Hi, my name is zara and much easier to do bagels laughter i have only one word thank you for eastbound almost i never cry but they make me cry you already heard it so, please give it it us thank you very much. Thank you very much. clapping. okay all right. Number 7 jan bells calling names hello my name is jan im honored to be speaking to a San Francisco commission i live in benchmarking and kind of berkley but San Francisco felt like the gleaning wonder world at the top of mop up i came to north at berkley in 1968 and he never left and when i come to San Francisco it is always special and when i discovered Cafe International that made that more special because of zara she greets me as if they know me she probable does know i came from berkley worthwhile for me to see Cafe International chief legacy status and i hope that you will agree thank you. Awesome thank you for coming all the way over. Hi, im cleveland i come from ta lay but here to prove the Cafe International has a history longer than the Cafe International i came to San Francisco in 1970 and shortly after joined a jog man until the place closed and moved to the Cafe International so been here and harbors old food like me so thank you zara and like to city city lights have not the status. Well get to that. clapping. lindsey. Yes. Hi, everybody thank you for having me my name is lindsey and a resident of the lower hate for 6 years that seems crazy to be a long time but everything everybody said zara is truly a beautiful place and a couple of other places in the past few years go away like a Mexican Restaurant and left before the legacy business came about 3 is cool we have it in San Francisco a special place and like everyone said i feel that zara knows me a special place the other thing we want to add a place for diversity you see a lot of places you walk in people look the same age this place everything we have everything and people are welcoming not to mention all the success with the open night jazz if this place left the lower hate i dont know what the lower hate would be thank you very much for considering this. Thank you. clapping. good evening, commissioners my name is ross an im the owner and chief of anchor officerinvolved shooti you for the opportunity and for your consideration and say how incredibly proud to be part of legacy business recommendationy. Thank you clapping. next is calling names . Does this one work too. Yes. My name is louis i was born and raised in San Francisco. Im talking about the Cafe International and it is such a vital part of the lower hate at the helm is zara an amazing woman that speaks 7 languages i heard 8 and with a master negative impact economics in the environment encourages diversity and people from all the walks of life and all over the world go is to the cafe and her warm and welcoming nature feels like home to so many i cant imagine the neighborhood she helps artists and musicians launch their access as a recipient of zaras warm elizabeth im compassionate about this legacy business thank you. Thank you. clapping. hi good evening my name is aaron an attorney and one of zaras advertising if you tell you her youre a lawyer shell hire you or compelled to act on her behave im here this evening a regular patron and Cafe International for the past several decades is a Cultural Institution that help to create community by providing a comfortable open safe and accepting place for neighbors to meet and gather in addition to bringing the neighbors together the cafe has helped weave the cultural fabric of lower hate in San Francisco by hosting cultural and artist events for example, you have the every friday an open mike and poetry night one of the last of its kind not only in lower hate but San Francisco that is ubiquitous one of the last events of its kind you have jazz on every sunday and those days jazz is regular gaited to bars and clubs and rare to have a coffee shop and every month local artists a of all sorts and at that point Cafe International a more important to the neighborhood than ever lower hate is undergoing a democrat garlic change you, you count about 10 hair slogans within a 4 or 5 block radius but there are now only two coffee shops in the neighborhood without the coffee shops no other meeting places for Community Members not only is Cafe International one of the last coffee shops in the neighborhood it is one of the last of its kind Cafe International provides a contrast between the newer coffee shops with people plugged in with their headphones and the San Francisco girl you read about in magazines i was there and people were playing board games on an evening the sweetest thing cafe is a rare coffee shop with a creation of community we must support Cafe International because cafe integral this is a supported our community for decades and that is important to support Cafe International without each other were nothing thank you. Thank you clapping. julia is next. laughter . Sorry. Everything commissioners my name is Stephen LeighSmall Business advocate and a commissioner on the Entertainment Commission but today, im here a San FranciscoSmall Business advocate and not a commissioner pretty much wanted to talk about sam wall maintenance to the community and uncle sam wall is basically has been around as you can see for one hundred years suffered 2 world wars and the moon landing and been around for one and 8 Chinese New Year parades for me when i came to San Francisco as a student