Policy document to determine whether an economic threshold needs to be established for online retailers. That is a good one to formula retail. The Planning Department has made it clear they deal with land use area this would fall within our wheelhouse, to work on a policy document potentially working on it with other entities, as well. This is pretty much the First Six Months leading into the last six months of this fiscal year. I wanted to highlight that for you. If there any questions, its just a presentation discussion item. Do we have any commissioner comments or questions . Tran21 is, on the one is on the delivery apps, can we add peer to peer car rental . S. Yes. I remember requesting a joint hearing with Planning Commission , as they expressed interest in that, too. Allowing for Small Businesses to ask terrifying questions on their uses. Any other commissioner questions . Do we have any Public Comments on item number five . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Any other questions . Closed. Next item, please . Item 6, directors report. Update and report on the office of Small Business and the Small Business assistance center, department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor, and announcements regarding Small Business activities. Discussion item. Commissioners, you have the written reports in front of you and there is copies for the public, on the table. Just providing you an update with the numbers of checklist that have been submitted regarding the abe. We are now at 6500, that is less than half of the number of properties that have been notified. I met with the United KingdomSmall Business commissioner which is equivalent to the fda director, it is a national physician. Their program, that they have, focuses on assisting businesses to get payments. I guess this is a big issue, in terms of the private sector. A lot of Small Businesses, are being economically impacted because the larger businesses are not paying them on time. He was very interested in the work that our office is doing, and the role that you as a commission have, it was a short meeting, but it was a great meeting to share ideas and also very interested in the legacy business program. You have a list of three pieces of legislation that have been recently introduced, and those one was referred to the commission, on friday, so we will get that out to you. We will likely start hearing those in september. Just a couple of updates, the Small Business streamlining legislation had its First Reading in the last meeting of the board of supervisors, before recess. It will have its second meeting and i will provide you with an update in terms of what was amended. Then, the change to the health scoring system, that was introduced in by supervisor peskin. That should be scheduled in committee, after recess. In the upper market landuse changes, were signed by the mayor, last friday. In regards to the state legislation, ab161, im not sure i mentioned it in the last meeting, it now eliminates the requirements or email receipts. It is pretty much down to just requiring toxic free paper. It still does have that Small Business exemption, but our office has worked with the department of the environment, where we will be submitting a joint recommendation to the city , legislative committee saying that we support the legislation im sorry i didnt finish this, should the event be that if the legislation does eliminate the Small Business exemption, i think we are fine with that. I think, statewide having all businesses provide that paper it helps create a greater market demand. In all likelihood, that would be something that would be coming forward, if the exemption stays in place, at the state level, probably coming forward at a local level to require all businesses. Do we have any kind of idea on the date for ab161 . It is still in the senate. We do not have a date, at this point. Then, lastly, i just want to say that the last Strategic Plan that the department has is from 201314. I have discussed this with the president , and the Vice President , that it needs be updated. I think this is something we could work on during the Commission Meeting without having to have a separate meeting. We will be working with president adams and Vice President dwight to bring that to you. Great, thank you. Quick question, going back to the earlier thing. You mentioned onestop shopping for the new portal. This goes into an idea, i was just wondering, what does that mean like you can apply for all of the permit, just through the portal, or . We were working to work with the departments to get there, but now with the 49 south van ness which is at the corner of van ness omission being created, a permit center that will have all of the agencies there, instead of working through our portal, the focus has now been working on doing technology and communications between the department where they can streamline in terms of applications. There focus now on delivering that. That is great. Any other questions for the director . To be have any Public Comment on item number six . