inexperienced. many are pretty confused and are not acquainted with the process. as perhaps the applicants and board number 1 r. i believe that's the assessment appeal board and the office should probably look a little more closely with these taxpayers and try to get them up to speed so that your presentations are better prepared and they are ready to face the board. >> okay. colleagues, any questions or comments for mr. collins? seeing none, thank you very much. we will call up joseph--. >> hello hon. supervise. my

name is joseph-i will make this short and sweet. i been on the assessment appeals board board three and two for the last two years could i feel like my qualifications make me allow me to add value to the board. i'm a licensed real estate attorney specializing in transaction-based contracts like purchase sale agreement of things i could i've experience in construction as well. and no san francisco write well. about areas we can essentially work on good i think what mr. ballad resonates with me if we had some despite functionality i think that would help us get we have to facilitate these goods exactly that i wear the parcel is in the surrounding terrain. that's about it. questions only

happy to answer >> just i mean i guess it's really just a general question or for everyone but maybe you can speak to why you would like to continue serving in this capacity? >> i think i learned a lot in my capacity's commissions and i think i add value as well. somewhat of a unique perspective and just does something i definitely would like to continue it provided a chance >> all right colleagues, questions or comments. seeing none, thank you very much. now we move onto assessment appeals board number three. if chandra joe and james reynolds. >> good morning supervisors. i name is sean-assessment appeals board number three. i served on the assessment appeals board number three for the past three years. little bit about my background got been an attorney for the past 18 years specializing mostly in

litigation. i've also had experience as an arbitrator and i believe i added value to the appeals board because my background because i'm able to analyze and evaluate cases in order to achieve a fair result that is fair for both the taxpayers as well as the assessors office. i've enjoyed my spirits on the assessment appeals board. i'd like to continue and to answer your question supervisor, when i guess area that could be improved is 80 training the taxpayers on the procedural aspects of the hearings so they're better prepared and able to present their cases were effectively. >> thank you very much. questions, comments? seeing none, thank you for your present is good >> thanks for your time >> james reynolds? >>i am james reynolds. i'm

trying to >> speak into the microphone, directly, thank you >> i am applying, or reapplying for assessment to the board number three. i 15 years as a real estate appraiser. i been on the assessment appeals board less than three years. i have enjoyed doing it. it's nice to help out the homeowners get one improvement i would make is i would it's been so bored three due to the economy. [inaudible] other to the commercial side to help them out. thank you. >> okay. i mean you did mention you would like to do this to help serve homeowners, but one of the things i want to make sure that it's fair,

fairness in terms of both property owners and and the city. just wanted to make sure you share that perspective that needs to be there on all sides >> yes. >> okay. any questions or comments, colleagues? seeing none, thank you very much for being you. now were open up item 2-4 to public comment did anyone hereto speak on items 2-4 come on up seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> colleagues, if i could get a motion on the item 2-4 >> supervisor mar >> thank you. i move jeffrey morris and eugene bello for assessment appeals board number one and i moved john lee murton conlon josef for assessment appeals board number two. i think the three seats and then the last motion is moving sean-and james reynolds for

assessment appeals board number three. >> for that last one, we should just clarify sean adel would be perceived one and james reynolds perhaps seek for. let's do see for. if we can get a second one that will do that without objection. >>[gavel] >> congratulations. item 5 copies be mr. >> item number five is a hearing to consider six members in definite terms to the steeper school sexual assault passwords. there succeeds and 12 applicant >> thank you. i know we have [inaudible] pro department of status on women to give a brief presentation first. >> thank you. good morning supervisors could tang danmark cohen could i am [inaudible] on

the status of woman and i want to say we are excited to begin this effort to start addressing sexual assault on campuses in san francisco. i think this is just the beginning of a larger conversation we need to have about the city's overall response to sexual so whatever happens this is a good place to start. i also want to say there's an incredibly strong pool of applicants are you a couple of hard decisions to make but i also want to make sure that everybody knows that these meetings are open to the public so hopefully everybody applied whether or not there officially appointed will contribute to the work of the task force either as members or as members of the public. >> i thank you that it was a lot of qualified applicants here. succeeds, 12 applicant so why don't we start with the folks why believe jenna white will try perceived one is not here today. lulu hong is not that either the processing is not able to attend ideating withdrew her application. next but go to denise want. >> >> good morning. or afternoon >> good afternoon. can you

