>> good afternoon. welcome to the a special meeting of the government audit & oversight for today wednesday, october 265, 2016, i'm the brunt chair aaron peskin joined by board president london breed our clerk clerk erica major madam clerk, any announcements? >> . >> yes. documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the please read the brunt first item. >> may we make a motion. >> i'd like to make a motion to excuse vice chair supervisor norman yee can we take that without objection? that will be the order. and madam clerk the first item on a resolution urging the employee richard to hold a public hearing and issue a report >> thank you. the sponsor of that report has asked that we - we mr. unexcuse supervisor yee he showed up and supervisor yee we called item fundi have been informed this to the to postponed without objection. >> supervisor yee is excused any any public comment on item one without objection we'll continue that item through the chair. >> madam clerk the brunt final item. >> the oversight processes for the fine arts museum of san francisco and it's board of trustees thank you, ms. major colleagues as you recall on september 1st, we held a hearing looking at the governor structure and oversight of the city funding processes with regards to our cherished fine arts museum and timed to continue that our new director of fine arts museum couldn't be with us i wanted the brunt opportunity for us to meet him in public as a stewards that institution forwarded and follow-up on a few items the original impetus for the brunt hearing came around resolutions having to do with things in the newspaper but an opportunity for us as a board of supervisors to reengage with the fine arts museum which is an asset of the brunt people of san francisco and has a very interesting governance structure whereas, the gentleman is familiar although apparently seen other structures in piss past we have a city does in the fine arts museums of san francisco a nonprofit side in co-family the 5013 nonprofit orientation all over the place a third organization a foundation for the brunt museum and some of those city puts in approximately $18 million at the last meeting believe that is incorrect 19.2 in the current fiscal year about 25 percent we believe approximately of the brunt annual operating budget of the two museums known as the legion of honor and the young museum so i wanted the an opportunity to talk about some of the things we might be able to improve over time particular as transparency there are certain things that are transparent to the public and to the decision makers like ourselves and heretofore are not taint with that, i want to give the brunt gentleman an opportunity to speak to us and for us to get to know him and to follow-up on our last hearing we raised a number of issues if there are no questions i'm going to turn it over to mr. hotline and welcome we're delighted that you've joined us you have a long history in stewardship museums around the brunt global with that, please come on up. >> well, thank you very much supervisor peskin and supervisor president breed and supervisor yee i'm here able to lay out some thoughts but i guess those structures and outcomes about the organization of the fine arts museums of san francisco and respond probably to some of the questions that have been raised at the first meeting and those are kind of at a briefly to prepare for to hearing pr i've prepared a presentation that covers this and tends i'll show pictures it is nice to show you some things to kind of - >> yeah. >> oh, i can see that thanks. >> okay. >> all right. okay so. >> good. >> just quickly as a general remark i as it supervisor peskin mentioned alluded to identify been running museums no frankford in the last few years ago i've got experienced 40 in running different kinds of institutions one was a private institution private foundation no germany and this was a limited liability company but as one that run as a nonprofit institution i have a fair amount of experience with those institutions in fact, quickly address kind of a general thoughtful the brunt fine arts museums i think what you'll see in the next couple of years more emphasis on the identities and the brunt beyond especially at the legion of honor nothing - really bringing in more to the attention of a broader audience and a bigger role internationally as well being really one of the defining institutions for the brunt city and i think i can see this as a someone coming from germany or as a european focus on san francisco and some of it it obviously building on the whole development of the tech industry and other sectors i think the brunt culture history of san francisco is extremely important to understand what this city it is something that brings me here and be able to participate in this environment i know you don't want to hear about great plans arrest advisements about the brunt museums but hear a little bit more about the brunt details and data about this institution so i kind of threw - sorry - so the second slide shows you one the challenges of this institution and basically makes a difference i'll say if you accountability compatible institutions or participating institutions in the u.s. you compare the brunt finances of san francisco so new york or the museum of fine arts in boston or if you look at philadelphia or cleveland you have a steady small endowment you see this as a red triangle basically about 3 percent of our total operating budget is covered by endowment that basic means the brunt other areas of income to balance the budget on the wooden revenue part in the blue triangle which is our income and other aspects like membership you, of course, go have the very important support participation from the brunt city which covers 27 percent of our total costs that is being invested in the city in security and maintenance of the building but then a fairly large portion with the green sector of contributions that is the major nominations support for the exhibit shuns and the general organization and to one of the tasks i'll say of every director especially right now for me is to be able to enlarge that particular sector that means we need to portray an institution that is organization alley sound and transparent and really taken care of of funds in essence in a prudent way that is part of story of that institution and on the other hand, i want to make sure when we move forward that i'll see with the public eye and the preservation about the brunt museum the art and education that is bringing about so i think that is a core element of that if you look at what the cultural assets it depends on how you define that but the brunt core part would define that the context thee we're called a nonprofit organization is the brunt permanent collection i'll talk about that in a minute that has to do with with the brunt city and the core part of it the exhibitions we bring about but, of course, the two buildings that we maintain that are landmarks building and profit savings accounts and the brunt whole program in the area of education, scholarship and outreach so talking about the entire layout of the the spaces the legion of honor has in total 4 hundred and 10 thousand square feet if i look at how much square footage is dloftd to excellenttion space noted about only one quarter of our total square footage is for exhibition the brunt rest is actually storage space where we must maintain and keep our collection of art bring in artwork conserve them and treat them conservatism space in that context the total number of objects in our collection and i mean that total number we have a total nuke but sometimes difference on how you calculate i don't know if you have a whole set of prints or 10 but in total we know we have numbered one and 26 thousand plus objects those kind of if you spread them out to the departments as you can see beyond thirty thousand objects in the legion about one and - almost like 90 thousand that basically has to do with with the brunt large prints and drawings collection as the brunt legion of honor but this is a fairly large and complex and diverse collection other thing i need to make you aware of a different to what you have a painting gallery or even if you have a museum of contemporary art we're keepers of costumes and at that point tries, objects, of different kinds, furniture and painting and drawing, etc. to keep and maintain those objects we need skills and also needs different storage amenity and temperatures to keep them photography at different temperatures it is a way to maintaining the culture archive of the achievement of humankind we display our special exhibitions and definitely only one thousand person of the collection is on display but a collection it all about being the brunt keeper even if cultural artifacts or of artwork that used for different exhibitions one the bay area we have those objects and wanted to do something and lends them to them but we do about 20 major art exhibitions a year at the legion of honor a lot of time are based on a core on the collection and moving forward in our program is to concept lists we really want to show the brunt strongholds of the institution and boys and girls club build on that ambitious but internationally exhibition program right now at the legion of honor very a celebrated show on 7 century french painting and recorded on that we hope you'll have the possibility to visit it in the next couple of months one of the contemporary american artists of his generation and then benny the photographer for - which will get his large-sca large-scale retrospective of his art i know you don't have time but see how far ahead we're planning our exhibition program is quickly stitched together no, but requires planning and budgeting three to four years ahead so i'm just giving you a quick synopsis of the exhibitions of the legion of honor and early - shawn and other sculpts turns and work from our collection of art 1906 and then f d young will open in april of next year a picture on the brunt sum of life on the history of the city during that particular time then smog really different happening at the same time in other galleries about the brunt marilyn projects from new zealand and from many mexican considerations is here then a show on precision our development of the 1920s ones last name the different and challenging evolution showing african objects again another show in africa and another show of missouonet - the building i challenge for upkeep it is important for you to know because the buildings have owned by the brunt city so and this city money and locations help us to maintain those buildings to improve them to the way to preserve the collection within those institutions so we have done a different kind of arrest chief and work to give you as you may know any of those houses about all sorts of - the brunt necessities to maintain the brunt buildings and someone's o sometimes the brunt projects we have may is here we have a real issue right now because our whole system broken down and it is something that is challenging we don't have temperature control that is a risk to very valuable work we need the brunt city's report to replace the brunt exchange of honor - >> but then, of course, the brunt notion of the museum is not solely a reapostrophe for artwork but all about outreach and education it is about coming together it is a community not sole a place to visit but a place that radiates and takes on tasks in schools it is about cultural and education of a different kind for example, the internet especially for old school - we'll be completely prepared to - concerts and performances of different kinds that kind of speak to different audience but then i think one of the question is supervisor peskin has raised is how do we do as a administrators and make sure that city assets are properly kept in this institution now i have to say this is one part i really feel confident the my name is performing at perfect amongst it's peers and one of the proof of that is what we call the the american association of - basically like a self-imposed audit to the american association of museum comes from time to time and basically checks how we keep and what our procedure that is the brunt same way that is industry standard we have evaluations continually amongst ourselves among the brunt museums to be on par with what is happening and there's a whole series of other elements that reilly make sure that the assets a properly managed and give you a quick overview the brunt departments taking care of different areas a quick synopsis and the staffing for the brunt staff they're not solely there to produce exhibitions but really keepers of the collection keepers in this case of the city assets and here images of our conservatism department that certainly one in - the brunt best in the country and well-equipped and show you some examples of kind of how we can keep and treat the artworks i have to say in my quick overview of the one and 26 objects in the collection almost everything the brunt city owns is a couple of arts within the foundation it is - really one of the smallest seethsd so here you'll see the brunt work in the conservatism labs and that's what i've spoke about beforehand different storage areas have different kind of efforts of maintaining this work so - >> and here you see the brunt complexity of the documenting of artwork and basically a question of storage from puck you transport it to a special area then photograph it and dig it's it and bring it back we've done that for 80 percent of our total collection that is fairly good the collection management again one and 26 thousand objects