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Any other questions for the director . Item six is closed. Item seven, please. Item 7, commissioners reports. Allows president , Vice President , and commissioners to report on recent Small Business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the Small Business community. Discussion item. I just want to let everyone know that our meeting i want to make sure i get this right, monday the 26th, we will not be having a meeting on monday the 26th. Our next meeting will be on monday, september 9. Mr. President , is not in honor of my 40th birthday . It sure is. [laughter] i have nothing else. Do we have any other commissioner comments . Commissioner ortiz. Last week i attended a conference in san diego. It hosted array of things that concerned the latino community. Obviously i was there to represent the Small Business issues area what did arise, and i want any Small Business to be very, very concerned about is i9. Make sure your i9s are filed properly, regardless of the business. You can get find for having a scribble, or not following it properly. I think, as a Small Business owner, we are not experts in that. Lets make sure our i9s are in order. Another thing that affected california, is the bail bond issue. So, if you get arrested friday night, you wont be released until monday, because there is no longer the bail option. That does affect a lot of our Small Businesses. I was in the conference, right or wrong, im not getting into why you got arrested friday night, if you do have the bail option you could lose your job. It affects a lot of the Food Industry, believe it or not. Saturdays and sundays are our busiest days, for whatever reason. Im not going to get into the details, if my staff doesnt have the option to bail out. There is legislation, to put on the ballot. The spirit of the original legislation. But, if there is another tier where you do have the option, it does impact our Small Businesses, especially the Food Industry over the weekend. Just putting that out there. Thank you. Yes, i attended the chinatown , it is a new item that is organized by the entertainment commission. He worked with the local merchants to put it together. Every sunday, for the next eight sundays, counting yesterday, there will be activities, you know, in chinatown. They have different themes. Yesterday was classic car exhibition, and antique car fare. They had a little parade, and the lion dance. And a fashion show. August 18, 25, september 1, september 8, and september 15. There will be different themes. They will have a history day, and a pop up food fest, martial arts, and also the other one is healthy and safe chinatown. One of the merchants told me, because of this, her business has gone up 30 . Theyre hoping to bring more people to chinatown to help with the business economy. Thank you. So, i was asked to speak at an event on the eighth call the real food, real stories. Its a nonprofit. I got to speak to a whole crowd of millennials that consider themselves foodies, but really dont understand the struggles that our Small Businesses, particularly our minority, and immigrant retailers deal with. That was really cool, because i got to tell them about our work and how they can be engaged with their favorite businesses, and try to understand about what they go through, and how they can support. That was neat. Also, i went to a couple of hearings, in the last month, with some other merchants and we have been tracking amazon, and the cloud kitchen applications for off sale alcohol permits. I was also asked that we keep track of that, in new business, and add it to our resolution that are affecting Small Businesses. And, also, i will ask, if i have a moment at the end to close the medium in memorial of one of our local legacy businesses got lost someone in the gilroy garlic festival shooting. Absolutely. I just wanted to bring the commissions attention, there was an article in the chronicle last week, i dont know if any of you saw it it was about ice sandwiches. Maybe some of you have had the sandwiches . What is not to like about like . I think the article is directly relevant to our work, because he talked about how he has one location in San Francisco, and 49 locations outside of San Francisco and a number of other states. They asked him, why didnt you open anymore locations in San Francisco . He mentioned the permit process, which we are well familiar with. He also mentioned the formula retail provisions, as being something that locked him out. By sheer coincidence, i was wrestling with my son, on the couch, knocked over my laptop and destroyed the screen and had to take the laptop i wanted to take it to apple, but apple said it would be two weeks. We want to know who won the wrestling match, though . Clearly heated. Hes 11 years old. Clearly he did. Hes 11 years old. The laptop lost. Apple recommended i go to the store, mobile kangaroo, whom ive never heard of before. I was a little iffy, i went, they they are in north beach. Kind of a schlep where im coming from. I made it up there. I was greeted by the owner, ted. He said, you are lucky you came here, because we can turn it around faster than apple can. I said, geez, its so hard to get out here, why dont you open up something on the other side of town . People have laptops there, too, phones and whatnot. He said, we have 15 locations in the bay area, but i cannot we have tried, we looked into it, but its too hard to open another one in the city, because of the formula retail. I thought this is the second time, in 48 hours, that i have read about a local Hometown Hero who has built up a successful business, in the city, hiring fellow residents, made it through that rigmarole that makes it so hard to succeed, so hard to get ahead. Finally built a successful business, and we slammed the door shut and tell them to get out, and get lost. I think we can do better. I get it, we dont want