Members of the public take this opportunity to silence your phones and other electronic devices. Public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presiding officer of the meeting. Speakers are requested but not required, to state their names. Completion of a speaker card, while optional, will ensure proper spelling of the speakers names. Please place speaker cards in the basket. Speaker cards will be called in the order in which they were placed in the basket. Additionally, there is a sign and cheat on the front table. Please show the office of Small Business. Welcome. It is our custom to begin in and each Small Business, it is the only place to start your new business business here in San Francisco, and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in tran07. The office of Small Business should be your first stop when you have questions about you can find us online or or in person here at city hall, and best of all all of services are free of charge. San francisco Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your pigeon opinions and concerns about the 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. Item one, called to order and roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum. Next item, please. Item number two, general Public Comment. Do we have any members of the public who would like to make comment on any items not on todays agenda . Public comment is closed. Item three, approval of legacy business registry applications on resolutions. discussion and action item. Applications are laying antique and state jewelry, luccas foods, deli and a San Francisco and scomas restaurant incorporated. The presenter is Richard Kurylo. Great. Thank you. Richard . Good afternoon. Richard kurylo, Legacy Business Program manager. Sf gov tv i have a powerpoint presentation. Before you today are for applications for your consideration for the legacy business registry. The applications were reviewed by me for completion, submitted to Planning Department staff on june 20 and heard by the Historic Preservation commission on july 17. For each applicant, has a draft resolution, the application, a case record report from Planning Department staff on a resolution from the hbc. There are copies on the table in the public binders. Item three a is laying antique and Estate Jewelry. The business is a Jewelry Store established in 1969 by a native of then czechoslovakia. The store is well known for its vast and diverse reflection of antique and jewels as well as their large estates and engagement rings. The current corner owner, a thirdgeneration jeweler purchased the store 19 and brought on Suzanne Martin is in 92. Lang antique has moved three times over the stores history all within the same 300 block of sutter street. The present location is bright and spacious with ample room dashed ample room for their jewelry display, office staff and an inhouse jewelers studio for repairs, restoration and resizing. Item 3b is luccas deli and wine shop. It is a small Neighborhood Grocery store and delicate founded in 1927. It features home and personal essentials, hot and cold sandwiches, beer, wine and spirits for the local community in addition to a mix of imported goods from Different Countries and local goods that are not commonly found in corporate supermarkets. Since 1997 it has been owned and operated. Luccas is a known and respected part of the community. They maintain latenight hours. They are a San Francisco green business, they have been recognized as the best deli and best price for a sandwich on multiple occasions by bay area elitists. A competition decided by city voters. The business plays number one for the best place for a sandwich in 2017. Item three c is punch line San Francisco. The longest comedy club in the city established in 1978. The punch line was originally founded the foxes are the founders of the San FranciscoInternational Comedy competition. The venue was sold to a concert promoter bill graham in 1980, and is owned today by live nation worldwide, inc. Punch line established itself as a premier comedy club for performers and audiences alike. The punch line has had comedy shows at least six nights a week for the past 40 years. The city comedy festival sketch fest operates in partnership with the punch line for three weeks out of each year. The weekly sunday showcases the longest running comedy showcase in the entire city of San Francisco. Robin williams, dana carvey, drew carey, Dave Chapelle and chris rock all took the first steps of their show business journeys on the punch line states. Many still make guests appearances and perform surprise shows. Item 3d is a scomas restaurant. The business is a Seafood Restaurant on Fishermans Wharf opened by albert and joseph in may of 1965. It started as a coffee shop or a fisherman and soon became a restaurant that served from the beginning they foraged and nurtured relationships with local fishermen who defined the war and the restaurant is well known for its initiative. In the 1970s, scomas bought a 40foot fishing boat, launching the restaurant into the commercial visiting fishing business to support the fishing industry. In 1993, a fish receiving station was constructed on pier 47 allowing for fish offloading directly to the restaurant. They entered the Retail Market in the late 2,000 through the launch of take us on for their crabcakes, eventually as tending in 2010. Scomas is more than a restaurant, it is a brand in the businesses has contributed significantly to the history and identity of fishers wharf in San Francisco. All of our received a positive recommendation from the Historic Preservation commission. After reviewing the applications and the recommendation from the hpc, staff finds businesses have met the criteria to qualify for listing in the legacy business registry. There are a four draft resolutions for consideration by the Small Business commission, one but for each of the applicants. The support of the business should be as a motion in favor of the resolutions. In the resolutions, please pay close attention to the core physical features of traditions set to define the business. Once approved by the sbc, the business must maintain these physical features or traditions in order to maintain the business registry. Providing antique and Estate Jewelry is a Jewelry Store, for luccas the foods and deli and the wine store it is a food store punch line it is a comedy club. For scomas it is a restaurant featuring seafood. I am pleased to report that all four businesses are added to the legacy business registry today, scomas will be the 200th business added to the registry. Congratulations to all of the businesses today added to the legacy business district. This concludes my presentation. I am happy to answer questions. There are business are presented if in attendance i would like to speak on behalf of the applications. We have certificates on Promotional Items for the businesses that are added to the registry today. As a new procedure we will take photographs with each of the approved businesses. Thank you. Thank you, richard. Do we have any questions before we open it up for Public Comment okay. We are going to open it up for Public Comment right now. If anyone would like to come up and speak on behalf of of any of these 4 businesses, come on up. Do we have any cards . We have michael from Punch Line Comedy Club followed by will durst, and followed by nicole. Come on up. Hi. My name is michael, im a representative of Punch Line Comedy Club, which as you know, has been open for 41 years. At the front of 44 battery street here in breaking news. One of the top comedy clubs in the country. Its been made great by all the greats that you have heard, many have not its been a vital part of the San Francisco community, the comedy scene. We have hosted all demographics here in San