hear me >> yes >> great. good afternoon supervisors tang cohen and mar. my name is denise one and am applying for seat number two, three, and four. of the sexual assault task force could i'm just going to basically keep this brief. i'm going to summarize my qualifications and also my goals for appointments. first of all, to introduce myself on the current director of the youth advisory council of asian pacific islander legal outreach. api legal outages and nonprofit legal services organization is work we specialize in providing legal representation social services and advocacy for low income limited english proficient survivors of intimate partner

violence and sexual assault. also stocking and api community that said, we also we take clients from all communities with a significant portion of our clients also commit from the latino community. we try to train our staff to be able to be proficient seven communities of color and general but equally low income clients. the youth advisory councils and 9 youth development program house within the agency that mobilizes high school age youth is pure counselors and advocates against intimate partner at violence. since starting out in 2014 i personally trained 25 youth leaders and engage over 500 youth in these issues through both our presentation series on no you're right and teen dating violence and also through community education and awareness events organized by our youth including training on basic legal rights and protections such as title ix rights and also an overview of what restraining orders are. aside from my present experience, i sent out my resume and you can see it more in detail there but i have eight years of experience in grassroots organizing including

organizing students and providing community training on campus related issues. i also have specific three years of experience in outreach and policy implementation in the bay area collaborative and also my agency program. i have also interned with the asian american legal defense and education fund in new york city where we worked on multilingual exit poll during the 2008 elections and sheer combines with the help america vote act. so i also have extensive extensive extensive design projects to ensure compliance laws that protect vulnerable communities. lastly, i graduated with high honors with a degree in asian american studies from uc berkeley. i completed the certified domestic violence counselor 65 hour training the asian women's shelter in 2014 and am proficient in conversational japanese did i believe i hold extensive background knowledge in this issue and i have the

training and skills to work with target communities that we really want to reach out to when it comes to implementing this law. finally my goals of appointment i have three. specifically, the first to ensure inclusion in our presentation of the api community and other low income students of color to sell one of my main goals is to ensure this is not a completely top-down process. i believe input from the students and community we serve need to come first. to give you an example, a lot of the campus actual soap media coverage has focused on schools with residential campuses such as stanford, berkeley, etc. but many students of color from low income backgrounds often go to community college first. just because community colleges are not [inaudible] doesn't mean sexual assault and sexual harassment does not happen especially in san francisco we should make that an outreach of

priority. secondly, i also aim to ensure the inclusion of immigrant international students. a lot of international students for instance are reluctant to speak up or reluctant to take action over this issue because they fear it might affect their scholarship or affect their student visa which the most part is untrue but i want to make sure that is address. finally i aim to ensure students are involved in an implementation of this new law. our experience at api legal has been young people respond best to their peers so i feel that the perspective of the youth advisory council as well as other young people to which our agency is connected should be represented when were coming up with a strategy. whether or not i'm him appointed my team is actually elected from lies around this issue. this coming year with one of our proposed projects actually being a fact-finding mission to be how many other schools are actually informing students about their title ix rights. so i work with

this year's seven unbelievable young men and women in s.f. schools and i feel that has force can only benefit from their ideas as well as a grassroot job posted thank you very much for hearing me out and hearing my application i look forward to your response >> thank you so much for a very thorough presentation and i appreciate you folded in your goals if you're pointed to this. i certainly like to hear that from the applicant social. supervisor mar >> if this is a statement on all 12 of the applicants but what an amazing group of applicants here but you are-i have to say is wow in how much in organizing approach empowerment approach to use. race and class sensitivity to the most vulnerable not only the elite ivy league schools or that you sees but also to many colleges and places where recent immigrants and others are -as a former intern from -- when i was an intern i'm just

appreciative of the community based organizations and how they really develop leadership like you're such a great example coming out of asian-american studies as well from uc davis, i appreciate uc berkeley's approach as well. the level of training and the understanding of organizing comes through very strongly that figure to be a great leader on this body.. not just in san francisco but your work with all these places in new york and other places your national impact with thanks so much for being interested in this and am looking for to your great leadership >> take you so much >> thank you very much. now, we will go to j ocean motley >>good afternoon. thank you

mdm. chairman supervisor mar cohen, thank you for your time. my name is ocean modeling. i'm an attorney licensed to practice law in california. i currently live in emeryville across the bridge and a longtime resident of alameda county although i've worked with and got to school here in san francisco. unfamiliar with the court system both civil and criminal courts are spent and appeared before book. i also graduated from san francisco college of law and attended city college of san francisco where i received a certification in both social diversity and sexual education, peer education. i have been a peer educator for several years, although i've decided to withdraw my application for seat number two and focus on seat number three and four. i believe i sent the information to you. for seat number three as an advocate, by primary care practice of law is labor and employment law. i often represent clients with allegations of sexual

