We are back on the record in open session. You still have a quorum. Please call the next item. Item 10 discussion on item 9 held in closed section. I move not to disclose. President turman second. On the question arent we prohibited from disclosing this no matter if we want to or not. We have to make this motion. President turman moved and seconded all in favor. Any opposed . All right. Next item. Item 11 adjournment. President turman members of this commission tonight we close the book on the commission in 2017. We are concluding our calendar for the year and we will be back on january 10th. It has been a challenging year, it has been a hard year. But we accomplished much and there is still a lot to do. Lets work as productively together as we have been able to do in the past. I look forward to working with all of you in 2018. 2018 in one capacity or another. And i thank you for all of your time and attention to the commission and to the goal also of serving the people of the city and county of San Francisco. I want to thank you and the commissioner for your leadership. It is a difficult year. We do what we have to do. I want to thank you for your hard work. And we hope you get well. Thank the chief, too. All in favor of adjournment. Aye. I will make a motion to adjourn. Second. I vote no. I will go with the majority. President turman all in favor. Any opposed. Thank you. We will see you on january 10th. Extravaganza, celebration. Sf gov, we are ready to start the meeting. This is the regular meeting of the Small BusinessCommission Held december 11th, 2017. This meeting is being called to order at 5 32 p. M. The Small Business commission thanks Media Services and sfgovtv staff. Members of the public please take this opportunity to silence your phones and other electronic devicesment Public Comment during the meeting is limit today three minutes per speaker, unless otherwise established by the precider of the meeting. Speakers are encouraged but not required to state their name. Please place your speaker cards in the basket to the right of the lectern and they will be called in the order received. Will you please show the slide. Its our custom to begin and end with a reminder, the office of Small Business is the only place to start your new business and best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first step when you have a question what to do next. You could find us online or in person at city hall, best of all, all of our services are free of charge. The commission is a place to voice your concerns about policies that affect Economic Vitality of if you have questions start here. Thank you. And welcome. Item 1, call to order and roll call. Commissioner stephen adams. Here. Commissioner kathleen dooley. Here. Commissioner mark dwight. Here. Commissioner ortiz cartagena is absent. Commissioner irene yee riley. Here. Commissioner zouzounis. Here. Public comment allows the public to comment on matters in the jurisdiction but not on the agenda. Do we have any members of the public that would like to comment on anything not on tonights agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 3, approval of Legacy Business Program resolution, discussion and action item. We have Becks Motor Lodge, eddys cafe, little joes pizzeria and one twenty for hair. Richard kurylo. Richard kurylo, Legacy Business Program program manager. Sfgovtv, i have a slide. The applications were reviewed by me for completion and submitted to Planning Department staff on november 8th for their review. They were heard december 6th and made positive recommendations to the Small Business commission. For each applicant your Commission Packet contains a staff report. A draft resolution. The application. A case report from Planning Department staff and a resolution from Historic Preservation commission. There are copies on the table for the public. Item 3a is Becks Motor Lodge. Business is a family owned motel located in the castro neighborhood constructed in 1958. Becks motor lodge has 58 guest rooms and free parking and an affordable friendly welcoming place for out of towners to stay and experience the castro. In 2011, Brittany Beck, granddaughter of original owner will beck purchased the hotel from her parents. Since then its undergone renovations and improvements and now has a mid century modern design leaning toward modern, including redesign of the logo displayed on the buildings giant sign. Item 3b is eddies cafe. Opened in 1974 by owner eddie barry as soul Food Restaurant in a predominantly African American neighborhood n. 1998 the business was sold to helen and min wang who wanted to start their own business. Though the business no longer offered a strictly soul food based menu, eddies cafe still maintains welcoming environment and comforting food to others including certain traditional dishes such as grits and sausages. Item 3c is little joes pizzeria. The business is a family owned restaurant, in Excelsior Outer Mission boulevard opened 1958 by little joe russo. Features pizza, chicken parmegan and pasta dishes. In 1963 alfredo purchased the business and added a mexican element to the menu. Offering a unique menu to a diverse community. Item 3d is one twenty for hair. The business is a local haircuting and hair styling salon serving the south of market financial district. The business was open in 1985 by marko and edith paz who relocated to San Francisco from washington d. C. To establish themselves