Francisco. Many fundraisers for all sorts of organizations and we continue to be proud of the work we do here in San Francisco and we hope you will approve this measure before you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Will durst followed by nicole christine. Hey guys, i am a comic, good to see you. Thank you for even considering this. I dont know how to explain to you what a comedy club means to a comic. Its a cathedral. It is a classroom, its an incubator. It so many all of those comics that richard spoke of, all grace that stage. I swear to god, not making this up, you go around the country and talk to headliners everywhere, they will call the punch line to one of the top five jik comedy clubs in the country. A lot of them will say it is a top one along with me. It has meant a lot to me. I was it was the first stage i hit when i moved from milwaukee. I had to leave because comedy was illegal in milwaukee. I came to San Francisco, i met my wife there, the funny one with the red hair. [laughter] third club held a benefit so that we could get married, and we pay for our rings from that money. Every time i looked down at the third finger of my left hand, i think of the punch line, for better or worse. [laughter] comedy is important. I think it is a public utility. I really believe that. I performed at the punch line the week after 9 11, people were desperate to hear something funny, to laugh, because we needed to release. Comedy, we kind of ask as the glass of femurs and proxy, we can say stuff that other people dont get to say, and we can bleed wounds and to cure stuff honest to god. [laughter] i know i sound crazy. It is important, for this town, it is a public utility. It is not just a comedy club. Comedy allows hope to come back in on the inhale. It is a snort of defiance in the face of anxiety. I hope you think of it more as a comedy club, but as a necessary part of the city. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im not sure how i follow that. My name is nicole, on Marketing Manager for tran07 antique and Estate Jewelry. We are very pleased to we were started by missus lang 50 years ago. We have one of the largest collections of vintage and state jewelry in the country. People come from all over the country and truly all over the world to visit our store to learn about our collection. We not only sell jewelry but we educate people and we cultivate a community of people who are interested in vintage jewelry. We hope to continue to do this and we are excited about becoming legacy. Great, thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is debbie durst. I am an improviser which is different than a comic. I make up things on stage. I was a part of an Residents Group when the punch line first up another comedy underground. Back in the day, well before improper groups or sketches were thought of as being popular marketable. The punchline took a chance on us and we were there every monday and tuesday night for a long time. Also, as will mention, we met there, we had our benefit to get married there and there is so much history in that one room. I am also the producer of San Franciscos comedy Celebration Day and the punch line has always been a big supporter of comedy day. Theyve had many many benefits for various organizations and nonprofits and they have always been there. Its kind of a home away from home. You talk to, as well said, any comedians around the country there was a the punch line is the best. A lot of comedians working in the bay area, and they have time, they will stop by the punch line on their way back home or to wherever they are staying, because they know, the brotherhood of comedy and comedians in San Francisco is so strong. The punchline has always been there to support everybody. We are not la, we are not comedians of new york, where you disparage over comedians from boston. It is a very good community. To have comedy history still alive here, in San Francisco, where the hungry eye on the purple onion work, lenny bruce, Phyllis Diller and all of those people, just to have a continue here in this town, where i was born, is very important to me. Thank you very much. Go giants. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Thank you for considering scomas restaurant. Im here to speak on behalf of the team members. I work for the scomas family for 35 years. I started when i was five, not really, we have Numerous Team Members who have been there longer than myself, many who have recently retired after more than 40 years. For them, they are very thrilled for the family. A family that has offered them the opportunities over the 54 years that scomas has been operational to raise their families and to stay with a company, for as long as i have stayed there, and in many cases, longer. That doesnt happen often in the high turnover world that we live in now. We want to thank the scoma family and thank the city and to Fishermans Wharf and San Francisco, the Restaurant Community and the greater Business Community, the environment, they are truly a tradition that keeps with a progression in mind. To make sure we protect the environment. And that we give back wherever we can. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Suzanne martinez, followed by tom creedon. Good afternoon. Thank you for having us, and i am really honored that lang antiques is being considered for a legacy business here in San Francisco. I think we qualify for a lot of reasons. We have become a destination. There are very few people that do antique and Estate Jewelry in the United States. Here in San Francisco, we have a lot of small vintage jewelers, and today we are the only one standing. We love our community of people like nicole said. People come to our store from all over the world and all over the United States, when they come to San Francisco, we are one of the first place they visit. We want to keep data we want to keep our legacy alive. Thank you very much for considering us. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am tom creedon, president of scomas restaurant, native san franciscan. This is really tough being this far back, and to follow marianne, this tells the whole story, ive been there for 40 years, my fatherinlaw drafted me from the San FranciscoFire Department and ive been there to see things come and go. I want to thank you commissioners for creating this award. People dont realize how difficult it is to keep a business going. I watched businesses open up, and people put their whole life savings into it. Within a year or so they fold. The reason scomas is still a success, is the support of San Francisco. Thank you very much for being considered. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello commissioners, my name is nato green, i am awaiting my resolution resignation. I like you to support the legacy businesses for the punch line. The punchline stage is the first place that i did not feel. [inaudible] forty years of comedian generation after generation, the staff at the club, the people that work there it has been weve been through marriages, divorces, addiction and recovery, and all of that stuff, i made a contribution. Talking about the punchline being recognized for its contributions, nationally but also even galactic lee. There nitrogen based comedians as an important club. The achievement of the club is unmatched. To provide a clubhouse comedian in other words to provide a bar to alcoholics is not something you can do easily. Its really important that the club has this kind of juju that the comics talk about that live in the walls that make it a that cannot be reproduced or conjured up. It has to grow authentically. That is why, obviously, the city recognizes something as juju that needs to be maintained in the Building Code and cannot be removed without conditional use authorization. Fi