reappointment of commissioner king. find a small business owner -- i'm a small business owner in sentences could. when we were having problems, we reached out to the commissioner to help us work through the city and get our theater back up and running. on behalf of all the artists in the filipino-american community, we highly urge the reappointment of mr. king. supervisor campos: thank you. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak on this item? if so, please come up. that includes anyone now in the overflow room. please come forward. good morning. >> [inaudible] i'm here in an odd way, like many people were here on the

21st of september. a roomful of people speaking on behalf of a project, on behalf of an individual they considered a leader in their community, they trusted, whose resources they utilize, and i'm here to say that despite my appreciation for the work of commissioner king and the role he played in our community, must stand in opposition. i believe if you were to listen to the audio from the september 21 commission meeting, you will hear as well the difference between an icon in the community, a hero to many people, and the role of an individual should play as a commissioner. there is a deep difference between being an important leader in a community and as the commissioner himself said, being an advocate, and being someone who is there to render a fair point of view, be a finder of

fact. that, i think, is the key to a successful commission. it is more than just being a representative. it is being someone who can hear all sides, make irresponsible view, and come to a decision without utilizing that decision -- make a responsible view, and come to a decision without utilizing the decision to punish those with an opposing view, that will not take matters that are decades in the past and bring them up to the present to punish people for things they have done. even though those things turned out to be good for the city. i say in conclusion, commissions are something different than being an icon. they have a responsibility to be fair to all san franciscans. i believe commissioner king showed he was not capable of

doing that on september 21. supervisor campos: thank you. is there any member of the public who would like to speak to has not spoken? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, any comments? supervisor mar. supervisor mar: i would like to move the reappointment of commissioner lee roy king -- leroy king. supervisor campos: let me make a very brief comment about some of the remarks that were made, especially the last one. as i indicated the first time i said anything about my view of this reappointment, i do not know that i would agree on everything and every vote the commissioner or for that matter any commissioner has taken on a number of commissions. the reality is that there are some times when we have differences of opinion. but we have a responsibility to

look at the reappointment as a whole. i think that testimony illustrates in my view, as a whole, there's simply no basis i can think of at this point to oppose this reappointment, and i will be happy to cast my vote in support of commissioner king today. supervisor alioto-pier. supervisor alioto-pier: thank you very much. i'm sorry i'm late. i stuck my head in theory it is leroy heer -- i stuck my head in. is leroy here? you handsome boy. commissioner, just want to say my history with mr. kane goes

back to the time when i was a very young girl, back to the 1970's, and mr. king was one of my grandfathers best friends. it was always leroy and walter johnson. i cannot tell you how excited i am to be able to support your re-nomination to the redevelopment commission. you are a san franciscan through and through. i love you dearly, and i am very excited to see you here this morning and to be able to cast my vote in support of you. supervisor mar: thank you for those comments. i just wanted to also acknowledge the important points that were made. my expectation also of commissioners is that if we disagree on issues, we will struggle through them as colleagues with respect, and i

will review that september 21 meeting and take a look, but my expectation is that through the decades of struggle, that commissioner king has led and in part of different movements, he is a product of our movement. i know if we disagree on different issues, we will continue to struggle through them as organizers, as advocates, as leaders. my expectation also is that people on commissions will be bold and courageous and take stands and not just be there to represent specific interest but will think creatively for better solutions for our communities. i know that mr. king has done that, but if we disagree, let's struggle through things, but i am also supportive of the reappointment for another decade for mr. leroy king. thank you. supervisor campos: we have a motion to confirm the

reappointment. can we take that without objection? thank you. congratulations. [applause] again, thank you, commissioner, for continuing to desire to serve the city and county of san francisco. it is greatly appreciated. please call item 1. >> item 1, ordinance amending the san francisco administrative code regarding medical cannabis task force membership howlers and duties. supervisor campos: this -- membership, powers, and duties. supervisor campos: this is an amendment to legislation that i introduced and the board subsequently passed. it tries to incorporate or respond to some of the concerns that were raised at the time in terms of changing the makeup of the san francisco medical cannabis task force. i know about a couple of

supervisors raised those issues, and the amendments reflect the advice and guidance of the task force itself in terms of trying to understand how we could enhance their effectiveness. the last substantive amendment on page four of the item is an amendment that would provide a task force with the ability to make recommendations in the event that california state proposition 19 is approved by the voters. we want to make it clear that in the event that that happens, that we want to be able to get advice and guidance from this task force. any comments or questions? supervisor alioto-pier. supervisor alioto-pier: thank you. i'm honestly curious why we are

