appreciate i'm the founder of spark at hundred and 50 employees we work hard to give back in donations and providing careers we've been recognized by any state leaders as a model industry hosting tours for law enforcement and others understanding and enforcing cannabis we've got a culture vacation in the city with the sparks mission to provide save assess for those who needs a safe place in you'll likelihood voeshgz voters will pass that lets keep san francisco at the forefront and get ahead of the curb i urge the formation of the task force to regulate it around industry and the dispensaries effect

neighborhoods by addressing we'll be ahead for legalization we have problems with dispensaries in neighborhoods without access there is a place for cannabis policy i encourage you to reach out to me if you have questions thank you for your attention i'm here auditor for questions. >> sir if you want to fill out a cardio see. >> sir. >> good afternoon, supervisors henry president of the san francisco council of merchants associations as supervisor wiener said this is the wild west out there when cannabis becomes legal i'm sure that will happen we have a task

force set in place the task force is up to regulate our used who can uses it if you don't have that that will be totally insane that is the only way to go but this way and then to have all the people involved in that we'll be meeting with the chamber and sf travel to come up with ways to keep everybody happen there will be neighbors for that and against but what it comes to the outlets sow people are against it so this is going to be a great way to get out there once it comes both effective it is a stepping stone and at least for the task force will a great way to move on once

it is legalized. >> if i could comment mr. allen referred to this is a hospitality industry even though there is a large representative those members are speaking on behalf of the community it is terrific it hear the council and chamber people are working together not a random person speaking only for themselves but for the community their rep. >> i want to comment supervisor wiener that is not just about small business they're not just a big corporations. >> there will be big corps. >> supervisor eric mar has tried to take over the industry (laughter). >> next speaker. >> and good afternoon. i'm

obviously here in support of task force my concern is the issue of labor i'm a former attorney for local 2 i represented local 11 hundred i'm an attorney with the labor commission we represent low income people there will be a lot of jobs coming to san francisco whether cult vacation or sales but a labor intensive we'll see young people that never had jobs learner skills working within an employer and populations and coworkers really wonderful opportunity for them unless we're prepared in 2016, 2017 godzilla it coming to this city verythey have to make sure that labor is at table in

unionization whether we're going into a peace agreement the city will be brought into that i feel every employee will be represented not everyone feels that there will be disputes we've dealt with dispensaries in humboldt we're going to have to deal with privacy because the control means keeping out federal interference and the social justice labor is part of the movement for legalization we want to see that continue and thank you, supervisors important being ahead of the curve thanks. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm sarah and i'm coming in

support of task force i started out i've been in san francisco for almost 20 years and worked in nonprofit as the operations for attorneys civil rights in the san francisco bay area and earned network while i was working there i was diagnosed with stage iii collin cancer my first look at medical cannabis one of the things making me sick not having anything in our home and not feeling good having to go to a neighborhood not the one you want to face when our ill i ask for consideration of the task force as we down the road with adult use and medical cannabis that there be more opportunities for dispensaries that are good part of neighborhoods to be throughout the city we need this

access after i was in recovery for cancer i started work as a patient consultant and now have the education department i head it i work with specifically with cancer patient but my colleagues are passion to learn more about cannabis and educate our patient with the power to make combrfrd decision education is an par part of this step when those people come with no access to cannabis with limited knowledge that at the dispensary level we're educating patient to make decisions and don't have a lot of mistakes where people were in colorado taking too much and getting ill that's along with

further save assess in other parts of city so people don't have to travel when their ill i had to cover my face okay talk anyway that was a long hike to get over to the lower hate. >> thanks. >> next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors for taking the time to look at the task force i'm david i have family in humboldt for a hundred years and here in town have some restaurants and i've got entertainment venues all of which are greatly impacted by the 2016 that is imminent if it

passes that looking looks like it will it is a far more complicated issue i think that this typically given the time and press cannabis is a pretty complicated plant and the genetics they're changing and evolving constantly should find attention should be helping to track those genetic changes i've actually started a business working on exactly that and you know, i think we also need to figure out if a restaurant is going to be allowed to prepare foods that recreational cannabis in them how is that described what kind of genetic tracking is necessary

and you know there's even the off change people might want to use recreational cannabis at the concert we want the rules. >> thank you very much is there anyone whose name i called not spoken yet please come up if i've called our name - if you filed out a card please come up and everyone else can speak. >> good afternoon i'm glad we're my name is teresa i run the cannabis dispensary we've been in business since 03 and facility that permitted up we're doing the responsible thing because there's going to be a lot of stuff happening if