at state i enjoyed the night life at the time in San Francisco and chinatown was the place to go eat and it was until my dorm friends told about this leader i couldnt imagine we went down that each experienced very good chinese food at a reasonable price but 24 waiter was yelling at us all the time we right the memo too long he said that is no a library this was crazy. As we went along and this was this coming and going and me as a Small Business advocate im impressed any business what survivor in the city over the one years and all the legacy businesses here i think that its a big contribute to survive all the things they go through as an entertainer by the way . Julia with david ho the owner of sam for thirty years after his wife passed its away giulianis father called china to take over the business and julie was not working but helping her parents when he was 9 years old the Community Stood behind it we want to continue sam as a legacy business for not only San Francisco but the next generation i mean, you have people like ribbon williams talking about that and barry steward that promotes it and again, it is just a great when the community you know can get together since were in operation is took a while to find the right space we employ 26 employees whether fulltime or part time in San Francisco so give back a legacy business to her father that will be able to retire with some money it is a stage back in the day she was not able to hold into the business. Thank you very much. You want to say something. I want to hi. Thank you thank you, thank you everybody. laughter clapping. yeah, so for myself ive been involved in the restaurant for a little bit over 20 years since i was helping my parents out as a kid and i can is that you know not a day going by there is customers talking about the roof i mean, he was quite the character and has definitely brought a lot of people into awareness of the Chinese Restaurant and the Chinese Community and people that come through our restaurant are not just the locals in chinatown but have people from out of state and over the world and when we closed down a couple of years back we had a lot of support throughout the world we were shocked we were pretty we were pretty surprised at a wide range of support alleyal over it warmed us to realize our restaurant was able to because it is not laughter yeah, so i mean while i was working there go as you can see can you talk later please. Thank you. When i was working at the restaurant it was a lot of different people that came to it new just the locals but people to spread the social and effects our food kind of for some reason was able to touch people a confront for people coming through as we reopen we still see a lot of people coming through and people have been coming here for generations where they great grandfathers and dads brought their fathered and so forth he hope one day this guy can help me run the restaurants thank you for considering us you want so say something. Thank you. Youre welcome thank you. clapping. all right. I remember that waiter. Okay calling names . Good evening, commissioners my name is charles rath born the honor to speak on behalf of luxar cab i drove a taxi in San Francisco for 40 years ago more than one hundred medallion holder he joined luxar to operate our taxicabs and luxars first 88 years and been a leader in providing transportation to our citys residents and visitors not able serve disabled passengers that need special equipped vehicles luxar offered this service along before the americans with disabilities act and a history as a pioneer in technology with the detail apps like taxi magic that was introduced years ahead of the Ride Services we hope soon to see a decal on the taxicabs announcing our legacy business status to generations of customers to come i would like to express our thanks to supervisor campos and, of course, to the voters of San Francisco for their vision and creating the Legacy Business Program and to supervisor jane kim for nominating us and also a word of thanks to our staff person rick for a it up job in helping me to navigate this process lastly, thank you commissioners and have any questions happy to answer them. Thank you very much. Youre welcome. All right. Good evening, commissioners my name is a judith like to read my statement zara you and your families are cooked for thousands of people and in their families and created a safe imaginative space for families and friends for the lower hatred for thirty years you defer legacy recognize for our Cafe International moving to the bay area in 1979 moved to the city in 1979 and frequented cafe were any band the bar jug band found a new home thank you zara for the honor and privilege and rare opportunity for experiencing the community to sharing our home to express our abilities who want to speak their peace and flourish and grow jack free man passed its away had to play for the opening and zara allowed us to play at the cafe ever since through generous and artistic nature nutures the musicians from all over the city our cultural bridge is essential to our neighborhood creating a peaceful environment and a place to work and play i want to express my deep appreciation to you, you and our family for allowing our band to play in our beautiful space all those years our legacy business is created freedom as endowed our community to thrive San Francisco owes you a depth the gratitude to keep the live music