>> out of 17 members, yes. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon. this is my second time having the pleasure of speaking this year. i would be happy to speak on behalf of two candidates as well. jordan towers has attended meetings in the past and has been proactive, speaking on behalf of veterans. we are a country at war and these appointments may be the most important you do because very soon, our veterans are going to be homeless. the veterans living across the street are about to go through a seismic retrofit, and to this date, we do not have a place for our veterans to go. they are talking about the presidio, but we need people who are in contact with young

veterans today, and i believe jordan will be positive and instrumental in that. i would also like to speak on behalf of dorothy guy. forgive me. i hate the term quarters, but troy, we have no representation from a female african-american on the commission -- but currently, we have no representation from a female african-american on the commission. the commission needs to diversify. it has been a good old boy network for many, many, many years. thanks to your influence -- i commend you on that -- it has gotten better today. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, you do have four applicants. i believe we have talked to jou. i do not believe she has

withdrawn her application, but we did hear from her. any thoughts? i think we can move forward at least c 12. we can do both? ok. supervisor elsbernd. supervisor elsbernd: seat 12 is the easy one. dorothy, i wish you well. i hope you will do a great job. we're stuck having to choose between two great candidates in mr. reid's and mr. towers. i very much appreciate the way mr. reeds presented in it. i see on your application -- you did not mention this -- your professional work at san francisco state. thank you for all the work you do there. that said, i think we really have made a focus of bringing in

some post-9/11 of debts to that commission, and i think hearing about mr. towers' involvement already, respectfully, i think he is the choice today -- we really have made a focus of bringing in some post-9/11 that's -- vets. >> i would be happy to support that. i think everyone here knew this was coming today, but this was one of those things where we cannot do enough for our veterans, and to have veterans come forward and apply for commissions like this, it is a horrible decision we have to make, but this is also a commission with these seats come up, and i am start your experience was turning in an application a year ago and just hearing about it. maybe it was not your specific seat that came up but others did, so we would love to consider you for wendy's, again. to all the applicants and those

serving on the veterans affairs commissions, thank you for all you guys do it again. i do not think we can do enough to support you. thank you so much. i am happy to support that recommendation. supervisor kim: i find the veteran affairs commission is always one of the most difficult to assign seats for because we have so many dedicated and passion of veterans that want to come back and serve the community. i think all of us admire that. thank you all for applying. i think it is great that we will have two young veterans representing on the commission as well. i support that recommendation. i am also more than happy to forward mr. reeds application to the mayor as well. i am not sure which you applied for, but we will definitely keep your resume in the look for other seats. and thank you to the commissioners that came as well to speak. it is great to see both of you. we have a motion to move forward jordan towers for c 10 and --

for seat 10 and dorothy guy for seat 12. it we can do that without opposition. thank you. madam clerk, can you please call item two? >> hearing to consider appointing one member, a term ending november 19, 2012, to the bicycle advisory committee. there is one seat and one applicant. supervisor kim: thank you. mr. brant could not attend today's meeting, so at this time, we will open up for public comment on this item. is there any public comment on item two? seeing none, public comment is now closed. marc brandt is a direct appointment by our district three supervisor and president chiu.

motion? the motion. supervisor kim: we have a motion to move forward mr. brandt was positive recommendation. can you call item 3? >> item 3, hearing to consider appointing three members, terms ending december 31, 2012, to the medical cannabis task force. there are three seats and five applicants. supervisor kim: the committee has done a number of letters this week asking us to continue this item. we did speak with supervisor campos' office because his office did start the medical campus task force. i know some applicants are still here and you are of course welcome to speak, but we will not be deciding the issue today. i do see some of the candidates here because i have met with you prior as well. if you would like to speak,

please come up. i think it is kind of in the same order. i see marguis here. carol blecker has withdrawn her application. the other applicants are here, your welcome to speak as well. and if he could spend a couple of minutes talking about your background and your experience and interest in serving on the task force. thank you. >> hello. i am a patient advocate on the medical cannabis task force patient advocacy committee. i am also a patient advocate with black and brown just cannabis policy. i attended job corps in 2006, got my education from job corps, graduated, became homeless, used medical -- or used cannabis

recreational it on the streets while being homeless and found that it helped me very much, so i made a determination to get my cannabis card. doing that, i made a goal to learn as much as i could about cannabis and cannabis issues and health-related dynamics related to cannabis. when i got into the movement, it swept me up, and it has not dropped me yet, and i doubt it will. i am very passionate about helping cannabis patients and san franciscans in general. i enjoy what i do. i do not take it for granted at all. i need a lot of people every day that ask me questions about medical cannabis, and i am proud to give them what they need to know, recommendations and