we get z hundred to one thousand loans has to do with with the brunt restaurant and exhibition program by one .5 million visitors a year that requires a loan process and sending loans out to other major institutions about one hundred loans go out between one and one and 50 the ambassadors the strong collection here collections to have the fine art museums a strong symbol in paris from us at the major shows i can only encourage the brunt city of san francisco and it's representatives to make use of that and i will be pleased and i've done it in frankford i know that sometimes the negotiations between the brunt city and other city about becoming sibling cities we can move that platform we're representing the brunt cultural power within the this institution and within the city in general so the overview of the collection management and the acquisitions of bringing negative impact new work to the majority of the nations is financial but the parts - though the money that is funded to the museum is only being used for other artworks coming in not other operational needs storage and lending and borrowing i've talked about the brunt transport and this is the transfer of the objects over the challenge with any institution you'll find insurance kind of through the brunt city right now covers a kind of damages i don't know what the proper english word but $200 million so don't. >> don't we have a lord's of london policy on top of that. >> insurance that covers busy our institutions bus the brunt asian art museum and one more - institution. >> but kind of i think. >> the in memoriam. >> yes. exactly but that is something that we might have to evaluate from time to time total expenses just again get an idea about it you kind of allocate how much staff time and you spend about $3.3 million a year just for collection care. >> so what's really important for us on the other hand, prove that the brunt museum that very well respected and monitored by the brunt government agencies is near received 3 indemnity programs for the brunt last major check and balancetion through the u.s. government indemnity this is basically, if i look at the brunt total insurance value it is over $2 billion a major figure and major help for kind of operating budget. >> now acquisitions that is the commodity how much into the brunt collection and finally into the city holding and what is - that follows the brunt american association of museum guidelines it functions as a commodity so it is recommends gifts and that is prepared, of course, with the brunt different total departments within the institution. >> and director is that a committee of the board of the fine arts museums of san francisco or the corporation. >> it is a foundation board so and it is comprised of the scholars and other members of the transition of the comedy. >> i believe it was spoken to on the first hearing. >> quicken acquisitions we've done our 200 and 70 in the fiscal year but almost one thousand nine hundred workers depended upon in the at the same time an idea of the donations. >> i will say one of the challenges as a lot of institutions is we have, of course, the brunt collections management software and that is something that is developed over the course of years and given the brunt whole development of software ♪ area in general and the magnitude of our digital files the objects in particular this is a strong need for us to improve that particular software i mean, that's working and sound but that will require a significant amount of investment to kind of come to the next level of collection management software so i think that is kind of what was a broad overview of the assets and supervisor peskin kind of mentioned that very complex set of our structure of sorry - different entities i shouldn't repeat this this is part of last time i'm happy to do it once again but don't want to waste our time >> director lounge how long have you been at the position. >> i started in early june. >> a few months in terms of 3 governing bodies the public one a function of the at the charter in article 5 and the foundation and then the nonprofit board co-family how do you find them working together. >> and i guess technically which one you worked for 2 of them or how does that work. >> i worked for all of them director of the museums and in and a city employee as well i think after having the brunt chance for the brunt last 4 months to be involved with the two board meetings i can see kind of a very good understanding how the brunt different boards can work and work together but i have to say, of course, it is a complex structure more complex structure than a foundation this is similar to the asian art museum but i think for the brunt different board members it is very clear we - what the brunt responsibilities are and what the responsibility is for the respected boards. >> so you have basically 3 classes of employees people like yourself that is paid by the city and people paid solely by the city and totally by family. >> i have a slide so here's the staff breakdown so you have the co-family staff that is the brunt staff that and total co-fam staff is 16 and this is the regular one and 86 unionize and on calls that is store clerks and people that used for in high peak season and then city staff that is staff working in security and other capacities. >> supervisor yee. >> thanks for trying to explain that my question when you were hired who hired. >> i mean who do you report to. >> is that like a bunch of people that cast a vote that's how they make a decision to hire you. >> in the process that i assume has taken place and saw happening the boards amongst themselves search for a committee for the brunt right director when i got hired i basically, had a hearing and had this discussions with the brunt search committee that was comprised of board members and i was then hired by the brunt board being represented at a point by the board of trustees. >> and is that the fine arts museum board or the brunt co-fam board. >> both. >> kind of in that sense it is both because you work as a kind of a city employee with - but someone that is kind of worked with the co-fam it's an institution as an employer but the foundation. >> and there are how many overlapping employees are paid both by co-fam and fine arts museum of san francisco. >> well, if you see that there are - not an overlap the city employees among the brunt 200 and 5 city employees the frontline staff some management staff the director of museum, the brunt director of human resources and security building and maintenance the brunt chief preparer and two curators are the employees but gather the stipend of the program. >> i get it. >> the one thing maybe a representative from the brunt controller's office we'll clear up i've been informed that we have far less full-time equivalent from the brunt city and county my numbers are one and 25 that's because our on calls are fractional. >> that's true what we call positions uh-huh. >> they're not necessarily built. >> with the brunt city they should be filled and maybe now a vacancy we'll bidding right now trying to reevaluate. >> so the brunt total - >> you're saying a total of 5 hundred and 20 total employees. >> right uh-huh. >> got it. >> so you'll fall under other 6 employees. >> correct. >> and relative to how those boards are selected and how session within the brunt board membership how does that work the boards are kind of you have a - that's been kind of again something that kind of has before reviewed and kind of i'll say kind of improve there is a - but has a nominating committee taking charge of suggesting new board members that are asking the brunt board members to stay on the board and be therapists kind of a structure of a duration of candidates that can be renewed and serve on the board. >> there are no term limits. >> that's the term limit a year but you can get ask gunning again to kind of serve on the brunt board for another term you mean that is something that right now is being worked and what is the brunt best proper subsequence that applies to all people on the brunt board. >> as an industry standard relative to governance is there a best practice that is an appropriate term. >> i have to confess on this front i assume i'm not the brunt absolute specialists on the boards governance i think that is something you have certain institutions i know that - i guess you if you look at the brunt modern art in new york and on - the board member for the brunt last decades and has been very beneficial for the institution i guess every board kind of comes to a particular conclusion but there is a proper board structure for every specific institution how you look at that yeah, and and relative to transparency and the ability to see for the brunt public to see the decision makers to see what the individuals out of the three hundred and 16 make is that pubically available i'm talking about salaries is that only available for those on the city does. >> the city does, of course, is yeah - no, that's for the brunt side that is not public informati information. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee. >> i'm still can't get a handle on you can have different entities influencing an organization and certainly you can have not advisories and friends to bring in money that's why i asked the brunt question for the hiring and firing who's - which body makes the brunt final decision if there needs to be a final dedication or is the brunt body a body that is not on the diagram that is made up find different individuals from 3 bodies. >> right. >> so i'm not getting a sense of belonging what it is that is governi governing. >> right i think i'm not i can properly answer that question in that way but there is a key responsibility of the directors assumes and the brunt board so i don't want to be portrayed that way but the brunt - and firing in that sense for the staff is being done by the brunt director and ceo of the institution but what the board as a whole maybe hires the brundirector. >> when you say board what do you mean what board are you talking about. >> there is something else not on the diagram. >> who made up the board. >> the board is busy - different responsibility for the board and kind of how you say a fine arts museum the trust department where the trustees their main responsibility to be the keeper of the assets of the museum so the artwork and the buildings that is reported on. >> that is from the charter and can't exceed 62 people i believe as portfolio members of the board and self-perpetually unlike virtually every other commission we have they elect. >> right and repopulate their governing body they appointed to their own board self-perpetually. >> and the on the foundation and the gilding - that's a board that can have up to 17 elected trustees up to 9 and then so - this is busy whether the endowment funds are kept and the co-front it the organization part of institution, of course, i'm here in my capacity as director and ceo of the institution not the neither the chairman the president of the board. >> right. right. >> it is interesting in this governor overview slide is that interesting enough it is the non-exit at the center of this diagram the logical way i think the works this is evolved over years after the last hearing he was talking about what happened in 1924 what happened and there are older city attorneys people that actually remember when proposition 13 was passed and have a theory that co-fam come into existence to augment financial giving to the institution as public monies he dried-up but nevertheless, it is interesting not the fine arts museum of san francisco you think the waking way it would work the co-fam and institution lead into the public entity you're correctly a city employee and the way - because and this is just a true fact of life because you're always out they're having to an, an annual basis raise a large amount of operating budget and the city is 25 percent of that solution it puts us in angle interesting position which is in any other department of city government the public can see all sorts of things go to the commission meetings and see what the business is and see the minutes and agendas and, figure out you how much a city attorney is paid or a city official like a supervisor it paid because of that diagram it is only an o pack and public side and i don't know if it makes our job any easy as you have to do the instant cycle of fundraisers but the more transparent it is the better off and more beloved that will be for whatever that is worth. >> i probably i don't know if i follow that analogy i think having i mean this diagram shows yes. the operation center of the institution that is where all the programming exhibitions, etc. are done and the majority of expenses being coming through and are being paid i don't think though it is - this is a structure that kind of only special to the institution i don't know if you have the same analogies for the similar structure. >> no, i think what is good. >> what i'm trying. >> no, i'm trying to say not something that is done for this particular institution but, yeah - a i'm a new director it is something that is done to operate assumed in the best way possibly and makes that flexible and dynamic and gives them the ability to operate in an environment. >> how does that work no frankfurt. >> frankford the city is paid a stipend by the other institution throughout the city is one the board is a city official so there was a separation but the institution i used to run in frankford one of the separate institutions. >> that was associated with one another. >> it was me running 3 of them with separate