Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Business week. Adam began working with Small Business Week Committee in 2009, which is my first year and managed it through 2019. Adam is to commended for his excellent skills and talents in producing and managing a week long occasion that has over 60 events and workshops. This was an accomplished about his amazing ability to coordinate and manage consisting of nearly 20 Small Business community organizations. Adam was instrumental in maintaining partnerships with sponsorships which resulted in San Francisco Small Business week being the largest and most comprehensive in the united states. For these reasons and many more that the Small Business commission is proud to recognize adam straus for his contributions to celebrating Small Business in San Francisco and San Francisco Small Business week. Without adam straus Small Business week would not be what it is today. Hes a d. J. And whole lot of other stuff. Adam, congratulations thank you very much for everything that you have done. You want to say a few words . Thank you guys. Its been a pleasure working with you guys over the last ten years. Its been a lot fun. Im going to miss getting to work on that. Im sure you guys will be able to pick up where i left off and continue to make it even better. Thank you very much for the recognition and for the opportunity to get to do that. President adams commissioner comments . Its been a pleasure working with you. Best of luck to you in your new place and new endeavors. It wont be the same without you. Well miss you. Good luck with your new endeavor. President adams can we get a picture with everybody . Lets go with the flag. [applause]. President adams with that, do we have members of the public who like to make Public Comment on adam straus . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Congratulations adam and thank you again for everything youve done for the city. [applause] next item please. Item 4. [agenda item read] president adams is carolina morales here . I didnt see her. Shes in route. President adams do you want to go to number 5. Commissioners while were waiting for carolina, lets go to item number 5 approval of draft meeting minutes. Move to approve. President adams procedure as i announce it and do we have a second to go to number 5 before number 4 . Do we have a second . Second. President adams all in favor . Go ahead with item 5. [agenda item read] theres minor correction to the minutes. I did not include that commissioner irene riley was in attendance. You move to approve the amendment with the corrections . President adams any members of the public like to make comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I move to approve the minutes with the minor correction. Second. Voice vote. President adams all in favor . Aye. Motion passes. Did carolina come in . There she is. Lets go back to item 4. Thank you for waiting. Good evening commissioners. Thank you so much for having me here. Im carolina morales. Legislative director for supervisor hillary eronen. Im here to talk about the active space building on 18th street. This legislation was introduced back in february when we found out that close to 100 businesses were going to be displaced at the same time in the mission neighborhood. Specifically at 3150, 18th street. And they would suffer fines due to violations and regulations. This businesses are very small. Their owner operated enterprises and most of them are hosting personal services. We believe that close to 100 businesses on the same block, one will be economic crisis for the mission. They are facing displacement of hundreds of Small Businesses and thousands of working class residents due to gentrification. The ordinance supervisor offered will be displaced for businesses in ten years and provide amnesty under the planning code. It will allow the businesses currently operating at active phase to be considered legal conforming use and remain in the building for a permit application with 30 days. Were trying to protect art and manufacturing spaces in the district specifically the neighborhood. We must protect these hard to find spaces. We believe the solution that we have introduced that is before you today strikes a right balance between protecting Small Businesses in the shortterm while ensuring art and manufacturing space remains for the longterm. I know the commission, the Planning Commission had some ideas around amendments specifically around office space. We know this item after its heard at your commission will go to the Land Use Committee and will have to discuss basically what the supervisors what version of the legislation that the supervisors will support. We have difficult situation in terms of the intention of having office space not stay there for a longer time which was the suggestion of the Planning Commission. Then centering a lot of art businesses calling us about this amnesty and feeling like its unfair that were getting special treatment to the businesses that are there. I wanted to present a different position that have been discussed and i look forward to hearing your recommendations and your vision voices for the Small Businesses that were trying to support. Thank you. President adams thank you. Commissioner questions . You want to hear Public Comment . Well open this up for Public Comment first. Aaron starr is also here. President adams right. Wile wait for him. I know we have lot of members of the public here and theyre all Small Business owners. Theyre going to be affected. Were the