guidelines and safe practices and things like that, so thank you for considering my application. supervisor kim: thank you for speaking to it. you do not have to come back to the next rules committee, but i just wanted to ask you what you hope to accomplish in the following year. >> the following year in the task force, i would like to bring diversity. right now, a majority of the task force is primarily white. i am an african-american. i am also quarter regan -- puerto rican. i do speak spanish and a lot of other dialect's, so i can bring that to the task force as well. i know a lot of youth just getting into canada's after using it recreation league, and i would like to bring them up and show them what to do, how the to do it, and different

guidelines. also, i am and homeless advocate. there are a lot of homeless individuals that use medical cannabis recreational league, and they are still getting picked up or cited or things like that. i just want to keep the outreach and the advocacy going around in our community because there are still issues popping up around medical cannabis. supervisor kim: thank you. kenneth lima. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am here to advocate for patients for medical marijuana for one purpose. i provide hospice for people who are dying and who are scheduled to die. i survived that, and i want to help those who are dealing with new debt issues and perhaps make them more comfortable, not so

they have to accept it, so they can survive because i survived. there is no reason they cannot survive. and being a son of a veteran who also survived cirrhosis of the liver, there are a lot of illnesses that i have dealt with in my past and that i know about. i know a lot about heart disease because i was born with heart disease, and i know a lot of issues that can be served with medical marijuana in that aspect. that is my goal, to help in that part. sorry, i am nervous. supervisor kim: it is ok. you are doing great. is there anything you wanted to add about your interest on the task force? >> the people involved brought me to city hall and educated me on the people involved with it.

when i first started, i was only involved with my family, and that is just a bunch of nonsense. i got to san francisco and realize there were more people involved that i realized and found out that this was for me and i really needed to help as much as i can these people because they helped me. supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. lima. >> thank you very much. >> hello, supervisors. my name is littered watkins. i am a san francisco native. -- my name is leonard watkins. the two schools i went to do not exist anymore. my mom is a panamanian immigrant. she worked at laguna honda for a number of years. when i was younger, i would come in as a volunteer.

i became ill a number of years ago and had to go on medical marijuana here at the time, it was for a knee operation. i found that it worked. i am here before you apply in to help other people. while i was ill, and that other people who were also cannabis patients, but they had no way of getting their medicine. i more or less became their advocate or caregiver to bring this medicine to them. since then, it has been 10 years, and i am still doing this. most of my kate -- patients are either in medical care facilities or in hospice or in a hospital. i get a lot of support from the cannabis community here in san francisco. the vapor room, hope net, the

green door, just to name a few. a lot of people know what i do. i really feel i would bring a great amount to the task force. it is for this reason why i actually put in my application for this. this is how i have it. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. watkins. i saw that you live in sacramento. will you have trouble making task force meetings? i know we have several committee meetings. >> i have worked for the city and county of san francisco. i am retired police officer. there had not been a difficulty. i was always across the bridge. supervisor kim: i just wanted to make sure. >> right. it is not a problem. thank you.

>> my name is trevor and maureen burns, and i am currently a member -- supervisor kim: i will open it up for public comment, as want to make sure other any other applicants here today? at this time, we will open up for public comment. please approached the microphone. >> my name is reverend maureen burns and i sit on the medical cannabis task force, and i wanted to advocate for marquis and the other candidate who as here today. i would like to see the u.s. represented. i have seen them at the meetings, and they have brought a lot to them. -- i would like to see the use -- the youth represented.

>> good afternoon, rules committee. ♪ sweet dreams. may you pick a good can of this task force. but in your dreams, whatever your dream, dream a little dream of green ♪ and -- ♪ the city hyatt -- the city tide is high and you are moving the task force on i want you to pick your number one, the best one year so it just one guy that wants better boards. and fix it up at the cannabis store the city tide is high and you are moving on fix it up, and i want you to pick no. 1

city can of this task force number one -- secant is task force number one -- city cannibis task force number one ♪ supervisor kim: thank you, mr. paulson. >> i am here to speak on behalf of mr. watkins because he is a great candidate. he has donated time has passed the years taking patients to the cannabis hospices because they cannot get out. he also picks them up so they can have their medication or whatever. i was totally against this because i have nothing to do with cannabis. i did not think it was true that it did what it does for people, but i am totally a believer now, because it does. it helps people feel better, helps them get through what they have to get through because it