contracts. >> colleagues, any questions anything you want to add ms. moore. >> anybody here from supervisor breed. >> thank you. and welcome to san francisco you started a couple of months ago i wanted to make a few comments that is complicated as supervisor peskin knows i used to run the african-american agricultural complex he started as a executive director but paid under the san francisco arts commission they had challenges and intersection for the arts i was the fiscal year sponsor so it was complicated hard to explain my job was a oversee a budget to raise money but technically a city employee and improving expenses through a nonprofit agency because - a lot of i mean public oversight public money involved a lot of process a lot of challenges, but fortunately, we were able to be creative and establishing and setting up a new nonprofit and during the period e developing a nonprofit to oversee the facility very complicated, very frustrating process but ultimately that was 20 to protect the institution in the best interests of the institution i think that oftentimes in the aortas because of the public and private partnership that needs to exist in order to develop the financing necessary to manage those institutions they can be complicated and this particular structure is probably one of the most complicated structures that exists as it relates to the relationships with the city i think that what i ultimately want to say is there is never a one-size-fits-all some things work better for one institution and may not for another i think this is a good structure and it works for the institution great if there are improvements that what about made to assure transparency to city funds that would be helpful but ultimately i know that this is an incredible museum and has incredible support and has been a great community partner growing up in san francisco when i was a kid you know there were field trips to the defendant young one of the most boring trips as a kid chase interesting after the rebuild especially is that when the de young opened when i was the director of african-american complex that was a lot of outreach from de young to small institutions to invite us in to actually pay our artists to be part of the grand opposite and the performances that continued that fire hydrants with the de young bringing in the community and making that more interesting and making like art especially like things that are exciting for a young kid to have a better relationship with the next generation of artists has been remarkable initiative and fun and actually, my favorite institutions in san francisco and we over the years have done so many great things with the dei did not know with the artists have be paid - to be able to borrow fixtures with our smaller institutions was something i do truly appreciate that under mr. buchanan i don't think is a great director and the folks at the museum renee and others have been wonderful to the community and the past and i truly appreciate that and hope under our leadership that relationship will continue and with that, i'll say if there is any recommendations or discussion improving the governance structure that can be better proposed we are definitely open to that this is very complicated fortunately, i kind of understand it i'm familiar with that but for the average person sometimes that definitely can get just a little bit confusing and note make sense but ultimately i think that it is important to continue the work of the museum and also to make sure that the public is completely aware of how public dollars you know are being spent and there is full transparency in any process as it relates to that and people understand the other parts as it relates to the city dollars specifically a desire to do this i think the corporations i know that nonprofit are required to do anyway that that would be helpful but this is my $0.02 separately but more importantly i want to thank you for being here and i want to thank the museum and it's many members of the board of trustees for their continued advocacy and continued fundraising efforts to make sure that is one of the most treasured and best my name is producing some of the best exhibits i've ever seen you know i mean just the east san lauren and all the creative cool exhibits but really remarkable so i hope that under our leadership will continue in that direction thank you. >> thank you supervisor president london breed for those remarks and then before we hear from a representative of the controller's office do you know is there any written agreements between if i mfam and co-fam as researching how the city charter development in 1996 some changes to sections 5 point one 05 of the charter that says the board may enter into agreements with a not for profit or other legal to maintain the funds for museum support there's a word missing there but. >> i think right the understanding of that but it is part of whole governance process and all the processes we have right now in kind of have been the work we kind of fortified and put this into more deeper the different responsibilities of board and the cross collaboration between the board so what you see we've hired a non-positive hired as part of the progress started already before i came here is that the management consultants look at this different governance structure and improved some of the - not so much the mechanics but more or less to make that more transparent. >> that whole process they each as part of this whole infrastructure taking reviewed a 2012 performance government audit & oversight and city support actually for all the museums this was done simultaneously for the asian and fine arts museums and the war merrily and the academy of conceives have you seen that i mean. >> no. >> so i have a number of finding one findings at least back then this then there was a conclusion the fine arts didn't have sufficient processes maybe gotten better in a number of years and a series of recommendations has to do with are governors around term limits as far as i'm concerned, were never adopted and responses from the institution at a time some of them as a thank you but no, thank you some say good idea we'll do it but interesting to have a followup. >> i have to view it i haven't i've been really busy he looked at the current status on the institution i understand it completely understand the past and it is very relevant document but haven't reviewed it i have to assume the recommendations have been followed kind of there has been a process if 2000 to foreperson follow that if anything is not there i'll certainly make is one the duties to look at that. >> i would not assume anything thank you director ohio line i'm delighted you're on board and concur with the comments of supervisor president london breed and look forward to helping you do what you need to do to secure the fund and continue to make that institution it is and with that, i believe someone from the controller's office if you come up and tell us about the status of our ongoing audit that is kind of what got us here in the in the first place. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm kate the audit manager with the controller's office on the audit efforts the fine art museum and the status is basically, we're planning to issue tomorrow so at the next meeting we'll have to present our results any preliminary words you want to share. >> unfortunately, we can't until we get the report. >> the suspense is killing us. >> anyone wish to comment that wants to testify sienna motion to continue this through the chair and continue to visit but and we'll be at the helpful as we can we'll continue this item through the chair and we're adjourned >> so nice to see everyone in here. we really appreciate you coming and taking part in this with us. it's been such an exciting year for the san francisco fire department. we are in the midst of a year-long celebration for our 150th anniversary and we are so pleased that we are able to include this wonderful ceremony in our agenda and special events that we've had plans for to help us celebrate this year. so we are really really happy about this data we been looking forward to it for a while. i would like to welcome our federal state and local partners and elected officials. our invited guests and members of the public. and the active and retired members of the san francisco fire department and this includes several members who responded to the marina districts in the fire boat, phoenix, who you will see over there 27 years ago today. for the--earthquake. it's no go incidents that we are holding the ceremony on this date. you know, our fire boats have proven to be unique assets and very necessary assets were san francisco. i'm sure everyone is well aware of the vital role that our fire boat, phoenix, and are members of the department played in saving the marina district from burning up. 27 years ago today so again, we really like to thank those and we are really excited that you're here with us today to open celebrate this. so without further ado, i would like everyone to stand as the san francisco fire department veterans association presents the collars and leads us in the pledge of allegiance followed by the national anthem, followed by award winning artist, amino marks wife of san francisco firefighter david hawkins who is also united states naval veteran of desert storm. >> now i'd like to invite our beloved department chaplain father john--to give the invocation. >> as we celebrate 150 years of bravery and service to the city of san francisco, we give thanks to all of the brave men and women of both our fire department and our police department. as we gathered to dedicate and commission the boat today i would like to just ask for a moment of silence as we remember the young police officer who shot and as we pray for kevin's recovery today. >> >>[moment of silence] >> lord, our god, we ask you to bless all the men and women who serve on this new fire boat. watch over them and keep them safe. remember them now as they dedicate their lives to saving others both on land and on see. let's this boat and bless ourselves to your service. amen. thank you. >> thank you, father green. we are very very pleased to be joined by our first speaker today. please help me welcome united states vendor, diane feinstein. >> >>[applause] >> thank you very much. mr. mayor, distinguished fire chief, members of the department and ladies and gentlemen, i just want to begin by saying to the riordan band, you were just great. i love the uniforms. they do so much. i hope that some of you have a career in music because you're really good and when i was mayor i had something called a command performance in the bands used to come down and perform in city hall. mr. mayor, maybe that's an idea? >>[laughing] so my favorite was at the time the benjamin franklin middle school band but i think today it would be you. so thank you so much for this performance. the clapping >>[applause] when i was mayor was more than 27 years ago my the fire boat was and looked at as a useless appendage of the fire department. it was a lot of pressure on me to zero it out in the firefighter's budget. in the fire department budget and i never did. because i believe it was our safe point should something really happened and then the year after i left office that something did happen. who would have believed at the time that the giants would have been at candlestick park at 5 pm in the afternoon playing in i think it was the third game of the world series. and who would believe that the area struck at least by the earthquake was, in fact, the marina. all the planning that we had done indicated that was going to be the areas where we had a number of unreinforced brick buildings. namely, chinatown and the tenderloin. instead, it was still the marina is built on fill. well, i was getting ready to go to a queens bench and make a speech and instead i went down to the marina. i saw the fire boats come in. i saw the portable hydrant being rolled out and i asked why now and i was told all the water mains were out. so that hydrant went up to visit darrell street and actually, to great extent saves the day. the man who invented this portable fire hydrants name was frank blackburn. he was the deputy chief of the department. it was a real step forward. the hydrant was subsequently used in rwanda for the transfer of water during a terrible drought and was credited with saving the lives of 140,000 people. so this is where the protected productivity, the design, of a command staff of the san francisco firearm-fire department produced something that had never been done before. it was very special and i always became a firm backer of the phoenix. never got zero doubt in my nine years as mayor and so here we are today with a bran new phoenix-well brand-new fire boat that is going to be named. it will be bigger. it will be better. and it will be the failsafe should something happen and these mains go out again. so i want to say, congratulations fire departments. frank blackthorn isn't here but i just want you to know wherever you are, that it was really a good step forward and i want to thank the san francisco fire departments for all you do. i had the privilege in the nine years that i was mayor of going to every major alarm in this city and so i actually saw you were. once i saw that it was interesting for me because all the union battles became nothing. it was all worth it. thank you so much for your service. >> >>[applause] >> thank you so much sen. feinstein. it is such a pleasure to have you here with us today. please, help me welcome the mayor of san francisco, the hon. edwin lee to