2016 we should establish our own trends rather than following denver and studying them federal and state this is a great idea we're here to lend our support anyway, we. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> i'm a patient advocate that provides an opportunity for low income patients to receive free cannabis i'm working with over hundred 50 patient with hiv and limited income including social security i want a task force in place to serve our patient and clear structure. so thank you very much for your time and have a good day

>> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors i'm david from an entrepreneur our start up graduated a few months and our startup built technology to for for the cannabis industry we anticipate problems and exposure a well thought-out approach and two create a framework that prioritize public safety and clients and education 3 understand where technology can help streamline thank you for hearing us. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, i'm amy the found of neighborhood in embarcadero i entered into the medical cannabis in 2012 i ended up finding a job as a patient

counselor and throughout the course of the job thousands of patient came in i was interested in the fact that i was able to start working there without an education whatsoever around the product and medical cannabis so as part of this task force i would to see the medical cannabis dispensary and other dispensaries are offering the educational component and now i work as a consulate in patient outreach focused how to heal and not getting high and few opportunity was saying around the social justice component and supporting the neighbors and pro workers types of jobs in order to support the needs of the senior care and elderly care and

nursing homes and department of public health in san francisco how is that we can actually support the culture vacation and support jobs and have the types of testing we need in san francisco to get a quality based on product so support the task force around the democracy element so people throughout the community have an opportunity to come together with input into this topic thank you. >> next speaker >> good afternoon commissioner tang and supervisor wiener as and said a worldly preaching solution can go beyond natural management social management or supply management go marijuana material smoking you doesn't see smoking good stuff and

prostitution not prostitution but pornography material and medication all good stuff but management of nation and social area we covered that the worldly preaching solution we want the bite nature of brilliance to turn our people that - humanity expression to your people two things please believe me the human body of the hoe i didn't all matters even fellow matters in san francisco it matters humanity expressed themselves to the people to have good quality people see

for me i see everyday a pathway of san francisco see humboldt i meet tons of people everyday i talk to them a meaningful contracting contact see from that i can vision lists any worldly preaching solution beyond management thank you. >> thank you very much is is there any additional public comment on item 4 seeing none mr. chairman may we close public comment. >> first of all thank you to everyone that came out particular terrance allen and others important issues and helping to move the log forward so colleagues, i think we've heard we're going to be able to put together a difference for the task force strong support

from our city departments and the school district and the board of equalization to make solid recommendations to the board of supervisors and so i would first like to move that we adapt the minor amendment i've distributed to you that's my motion. >> engine. >> a seconded by supervisor tang and accept the amendments thank you thank you then i move we forward item 4 i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation and sorry one question i've seen a letter from the small business commission they've h asked about a potentially including a medical person on the task force i just want to address their recommendations supervisor wiener >> yeah. so we definitely you know tried to balance the needs we wanted to have a board cross

section of the community and have a task force that was going to be ableable and initially the departments voted the task force we move them to an advisory role too many voting members so i don't have a problem with a medical representative being involved we have a public health seat so but we put out an advisory member from the health field would be an issue i'm hesitant to start expanding the voting partnership i think that is 15 if i'm not mistaken but it depends upon what you all want to do. >> i mean it is your call i want to raise what the small business commission suggested in

their recommendations. >> i'm satisfied with the medical person. >> this is an open process so if any health care groups want to be involved interests an opportunity so. >> okay. so we have a motion. >> as amended and seconded by supervisor tang we'll take that without objection. >> and that's our last item. >> no more items. >> before we adjourn i want to thank herb and jim smith of sfgovtv for broadcasting today's meeting and our clerk thank you we're adjourned thank

>> good afternoon this meeting will come to order this is land use committey i'm malia cohen the president of the committey to my right is scott weiner and to my left is jane kim. i would like to recognize jesse larson helping us with sfgov. tv and gym smith madame clerk do you have announcements for us? >> yes -- items may appear on the june unless otherwise stated

