more names, we have the director of our office of small business, and nate from the youth leadership and brian davis. salena from horizon, unlimited, and brian stegner. samara whit. and ferad karashi as well, and jose louis from ta sf. next speaker? >> hi, my name is (inaudible) and i live in district eight or the twin peaks district of san francisco i am a youth for turf which is a program (inaudible) and i am standing before you here today to show you my support for this policy and to ask your your support. the neighborhood where i live is the valley and the neighborhood where my school is located which is in the heights, and there is barely me tobacco outlets only a few

blocks away and in the tender loin there is a lot, and it is such a small distance that a young different in lack of density and some neighbors, like the tender loin it is normal to see a lot of the tobacco outlets and smokers but in neighborhoods like the heights it is not that normal. and i think that is because of the lack of density and also they target the low income communities and the people of color and youth and lgbtq communities and i am at least in two of those, i am a person of color and so i am a youth and i am being targeted by this and i know that we can and it is not fair that i am being targeted for being who i am and how many of you or the people that you care about are targets. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you, for also supporting empowerment of young people. >> thank you. >> good afternoon.

i am a proud resident of the wonderful district eight, and work ends up as district nine, there are 2900 families looking to do what my parents did provide a better quality of life. when the lower district such as 6 and 9 are inundated with tobacco and we are limiting these fakly and their children's ability to live a hel ygt live, the communities over concentrated with tobacco influences have higher smoking rates that leads to the higher rates of completely prevent able diseases and within the 500 feet of my workplace there are three tobacco retailers, and the back of this room is largely from the mission and i will tell you the same thing and so today, i thank you for

standing with me, and with meta and protecting the well-being of our youth in our children. thank you. >> thank you. >> and good afternoon i am bob and one of the partners. and we have been in business for 16 years in san francisco. and we have been working when we need to, to on different legislation that we work together in 2010, and supervisor mar, but, we are in support of this legislation. and there is this one, and as far as i got a phone call last night from the small business administration, and realizing that we would be impacted and so i get an e-mail to your office this morning and within an hour and a half, made a call back. and i know doing a last minute, proposed amendment to the legislation is not ideal and your office was very responsive. and i appreciate the

opportunity. and so the only thing that we ask for is if we can have the same proposed minutes that are provided for the tobacco shops and the retail. and so i know that you guys are working on a version of that language and we appreciate it. and the last thing, is how impressive it is to these kids young adults speaking better than i am right now, and something that they believe in and it is very impressive so thank you for your time. >> thank you and i will make sure that nick and i are talking with you right afterwards, so that we can try to address the issues that you have raised. >> thank you. >> and thank you. >> i see bob davis is the tremendous leader in the tobacco free coalition as well. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. and yes, my name is brian davis and i am here speaking i may be the only one, speaking on behalf of the lgbt community and san francisco, today. and in regards to this issue.

and i do live? san francisco and i am sender about the fact that the community does smoke, about twice as much as the general population here in san francisco. and in many other places. and that is because of the phobia and we all know that most of us, and most of all of us who start smoking start smoking before we are 18 and that is the toughest time to grow up as an lgbt person and so anything that is out there that helps to reduce the exposure to our community and all communities to tobacco, and during that period of our lives, and beyond, when we are facing greater stress as we see people and more likelihood that we will turn to tobacco as a means of reliefing that stress.

so, thank you very much for your support. and we look forward to your seeing this become a law here in san francisco. >> thank you. >> and i saw that mirium from the grocer association has come here and her name has been called and so she should come forward if you can. the next speaker? >> i am a member of the san francisco prevention coalition and as well as the program director, and for the substance abuse prevention as well and i think that most importantly i

am here as a long standing resident of san francisco. and our i want to date myself, but our family has been around in the mission district for over 80 years and so this has been an issue of great importance to us and i usually have a tendency to focus on data and things like that, but i think that has already been demonstrated here. and i think that what excites me the best this is the opportunity to address the social injustice and it will be a huge victory and a win for all of the residents of san francisco, obviously in particular, the low income communities and the communities of color. and i want to keep it a little bit light. and as a parent, for the most part, i have a 15-year-old son, and they are currently is an educational campaign, on tv, that says, florida which is known for the night life and parties and things like that

