Sfgov, please show the office of Small Business live. President adams okay. Welcome. It is our custom to begin and end each meeting with a reminder that the office of Small Business is the only place to start your Small Business in San Francisco and the best place to get answers to doing Small Business in San Francisco. The office the Small Business should be your first stop when you have questions about what to do next. You can find us here at city hall. Best of all, our services are free of charge. The office of Small Business is your place to voice concerns that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here at the office of Small Business. Clerk item one, call to order and roll call. [roll call] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President adams great. Next item, please. Clerk item 2, general Public Comment allows public to comment generally on items that are within the Small Business commissio
Loan program. This will allow us to provide lowinterest rates to invest in corridors. Were looking at about 3. 5 rate. But the loan is also available to citywide businesses or businesses across the city. The last time we actually provided resources to this Revolving Loan fund was in 2013, under mayor lee. And main street lounge is our partner in administering the loan. Were currently actually amending their contract, so we can add the additional dollars. Next piece is the 2 million allocation for the next two years to expand the s. F. Shines program, into the bayview, excelsior and lower haight. The dollars support Small Business owners to make improvements to their storefronts and interiors. With the goal here is to make the spaces more appealing and accessible to patrons and contribute to the overall vitality of the neighborhood. We estimate that the additional dollars will support about 100 businesses over the next two years. Just quickly, just some history on the program. Since 200
Applications and the recommendation from h. P. C. , staff find the businesses have met the three criteria to qualify for listing on the Small Business legacy. Your support of the businesses should be as a motion in favor of the resolutions. In the resolutions, please pay close attention to the core physical features or traditions that define the business. Once approved by the s. B. C. , the businesses must maintain these physical features or traditions in order to remain on the legacy business registry. For academy of ballet, its ballet school, for li po lounge, its bar. For lyra, its type casting or letter and book binding. For home together San Francisco, its renovation project, and for zazie, its restaurant. That concludes my presentation, and i have individuals that would like to speak on behalf of the organizations. President adams okay. Were going to go right into Public Comment now. Dont be shy. Hi. My name is zori carr, and i am the director of the academy of ballet. And i woul
Agencies are going to accomplish our goals, to help our Small Businesses and streamline the efforts. And also with the s. F. Shines program, the Program Manager with that program has been working closely with ria in our office, with Accessible Business Entrance Program and our grant funding. Were really trying to align and maximize all of our funding efforts and supporting each others programs, so that were really making it much easer for businesses as far as helping them. So thats its really great to see how were really working closely together. So accomplish our goals. Great. Well, thank you so much, commissioners. If i may, i just wanted to say thank you very much for the positive responses. Were looking forward to doing more. We know that theres more work to be done. Were certainly not stopping or resting on any of the achievements that weve shared with you so far. I think that i think that were we are living in a very complicated environment for Small Businesses, which is why the
Such a game of catch up. I am not pointing at you, it is better late than never, but whether it is the central subway , which is far behind schedule, and as that gentleman with the red hair to my right sitting behind the commissioner reported, it is going to be further delayed, and now i actually am going to point a finger because i said to this reporter when he called, and i said the project management oversight reports that the central subway was going to be even later and that the whole construct that it was still on budget, behind schedule but on budget, may no longer be true, either, and i said the truth, which was, alberto from the sfmta stance in front of all 11 of us and repeatedly says it will be in Revenue Service on december 31st of 2019, and we will not be overbudget. It turns out, it is time to rip the bandaid off of that lie, but the reason i am saying that is because the businesses on the 1,900 blocks on stockton street will be, excuse my french, screwed. We have known a