harassment and other forms of discrimination. i've also represented criminal court, defendant's accused of using violence to protect themselves from their abusers. as far as seat number four, i am a survivor. to give you a little more detail in my application, i am also lucky enough to be the benefit of some of the programs aim to help students at college age including projects arrived which was instrumental in helping me finish my education after an incident of sexual abuse. i also teach self-defense to women and trans folks primarily of college-age good as far of my goals for being on the task force, i'm a full support of that yes means yes ideology. i've some concerns about a practice of becoming bureaucratic checklist could i want to make sure were focused on the spirit and substance of what that means as opposed to just the process. as an attorney, i also represented members of the law-enforcement

community city and county police officer. unfamiliar with working with them and also city and county attorneys. i believe training is important for them and i bring that to the task force as someone who is used to working with those types of folks and able to help deal in the training programs. i also want to make sure the care is taken for everyone involved in disciplinary process. including victims to make sure they're not traumatized for re-traumatized but also the alleged abusers to make sure they're given all their rights they should have and are treated innocent until proven guilty. i want to focus by merely on a beach support and prevention. i feel like it's really about building communities of support for people as opposed to demonizing anyone and making sure that where he are working together to become aye vote as an attorney can migrate to the task force my understanding of the legal system am a policy

and regulation, and a sense of it-just a passionate emotional issue people are passionate about it. i feel like having some objectivity and balance to the issue. thank you. >> thank you very much. you just have a wide range of backgrounds and contributions to offer here. it's quite impressive. colleagues, any questions or comments? thank you very much. next, we have every johnson >>it's area. it like one of 2% in my life who ever say it correctly so thank you for that. good morning. my name is --johnson and him applying for seat number four as a survivor

and representative of an organization that supports survivors of sexual assault. i struggle today preparing my statement because as you can tell from the application does a lot of ways which i engage in the subject. the contents i took today is telling you more about myself as a survivor and also the context and perspective in healing and transformation i bring. so many intersection of personal and professional spirits has led me to this decision to apply for seat number four. for the past nine years dedicate my life to social justice and holistic healing. for most of the time i been working with event women against rape. women of color led and the only community-based isa center in san francisco. as a certified rape crisis. counselor i think is just on the 24 hour rate crisis outline one-on-one in person counseling clients medical and legal accompaniments and more. this work has been complement it by my studies and practice of yoga to indian sciences to cultivate awareness of the mind body and heart and spirit. crucial

perspectives to happen working to old space for healing apartment and transformation on an individual communal and societal level. i have also been fortunate to have the opportunity to study the intersection of spirituality and social justice during my masters program at cia's. as much my scholarly work is devoted to exploring researching the impact of sexual violence individual identity and this is systemic perpetuation of rave culture get more specifically i was interested to have a call of a societal transformation from place of individual and collective healing. on more personal note, excuse me, the mayor applications he put on great significance. it was during my time at the university of michigan was raped and sexually assaulted multiple times while being surrounded by friends and classmates to share the experience. the most disturbing part for me in recollecting those four years of the fact that it was so normalized.

getting groped or verbally harassed at parties and bars was practically expected. it was totally normal to have the experience of mediating to physically push up a partner during intimate engagement. even more troubling is the verbal emotional persuasion to perform sex acts get all this wrapped up into one phrase. boys will be hoisted shame, guilt, self-hatred, manifested all around the forms of alkyl abuse and eating disorders. this is rave culture. my work at sf for within the various committees has revealed to me this continues to be the dominant culture in college experience. throughout the us as well as here in the bay. while my extensive violence centered around my gender identity we certainly know sexual assault does not have and just limited to cultivate deep and lasting change it is crucial that we face the issues of sexual assault and college campuses and a multi dimensional weight. it would be my honor and glitch to assist this task force in doing so. >> thank you very much. supervisor mar >> i was there thank you for sharing your personal story but for being a courageous leader

in a movement to change culture in a challenge the systems of sex and oppression as well. i think your work and to no whites work with event women against rape is critical organizations that understand the systemic issues and how challenging it is generation to generation to change that rave culture and to disrupt it to and it. i think it's very important and i think for what sf war does in our community and among movements it so important but for the survivors seek it sounds like you would be a great fit for that one but thank you for being here and your leadership as well >> thank you very much. emilio gilbert, are you here? >> good afternoon supervisors mar tang 1000 my name is amelia gilbert. the background i work in the federal government

