Dpw, and oewd to start developing one, first, kind of a policy perspective on what were going to do with this. And then right now there isnt any permit structure for these entities because dpw handles mobile [speaker not understood]. Police department has a pedalers permit but doesnt permit any operation out on the streets or in trucks out on the streets for retail. And retail has retail can go many which ways, good, you know, honest retail and not honest retail. So, how do we [speaker not understood] . Drive by retail. Thats been out for awhile. Which one . Letruck. Oh, yeah. There are a couple retail clothing ive seen the clothing because the one clothing where she opens up the back door and the ramp comes down and you can go up in there. Right. I think, director, its important that we take some cues from the mobile foods. Be mindful of the fact that the brick and mortar businesses who have substantially more overhead costs and pay a lot more into their community dont end up with a b
For improving accessibility in their property. We set like three stages or three levels of criteria. And, so, if a business meets low, level or medium level in terms of their accessibility issues, then theyll be more likely able to apply for the sf shines funding. But if theyre in what we call kind of they have some substantial issues such as three steps going up into their property, then we will need to direct them to a cast individual. So, im very pleased about this. This is a pilot program. And if it works out well, then we, hopefully we can expand upon it. So, and that is scheduled to launch mid november. Then i wanted to ask, have you had any feedback regardctioning the rollout with the checkout bags, heard from any businesses . Ive heard more from consumers than i have from businesses. I was in one business, not in my neighborhood, in cole valley and they werent happy about it just because there was a long line and somebody was complaining about, you know, got to figure out bags
And then in regards to the street ordinance response to the government audits and oversight committee, heard the stifled grand jurys report on october 11th. And there was in regards to the recommendations pertaining to the office of Small Business with moving the Street Artists Program over to from the Arts Commission over to the office of Small Business, there were mixed results with the committee. So, there wasnt a definitive response in terms of whether it was to stay with the Arts Commission or move over to our office, though i would say there is a little bit more towards a leaning to keeping it in the Arts Commission. So, what the gao committee has asked is our two departments Work Together and see if in working together we can resolve some of the issues. And we need to go back before the committee in six months. Was this the same committee that had initially made the recommendation that the civil grand jury made the recommendation because the civil grand jury makes recommendation
Get their perspective and understanding and if we do craft a permit, that its crafted in a way that can support something, but not to the detriment of our neighborhood commercial districts and, you know, goods that are of questionable origin. So, well keep you yes. Can you report back to us as youre getting these inquiries . It will be interesting for us to get a baseline on what types of businesses are looking to expand the mobile truck thing. Just so we kind of get an idea what were looking at. Umhm. So, ill make sure that we well ask ill ask martha to just provide that information for us. At each meeting and also at Committee Meetings. Ada update, we are working with asian neighborhood design through their through the sf shines program. We got some additional cbd Community Community Development Grant dollars to expand the ability of doing some ada outreach. Asian neighborhood designs, theyre the entity that the city contracts with with our sf Shine Program and our sf Shine Program i
Thanksgiving is less than a week away, and students in the Charles B. Aycock DECA club are trying to make the holiday a little brighter for those who cannot spend