going through 13 to 15. has there been an exorbitant amount of interest? them -- supervisor campos: i think at that time, the discussion said place at the board of supervisors, there was about increasing the number at least one, but perhaps more, and 15 is the recommendation that comes from the task force, based on the work they have done up to this point, in terms of some of the gaps that they see in in terms of the expertise and knowledge and experience of the task force itself. supervisor mar: it seems that the additional two positions are specifically members with expertise in areas that currently are not on the task force. is that right? let me just what that this --

let me just look at this. the two additional positions include a person with a background providing medical cannabis to permitted medical cannabis dispensaries, and the 15th is a license or accredited health care practitioner practicing in the city with a background in medical cannabis and familiarity with the laws and regulations governing medical cannabis, so my understanding is those two new positions are to add to the 13 existing members. supervisor campos: that is correct. with that, why don't we open up to public comment? if members of the public would like to speak on this item, please come forward. you each have two minutes. >> good afternoon. i'm happy that this is before you. what we are looking at here it is equal representation, and i am really overjoyed that our

community wants to add more community leadership and expertise. the task force supported my suggestions of accredited health care, professional. we do have some concerns for the patient movement a round of pricing for the recommendations, so there is a need to look at some of the research aspects of medical cannabis. i understand you have a very full agenda today, in closing, i would like to ask for all the patient advocates who are here in support of the additional seats to either stand for raise their hand. thank you, community. i hope that you will support our additional seats. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> good to see you again.

today, i speak to you as both a patient advocate and a cultivator. it is redundant to say such a thing because historically, cultivators have worked closely with patients to run for housing, health, and safety, and to assure they receive medicine with a cannabis ratio suitable to their condition. though the patients' concerns are typically a top priority, right now, it is the cultivators that need your support more desperately than ever. for the first time thanks to all of you, we have a medical cannabis task force that will advise you on policy-related matters theory to the extraordinary to live in a city that offers this level of versus a patient. though we are grateful for their contributions, the cultivators on the task force that right now enjoy protection in that one is a dispenser in operator and the other falls into the non-

permitted collective category under article 33. i am speaking to address the need for breadth. we, the people most exposed to harm, are voiceless. please help us by shepherding the good process you have the good sense to initiate. also, please support us in the creation of a 15th seed for a physician. thank you very much for everything you have done to support the medical canada's social justice causes. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, commissioners. i am here from hopenet, and i do feel the extra seats would help us achieve our goals, so i asked you please to support the 15 and give us the extra expertise that we need. thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you.

next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i am axis of love service for writer and member of the cultivation committee task force. i strongly support the addition of a third cultivation see. a large portion of the community is not being represented. one of the tip of the local division seats is represented by a dispensary owner who does not have the same risk level -- one of the cultivation seats. the addition of a third seat representing commercial cultivators would balance the interest of cultivators. thank you. supervisor campos: next speaker, mr. brown, though, giants, though, buster -- go, buster posey. >> who could think we were going

to go this far this year? it is fantastic. the task force took away my seat. you had a neighborhood representative that would be a journalist. if any group needs sunshine, it is this group. i think i have a little bit of connections in city hall, and i cannot get a list of their meetings. they do not announced when it is. they he raised me off the list. it does not have to be me, but you need a journalist. the league of women voters puts people inside the dallas certification committee. three or four of the ladies in there are journalists. you need a journalist in said that committee. a doctor -- you can bet the doctor is going to be in somebody's pocket. i'm not going to get into the politics, but you need a journalist on that committee. write a journalist in, and i would be glad to compete, i would be glad to news, but you need a voice reporting to the public.

supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> i am a member of axis of love, and i would like to speak in favor of adding the additional seats. i am also a member of the patient advocacy committee, and we would appreciate having the voice of a medical professional or somebody representing that and also having an additional cultivation seat. i would also like to speak in favor of as having the ability to 55 the board of supervisors on matters related to if proposition 19 passes. thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> i am in medical cannabis cultivator, and i also support an additional seat for cultivation. thank you. supervisor campos: is there any other member of the public who

would like to speak? if so, please come forward. good morning, sir. i think you can use the other one. ok, yes. >> i am a dispensary owner, almost. we have been appealed. i also sit on the cultivators see for the task force, and we do need more representation for the task force. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. any other member who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, any comments? action? supervisor mar: i move the recommendation of the item. supervisor campos: if we could take that without objection. as we go through the legislative process, i want to thank

everyone. if we can now please call item 3 -- actually, item two. >> item two, a hearing to consider appointing one member, a term ending march 31, 2012, to the commission on the aging advisory council. there is one seat and one applicant. is ms. russo here? or do we have someone from the commission on aging of advisory council? excellent. good morning. >> good morning. i. m. kathryn russo -- i am

catherine russo. i am being appointed for my third term on the advisory commission on aging. obviously, i am a senior. >> it is not that obvious. >> we are a group that represents the seniors. it is a very active group. i have enjoyed being on a the current president. >> if we could sit down in the back and keep it as quiet as possible. thank you. all right, is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this is an of women by the district 7 supervisor. are there any comments? seeing none, shall we move this

forward with recommendation? so don, thank you. supervisor campos: thank you, and congratulations. if we could now call item 3. >> item 3, a hearing to consider appointing four members, terms ending june 6, 2012, to the immigrant rights commission. there are four seats and eight applicants. supervisor campos: thank you very much. we have four seats open on the very important immigrant rights commission for the city. we have eight applicants, and let me just go here through my notes. i just want to know that of the eight applicants, two have actually withdrawn their applications not withdrawn?

