taking place. but my neighbors and i, we should not be harassed. we re taxpayers in the city and we should be able to have access in and out of our home free of belligerent, rude parents. so i ask that you come out. i m just letting you know i m on a mission to get this resolved, because i shouldn t deal with it and the children should not be placed in danger. president buell: thank you very much. we ll look into it. we have one more blue card and that s bruce mcclellan. hello, commissioners, i m here talking on behalf of i m bruce mcclellan, the concession heir down at the ma reena green. right now not today, but it s going to be coming up. you re thinking about putting foods carts down at the marina grieb. i think the food carts are a wonderful idea in many locations where there aren t any facilities to offer the same services that food carts can offer. however, at the marina green there is a facility, our facility, and i would encourage you at this time to just sta
point that we re excited to be part of the parks community. the way we view our role there is added trash pickup. not only do we have an obligation to pick up the trash, but we would also have a vested interest in doing so. so i think we just really hope to continue to add value to the park community and while the process of the contract may have been flawed and i know there s a lot of emotion flying around that, we really are open to the discussion and hope to continue to add value. so thanks for hearing us. president buell: thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon, everyone. my name is shakira finley. i am a small food business owner. i m also president a president of the castro. i am speaking i m sorry. i m speaking i m here not to be the voice of, but to provide ears for small businesses who cannot be here and speak on behalf of themselves. but hopefully that you will listen and understand that. we really appreciate what san francisco has already done t
if you have these hoot carts further down there s going to spend their money before they get to us. from what i understand the percentage that the food carts are going to be paying is 10%. i m currently paying 20%. my guaranteed minimum, which is $18,000 a year, overshadows the guarantee or the estimated income of $7,000 that they re going to be providing. we re hanging in there. we re doing well. we have exceeded our minimum last year. that was before the new cafe opened in the presidio 100 feet from our location. that was having an impact on us. i am concerned that the food carts, if you put them down in the marina green, are going to have a further impact on our business. i am your partner down at the marina green and i want to work together with you, but this is going to make it kind of tough. thank you. president buell: thank you. we are done with general public comment at this time and we are on to item number five, which is the consent calendar. i do have one card an
i have been involved in meetings and commissions and an attitude and approach towards us has causetitude and approach towards us has caused the quite a bit of concern. for a lit we re a little disappointed because it hasn t helped and there s been quite a bit of discrimination. that word help that i mentioned has not been providing us equal access. i defwoo like to make the suggestion to all of the staff, once want you to think about help as not not helping us and guiding us, we want to be able to have equal access. it seems that that is that is improved or your thought it would be im3r06ed with improved with helping us and helping our community. it really stayed the same. you do understand the word access but it seems it has been ignored and you focus on helping our community. there hasn t beech much improvement in the department. it seems most of the community lost respect for what you have been lacking and providing us. we want the accessibility, not necess
who drive their bikes all along the marina green and they buy food at our concession. if you have these hoot carts further down there s going to spend their money before they get to us. from what i understand the percentage that the food carts are going to be paying is 10%. i m currently paying 20%. my guaranteed minimum, which is $18,000 a year, overshadows the guarantee or the estimated income of $7,000 that they re going to be providing. we re hanging in there. we re doing well. we have exceeded our minimum last year. that was before the new cafe opened in the presidio 100 feet from our location. that was having an impact on us. i am concerned that the food carts, if you put them down in the marina green, are going to have a further impact on our business. i am your partner down at the marina green and i want to work together with you, but this is going to make it kind of tough. thank you. president buell: thank you. we are done with general public comment at this time a