I [inaudible] clerk this is the regular meeting of the Small Business commission on september 28, 2020. The meeting is being called to order at 5 35 p. M. Members of the public who will be calling in, the number is 4156550001. Again, the number is 4156550001. The access code is 1464160228. Again, thats 1464160228. Press pound twice to listen to the meeting via audio conference and press star, three when you are ready to give Public Comment. Speakers are requested but not required to say their names. Sfgovtv please show the office of Small Business slide. Good afternoon, everyone. In commissioner laguanas place, ill be presiding over todays meeting. Today, well begin with a reminder that 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. The office of Small Business is the faster place to get answers about doing business in San Francisco during the local emergency. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, particularly at this time, you can find us online or via telephone, and as always, our services are free of charge. Before getting started, id like to thank sfgovtv for live streaming, and jim for operations on the callin line. Madam secretary, please call item 1. Clerk item 1, call to order and roll call. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Thank you. Please call item number 2. Clerk item 2, approval of legacy business registry applications and resolutions, discussion and action item. The presenter is richard kurylo, Legacy Business Program manager. Good evening. Richard. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Well start with presentation do presentations, and then, well start with commissioners, and then with well have Public Comment and commission discussion. Great. Richard kurylo. Can you hear me all . I have a powerpoint presentation. Im not sure if you can see that. Hold on one moment, please. Okay. Before you today are five applications for your consideration for the legacy business registry. Each application includes a staff report, a draft resolution, the application itself, and a case report and resolution from the planning department. The applications were submitted to planning on august 19 and heard by the Historic Preservation commission on september 16. Item 2a is ambiance. The business is a womens Boutique Store founded on haight street in 1973. They currently have three locations, with an office and warehouse on howard street. The stores are recognized by their branding of black and white storefronts and store bags. They specifically choose fashion pieces from many different recognizable brands and new and upandcoming designers. They are an iconic fashion destination in San Francisco and take pride in their exemplary customer service. They also support Community Events, fundraising, and private shopping parties with sales going to schools. The core feature tradition the business must maintain to stay on the business legacy registry is clothing two. Item 2 is farleys. The business is a coffee shop that opened on valentines day in 1989. It served as a Community Gathering spot following the 1989 loma prieta earthquake, leading to their motto, community in a cup. Two noteworthy events listed by farleys are the pet parade and safe coffee show. The business also gives local artists a space to showcase their art and continuously centers their business around creating a safe place to have Public Engagement and discussions. The core feature tradition the business must maintain is coffee shop. Item 2c is the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender historical society. The business is a Nonprofit Organization founded in 1985 and officially incorporated in 1986. The Glbt Historical Society focused on advanced public respect for the diverse genders and sexual identifies relates to lgbtq communities and their cultures. Since 1990, the organization has maintained a public reading room for his archives. It is one of the only museums in the world dedicated specifically to queer history and culture. The Glbt Historical Societys contributions have been well documented in books, articles, presentations, and scholarly work. Item 2d is san bruno supermark supermarket. The san Bruno Supermarket specializes in southeast and middle east Food Services that cannot be found at other markets or chain establishments. The owner manager is an active member of the Portola Community and has served as the cochair of the portola Business Development association. He is committed to maintain the market as a predominantly asian serving grocery, and the the core feature the business must maintain is grocery store. Item 2e, val de cole wines and spirits. Although the original owner and operating date are unknown, the business has been advertised in local newspapers since 1939, making it one of the oldest, if not the oldest existing wine and spirits store in San Francisco. Previously, it was named cole street liquor, and the business has continued to serve the community with no apparent lapse in opening in its history. The name change helped bring the name of cole valley to the neighborhood, which at the time was known as upper height. Val de cole may be organized around selling wine and spirits, but the soul of the store is the community it has helped foster and maintained throughout its 81plus years. The core feature the business must maintain is liquor store. All five businesses met the core criteria for appearing on the Small Business legacy registry. A motion in support