helped him. it was the only thing that kept me sane when i had to deal with what i had to deal with with him. it kept me from going crazy. i am here on his behalf, and i think he would be the greatest for this job. thank you very much. one more thing -- he has no problem getting in because he comes here three times a week every week. supervisor kim: thank you, mrs. watkins. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed during my understanding is we will be hearing this item again on thursday, november 17. if you have spoken today, you certainly do not have to speak again. i will not be calling your name. we may have follow-up questions, and then we will be forwarding our recommendation to the full board. thank you so much for being here. i apologize for the continuance. i know there has been a number

of conflicts going on currently with the task force, and supervisors have been asked to take sides on the issue. i certainly do not have issues with that. my preference is to move forward thursday, and we will see what happens then. thank you for your time. if we do not have any opposition, if we could continue this to the call of the chair, we can do that without opposition. thank you. madam clerk, can you please call item four? >> item four, ordinance amending the administrative code to been each reference to the bureau of architecture, bureau of engineering, and bureau of construction management in the san francisco municipal code to be a reference to the department of public works. >> good afternoon. i am the city engineer and deputy director for public works. back in july, a division, which is the engineering division, we organized and merged the three

bureaus' referenced in this order it's to create two divisions. one focuses on building and the other on infrastructure. we did this mainly to create integrated teams with diverse experience to deliver projects from beginning to end, including design and construction. in the past, legislation referenced the three separate bureaus, and we intended, through this vision, to reference in the future of the department of public works instead of each individual bureau. if you are interested in additional information about the organization, i have a power point presentation i would be happy to share with you if you need. supervisor kim: are there any questions from colleagues? i think this is a pretty straightforward item. i did not have questions myself.

at the time, we will open up for public comment. thank you. >> ♪ the mayor and supervisors make it happen, and sfgovtv, too don't you remember we built this city we built this city with good management we built this city with good construction management we built this city on good engineering, too we built this city with good management ♪ supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? >> i am a senior engineer at san francisco public utilities commission. i was formally -- formerly part

of dpw engineering. this is san francisco's history. history has been decimated under the proposal. here is a report from 1923 by the city engineer at the time. the organization does not mean we have to destroy the history and part of san francisco, okay? i am here to speak for myself and on behalf of local 21 on this agenda item. engineering and construction management, the reorganization proposal would permit the race over a century-old institution of the city from the annals of the department's history. san francisco's dtw has a bureau of engineering and bureau of

architecture design and manage the construction of the city's infrastructure and have done that, proudly serving the city's residents. over the years, the bureau's have undertaken not only small and medium but single projects worth over $200 million. in those days, the golden gate bridge, and lots more. that is under the name of the bureau of engineers. the bureau has received national awards of excellence for some of the projects they have completed over the years from many national organizations like the american institute of architects, the american association of civil engineers, the american association of landscape architects, the public works association, the water works association, and many other local chapters of professional and trade organizations. what is more important than recognition of this national

organization than recognition by the city residents to the bureau serves? i remember going to a retirement of a landscape architect, mr. john thomas -- supervisor kim: if you do not mind wrapping up because your time is up. feel free to finish your points. >> it is the history of dpw and five years. its legendary accomplishments can be noted all over the city. there is no need to delete the name from the history books. they could reorganize and have this integrated delivery of projects, but, you know, it does not have to be at the expense of deleting the history -- supervisor kim: may i ask a question? has local 21 taken an official position on this? >> not yet. supervisor kim: is there any other public comment for this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed.

we have a motion to forward with positive recommendation, and i believe we can do that without opposition. thank you for being here today. madam clerk, please call item 5. >> item 5, ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the san francisco sentencing commission, set forth the commission's purpose, powers, and duties, and establish membership criteria. supervisor kim: the sponsor of the ordinance has asked to continue the item for the thursday november 17 meeting. we will do that, but first, we will open up for public comment so you can comment on this item. >> ♪ go ahead and hate your city neighbor. it will be justified, justified

in the end there will not be any trumpet blowing on the judgment city day and you will get it some way ♪ supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now close. we had a motion to continue thursday november 17, and we can do so without objection. madam clerk, are there any other announcements? >> no, madam chair. supervisor kim: thank you. meeting is adjourned.