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If you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here at the office of Small Business commission. [ roll call ]. Next item. General Public Comment allows members of the public to comment generally on matters that are within the Small Business commissions jurisdiction but not on todays calendar and suggest new agenda items for the commissions future consideration. Discussion item. Do we have any members of the public that would like to make comments on any items that is not on todays agenda . Okay. Seeing that, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Approval of legacy business registry applications and resolutions. Discussion and action item. The presenter is richard kurlyo. Good afternoon, president adams, commissioners. Richard kurlyo. I have a powerpoint presentation. Before you today are six applications for your consideration for the legacy business registry. Two applications were submitted to the Planning Department staff on june 20 and heard by the Historic Preservation commission on july 17. Four applications were submitted to planning on july 25 and heard by h. P. C. On august 21. For each applicant, the s. B. C. Has been provided a staff report, a draft resolution, the applicati application, a case report. There are copies on the table in the public binders. Item 3 a is ehs pilates. The business is an education center. It is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century after joseph pilates. Ehs pilates was one of the first pilates studios on the west coa coast. In 2002, the business moved to its Current Location on valencia street and in 2007 Tracey Sylvester purchased the studio. In 2015, tracey became the sole owner of the business. Although ehs pilates is not yet 30 years old, it is eligible for listing on the registry because it faces a significant risk of displacement. Item 3 desist b is f. Dorian inc. The store features contemporary crafts, ethnic arts, and home decor displayed with museum esthetic. Their wares include jewellery, glassware, and more. 2001 f. Dorian moved from 388 hayes street to 370 to allow them to open their private dining room. The business is not yet 30 years old, but it is eligible for listing on the registry because it faces displacement. Item 3 c is la raza centro legal. It is an organization dedicated to empowering many minority groups to advocate for civil and human rights. The organization combines Legal Services and advocacy to build grassroots power and alliances towards creating a just society. It was founded by a group of students in 1974. The students took inspiration from the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1989 the organization copurchased and moved to their Current Location. The site rents its offices to a variety of organizations in order to create a safe space for the raza Indigenous Community to advance culturally and politically in northern california. Item 3 d is moshi moshi. It is a japanese restaurant. The business started as a small bar and teriyaki house. The owner often expounds about the flow, style, and overall vibe of the restaurant. They are not concerned with japanese cuisine, but are more focused on how those who work there influence the atmosphere. It houses one of the largest japanese whiskey collections in the city. Item 3 e is original joes. The business is an italianamerican sitdown restaurant that initially opened in 1937 by a croatian immigrant tony roden and his business partner. It started as a 14store counter and grew into a culinary landmark institution. Serving oldfashioned italianamerican fare, they provide hardy portions at reasonable prices. The oldest of all the restaurants, the original joes was the innovator of the renowned joes concept. Original joes moved to its presentday location in north beach after a fire in 2007. Items were salvaged from the fire and restored, including original signage, booths, wood paneling, original brick from the back bar for the fireplace, kich counter stools, bar stools, art work on the walls. The business is still owned and operated by the family of tony roden. Item 3 f is San Francisco zen center. The Organization Established in 1962 is one of the largest zen residential training and Practice Centers outside of asia. The soto zen or soto school is one of the largest of three sects of japanese buddhism. As the center grew, it became necessary to look for an independent home. Since 1969, the zen centers main location has been 300 page street, a building designed by julia morgan to support a residential community. There are large communal spaces on the lower floors and residential upstairs. They also run a monastic re stre street. All six businesses received a positive recommendation from the Historic Preservation commission. After reviewing the applications and the application from h. P. C. , staff finds the businesses have met the criteria for listing on the legacy business registry. There are six draft resolutions for consideration by the Small Business commission, one for each of the applicants. 