say a few words. the bank. >> >>[applause] >> thank you very much. good morning, everyone. sen., it's a joy a pleasure to an honor to be with you this morning to christen this next fire boat. it's monday morning everybody. we are at atc park. we got the riordan high school band. i've got my feels copy. i'm with the san francisco fire departments. mondays don't get any better. >>[laughing] so i want to say, thank you as we add to the incredible need of apparatuses that we must have in this evolving city. i know that the fire boat is going to be invaluable. the chief and i and the commission know that the equipment, not only has to be replaced, it has to be modernized. as our city is growing. with mission bay that we are in now, with the growing population that we have, and the bayshore, the south bay, all of the areas of the city, we need the modern apparatus. this morning i'm joining all of you to say, thank you, to the men and women of our fire department because this apparatus not only complements the things that we did, the guardian and the phoenix, but it also complements the men and women who on on everyday basis, whenever the call is made, you rush in to that danger in order to relieve us from danger. so i personally want to say thank you to each and every one of you because that apparatus replacement is helping. we have just made investments in your ambulance and i know-and convert and achieve our working together with me to make sure that response teams and her influences are there. they are there today because of your work with us. now, the fire boat with his new apparatuses and its new ability to pump bay water into wherever we need is going to be an incredible answer to the needs. now i will also say that this new fire boat is more than just a piece of equipment. it is about our cities resilience because we have more and more with the use of all of the equipment that we have and the training that we are doing with fleet week, and i know lewis and the three-week association are here. just last month we celebrated fleet week we celebrated more than that could the sen. and i were there to see the actual training that is going on between our fire department, all of our first responders in the city, our police department, of course, in our health department working together with our federal and state agencies to make sure we train to the level in which the next big event will call upon us. our neighborhood emergency response teams, they are training over 26,500 500 residents of our city to be better prepared to be able to save themselves, their neighbors, their friends in the community. that is about resiliency. that is about being really prepared. the good story about this new fire boat is that the bulk of it was funded, thanks to the senator's advocacy on our behalf and others. the majority of it was funded through fema and federal grants. well, you know fema usually comes in after the event happens to have fema come in before an event happens is what we have been always trying to do in our city, to be better prepared. have all of the responding agencies, whether it is pg&e were whether small or utilities, whether it is all our departments working together ahead of time so that we never introduce each other at the time of an emergency. this is what we do and this is what this apparatus will do. so i want to say thank you. i want to say thank you to the men and women of local 798 for your dedication to working with the commission, the chief, the city, to make sure we are at our best. to make sure were all prepared and of course thank you to our police department our sheriff department all the first responders as well. this is an incredible time for our city to be adequately prepared to make sure that we are investing properly and we are prepared for the immediate future. thank you very much. >> >>[applause] now the president of our fire commission francine covington. >>good morning everyone. isn't this a fabulous day? wow. mother nature loves the fire department. you can see that. >>[laughing] thank you all so much for being here. this is such a fantastic day for us because we get our third fire boat. as a city we are not growing out oh we are growing up. becoming more densely populated and we need to have as many resources available to us as we possibly can have. i want to thank the mayor for his support. i definitely want to -excuse me-thank sen. feinstein for her support when she was mayor and now in her position as sen. it's very very crucial that we have this support because we were able to get to more than $8 million in fema funding. the process of going through naming the boat was delightful. we received more than 300 names from schoolchildren and the guardian and the phoenix were also named by schoolchildren. so, this continues a a tradition in the department and you'll find out with a winning name is an injustice gets. i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge by fellow commissioners starting with commissioner sancho was on the zombies are longest-serving commissioner. 21 years as commissioner on the fire commission. and we also have commissioner cleveland and commissioner hardeman so again thank you all very much for being here and i just can't tell you how delightful this is. >>[laughing] see you soon. >> >>[applause] >> thank you president covington. now it gives me great pleasure and it is truly an honor to introduce the next speaker. please, welcomed the chief of the san francisco fire department, joanne hayes-white >> thank you. good morning and welcome an open e ctr. five signs, did thank you for bringing us in to archbishop riordan high school band. we really appreciate you being here. if you don't pursue a career in music consider the fire service. thanks for being you. my brother was class of 1971. it's a great privilege to be here with so many of you get a lot of people to knowledge and think. certainly, our federal partners are regional partners, my colleagues from throughout the bay area, fire department, thank you for being here as well as our military partners. to our elected officials, i see some remember to supervisor peskin here today as well as our sheriff vicki hennessy. she's not elected but i think if she was elected she got 100% support and that is the city and state chief of protocol charlotte schultz. thank you for being here. >>[applause] so many people we have our partners in the pvt. ambulance amr is to get my colleagues are city administrator naomi kelly could you blame force from the port the port has been huge part of good always with us every step of the dig i see jack therefrom the giants here. thank you for helping us have a beautiful backdrop. and let's get them in 2017. >>[laughing] i've three of my former deputies which he-gary and pat-i appreciate you being you were part of the team as we thought about this boat. guardians of the city is here. well represented with jim finley retired captain 150th committee the three-week committee like mayor lee said thank you for all you do and someone also said to shout out to bearden high school mentoring free week were picked as number one in the battle of the bands. so congratulations again to you. >>[applause] we also local 798 president tom o'connor. thank you for being here today and celebrating with us. also, in the back mark heller please offered scissors as you is a great partner. in our hearts and souls are out to officer kevin downes who we work together on friday night and we wish him a full recovery. so this is about celebrating and i can definitely say the native san franciscans am proud to continue serve as your fire chief you have a great team i can than staff is all here. i appreciate all the hard work you do. my hat is off to all the members active and retired civilian and uniformed in our department it is about teamwork. sometimes we don't always see eye to eye when it comes down to what we really need to do the filling our mission we get it done and i really really appreciate that. part of the team though as i was growing up was a great admiration for the mayor during the 1980s as she took over a difficult time in the late 70s. now she's our sen. a great respect and she's been an inspiration to all of us. i do know personally from so the gentleman i work with when i started at the fire boat worked there for about 18 months would allow about maritime operations. the importance of a fire boat. sen. feinstein is absolutely correct and i don't be she gives herself enough credit whatever aides at a time later became the fire commissioner have the rough, she sent him down multiple times and she herself can down to station 35 during her time as mayor because she was getting a lot of pressure to retire the fire boat. it's an expensive vessel to maintain. we all know that. but all of that those arguments, those discussions of those all went out the window 27 years ago today when the fire boat phoenix pumped throughout the night and saves most of the marina a great part of the marina get so sen. feinstein is very special with us that you're here today. we really appreciate it. of course, mayor ryu appreciate your leadership and support are always a champion for preparedness. and that does not go without us noticing here in the san francisco fire department get we really appreciate all your support of our department throughout the year. or commissioners also appreciate your support that we also have a beautiful craft behind us which were democrats and berries. we would like to say thank you for the craftsmanship from jensen maritime and bigger corporation. then as well we've had a great partner throughout the year and very proud of the partnership since i've achieved since 2004 has even gotten better with pacific gas & electric were happy to have vice president of electric operations gary anderson with us today been a great partner and specifically the router 150th year they have been with us to upper celebrate and enables to celebrate. other department heads, i know mayor lee engine and cronenberg thank you also from the department of emergency management. my sister is your patricia get second row and i see my big brother dan class of 1971 just showed up. city college. instructor for 39 years thanks for being here, jim. i want to say to code thank you to all the men and women the station 35 and are fire boat. like i said i have the privilege of working on the fire boat in the 90s. i learned a lot. some of the people i learned from our now retired good i'm grateful they are here at the party was the engineer on october 17, 1989. he is it. neat, where are you? thanks for being you could happily retired. we also have bob costa who taught me a lot. when i was at the fire boat where is bob? thank you, bob for being here. we have dennis kennedy also here. a number of other retired these wave your hand if you work on the fire boat and are now retired. thank you for all for being here. >>[applause] i would also like to pay tribute to two men that are worth with their no longer with us. they were wonderful pilots. one was died in 2006 and one died and audio seven. pilate arvid habaneros and pilot kevin devine. they were huge numbers of our department and both died unexpectedly while they were still serving in the san francisco fire department. i know the members always have great respect for them but i want to acknowledge them. we did also invite their families today. so without further ado, we all wanted them am excited to introduce fairly soon-i think mindy has something else to say but were going to introduce the schoolchild, third grader from st. peter in a few minutes he's going to come join me and work get on with us our market so thank you very much for coming out and appreciating our beautiful boat. >> >>[applause] >> thank you so much chief hayes-white. i don't think this boat will be officially ours until we receive the title. so i'd like to invite the chief executive officer, bigger, mr. frank so deep, up to present the vessel title to the chief of the department. >> speed thank you. good morning. did anyone hear the hammering going on behind you spewing raise your hand if you did. okay so what were you thinking? were you think i can believe someone's making noise in the middle of the ceremony? were you thinking is he building a piece of staging or is he building an awning to keep someone out of the weather? were you thinking is it safe? were you thinking does it fit if you need a hammer? >>[laughing] we are bigger we build think. that's how we think. it's a great honor to be here on behalf of of the 500 different craftspeople who touch this boat who are skilled artisans at baker who really built this remarkable fire boat. to chief hayes-white to mayor lee to sen. feinstein, thank you for honoring bigger by allowing us to partner with the san francisco fire department to build its. with me today is ali-us cut planning and zoning one of the people selected by his peers to be here to represent those who with their hands with their brilliance, built this great boat. at baker we are pretty partial to san francisco bay area. we built for of your ferries that some you travel in south big that are run by-. when you go by the transbay new transbay transit center and you see those really cool that their x-rays think of it v for bigger because we both goes structural parts for you. we built your boat. so were also building two more boats four-which will come out in the spring and winter group and designing some electric hybrids that will overly transit people. most environmentally sponsored boat manner possible. whether we are building ferries or structural sections for transbay were by designing the hydro electric