advocate, the day they started out with ♪ i left my heart in san francisco ♪ -- a green heart is no more than what we want. we do not want to end up with pills, the way they have taken out whitney houston and michael jackson. pills are prevalent in our society today. this earth is from the earth. this is what, when you have a green heart right here -- this is broccoli and asparagus. it is shaped in a green heart shape. this is a good curveball apple pie. it was -- herbal apple pie. it was inspired by san francisco golden gate park. you see that right here? our hearts need the green herb. with bond wednesday and black history month, this is another thing for african-americans.

our ancestors could put marijuana in their food. mexican women used marijuana as antiseptics to put on their bodies. on this great chinese new year, medical marijuana week, president's day, red heart month, groundhog's day, leap year -- for us to leap ahead and take this forward to all our home was sapiens. thank you. -- homo sapiens. thank you. >> i was not sure what i was going to say. but dan made a good point. this is the chamber that brought us compassion. and what is going on? why is everybody folding under federal pressure, when everybody feels it is right. it is healthy.

i have worked with homeopathic pharmaceuticals when i was 19. i am 51 now. things have come a long way. herbal medicine is something i need. i am not a pill popper. i am allergic to codeine. i have pain. i have hunter issues. i feel this is the chamber that brought us some compassion. why is everybody backsliding now, when we needed the most? as i got older, as i age out, i cannot even afford tobut i don'e fabulous dispensaries that have been so kind enough to donate cannabis medicinal who axis of love that i am part of the. think you for giving us a voice. i hope that you revisit this issue, and really kind of stand behind the heart and soul of it.

there are people in pain all over the city. take notes, thank you. >> i am a patient advocate as well as a member of excess of love community center. the of the board of supervisors or whoever can send a letter to the federal government telling them to back off of medical patients, most of the closures of the center. i see about a month ago, they shut down a dispensary. patients are now suffering. what is going to happen, you will see dispensaries, we will see patients going from a dispensary to the streets.

once you see the patient going to the streets, what is the next place they are going to go? just for getting the medicine i need on a daily basis. i have a seizure disorder. without the medicine, i can slip into a seizure and died. can you please tell the medical cannabis community? >> ha my name is david goldman, i am a former member of the san francisco medical cannabis taskforce. i am also the core leadership group of americans for safe access, he oldest and largest organization dedicated to advocacy for medical canada's access and research. i like to present and reiterate practical solutions to the crisis of losing five of brick

and mortar dispensaries and the fact that the dea is investigating 12 more. what will be next? i would like the board of supervisors to introduce and pass an amendment establishing an emergency plan as a result of federal interference, and it was otherwise in comply with local law and in good standing with the san francisco department of public health. i would like them to file enthusiastic amicus brief in pursuit of americans for safe access's petition to reschedule asa vs dea. to join the tenth amendment california lawsuit seeking to stop medical marijuana crackdowns. next, to introduce and pass an ordinance in directing the office to join the state's

petition to reschedule marijuana. san francisco can join the multi-state effort and said they should follow san francisco's model. please help support the model program in the country. >> my name is michael cohen, i am here today to ask you to take action and defend safe access. i have several specific actions that i would like you to do. the first one is to direct the city attorney and all city agencies to refuse any request for informational about our medical canada's program --

canada's program that is not available but public request unless under the direction of a subpoena. and requires city agencies that receive requests from the federal government to convey that information to the board of supervisors to the task force. in the second one i am asking you to do is introduced and passed an ordinance in directing and our city attorney jose office to reschedule the petition to marijuana. will be the first to send a strong central to the state of california that they should file san francisco's lead. my third request by the board of supervisors is to follow up to the board posey said yuri a., 2012 letter to the president obama pursuant ordinance no.