Small Business commission. Wenwe want to hear what they hae to say on this. You have the cards . Ill call you up, if you want to line up on the right side of the wall, that might be easier just for crowd management. [reading Public Comment names] president adams were going to make Public Comment two minutes for tonight. Good afternoon. Im david lloyd. I may differ from the speakers in that im an office space tenant. The decision to move my business to San Francisco in 2017 was made because active space was an affordable art friendly space. Im performing arts and music booking agent. Ive been working in the performing arts field for 35 years my clients includes grammy winners and honorees. Its my belief that i qualify as p. D. R. For the city use. Ive been led to believe that i should be expecting to be evicted as an office use, which is im here today with my colleagues. My office space is is on the fourth floor. Its approximately 10 feet by 1. It has one window and small sink and only cold water. Most units do not have hot water. The temperature in the room is hot. The space has no airconditioning, or exhaust system other than the window. It is a no frills office. It is not a production space. Currently there are roughly 8 to 10 spaces that are open on my floor. It appears theres a similar number of units empty on other floors. I applaud the instinct to protect the p. D. R. Space. I question the wisdom replacing the existing Small Businesses that they will be filled by p. D. R. Uses. I encourage your commission to see the layout of the structure of this facility and examine the practicality of renting the upper there ar floor for p. D. R. Thank you. President adams thank you. Next speaker please. Team member of the Small Business commission. Thank you for holding this hearing today regarding legislation. Im wendell. Since 2012, ive been offered Massage Services to people of San Francisco bay area. Some of the reasons important for me to stay there, i ask for your approval the proposal decision today are security, privacy, accessibility and autonomy. Here we are 11 years later. Its entrepreneurs of all sorts have been able to establish their craft in this space. It seems the demand for services such as mine other than p. D. R. 1g has facilitied necessary of necessity of our practiceses. The city of San Francisco attracted, uber, lyft with financial incentives in ordered to drive its economy. Which it has. However, the people who work at these companies are human beings too. Many of them have found themselves on my massage table. Its more essential that my practice be allowed to stay in active space building to meet the needs of San Franciscos people and keep this economic power house of ours thriving. I ask for your support of this legislation. Thank you for considering my reasons to continuing offer my practice in active space. Hi. Im a practitioner of skin care i have a wholistic clinic. I help people clear their skin naturally with nutrition. I moved in the active space building in 2012. I consider myself to be a very responsible Business Owners. I went through 30 hours of core business classes. I took the half day course about the tax. Im willing to do what is needed to be right. This never came across to me as anything weird. All of us here cant afford to work with a realtor. Realtors dont work with us. We dont get the kind of information about zoning, p. D. R. , these steps we need take with the city. Im not blaming them, im telling you what my experience was when i walked in there, they have a Bulletin Board of postcarded, all victimming advocating businesses like mine in the building. Ive been there since 2012. Ive been looking for new space since 2015. I currently pay 1000 for 125 square feet. Im willing to pay up to 1700 or 1800 a month to go somewhere else. I cannot find it in the city. Im having problems finding spaces. Carolina morales said theres hundred businesses displaced. I counted on the legislative paper its 190 actually. Theres lot of vacant spaces available. I think longterm zoning needs to be looked at. Donald trump than president adams thank you. Next speaker. My name is austin. Im a massage therapist. My partner and i live here in San Francisco. We live in a small apartment. I own a Small Business. I work in a small space. 10 by 10. Very small room. Its super affordable for me. When the Health Notice got slapped on the door, i was terrified. I didnt know how i would support my family. I need active space. Anywhere else i go im looking at double where i pay now. The p. D. R. Zoning at active space production distribution and repair in 2004 when that space was built, they expected artist to come in. These tiny little spaces. Now we have a city with not whole lot of artists to use these tiny spaces. We have human art folks who are repair heart and soul body of people who live in this space. Its inevitable. Youre going to go through there because there are tons of Small Businesses in the active space. Everybody goes through there. I ask that you support this legislation. I want to say thank you to regina and to supervisor ronen and carolina. They stepped up and we went to our first meeting about this. They called this a crises. This is what it was. When i heard that word, i realized i think its going to be okay. You guys will hear us. President adams thank you. Next speaker please. I opened my salon ten years in active space. I found a commercial lease on craigslist. I applied for my business license establishment cosmetology. The state board checked me out twice. I had