has drastically reduced teenage smoking rates and it says come on states what are you waiting for? my son says wouldn't that be cool if san francisco was on the map and i told my son i am coming to a hearing and i will make that challenge, i want to challenge the supervisors and the community to really pass this law and really ask, you know, come on san francisco, what are you really waiting for? >> thank you. >> thank you. >> regina is the director of the office of small business. >> good afternoon supervisor and thank you, supervisor mar and campos. the small business commission is going to be hearing the item on monday. so this does not do not have an official response, but i thought that it was important to come and acknowledge i think that one of the key items in the original draft of the legislation that they would have raised was around the retention value of existing businesses. and so, i did want to come and

express my appreciation to you and your staff and to the coalition, for working with the arab american grocers and also sensitive to the last minus you that i have brought forward that we are addressing, i think one of the key concerns that the commission would have brought up and made a recommendation to change. so thank you. >> thank you. >> i am going to read a few more names, emily from mission sf, and steven layman from healthy corner coalition, and don from healthy corner coalition and ryan fayer. abnifiv, katia and anelia sanadad, next speaker. >> my my is ryan, and i was a

former member of the tobacco youth reduction force when i was 17 and a junior in high school and i have been passionate about this passing and taking effect of the day that i joined i was a hyper kid who had asthma and it would be triggered by my friends or family smoking tobacco around me and i have been hospitalized several times as a kid and i can feel for the youth who also have asthma and feel the comfort in the basic need of breathing, when there is abundant amount of tobacco. let's take back our turf thank you. >> i would like to thank you

for framing this as a social injustice, and that is what it is, there is a lot of health disparities associated with that too and it is about addressing the inequities in the community. and this is also a policy of the national and as usual, san francisco continues to lead the field. and we hope that this can continue, demonstrating the power of young people, and the collaboration of community stage organizations and the health organizations and the health experts and the community residents and of course, the store merchant and thank you for sending a message for big tobacco and we will no longer be target and thank you to all of the youth in the room and the generations of the youth people that made this happen, thank you. >> thank you. >> how are you doing? >> supervisor mar, campos, and thank you for having me and, my name is mahia and i work with the transitional youth in san francisco, and i am here to speak in full support of you passing this policy.

and on behalf of tay sf and the city wide board, but more importantly i am here to speak as a san francisco resident, and i was born here in san francisco, in the mission district, and i grew up in east oakland and where i lived now. and to be honest with you i am one of those young people who grew up smoking early and i ended upstarting to smoke when i was in the 6th grade. and to be very straight forward with you i am still working on quitting now. you know? and in the mission like the data clearly shows is one of the neighborhoods where the very, very much, a dense amount of outlets there. and where i reside now. and it is a similar case. now, i am a father and i am raising a 5-year-old daughter. and i have a 8-month-old or today, a 9-month-old boy who i am raising in the excelcior and

we live on mission street where a lot of these outlets are located and i really want to insure that as i am raising them here as i want to in my hope is to continue to raise them here, and that, they don't have these attractions, and they don't have these ads that are so heavily populated and in our neighborhood that are targeting them. and i want to insure that their reality is a different one than mine was and that those things are not aluring them, and like they did for me. very early on. and starting in 6th grade. and so thank you for your support, and i want to really thank the youth leadership institute and all of these amazing young people and the adult allies right here and because this is what it is about and they are exemplifying it and thank you for being there and standing with them. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for helping us to craft the legislation. >> thank you, supervisor mar

and campos. i am glad to be here today and i want to thank all of the parties involved and those who sat down with us and despite the lamb and the chicken the negotiations were tough and i am glad that we came to some good compromises and a legislation that i am really excited to see driven by youth and youth leadership, and i am board member with the arab american grocer's association and i am the only young person on it they are all like my uncles. so it is tough to fight for what you believe in in the city and what i believe in too and we can't overlook that small, family businesses who survive and live in a changing landscape and i am the third generation of a story in district six and the south of market neighborhood since 1967. so, thank you for letting us a

