Transcripts For SFGTV Small Business Commission 32717 201703

Presiding officer workers speakers reader but in the required to state your name for the record please mrs. Them in the basket additionally a signin sheet sfgovtv show our slide good afternoon to start your business and the best place for getting the answers with your new or existing business. Office of Small Business is your first stop when you have a question about what to do next and it is the of the Small Businesses in the county of San Francisco. County of San Francisco. So if you need assistance with Small Business matters start here. Best of all our services are free of charge so if you need assistance, start at the office of the Small Business commission. Thank you. The unofficial public forum to voice our thinks outside the box e opinions about the policies in soft Story Building if you need assistance start here at the office of the Small Business commission thank you. All right. Okay item one call to order and roll call. Commissioner Vice President adams is absent commissioner dooley commissioner president dwight commissioner ortizcartagena commissioner toursarkissian commissioner yeeriley commissioner zouzounis mr. President , comboum outstanding item 2 the commissions future consideration. discussion item. do we have any of the members of the public that wants to comment on things not on todays agenda Public Comment is closed. Item 3 approval of legacy business registry application and resolutions. Discussion and action item. We have four applications Accion Latina are boudin bakery are faxon garage the present is Program Manager the Legacy Business Program a preferential note all applications will be considered together unless the staff or public asks for otherwise and will be considered at a future meeting. Welcome richard our favorite event good afternoon commissioner president dwight and commissioners legacy business Program Manager i have a power point presentation today before you today are four applications for your considerations for the businesses to be included on the legacy business registry the applications will review for completion and submitted to the Planning Department staff on february 1st foreclosure for their review the Historic Preservation commission heard the applications and made positive recommendations for the Small Business commission your pathway includes a staff report, a draft resolution the application and a case report if the Planning Department staff and a resolution from the Historic Preservation commission there are copies on the table for the public item 3 a Accion Latina the business a nonprofit in the Equity Incorporated in 1987 with the founding of the Spanish English newspaper in 1970 pr the mission of the Accion Latina to promoted the currently arts and Civic Engagement as a way to have empowered latino communities this is carved in the form of performing and literary arts and operating is an art gallery and a bilingual biweekly newspaper and managing a collection of archives since 9040 03 b the boudin bakery a nationally renowned haefrdz in San Francisco in 1849, one and 68 years baked goods by folks in 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed the store on the family when we retired the ownership was passed counsel to a relative an italian immigrant in San Francisco in 1935 began working in the baker been in the family ever sense and it has Strong Community partnerships and dpoots to various causes item 3 c faxon garage a local auto repair for the neighborhood and surrounding Community Since 1948 through the 60s most cars were American Made from the 3 manufacturers starting in the 70s the americans prurpd enforced cars and adopted to the change and served owl models makes the business is an asset to the community that is primarily residential in nature with a higher rate of auto opener than other parts of San Francisco and the owner has a faxon garage and communitybased organizations and doing to event item 3d coming into the business is a retailer village and custom shop in the Mission District it has been serving the lgbt and professionalism aortas since the opened in 1996 in 1998 the ownership he went to Stephen A Lgbt leader and youth mentored the business as expanded to fully support sided the drag in the addition of make up and assessorsy and highend customs and home decor that represents the foundation and business retro fit vintage serves through culture events businesses hosted at the shops not yet operated in San Francisco San Francisco are thirty years or more but contributed to the history and identity of 340ik9 neighborhood and not included in the registry it faces significant risk of displace on a month to month leased and not able to secure a long term lease with the landlord all 4 businesses have a positive recommendation after the recommendations from the Historic Preservation Commission Staff finds the businesses have met the 3 career criteria to quality for the legacy business registry there are 4 draft resolutions for consideration by the Small Business Commission One for each the legacy business registry applicant in support of businesses a motion in favor of resolution in the resolutions Pay Attention to the core physical features that define the business once approved by the San Francisco Small Business commission the businesses must maintain the features of tradition in order to remain on the legacy business registry Accion Latina and or seismic engagement as a way for latino communities and the boudin bakery for the auto active repair and maintenance for retro fit vintage retail sales that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. This is great im not familiar with all the companies but certainly the boudin bakery a few iconic representatives this is awesome a so commission comments and questions. I have a question about the retro fit vintage more than two years; correct . Thats correct. 2021. We checked with the City Attorneys Office the registration over 20 years could be 20 years. They fulfilled the dress code requirements. Very good anything else open up for Public Comment representatives of businesses that would like to say anything at this time . Cards. The first card for stephen i Human Resources p and the second is gail. Welcome steve richie. Im stephen i own retro fit vintage i tried to write something but unfortunately what i wrote came up selfcongratulations to stick to winging it format thank you for hearing us and thank you for louis louse us to be presented on the heritage Legacy Business Program i have moved into the Mission District on 20th street in 19 did or 94 i live in my apartment in 1996 retro fit vintage opened around the corner on 20th and 200 square feet space within the span of its first two or three years moved to 910 van ness around the corner where i live and in that location going on 21 years well celebrate 21 years this gram is integral with the psa of prop j if theyre at a significant risk of displacement it is no truer than our exact situation the previous owners the building opt outed to not negotiated with the tenant and make is a problem of new other than an Investment Corporation one the first moves was to displace my neighborhoods when a a Million Dollars Clothing Program wanted their space their month to month and they were foirts out a Million Dollars company what make them leave in the process of coauthor lose a free whole bilk in the process the current landlord offered him our space and place so offered him my store and offered displacement to me we have an old