Is another meeting next week and so well keep you posted to what is being developed. As to what is being developed in relationship to that. Also, we did ask the Business Group to think about you know, the upcoming years and what are key topics of things for this group to work with the mayor on. So, some of the topics that came up again were just dealing with congestion, multiagency communication still is somewhat a issue and also for the sit a to work with the private entities to be more responsive around their congestion and work and notification. Homelessness has been brought up a couple times and think may be a ongoing topic for especially for the city to report back on. Departments improving their response and turn around time for Small Businesses. So, those are some of thethis the Business Community exspessed wanting to focus on for the future. And then last week supervisor tang in response to the controllers report on restaurant permitting process helds a hearing to highlight what was in the report. There is a series of recommendations that the Controllers Office has made, so the supervisor tang asked departments to respond to that and asked them to do an inturnt assessment what they could do to improve their response turn around times and what resources they may need to be able to do that. She asked them to come back in 6 months to report on that. Also, i think where mentioned to the commission in that report it will be important this body to weigh in on the recommendations the Controllers Office had so i forwarded copies of the report. If you prefer a printed out copy sent to you please let brian know. Well start drafting initial responses to the recommendations but by the first meeting in septi thipg it is good for the commission to submit forward to both the mayor, board of supervisor and Controllers Office an official response to those recommendations. And then some legislation that is going to come before you, again these are the first 3 of them are issuessorry, the firstthe second and third were ones that had been discussed with the mayor, with the Small Business leaders but again working on improvement around neighborhood notification when work is transpiring. And a contractors parking plan, i think that we heard from many business areas especially i heard quite a bit from merchants in hayes valley where there is private and public work happening and it is going on for over a year with all the new Development Projects and they are taking up all the parking. These will be coming before you so please read through it. There may be additional recommendations the commission may want to provide and then the second one, the public right of way occupancy fee, the Mission Creek merchants are in a flood zone so there are mitigations businesses would like to do to help prevent the flooding of their businesses. Supervisor campos has very quickly it is a mitigation fee for doing work in the public right of way. Wouldnt that be covered under federal law because if youre a commercial building in a flood zone you have mandatory Flood Insurance you have to take out, if you have a lean on that building which is supposed to cover the business and i think there are somei think whatsome of the businesses have been impacted year after year with the flooding and so i think this is trying to help them deal with a little more of a proactive step especially if you have to go to the public right of way to prevent the flooding into the business, so i think supervisor campos is trying to this is where . Commission street, folsom [inaudible] i think this is dually important with the discussion of el nino and high amounts of rain coming up. You will also bewe are working to schedule the dates before the offices gothe board of supervisors go dark due it legislative recess which starts next week for a month. And to get these scheduled at least either in late august early sep. Commissioner dooley you talked about the formula retail and subsidiaries so that is now officially introduced and will be before you. Just wanted to provide a update, so i heard from some of the massage establishments that had already gone through the permitting process, they got their dbi permit and planning permit sign off and the only thing they didnt have was the department of Public Health because at that time it was not required of them. So, reengaging i heard from a couple of them last week that the department are making themdbi is making them regolow the process so i will dee exploration but there may be a opportunity for the commission to ask the departments to come back before them lets be sure we understand both sides of the story before we hear it. For those that have gone through the permitting process where they have done their dbi work, these are the ones that i feel confident i know they have done that. Once we get both sides if it is the case, we have to do something and talk about it. Iright. I thing there be a opportunity to work with the departments to saythey still may have to go to dbi to get conformation to make sure they have done everything appropriately and get it checked off, to me that makes sense. Lets understand the circumstances. Im just making you aware of that. Update future meetings, well have sfmta, they are updateing and revising the Transit Development impablth fee so they want to make surethere has been several reiterations and how Small Businesses havehow it effected Small Businesses who have had to pay the transit impact fee, so they want to make sure that you are aprized of what they are planning and then commissioner dooley, you had wanted to get an update on the vaeckancy for xhrjs properties. We are trying to target for august 24 and then i just really want to express my appreciation to brian pool for really getting our Meeting Minutes