previously department of homeland security. where i worked on management integration issues trying to identify waste, fraud and mismanagement. a couple of years ago while living here in san francisco i have a sexual assault by two strangers. which was surprising to me for many many different reasons. mostly because in the aftermath of that a salt that was honestly significant or frustrating than the event itself. the systems and structures designed to protect me were some of the causes of the most frustration. so i began researching this issue did i finish my masters of public policy at the harvard kennedy school last year where i focused my masters thesis on the economic impact of sexual assault in really looking at is the academic literature tell us about how to quantify this impact such that we can create more powerful campaigns to change and approve this in her universities across society. so

in addition to my public policy degree is love an mba in last year i found a company we are working on and [inaudible] to help sexual assault survivors manage their healing process and connect with one another in a private online community. what i bring to this task force ultimately is the fact i'm a policy wonk at heart. i really believe in understanding the ins and outs of an issue to really looking at what data can inform us about reporting on this issue we don't have good ways of tracking data. we don't have the measures in place to be able to do that well now be something i be looking at in this task force is ways we can do that better. we easily can look at processes from beginning to end in this experience. how can we ensure people are not found in the cracks? whether it's the day after vermont letter were a year later people of the support they need to heal and come through this. which on 420 is not the status quo. the

other piece that i'd like to focus on it which others have brought up, is this issue of race rape culture. the problem as i see it, that we don't have the right-we don't have anyone still languish to be able to talk like this issue yet. you can engage on other really difficult issues on sexual assault even for those of us very involved with it it's really difficult to conversations about this. so as i think about ways to make their visit saver i think about how can we create new narratives around this such that instead of turning away from this issue because it so painful and so emotionally charged get people to engage with it in more new and productive ways. with that, we open to any questions you may have >> thank you very much for your presentation. supervisor mar >> also say for sharing a leading reading a little bit more about that because that sounds like date rape drugs and other issues are so critical. your global awareness from working with groups like oxfam

japan and understandings of alliance developed but also other cultures i think is important then, economic impacts of sexual assault and other think and i'm very curious about that thesis but there's a lot of tremendous parts of the task force that you would add significantly as the survivors seek as well. this a very hard choice but thank you for your interest in all the different ways you're looking at how to challenge the systemic problems but thank you for applying >> thank you. also, really just thanks to everyone had encouraged to share their very deep personal, very emotional stories to the public in terms of just trying to apply for this role. so thank you. so next we have rachel sutton. >> hi. good afternoon.

supervisors mar tang cohen. mine ms. rachel sutton. i'm an off-duty at the moment he probation officer are usually work in marion county. previous work in house arrest and with probation and the sheriffs department here in san francisco. primarily with offenders but also victims as well. i know planning for seaport as a survivor but even though i'm a survivor of rape, i think i can contribute as somebody who is worth pretty extensively in the legal system both civil and criminal and specifically to san francisco in this area. i my

qualifications i guess also with qualifications i'm qualified in addition to being a victim because i work specifically in sex crimes in on survivorship. i've experience in my own process to heal and justice in san francisco, but i have not the diversity which is important because we have really unique resources, limitations intersections between those and agencies that i think can exacerbate and sometimes complicate the problem for victims. i will add, i also have a ba in criminal justice from uc berkeley. i graduated a few years ago. i actually have a business in sex crimes. i ended up because of that teaching using kirkley detail on sex crimes and society [inaudible] students and my final year. when i was working

in probation and house arrest, my time as i mentioned before working with organizations and agencies like the san francisco sheriffs department or the san francisco criminal court, or probation or private agencies, it really afforded me kind of a unique look into things like bureaucratic change oils and processes that were legal on behind the scenes where things can get really complicated. now, i know where problems are arising for san francisco specifically and arising for arising and away we try to protect the victims as well serve the public and hold a found offenders accountable. i will add on top of my time that i spent fighting for justice in my own case, i also have a lot of experience in policy and representing interests get i'm

sure you can see that. i added that have about four years experience in working with councilmembers and collaborating with different ordiances and that sort of thing. in order to better the community and specifically focused on usually, student interest. specifically. in terms of what i seek to achieve, i think it's really important, i think implementing mou and ab- 1443 we implement accountability system. with my knowledge specific to this county and its limitations and its benefits and resources, i think i could be really valuable in mediating change in that area. i also think knowing what i know as a student and former educator and someone who is a

sworn police officer think we need to effective communication between agencies in san francisco specifically get specific to supporting victims and holding predators and offenders accountable a somewhat we know about those challenges that face areas like prosecution and this county or that sort of thing because of concerns and complicated by concerns by based on student privacy and that sort of thing that we see coming out of the universities and institutions. also, i summer was the first in the family to graduate from college so what about working-class, somebody was native american and central american blessed disability, i really hope that i can use my background assertive multidimensional as it is, to kind of attention the sensitivities to all types of students. as we heard before, i think the situation is further

