An opportunity to comment on each item. The commission will take Public Comment inperson first and then people remotely. First and then people remotely. First and then people remotely. Members of the public who are calling in, the number is 415 6550001, press to be added to the line when your item of interest comes up. Public comment is limited to 3 minutes, and speakers are requested but not required to state your name. Voice your opinions. The Small Business commission in San Francisco is the best place to give comments during local emergencies. Your opinions. The Small Business commission in San Francisco is the best place to give comments during local emergencies. Thank you for corresponding and please continue to reach out to the office of Small Business. Please call item 1. Item one roll call. Commissioner benitez, commissioner cornet present. Commissioner herbert present. Councilmember curtis commissioner herbert here. Vice mayor montanaro and president on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush rahmytoosh ohlone olonee who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. Responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. Elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Before item 2 i want to recognize and welcome our newest commissioner we have a full house today welcome commissioner cornet. Well have a moment later on later on. Awesome welcome item 2. 2. Approval of legacy business registry applications and resolutions discussion and action item the commission will potential take action to approve the applications and today is bay area bird exotics hospital the presenter. Welcome good afternoon president huie and Vice President zouzounis and members of the public im a skes id like to acknowledge michelle my colleague in the office of Small Business for assistance and sfgovtv i have the power point presentation. Before you today 4 applications for your consideration for the legacy business registry a draft resolution and the application itself and downtown support special use district from the Planning Department. The applications were that submitted to planning on february 21st and heard by the Historic Preservation commission on march 20. Item 2a. 2a. A w contractors application no. lbr202324030 remodeling Company Founded in 198 three that installs with do to the San Francisco area we can fit styles or have repairs to existing windows and the team of installers helps clients and. 2a. A w contractors application no. lbr202324030 women owned Family Business to select the styles and materials to meet their needs and a great selection for lifestyles and to remain on the legacy business registry is building restoration. Item. 2b. Bay area bird exotics hospital application no. lbr202324033 . The business is. The bay area bird exotics hospital treats exotic pets when your bid or reptile develops a problem advertised for to to be seen by an experienced vet and the species bayview bay area bird exotics hospital has accommodate in depth extrovert treatment for the pets and since most of the patients were frightened by the sounds of predator tars they cant treat dogs and cats. The core feature must maintain the vet services. 2c. Gfds engineers application no. lbr202324032 the business it is structure Engineering Firm founded in 1952 with a history of engineering computerize for the San Francisco bayview and beyond. Gfds engineers dedication to the sensitivity has earned it a client list with residential and landmarks highly trained engineer is trained in modeling technologies and the most construction gfds engineers is known for the dedication to innovation to provide challenging structures. By bringing little architectural vision to life hesitate shaped infrastructure and culture and historic hydrogen and the makes sense of structural engineering. 2d. Ristorante ideale application no. lbr202324011 the business ask a bright and colorful italian restaurants and the modern version of a victor and festival for fantastic food and low prices is known for the pasta and pizza made with mozart relay little the ingredients are organic with italian and olive oil has lesser known wines and core feature business must maintains the italian cuisine. Though the businesses met the career for the legacy business registry all have received a positive recommendation from it is Historic Preservation commission and the staff riemdz adding this to the lunch break and for your consideration and a motion should be framed as a motion. All 4 businesses are adam cement will be the fourth legacy business registry and congratulations to all the businesses as to the industry that concludes my presentation. And ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Not sure is anyone is here to speak on on behalf of the applications. Thank you, commissioners. Any questions . No . Open up for Public Comment any Public Comment . No . Okay. Well, i want to congratulate all the work that youve done and michelle has done to shepherd in so many legitimacy Small Businesses it is incredible how many we have under the legacy Business Registry Program i know there are more and so i think there will be still be a nice road ahead e ahead but the momentum that the program has golden is incredible and there is the last thing for the city itself. Thank you very much. And anybody have any comments . Oh, commissioner ortizcartagena. Shout