Lose the opportunity of really understanding of what people were feeling when they opened up . And then, we will have lost this window. So i would urge you to think about these when we discuyou d and im happy to work would cynthia in terms of what would be doable in terms of a starting point. I agree that youre not going to get everybody all the sectors, maybe targeting the sectors, or maybe targeting through the merchant associations and, you know, the s. B. C. S or whoever has the outreach might be a good way to get out there. But i would say that dont let low responses, you know, low responses pull us down. I would be thrilled if we had 40 return. Im thinking 5. Yeah, and i think the key is to make it clear that this is something that will inform how you can help businesses. And from what ive talked to, some businesses on the ground, theyve told me, oh, my god, another survey . But if you can show me that what im going to say is really going to help us, then, im absolutely willing to take this survey. Okay. I think the header will be important. Well, professor, thank you so much for your time and your work. Were looking forward to working with you going forward. Well try and figure out how to give you good resources so you can get good data and results. Were very appreciative of your partnership, and thank you, commissioner huie, for your leadership here and pushing this forward. This is going to be really helpful to the commission and to the commissions work. So ive been excited about it since you brought it up, and as excited as i was, im 1,000 times more excited now that i can see where its going. So fantastic work. Before i let you guys go, we have to check in on Public Comment. Are there any Public Commenters on this item . Clerk lets give a moment to see if our one caller would like to press star, three. And it appears we have no Public Comment. Okay. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Have a great evening, professor, and well be talking soon. All right. Byebye, everyone. Byebye. Next item, please. Clerk item 5, approval of draft Meeting Minutes, action item. Okay. I move to approve the item Meeting Minutes. You need to have Public Comment first. Oh, Public Comment first, is that what you said . Yeah. Okay. Do we have any Public Comment on the minutes . Im such a dumbass. There appears to be no Public Comment at this time. Thank god. Okay. I move to approve the Meeting Minutes. I second. Motion by commissioner laguana to approve the Meeting Minutes from september 28, 2020, seconded by commissioner adams. Roll call vote. [roll call] clerk motion passes, 70. Great, and thank you for that reminder, commissioner adams. I do appreciate it. Next item, please. Clerk item 6, general Public Comment. Allows members of the public to comment matters that are within the Small Business commissions jurisdiction but not on todays calendar and suggests now agenda items for the commissions future consideration. Discussion item. Are there any members of the public who would like to make Public Comment on items not on this agenda. Are there any public callers on the line. Operator there are no public callers at this time. Public comment is closed. Next item, please. Clerk directors report. Update and report on the office of the Small Business and the Small Business assistance center, department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor, and announce points recording Small Business activities. Discussion item. Good evening, commissioners. Before i begin my report, i want to extend my congratulations on todays announcement with the announcement of Small Business commissioner Manny Yekutiel to the Small Business commission. I want to thank the mayor for making this nomination. Its been a long time, to my recollection, that weve actually had a Small Business especially neighborhood commercial corridor business on the sfmta board, and that representation is going to be extremely valuable. So best of luck getting through the nomination process, commissioner yekutiel, but congratulations. I want to report that since the last meeting, starting march 16, we have services 3,765 businesses. I am the Business Assistant center staff. I and the Business Assistant center staff are beginning to have a conversation on reshifting, so well be reshifting our reshifting our focus in terms of that we are no longer in the sort of cov covid rapid emergency response, but now, we are in the recovery response, and so well begin to shift how we track and report our numbers, and so more will come in relationship to that, but this will be something that well have worked out in the next couple of weeks. Weve also sent out 75 informational eblasts to the business community. The mayor, in the last couple of weeks, has issued several key supplementals. One on september 25, the Just Add Music permit, or the j. A. M. Permit. That will be administered by the Entertainment Commission to help add more activity in the shared space program, and a means for supporting our artists and musicians. So you will be receiving a presentation from the Entertainment Commission director, maggie weiland, at our meeting on october 26. The commercial Eviction Moratorium was extended through to november 30, and there are some kia additions that were added establishing some specific criteria for written notice and cure periods. And one, im working to get clarification on, landlords with less than 25,000 square feet of rentable space in the commercial property may evict a tenant due to commercial hardship. This is something they may have to report to oewd. Im trying to