the neighborhood. the patients that come into the community respect the surrounding areas and have the utmost respect for the neighbors that live there. such things as housing prices going down as a result of the dispensary opening is not true also. in fact, property values have increased as a result of some dispensaries opening in different neighborhoods. please consider that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is evan cross. i would like to defend the -- the chinese gospel church asked you to throw up anecdotal evidence, and the next speaker then presented anecdotal evidence about robberies in the sunset. also, i would like to echo my

experience that these are not dangerous places. the fact that they have cash and valuable items on premises does not make them unique to business. you could say the same thing about a jewelry store or a liquor store. the liquor store across the street from my house is robbed. there was a daytime murder in bread and butter cafe on polk. i do not think anyone could draw from those things that bellies inherently create crime -- delis inherently great crime. >> my name is matt lee roy. i have been a san francisco resident for eight years. what it boils down to is that we are in a sanctuary city. california state law allows people with a medical condition who need to use cannabis to use

cannabis to treat their conditions, as does san francisco law. we are assigned to rossetti. it is important that patients in all parts of the city have equal access to their medicine. the other thing that concerns me is that one of the complainants in this case happens to be a religious institution. our constitution protect us with a separation of church and state. i would be very wary and cautious about what a group of possible religious fundamentalists might have to say. it sounds like they might be trying to push their religious agenda. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> fellow commissioners. mining is albert l -- my name is albert lake. san francisco is a sanctuary city, not a divided city. how can you be safe here and not

here? there are children and crime everywhere. having a dispensary is not going to change everything, except the patients that will have their medicine. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is john stone. >> could you speak more into the microphone? >> i am here as a member of the public and as a person who has a marijuana card and legitimately is a marijuana/cannabis patient. in my opinion as a resident of san francisco, not following this business to open in this area would be almost equivalent to a diabetic person having to go to a different part of town to get drugs for their condition, or people with psychological problems needing to get medicine only in certain parts of town. if you consider this medicine,

there is no difference. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is henry james. the only thing i want to talk about is what the patients get out of this. they get compassion and they get a change. they get out of their environment. i look to the lord. this is what people really need so they can move on. have a heart. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon.

my name is jonathan beaver. i am a native san franciscan and a medical marijuana patient. i think that not allowing this dispensary in this particular location would be a definite subtraction. it is a serious thing, and it is a matter of life and death. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is cora klein. i am a new member of san francisco since this may. i rely on the sanctuary status to get my medicine. as you can see, there are so many people with ptsd that need this, especially since the downturn. i imagine people in sunset need their medical cannabis dispensaries.

it is like not letting a walgreen's open uppe. i have a problem with this baptist church being from texas, also. i want texas to stay out of san francisco's business. i really do. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is christine moyer. i will make this quick. i want to register my support for a medical cannabis club at 2139 taraval street. i urge you to give careful consideration to the letter that was read to you earlier from police commissioner petra dejesus. i have a real problem with the way captain schmidt presented the evidence that she supposedly

presented at the meeting. i do not think it was 100% correct. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, or good evening. i am appalled lansbury -- am paul lansbury. i have an e-mail from mr. kessler of the department of public health. he said before then it was the wild west, but after the regulations went into effect, they have worked. there were maybe six complaints. four of them were by him about advertising language in publications. there has not been an e-mail from february 3. there has been no spike. the mcd community has a vested interest in keeping the neighborhood crime free.

not many people use the delivery service. they want to go and interact with the people and find out what is working for other people. that is a thing they are trying to do, is share other resources, using the patient base. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is mike pearson. i would like to comment on the delivery service as well. i cannot imagine delivery drivers bringing the entire store to your house. they will have just a couple to choose from. going to the club -- there is other people there. you can relate to them. you have them downtown, but you cannot have them in the sunset. i do not understand. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> mining is elliott right -- my

name is eliott wright. i believe the issues on the table are safety, convenience, and access. we are just trying to make things more available for those who need them. my wife suffers from arthritis. it is hard as the dickens for her to go all the way down to taraval, or the other way. please consider this. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is jeffrey. i am speaking as a patient myself. as a vietnam vet who has hurt his back -- i have a ruptured

disk, and sometimes it is hard to ride a bus in the distance. to have to travel from the outside of the city to the answers -- to the inner city to get medication is a little outrageous. i would like you to consider this when you make a decision. god bless. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is jay som. i worked at access of love. >> could you speak into the microphone? >> i really believe that this is a case of selective enforcement by law enforcement. i believe a lot of the fears and concerns of the sunset community are unfounded. being a medical marijuana patient myself, i took it upon myself to interview other medical marijuana patients that are residents of the sunset

neighborhoods. they all kind of believe that the reason why there is so much crime and so much illicit activity and what have you in the sense that is because there is no effective delivery service that serves patients that are residents in the sunset. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commission. my name is lamar marshall. i want to speak on things no one brought up about the crime, the underground chop shops, the mess in the sunset. i have been there. it is over by golden gate park. i have been a drug user for 33 years. i used crack cocaine. right now, i am suffering. i am going to have a triple

bypass. i was introduced about six months ago to medical cannabis, and it has helped me sleep. it has helped me get along. it has helped me function. it has helped me to be responsible. so many kids over in the sunset, at the 711 -- i know my niece has been robbed, gangbang. there are many other things going on. you are looking at a person who was smoking crack cocaine for 33 years. right now, i am through. please help us stay alive. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is [unintelligible] they took even illegal cannabis out of neighborhoods.