mcdonalds, and wendys opening up on guerrero and haight street , nobody wants to see giant targets everywhere, although it seems like we have a couple in the city anyway. That leads to another point. It seems like the formula retail provision primarily seems to benefit the Larger Companies that have the capacity, to circumnavigate it and lock out these smaller businesses that are Hometown Heroes. They have found something that works. We should be celebrating them. We should be encouraging them to open up more locations. We should be helping them anyway we can. I am pretty fired up about this. By the way, sheer coincidence, my business would also be prohibited from opening another location in San Francisco, because we have 15 locations on the threshold is 11. This isnt about me, i dont want to open another location, even if i was allowed to come i wouldnt do it. The point is, i think we can do better. I think we can do better for our local Hometown Heroes. I wanted to bring the commissions attention to these articles, get us thinking about this. I will certainly be reaching out to the relevant supervisors office, trying to determine if there is any room for negotiations here on any of the stuff, so we can have another ike place, or a mobile kangaroo. These services that our residents want, and enjoy, that our local entrepreneurs to celebrate and encourage them. Good timing, because San FranciscoBusiness Times this weekend also had an article, they had an editorial that we need to relook at our formula retail rules because molly stones has put in a bid to open in the old lombardi sports, because whole foods could not because it cannot get past the formula retail hurdle for the neighbors. Molly stones can, because they have nine locations. Upon opening the store, if they are approved, and they open at lombardis, they can never open another store in San Francisco. They will be at the formula retail limit and they will go through that process. Here we are, theyre going to come in, right underneath, solve a problem for us, and basically were going to lock them out. I think, you know, 1011 is an arbitrary number. We have to draw a line in the somewhat sand somewhere, i guess. We are finding that the arbitrary number is too low. My observation would be locally owned area may be a separate consideration from looking at International Corporations coming in. My other observation would be, there may be some room to negotiate lower talking about the size of the footprint. There are others that have been affected by this. If you want, we can move both of these items under new business instead of under commission reports. You both have made good. Especially with ike. I know ike, and i know his frustration. I know that article was coming out. Especially when the first ikes was in my neighborhood, the first superduper was in my neighborhood. Hes not opening up anymore anymore in the city, for that reason. Those are the best burgers. Friends of the caliber owner, i disagree. I know he would like to open more locations, as well. Okay. Any other commissioner comments, or report . To be have any members of the public who would like to make comment on item number seven . Seeing none. Anymore reports . Number seven is closed. Next item, new business. New business. Allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. Discussion item. I want to ask for a couple. I have been talking to a lot of the taxis lately, because i happen to be at a board of supervisors hearing that they are at. They are going regularly. They are organizing themselves, and have documentation and case studies for what they are going through. I wanted to put that on our new business to see where the city is at, in supporting that. They are Small Businesses. I would like our office to at least be able to report with the citys outs, and if we for these Small Businesses. Secondly, i think in the spirit of really waking up our elected to how they are going after Small Businesses with almost every new law that is introduced you know, in conversation with commissioner dooley, largely disproportionately immigrant and minority businesses are being affected by the regulations that are being in place, whether, you know, they are big picture ones are technical ones. I think this might warrant a joint hearing with immigrant, ive talked to their doctor before about this. I think we need to have a really strong voice in this, not just the regulations. I know when ice is in town, i know businesses that close their doors. We need to have a serious conversation about that. The sector i am in, is being harassed by city departments in bringing regulatory bodies that are state and federal, and there has been some Horror Stories that even reference peoples religion. I think the environment of enforcement is also something they need to consider how they are contributing to this environment appear. Thank you. Following up on our previous discussion, i would like to officially ask that we have an assessment of our formula retail rules. Great. Any other commissioner new business . Do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on new business . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Sf gov tv please show the office of Small Business slide. It is our custom to begin and end each Small BusinessCommission Meeting. Dot the office of Small Business is the only place to start your new business in San Francisco, and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. 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