You heard in march has finally passed the full board on its second reading last tuesday, and the mayor is going to have a ceremonial signing on this wednesd wednesday, september 11, at 11 a. M. Ive provided you with the information in terms of where its going to be. So if youre i know that ive heard from several of you that youre going to be able to attend and thank you. The accessible business entrance program, december 1, 2019, is the deadline for all categories to submit their checklists. As a concern of having a low response rate, a notice was sent out last week from the department of building inspection that now says if you do not get your checklist in, we will begin to issue notice of violation. That was sent out to 9,000 Property Owners. So we are now were seeing the results. Were unfortunately having hearing the results the plus and the minus is were fielding quite a few calls, but that means this particular letter has garnished the attention of Property Owners where theyre now calling for immediate action and response from them. Ive been getting a lot of inquiries from merchants in my neighborhood, and theyre all just very alarmed and dont understand it and so where should they go . If it is a business is it a business thats also a Property Owner or just the one in particular and he passed the inspection, hes had a lot of things done, so he was concerned does that not count. So ria aldenaldo is the point person for businesses who are also Property Owners or any business that is being required by their Property Owner. So rias extension is or her phone number is 4155546408. She wont be in until wednesday, but she is the person who is handling all of those cases. I just wanted to bring it to your attention because you may be, again, hearing from businesses. And, of course, if there are Property Owners who are beginning to talk to their businesses in regards to this, please direct them to our office and to ria. City build has been operating for almost a year with an acting director, ken nim and the mayor Just Announced last week that she had officially appointed him as the new director for city build. Legacy business, so the Business Assistance grant, the current one for this year will be closing at the end of this month. Rick and i are working on designing a new assistance program. So our goal is to have that done and completed working through the mayors Budget Office and being able to come and present to you probably early january. And then the parttime staff that was funded through the addback system, i am working with our finance department to be able to get that fully funded and to be able to post the position at the beginning of october. So hopefully we will be able to have that position hired and be able to start processing the grants by midnovember. Weve had some substantial massage policy work come up in the last few weeks. So active space, the legislation passed and is fine by the mayor. Our office along with the Planning Department have met with the Property Owner. Were pleased to say that the Property Owner is taking the primary responsibility of processing the buildings through the establishing the use, so that each of these individual businesses are not going to have to go through that process. Were still having some discussions about how the office space which is required by legislation to go through the d. R. , so were still working through that. In terms of all the other business types, the Property Owner is going to handle that responsibility. Any business that does need a license to operate from d. P. H. , such as the massage or body work, tattoo artist, they still have to go through that standard licensing process. But this will cut down a substantial amount of work and cost for those businesses. And then week before last, over 220 notices were sent out by the department of Public Health notifying massage businesses that they may not be in compliance. This came from a complaint and its actually the same complaint that was filed with the active space complaint. The department didnt have the bandwidth to handle it all at the same time. So these notices were sent out. This was sent out citywide, not necessarily to a particular location. So as a result, supervisor brown did want to call for the drafting of legislation and she did so at the board of supervisors last week. Dominica has been working on a policy paper to help guide the direction for where we need to go with the legislation. So supervisor brown used the preliminary findings of the paper that dominica is working on to use for her calling for the legislation to be drafted. Dominica will soon be done with completing the policy paper. You will be receiving a highlevel report on that. We will also be dominica will be providing that. And along with the resolution that will accompany it to the mayor and the board of supervisors and department suggesting that they review and consider the topic of the paper. So i just want to give an early shout out to dominica for the great work shes been doing around the policy paper. We had hoped we would have a little more time to complete it, but the nature of it, its presented itself with the violations. So supervisor brown is definitely interested in moving in the direction. If you recall in 2015 the commission spoke very strongly that massage and body work should be considered as the same as health services. So supervisor brown is in agreement, so that was the direction. Most of the work will need to be done around the planning and the zoning changes. Other Commission Updates just to give you i mentioned this last time. So the bis portal is transitioning over to our office officially this week. We are making headway on your request regarding tablets. In and amongst all the work [ indiscernible ] yes, we will. So dominica, the first step she is doing is taking a look at the various software potential software that is out there for use for your kinds of needs, for meetings and agenda packets and well want to assess what will work for our commissions needs. And then once we get that determined, then well start working on testing it out before we do a full investment on the tablets. Were still targeting sort of end of october to have a good sense of direction in terms of where were going. And then the construction mitigation hearing we are targeting for october 7. Just to remind you that because it is october and we have the meeting the first monday of the month instead of the second monday of the month because of the holiday. The economic Mitigation Working Group will be starting at the beginning of october, and that will be going on for the next six months. Then we have listed out the two pieces of legislation that is slated for the commission to hear at the next meeting. Then october 7 were tentative at this point with supervisor peskins office to hear the promotion of reusable foodware which includes the 0. 25 for compostable cups or recyclable cups. And then requirement of reusable foodware around food takeout. Just to assure, i did forward you an announcement, but to state it publicly for the Business Community watching. The harassment in the Workplace Training thats required for all staff for businesses that are five or more employees has been extended one year. Now the completion date is january 1, 2021. So thats a bit of a relief for i think some of our Small Businesses who were relying on the department of labor to have the training set up. Then i lastly just want to report out. So we do report numbers to the Controllers Office and just to give you our end of the fiscal year report which is on page 3. The total number of pieces of legislation and policy items that the commission has heard, the number of outreach events the office is engaged with. What i do want to highlight is the number of Small Businesses assisted. So it was essentially an 8 increase over last year. Weve been continuously going up. So we are fairly at capacity in terms of options. We do have two to three individuals waiting to be serviced. So this will likely be something that ill need to be discussing with you further in the fiscal year. So that concludes my report. One last thing. On behalf of scott