of the businesses should be framed as a motion in favor of the resolutions. Thank you. This concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer any questions, and there should be business represents on the line who would like to speak on behalf of the applications during Public Comment. Great. Well take questions from our commissioners first before we move into Public Comment. Anybody . Okay. Now well open it up for Public Comment. If anyone is on the line, please let us know. Clerk jim, im going to make you host so you can help facilitate Public Comment, if you dont mind. Operator looks like we have three people. Ill unmute the first one. Hello. Were the owners ambiance, and we would like to thank the Small Business commission and the city of San Francisco for considering ambiance to be listed as a legacy business. Ambiance has been part of the San Francisco neighborhood since the early 1980s in the upper haight neighborhood. Ambiance stores are all in vintage neighborhood buildings, giving our storefronts the classic look of the city. Our summer warehouse had a rather unremarkable exterior, so about a decade ago, a famous local artist created a beautiful mural to give it s. F. Style. Ambiance is very well known and very well loved by many of the women of San Francisco and has won multiple awards in multiple publications over multiple years. Ambiance has received many requests over the years to open up a store in a different city, a different state, and even in a different country. Ambiance makes contributions to the community in various ways. We believe that education is the answer, so for the past 24 years, ambiance has had an ongoing relationship with San Franciscos schools to support San Francisco education and teachers. Any s. F. School that asks us receives a donation. We also supported schools by doing Fashion Shows and having fundraising shopping parties in the stores. After the santa rosa fires a couple of years ago, we organized a drive with our customers and collected truckloads of food and necessary items for the victims. We supported the firefighters annual toy drives, were involved in the merchants associations, and we love the city of San Francisco where we both live and work, and we are honored to achieve this important status. We believe that the three neighborhoods that we are in truly adds to the San Francisco. At our peak, we employed 98 staff and provided health and dental insurance and retirement for our employees, and our motto is, and remember, at ambiance, we really like you. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Next caller. Hi. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Thank you. Commissioners. Im so pleased to have this opportunity to speak in favor of the nomination of the Glbt Historical Society to the legacy business registry. Im the director of the society for nearly five years. Im a bay area resident, and ive been a resident of San Francisco since 1981. I regard my role at the Glbt Historical Society as a slum one. Im proud to build on the work of our founders to ensure that our diverse histories are preserved for future generations. Founded in San Francisco at the height of the aids pandemic, many of the original collection included papers and memorabilia of many thousands of bay area residents who died from that horrible disease, but weve expanded our programs to include a wide variety of [inaudible] and cultural preservation. So in the coming years, we plan to establish a new permanent facility to hows our archives and exhibitions in San Francisco. Our new home will be the first full scale Museum Dedicated to glbt in the united states. We plan to open our museum in the shortterm on a limited basis, and we open this city strengthens its support for the Legacy Program to help preserve the history of San Francisco. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Is there another caller on the line . Hello. Can you hear me . Yes, we did. My name is [inaudible] and i own val de cole wine and spirits. I moved to cole valley in 1977 from iran, and [inaudible] and i started working for jacob. I began showing a lot of interest in wine and participating in a lot of Wine Tastings and seminars. Wine was invented in iran in the city of shiraz or persia about 6,000 or 7,000 years ago. In 1975, the owner had purchased the store from an irish man and changed the name to val de cole and established the store in cole valley. As val de cole is open every day, even on holidays, and we have hundreds of different types of wines, spirits, and beers, from all over the world at different price points. Cole valley is a landfill that used to be a pond. I submitted some pictures from the early 1890s in the gardens. During the 1989 earthquake, we were slightly damaged, and i couldnt believe the support from the community. [inaudible] from seven or eight years ago until now. People like taking pictures even when they come in from outside, and they say they have not seen a place like this before, and they think val de cole is one of the most beautiful Liquor Stores that theyve ever seen. Just last night, just last friday night, some people, they just saw a movie it hasnt been out yet, but they were out shooting it. Gavin newsom used to live, like, three blocks away from the store thank you. Hello. My name is [inaudible] and id like to thank you for considering farleys and all the other businesses to become legacy businesses. Farleys is a coffee shop originally started