Or until you complete this Online Training or all of this, whatever the process is. It should be you dont get to carry a gun around any more. Im here to support miss cohen. If a cop has had negative spikes against him or her, they do not we do not hire them in San Francisco. We absolutely need someone and that was i know leah cohen would help the people, especially out for american citizens in San Francisco and especially africanamerican young men who find themselves on the wrong side of the law. We need someone to speak up for the people and i whole heartedly believe that a she be appointedo this position. Thank you. Next caller, please. Speaker good morning or good afternoon, im britney and im calling in as a member of the San Francisco community, born and raised here in San Francisco, where the majority of my family still leaves and as a former staff member from when she served as president and member of the board of supervisors and im very enthusiastic to support her candidacy for the San FranciscoPolice Commission because i have worked incidentally with chair cohen for over five years, including criminal justice and ive come to know her professionally as a skillful and magnificent leader. She refuses to be labeled, despite the imposition of her other politicos and her record speaks for herself, not only her many policies regarding Law Enforcement but more broadly across racial and social justice. Her record represents, i think, the most exciting aspect of this opportunity to approve this appointment. Melia is the added benefit, really, the added spark that the Police Commission needs, shes an unapologetic and unsung champion of marginalized communities, not just in her words but actions and shes a bold leader and i think most importantly, shes a student of the work. Melia never wanted to shoot from the hip. She wanted to learn more from her and even if on paper, it seems they may be on different sides of the proverbial aisle. Whashes unafraid to directly engage people that disagree with her. Chair cohen has a humble quality when it comes to learning from a diversity of stakeholders and grows and develops her own positions before taking them publically. So please support chair cohens appointment to the Police Commission. Thank you. Thank you. Next caller, please. Weve always had a great working relationship when melia cohen was supervisor and she as a unique perspective that had to deal with a lot of Community Violence and all of the different constituencies that are impacted in and affected by that violence, including sfpd and the mothers of murder victims. I think that unique perspective can serve this in making sure that fantastics ar folks are wor with creating safety communities and feeling the harm and has occurred in neighborhoods. We are really excited for change and we know that so much is kind of on the precedence of that and i think thats important we have leaders that are strong and dedicated and have experience in these areas to get to the San Francisco that we can all love and be proud of. Thank you so much. Are there any additional callers . Madam chair, that completes the queue. I will make a motion to remove the word reject and send this item forward with positive recommendation. Supervisor cohen, i wish you so much luck in the birth of your first child. Thank you. I know youll be an amazing mother and were all routing for you and i dont know how you feel about the public thing, but i hope youll share pictures with us because were all excited. Thank you. And with that, can we take a role call vote . role call . Enjoy your last few days of rest. [ laughter ] thank you to the members of the public that have voiced their vote of confidence. I appreciate that. Mr. Clerk, can you read item number six. A reenactment to temporary require private employers with 500 or mo employees to provide Public Health emergency leave during the Public Health emergency related to covid19. Supervisor mar, any comments. Yes, thank you, chair ronen. This emergency ordinance is a second reenactment to help keep this in place for an additional 260 days. The original ordinance was adopted bit board and signed on april 19th with mayor breed and this second reason actment will ensure this remains in place. We prepared an amendment and this amendment would not require a continuance and simply clarified that this reenactment ordinance would apply retroactively to the date the prior reenactment expired and this amendment avoids any potential gaps in coverage for this crucial benefit for essential workers. Unless supervisor stephanie has any comments or questions, we can open this item up for Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001 and the meeting i. D. Is 146 9714708 and press pound and pound again. If you have not done so, press star three and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Any members online to speak. No callers in the queue. Then Public Comment is closed. I do have one caller that just popped in. Ok, if we can hear if the caller. Yes, i think its a little bit silly to just have a law specific for covid19. You know, if youre just going to keep on having to renew this, why not extend it to any pandemic affecting a certain number of people . That completes the queue. Public comment is closed. On the motion to amend, can we have a role call . role call . The motion passes. And then, supervisor mar, would you like to make the