howgie and Paul Pendergast they asked me to close the meeting in memoriam of angel carrera. He was initially appointed to the position of Business ProgramDevelopment Manager by govern scwharts and he worked tirelessly to get disabled veterans and Small Business contracts through the state contracts. Paul asked me to provide a special note that for the last few years angel has been working closely with paul to develop a statewide lgbt Business Organization that brought together the seven lgbt chambers. So they were just about to launch together what they were going to call the buildout california, which is a capital out for a Small Program for lgbt Small Businesses to promote for the state to do business with lgbt professionals. Thank you. Take any questions if they have any. Do you have any questions for the director . Okay. Seeing oh, commissioner zouzounis. Thank you for the report. Its duly noted the big items that our staff and dominica are going to be prioritizing, but i also was interested to see if we had a list of new business and if that was going to be prioritized as well for next steps and at least to have a visual kind of the the cumulative new business. Yes. And at the last meeting i highlighted what was going to be over the next six months. So we will be able to convene in the next couple of weeks just to sort of chart out oh, thats right. Chart out the rest. Working with supervisor browns office, they asked us to work very closely to project manage this piece of legislation through. So it will take up a fair amount of our time. I mean, once the legislation is drafted and written, it will open it up for us to work on the remaining items. But at the next meeting well present a timeline that takes that into consideration. Thank you. Okay. Commissioner lauana. Maybe a longerterm project here, but thinking about our website. I was having conversations prior to the hearing clerk can you speak into the microphone, please. Sorry. Thinking about our website, wondering whether or not we can budget some time to discuss t t that, waying it could be better, easy to update, more informative. This is all sort of keeping in line with kind of my push to improve communications. Yes, we can have a conversation with that. We are the city is undergoing department by department some changes. So or theyre working to reformat the entire citys websites to be more mobile, friendly, and usable. And so i will get back to you and to the commission on what that timeline is. If were a ways out, then we can figure out what is the next step. I think we should engage with that process so that we get something thats optimized for our needs as possible. Because if were not engaged with that process, were just going to get whatever, right . And i dont want to say were not engaged. It is just a triage of the citys budget and where we are with it. Yes, okay. Commissioner dooley. This is actually the first ive heard about the economic Mitigation Working Group, something that i know many of us are really interested in. Who is there some way that some of us on this commission can become involved . And i apologize, its the ecigarette working the mitigation from our resolution. Oh, okay. Commissioner zouzounis. Also in line with the commissioners being able to better understand what the office is doing and support that wo work, because we field questions from businesses all the time, im curious if theres an incident log or some kind of best practices for questions that we can be shared on to help coordinate exactly our responses to people and kind of streamline some of the process that gets to you, the oneonones and be able to assist with that. That would be really helpful, whether its a soft story question or a d. P. H. Question. Im curious if theres an incident log or Something Like that. We do not have what youre thinking as an incident log. We have our sales force. So sales force, every single substantial client transaction, so those would definitely come into the counter email and substantial phone conversations where people are willing to take the time to share their information, get logged into sales force. So i think probably in, lets say, the situation of this last situation with the massage, just on friday in trying to figure out for us being in the situation of being able to field these calls, working with the Supervisors Office, just last friday we sent out an announcement to all the supervis Supervisors Office saying were recommending as these practitioners are contacting you now that the supervisor has made an announcement that shes calling for the drafting of legislation, please direct people to us. Well help them on a casebycase basis as we can and just to provide you with that information. I think if so i think maybe what im hearing is that if theres certain sort of project things that perhaps we can communicate to you how were communicating to the Business Community that contact our office. Totally. Thank you. Any other questions before we go into Public Comment . Do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on the directors report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any other questions . Item 5 is closed. Next item, please. Clerk item 6. Commissioners reports allows president , Vice President , commissioners to report on Small Business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small Business Community. Discussion item. Commissioner ortiz. I have two things. First i want to give a shout out to the geneva steakhouse, they just recently reopened after a remodel. Its an example about where the owner was about to sell. He sold to the neighbor up the street. I was with the owners and its just cruel to see that that legacy, even though he didnt have family members to pass on, because he opted for legacy as opposed to cashing out. So that segues into the second part of what i want to report on. We have mission pie and the other piripiri on valencia. Its because the owners wanted more rent out of them. That also leads to these owners rather than have a vacant storefront because that isnt punitive. Theyd rather not continue to a least successful company. Piripiri just shut down. That comes to the lack of legislation. Were really not doing anything. By the time we catch up, we might not have these little cooler restaurants. Not every restaurant that comes to San Francisco is going to be some chic 5 million build out. So i dont know what we do, but i do definitely want to go on record so one day we dont look back and say what happened . I have to go back to that geneva steakhouse. Yeah, its old school. Commissioner dooley. I just wanted to mention that ive still been in frequent contact with the tenants at active space and following their path, im still hearing things theyre anxious about, but im happy to hear something is moving forward for them. The other thing i have to report is ill be attending the renaissan Renaissance Entrepreneurial Center event this thursday night. Thats all i have. Anything else . Nothing. Do we have any members of public who would like to comment on commissioner reports . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Clerk item 7, new business. Allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. Discussion item. Do we have any would anybody like to speak . Okay. Do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on new business . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Clerk please show the office of Small Business slide. It is our custom to begin and end each Small BusinessCommission Meeting with the reminder that the office of Small Business is the only place to start your new business in San Francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your stop when you have a question about what to do next. You can find us online and here at city hall and best of all our 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. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here at the office of Small Business. Next item. Clerk item 8. Adjournment in memoriam of angel carrera. I move that we adjourn this evenings meeting in memorial of angel carrera. Second. All in favour . Aye. Meeting adjourned. Thank you. [ ] i moved into