crack cocaine has taken over. i have been using cannabis for over 30 years. i have been living in san francisco court two years now. it is the main reason i moved out here. keep medical cannabis alive. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is dominique. i have been a member of access of love for going on a year. i am wanting to bring on and say that you guys are being selective regulators. you have a selective regulation of rules. what is the difference from having been -- having the other dispensaries downtown from sunset? that is all i wanted to bring

up. >> any other public comment on this item? step forward, sir. >> my name is andrew. i grew up in a baptist church. you know, the thing that helped me the most in my life has been using cannabis miserably -- cannabis medicinal leech, medically. i understand where they are coming from. but there are some many positive things in having a medical dispensary where you can go and meditate. i think it is a positive thing for the community, for everyone. >> thank you. any other public comment on this attendance -- on this item? >> said breslin again -- ed

reslin again. i ask that the letter from petra dejesus be introduced to you. if i can deliver it to you, i have copies for everyone of you. president goh: provide them to mr. pachenko. we will have to vote on that. >> i see no other public comment on this item. >> can we vote on whether the letter should be admitted? >> if you would not mind taking a seat, thank you. commissioners, the matter is submitted. there is a question pending about the supplemental documents. president goh: as a preliminary make a motion to accept this document?

no? then we can discuss the findings. commissioner hwang: prior to the testimony we heard today and the public comment, in reviewing the findings i take issue with paragraph f with respect to the finding that the board find credible evidence on the record that mcds may attract violent criminals. i am not comfortable with that finding. i would like to see it eliminated from our findings. president goh: are you suggesting the whole paragraph be eliminated? commissioner peterson: i had that same thought. there is ever friends to the letter intergraph -- there is a reference to the letter in

paragraph h that may not be necessary, given certain comments. president goh: do you have a suggestion for rewarding -- rewording h? commissioner peterson: may be in parentheses we can say there is undisputed testimony or evidence in the record? president goh: i would be more comfortable just saying -- are you writing "the board takes notice of the fact"? commissioner peterson: i am just -- if you see on the fourth wine of paragra -- fourth line of paragraph h --

president goh: would it accomplish your goals to strike the parenthetical? >> perhaps in the parenthetical we can just say "per testimony provided at the hearing," as a funding for the bases. president goh: there is other evidence. we also have written documentation in the earlier briefing, right? is that -- commissioner peterson: there was a map as well. commissioner hwang: i think the more general the better. president goh: per evidence submitted in the case. other comments, commissioner ss?

commissioner fung: i am in agreement on deletion of finding commissioner fung: -- a finding -- of finding f. president goh: do i hear a motion? commissioner fung: adopt the findings with deletion of finding f and the final words nothing -- and the finer wordsmithing on item commissioner hwang:. -- on item h. >> the motion, if you are ready to have it called, will be to adopt the findings with the changes noted.

>> before i call the roll, a member of the public handed and e-mail the was referencing a statement. would you like me to give that as well since the other document was rejected opec's -- that was rejected? president goh: unless there is a motion from the commissioner. >> there is a submission of other documents as well. president goh: again, it would require a motion from the board to consider additional materials. no. >> than the motion is from commissioner fung to adopt the findings as amended. president goh: aye. vice president garcia: aye.

commissioner peterson: aye. commissioner hwang: aye. >> the vote is 5-0. findings are adopted as amended. >> should we move on to item five? president goh: we should take a few minutes to clear the room. >> are you suggesting president goh: please call item five. >> appeal 10-094, versus the mta. it's the appeal of denial of a regular taxi medallion.

the matter was continue to allow the parties to submit additional information. and >> we can give each party 3 minutes. starting with mr. murray. >> good evening, jarvis mrray wi -- murray with taxi services. the only issue that we need to take a look at is whose evidence to you believe? we believe that he, based on his electronic log ons, may have logged on 74 times to drive his

shit. he submitted 121 waybills for that year. he claimed there was no need to log on to the system every time he drives. it is virtually impossible that he will log on to the system 74 times but not the other 56. there will be no way for anyone to make a radio call to find vehicle 9053. if that is the case, he is not doing any particular service. not just drive invisible under the radar. there are numberous, o--

numerous, over 20 waybills that were exactly 10 hours apart. and we simply do not believe that those are accurate. holly believe those are fabricated. -- we believe those are fabricated. and they simply do not demonstrate, based upon the exact ten hours, and nobody gets an exat 10-h -- exact 10-hour stamp. it can happen, but not on a normal basis.

we believe that this point, it is up to the board is simply decide whether you believe that it is fraudulent or if you believe the excuses he's given. we will accept your decision. >> are there any industry statistics on average number of times a vehicle is in for repair? >> it is anecdotal. currently, there is a sense that many of the vehicles to spend a lot of time in the shop. beyond that, it is anecdotal evidence. some complain about the priuses,

that tit takes -- that it takes week ss to replace a battery pack. president goh: thank you. >> good evening, everybody. based on the last meeting, what we have, we just talked about times to prove the accurate information. through 2009, the car was in the shop. it was accurate evidence and proof that the car was broken. that is why i used a spare for that.

in the rules, 1104, only written ones can be submitted. it is like any other country's. i have my experience how to work. many times, computer will be broken also. i will have to go back to the garage and fix it. speaking of accuracy, [unintelligible] i have 81 log in periods of time. it is completely accurate. speaking of -- the rules are

that four out of five calendar years. we talk about 2009, 8, 7, and 6. i have evidence for 2005. nobody asked me to provide the others. like i said before, i have my wife that watches my kids all the time. i have co-workers with me. yes, i did work for those 17 years. i am planning to continue this as well. i was not accurate, but i p romise this will not happen

again. please consider my explanation. >> and when i looked at some of your list, i did not exhaustively total them up. sometimes, you were in for only two hours or less. is that common? >> if the computer system is kicking you out or the gps system is dropping johann -- you. like i said, as of today, we have 1500 medallions. we have the company that is using the system. and basically,