motion . Yes, thank you, chair ronen. I would like to move we recommend this as a Committee Report to the august 8th to the board of supervisors. And can we have a role call vote . Yes, on the motion to recommend it as a Committee Report as amended, supervisor stephanie. role call . The motion passes without objection anobjection and the me referred. Any other items on the agenda . That completes the agenda for today. The meeting is adjourned and have a good day, everyone. Mayor im San Francisco mayor london breed. I want to thank you all for joining us here today. Im really excited about this Small Business forum that is so desperately needed for so many businesses in our city. This pandemic has had not only a tremendous impact on our overall city and our Public Health, but it has also had a tremendous impact on our financial health, and especially many of our businesses in the city. The people who own these businesses, the work force of these businesses, it all will be very difficult as the few as the months to come, when we begin to look at ways in which we can open and provide new guidelines around opening businesses. We know that financially so many of our businesses are hurting now. They need support now, and also will need support in the future. Some of the programs that we put forth here in the city, immediately, almost, was to defer the payment of business taxes until next year. We actually extended the deadline for fees, as well. We provided resources for paid sick leave so businesses can extend paid sick leave payments to their employees. We provided grants and loan opportunities with no interest and flexible repayment schedules. We have also provided arts grants for so many of our artists who rely on performances and other events in order to take care of themselves. As someone who not only loves San Francisco, but as someone who uses so many of our Small Businesses, whether it is the drycleaner that i have been going to since i could afford a drycleaner, or the person who does my hair or my nails or the musicians that play at the lounges and restaurants that i love to go to all over the city all of these very unique businesses are what matters to the people of this city. They are part of the fabric of our city. And i want to make sure that as we propose more funding and more support on the local level, that we are connecting to the people who need these resources the most. And we are also making sure that federal and state resources are reaching all of you. So today we are here with the director of the department of the office of economic and Work Force Development. Joaquin torres, and if you want to look up some of the services we have, visit oewd. Org. Joaquin runs that department. And even before this pandemic, i have been really laserfocused on trying to eliminate fees that make it difficult for Small Businesses, in particular, to be in business in San Francisco in the first place. So even though this pandemic is challenging, i am so hopeful it will be an opportunity to provide some muchneeded longterm relief for our businesses in San Francisco. Joaquin will be leading those efforts. We also have the president of the Small Business commission, cynthia huey, who will be moderating this discussion, and we have the director of the chamber of commerce here as well, native san franciscan rodney fong, who has been a business person pretty much his whole life. The wax museum i dont know about you, but i went to gallileo high school,and we used to sneak into the wax museum when i was a kid. So i owe you some ticket money, rodney. So between the wax museum, the restaurants and the hair and nail salons, the barber shops, the masseuse locations, all of these great things are really what make San Francisco so special. And we know that the sad reality is that because of the pandemic and because of the requirement around social distancing, it is not as simple as those institutions and those businesses can actually go back to work, number one. And, number two, when you go back to work, the likelihood that youre going to be able to make sufficient revenue to cover the expenses you havent been able to cover for months is going to be challenging. So this is our opportunity to hear from businesses, to make sure that not only are we putting forth good options to support you, but they are affectively working to serve your businesses, and that we are doing everything we can to come up with the kinds of things that are going to help you in the long run. So with that, i want to turn it over to our director of the office of economic and Work Force Development for a few words. And then rodney fong will say a few words, and then well get to cynthia, and shell moderate this discussion. Thank you all for joining us here today. Thank you so much, mayor breed, and thank you, again, for your leadership and the pressure you place on our office to make sure were reaching the needs of our Small Business communities across the city and in our neighborhoods. And thank you for the idea of bringing us all together through this townhall so we can have an opportunity to hear from each other, and our answers about some of the most pressing questions facing Small Businesses, and the relief you have been driving us to deliver for our Small Business communities. Whether we talked about grants or loan products or deferral of fees, it is all grounded in wanting to see our Small Businesses