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good morning and welcome to government audit and oversight meeting of april 21, 2016. supervisor aaron peskin: and joined by supervisor london breed: and we ll be joined by supervisor norman yee:. i would like to thank sf govtv for streaming us live. madam clerk any announcements? yes, please silence and electronic devices. supervisor aaron peskin: please read items 1 and 2 together. clerk: items 150672 home detention electronic monitoring program rules and regulations and program administrators evidence of financial responsibility. supervisor aaron peskin: captain paulsen. good morning. my name is captain paulsen. i have been asked to make a presentation today with regards to electronic monitoring. the reason for today s presentation is the california penal code requires that the board of supervisors review and approve the data regarding electronic monitoring. currently we have made no changes to the electronic monitoring rules since in the past 2 years. ....
click on watch tvgov tv2. members of the public please take this opportunity to silence your phones and other electronic devices. public comment during the meeting is limited to 3 minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the officer of the meeting. completion of a speaker card, while ouptional, will help ensure proper spelling of speakers names in the minutes of the meet. additionally there is a sign-in sheet for those who would like to be added to our mailing list. stgovtv, can you please show the slide? and there it is. as is our new custom we begin and end each small business commission with a reminder that the office of small business is the only place to start your new business if san francisco and the best place to get answers about doing business in san francisco. the office of small business is the city s central point of information, assistance and referrals for entrepreneurs and small businesses in san francisco. we provide free one on one assist ....
having a student teamwork with the office of small business on the refinement of the information, the matrix. we have received the work that has already been done by the intern that is there. we re looking at additional information regarding gross receipts, generation of ownership, as well as other facilitate i have numbers, [speaker not understood] codes, et cetera, so there is a comprehensive index put together. the third project relates to legacy history information. and toward that end i m going to be joined by a colleague who is a business historian who will be working with teams, hopefully two teams, who will be looking at having and collecting some stories from some of the legacy family businesses. not just the family business owners, but also neighborhood residents and adjacent businesses, in essence, trying to assist in defining what you have said, what makes this legacy business so critical to a community. the first project we re looking at is what we call a l ....
we re a membership based nonprofit organization, and we re so proud to be collaborating with supervisor campos on this legislation. it really we feel a validation of our earlier efforts in this realm ~. we feel that the proposed legislation is modest, but highly significant step towards recognizing these businesses he which are so important to defining the identity of san francisco ~ a. too often these places are taken for granted until we learn of their impending closure, which unfortunately in san francisco is almost a weekly occurrence. many of thea businesses are successful, long-standing business he that, but for the current economic climate, would survive and thrive today. as documented in our report sustaining san francisco s living history that was just released in september, one of the primary challenges facing these businesses is the fact that they do not own the spaces in which they operate and that they are subject to the economic force he that make their l ....
occur and continue into the spring. and because we have a family business course that is what we call the practicum where students are actually out doing things, we believe that, in essence, at least three of these projects will be able to continue into the spring past whatever was accomplished by december 9th. so, that concludes the information that i wanted to very quickly share with you. i m happy to respond to any questions you might have. commissioner dooley. i just wanted to add my great thanks also for getting this going. i m seeing in my own neighborhood every day businesses leaving because they re forced out. these are valuable neighborhood assets, successful businesses that just simply can t pay, you know, when their landlord quadruples their rent. and anything we can do in this area, i consider of great importance. well, we he want to thank you for the opportunity to actually work ~ with the city on this program. i just wanted to share with you that our ....