and unload directly onto the sidewalk and the other, if the elevator information font bart on the ground was included in every radio traffic report. i leave my home in the morning. i have no idea if i can get on the bart. thank you. >> thank you. jerry grace? >> i have to point out something to let you know very soon i'm going to get a flyer to you about september 20, the golden gate thing is coming up. at this

point i have no flyer yet. very soon a flyer will come to you. second thing i want to say, if they have the show, the new buses come and i am wondering. i don't know if it good or not, but you discussed it in a meeting about this to see if they show this in front of the city hall and the next time you have a meeting talk about people think about the bus and what they think do they like it or not like it and come down and check it out and then you guys, we will come back and talk about it on tv live and tell them what you guys think about it and all you guys talk

about it and we will talk about it to see if it's good or not good. it's what we did to alameda county and maybe change things around or maybe not. we don't know what the buses look like. we'll check it out. if the bus do show up and we check it out what we say. what we think about it. or have any other questions about any of the buses that do show whether they change or what it would look like. we don't know anything change and we don't know what the bus looks like. one last thing i

want to say something else very important. if people go to from col on sunday to august, they are working on the track. it's very important from now to august. every sunday working on it all day long. that's very important. thank you. >> any further public comment? okay. >> we are going to move on to information item no. 11. is there any correspondence? >> there is no correspondence. >> thank you. we are going to move on to discussion item no. 12. any council member comments or announcements? council member wong?

>> yes, just to respond to mr. grace's comment. you know, you are certainly invited to the muni advisory committee. that's how we find out other information about the future buses and the trains that is coming out too. so we can invite you to those meetings and it's held on every third thursday of the month from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 1 south van ness avenue. i can get your information, i think i got your contact information. i can send you the information about when the next meeting is. okay?

>> thank you. so we are going to item no. 13. to adjourn. thank you everyone for being here today and have a nice weekend. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> i was just driving around minding my own business... when it came out of nowhere. suddenly, there were lights all around me. i'm like "they're coming for me!" yeah, it was crazy.

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april 15, 2015 meeting of san francisco board of appeals the presiding officer is commissioner president lazarus and joined economy commissioner fung and xhilz and to my right is robert bryan the deputy city attorney that will provide the board with legal joys and mr. pacheco and i'm cynthia goldstein the boards executive order and for case sitting at the front table scott sanchez representing the planning department and planning commission we'll be joined by the senior building inspector joe duffy that will repeal the department mr. pacheco please go over the boards out in the hallway.

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we are located at 1650 mission street, suite 304. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78. dvds are available to purchase directly from sfgovtv. thank you for your attention. we'll conduct our swearing in process. mrindz do. please note: any of the members may speak without taking the oath pursuant to the sunshine ordinance, and thank you. raise your right hand and say i do after you've been sworn in mroud you. >> do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you

thank you mr. pacheco. >> commissioners there's one housekeeping item number 9 dealing with an taeflgs permit that matter has been withdrawn and item one general public comment is there anyone here that wants to address the board on a matter not on tonight calendar item 2 commissioner questions or comments. >> not be here for the april 29th meeting i'm very sorry sorry about that that happened before i was appointed that in preparation for tonight item 7, item 6 and item 10 items that were reviewed and in some fashion before i was appointed i

did review previous actions on those items on the website. >> okay. any other commissioner comments? seeing none, any public comment no public comment item 3 the boards consideration of the april 8, 2015 minutes >> additions, deletions, or changes to the minutes if not may i have are a motion to approve. >> motion. >> okay. commissioner squiggle made that motion seeing none mr. pacheco call the roll please. on that motion if commissioner squiggle for the april minutes commissioner fung is absent commissioner president lazarus commissioner vice president honda commissioner wilson thank you the vote is 4 to zero those minutes are adopted.