complicated by the amount of international students in their own unique needs and experiences or committees of color or being lgbt. that makes things very complicated and difficult, and in a situation that's already more difficult and, dated than anyone could ever imagine speaking from experience. obviously. i think that's-i mean, in all of my off additions i think i can bring a lot to this position of the survivor but in addition also formulating policy based on what i've learned in my position on my vantage point. so, thank you >> thank you very much for your presentation. supervisor mar >> actually my apologies for being the guy talking so much but i've a lot of questions but

i'll try to make sure that others are able to speak. i will just say thank you for acknowledging the invisible disability and others, other parts of the lens you see things through. i think creditors look for vulnerabilities and other ways to control victims. i had more of a theoretical question with your work in probation and justice side i'm just curious if restorative justice in the sexual assault setting is successful in supporting and empowering victims to be healed but also to rehabilitate and to allow perpetrators to not only a knowledge there issues but also heal what they have done?

>> yes. if restorative justice is that's a tough one. i should did intensive seminar with katharina abramson on not sure if you're familiar with but she works extensively at a bolt lock. at uc berkeley on a particular issue. it restorative justice is fantastic in certain areas but it can be really hard to implement in cases like sexual assault sometimes because what happens a lot is the victim is re-victimized by the process. versus in a situation like robbery or something like that it's an impersonal act and the person is not usually further, dies by confrontation. in some cases, yes, it does i've seen work really effectively but again, it is difficult he really is making sure that the victims-i speak sort of overarching me too-about sexual

assault as a whole-it's difficult to make sure that the victim has more choice and more personal control over the way the process is handled. that is something that you lose inherently in our adversary oh justice system and unfortunately, i think that's the way it is and that is the stopping point that we have to accept but i don't think that's necessarily could that's partly why i am here because i don't think he needs to be that way. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your presentation. next we will go on to denise karimov [sp?] >>aye book my name is denny's-- and thank you for considering

my application for c-5 and six. i'm the director of the care program for sexual assault and interpersonal violence services at the university of california san francisco. i am the cochair for the directors on the nine other uc councils in my current position on task with prevention and education and i also do direct services, direct provide direct services to survivors. i sit on their case management team in our community review team and i advise cancel leadership and the community about that best practices and education policy and response to sexual misconduct. so i'm also current volunteer at bay area legal women against rape right to accompaniment to preventive exam examinations for survivors to seek medical treatment and forensic investigation. i am a state certified crisis

counselor. i'm a licensed psychotherapist in the specialty in trauma. my masters degree and a master's degree in clinical psychology and another in forensic psychology. i have been doing this work in the san francisco community for more than 20 years so i worked up at the district attorney's office as a victim advocate. i accompanied survivors to the court prospect i look at the collaborative we straining water clinic and i was a client volunteer therapist i lingual service that women inc. see you can see my letters of support coming from the community for law enforcement and of course from the my own institute unfamiliar with criminal law, with civil and immigration law as it pertains to survivors and sexual assault could i am also familiar with the regulations posed by the board of education, by the state-by-state legislation and by congress. i participated in

president john napolitano's passports and sexual assault is why the insight into what the process might look like. as far as goals, i think it's essential we take really inclusive approach to this work from communities are at higher and higher risk for sexual subject for example, lgbt ui student were at higher risk. i think we can do this without thinking about identity and intersection hourly. another goal be the process would be trauma informed and of course, the ultimate goal is to affect cultural change. so thank you for considering me. i think that this department the status on women for their hard work and i can answer the question. >> thank you very much for your presentation. supervisor mar >> i was just going to say thank you for bringing up speed and unified school district. long history of developing a policy implementing it

sometimes and not at other times but i think the need for community-based organizations leaving on top of it so that policies are followed from the middle school to the high school level and i think a lot of these solutions come from not just the college level but really that's where it starts at very early ages and how is school district policy i think needs to be so community driven in my opinion but for the institutional representative having that knowledge not just at ucsf but however institutional educations is critical but i appreciate you bringing that up and the lgbt victims and others being a critical population of people that need to be-to have a voice