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, the businesses must maintain these physical features or traditions in order to remain on the legacy business registry. For the pilates its the pilates studio. For f. Dorian its gift shop. For la raza its assistant to immigrant or lowincome communities. For moshi moshi its restaurant featuring japanese cuisine. For original joes its italianamerican cuisine and for the zen center its the training in buddhism. This completes my presentation. Do we have any questions or do we want to go straight into Public Comment . We have well hear from supervisor Aaron Peskins office. Just a few remarks about original joes. This is one of those businesses that just embodies this whole program. I mean, it is the legacy business. I imagine everybody sitting up here has probably spent some time at original joes at some point whether it was at 144 Taylor Street or now at its 601 union location. Its just one of those businesses, its hard to imagine San Francisco without it. Its not been at the north beach location for a fraction of its lifetime and its hard to imagine north beach without this business there. Its is a cornerstone of our north Beach Community. I encourage you to add this to the legacy business registry. I brought a certificate of honor for original joes, and on behalf of supervisor peskin to mr. Dugen, he will see you this friday. Hes looking forward to seeing you at original joes. To all the applicants and businesses before you, congratulations, this is really such a special program. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Do you have any . Yes. So i have a few speaker cards here. Would Tracey Sylvester like to come to the podium. Hi. Hello, nice to meet you all. I first want to say thank you to rick for that fine presentation and all the support that the legacy Business Office has given us all during this time. I just wanted to come up and introduce myself and put a face to the business. I feel like this is a great privilege to be here and its a privilege to be a Business Owner in this great city. Im grateful for the opportunity to meet you all. Im here on behalf of the entire team of ehs pilates. We would be honored if you would consider us as part of the tradition of legacy business in San Francisco. Just from a personal note, it was really interesting exploration going through this whole process. It gave me a lot of time to reflect on what it is about our business that is so special. One of the main goals of our business is to help clients strive to live life strong and strive to be pain free so they can participate more fully and wholly in this citizen as citizens. Myself, i had double hip replacement surgery a couple years back. Knowing what it felt like for me to be in a physical wellness environment and have all the tools at my leisure to be able to heal myself, when i was going through the process i started saying no to everything in my life, started being less of a participant in this city and found myself withdrawing more and more just because of the paint and discomfort i was in. Seeing all of our clients being able to be strong and pain free and move about the city just gives me great pleasure and pride and i know it does for the trainers at our business. It has been amazing over the past 27 years to see the impact we have in peoples lives. We service over 800 people a week at ehs pilates and hope to continue to do so. One of the other important things i want to bring attention to is the help that you all do in giving us recognition and helping market ourselves to be able to showcase that weve been around for this long. As an owner thats been at the helm, it gives me the ability to be in charge of a business thats been around for so long, the ability to look outside my business and participate in other areas. Im on the Mission Merchants board of directors. We provide scholarships and i work with the Hispanic Chamber of commerce in San Francisco. Im also a delegate on the council of merchants in San Francisco. In the process of currently negotiating a tenyear lease and hope to be around for many more years to come because i do want to be able to participate more and more outside of being a Business Owner and step out of the business at large. Thank you. Next speaker. I have Michael Miller followed by richard portugal. This is michael f. Miller and im Richard Dorian portugal, hence the name f. Dorian. Were very excited to join the legacy Business Program. Ill keep this very brief. We have been in business in the 300 block of hayes street for many, many years and have witnessed firsthand the vast changes to San Francisco. We believe the Legacy Program will help preserve the unique charm which makes San Francisco so very special. We thank you for considering our application. Thank you so much. Any questions . No. Thank you. Any other speakers . Come on up. First of all, if supervisor peskin is watching, hello. You never know. I spoke before you guys, ladies and gentlemen, on april 6. My name is john dugan from original joes restaurant. My mom was supposed to be here this evening, but shes actually in italy. Tomorrow is her 73rd birthday, september 10. So when original joes opened, she was 3 years old. My sister is here today. For us, legacy rings true because when we go to work every day we try to live up to my grandfather and my mothers legacy. Were so proud to have come to the north