by my father, roger hilliard, in 1989. Now, my wife amy and i run farleys much like the Community Gathering spot my father established almost 32 years ago. Its been much more than a coffee shop. Like our slogan, community in a cup, we are focused on hosting Community Events and plan on doing so once its safe to do so, including our two most popular events, the annual pet parade and fireworks show. Lastly, farleys became an early adopter of the pavement to Parks Program and has a very popular outdoor parklet that serves as a neighborhood spot to this day. We thank you for your consideration of approval and look forward to many more years of serving and hosting the potrero neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any other callers on the line . Operator that was the last caller. Okay. Now that Public Comment is closed, commissioners, please let me know if youd like to speak. Commissioner adams, youre first. I went to my first Poetry Reading in my life at farleys back in 1994, and ive been to it many, many times, and i love it. Its that community focal point. The big shoutout that i want to give, lgbt historical society. Ive actually gone back with them at least 20 years, and i really need to give some shoutouts to some people because if it wasnt for, in my opinion, these individuals, this museum wouldnt even be here. And the first one is susan striker, who is the former executive director. There was a newspaper article back in the early 2000s in the chronicle saying the museum was about to close, and they didnt have any funding. And out of all people who called me, the owner, scott seligman, said, can you call her . Weve got to save this museum, weve got to help them out. And i called blindly, and i talked to susan, and we all met and heard about how she did a lot to get this museum up and running. There are a couple of Board Members that ive gotten to know and i respect them tremendously for their research, and thats don and gerald. You two have done a lot to bring out lgbt history, and when i was head of the castro mer char merchants, and the milk movie came out, you were helped us in 2008 bring people to the community when the minimum being movie premiered. We have a great new executive director. Theres bumps in the road, and terry came in, and his dedication in trying to get a permanent home for it, and terrys done such a tremendous job in bringing this museum to the forefront, looking for a permanent home and bringing to life, you know, this very, very important piece of history not only to San Francisco but to the world. Congratulations, everybody, on this, and lgbt historical society, you know, lets have, you know, another couple hundred years here. Thank you. Thank you. Cynthia, commissioner huie, youre next. Congratulations, and thank you, everybody, for being able to operate so long and with such amount of strong representations. I wanted to highlight one business on here, ambiance. I come from a very long tenure in retail, and i am so happy to see a Clothing Store on this list. Clothing is something that gives people joy, and shows people that, like, they mean something to us, too. Thats something that ive learned about from clothing. Its not just about us, but its to show people that we care. Im hoping that well see more clothing retail in the city, but for you to be here, and for you to be here with such recognition and support from the community is wonderful, and i can attest that many of my friends and i have been in ambiance and bought many pieces there. So thank you so much for being here still and for keeping clothing retail alive in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner dooley . I just wanted to congratulate everyone, and i just want to say, especially in these times, i believe these businesses are absolutely essential to preserving our neighborhoods, and they deserve all the credit for being anchors in terms of social every way each one of you has reached out in your community and become a huge important part of the lifestyle of your neighborhoods. So we want you to know how much we appreciate that youre still here, and youre still going, and youre still a big part of your neighborhoods, so congratulati congratulations again. Thank you. Ill say one thing. Yeah, this is a great list of businesses. Thank you for calling in and speaking to your legacy. I love to see independent grocers and stores on the legacy because those were some of the original families in the city, and its great to see san bruno on the core legacy registry, as well. And it looks like that is it. Do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Okay. Motion to approve, recommended for approval on all businesses on the legacy registry. Do i have a second . Second. Okay. Great. Roll call, please. Clerk yes [inaudible] presented by commissioner dooley. Roll call vote. [roll call] clerk motion passes, 50, with two absent. Item 3, approval of draft meeting minutes. Okay. Approval of minutes, so we are going to call Public Comment for this, so if theres anyone on the line for item 3. No . Operator i see no one queued up. Okay. Seeing no Public Comment, commissioners, do we have an action on the minutes . I move to approve the minutes. Ill second. Great. Clerk okay. Motion by commissioner dooley to approve the minutes, seconded by commissioner adam does. Roll call vote. [roll call] clerk motion passes, 50, with two absent. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk item 4, general <