be successful here, not only with what the city can provide, but complementing the wraparound efforts of the state and federal resources that both essential to our relief and Recovery Efforts. A few things before we jump in, we know generally, based on some conversations that weve had, weve seen a 70 decrease citywide. And certain areas and industries are hit even harder in terms of the sales that are out there. We know that were already seeing 14,000 businesses being affected, 166,000 employees at this moment in time. Were expecting larger hits as time goes on. In addition to over 70,000 people that have already applied for unemployment in San Francisco alone. We know that we are dealing with unprecedented challenges here in San Francisco, but we, through our office of economic and Work Force Development, and mayor breed, were standing ready to support the Small Business community at this time, and especially with the partners we have joining us today and in our communities. Both in the past and also in the present, and were very much looking forward to the future. So looking forward to answering some questions here today. Now, ill pass it over to the president of the chamber of commerce rodney fong. Thank you, joaquin first of all, i want to say hello to everyone. Were in this together. Were all feeling the same things, were all feeling the same frustration, the level of fear going on, but hopefully well get through this together and support our way through a great recovery. I want to thank mayor breed and all that her office has been doing, and joaquin has been working like a work horse over the last four, five weeks it seems like months, im sure but he and his staff are doing a great job. They have been working extremely hard. Just a little bit of recap over the last few weeks, the city and the mayor have deferred some of the Business Registration fees. And they deferred them until september. That adds up to about 49 million in cash flow to the city of San Francisco. Several fees that apply to storefront businesses have also been deferred until september, helping to preserve another 14 million in cash flow. I want to be very clear that the mayor is clear about this, we are going to be looking at a significant deficit in the city of San Francisco, the bay area, the state of california, and so were talking about a Million Dollars out from the city that we wont have in revenue. We will have to all pitch in. Well all have to figure out how we save and go back to San Francisco in an even better way. If we want to Start Talking about recovery tomorrow, weve got to start planning it today. Im happy and delighted to tell you that the Recovery Task force kicked off last friday. It is about an 80person Task Force Led by myself, carmen chu, Jose Gonzales and rudy representing labor. 80 seems like a lot of people, but when you look at all of the different sectors and industries and nonprofits, it is a good representation of a lot of people who have shared interests. Again, were going to have to all Work Together. It is not just one industry here in San Francisco that is better than another. I want to also mention that were going to have to rely on our Public Health department to lay out new guidelines. We are essentially reinventing ourselves in a great way, bringing in technology that might be able to help us in a better way and create a better San Francisco. I want to touch on three points, though, if i can, pretty briefly. This is one where probably from a commerce perspective it doesnt emerlogicalseem logical. The Public School system and private School System implementing guidelines to get kids and teachers safely back into the school affects the whole area. Not until moms and dads feel safe, do we get a full workforce. It is important because a busy downtown San Francisco supports so many businesses as you know. All of the sandwiches get bought and kids get picked up at lunch, and it is important that somewhere e that wehave a busy. The second main point i want to make is Small Businesses will need to pivot. Well have to reinvent ourselves, get creative, and were going to have to be entrepreneurial problemsolvers that we naturally are. There is no greater test than this one to figure out how it will be different. Restaurants may have to change their seating arrangements, going town to not a full house. Here in San Francisco and los angeles, it is very difficult to make money without a fullseated restaurant. And were going to have to figure that out. That means takeout and maybe retail inside of a restaurant. Maybe other clothing produced by someone related to the restaurant, creating a lifestyle. All of the pivots are going to require us, the city, government, and private sector to be flexible with our permitting process. To look at permit streamlining, to allow change of use permits to occur. Maybe temporarily, just as we get back up, and then we can tighten them back up, but we need to be in this all together and be flexible. The third thing i want to mention is Public Health. The mayor has disown such done agreat job in listenig to Public Health. And well rely on them to tell us what is best practices. I hope the departments listen to Small Business, and Small Business actually steps up and says, you know what . No one knows how to run this nightclub better than we do, and here are some suggestions we think we can voluntarily put down, something we