Transcripts For SFGTV Small Business Commission 102416 20161

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. Lets t going. Okay. Item 1, call to order and roll call. Adams, here, dooley is absent. Dwight, here. Ortizcartagenatoursarkissian , here. Yee rileyzouzounis, 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 yourthere 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 rosalies 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. Lets 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] im a little hard of hearing so if i dont 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] thats 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 salonspatricks of sacramento, alex of union square, i have done many many of them. One of the students that i had was going tohe was going tohe was able towhat is that . My stupid phone, im 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 im her personal hair dresser and i want to tell you that afterit 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, im a hair dresser so there is nothing i cant do with the hair so think it is important im 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 wasnt 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 theone 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 dont 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 steves 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 nonprofit 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 wouldnt exist without supporters like stephen and National Film Preservation Foundation and nonprofit archiveall the nonprofit archives in the state. Stephen has been greatthere 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 haveany 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 harveys 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 1960s . It was particularly great because when i did that show the daughter that we have the footage of, actually came to the show, soand 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. Im 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. Well 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 he