ferries are people at baker lake allee, take great care to deliver quality we deliver it with love. why? because fire boat has a critical purpose often a purpose that has the potential to save lives and to protect our countries citizens. so ali is one join me in this presentation and chief, if we may, on behalf of bigger, jensen maritime the designer, and are 2500 skilled artisans at baker please accept this title to this great fire boat from us. >> >>[applause] >> you are welcome. >> also please join your boat has been selected by people as being one of the 10 significant votes of the year and might just get out onward later this should enjoy it with the love. thank you. >> thank you. >>[applause] >> before i bring up our next presenter, i did want to also acknowledge the beautiful singing a firefighter david huckins wife geico, thank you very much for making this so special. beautiful rendition. >>[applause] >> my staff kelly and olivia without them this one i've happen today either. so i know you don't want a lot of acknowledgments but it's definitely do. thank you so much. this is the exciting part. were going to have a: red. come on up. on board to induce you know mr. nico the there appeared geico is a third-grader at st. peter and paul. >>[applause] i happen to know him although i did not know that he was the person that committed the name. as president coming says were over 300 entries to name the fire boat. nico is the winner. were going to unveil the name soon but i did want to say that he had about eight member panel on the selection committee. was not an easy task but you are entry was picked. i'm going to have you unveiled again shortly but first of all we are going to have nico read a fire code that was written in 1935 by one of our members. >> here is a scuttle that protects our big a floating tower with a chilling spray. to douse the anger of starting flame and put the minutes of dread fire to shame. whose staffs this towering ship spewing when she must team into some blazing slip? must be firefighters of courage possessed by very few. members of our fire boat's crew. >> >>[applause] >> great job. nico is the son of one of our valuable members capt. tony rivera. tony, please stand up. and his lovely wife, lisa. and his daughter in fifth-grade, nina is with us. and his in-laws. so thank you for being here. great job on the poem. pretty good for third grade i think you're not an easy poem to read the very fitting one. >> thank you so much, nico. that was great. okay. now on with the ceremony. two members of station 35, will assemble for the chief to give the order to command the ship. >> thank you members of engine 35 fire boat and now we will do the official unveiling of the name. which was recommended by nico rivera and selected by our fire boat naming committee. the name of fire boat three is the >> st. francis. >> >>speech during>>[applause] >> >> >> light for our city and our streets illuminating our ideas and values starting in 2016 the san francisco public utilities commission is xhoefl that light with new led with the did i audits for better light for streets and pedestrian and they're even better for this vitally lasting longer and consuming up to 50 percent less energy upgrading takes thirty minutes remove the old street light and repeat 18 thousand 5 hundred times while our street lights will be improving the clean energy will remain the same every san francisco street light is powder by 100 percent godfathers hetch hetchy power in one simple word serious as day turns >> really glad to have you here for this dedication ceremony for the new air traffic control tower at sfo we'll begin our speaking portion and spanned a welcome to michael administrator. >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much and good morning san francisco and . >> morning. >> i'm delighted to be back in any home state of california and i want to begin by welcoming everyone who took time out from in their busy schedules to join us today what we're celebrating a significant milestone it is a significant milestone for the faa and san francisco international airport city and county of san francisco and for the millions and millions of travelers that pass there to at&t park every year it is undertaking and completion was the result of something unique a unique partnership i'm wondering talk about that in just a moment before i do that i want to recognize some distinguished guests wave or you're all standing wave when i call your name alice if nancy pelosis office alex there he is. >> (clapping.) >> karen chapman for congresswoman aaron. >> (clapping.) >> okay kathleen deputy for jackie spier and, of course, my great friend the honorable mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> and mayor, i have to take a moment and thank you for eyes and ears to represent the u.s. conference of mayors as we look at the next century of aviation my history with san francisco at&t park goes back a way to the 1980s and early 1990s when i lived here and executive director of port of san francisco san francisco is changed a lot since then and so has this airport those days you even though emigrate feeling when you come into that building you stepped into an architecture digest spread as stroll through certain parts of airport including the spot we're gathered in with this incredible view of the tower that is rising upright behind us here now san francisco has proven that infrastructure can be fundamental and eloquent at the same time as faa administrator i objective find myself reflecting on the big infrastructure projects as much as how important that these investments are to our national economy and aviation and era space are 5 percent of the gross domestic product some 12 million american jobs that is working in the aviation and era space industry to say for those investments continue because they contribute to great jobs for american workers and help to insure that our transportation system is going to remain save and plea of for many, many decades to come i also find myself thinking about all the core graphed work into planning, designing and building those structures and i'd like to acknowledge some of the groups who's close collaboration insured the process was moved and efficient and it was safe our air traffic managers and kroerldz and the national air traffic controllers association those people not only operate this tower but are involved in the planning and design and the functionality of this tower from the very beginning our technical operations managers the technicians and the professional specialist who are responsible for maintaining this facility in the infrastructure in it the project design built team architects and others and, of course, our faa engineering services personnel and the leadership right here at san francisco airport and the construction management team now faa and sfo are not strangers to working collaboratively with one another in the last few years we've worked closely to improve runway safety and skis in more arrivals when the bad weather comes in not a problem today but this control tower to the collaboration to a new level what we added at the faa was a no air traffic control tower that met the schematic standards and which met all of our operational needs sfo wanted a tower that reflected the city its unique culture and distinguished itself from every other air traffic control tower in the era space system do you think they've succeeded. >> (clapping.) >> now on top of that the structure had to be integrated into the existing airport terminals that is no easy feat in an air traffic controller that at&t park that has as busy and come pack as san francisco bus because of the unique circumstances the few agencies shared the costs of this project and in a striking departure from the faas normal way of doing busy 70 designed the tower and oversaw united states construction work while insuring the twoeb tower was built to faa specifications and so i really have to sweat shirt to the team here at san francisco airport that did a great job. >> (clapping.) >> now this was a pretty ambitious undertaking neither of our agrees are used to doing business we're controllers we like to be in control. (laughter) so to make this collaborative approach work each of the agencies need to relinquish some of that control to the other now our engineering team told me earlier today when i was walking around the facility this approach - they didn't know there approach would have worked with any other airport authority anywhere in the country and at the is that the key to the success here at sfo was an exceptionally professional trust worthy and flexible partnering at san francisco airport i know your to hell in a hand basket at tower that is 200 he 21 feet tall the cab is 6 hundred and 50 square feet and gives our controllers unobstructed views of airport runways and take ways contains sfpuc air traffic controller equipment a a host of green features that reflect the faa and san francisco's shared commitment to responsible environmental stewardship that reflects the similar culture of our two agencies we both embrace tough tasks and embrace pushing the envelope to see what we can accomplish when we see a challenge we don't not only try to that how we'll get it done safely and get it done efficiently so i'd like to express my sincere thanks to all the remarkable people at the faa, the san francisco international airport and everyone who played a role no planning, building and outfitting this now tower the work you did and the work that you are all continuing to do is going to help make san francisco the safety, and the most efficient airport possible for many, many decades to come thank you very much >> (clapping.) >> thank you >> thank you administrator and now it's my pleasure to welcome the mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> thank you good morning giants. >> yeah. >> this is a great day and i want to again welcome the administrator michael who has a history with our city but he said it all it is he is absolutely correct i truly building and am thankful what we described the faa wouldn't do this with any airport you have to have the right team the high barrow to the 70 team and the faa team put together with interests, with the h n t b corporation and pencil phelps creating that team that had the faith and shared cost is incredible to have this new control tower done it is one that i know we're going to be proud of for many decades as the administrator said it sits between two airport runways here the terminals between one and two and see iconic views at the top i've had the pleasure to do an unobstructed view of the entire airport that, of course, was ultimately needed in this modern facility it is modern not that radar system that will be able to get introduce any fog no matter how thick it is to be able to see the airport by the way, 16 million people coming every year with all the planes and the way we configured them the type this is have to be contingencies thank you to the air traffic controllers everyone for keeping our airport save everyday and flight everyday tight and we're not to be to be expanding more runways we'll be environmental partners through the entire area and figure out outlet ways to increase the flight that want to be here in this great city and region he is to the entire team congratulations i say that you know when you think about this tower is in and of itself the way it is constructed and designed it is invite and creative it has the environmental sustainability and ultimately that i think it is iconic whether you think about it we've got iconic symbols in san francisco golden gate bridge, the accosting and the cable cars the way this was done i have to say in my own words this adds to the iconic facility our control tower and sfo now another place people will come and see and marginal i can't wait to see it lit in orange congratulations, everyone. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. mayor now, please welcome the airport correct of 70 i vary and thanks doug it was orange and been orange more than a couple of days and i hope in weeks it will be orange a lot of work and talent but thank you all for being here today that is really a wonderful event and it is 6 years in the making and it took such a collaborative partnership with the faa and with our design partners and construction partners that is a proud day for us i want to also acknowledge some important people to our airport if i could vice president linda is here linda. >> (clapping.) >> >> thank you for coming it is wonderful to have you, you here and also i want to thank the administrator for being here that is a pleasure to have you here and show off our wonderful facilities thank you for the kind words and mr. mayor for our tremendous support as well and this has been such an amazing collaboration it took the faa as an organization to help to put 3 program together i'm appreciative of work with the folks bad actor in d.c. when we were developing that the local a v o office and the project staff that were completed and compassionate to two cultures coming together that do something successful and something exciting for the safety off our airport area and someone i need to recognize our retired airport director john martin under who is leadership this project started and completed i know that john would be very proud of this accomplishment and worried about he could be here today but a tremendous lead for our airport yeah. >> (clapping.) >> and so you you know this is a significant day for sfo that is the launch of our new icon at the airport i think of if in the context of starting a new era in the transformation of 70 at the beginning of a $5.7 billion capital program including the tower, excluding major terminal renovations and including a grand hyatt hotel on the airport and conveniences and amenities that continue to elevate us oas world-class airport for the next 5 or 8 years will be tremendously existing this tower is truly special for the airport the collaboration and the partnership was tremendous from day one and i think the trust that the faa showed in sfo that we could deliver this successfully was a wonderful acknowledgement of what sfo can do as a team and airport i think about the innovation of this tower that is you'll notice some interesting features including the offset design it gives great viability for the the air traffic controllers and the schematic destine it is the first vertical concrete did i get it right jim - concrete structure in the us that withstands a 8 point plus earthquake following events and also the new technology going into they are with the runway status that will be part of safety features of this tower and so you know this is an if a of a tower reflecting a seamless ambitious engineering and operational excellence with iconic design and been a recipient of a number of awards and recognized from the architecture industry and it is showing so much how we deliver projects as an airport and our core security of our airport engaging in a partnering collaborative project delivery process also a thoughtful integration of public art look over there. >> thoughtful integration of our art into our architecture and a passion for the experience and, of course, that commitment to sustainability and i'm proud to announce this tower has received lead gold certification it is official. >> (clapping.) >> thanks mark. >> and so with that, we're very proud to have another iconic symbol providing a beacon of safety for the people of the san francisco bayview and around the world that's correct so much important being here. >> (clapping.) >> thank you i bar. >> our next speaker the president of the professional airways specialist please welcome mike perry iron. >> good morning professional aviation specialist we changed our name because safety is very, very important in the past as to the faa and to the underlying public that's what we do and do that well your folks behind the scenes they make sure that the arborists have the except up upcoming in bad and good weather 24/7 and have to maintain the existing equipment all the powder of the airport is equipment has to stay upcoming while we're getting this new tower upcoming a double workload do it well, that's what we do best i want to applaud everyone the administrator folks and the air traffic controllers everyone got together to do this and sfo it was unique and done differently than in the past i got an opportunity to visit the tower earlier today as you may know it is a model like i said decades to come people will be looking at this tower and say what a great job and it is important we continue to move forward modernizing the air traffic controllers system to keep it going safely and smoothly day to day and the only time you notice us when those cameras see a problem and then we make the papers and television today is the day we want you to know the probation officer; right? the days you due hear about us folks and brothers and sisters in florida and the east going went through a traumatic hurricane so one other note while i'm here in san francisco i'm routing for the giants. >> (clapping.) >> if you can't tell i have an east coast accent i'm a yankees fan now i'm wondering route for the nationals and see a banner up here san francisco giants are champion again so thank you >> (clapping.) >> thanks mike it is good so have one extra fan our final speaker representing the national air traffic controllers association. >> thank you administrator for coming out here an honor to be with you and with the navy and stakeholders and building this no facility i'm proud to represent this is very important the only way air traffic controllers sit right now where the tower is 60 years old the original tower in 1954 was the beginning in 1981 that building was updated and the the record will so show gained a larger tower with the operation of equipment for safety today san francisco controllers handle one half million flight with over 50 million passengers in the tower we have everybody from aviation tours to the golden gate bridge and the boring 787 and is underlying the longest commercial routes in the world the new tower is 200 and 20 feet at all thaurn the old tower maybe not a huge difference but the air traffic controllers a better view for arriving and depatching airport and it is to withstand a 8 plus earthquake without damage and survived the loma prieta earthquake the new tower is a between you testament to share the project and we're proud of partnership newcomers controllers fall within the management team from the design all the way to decide where to put up equipment everything is laid out in a specific manner for safety air traffic controllers technicians and managers in san francisco work together truthfully so design a wonderful tower with cutting-edge technology and with surveillance capacity and radar included is a big deal touch screens display screens for the service that's the bottom line the new facility is not only better but better for the environment and mentioned earlier the facility has a led gold certification that levels very different difficult to obtain the tower is open twenty-four hours a day on behalf of the air traffic controllers station i want to thank all the hard working individuals and thanks fewer professionalism and dedication thank you >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much jerry. >> now it is time to turn on the new facility we've had several the speeches reference those panels how led lighting tonight they'll be lit in orange it is difficult to see now but nevertheless, we are going to ask our administrator to officially turn on the lights if you turn on a big lighting you need a big switch in order to do this so we've got this large light switch and ask our administrator and mayor ed lee to give you a count down from 3 and ready to join me in the count down 3, 2, 1. >> wow. >> there we go. >> thank you very much for joining is we'll begin the process of providing tours if you're interested in getting a tower of the tower cab see lynn and if everyone needs attire parking validated come to the front deck thank you very much for joining this is regular me small business commission held on october 24, 2016. this meeting is called to order at 201 p.m. >> how many steps did you take to get here? >> a few. the small business commission media service and sfgtv staff for televising the meeting viewed at sfgtv 2 at channel 78 or sfgtv dot org. public comment is limited to 3 minutes per speaker. speakers are requested but not required to state names. speaker cards will insure proper spelling of names. additionally there is a sign in sheet at the front table for those that would like to be added to the mailer list. sfgtv can you please show our slide? >> while we are wait frg the slide. as we do at every meeting remind the office of small business is the place to come if you have questions about starting or cuthing business in san francisco. we are services are free, located here at city hall or find us on the internet as well and so if you have any question about what to do next, start here. alright. let's t going. >> okay. item 1, call to order and roll call. adams, here, dooley is absent. dwight, here. ortiz-cartagena--tour-sarkissian , here. yee riley--zouzounis, here. you have quorum. >> okay. item 2. >> item 2, general pub u.lic comment allows membering to comment generally on matters within the small business commission jurisdiction but not on todays calendar and suggest new agenda items mpt . any members of the public like to comment on anything not on the agenda today? welcome. >> just a moment, let me get your--there we go. go ahead. >> thank you. good afternoon small business commission and do you know-[single]. there is no business like small business like all business i know. everything about it is appealing. everything that travlt will allow. when you are reeling that money down and there is no people like small business people. they smile when they are low and there is a one thing i like you to know, you might be stranded out in the cold, but your small business will grow. your small business will grow. okay. >> awesome. thank you very much. what a great way to start monday, thank you for that. any other members of the public that would like to sing or otherwise entertain us before we start the regular meeting? seeing none, the performance is closed. next. >> item 3, discussion and action on legacy business registry application and resolution. approve the following applications, escape from new york pizza, gypsy rosalies wigs and vintage, oddball films. presenter is is richard kurylo >> hello. three is fine, three for three. >> good afternoon. richard kurylo. i have a powerpoint presentation today. before you today are three application for your consideration for the businesses to be included on the legying legacy business registry. the application were reviewed by me for completion then submitted to planning department staff on september 3 for review and recommendation by historic preservation commission. your commission packets contain the application, case report from planning department staff and historic presentation and staff from legacy business program and draft for each business. the first application before you is escape from new york pizza. the business is local pizza shop in the haight ash berry business. provides on new york style pizza and unique business model and practice of giving to local charities. the alijinal location is 1737 haight street and expanded to 4 oirt locations. has a slow growth philosophy and business model that opt tooz share success to employues and contribute to organizations that benefit san francisco area. second is gypsy rosalie's wig and ventage specializing in wig sales and styling in operation since 1960 located at 14 five 7 powell street. best known for wide array of style wigs. the business is managed and maintained relationship with san francisco group jz communities including the [inaudible] performers, lgbt community, individual seeking wig style due to hair loss and illness and celebrities and members of entertainment community. the third application is oddball films. the business is a stock footage licensing company at 275 cap street in the mission district that served as a archivel and teaching facility focusing on film collection and preservation. stephen par is a owner of rare and historic films since 1984 and registered the business in 1994 after gaining a following of film industry clients seeking unique and rare footage. the business has grown the library and collection is a service hub for award winning filmmakers for footage to use telling the story of history of underrepresented groups. oddball films offers intern training program that teaches student btd archive and film preservation and past 10 years offered pup public screenings, sim nars classes and benefits. oddball films is less than 30 years but has no break in san francisco operation exceeding two years. it has significantly contribute today history andioid of the mission district and if not included in the registry faces displacement. the building lease is up for renewal in january and if not renewed the business will face extreme difficulty finding another 6,000 square foot space. all three businesses received positive recommendation from historic preservation commission and after reviewing the applications and recommendations from the historic preservation commission staff finds they have meet the three critear wru for the legacy business registry. there are three draft resolutions for consideration by the small business commission. one for each of the legacy business registry applicants. this concludes my presentation and happy to answer any questions you might have. >> great, any questions before we invite public comment. >> let's do public comment. >> now open up for public comment and welcome any representative oz thf businesses to make a three minute state about their business and any friends that have come along. >> our first speaker is rosalie jack. second sp ron murk, third is victor [inaudible] fourth, jeff lambert, 5th, mark [inaudible] >> i'm a little hard of hearing so if i don't hear something i will speak up. i have been doing hair for 59 years and been in business since 1957. they made a mistake on the [inaudible] that's alright. and one of the things that i find that is very important is, i not only do hair, i have my wigs, but i teach classes to the top salons in the city here and most salons just cut and blow dry hair, but i have done several salons-patrick's of sacramento, alex of union square, i have done many many of them. one of the students that i had was going to-he was going to-he was able to-what is that? my stupid phone, i'm sorry. anyway, he was going to be able to do [inaudible] and was worried because i had given him a class previously and he said i need a class because i want to do this play so he came in for a two hour refresher course and after he called me in a few days and says, i not only got to be the hair dresser for the play, he says but now i'm her personal hair dresser and i want to tell you that after-it is about three years, he now is a top hair stylist in new york and he has three salons and credits all the knowledge to me