>> thank you could you please call item number one? >> health, public works codes. mandatory use of alternate water supplies. >> supervisor weiner is the author of this item supervisor weiner? >> than you for scheduling this item to be heard today today is legislation i have authored to significantly increase water recycling reuse in san francisco. particularly by requiring water recycling in large new developments to require all new developments to engage in a water budget analysis, and to make it city policy within five years to use only recycled water for irrigation and cleaning of parks and public spaces i would like to thanks supervisors, breed avalos and christensen for cosponsoring this legislation as far as we know it's the first of

it's kind another example of san francisco leading the way when it comes to environmental sustainability. colleagues auz you know water is a limited and precious resource if many years this state adds and country has not treated it as the resource it is. water should not be used with flushing toilets irrigation and the likes we know we can make broad use of recycles water it's a severe public policy crisis if it continues it will be an exterrible threat to our state this say long-term structural problem that the state should have addressed many years ago it's never too late to start addressing this huge problem according to estimates we may have a year or two stored water

capacity left in california if the drought continued unabated even when this drought ends we will still be vulnerable to the same water shortages for decades to come as our population grows we must take aggressive policy actions now to conserve water and make the best and most efficient use of the water we have. last year in this committee i held a hearing on a drought and what the city is doing around efforts to use nonportable water for nonpublic uses and what we can do to improve water conservation and reuse in san francisco. at the time i was and still am interested in legislation to require water sub metering in sub unit buildings because they will be paying their own water

use there is legislation to require individual sub committee we will holding off to see what happens there also at that hearing a year ago we heard the puc's on-site water reoous program. there this program volunteers use puc to capture sinks and laundries rain and foundation water for nonportable uses for toilet flushing and irrigation the legislation will take this program a step further by man dating these systems and developments of 250,000 square feet or more developers can choose to install these with buildings or nearby i wouldings for a district where one recycling system serves multiple buildings it only applied to building in the purple pipe zone as these developments were

required to install purple pipes for water recycling and have done so for decades we have expanded that to be citywide providing projects outside of the purple pipe zone in latitude we need to conserve water and make efficient use of this scarce resource it did not make sense to require this recycling in one part of the city. however as i noted we have provided extra time for the projects outside of the purple pipe zone. projects within the purple pipe zone not receiving of this year -- buildings outside that have not received their building permits by 2016 will be required to comply. and citywide 40000 square feet

or more for water reuse analysis to determine the feasibility of using one of these systems the savings of these systems are real mixed use can have 1% of demands for water reuse system a housing of 40000 square foot can reduce this by two years -- the city needs to do more to increase our nonportable water resues z the legislature slaegs will make it policy within five years city departments will only use not portable water for irrigation and parks and cleaning of public spaces city departments must report back in two years on the feasibility and needs in terms of resources required for implementing these policies while i absolute support residential and

commercial development and housing creation across the city we must recognize the future of our city requires us to do so in a smart sustainable way we shouldn't be building a $400 unit willing to help people get around and acknowledge that growth we not be building developments without thinking how to reduce and best manage this finite resource called water. we conducted significant outreach in general and also within the development community to gather feedback and solicit ideas on how to best move this legislation forward how to mitigation various issues that were raised and costs that come up with water reuse systems building within the purple pipe zone that are required to have this piping they are already installing the overwhelming

majority of the cost erelated to water resues systems the pipes themselves over the last number of moss we have had several large meetings with residential and commercial developers and many individual meetings and phone calls to talk through the legislation and to take feedback and hear suggestions i want to give a lot of credit to the development community for participating for taking a reasonable approach to this problem we face and i really appreciate this community's participation. one idea that has been raised for the puc to reduce certain fees in recognition of the impact of buildings that have water reuse system impacts on our water and sewer system the puc working with the agencies they're taking a hard look at this. i have encouraged the agency to seriously consider these

reductions to reflect the lessoned impact on our sewer and water systems i'm cautiously optimistic you will make the right decision here and use puc for buildings systems i will make an amendment in legislation today to urge them to do so. under the man date we cannot urge the puc to do so. another one i put forward is the testing requirements for the system can change. since technology has evolved this can reduce costs you aren'tly if it's i gray or block water system there is significant testing and monitoring required under public health standards the the department of public health is assessing whether they're too

con certifitive anyones technology is not what it is today and standards should be loosened that current technology allows us to have safe water whether it's gray or black water we know these systems often pay for themselves over time for the buildings that purchase less water. we also made aaddition nah amendment to make it easier for buildings to form so called districts where one building has a water reuse system and several buildings share that system which spreads the cost to do so you need the encroachment permit to connect a piping to another under the street we're applying from a major to minor encroachment which will make it a much easier permit to obtain. we