done quickly, getting them out to you and getting the commission back into an orderly and timely manner of getting information to you and the work done. In deed, it is great. You have been engaging proactively and i appreciate that you do a great job that conclude my report all right. We need Public Comment on your report . No. My report, i have nothing to report other than the fact i did attend both of the meetings that the dreblther talked about. The meet wg the mayor and the meeting regarding bilocal at the chamber of commerce with oewd tod rr [inaudible] was there. Im troying to keep focus on the partnership between the chamber of comrbs and oewd to promote b to b purchasing. The first thing we are trying to get is a meet and greet to bring business together to talk about the buyer squz seller squz have a Cocktail Party if you will. I think finding way tooz celebrate any successs because there a number of great examples we could be promoting of local businesses buying from local businesses. Anyway, working on that actively. Nothing else to report. On to the next n. Item 11, vise president report nothing to report, however i do want to bring to your attention, i noticed the director put in your binder a mixer, the ba mixer at 1300 august 11. Just wanted to bring that to your attention and that is it. Item twechbl, commissioner reports. Commissioners. Commissioner ortiz it will be short president. Times up last week i have been helping on the Renaissance CenterEntrepreneur Center help with the [inaudible] program so i help several Small Business on the [inaudible] see how we get Small Business to the next step. Tackle projects that prevent them to get to the next step. Pretty cool fantastic. Anyone else . I just want to reiterate the jbba may contact you at 1300 fillmore sponsored by goog squl hope everyone can make it. Im excited for that. Commissioner yee, riley i attended the mayors quarterly meeting as well, so it was productive and organized and great. I also want approached by the Hong Kong Economic office and they are very interest d to foofind out more about the food truck business so i answered questions [inaudible] food trucks in hong kong . Anyone else . I met with oewd [inaudible] and he is interested in being involved in the commercial vacancy discussion, thenoter business Business Association went liferb on our site with the updateed vaeckancy and he reviewed that and we would like to figure out a way to have other associations, other neighborhoods put their vacancies on line with oewd to reach out more and fill the vaeckancy squz put our Heads Together once again to talk about folks who choose not to rent at all. Speaking of which, did [inaudible] get their permit . Yes that is one less vaeckancy, i have a queshz in regards to that, did you guys go around to get the information yourself on the buildings . Yes. Block by block there are 15 vacancies and only 8 are for rent. 7 are just not for rent and a number maybe 5 or 6 look vacant but are being used as storage for adjacent businesses so they still are covered with paper and that. Okay. Commissioner adams we had ain conjunction with economic and Work Force Development we did a retail strategy for upper castro and market and one thing we did is a vacancy thing and we counted 21 and out of 21 there are 8 that are habitually vacant and we are doing the same thing you are doing, we want to put them on our new website we are currently working on now. I dont to shame them. We have the pateio cafy and ill put it out there live. That is sitting empty for 15 years. We had conditional use purblts for businessatize to go in that say yes but you have a owner for whatever reason and get that conditional usewe just had the burger place that got approved and all of a sudden it is not happening. It is one landlord who controls like 5 of the vacant spaces in the neighborhood and purposely keeps that vacant. Why is that . What is the motivation . [inaudible] i talked to this landlord and said you know, what is in your head . He says it is my space, i own it and can do whatever i want with it. It is likeafter a while you had a restaurant there, ham burga mary. They come kwr present to castro murch squnts go to the Neighborhood Group jz everybody says yets, goes in front of planning and planning says yes, not happening. That is a big frustration. I applaud commissioner dooley when she sticks on that and i see it in your neighborhood and my neighborhood t is everywhere. You go to west portal and oceanarve new, it is the same buildsings sitting dark and vacfront a long time and after dealing with what i had to deal with, it doesnt help the neighborhood and attracts crime. I read about the homelessness, the homeless sit in front of these place jz this is what is attracting it. What are you seeking if i may ask . That is the things under california state law if it is commercial building you cant make them do anything and local ordinance is tough because we talked about this in the past because state law and commercial supersedes xhrjs. There has to be something, shame them. I dont know. Im glad you brought this up and something that is actually in a city right now where there are other businesses that do want to come in and it is hard to find them and the rent rate is high, there has to be something you can motivate these people we talked in the past about even having the city require just to put a notice in the window saying who owns the the[inaudible] in oewd did that vacancy so you can go on line and look at it and we had the brokers all Work Together but that worked great for the vacancy where the landlords wanted to get rid of their stuff but it doesnt help you when you have a landlord who just lets rust raunts sit vacant we have one that is empty since 1986. Is the person still alive . If you go in the cast row the first thing everyone asks is what is up with the patio . You put your hands up and say, i dont know. Okay. There is nothing we can do other than shame these people. I think when the last legislation passed obviously in terms of taxing means you is to go to the ballot and so then the likelihood of Something Like that passing is probably it is interesting proposition. Get a neighborhood voters to say we wontdont want this, this is blight when we did a survey a number of years ago every neighborhood had at least 5. 