Informationni inconr fivenini m toni startnrnrq . makingconko understand thaii this is coming and butni there could beni prop p j mumm 9m . Rni with t meeting obligations. For properties that are warehoused and 3. 5 increase, gross receipt increase for commercial rent. Ive highlighted different exemptions so if properties lets just say, retail sales and services, Small Business, and that section of the property would not be subject to the commercial rent increase. The other one is one that will be put on by the board of supervisors and that one is covering housing and homelessness in terms of the what the increase in Gross Revenue and that is projecting 1. 7 gross receipt increase for commercial rent. Again, that chart highlights what is subject to the commercial rent increase and what is exempt. So just want to highlight. That one does require a super majority. So and then at our next meeting, the march 12th meeting, you will be receiving presentation and ill be sending materials out. They did analysis on commercial rents and vacancies, so you will be receiving that presentation on march 12th. Great thank you. That concludes my report unless you have questions. Any commissioner questions . Ok, seeing none. Do we have Public Comment on item number 6 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Im only going to make a thing, item number 2, with these two taxes. Ive never had as many Small Businesses concerned with this probably since ive lived here. A lot of them are saying, theyre done. They cant afford it here anymore. So it will be really interesting to see what happens here. So, ok, any other questions . Seeing none, next comment. Next item. Commissioners report, allows president , Vice President and commissioners to report on recent Small Business activities and make announcements ta are of interest to the Small Business community. Discussion item. I have two things, i attended the nun awards on january 29th and i want to give a shoutout to daniel homesy for what hes done with the network. This year is probably the most diverse awards ive been to in their ten years. It wasnt just certain neighborhoods, he had representation from all over the city, so i want to say congratulations to daniel on that. And then my second item, we all have new boards in front of us today, folks. So it would help me out, please use your request to speak button now, i know half of them didnt work, we were like, ahh, that would help me out a lot. Thats all i have . Any other comments . Commissioner reilly . I just wanted to let you know i attended a walk in chinatown. The highlight of the walk was mayor farrell. We visited the golden gate cookie factory and the mayor make a message and special Fortune Cookie for his wife and wished a lot of happy Lunar New Year of the dog. I worked with the mayor and welcomed in the new year in the Chinese New Year parade on saturday. Busy week. I attended our regular Market Business Association meetings and our samba is going to be joining with the south beach business association, and also i attended an event, cosponsored by the arab american Grocer Association around ice raids in a time when businesses are being visited by ice in the city. Great. So your two local business groups are merging . South beach and south and what was the reason for doing that . South beach had some infrastructure issues and we just decided to merge forces. Share expenses and what not . Yes. Do we have Public Comment on item number 7 . Seeing none, closed. Item 8, news business, new items for future consideration by the commission. I want to suggest we revisit an actually spend time researching the concept of helping Small Businesses purchase their store fronts. A number of business i know have done this and i feel like this is really the ultimate way to protect a Small Business from being evicted, is if they own their store front. Some folks are doing it through a tic and i think with the crisis were in right now, we really need to look at this seriously. Im glad you brought that up, i agree with you 110 . This is probably before marks time and yours, but we did this 67 years ago and we had success with this. Youre right, now the is the time, because some of the people we helped own their store front now and theyre here and doing good. I know some would be happy to come and speak and tell us what their process was and you know, go through the department and move Something Like this forward. Excellent idea. Is that program, the t. I. C. Thats if you have a commercial building and apartment on top, the landlord wants, he could sell you the scare footage, so what youre renting he could buy the square footage. What is the other part, the small side acquisition . Thats for residential. We have bought mixed use commercial, but its primarily 46 unit apartment buildings to keep rent protected people in their homes. Is there a way to inquire about a program like that . I think we can i mean, rick and i have been discussing this in terms of looking at it as one of the components to develop with the legacy business program. So there is we can look at what programs there are for residential, where we do have a firsttime homebuyer program, assistance with a loan with that. We have the small site acquisition. We can take a look at that and take a look at some of the programs that we currently have and draw parallels of what can work, might work, develop it slightly differently for commercial space. And we might still i think another thing on the agenda is also on that list, would be to sort of take a way to modify back the legislation that prevents condos and allow commercial condoization. So that its easier to get 504 loans. Ok, any other new business items . Do we have Public Comment on new business . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, number 9 adjournment. Before that, please show the office of Small Business slide. And remember the office of Small Business should be your first stop when you have any questions about what to do next. You can find us online or in person here at city hall. Best of all, all of the services are free of charge. The Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. Please, we want to hear from you, come to our meetings. The 2nd and 4th monday of the month, we want to hear from you. If you need assistance with any Small Business manners, start here at the office of Small Business. Item 9, adjournment. Moved, seconded. All in favor, aye . Meeting adjourned. Usf donates 100120 pounds of food a night. For the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the Food Recovery Network. Im maggie. Im nick. Were coechairs of the national led organization. What food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. The moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didnt recover it the next day. I want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, its one of the largest emitters of Greenhouse Gases in the world. If it was a nation, it would be the Third Largest nation behind china and the United States. America wastes about 40 of the food we create every year, 160 billion worth and thats made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. No matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. Access edible food that we have throughout our Lunch Program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and ill cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day ill heat it and ready for delivery. Its really natural for me, i love it, im passionate about it and its just been great. I believe its such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. No food should go wasted. Theres someone who wants to eat, we have food, its definitely hand in hand and it shouldnt be looked at as work or a task, were feeding people and it really means so much to me. I come to work and theyre like nora do you want this, do you want