Beach Community and have our brand resonate with those people who live in that neighborhood. For us to take our history from Taylor Street 70 years in the tender loin, were just so proud. I know my grandfather would be proud to see us not just having a business, but having something that the city of San Francisco has responded so well to. So we thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Any other members of the public that want to make Public Comment . You came all the way over here, say something. Its been a long haul. Thanks. My name is phil pakinson. Im here representing moshi moshi. I remember going to joes and go to church every sunday, my dad would take us down there. So its kind of cool to be elected with them. I kind of said it in the other meeting i think that mitz embodies this program as well for everything hes done through the dog patch and watching that neighborhood grow around him. When he was offered money to sell the building he turned down multimillion dollar offers because the legacy is more important than the money. As a San Francisco native, im proud to work for somebody like that and be in a business that is a part of San Franciscos legacy. Thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Thank you. I slipped over here, so ill speak on behalf of moshi moshi. I am a customer going back to the niko days in the 1970s. I have photographs of us being young boys in 1976. Moshi moshi is a quintessential restaurant. There is a mix of people that go there, young and old, all races and everybody is equally welcome and greeted so warmly. I cant believe hes managed to hang in there all these years. Moshi moshi is welldeserving of a legacy business status. Thank you. Thank you. Any other members of the public . Okay. Public comment is closed. Commissioners, commissioner dooley. I was just there two days ago eating. Youre just such a huge part of our neighborhood. Everyone loves you. Everyone loves your food. You can meet anyone in the world could be in that restaurant at any given moment. Its just where everyone goes to meet and greet and also to have a wonderful meal. So so well deserved and were so proud of you. Thank you. Commissioner ortiz. I said to you guys back in april, there is no s. F. Without o. J. Im proud to nominate you shortly. Thank you for everything that you do not just for north beach, but the community as a whole. I got to meet your grandfather on once. I love your mom. Hopefully we can surprise her with a good birthday gift. Also for the cetro la raza, youve been doing such great work in the neighborhood. For us in the neighborhood, we just call you la raza. Go there and theyll help you with documentation or help you with any legal questions you might have. I know you might be watching out there. Thank you for all the work youve done throughout the years as well. Commissioner dwight. Thank you all for coming out tonight. This is our favourite part of this whole commission here is hearing these Great Stories of businesses that we know very well and some that we dont know. Its always great to hear a new story and see some of our favourite stories. I hail from dog patch as well. Shout out to moshi moshi. And f. Dorian, ive been by the shop many times. Great store. Original joes, what would north beach be without them . Quintessential restaurant there in north beach. The zen center, wow, what a fabulous building. You guys lucked out. Keep that place. Its really an awesome facility. Thanks for doing all the hard work too. I know that richard gives you a lot of help. Being able to heavily on your businesses as Small Business owners. I know myself were so much in the daytoday that we forget where we come from and worried about where were going in the moment. This program really allows people to write down their own legacies for their families and reflect on the part that theyve the role that theyve played in what are often multigenerational businesses and hopefully to go on for generations more. Thank you for that. Youve entered it into the record of San Francisco by joining this program and youve entered it into your own personal records by going through the process yourself. Thank you for coming out tonight. I love hearing about the multigenerational businesses. The idea that a family with succeed and persevere and stick together and continue to keep the business thriving every time we hear one of those stories coming in. It makes my heart swell, in part because i have two boys and they have taken absolutely no interest in my business at all. Perhaps you give me hope. Moshi moshi, you know, i used to play music professionally. We would be at bottom of the hill playing shows all the time and that was our stop after the show, including we did a 20year reunion show and everybody went there afterwards and there was about 30 of us crammed into that side room off to the back. You guys have an incredible restaurant and have definitely been a linchpin to the dog patch area before i think they called it the dog patch. So thank you for all of that. Finally, the zen center, i didnt see anybody here from there, but buddha said the root of all suffering is desire. I would say the root of all satisfaction is joining the legacy commission, so kudos to them. T