get clarity on i mean, 25,000 square feet of rental space. Getting clarity, if that means commercial and residential or just commercial space. The Third Party Delivery app, ccap, was extended, and this time, the mayor extended it to when Indoor Dining is at 50 , so i do want you to note that supervisor peskin is now going to be he has scheduled his Third Party Delivery app legislation, which the commission had heard has heard already, and that he will be hearing it this thursday at the Public SafetyNeighborhood Services committee meeting. And just i dont think ive gone over, but at the state level, theres been two bills that have been signed by the governor in relationship to the thirdparty delivery app. One addressing that thirdparty delivery apps must receive the consent for foodrelated businesses to be placed on their platform. And then and then, the other bill requires thirdparty delivery apps or companies to ensure cleanliness when preparing and delivering meals to customers. Some key updates for legislation. Supervisor mars right to return to work ordinance that the commission heard on september 14, that piece of legislation has yet to be scheduled in committee, but he did, last week, reintroduce a third emergency ordinance, so in relationship to that, so we might be able to read into that that he will be moving forward a third emergency ordinance. And the temporary the fee waiver for the sidewalk tables and chairs, that has passed, and passed last week, and a couple amendments to it is it now applies retroactively to april 5, 2020, to april 2022, and it urges the sfmta to waive fees for parklets. So the board of supervisors cant waive fees for like they can for public works or department of public works. Only the sfmta and the board can waive the fees. So there are fees that parklets do need to pay to the sfmta. And then, in addition to the 31,000 jobs that president sharky identified with the restaurant industry, i think one other thing to of particular to note is the 63,000 the pandemic unemployment assistance insurance, and that was a special Unemployment Insurance that was created due to covid for z and im going to stres, its our sole proprietors. A lot of people want to frame it that its our big economy workers gig economy workers, but its a lot more than our gig economy workers. Its professional sectors, so i think that 63,000, it will be interesting to see if we can get a breakdown in terms of the Different Industries that those 63,000 unemployment claims apply to. And then, lastly, want to just let you know that staff, in terms of staff work that were doing, we are in the we are in the process of transitioning our salesforce database from a very old version, the classic version into the new lightning version. This will help expedite and make easier the data reporting that we have and need to do, so that will be a focus for the probably through the end of the year as we work on that migration and transition. So with that, if theres any ill leave it at that, and happy to answer any questions you may have. Commissioner adams, were you raising your hand . Yeah, really quick. On that 25,000 square feet and mixed use building, thats just commercial space. Residentials not included in that. Thats separate. I know that for a fact because we have mixeduse buildings, and i went and had attorneys clarify that, and so theyre residential, like apartments and that, are a whole other category right now, and youre still protected on that. So right. And i thank you. Im glad im glad your attorneys were able to clarify it for me. Oewd was not able to clarify it. The funny thing is i just got the message on that at, like, 4 00 this afternoon. Thank you. All right. Any other commissioner comments or questions . Go ahead, commissioner dooley . In north beach, weve had a really successful shared spaces program. Its really brought a lot of people to north beach, also, except for you, sharky. I havent seen you there yet. I want to let you know were moving forward, which weve now requested of m. T. A. To give back parking meters to the public for those who are not using them. A lot of merchants well, not a lot, but some merchants felt that they should be able to park their private car all day long in their shared spaces, which i dont believe is really the intent. But we are definitely moving forward to try to find a way to allow people to come in and stay at a meter, but not for indefinite periods. So thats fife a new challenge for us to kind of get back to more normal and being a destination place, and well let you know how it goes. Okay. [inaudible] the supes tomorrow will be hearing the shared spaces resolution that got started in the Small Business commission in july, as many of you recall, so itll be heard tomorrow, and its sponsored by supervisor mar, walton, and haney. So thats a nice little bit of progress there. I mean, tangentially related to director report. Exactly, so thank you for adding that. Yes. Okay. Any Public Comment on the directors report . Theres no Public Comment at this time. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Clerk item 8, commissioner discussion and new business. Allows president , vise president , and commissioners to report on recent Small Business activities, make announcements that are of interest to the Small Business community, and make inquiries of staff. Allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. Discussion item. So, you know, i alluded to this earlier. We were going to have it be a separate agenda item, but we didnt pull that out. It was a little snafu. It seems were six months into the pandemic, and its probably a good time to check in with everybody and see what we should be spending the next six focusing on. There was a lot of energy put into shared spaces because of what it meant for restaurants and the community, but with that resolution now going in front of the board of supes, it does seem like it leaves t least the heavy lifting has been done, and weve tackled quite a bit of items. Im interested to hear from you what you think core priorities mighting over the next six months that will have a mean will might be over the next six months that will have a meaningful impact on our community. Domenica has been keeping track of it, and there is an ongoing need to address any legislation that comes on down the pike, but were going to check with you to see what you might think of as being possible priorities. Commissioner zouzounis . I would like to highlight what i mentioned earlier, bringing an equity lens to this next phase of recovery and and put a special specific emphasis in getting resources to the hardertoreach business communities. I know commissioner huie and i were talking about p. P. E. Because we regularly reach out to our Small Businesses and are affiliated with our merchant groups. I know that our trade association has partnered with ucsf in setting up p. P. E. Hot spots in particular in the bayview at Corner Stores because ucsf has recognized that the traditional channels, whether it be listing nonprofits or city channels are not actually reaching the constituents in these hardertoreach neighborhoods. And by putting, you know, p. P. E. , for example, at community centers, which really are our neighborhood Small Businesses, that seems to be the best way to reach some of our more vulnerable communities. And the trade association, we dont have staff. We dont have paid consultants to help administer surveys. Like, we are in the store and we are also doing the organizing in our sector, and we need resources because clearly, the existing landscape of the bigger funded merchant groups rb hitting our vulnerable merchant communities. We need are not hitting our vulnerable merchant communities. We need to make a strong push to the mayor, to the board, to get outreach to these merchant groups that are already not getting resources from the city, whether its p. P. E. Or whether its you know, various whatnot. So i want that to be our kind of part of our equity lens in how we whether were distributing a survey or whether were recommending resources be distributed to a certain small of the Small Business demographic. Okay. So just making sure i got this right. So continue to focus the equity lens on the work of recovery and assist engage with helping with the distribution of p. P. E. To vulnerable communities . I think just recognizing that resources to vulnerable communities arent necessarily getting there through traditional channels, theyre getting there through businesses that are in those communities, and so we need to better support those businesses that arent part of these networks but are really playing vital roles in their communities. Basically, like, the non the you know, the the the ethnic merchant groups and groups that arent already on the radar with the city and stuff. We need to have a line to them as part of our equity plans. Okay. So reaching out to businesses that are Community Resources in these vulnerable communities. Commissioner adams, im going to well, im sorry. Commissioner dooley . I wanted to comment about for the future that were done a lot of amazing work with the restaurants and the food service industry, but from what i see on the streets, were really leaving behind the Small Businesses that are retail. They werent really benefited by the shared spaces, because, for example, theyre not going to put their clothing out on the street, and thats, like, i had mentioned that we wanted to start opening up a few parking places for that would benefit these other kind of businesses, these Retail Businesses and maybe encourage folks to start frequenting them again. So my main point is we need to start thinking about retail. I agree. Its an excellent suggestion. Commissioner adams, do you have a comment . Commissioner adams . I was on mute. I was just seeing where we were. I didnt know we combined this part of the agenda, so i apologize. No. First off, the few things that id like to focus on were just mentioned on. One thing that miriam commissioner zouzounis just said is really important, and that is with the equity businesses, and that goes across the spectrum. I do hear from actually, ive heard from a lot of constituents, especially with the arab grocers. Theyre not getting the messages, and the messages that they are getting, theyre getting from the arab grossers association. Theyre doing a great job, but they dont have a lot of staff, and then, its getting support to those groups. And then, what commissioner dooley said, were focusing a lot on restaurants, but were going to see the apocalypse with these small shops, and im seeing it in my Small Businesses that im managing. And, you know, they were able to open up with limited capacity and all of that. You know, thats just what we need to start focusing on is recovery, and not just restaurants, but all businesses, and a lot of secondfloor businesses, recovery done in the financial bid, down in the financial district, with a lot of those Retail Businesses. This opening up is what we need to be focusing on, and support to these businesses, when were talking about the survey, the one thing i want hearing from a lot of my busi