as leaders in the industry on the west coast after having run a successful and presee prestigious salon in washington. Affordable prices in a warm welcoming and familiar environment. All four businesses received a positive recommendation from the Historic Preservation commission. After reviewing these applications and the recommendations from the Historic Preservation commission, staff finds the businesses have met the three criteria to qualify for listing on the legacy business registry. There are four draft resolutions for consideration by the Small Business commission. One for each of the legacy business registry applicants. Notion a motion in support of the businesses should be a motion in favor of the resolutions. In the resolutions, please pay close attention to the core physical features or traditions that define the business. Once approved the businesses must maintain these physical features or traditions in order to remain on the legacy business registry. For Becks Motor Lodge its hotel. For eddies cafe, restaurant featuring diner fare. Little joes pizzeria its restaurant featuring italian fare. And for one twenty for hair, its a hair salon. There are business representatives in attendance who would like to speak on behalf of the applications. Great, if you dont have any questions for richard, i will open it up for Public Comment. Thanks, richard. Any members of the public who would like to comment on this item . And i see a few people here, please. Three minutes. Come on up and say your peace. We are delighted to see you here. Showtime. Its your opportunity to get on sfgovtv, visible worldwide on the web. Come on, break the ice. Hello. Im Brittany Beck of Becks Motor Lodge. The first to talk to me about this opportunity, and i thought it was a really great opportunity for my business. As was mentioned my grandfather originally built the hotel in 1958. Its been a long but short history, went from my grandfather to my dad and in 2011 to me. Unfortunately my grandfather passed away before i was born. But the castro is an amazing place and i dont think he realized what the castro would become when he built a hotel then, so being a part of the city and seeing it through the changes and wonderful things and guessing and predicting where the castro and city will go is an exciting aspect. Im excited my business is located in San Francisco and we will hopefully be there forever. I am thankful for this opportunity and i hope you approve us to move forward. Awesome. Thank you foregoing for going through the process. Come on, now its been done. You arent the first, you can be next in line. [off mic] you can come up together, its a party. My name is marko paz, im owner of one twenty for hair. We have been in business since 1985 with my wife edith, she is now taking care of the business while im here with my daughter rosie. We have two locations. 120 howard street, that is where the name come from, one twenty for hair. And we move around the corner to 155 main street, which is just around the corner so we dont lose the clientele when we move from one place to another one. Awesome. Yeah, so originally we were on howard and then move today main street. We have successfully burr burgoned in successful San Francisco, which is nice, we got to see it grow from being little mamas building to all these buildings. We are excited to be growing in the San Francisco district. Are you in the business . I dont do hair styling. Thank you. Next up. Yea. My name is alfredo rodriguez, im from little joes pizza, my parents were there in 1973. They have since both passed on. And im there with one of my sisters. And my two other sisters have also worked there. My nieces, one still works with me, a brotherinlaw, two cousins. So its pretty family. Its always been that way. And its been many years. We have been there since i was like 7 years old. And grew up there. People go where is home . This is home. Seeing people in the window is like when you water your lawn or come outside, seeing your neighbors and people. I love my neighborhood. When they say home is home, that is home. Thank you for your help and i hope this can help preserve us to stay, because i know the city goes through so many changes and times are different and im realizing im older now and you can kind of get moved on but you have to try. We have a Community Center next to us. And she brought this to my attention and i never knew anything about it. So stephanie cahina brought it to me and said we are trying. I said thats an idea. She is younger. I said let me listen to someone young and see what i can do. Okay, we started working through the application and with ricks help. Im happy. Im happy to be a part of this city. Its what we know, its where we were born. To grow with it, hopefully grow with it and thank you for your help, and if it can help us to preserve us staying at home. So thank you for your help. Fantastic. Thank you very much. Do we have anybody else . [off mic] thats okay. Come on up and say something. Thank you very much for being eddies cafe part of legacy business. I purchased 1988 now, its become 29 years. All my neighborhood has changed so much. Fancy restaurants come. They would rather sell alcohol, its easy to get the money. You know, its more expensive. Like one champagne cost like 11. Our breakfast costs 8. 