small businesses and stake holders and san francisco be a part of this work. >> thank you. >> high, high name is emily and i am 17 years old and i go to good side international which is in the sunset and i have grown up in the mission district my life and i have been born and raise there had and i can tell that there is a difference in the amount of tobacco outlets when i go to school, and get back from school. and part of the reason that i am here is i am representing my path, which focuss on economic injustice and i think that there needs to be a more equitable amount of tobacco outlets in every district. and also, i see that, the effects that i see is like a older of my friends they all, mostly smoke and i have been exposed to the secondhand smoke my life and that is part of the reason that my 12-year-old

brother who was born and raised in the mission district has asthma now. so thank you. >> thank you so much. >> steven is one of the leaders of the healthy corner store coalition thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> my name is steve, and i started smoking when i was 15 years old and i have smoked for the next 25 years and now for the last 26 years i stopped. but i wish that i had never started. but i am not the rule, i am the exception. i think that any time that we can put a path to limit the sales of tobacco and i think that is fantastic. and hopefully this will be the first step and in a long range of plans to reduce the sales of tobacco. and finally i just like to thank all of the young adults here and you are doing a fantastic job and you should be

commended and thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello. thank you for having me. my name is don, and i am a justice leader in the tender loin. and we have less permits it would be easier for young people not to smoke and easier for me to quit. thank you. >> thank you. >> i am going to call the last cards, jessica, and lorraine floor and ply path and emily already spoke from my pathos are all of the cards, that i have if there is anyone else that would like to speak come forward. >> next speaker, my name is (inaudible) and i am here to represent the bay view district and i want to (inaudible) and bling stands for building leaders and innovative new giving. and we are here to support the

turf campaign and we believe in social justice and we believe that tobacco is a social justice is issue that mainly targets low income people people of color, and most importantly our youth and they are most vulnerable to the negative health impacts of tobacco use, we say that we want to make a change in our community, but we are rarely see any action, where this is our first step to the action to make change, thank you. >> my name is (inaudible) and i am a member of bling and i am here to represent as a member or someone who lives in the san

francisco community you know i spend most of my time and all of the stores and all of the homeless people, spending the rest of their lives, by that store and just buying, cigarette and just you know, putting their lives just being to waste, like if you imagine that if this policy passed it will encourage the people to bring in a better life for themselves and also to, for this, for the mission, for example, to for the students, and all of the people and communities to really, to have a better life and better future for them. thank you. >> thank you. >> and thanks for helping to build a strong food justice movement in the city. >> i am an organizer in the tender loin and i coordinate the healthy corner store coalition and i would like to applaud both of you supervisors for being present and

attentative t championing the issues and so i want to thank you for that and taking the lead on this ordinance. and the ethnicity and so it is over run by tobacco retailers and we have enough addictive substances that are found in the tender loin and it is interesting that there is a map and how much of those block, and the cells of the addictive substances and so in the work of the healthy retail programs, we found that by increasing the access we see a reduction in the tobacco and alcohol says and so we need to focus on not just limiting what the negative influences are found in these stores, but how do we increase the access to community health, and it is really a big issue,

and to promote those and these how can we address the issues that are found in the moving the people from san francisco, all the way through the community health, through the displacement and through the police burr brutality and how to make the san francisco a healthy place for our people. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello my name is lorana and i reside in the sunset and work in the mission, and i have noticed that it is easier for the youth to purchase the tobacco products in the mission compared to where i live and i support this policy because i don't think that they should have access and i don't want anyone to inhale secondhand smoke. and thank you for leading many

different coalitions in the city. >> and and i am normally, the person to person but thank you, and supervisor, mar and campos, and i am getting a call right now. >> i work for the healthy program and also the co-coordinate the coalition, and as well as amid, the district six resident and i grew up in the sunset, and so, i strongly strongly support this legislation, and there is a crazy over crazy over concentration of the tobacco outlets in the tender loin where i work and also by my health in soma and on the limit of the permits in san francisco it just makes sense and especially where i live and you don't need hundreds, and my