because most hair dressers they cut, blow die but dont do the whole thing and if you are in the business, the more you can do, the more you know, the more you will make in the business. so, i think that my classes are very important number one. number two, there are no wig stores in north beach accept mine and i was 41 years in north beach so i was ahead of most people with wigs. and then another thing is that i have been doing since i have been back in north beach in the last three months the city of angles i did the play for them. i have done several plays, they have been coming in this week . one thing i want to stres ask i not only do drag queens in my salon, i'm a hair dresser so there is nothing i can't do with the hair so think it is important i'm in north beach again, it is like my home because i was there 51 years. >> awesome. thank you very much. >> pleasure to have you join the registry and thank you for coming today. >> thank you. >> alright. >> ron murk. >> just reminder, we are obligated by rules to cut off at 3 minutes so not trying to be rude so when you hear the first gong you have thirty seconds left. >> which m ic am i talking into? my name is ron murk, the president of premier picture jz film and cultural programs for the metro foundation. i have been unthe motion picture industry for more than 40 years. this is great make up and hair. >> i like your wig. >> and martin scors acey was a teacher at nyu where i graduated in sfilm production. i worked with stephen paul from oddball more than twnt year jz honored to call him a colleague i good frnds and think the reason we such a great friendship is we scr amazing passion for movies. i utilized films in his collection in my projects and likewise, he sold clips from my films for other producer tooz use in their projects. resource sharing ask a enormously important part of the ability of independent filmmaker tooz get films made without the resources stephen offers a lot of films would not be made. stephen is also a film educator and offers internships to offer film preservation. education is a large part of the mission. sorry about the frog in my throat, i wasn't planning on special effects. in any event, a lot of people have mubed to digital film making and still use film making when we talk about digital. what people do not know is digital files are more at risk than films. most would think the opposite is true, but films we had for 125 years and stored properly and maintained properly, they can go on indefinitely. film is essentially the repository of our collective history and it preserves the history of our community. at oddball stephen created one of inmost important collection of films including commercial, art films, short, educational medical films and the personal collectionoffs filmmaker whose sadly left us too early. only through his relentless efforts to save and archive the films and make them available for use, have 50,000 films in this collection saved. there is a great cost to managing a collection like this and to digitize them in order to meet the cost of preserving them i hope you spourt the application and urge you to continue the work of stephen and odd bill oddball films. they are a great resource and treasure for our future. >> thank you. great testimony. next speaker. >> mr. gubya. >> [inaudible] visual and performing artist. i probably have seen the 16th street bart station in san francisco i designed the art work. also having involved in theater and film. [inaudible] met about 30 years ago. he provides [inaudible] he also provide the-one of the things about him is that [inaudible] home movies is also important because that is part thf history. [inaudible] a lot of home movies people have donated. sometimes people have in the claust and don't know what to do and the films are available. it is very important film preservation, particularly home movies, which really tell the absolute history of the city and documentaries. [inaudible] uc berkeley and meet documentary of mexican colonial art and i always find in steve's archive. one thing is he makes it available regardless if you have big budget or not so shat really important. he is really there for the knhunty community when you need it. >> thank you very much. >> jeff lambert. >> yes. my name is jeff lambert and executive director of the national film preservation foundation. we award grants to archives and promote through online and print publication squz here to support oddball film to the legacy business registry. i have known stephen par since 1999 which wh i par tisitated [inaudible] that is a group of individuals corporate and non-profit dedicated to preservation of audio visual heritage. stephen is active member of amea and director of independent media committee for 10 years. i know that film arvist make a point visiting with stephen to discuss the archiveing field. he was instrumental [inaudible] easy to use and free for everybody. oddball also works with other film organizations in the san francisco bay area hosting benefits, copresenting programs andprinting screenings of orphan films, educational industrial and home movies and archivels that wouldn't exist without supporters like stephen and national film preservation foundation and non-profit archive-all the non-profit archives in the state. stephen has been great-there is one thing about having films on a shelf but what we try to do and what stephen is great at is bringing the films to the public and getting them it into the world where they live. he participates with senate for home movie and presenting home movie day where people in the bay area bring the treasure films and are available to view and share with others. and make copies for the people who make the films so get to take them home. oddball films and staff spent hours preserving footage and collaboration oon preservation projects with other institutions. one example is film behind avenue good man, a portrait of gay life in los angeles in 1966. the fimm only existed in a few 16 mm prints, oddball had one and sent to ucla that completed the restoration that presented last year. i view oddball contribution to the historical legacy of film san francisco as a valuable resource for educators, filmmakers and historians. there is a film called blacky the wonder horse swims the goldsen gate and can see it on the website. >> thank you very much. awesome. next speaker. >> mark [inaudible] >> hello. thank you so much for having us. first of all i want to congratulate and say what a great program this is. legacy is so important and for those of us that have been around a long time, it is really important that we preserve our memories and our businesses that have been here to support us. my name is mark hoousts one of the foundsers of the lez beian and gay film festival and started in harvey milks camera store in 1977 and after i was diagnosed with hiv 15 years of hiv/aids documentarys and finished my work as a [inaudible] at the castro theater bringing back old movie stars like tony curtis and debbie reynolds and jane rustle. stephen to me is the very definition of legacy. if anybody walks through the hall of oddball sw sees those reals of films they are not only films those are lives in each of the cans and it is amazing that in all of those reels that we have-any one of them you would just open up and see a whole world at your fing ertips. he has been a very strong advocate for lezbenian and gay works and represents a few short films i made for the first gay film festival developed at harvey's camera store. he is a tireless and honest broker of films. it is always a thrill to get a check. but beyond that, it particularly in when i did my shows that castro he would have the most oddball films i have seen like i had ann blife who paid mildred pierce and known as the hostess cupcake girl and who accept stephen par would have a commercial of ann blife stuffing dig tongs into her childrens throats from the 1960's? it was particularly great because when i did that show the daughter that we have the footage of, actually came to the show, so-and he had like a debbie reynolds old footage called scope tones that nobody else had so i really love the work he does and feel strong and passionate about it. i feel strong and passionate about there is the line in the simon and garfunkal song, preserve your memories, they are all that is left you and hope you will help preserve our memories because they are what is left of us. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> paula fiscal. >> good afternoon commissioners. it is my pleasure to be here to speak on behalf of gypy losea lees wigs and vintage. my par pisitation goes back a couple decades. might add that i have been in these rooms a couple decades ago working for supervisor silver who was hope toog be here and speak on her behalf also. my participation for her is that i am her volunteer social media director. and me about yelp, facebook and anything that goes through the air, that is how i help her. i'm also the business development consultant so that in april when she was asked to double her rent to stay where she was on sutter, i assisted her along with the urban something that is funded by the city to help her relocate. so, that when she relocated to north beach i helped negotiate the lease. unfortunately the landlord was not willing to give a 10 year lease. you can see perhaps why. however, we did get a three year lease, so my recommendation is, could you change it down to 5 years in order to be able to have the businesses take advantage of getting the $500 per square foot compensation at the end of the year? on that note, i will move right along with other accolades for mrs. gypsy rosalie. she has done work with eta james and doing work with holly penfield which is a well known singer and entertainer from london. juanita more is her number 1 fan and juanita moore has been getter her hair done there at least 3 or 4 decades. >> dopet let juanita hear you say that. >> we'll keep it a secret. i have a show on sf commons called thepologist show. it is a talk show and rosalie is always my great great sponsor of my show. so, we have here today the amelia and she is always been there for us in volunteer work. she also helped when i worked on the saint luke's coalition. she was right there getting signatures to keep saint luke's open and contradict today the community for many many years. it is helping her with the legacy ever preservation committee to help with her promotions and her pr and so we want to thank you for listening to some of the-was it supervisor peskin who pushed her work but all the work you do to assist small business so thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next up. >> paul gefer. >> hi. one the scary things about the legacy business program is how old we are. i mean, i'm here-i started in san francisco as a street artist and then with my friends we started captain video and mark used to work for us and it is a thrill- >> [inaudible] >> thrill for me to see him again. how much water is under the bridge, huh? i wrote just something for the moment. my nomis paul gefner. for us in every business it is never about the pizza or the videos, it is always about the people. in a way, a business is its own nation and responsible for treating its employee, customers and neighbors with kindness and respect. we feed hospices after school program addiction service and many orelt charities. i also start the commission community market with two other people. not only in addition we have extensive [inaudible] for all employees and the other four owners beside myself started as employees as escape from new york. one was a dish washer and one gave out coke cards and the orelt a prep cook. after 30 years i'm proud to say we created that personal nation i talked about. driven by the concept of what is gooed framy partner, my neighbor and employee is what is good for business. i like to say finally, that is not only my values but believe them to be the values of san francisco and why i'm proud to be here before you. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> walter [inaudible] >> walter sang already. >> walter was our earlier performance. >> i don't think we have- >> any other members of the public that would like to comment on the item or any of the businesses? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you so much for your testimonials. this is i think for all our commissioners the favorite part thf agenda to hear great stories about our legacy businesses and i hope to be a legacy business. i feel like a legacy, but not a legacy business. thank you for coming out, i appreciate taking time out of your schedules to come here. commissioners, any other comments? commissioner adams. >> this is for paula at escape new york, i want to thank you because you do show up at a lot our or mall business meetings, you are out in the community, i'm a customer of yours. when you are in the castro if we needed anything you guys were right there with us all the time especially during castro fair street fair feeding us. your haight street location, my neighbor, andrew young worked for you on haight street. him and his son were at your 30th anniversary party. you are what is a small business owner in san francisco and getting involved. i have seen you at meetings. you are always there and out front and give give give give give. this is just a honor today to have you up here and to have new york pizza as one of the legacy businesses. this is awesome. thank you. