Tonight meeting is televised life thanks to sfgov for stlifgz live id like to welcome everyone to the Small Business Commission Meeting of please silence our phones limited to 2 minutes unless by the presiding officer and speakers requested but not required to fill out their cards please deliver speaker cards to the commission concert additionally an signin sheet at the in front table please show our slides. Were here thats all that counts. Please show the office of the Small Business commission slides. Well, i will speak well were waiting for the slides if it comes up at the beginning and end of each meeting to remind the San Francisco Small Business commission is the place to start your business and the place for your questions about operating our business in San Francisco answered the office of the Small Business commission is the place to start and the services are free theyre in multiple languages you can visit in person at the city hall or visit us online so lets get started. Oka
Gm and welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority im scott wiener the chair of the Authority Board not the vision zero i think accidently flashed but the full Transportation Authority board mr. Clerk commissioner avalos commissioner breed commissioner campos commissioner cohen absent commissioner farrell absent commissioner kim commissioner eric mar absent commissioner peskin commissioner tang absent commissioner lee commissioner yee we have quorum thank you very much item 2. Item 2 enforce the transportation an information slash action item colleagues before us the expenditure plan relate to the half cents state tax at the board of supervisors as you may know we have two different sales tax pending a half cents dedicate to transportation and three quarters cents with a separate Charter Amendment dedicating funds to transportation also to Homeless Services and were here today to discuss the three quarters dedicated half cents tax measure a presentation from staff i see that
Life thanks to sfgov for stlifgz live id like to welcome everyone to the Small Business Commission Meeting of please silence our phones limited to 2 minutes unless by the presiding officer and speakers requested but not required to fill out their cards please deliver speaker cards to the commission concert additionally an signin sheet at the in front table please show our slides. Were here thats all that counts. Please show the office of the Small Business commission slides. Well, i will speak well were waiting for the slides if it comes up at the beginning and end of each meeting to remind the San Francisco Small Business commission is the place to start your business and the place for your questions about operating our business in San Francisco answered the office of the Small Business commission is the place to start and the services are free theyre in multiple languages you can visit in person at the city hall or visit us online so lets get started. Okay per to me e item call to or
25th Largest Convention center in the country but the conventions are getting bigger so with this extension it is 13 largest we have been under construction a year and a half and set to complete the construction in 2018. It generated over 9 billion in San Francisco 35 percent of viz 2rs coming to San Francisco are coming to maus coney. 2500 jobs will be created. If we didnt do the expansion we would luce 200 million in taxes a year. The conventions they are talking about going other cities with ample [inaudible] and exhibit space and not come to San Francisco. There is a lot of [inaudible] we are at a point now where our [inaudible] two halve oz the mos connie and think what we desire is one space. We are adding space about 200,000 space. We are connecting the two existing north and south exhibition halls that excavate under Howard Street to increase the largest exhibition space to 1 contig ws space over 500,000 square feet. The spot im standing in will be inside the lobby. The buildin
The in front table please show our slides. Were here thats all that counts. Please show the office of the Small Business commission slides. Well, i will speak well were waiting for the slides if it comes up at the beginning and end of each meeting to remind the San Francisco Small Business commission is the place to start your business and the place for your questions about operating our business in San Francisco answered the office of the Small Business commission is the place to start and the services are free theyre in multiple languages you can visit in person at the city hall or visit us online so lets get started. Okay per to me e item call to order and roll call commissioner president adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortizcartagena is excused. Commissioner toursarkissian commissioner yeeriley commissioner zouzounis mr. Vice president we have quorum. Item two. Our speakers is not here perhaps go to item number 4. A yeah, since the pertinent is the same f