297-062 more appropriately reflect the circumstances of the -- and make clear that the laws are neither welcome or warranted. please protect and defend the safe access. >> hello, supervisors. we have had an emotional day to day, we have that in the company of giants. you are in a unique position to be giants yourselves. i am here to speak to the protection of medical marijuana. i am a medical marijuana patient myself. have seen the most admirable people of my life working in this field, and specifically, i

would like to ask you to pass an ordinance directing the city attorney's office to join the petition to reschedule marijuana. the first county to join the multi-state ever to send a strong signal to the state of california that they should follow san francisco's lead, it is in some ways, the tempo of the world, and i think we all know what that means. a s q to be among the company of cheyenne's that we have been enjoying today, so please protect safe access for medical cannabis. >> in the afternoon, her supervisors. happy valentine's day. i am a disabled senior citizen and also a great grandmother.

i have been in medical marijuana activist for over 20 years. and a patient for about 10 years. i am here to urge you to stand up for safe access in your city. it is really important for the people that depend on this urban live. what the dea is using is playgrounds and children to attack these dispensaries. it is absolutely totally ridiculous. the principal said that in three years, he has had no problem, but they would not listen to him. they closed the market street co-op which has been in operation for god knows how long because they build a playground on octavia boulevard. those children would have to be able to walk through walls to get to the market street

suspensory. most of the people that say, the children, they are seeing it with a cigarette in one hand and a cocktail and the other hand. the pharmacy was to get a hold of this, they don't want us to use the natural urge to heal. the want to make the dough out of the bill will affect our liver and you will see a class- action suit on daytime sheehy because people have died from what ever. i know a lot of people on it makes us sick. i don't understand all this, please help us. >> i want you guys to support access of love end access of marijuana.

>> good evening, board of supervisors. i am a patient advocate, and i do mean that i have a health issue myself. not just me, but everybody else in the community. it is hard for us to get our medicine. we're trying to make sure we can live for ever instead of wasting our dreams down the drain. please help us do this, and all of the people around here that have the health issue need that medicine. >> i am here to represent the thousands of patients, i'd just

feel that we should have the right to alternative medicine other than harmful such the tropics. -- psychotropics. >> i am also vice chair of the patient advocacy. i need the medicine because it helps me with knowledge of what i take my age of the medication. >> high made tenderloin the activists, and diane alexian's activists. today, we recognized and honored a woman working for the collaborative that i have been working with a long time. the very first program manager many years ago, i was at a low

point and he encouraged by activism. he suggested that some day i'd participate in the reform of what was being called instant run off voting. i was just speaking generally about elections, there is no perfect election system. if you think about it, the thing to focus on, the decision making is the ultimate pain. turnout is one component of that. right now, and the republican party, we have a lot of people complaining that republicans are doing things actively designed to suppress the vote. i don't see how democrats can complain about voter suppression when the democratic party isn't even have aing a primary for the democratic candidate.

primaries don't weaken candidates, they make them stronger. >> members of the board of supervisors, member of san francisco open government. i was very tempted not to come here, take a day off and relax. but something came of that really precluded that. one of my favorite authors wrote the following. politics is the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. not too long ago, the sunshine ordnance taskforce found several members of this board has in violation of the sunshine ordinance. i had hoped that they would take that in the spirit that was meant, have open discussions, and looked at it in an objective and fair light.

i would like this to remain on the screen for the next 30 seconds. this is what we get. a survey that is badly written. i was on the staff of the pacific fleet that is in charge of all of the military forces in the pacific and i used to give surveys. this survey is designed to get a specific answer to raise questions of the cost of sunshine to attack the members of the sunshine ordinance taskforce, and most of all, to discourage members of the public that want to use the open government laws to make the government open and at least somewhat responsive to the citizens. i think it is an embarrassment, and i said this to the ethics commission that the civil grand jury has noted that they did not enforce the sunshine roles ever

in eight years. you have never given if he support it deserves. they disparage those members -- >> if there are members of the public that wish to speak in general comment, stepped up now. >> and jesus said, nevertheless, i tell you the truth. it is expedient for you that i go way. i will send them unto you. and when he has come, he will approve the world of said and righteousness.

you see me no more. the lord jesus christ said that the greatest sin than there ever was was not murder, but not believe in on him. if timothy mcveigh -- i plan on giving de that alex jones cells, to you. as providence would have it, i met an evangelistic today what i preached at the cable car turnaround and i thought i should give it to him. it is very powerful, and i think about the awful fact that five officers have come forward and testify. the fbi threatened their lives that they be killed. and the greatest sin that timothy mcveigh did was not murder, it was not believing in jesus.