lease weve been angled one of the lucky things to have yes our lease is belowmarket rate under 3000 but the current rate they want to place us a o is 9 hundred thousand mrs. A month so your acceptance of our program will hopefully give a way to strongarm them to give us a workable lease that Small Businesses with the foundation of the San Francisco neighborhood will work with so thank you have a nice day. Thank you, very much. And thanks to be coming out today ne next. Good afternoon im gail the chief over for boudin bakery thank you to richard and the legacy business for putting together the presentation and helping us get through the application and also to the commission and its staff for consideration for the boudin bakery as a legacy business and was discussing how Different Companies want to be own is legacy business there are reasons for them and boudin bakery to make sure that boudin bakery is recognized for such and Others Companies it is about their survival so i think it is a Great Program for all reasons as richard said heard in San Francisco as world families for the sourdough it is based if 1849 our story got started when the folks came in the gold rush of 1849 and fount the french baker and known as backing the best bread in the city the french bakery studied in and when he died his wife catered on the business that was a significant challenge she as rear yard said saved the mother dough from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the bakery was relocated to the richmond strict it is still in probation an geary and tenth and dedicated as a historic by the Historic Society for over one hundred years of proclamation in 1935 a man came from italy and joined the team of bakers and assumed the baker and bread was they lifetime dedication in 1941 the operator and the original sourdough than unfailing dedication to the bread continued until his death in 1997 his son group in the bakery and involved over 70 years and is a native san franciscan he currently operates 3 bakerries and 6 restaurant and is the old operating business in San Francisco we support many local Community Partnerships including and dont get hungry that wrapping up i hope you romanced the Accion Latina as a legacy business over the 6 seven years weve been an interval part how the world views San Francisco past and present. Thank you boudin bakery is a legacy business we should go home any member of the public that would like to comment . On this item yes, we do come on up. Good afternoon microfilms a louis i work forgive ocean avenue i am speaking on behalf of the faxon garage sidney was original owners that started faxon garage in 1940s and informing and it was faxon garage was that in one 3 businesses in one overflow room was the building structure was a horse and buggy stable and became just a winery because it was in 1885 an inside race track for hours now a a lot more bars appeared on ocean avenue it was quite a bit a lot predominantly in the 1940s and 50s the area was filled with workingclass black families to Hunters Point fillmore or the o m i was affordable to love waishgz there was an office of Emergency Services with Automotive Services storage and automotive pontiac and texaco gas station back then cumber we have dayton and faxon garage so as you may know the lease on the garage right on i forgot 1495 disappeared because a of a development to slowly every gas station in San Francisco is slowly disappearing and few i was are born and raised in unified 40 years and all the grargsz is gone i know they are. And then is started by wise and became nolan the last owners he started at 50 consequence an hour that was the minimum wage i forgot in the year that was in the psychos went to San Francisco State University and bought the rest of the business in wise so in he sold it to walling i didnt he had an accessory retail for automotive imports used to be called Something Else he bought faxon garage and it was incorporated and wanted to do auto body in all onestop shop and continued the legacy so ill cut it short that is vital because of you know slowly theres more cars in San Francisco and especially ingleside the section of San Francisco and a lot more children with families it is hard to transport kids on public especially you cant build multiple places it is important we get like the legacy garages into the program so you know have a diversity businesses along ocean avenue corridor thank you. Were paying 0. 50 an hour that is three hundred years old any member of the public that would like to comment . Come on up. Thank you to everybody my name is im the new executive director and advertised an honor to be here and to as far as the recommendation for the legacy business latino is houses the longest bilingual paper not only in the city but the whole southwest ill speak from my heart as a young artist and a young resident of the Mission District who is part of Central American you part of the 1980s that is a characteristic of our community is the beauty and our creative out and the kind of stuff people put out without requiring a payment so our murals and food our art and our institutional memory which in the newspaper the gallery and the Music Festival is a body so im happy and proud to be a part of a great line up of legacy businesses im just expressing my gratitude a big part of a Community Soul is itself memory that is makes us unique and different we have that institutional memory and ive been executive director for a total of three weeks and change but look forward to pushing this organization into the next 50 plus i couldnt see years of success this will be a key part of that. Congratulations on our role Community Papers are important we have one in the chair wiener hill and dog patch is keep that flame alive out there any member of the public that would like to comment . All right. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners any other comments. I want to congratulate all our nominees today everyone is a part of the city and thank you for your time here i definitely know the faxon garage and in my view it was there and latino i grew up on 24th street and it translates to the it is the one it is always issues of people of your struggle and one of the main streams so thank you for continuing the legacy on this appreciate it thank you. Well to all our speakers thanks for coming out today yes commissioner and first of all, congratulate the businesses present today and like to read the criteria here and the question is the second question has the applicant been in the historic of the neighborhood or community and we have four businesses not only contributed to the respect neighborhood by the entire community of San Francisco so congratulations for your contributions respected tricks for the wonderful city of San Francisco. All right. Commissioners and mr. President , can i ask a question what is the master do mean mother dough. Yes. I have to find out sorry president. Like in the breakdown world. The mother world makes it have the characteristics of a very sour cell phone i didnt warm on the audit and the dough is many incremental or commercial bakersries what produce bread in a quick fashion it rise in the matter of a few hours the mother dough takes 72 hours so to make the loaf of bread we allow the wide yeast wouldnt have been possible without the San Francisco San Francisco contributes to it theres a actually a bacteria this is named after San Francisco it only exists in very highway quantities and it is what helps to create between the the yeast and the Na