in the profits, to but thank you so much for your support as well >> thank you i don't think we do this work unless we listen to all the voices because you would not have by and otherwise. you would be people out so that would never work. thank you. >> thank you very much for being here. we are going to go to leslie simon next. >> supervisors tang cohen wohlmuth thank you for giving me this opportunity to tell you i'm eager to start on the safer schools sexual assault passports. i bring over 35 years of experience working in the field of such about prevention at college and university level. began his work in 1981 ago taught city college of the fan first women about scores. in 1985 i was hired at ucsf at the rate prevention education program coordinator the precursor of the uc system care program. while at ucsf i consulted with colleagues in the establishment of a safe place the sexual violence prevention at san

francisco state university soon after that i found projects survive city college of stephen sexual violence prevention program. brad served as accorded nader for 20 years. this was her at the deputy coordinator title ix deputy coroner. wherever i go to write work i operate with financing oppression and intersection analysis. project survive is committed to social justice dedicated to any all forms of power abuse and personal relationships social groups, public institution did the program trains students and we now reached-we have over 200. educators can we reach over 100,000 students. we train students in a classroom presentation protocols.. educators are pursuing strategies for identifying avoiding and leaving abusive relationships. though they offer potential rape victims prevention tips, they leave their audiences with a clear understanding that the only person who can truly prevent a rape is the potential rapist. our program also includes bystander intervention workshops in the. educator to teach the new yes means

california california affirmed consent law. in 2006 i was so much respect as f or [inaudible] as we like to call it. project survive high school component. city college ers. educators in collaboration with several-i didn't even asian women against violence deliver a consistent conference of dating bounds prevention message to all except usc high schools. so were in all the high schools. of course, the high schools censored to city college of san francisco state as well as uc berkeley and other colleges and universities in the bay area. so we have a very wide scope, very wide beach. what i most compassionate about bringing to the task force is a transformative justice perspective. yes, we need to do a better job supporting college and university victims of sexual assault domestic violence and stalking enemy to

link our work to the stored of justice practices go to buy sf usc and other organizations. but none of this will bring an end to sexual violence unless we address the deeper political system,, the social conditioning and the individual emotional pain that produce sexual violence perpetrators. i would like to see college programs linked to early start programs in elementary middle and high school so that the first grade bullies learn how not to become sexual harassers in middle school and rapist in high school and college. with a coordinated effort we can transform the rape culture which we are now living. we have to hold perpetrators accountable and we also to hold all of ourselves accountable to make this change. >> thank you very much. i really appreciate what you said about trying to get early on various environments i think that's really important. >> thank you jokes i did want

to say the materials ocean motley story if you are so many others to empower them for mr. motley, even 20 years being involved with so many different institutions i guess as a survivor but also as an ally to others as well some appreciative of this. what you have said about continuity of educational programs from the early levels through college is so important in the transformational justice concerts that you're leading show that it's coming from lesson learned from communities and will benson struggle some appreciative of your leadership. >> thank you very much. our last applicant here is mike denson. is mike here? okay. maybe had to go. so,

colleagues, we've heard from all the applicants who were able to make it here today. there were a few that were not able to enter oh they reached to out i was*by saying thank you so much for everyone who came out and patiently waited we started the meeting get all of you are just i don't even know where to begin. there's somebody with so many different qualifications though i think would be beneficial for the task force. i think what a difficult time. of course we go to public comment but supervise him on your something to say. at this time will open up this item to public comment. please, supervisor cohen >> good afternoon could i just want to make some general comments to the applicants per item 5. i think this is incredibly important to work and i just want to acknowledge the contributions that each and every one of you are making and putting a face on the rape

culture. working being a part of an organization where your professional personal world to really humanize this violent culture that exists in our country. i also want to knowledge and thank the folks that came in share their personal stories both in testimony and also in writing. they're absolutely moving. i think it's important to highlight that leadership happens really kind of like behind closed orchid you don't need an appointment. you don't need a title. you don't need some kind of an affiliation to move shape and have an impact in lives. i don't know what the votes have a look shakeout. today but i do hope everyone will continue to put in the hard work that needs to happen. particularly educating our

young boys. strengthening and empowering our young women. thank you. >> thank you supervisor cohen. at this time will open item 5 to public comment. if you're here to speak in support of someone, please, come on up. >> conducted in supervisor mode. supervisor tang and supervisor harper cohen. my name is ivy and i'm here to speak as part of leslie something i've been a student of hers for many years and i'm here to talk about some of the work she's done in reducing sexual violence across city across college campuses and also to high school youth. not only has leslie. project survive and respect san francisco as she mentioned, she also proven to be a very charismatic leader and advocate for social change and good role model for me to look up to. i have witnessed or