ok, that is wilma parker de pavloff. we will call each applicant and as each applicant to make a brief statement when you are interested in filling the vacancy, and it will provide an opportunity for the committee to ask any questions. if we could begin with vera haile. good morning. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm asking to be appointed to another term on immigrants' rights commission. my two main interests are immigrants rights and aging, and i try to put the two together. i am also on the advisory council, the advisory council to the department of aging, and i

work 13 years in self-help for the elderly in chinatown and 13 years in the tenderloin, and that is where my experience with immigrants was initiated. i'm still active with many groups, and language access, which is part of immigrants' rights, is a very important issue to seniors as well as other immigrants, and i have been pleased that the language access ordinance was revised and extended and, hopefully, we will have some additional languages this year after census data gets in. seniors often have difficulty learning english, and even those who learn it sometimes prefer to speak their original language, and not continue to speak english, so i think it is very important that we keep doing that. i began to discover the extent

of immigrants during the fast pass their increase, and i was one of the people who went around the senior mills said, and i go to senior mills said its regularly, and if they are not just one group regularly -- i was one of the people who went around the senior meal sites. you can see many immigrant issues come up. none of them wanted to pay an increase in the fast fast, and the western addition is not all african-american anymore. it is african-american and asian and other, and the russian mill site -- meal site also includes other people, so they are all over the city, and they use

muni, and we have been struggling to get in to translate their application in to chinese and spanish, but they have refused so far. we will keep working on that. that brings up a new problem, though. quiver is a metro system, and they do not necessarily feel they have to follow all the rules of san francisco. that is one of the difficulties we have had with getting them to put their application in spanish and chinese. i am interested in one more term because i feel this is eerie when i first started working with immigrants, everything was getting better in chinatown. the laws have been mobilized. no more 100-person exclusion. people were being reunited and coming to this country for the first time, and even the immigration director's name

[inaudible] then, there was amnesty for 2.7 million immigrants, so i thought everything was going to keep getting better. first came 1996 when clinton was under pressure to reduce the federal deficit, and when that happened, he did that by eliminating the legal immigrants who have been here less than 10 years. at the same time, this commission was formed, a reaction to the impression on the federal level, and in 2010, we find the same pressure on president obama to reduce the federal deficit. he has appointed the same two committee chairs that president clinton had on his deficit reduction, and that scares me, too.

the governor was proposing this year to eliminate the cash assistance program for immigrants and to eliminate many -- medical. for san francisco, that would have meant 637 finally, that did not happen. i was so pleased to read the last results. i think one of the thing that i hope we can do is find ways to save programs and make improvements, whether it is sanctuary or secure communities. supervisor campos: if i would ask the applicants -- we have a full agenda -- please keep it as concise as possible. commissioner mar? supervisor mar: thank you for your service on the immigrant rights commission. it looks like you are the only

one for seat 1. it seems that you really bring strong experience, not only with immigrant-based social services, but also health and human services, how the system needs to work to provide a safety net for vulnerable immigrant seniors. i also agree with you that this is a critical time. i hope that you can be reappointed to take a courageous stand for immigrant communities as we face rising deportations and crack down from the government. supervisor campos: thank you. kenneth jeng.

>> good morning, commissioners. i am an attorney. i first became interested in serving this commission with two cases. a physician was put into a prison facility on the east coast. we were able to obtain a settlement for him, as he was denied medical care and other rights, as an immigrant in the country. the second was in immigrant court. the family is currently in the process of removal proceedings. although it is not my primary job to work in progress service, i believe my service could provide a unique legal perspective to the commission. supervisor campos: thank you. next, teresa chee.

>> hello and good morning, commissioners. i stand before you seeking a seat in the commission. dealing with immigrant issues is not an option. it is not a one day a week meeting or a monthly volunteer the opportunity. it is part of my everyday life, ever since i was old enough to cover and english language. currently, i am part of the chinese democratic american club and other associations. as a registered nurse, i will never forget my inspiration. being there former grandmother who had undergone a triple bypass surgery without understanding english. i wanted to build my life and career to build up -- to help others. i can tell you