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> i just want to add to that. i know all three bezs, i was born and raised in san francisco and i knew all 3 businesses i didn't know the wealth of history you contributed to san francisco so i want to thank you and honored as well. >> anyone else? alright. dowy have a motion? >> like to make a motion to approve all three. >> second? >> i second. >> if i can just ask to specific to add the word resolutions to your motion. >> okay. >> approve the all 3 resolution frz the legacy business registry. >> okay. we are going do roll call vote. adams, yes. dooley is absent. dwight, yes. ortiz-cartagena, yes. tour-sarkissian, yes. yee riley is absent. zouzounis, yes. that motion is approved 5-0, 2 absent. >> success! thank you all very much! [applause] we wont be offended if you leave because the rest isn't nearly as exciting, but feel free to stay. yes, indeed. thank you so much. >> should i read number 4 into- >> yes, please. next up. >> item 4 discussion and action to amend legacy business registry resolution 006-16 lbr. discussion and action to amend legacy business registry to loan star saloon to indicate the business operated in san francisco more than 20 years but less than 30 years with no break in san francisco operation exceeding two year jz small business commission finds the business contributed to history or identity of a particular neighborhood or community and if not included in the registry the business would face a significant risk of displacement. discussion and action item and our presenter is again richard kurylo. >> good afternoon present dwight, commissioners. richard kurylo legacy business program manager. before you is a -minded resolution for your consideration for loan star saloon. a legacy business that was add today the registry august 8. loan star saloon atthry 54 harrison was the first business add today all legacy business more than 20 but less than 30 years old. such businesses may be added if the small business find the business had no break in san francisco operations exceeding two years, significantly contribute today the history or identity of a neighborhood or community and if not included in the registry the business would face significant risk of displacement. the resolution approved by the small business commission did not include this information regarding the business being less than 30 years old. therefore, i submit a amended resolution for consideration for loan star saloon that includes this information. apologize i forgot to italicize the information so will in splawhat it is that changed. the a-minded ruzlution includes the word or after the second whereasstatement and the third whereas statement more than 20 but less than 30 years old. a similar change is made to all proposed resolutions to adding to the legacy business registry so won't have the problems in the future. jurks >> question or caumentds? >> you know they sold the bar? >> do i know they sold the bar? not familiar with that. >> i just read that in the bar. two employ ees. they sold to two other bartenders. >> we'll follow up with them. >> do we have members of the public that would like to comment on the item? seeing none public comment is closed. do we have a motion? >> i motion to accept loan star saloon as is for the--tew mend the resolution. >> the motion is amend the legacy business registry resolution for loan star saloon. second? >> second. spnt enough money in here. >> all in favor? >> aye. any opposed? that motion passes 5-0, 2 absent. >> awesome. on to item number 5. >> number 5, presentation on shops small and by local activities during holiday season. our presenter is jason lalak. >> good afternoon, jason lay lalak from small business coalition. i know some of you and don't know some. the small business coalition laurned in 2011 to provide grassroots support for too the small business effort to get community engagement with shopping local neighborhoods on the saturday after thanksgiving. we are honored to have the commissions support since 2011 and efforts in san francisco and love your support again this year. there is a presentation that i had handed out to all of you. the coalition has grown exponentially and proud to count over 430 organization nation wide work thong effort and this ranges from lorj organizations like aarp and national restaurant association, down to local grass roolts organizations like the hayes valley merchant or castro merchant association. we had unbelievable support on the elected official level so last year we had 14 psa's that ran nationally including one for mayor ed lee as well as pretty strong support from the sba and white house. the overall purpsh purpsh of the coalition is help communities engage in the efforts and we have really highlighted this in san francisco if you move to page 3 with partnership with office of economic and workforce development and cobranding small business saturday and shop small with city efforts on buy local. last years campaign was a huge success and not only are we repeating and expanding the campaign in san francisco, it is aumsh use ed for a modelal in other cities including new york, seattle, chicago and san diego. we are very excited to be cobranding shop small with shop in dpine dine in the 49 and this wail take place in the street ban rs that are up year round as well as partnership with sfmta in transit advertising and bart with our bart program in helping people connect how you can get around the city and visit multiple neighborhoods on the day. i like to invite mary ann thompson from oewd to join me to provide some insight from her office as well. >> i think i'll take this one. so, i first of all would like to thank jason and lynne for being our partners in shop and dine in the 49. this partnership as jason alluded to blossomed into other cities like chicago seattle and san diego saying we want to cait like san francisco so it exciting partnership. we will continue with the art work that we have, we will continue our outreach effort. this year we will have two press events, a kick off from the mayor and looking to do that somewhere around [inaudible] in december work with the mayor in the corridor highlighting the importance of shopping in your local corridors and as we said, we will continue our expanded with muni. muni has been a fantastic-mta is a fantastic partner by allowing to put cards in their buses. this year weal we'll update the website more. many remember, last year the piece that everyone loved so much was the map. everywhere we went they wanted a map. that map is aults housed othen website and a little more interactive so if people want to go to noe valee and figure what is there the map is there as wem. we are excited it is a expanded program this year and really grateful for all the work jason and lynne have done. >> thank you, mary ann we are grateful for the partnership with the city and hope to continue your support. in addition to the whole campaign which will run for november and december and want to call especially attention to two more specific dates program. this thursday is there is handout included. we will be doing a small business boot camp in san francisco. it will start about 4 o'clock at the financial district. it is a fantastic program. raunda abrooms from usa day is the speaker. it is really unbelievable content for business owners to understand how to maximize marketing during their holiday shopping season. then in addition to the boot camp this thursday, on small business saturday we will have a host of event taking place across the city. in the presentation is a overview of what took place last year. i know this year there will be a moe morning event that is a exercise dance program to get people up and motivated to go shopping for the day and then different neighborhood engagements that will take place throughout the day and afternoon. >> shop aerobics. >> happy to entertain any questions. >> commissioners--any question or comments? >> i saw you got new signs up . >> these are the ones from last year so will have new ones coming in november. >> yfs at diverse dareo and oak yesterday and they looked like they were new signs. >> they are permitted for a year. they held up well. >> they held up well. >> awesome. thank you very much approximate you coming out to give a overview. any members the public that like it comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i want to say thank you to lynne as well and mary ann on this. it really is driving people into the neighborhoods now. the day after thanksgiving everyone was downtown or irn in a mall and the last few years in cas row and noe, west portal and cument street they are busy the friday after thanksgiving and think a lot has to coo with your promotion so whaurfb you are doing right so thank you. >> thank you very much. alright. on to the next item, please. >> alright. item number 6, approval of meeting minute and the two meeting minutes for consideration were october 3, 2016 and march 9, 2015. >> commissioners any questions or comments on these two minutes? okay. do we have members of the public that would like to comment on the minute under consideration? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion? >> so moved >> second. >> motion and second to approve the minutes for october 3 and march 9. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? okay that passes 5-0, 2 absent. >> does that bring us up to date? >> we are all most there. we have two and whatever current meetings, right? >> perfect. item 7. >> item 7 is directors report. update and report on office of small business and small business assistance center department program, policy and legislative mat rs announcements from the mayor and anoujsments regarding small business activities. discussion item. >> commissioners it is a little quite on the legislative front though we have gotten a few things that we'll get out to you, not massively critical pieces of legislation 2 possible be heard at the next meeting or else following. this week at the planning commission is the conditional use for 1650 mission, the retail space that will-the office of small business will have a satellight position along with small business development center and potentially the legacy business program, so we don't anticipate any issues, it is on the consent calendar so once that is done we can start working on the build-out and hopefully february, march we may be able to have a move in date for that. um, and then i'm also participating in the earthquake retail working group and this is a-the patrick oat nealy working on the e resiliency project is taking itarve the napa earthquake working on developing a plan for developing not only in terms of doing the seismic ret row fitting for the buildings the businesses occupy, but whaet need to create to help bring businesses back online as quickly as possible. so, there is-they are developing draft recommendations, so i'll be attending a meeting wednesday to take a look at that and likely in the next couple months we might have a presentation on that. and then i just wanted to let you know for the legacy business program, rick submitted the last set of applications that will work their way through the process in time for businesses that want to be on the registry and able to apply for the business assistance grants so they will have their hear ing december 12 and the last filing date for had application is the 15th of december. so, we will have a few meetings or couple meetings ahead of us where we have between 10 and 15 applications that will be heard just so we can get that first kind of chunk of nominations through this process. so, it has been a little light on our meeting agenda in termoffs the number of nominations and applications for the registry, but the upcoming meetings we will have anywhere between 9 and 16. >> great. >> so, that is really it unless you have any questions. >> commissioners, any questions? we have memberoffs the public that would like to comment on directors report? seeing none public comment is closed. on to item 8. >> item 8, commissioners reportsment allows president, vice president and commissioners to report on small business activities and make announcements of interest to the small business community. discussion item. >> i have nuth toog report today. commissioners anyone else have anything to report? >> this may be premature, but the castro we are having our annual christmas tree lighting monday the 28th of november. we'll have the mayor da have been invited. our ceremonies is at [inaudible] santa claus, elf. we usually get a 50600 people there. >> perfect. on the record. anyone else? alright. do we have members the public that would like to comment on the commissioners report? seeing none public comment is closed. on to item 9. >> item 9, new business. allows commissioners to interdue new business. >> commissioners any new business recommendations? seeing none, we won't have any. any member of the public want to comment on lack of new business. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 10 but before item 10 can we show our ursour lide >> the office of small business is here to help with any and all matters concerning small business in san francisco whether you are starting or running a business, start here if you have any questions. thank you. >> okay, item number 10, adjournment. action item. >> do we have a motion? >> i motion. >> second. >> okay, all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? that motion passes 5-0, 2 absent and meeting adjourned at 252 p.m. >> gavel down. >> thank you mrs. president. [meeting adjourned] comment. m the public may address the commission up to three minutes on any matters -- [inaudible] to department personnel. c

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