24th street you had the empty Grocery Store there that used to be real foods. I just wanttaxing is one method. The second is to attract nuisance that is the City Attorneys Office has done taken action for Certain Properties that attract nuisance, that is another way but these are extreme cases. Some jurisdictions not necessarily in our state but in other states and nations do charge for and tax for Vacant Properties that of course you need [inaudible] vacancy tax i think it is worth taking another look again and try again and see if we come up with something different. Interesting. First the flip side of that if you go into a economic down turn you tax people who cant rent their places so how do you write that law so it is effective when there is demand and unwillingness to lease versing a time where there is more supply than demand i think in the last one there was considerations and a lot has to do with length of time, so there is clearly space out there that we have nob nab landlords who dont want to rent. Do we have any other reports . Okay. Item 13, new business any new business . We are done. Okay, final item motion to adjourn. I move. All in favor . Aye. . An Incredible Program because we take regular kids teach them the love of the game. We have no emphasis on winning we only have an emphasis on learning and trying as hard as they can thats it and the chips fall where they may. When students leave our program whether or not adults or kids theyll have a mechanical understanding of what they have. You dont have to be 7 feet tall or be super faster but you do need skwil. Once you teach kids how to have control over the Tennis Courts theyll master. Please invest. Good morning welcome to the finance county Transportation Authority im commissioner avalos the president of the committee and supervisor kim and supervisor cowen and joined by supervisor campos and supervisor mar our clerk is steve mr. Clerk your announcements. No announcements. Okay. Lets go on to to our first item. Number one roll call arrest commissioner avalos supervisor campos absent supervisor cohen supervisor kim supervisor mar absent we have quorum. Very good let go on to item 2. Item 2 approval of the minutes of the june 9th meeting an action item. Colleagues, any changes at all 0 our minutes no comments open up for Public Comment members of the public on our minutes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Peoples politics not system politics a system politics it could be really immediately replied by a machine the Political Science of humanity inside and out meaning and loyalty and matt haney of matters. Thank you. Okay seeing Public Comment is end well close Public Comment and colleagues a motion to approve the minutes. Second. Sect by supervisor kim with a roll call vote. On item 2. Commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim supervisor mar absent that motion passes. Very good item number 3 please. Item 3 federal and state action item. Good morning mark sends his regrets a busy time in sacramento and many things to do so hopefully, ill cover the bills in the ethics matrix a just want on a special session the governor declared a session for transportation and infrastructure to data number of informational background hearings basically outlines the need for transportation and infrastructure for the solutions for new revenues that could be pursued so, however, most of the funding and discussions have been around the need for highways and roads not so much transit a push from the vehicles local government to bring that into conversation theres been a modest number of bills introduced in the special session ill go over in a second first of all, were proposing two new recommendations for the legislation from the first is the ab 744 which would relates to eliminating the minimum parking requirements around the in fill areas around the stations and the Planning Department is supporting this and the section regular bill is ab 902 basically currently for minors a dwefks program they receive a ticket for a vehicle code things like bikes infractions they countys encourage get education rather than a ticket and the proposal to extend that to everyone for diversion for bikes running stop signs the first is a b x one one that mandates the loans in prior years of Transportation Fund to general fund the second is ab x one, two is expansion of the authorization for the building in the regular session and finally constitutional amendment x one one protects for transportation revenues if they have passed in the current session were recommending a new cigarette time Senate Package of transportation revenue increases revenue bill 16 and similar x bs one one by senator bell the increase in the new gas tax and a vehicle fee along with other packages this would be a 5 year program again mostly for local highways we are also reading the spot bills in the extraordinary bills session and waiting to get controls hopefully more details. What is the probability revenue for sb 16412 r x one one. The estimate is one billion dollars two to 3 billion a year ramping up over the 5 years were working to support the Second Amendment for the massive needs for the streets and road but also trends has significant repair nee