both personally overcome obstacles with grace, all important qualities in reducing sexual violence. under leslie's guidance i work for adult services under the san francisco department of public health. so i'm proud to say and i'll get the chance to share her expertise and knowledge to the residents of the city and county of san francisco. for that, i am forever grateful for to her. lastly, it is my hope that you give the leslie simon the opportunity to serve on this task force. so that she continued to demonstrate her charisma, her wisdom, knowledge, and compassion to reduce sexual violence. to make this world a better and safer place. thank you. >> thank you very much. do we have any other people by to

speak it's part of any applicants, be please come on up. >> hello again get minus ocean motley, here to speak on behalf of leslie simon. i met leslie simon over 20 years ago. in a very difficult time in my life did the dramatic childhood and early adulthood and i was on the verge of dropping out of college after sexual assault incident. the great fortune to meet leslie and become a part of the program which he instituted at city college of san francisco which is called project survive. it was instrumental in changing and helping my life and turning me around and giving meaning and purpose and direction i just love myself but to help other people. leslie has unique gift to bring bridge the gap between academia and the real world in a way that really is such my

life casino touch lives of many others. she is educated hundreds of peer educators to help others reach out to thousands of students at the college and high school level and i think the central she's on this task force to continue to spread that work. to speak to her character, as he leslie work with many different people many backgrounds in a different political persuasions of the lease and has a knack for bringing people to work for a common purpose would not might not be able to see eye to eye inner focus on outreach and prevention is critical and she has unique gift and would bring that to the task force. i know there's a limited number of sites on the task force and if it comes down to it a choice between having room on the committee for both of us i certainly hope you pick leslie simon. while unsubtly qualified for many decades of experience would be essential to this program. i do hope you have her on the task force. thank you very much >> thank you. any other mems of the public wish to comment on item 5? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> as mentioned, this can be

difficult decision. i would just say that i echo it supervisor cohen said it even before the formation of that has forced all you have been doing amazing incredible work on this issue. i want to thank supervisor kim the polling that has forced together and i know it's can be stuffed very well. by-who i work with and all of you are just again acumen to see what comes out of this task force. supervisor mar >> actually one estate thank i-- for stepping back but overly you step forward in the future on the task force were no other settings but i want to thank you for not only working kind of threw public health but also through writing poetry and art which opens people's hearts and i want to thank mr. motley, too, for the amazing statement that i read here in the handout that prof. simon just gave us

on the programs and how they transform people's lives to be part of social change movements. i want to just take a stab at moving a couple of seeds but i know that my colleagues probably have other ideas. but for seat number one i moved janel white with a residency waiver for seat number two, denise wong. for seat number three, j ocean motley with a residency waiver for denise wong a residency waiver as looking for seat number four, gary hart of johnson get for seat number five denise, chanel. with a residency waiver and seat number six, prof. leslie simon. no residency waiver required. but i will just open that up but i'm curious what my colleagues

think he was thank you. supervisor cohen >> thank you supervisor muscat i'm in agreement with your suggestion but i also want to take a moment and acknowledged supervisor kim's leadership in establishing this password. that is absolutely critical voice we need to add to san francisco local government and hopefully it will inspire other city in a scout is to create such a body we can continue to talk about sexual assault in i think it thought provoking a meaningful way. not only is it healing and transformative but also their profound elements of education and also signaling that we mean business and were serious and there were going to be prosecuted and going after predators in a very serious way. i support the motion or the suggestion, not quite a

motion yet-the suggestion supervisor mar has before. thank you everyone for your service >> that thank you. i would have to support any of these candidates to be honest. for seat number four i was interested in i think it was emilio gilbert in terms of just the data and how it is we can better track outcomes and i know that as we work on the human trafficking task force that data is difficult issue to wrap your head around but sometimes to what we see if what we do is work it am okay with the recordation but that's the one i would've been done differently for seat for. supervisor cohen >> i'm glad you highlighted that because ms. gilbert's testimony as well and i do support that if i do want to put that in the motion i would support that >> okay. supervisor mar >> i wish we had more seats. i think given san francisco women against rape would be represented by executive

director janel white, though we heard out johnson brings a lot of tremendous other dimensions and experience i will support your motion to emilio gilbert because i agree how valuable she would be to this task force as well. so i will withdraw the motion on way heart out johnson and also be supportive of a emilio gilbert good >> thank you. just to repeat and then you can just say that you move this motion, it would be seat one, to know white with the residency waiver, seat to any denise one with the residency waiver, siegfried j ocean modeling with the residency waiver. seat for amelio gilbert can seat five, denise per module with the residency waiver and seat six,