95. [laughter] and we are really working hard, its not easy. We make everything, you know, from scratchy, all the hash browns and pancakes. Im so happy working in eddies cafe. And thank you for this city of San Francisco. Im very, very happy and we work so hard and you guys Pay Attention to eddies cafe, im so happy. Thank you very much. Awesome, thank you. See, you did great. Perfect. All right. Do we have any other members of the public that would like to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. First i would like to thank you all foregoing for going through the arduous process of filling out the application but as you have discovered its a rewarding process because it causes you to reflect on your business. We are so busy running our business we hardly take time to see where we come from. Now you have nice little document that has pictures and stories in it so you could share that with your other relatives, so thats awesome. Thank you very much. Commissioner adams . Yes, i want to give a shout out to Brittany Beck with Becks Motor Lodge, what she has done in the community. A member of the castro merchants. A member of the San Francisco travel agency. Or whatever you call it now. Sf travel. Here is a couple tidbits, she has beehives on her roof. Which i think is awesome because it helps the neighborhood with flowers and growing and all sorts of cool things. And brittany is a big huge part of our neighborhood. Whether its pride, folsom, dory, but even outside lands, the hospitals, becks really plays a pivotal role in bringing people in no matter what event it is. And this commission should hear this. This poor woman has been through every process getting city permits and stuff. And i get these phone calls, i have to get this permit and they are changing this and this, and i have to sit in the Police Department for this. But i listen to her, and i will call regina and we will get it done. But you have really endured through a lot of these processes, and im proud of you. I remember when you took over the motel and you didnt know and you just started doing it. I think its awesome what you have done, the renovations, the place looks beautiful. I will end it with this, if you drive up Market Street during the holidays and see Market Street lit up with the white lights it was Brittany Beck that started it at the motor lodge and got the other merchants to put white lights on their trees, between church and castro you could thank brittany for that christmas miracle. We call her miss christmas in the neighborhood. You should see her house. I want to thank you for everything you have done. Thank you for enduring a lot. If your grandfather was alive he would be so proud of you, he is looking down proud at you for what you have done there. Thank you for being a great part of our community. You have done a great job. Thank you. Thats awesome. Commissioner dooley . Congratulations to you all, you have put in your time. As a Small Business owner myself, i know what its like, it never ends, you are working all the time. Not only do we want to congratulate you on the legacy of Business Award but to remind you that the Small Business commission and office of Small Businesses is here for you. And if you need help, if you have questions, no charge, we are here to help you out. So once again, great work, thank you. Yes. Commissioners, any other comments . Yes, commissioner zouzounis . Congrats everybody. This is really exciting. Again, i love seeing the secondthird generation businesses. Kids following their parents and grandparents legacy. My family has a deli and a store. When i hear stories people coming in talking about my grandparents and what they remember, that means a lot to me. Congrats. Thank you all for taking time out from your businesses to come here tonight. Those of us Small Business owners up here know the commitment to come to city hall. So much appreciated. And congratulations. So do we have a motion . I motion that we approve Becks Motor Lodge, eddies cafe, little joes pizzeria and one twenty for hair legacy businesses. Second. Commissioner adams. Yes. Dooley. Yes. Cartagena is absent. Torrance toursarkissian. Yes. Riley. Yes. Zouzounis. Yes. That motion passes 60. [applause] now back to work. Thanks a lot you guys. You can take off the rest of the meeting, not nearly as exciting as the legacy business stuff and its our favorite part of the evening. Thank you. Appreciate you coming out tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Happy holidays. All right, next item, please. Iet item 4, approval of meeting minutes. Motion . Or discussion . Oh, first of all, any discussion, commissioners . No. Do we have any members of the public that would like to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion . I move. I second. Okay. All in favor . Aye. Any opposed . That motion passes, 60. All right. Next item. Directors report, update and report on the final regulations and permitting for adultuse cannabis, the office of Small Business and Small Business assistance center, Department Programs policy and legislative matters announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding Small Business activities. I will have a lengthy directors report since we have a short meeting tonight. To start with the Legacy Business Program, so, ria algonado, our new staff person is handling communications for legacy businesses so we have now started producing press releases after the businesses come on to the registry. And as a result, we are now generating more press for these business