that . And its so great and everyone is truly involved. Every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. They dont even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. Thats how it should be. Thats what food is about basically. An organization that meets is the San Francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursdays. By the power of your name i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. I believe its helpful to offer food to people because as you know, theres so much homelessness in San Francisco and california and the United States. I really believe that food is important as well as our faith. The San Francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. The core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. I know its difficult to believe maybe in the United States but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal theyve had in two days. I really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i dont know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. Its not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. Theyre extremely grateful. Its super awesome how welcoming they are. After one or two times theyre like i recognize you. How are you doing, how is school . I have never been in the city, its overwhelming. You get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. We never know what impact were going to have on folks. If you just practice love and kindness, its a labor of love and thats what the Food Recovery Network is and this is a huge i believe they salvage our mission. To me the most important part is its about food waste and feeding people. The Food Recovery NetworkNational Slogan is finding ways to feed people. Its property to bring the scientific and Human Element into the situation. The meting will come to ord order. This is the february 23rd, 2018 special meeting of the San Francisco local Agency Formation commission. I am sandra leigh fewer, chair of the commission. I am joined by commissioner cynthia pollock on my left and hillary rope then on my right. I would also like to thank the staff at sfgovtv, for recording todays meetings. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Madam clerk, can you please read item number two. Item 2 is the approval of the lafco Meeting Minutes of november 30, 2017 workshop, and the november 30, 2017 regular meeting. Thank you. Do any of the commissioners have any changes to the november 30, 2017 minutes . Yes, i do. Under opening remarks and proposals presented by the commission, i recall it says rise chair pollock provided the following two proposals, broad band and revisiting an Affordable Housing study. I believe there was also a third, an expansion of clean power sf. Supervisor fewer okay. Are there any other changes to the november 30, 2017 minutes . All right. Seeing none, i will open this up to Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item 2. Seeing none, item 2 is now closed. Is there a motion to approve the minutes . So moved. Second. Moved by commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner rhenown, those minutes are approved. Madam clerk, can you call item number three. Item three is lafco regular meeting schedule. I believe we have a message from angela calvillo, interim chair officer. Thank you. I wanted to introduce item three. For the first few months lafco meetings were on an asneeded basis. Now lafco is suggesting that we set the next couple of meetings, particular, march 16, 2018; april 20th, may 18, june 15th, july 20th, september 21, october 19, and november 16, we have the room Space Available for the lafco, and this will also assist us in aligning our meetings with the regular board meetings. Thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number three . Seeing no public speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, can we have a motion to approve the regular meeting schedule for 2018 . Great. Moved by commissioner ropenen, seconded by commissioner pollock, the item is proved. Madam clerk, can you please call item four. Item four is nominating two members to the board, ending. I understand we have not received any applications for either of these seats, is that correct . That is correct, madam chair. Commissioner pollock did submit her application right prior to the meeting but it did not make it into the packet. So seeing that, with that understanding, id like to continue this item, but lets first open this up for Public Comment, are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item number four . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. To allow more time for applications to be submitted, i would like to continue this item for the next regular meeting on march 16th. Colleagues, is there a motion to continue . So moved. Thank you move. Seconded. Moved by commissioner ronen and seconded by commissioner pollock, without objections, item number four will be continued to the next regular meeting on march 16th. Madam clerk, can you please call item number five. Item five is a Community Aggregate report and a community report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Michael himes, director of clean power sf for the sfpc. Its a pleasure to be with you this afternoon. Ive got some remarks to update you on the status of program growth, work weve been doing since we last met. First and foremost, though, cleanpowersf continues to serve about 81,000 accounts within the city and county, and to date, our cumulative program opt out rate is 3. 2 . Its been at that level for a while. Probably the last time we reported it, it was there, as well. I guess another way of looking at this is we have a 98. 6 participation rate. 4 4. 1 of our accounts have opted up to our Renewable Energy, super green, and that is the highest of any cca operating in california. And as well, were also preparing a quarterly enrollment for customers that have signed up for the Program Since january , and that enrollment is coming up in april. Thats a small enrollment of about 250 accounts that have signed up over the past few months. You might recall that in addition to the large enrollment fees is weve been inviting sign ups on an ongoing basis and then conducting these quarterly enrollments to bring those customers into the program on a timely basis. Since we last presented to the lafco in late november , a number of things have happened with respect to our Program Development work. First, on january 23rd, the puc approved some new rates for cleanpowersf. This is a limited rate action focused on two things. First, at reducing our super green premium for participating customers so effective march 1, next month, our residential super green rates will be 1. 5 cents perhour on top of our green kilowith the hour, down from two cents. This reduction will allow the program to remain competitive with comparable offerings by pg e. The other major actions we took were some modifications to our net energy metering. Thats a program that supports customers that have roof top solar. Its a billing credit mechanism that allows customers that own solar to get credits on their bills for any energy they produce and deliver to the grid. Thats tracked every month. Net credits that accumulate in a given month are carried forward for application to a following billing period. And then, every year, we look at whether the customer was a net producer of energy or a net consumer, and they were a net producer, we compensate them for that energy. So we made changes based on our experience to date in managing this program. After about a year and a half in operations, the changes were really to improve is simplify the customer experience, so those changes were first to we eliminated two net surplus compensation rates that we were using. Thats the rates we pay the customer fore Additional Energy produced over the course of the year. Were