Committee i am joined by supervisors walton and mandelman. I would like to thank Samuel Williams and michael from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Do we have announcements . Please silence cell phones and electronic documents. Submit documents to the clerk. Items today will appear on the march 17th agenda unless otherwise stated due to the deck rarcoronavirus we are asking yoo wash hands and avoid touching high volume surfaces as much as possible. Please call item one and two. Resolution authorizing the department of Public Health to accept 3 million from the Tipping Point community for creation of new Psychiatric Center for two year period beginning january 162020 through january 15, 2020. Two. Resolution authorizing the director of property to lease Real Property located at 11567 valencia street for 404,000 per year for three years with an estimated commencement date of mar1, 2020 to expire on februar. Thank you very much. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you. Colleagues. These two
Slide 6. Locam i reading it correct its gone down when youre comparing the 18, 19 to the fall of 2019 . This is slide 6 . Yeah. Sorry. Yes. So what this is showing you is the yellow bar is what the 18, 19 school year chronic absenteeism rate and the blue bar is showing what it is in the fall. Right . So our goal is to keep steady at the blue bar which would mean that at the end of this year, our chronic absenteeism rate would go down. Okay. But if we have the jump that weve been seeing over the past three years, it will go up. Okay. Thank you. Does that make sense . We need to it shows how its gone up every year, that slide. This is last year versus midyear and they are trying to maintain yeah. Its a little bit of apples and oranges. Were doing a fall to a year. But this is what were saying is that this is were seeing here is an opportunity we have to hopefully turn back that chronic absenteeism and then for your question, commissioner norton, the last three years of data, and i would
Want to thank everybody for coming today and bringing up so many like concrete points that the commission can really take back and put together real recommendations around, and i also think you brought up so many things that were so good. Like really meat i didnt thinks to talk about. I just want to encourage that hopefully i see that after owning a business for so many years that we are kind of in a really good spot with good conversations and nice collaborative work as merchants and Business Owners. This gives me a lot of hope that everybody here came so prepared, and so passionate about what you do and so willing to share. That wasnt necessarily the case before. I think people were much more protective of their data, of their experience. We all wanted to smile and go business is great. Even when times were tough we were unwilling to share vulnerabilities. Right now we have an opportunity to collaborate as Business Owners and Community Members to say this is enough of this. We need m
Under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised too use cellphones and pagers and Electronic Devices are prohibited. The chairman ordered the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible fort ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or soundproducing electronic device. A member of the public as up to three minutes to make Public Comments on each agenda item unless they are shorter period on any item. Item a Public Comments on not listed on the agenda. Are there any Public Comments. How are you doing. Michael regula gregory heavyt trucking. I just want to bring it to your guys attention. I was awarded a job with Granite Construction for a number of material, about 56, maybe 80,00, right. And when i got the paperwork back, they pushed a number back down to 1,000 tons which which strange when i called the company out on it he said he would use me but he wasnt going to use me for the whole portion. He was going to bring in his team from the south bay.