multiple employees over the years. Some have opened their own businesses. We built a really Beautiful Community active space. We are sad to see it go. I have an alternative type of salon there. Tailored to nonprofit works, teachers, mixed race and people transitioning through gender. We make this affordable for them. We keep the cost low. If i was at another space, i had to move now, i couldnt keep my cost low and couldnt retain those clients. Im not sure why were taking on the payments that were going to have to take on. Why active space isnt. Im not that great public speaking. I want to show up today and tell you guys that we need this space for us. I understand that we also need p. D. R. Thank you for hearing me. Thank you for having us. Im a little nervous. Bear with me. Im here representing liberation institute. Liberation institute is a grassroots Nonprofit Community Mental Health centre. Which offers Mental Health service. We currently have 10 units. We have 60 volunteer and we see over 500 clients a week and our wait list is full. Im born and raised in San Francisco. I think we all know that there are lot of people individuals in the city that are falling through the cracks. While people might be able to make a full income that doesnt mean they can afford the cost of living in San Francisco. This state of being can have really high toll on Mental Health. By being able to take on people that cannot pay full fee were able to offer really service to this community to our city. Im really proud to be a part of liberation institute. Im passionate about the work they do. I feel strongly this is a very needed service in the city. Affordable rent is necessary for our Business Model. At this point were still struggling to stay open. We have more and more people coming in for our services. We are hardly making the money we need now to stay open. We mostly rely on funding from generous donors. We need more generous donors. This started about ten years ago when our founder just rented active space and started pulling Homeless People off the streets and offering them therapy. Some of those original clients are still in recovery, they are still moving forward in their life and benefiting from the services that we provide. On behalf of the 500 people that serve weekly on were waiting on the wait list for our services, behalf of the people that are mustering the bravery to ask for the help you provide. We ask you to be generous. President adams next speaker. Im here today to represent my wife. She has a licensed marriage and family therapist and social psychologist. Shes been operating on active space for the last six years. She cannot be here today because shes treating clients. Her backtoback clients 12 hours a day. Monday through friday. She does this because theres a lack of Mental Health for underserved and working class people. The affordable cost of active space allowed her to offer sliding scale payment options. Her clientele ranges from people in the Upper Echelon in the Tech Industry wall the economic advantages that it provides. Shes not the only Mental Health therapist in active space doing their best to serve diverse population in San Francisco. Of the 22 Mental Health practitioners who participated in the survey, gained with liberation institute, we found therapist rent 31 units in active space and provide Mental Health to 1200 clients a week. Over 500 of those are lowfee clients from underserved propositions population. This is likely a low estimate. I like to conclude my statement with a few questions. Does the city of San Francisco value the contributions of their Mental Health practitioner president adams thank you. Next speaker please. Hello. Im karen walsh. Her wife is my neighbor. Active space. Im a marriage licensed family therapist. I started at active space in 2009 when i started my private practices internship. I got my own space in 2010. I couldnt afford to have a space and to offer therapy in the city anywhere else. 90 or more of the clients that i serve are children and families. I call my practice s. F. Bay play therapy. We offer play therapy to children in particular specializing in schoolaged kids 3 to 10. Play therapy is modality. Its the most healing for children at that age. Theres a posse of child 30s itherapists in the city. I have two interns that i supervise. In order to supervise an intern, you have to be in the same building. That allows my interns to actually get other spaces in the building and to provide services it other families more than i could in my open space. Even with myself and my two current employees, i have a wait list and get inquiries from families in particular families of children with sensory, learning and social differences like autism and adhd and sensory processing disorder. I have to constantly turn them away because theres no other people in the city that theres not enough affordable space for therapist to provide services to families. We tend to charge little bit lower rate. President adams two minutes is up. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hi. Im michelle malloy. Im a body worker. Ive been a body worker for 22 years in San Francisco. Selfemployed for 21. I moved into active space in 2013, taking over rent for someone for 470 a month for an office space thats 8 by 11. Thats how small my office is. I specifically sought out this building because its the most affordable for me to be able to afford home rent, office rent, Everything Else that includes to be sel

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