and art for us youve created a welcoming place for a home cooked meal you can sit a while and have a cup of coffee and act in local art exhibitions this as closed to a golden 0 ways please vote to keep the legacy alive thank you thank you. clapping. whos next. Yep. Hi, thank you im peter hood the one of the owners the st. Francis foundation i ask spent a lot of time talking about the incredible businesses especially the Cafe International i used to be your neighbor the spaghetti western nice to see you neighbor i have one story to tell about the foundation in 2008, 9 a customer came to eat every day clock work everyday for breakfast after the wheels fell off in 2008, we noticed she started coming not every day but once a week any manager asked her what happened we dont see you anywhere and she said i lost any job and home but he keep on coming here one day every week to feel normal and still have hope. And that was one of the stories our great establishment has been doing for almost one hundred years hopefully in two years celebrating our one hundred anniversary not been that long in the Restaurant Business feels like that laughter absolutely i really a dont have much else to say i want to make some comments about the history thats been put together in i am r all the application and history best served warm with homemade biscuits and grave we can read about history but San Francisco is about a living history and places you can go to. Places you can be in, eat, talk to people can meet people and be part of community so we hope to be here for a hundred and maybe another hundred after that thank you very much. Thank you. clapping. all right. Do we have any more Public Comment . Elaine. Hi. My name is elaine aim the director of city line books im the publisher there and i wanted to say first ive been to a number of meetings at city hall and not such a happy one in my life this is beautiful so beautiful youre up here smiling. Spread the word. Im thrilled the legacy business project is this very visionary and important for the city i think we all are in agreement and wonderful to be in the room of people a beautiful list of businesses and almost a beautiful list of businesses on the register if we join ill be very, very pleased and honored to be part of this we filed out the application because the fact that the city light has been here 60 years were stable and then the initial stages of the Legacy Business Program i was not inclined to apply i didnt want to take a space for one business that might need it more but we may not be so stable and this opportunity might not exist for us and certainly i believe merit a place in the history of San Francisco city lights im bias ive been there thirty years most of my life it is my home the home for many people im not the with only one that expressed the story of making coming to San Francisco to make that place and just findings a home there will be people from all over the world invested in having city lights be here it is a huge responsibility for me to carry that into the future and stag get 97yearold i want to make sure theyre doing what their populated to do as long as possible and contaminate when book stores are to be disappointing theyre not all the case what it is we provide and leaving of leave you with one quote in dark times like this we feel are difficult times into in the city and generally it is i think very important to be involved in an institution has to do with with the compassionate and the consist to ideas and other people stag g spaghetti is we hope to continue doing that thank you very much. Dres subt. Estella garys. I want to congratulate all the applicant and ask you to embrace all of us i think for Different Reasons one of our common themes has been about community and being connected and finds places that are important for all of us thats been the experience of us weve served as a place of healing and a place of gavrt a place of honoring our history our culture, and learning about other peoples approaches to healing and not only a Community Based organization but connections with people in the city and worked for 38 years to become the premium provider of health and Mental Health services and we have addressed you know a number of the population issues in our community from trauma that people face and from issues of family unification and weve been devoted to the idea that well remain and support of social and Emotional Health of the community and made commitments to making sure that we are welcoming place that people can come to us they can seek support and help we see their strength we dont just so the problems before us but the resiliency so therefore weve created many communities relationships with them and families come to us for not only for the pain they feeling but really because theyre seeking to find a way to remain health and safety and strong so institutes have been that place for 38 years were proud to be nominated by supervisor campos office and all the people that supported this application and this process and again, we seek that place those places and i think youve heard today how many of these businesses have been that for people so thank you. Thank you. clapping. hello, hello im natalie run a Company Called i heart sf im here to support the legacy business status for Cafe International i sort of have a new perspective ive been here only for 10 years and doing business as in San Francisco but i only stumbled on