whole neighborhood of the sunset. and so i also work every single day with the small business owners, and with the healthy retail program as well as the tender loin, coalition and we have seen that positive food products like whole wheat bread and other things can be economically viable through the market and there are many markets in the neighborhoods throughout the city that are making money and just healthy retail program is a great resource for those stores that if they want to shift their model, and that, you know, the healthy program and also the coalition, i ask you to support the healthy retail efforts in san francisco, thank you.

>> and i have been living in the china town for about 14 years now. and i used to be part of it six years ago, and then, after that, i started working with kids and what shocked me was that i had a few students that are second graders and they were pretending to like smoke with the pencil, and i asked them what are you doing? and they said, oh, you know, everybody smoking. and it is cool. and it should not, and it should not be like normal, to smoke, and so, i really support her, for limiting the amount of tobacco stores in our neighborhood. especially in china town. and so there are so many, like, if you cannot have, like, take five steps without having to

dodge a smoke or a cloud of smoke. so, i really support this campaign and this, and i hope that this passed and thank you. >> thank you for this six years of work too. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is joshua. and six years ago, i was once a member of the tobacco use reduction force, and today, six years later, i still currently live in the mission, and i still see the impact of tobacco in my neighborhood and not a lot has changed. the tobacco density is everywhere. you don't even have to you will not, and you can just walk down the street for yourself and see the influence of tobacco density in the neighborhood and

the mission and the bay view and the tender loin and then you could just walk and you could take a bus ride down into like the pacific heights or the marina and see how it is lower, and one of the facts that when we have done our research, that really stuck with me to this day is how i found it you can just see it

and you don't need like. >> and i don't know how to put it, but it does not take much, but it will be just in front of you and it is not like, it is not, and it is right there, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> if there is anyone else that would like to speak, please come forward. >> next speaker. commissioner? >> hello, supervisors, my julian and i am with bling, and i have come to express my support for this legislation and the amount of education onto and don't smoke is mind blowing and i guess that so many people around me family members and friends and just people in the streets smoke and it is always, wondering why, if anyone knows that it is bad for you to smoke, why are people doing it? because it is easy, for some

people it is easier to get your hands on a cigarette than it is to catch a bus. >> tobacco in particular, targets youth, and low income communities and people of color and lgbtq communities and i have seen the map that they have all of the tobacco outlets in san francisco. and there are so many stores and it is just one big mass i know that yesterday we got a bit of a lesson from one of the turf members about this legislation and one of the things that got to me is that the tender loin alone is about one fourth of all tobacco stores and that and everything else has been said today by all of these wonderful people does not move you to action i am not sure what will. so i thank you for your time. and fully support this

legislation >> it looks like there is no other public comment. >> i want to thank everyone who has spoken and especially the young people who i think that have eloquently stated why this is a pretty easy call and so with that, supervisor mar? we need a motion to move this item forward. >> yes, before i make the motion let me just say it sounds like a tremendous number of neighborhoods are represented and people of all ages, but especially the high school students, to those that have been working on this for over six years and are now maybe not even youth any more, and the transitional aged youth to others but i feel very positive about this small business input into this and everybody putting their heads together to make life better for our communities. and thanks so much for the department of public health and the researchers from ucsf and

stand ford, and the turf young people that had the vision of a healthy community for everyone to protect the young people and the vulnerable communities and to make a healthier san francisco and so with that, i move that we support this legislation. >> and supervisor, mar, i know that we want this to be voted upon as quickly as possible. so if we could include in the motion to be sent as a committee report so that can be voted on the december 9th meeting? >> so, mr. chair, we are in the amendment >> before we do that there is a motion to amend? what specifically from the city attorney's office? >> i know, that there is some minor amendments that have been introduced that we have introduced today and there is trailing legislation that we will consider with some of of the testimony that came from the office of small