Public my name is fran taylor. Im cochair and retired member of the Typographical Union which i mention. I want to remind you that the people will be attacking are also workers. I support the original total ban. I have long suggested folk who is lack a home should get a tent in the shape of a car and no one would blame them for blocking the sidewalk. I have never heard an elected official complain when a car forces a pedestrian to walk in the street. We can never get by. Nobody cared. Similarly, if you are tired with nowhere to go but the sidewalk, officials aiming for Higher Office have an answer for you. Let machines run amuck in the same space and watch those same officials fawn over them. New technology, innovation. My second suggestion is the tired humans should dress themselves as robots if they want to be left alone. What does this say about San Francisco . If you are a human in public space, you are swept away, ticketed or even in the case of luis pat, shot to death by police.
Really excited about and want to focus on today is the incredible partnership of all the members of the Small Business community that are here today. Where are you, jason . Raise your hand. Hi, jason from shop small saturday. Thank you very much for your partnership and continued klb ration. Collaboration. We have mark quite thesing, regina dickendreezy, the council of district merchants has been a critical partner of ours as well. We have the Council District of merchants here as well. Juan of the things that were really proud of and really inspired by is our mayor, ed lee. The mayor came to us four years ago, the office of Economic Workforce Development and said i challenge you to create a program and campaign that gets more shopping done in our local neighborhoods. Increase the amount of spending to support jobs and Small Businesses and also support taxes and the vitality of our neighborhoods. And we, through the incredible work of Mariane Thompson and gloria chan, Joaquin Torres in
Businesses. It is its going to be immeny difficult to monitor this requit for Small Business employees. A lot of employees change, movee their address, move out of of ty and that is an immensely diffict challenge for businesses to maid to comply. I dont see the reason to requis unless there is a reason, whicht been set forth in any of the dos ive read, why would the cannabs business or this new industry be burdened by this requirement onm the getgo they may not be ableo qualify. Were creating a business that t qualify or maintain the legalits existence by not being able to d employees. It is counter it does not sem logical to me and would like ths commission to inquire with the y attorney as to its enforceabili, enforceability of this provisio. And im completely surprised ths been maintained at this high le. Yes. I mean you can construct all kif easy. Mental arguments against this. Imagine a business with 12 empld six live in the city and six lif city. One of the six who lives in they
Fulltime dedicated team, i want to acknowledge manny enriques. [applause] manny is somewhere here. For the last nine mo fnzes he has been out overnight, virtually every night five, six, sometimes seven nights a week to help us hit this deadline. And hes probably inside because i realize at this point he is no longer used to sunlight. So [laughter] im sure he is glad that we will be getting these trains in service. But congratulations to all of them. And finally i do want to recognize some of the other people who contributed a lot of their time while they continued to do their daily responsibilities. Scott broder. I see lisa wallton from i. T. Whos worked with us in resolving system problems. Terry fahey with the track crew. Part of what was done was constant adjustment to fit a highly technical vehicle on to our system which has to accommodate b. C. C. S and brada cars. Not an easy test. Maintenance. Kept the system going while we drained a lot of key staff to work on the l. R. V. 4. S
So Second Amended with the board with positive recommendation appointment of mr. Michael pappas to the adult and aging services commission. With that objection. Thank you for your Service Commissioner pappas. Thank you very much. Any other items. That concludes our business for today. Motion to adjourn. Excuse me. That is not on today, sir. One. Commons 3rd thursdays is a monthly event series really activate Service Center and un plaza food and music and other social Activities Oil stephanie the Vice President of operations for this. In 2016 an initiative called the Service Center launched an effort by a bunch of the city agencies along with institutional stakeholder and Community Partners to have a program that is how to get people out here on a monthly and weekly and daily basis. My name is a im with the Program Manager and also commons 3rd thursdays will have live music important in the. The city approached us to provide food and beverages at the event kind of the core anchor to enc