out to the north beach back in the day used to work with la and so unintelligible , you know, used to be 4 hundred not only to them but that shows the world like how eclectic our county is and have plenty more that is how strong San Francisco is were a small geography 4 hundred legacy business registry so thats the culture. Seeing we have no other comments, and no Public Comment i think Public Comment is closed. And i think we can have a motion to approve. Ill motion to approve. Ill second the motion to approve. Motion by commissioner dickerson. Ill read the roll, commissioner benitez. Approve. Aye. No, no. Possible, aye. Commissioner dickerson, yes. Commissioner herbert, yes. Commissioner ortizcartagena and Vice President zouzounis motion passes with 7 votes clapping. congratulations. Extending waiver of permit, license, and Business Registration fees for certain Small Businesses discussion and action item the commission will discuss and may take actions on an ordinance spending waiver of permit and Business Registration fees for certain Small Businesses and commissioner ortizcartagena will on this one. All right. Thank you commissioners, i also want to make sure i thank my colleagues at the Small Business administration make sure and manage the program is actually put together a presentation last week so want to acknowledge my colleagues. calling names. so um, we go to the. Next slide, please. Youll see a refresher for everyone started in 2021 and essentially was nothing that was um, sponsored by london breed and on the other hand, have their waiver of permit you know how many work is take to have a onstreet and pay the fees left and right before you even on. So since the Program Began over 6 thousand Small Businesses have enrolled and the city has made 3 million for. You can see here the braked at cb i will 1. 4 million in the tairmd the first year it is waved and the license fees collected by t g x 900,000 and 400,000 with the commission and 64 thousand Planning Department is dp c 39,000. Waved so far. So in terms of the ordinance set for the board of supervisors the hero last week and advocating for the program to be continued i know we love to see it continued definitely but will extend for one fiscal year and um, you know, this is in the context of Large Businesses with the conversations which we would leave to see a version of this permanent ongoing. But just as a reminder the program what it does waves the inaudible fees and first year permits and others for qualifying new businesses and you would need to be eligible and have 5 million or less in gross receipts and have a regulatory location of commercial no home based businesses are eligible for the program and in the city finds that you have more than 15 million in gross receipts in the year that the business commences or the city has the ability to claw back that and next um, slide shows you that the city has tried to make it easy for businesses in the program it comes with the registration progress or adding a new location have to have update your business accountability account and the fees if you enroll and eligible then the fees are automatically waved in the an ideal situation not paying anything sauk county on the table a little bit more of breakdown of program so for and the department how much has been waved and highlighted in the green row hospitals the fiscal year um, since we have partial fiscal years the green is intricate what that looks 6. 1 million for one fiscal year and the department and where the money is like up so the department the building inspection on the top of waving fees and a for example, our team has come across in terms of the businesses that are benefited so morris where we did a estimate to announce this ordinance to um, stipulated the program had been 11,000 fee waved when they opened her first restaurant that was exciting and you power line excelsior benefited from that well and. Next slide, please. Here momma restaurant opened the second location and saved 17 and the saloon had 5 thousand fees and other restaurant no north beach and lace doughnuts 16,000 waved in the second location so thousands and thousands of more at the thank the Treasurers Office and the team and the entire Small Businesses staff that are stan asking are you enrolled to get your fee waved to get a refund were supportive of legislation and want to um, thank you for youre support and that concludes my presentation. Commissioner ortizcartagena. Thank you president huie and thank you for the presentation i want to make a comment how much i love this program not necessarily for the monetary in my Community Maybe 7 thousand maybe putting you ahead in the rent and that makes the difference you are moving like into an apartment use that for really Small Businesses is huge but above that not fiscal year or monetary it is a sense a change of the narrative of San Francisco like i want to charge you a visitation fee im not going into the house; right . That is sets the timeframe for the small entrepreneurs want to start a and have to be a roundabout scientist or super wealthy but San Francisco is open for Small Businesses that is really the case the mindset the narrative i love it i love it i love it so, thank you. Commissioner herbert. Thank you for the presentation. This is why i love San Francisco so much i wonder if other cities have this . I just was wondering if you own businesses youre going to open a third location also get your fees waved. unintelligible . Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much director tang for the presentation and one question. I know so i took advantage of first year free and it has been so helpful to have everything taken care of already to have through the city. Some of the things that i need to do though i think are getting replacements for contractors paid for some contractors is paid for permits and things like that is there a deadline for me to get reimbursed. It is common a lot of contractors is pulling permits for Small Businesses and what happens theyre going to the Department Building inspection asking for an account number and often will get the contract the account number and sometimes they are not enrolled in the first year free; right . And the contractors are not the intended audience for this so what happens is that if you reach out to our office and, you know, i can probably look it up but the address and business account number and what permit they paid for and go and ask for a refund. Okay. Thank you. So um, and next question is this is can you go over where this is right now and how you need to look forward. Yes. So this actively was heard by the board of supervisors last wednesday and actually before the board board of supervisors tomorrow for the first vote theyre not taking Public Comment there but, you know, everyone is welcome to the before the board of supervisors and encouraged to support it but we do hope will be support from the full board tomorrow. So given that there is an action item should take a vote right now. First Public Comment. Oh, yeah. Is there any Public Comment in the room . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Um, someone would like ill make a motion to move and approve. Motion to support bos file no. 240126 by commissioner ortizcartagena and seconded by commissioner dickerson roll call. Commissioner benitez, yes. Commissioner cornet, yes. Commissioner dickerson, yes. Commissioner herbert, yes. Commissioner dickerson, yes. Vice president zouzounis and president huie the motion carries. Okay. Wonderful all your work clapping. we are slowly getting laughter in our meeting today. Um. Next slide, please. 4. Discussion of strategic goals discussion item little commission will review fiscal year 202324 and discuss the potential updates. While keri pulling up the do you want want to share for last fiscal year the commission had an open discussion about Commission Policy priorities we also shared with our Office Priorities are a little bit more in terms of the action items and what it is that we are seeking to do and here youll see more of a policy goal that um, again, this commission agreed on and had an discussion especially given the remember the Commission Said to make sure we shared this with you and had allowed on turn out for anymore public dialogue to see if this is direction we want to go or anything missing. From the goals that you like to add. Um, so really give you an opportunity championship to have a dedicated day for a retreat to talk about everything at the meeting here. So with that, im going to turn it over to president huie. All right. So um, some of the sorry im trying to look through the some of the strategic goals we had detailed last time i guess the fiscal year or last year. Last year were um, obviously supporting Small Businesses retention and growth and attracting new businesses by making that easier and faster to open in San Francisco and restoring the economic core and i look over those three over aching girls i can almost the office of office of Small Business helped us get further towards the goals including we talked about the last item those are pretty broad 2345eb9 did everyone have a chance to look at the those before the meeting . So um, you know, at that time we 2k4r5i8d out priorities like permeating and policy and legislative solutions and i see providing a venue for collaboration so to make sure that Small Businesses are heard and supported. Proactively addressing the policy and regulatory issues that directly impact the Small Businesses and better understanding the longstanding businesses and simplifying the process across the department and serving as a voice and addressing Public Safety and addressing commercial vacancies so some of those again are kind of um, broader scale items but some of the ones that are more specific for i think last years strategic the Public Safety and simplifying the permitting process as well as commercial vacancies. So those were some of the highlights then we objective have the Board Commission members and i want to see what you want to have happen this year to have osha have those on our agendas i want to open the floor for everyone i have a couple of ideas i dont know if it helps to get a few ideas i know when i, you know, in our last meeting and spoke about my personal goals some of my goals were to help Merchants Associations help neighborhoods and better able to advocate and grow their memberships. And really be, you know, very local support of the merchant communities. I also am very interested in sporting leadership within the Small Businesses community and so making sure that um, Small Business owners somehow find the capability and desire to sit on commissions. You know, outside of the Small Business