>> okay. thank you then move to item 4 a special item with the presidents content the next 15 minutes for the duplicating and police department to update the tobacco owners in particular with e cigarettes and the sale of tobacco to minors and the new legislation that limits the number of sales permits in a supervisorial district we're joined by derrick smith about the department of public health tobacco free project and by lieutenant david that's correct. >> that's probably not going to be able to make it i'll cover it on behalf of police department. >> good afternoon, commissioners mr. again and again and mr. bryan my colleague comparing with the project is going to be help with a few

visuals i'll stand i never felt so tall i'll be speaking that the city and county of san francisco is addressing the sale of e cigarettes and the products are imploding in popularity among children in our community awhile state and local law makings this illegal there is a handful of stores in san francisco that are continuing to provide those products to kid in our community mroo whether or not the salsa intentional the end result they hold an unpair business advantage for young people i'll talk about kids that seek e cigarettes know where to

get if you have a teen or a neighbor or your kids friends if you asked him kwl where are stores to get e cigarettes they'll know which stores are lax and what has he as a result if from a business matter those stores get the youth and serve 0 monopoly on the backs of our young people i'd like to talk about why is it legal e cigarettes to minor are legal there is a couple of things one the board of supervisors and mayor ed lee identified e cigarettes as a pressing public health harm because of the rapid implosion and as well as the fact many retailers are selling the products and unknown health problems just days after

unanimously passed by the entire board of supervisors mayor signed is it into the san francisco health code is treats e cigarettes like cigarettes so it means that retailer are to follow local and state laws to be in compliance with their tobacco retailer license and the privilege of selling the products in san francisco this is issued by i district 2 before that in 2010 the state of california the legislator passed the bill 882 that made the prohibition signed by schwarzenegger and what we're showing a few of the headlines they have to do with the package of the e cigarettes owners as well a tremendous amount of media attendance it is a pretty

major health scorn so i'd like to talk about the outreach from the health department to merchants we want to engage all the tobacco folks during the consideration of the san francisco bell in the last 2 1/2 years that equalities cigarettes and e cigarettes i presented to the business commission with youth partners and the san francisco small business commission supported the propose that is a san francisco by the way, law it passed with the full board of supervisors support retailers can perhaps use important goinsz how to comply with the local and state law apartments are sent from our department they were sent most recently in 2015 a couple

packages of the tobacco laws so march 2015 and april 14th the mail highlights the sales of tobacco products including a fact sheet on e cigarettes and the recollections they were sent to the physical addresses of the stores and owners addresses in the material in the packet as you can see are trarmentd into arabic and chinese and spanish in addition to english to make sure if the rarpt is not they're first language it is because we're finding retailers have staff with different language nodes that might be selling the products in their stores dpw sent a special update to various sectors to talk about how the it

is not allowed needs a license is applicable to the law those with mailed in june 2014 to various businesses like 46 letters to the business associations of san francisco as well as the human resources and the entertainment sector, etc. it is really important this maybe a newer issue as it was to me there was zero retailer of e cigarettes in 2008, none now they're available in almost every neighborhood in san francisco over 5 hundred known transparency is very, very rapidly there's a tremendous 1r5ib89 of the products, however, of 5 hundred e cigarettes retailers 898 percent had a tobacco license they've

alp awareness of the accepting e selling of tobacco and know to card someone as 27 years old this is one hundred and 20 years for the tobacco law no california that requires you to not sell to minors from the $18.90s beyond the monitoring and e cigarette education there is inspections and the hluet of stores on a regular basis that is a targeted 101 time to talk about to the inspector beyond that accident department of public health engages in a health caption seen here to battle misinformation as well as members of the public we have education for the products and the website tobacco free dooming talked about the information

about e cigarettes as well as the laws irregularity the sale and use of tobacco products there is a state caption in the lower left hand corner it is all over the airways to educate people their addictive and owned by the tobacco entry let's talk about why this matter it is about protecting the kids there are many reasons beyond the fact it is the law in san francisco and the law in the state of california i'd like to talk about why we care in the last 3 years twice the national use rate has doubled among young people so young people are increasing so cigarettes not apple implosion san francisco has turned the corner in many of