30 seconds. really, i wish i had two hours. i think about every one that died in oklahoma city and everybody that died at the world trade center, and according to jesus, he said that if they didn't die reconciled to him, and they lost, they perished. it is a no-brainer that mcveigh is in hell or going to hell. >> next speaker. >> to the staff and the mayor, i was born and raised in san francisco, california. san francisco general hospital is my first home, and it was my

second. i have a single african-american with six kids, nine grandkids in 20 years in the military. and i have been a victim of domestic violence. i was elected to the veterans committee of the task force for the medical marijuana and canada's club. cold case files came to my house, but i will ask on the district level and the mayor's level, as far as me being a citizen of san francisco, my father was a veteran. as a veteran that really defended the city, the country, what can you guys really do for us as we put you in your office?

as far as the medical and i am troubled-diagnosed, also. but i was an ordained minister and at the age of 15. can you guys please help us to train and cherished our kids. i started smoking marijuana at 5:00 -- 5. the education, the schools, to do things right here. for the veterans, really. not a $5,000 place to go. >> thank-you very much.

think you very much. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? can you please read the adoption calendar? >> items 21 through 24 are being considered for immediate and unanimous adoption. these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. the item will be pulled and considered separately. >> item 24. >> on the balance of the calendar, can you please call the roll? [roll call]

there are nine ayes. >> item 24. >> resolution authorizing the planning department to apply for funding for the urban forestry plant program entitled, and urban forest for every city. >> hall there are some technical amendments that have been distributed, inserting the word and excel and expand on lines one and four, changing san francisco planning department to city and county of san francisco. i would move those technical amendments. >> seconded by the supervisor campos. without objection, that shall be the case. and on the underlying resolution as amended, same house, same call?

can you please read the in- memoriams? >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals at the suggestion of president chiu and supervisor mar. miss may mui, suggesting and the clothes in memorial mis ofs diane perez. that concludes our business for the day. >> happy valentine's day, we are adjourned.

collects hello, i am director of the city human services agency. we're here today to celebrate an effort that began in 2009 with the passage of the stimulus act by congress has introduced by the president. one of the components of that act was a robust says -- subsidized employment program that we call san francisco jobs now. through that effort, over 17 months, we employ over 4,000 san franciscans and put a lot of people back to work for the first time in a long time. when that expired at the federal level, because we had such success, we continue the program, thanks to the leadership of mayor lee, former mayor newsom. we put some local money in,

combined with some state and federal dollars, to put almost 800 people to work through this current program adoration, helping support businesses like the one we're at today. we're here to celebrate our achievements and to demonstrate that job programs like these work. they work for local businesses. they work for folks who have not been in the work force for a long time. we are honored today, a very important man from washington, d.c., is here to celebrate with us. george shelgren, acting administrator for children and families for hhs. he is out here to talk a bit about the program and the federal perspective as well. before i introduce him, i would like to introduce mayor lee, who has been a steadfast supporter of jobs now, both with the private sector initiatives, like the ones we're showing today, on the public's eye through clean streets and clean parks, and the

non-profit sector. i will turn it over to mayor lee for a few marks, and then over to george. >> thank you. as all of you know, the mayor of san fran, i never get tired of talking about jobs, because there is so much of and need. also, there is that theme which can instantly get you into people's lives and talk about how a dog can transform their lives in such positive ways. -- how i job and transform their lives in such positive ways. the word job can be stale if you do not get to the real lives of people and things that happen. we were talking about how this corner was even physically transformed because of this pastry shop that has enlivened it from kind of a dead area that was challenged by other challenging things to one now that is much more beaming with business and people wanting to

do things that are positive. when the federal government did our monies back some years ago and they were test casing all jurisdictions across the country as to who would kind of create models that would be sustainable, i think they were talking about san francisco. because years later, when those monies are not necessarily available, we had the third or fourth iteration of that jobs now program with local funds, because we believe in those goals. it was a chance to use the federal money in the right way. we have done that with the great support of not only our local human services agency and leadership there but through the human services agency that herb schulz has been a great leader in. and we get to show off with mr. sheldon's visit here. he will see this as one of the many examples of how we use the funds to stimulate our economy,

but also how we have transformed the individual lives. we have people who really did not have the skill sets, wondering whether or not they would be able to use the opportunity to gain job skills that would sustain them, whether they wanted to get more education or create more education opportunities that led to a career. you will be able to visit some of those individuals that are working right here today. you cannot escape them because they have such big windows. you have to see them working. no breaks here, but they're working because they are building these skills that have been interest in. and these skills will lead them to a great many opportunities that are forthcoming. that is exactly what the administration, the federal government wished it to happen. this is what we are actually doing. this is what our small-business advocates, like stoccott