you are familiar with the deploy operations i spoke to the commissioner president lazarus and some of the others were here about two years ago on the matter how he work with the police department to reduce the sales and for that matter in that matter from 200328 reduction in sales in 2013 we've seen a dlan we know that the police department and the health department is holding people accountability for checking ids and this is the decoy in aspirin with the san francisco police department 5 in so many retailers are selling those products compared to tobacco traditional tobacco cigarettes we found those to contain

nicotine levels it is broadly in the research of the products and no safety of the products despite this larger captions by the manufacturers let's talk about the to industry they thought those e cigarettes would be a exert but they changed their strategy and begin to acquire e cigarettes so manufacturers are responsible for the heavy martha so they're connected industry we've worked on and now a new face to the tobacco industry 2014 a quarter of million kids used the e cigarettes 2 hundred and 50 thousand kids invading never smoked by but used a e

cigarettes this is the presmoking product we want to make sure it keep it out of the hands of kids they call the cigarettes on training wheels they come in frustrate i didn't will likes banana and schedules candy in favor so this is often much less harsh four kids you know there's a whole story about how people start smoking and hacking and they're under to serve up nicotine their flavorable and many kids don't royals this the awe disc chemical found in cigarettes this is more addictive than heroin and kids are trying the new product they think all the

friends are doing it it leads to a lifetime of addiction that is a home run for the tobacco industry but i would talk about the devises is it the nick 10 in the product to be clear both the state and local law regulates the e cigarettes and other types of electronic devices for this it didn't matter according to the drug paraphernalia laws you can't furnish those products to 0 minor even though no nick 10 those products are forbidden as sews for people underage $18 million. >> additional i want to talk about the decoy process we call

it the youth decoy it is much like the police department does a good job with other investigative process they witness as a police officer an purpose by a person of 15 or 16 the young person attempts to purchase the products those are real kids and local kids to see if a retailer will sell to them most of the time they won't sell to those to those some instances they are and the did you want is working to hold those folks accountable i want to show you a copy of an id you or i i'm going to presume on page 21 it is fairly reasonable to conclude we have horizon driver's license if

you're under 21 you have a vertical driver's license it is turned sideways and clearly states the year that person will turn age 18 if you check that id it should trigger that that is verizon under 21 and if you actually look at theoblast blue line the person turns 18 in 2016 if you know what year no calculation required it is not great it so moved sometimes we hear it is difficult but card anyone that appears to be under the age ever 27 wherever there's a question retailers must ask for identification the youth

will always be 15 or 16 kids in our community because they're our kids in the retailers is choosing to sell those products retailers must insure hair not selling to children that is unjust judge a handful of retailers are selling illegal to minors awhile retailer are following the laws and checking the ids e cigarettes are reintroducing nicotine to kids month is of royals the harm of a 4r50i6789 of nicotine addiction we know the amount of money they spent and the outcomes that come from a lifetime of smoking and that's why getting kids hooked on e cigarettes is a step background my colleague from the san

francisco police department wanted me to express he personally was working in the decoy operation since the board of supervisors trod the tobacco retail licensing requirement that made all retailers apply for a license especially the sales to minors so wanted me to express that that's all i'll say about e cigarettes i wanted to belief mention a new issue that will be porcelain something you'll hear about side brown's board of supervisors unanimous signed by the mayor opted changes to the retail licensing around the density sorry the density of tobacco retailers many part of san francisco have many, many retailers that sell tobacco did

tenderloin and chinatown so in partnership as well as community partners an ordinance was crafted that sets a cap or limit for future tobacco retailers in communities so no tobacco licenses are removed if the community or from grocery absorption it was vested to this small business commission there's a limit like alcohol licenses a limit not an unlimited supply of tobacco licenses it is something to be aware in previous times those were given out fairly libly so awhile some had quite a few less you know areas in the richmond like 37 tobacco arrangements whoik while the tenderloin is one hundred and 80 there