prof. leslie simon notices waiver. we can get a motion to move at? iq supervisor cohen without objection congratulations good we look forward to working with all of you on this. >>[gavel] >> thank you. mr. clerk item number six >> items six appointing 14 members to the cannabis state relaxation force passwords. >> we many applicants here as well. we have 14 seats, 21 applicants. let's start with jesse stout please. is jesse here? yes, sorry >> good afternoon supervisor. good to see you this afternoon. thank you for having me. i work as a community organizer in medical cannabis movement for about seven years. now i served as an attorney for corporate

cannabis clients. i spent the last nine months or so on the cannabis state legalization password that i feel it's very been productive expense that we reached a lot of consensus so i has to be reappointed good we have already formed draft recommendations good countries like land use tourism, social environment, public safety, workforce development, and social justice. ask be working on finalizing recommendations to bring to the board of supervisors in a few months so i have to be reappointed today. thank you. tom >> thank you. colleagues and the global questions we want to ask of all the candidates? i know a lot of you are reappointments so i know you touched on this but i want to remind all the applicants if you talk about why he won the continue serving what are some of the goals you have if you're appointed >> and also accomplishments as well if you are serving on passports >> so, i think you touch upon those quickly. supervisor cohen

did you have something else >> yes i do not hear his gold >> that has for so far we've come up for recommendations for some areas like tourism and venues that are still in the draft phase our goal at this pace to finalize recommendations to continue to find consensus or we can bring our recommendations as the task force two community of the board of supervisors and ultimately the full board of humans. in particular right now were talking about the social stresses area which is important to me as we continue find ways whether or not to recommend san francisco will add additional taxes in regardless, how san francisco will spend the state money that comes in from the opposition 64 these of marijuana act. one thing that comes up is how to accord licenses under the state

proposition where dual licensure will be allowed meaning that san francisco may and probably will want to require a local license on top of the state license that will be required for commercial cannabis activity and whether we want to make license and requirements above and beyond what's required in the state lock it back and direct license of people of color low income getting a's in order to make the place and same program work [inaudible] >> you mentioned social justice and equity permitting. these are two very big concepts. however they manifest in your work on the task force? >> at our last meeting we talked about the idea we want to add inequity permitting requirements are we talked about how to compstat. >> do you have any personal experience work in this area? >> sure. i spent seven years as a committee organize her in the medical cannabis movement and then three years >> which community were you organizing? >> medical cannabis patients and promises providence rhode island >> >> [inaudible] >> in the last three years

2013-2015 the work for legal services for prisoners of children here in san francisco. traveling to sacramento to advocate for prison abolition illumination of crimes shortening of sentences that are civil rights for people who are living in incarceration and since for the past year and worked as an attorney in the cannabis industry doing corporate law mapping marijuana business clients to achieve formation and licensure and right context he was thank you very much >> the bank. supervisor mar >> i think mr. stout is being modest of his background. i think proceed number nine you bring tremendous experience. but there can't speed and supervisor cohen and kim worked on your focus on equity for the most vulnerable populations to me is really really commendable but your expertise as a lawyer understanding how systems change one's ballot measures passed at the state level to how it impacts local

dispensaries and communities to me is so important for the task force. you are high times magazine freedom fighter of the month about 10 years ago to other hunters get you proceed in helping organize as an ally and i just want to say the hero award for dancing solo right from the human rights commission on their chance ordinance that empowers the most honorable people in society to me is commendable that someone at that lens now it's can impact local businesses and communities and patients and other is actually valuable. so i'm pleased that as you have been on the password. he was thank you kind. last voice of done a lot of volunteering for the yes, 64 to vote yes and spread the word to our local committees as well.

>> thank you very much. so we will move onto eric pearson now proceed number 10. >> good afternoon and thank you get my name is eric pearson. i'm here to reapply for an appointment to see number 10 am a seat number 10 is a represented from existing medical cannabis dispensaries. not to begin fused of course this is a task force designed to implement the adult use of marijuana act passed in november. however existing medical cannabis dispensaries have an interest obviously in that happening. i'm the president and founder of spark could open the second dispensary here is given. i'm involved in local politics with the vinton since 2006 with the passage of the ncd act. i sit on the national cannabis industry association which is a trade association that lobbies washington dc for industry interests such as banking and taxation issues. my goal

overarching goal is to help devise a plan so that san francisco can implement it passage of the legalization of cannabis in a normalized fashion. like other business. balancing that with neighborhood concerns. more specifically as a representative of existing dispensaries on very interested in making sure does existing dispensaries are allowed to continue to operate and serve adult use an adult use , i guess it would just be residence at that point. in protecting the we see in: auto other states where we all business have been pushed out. >> supervisor tenant >> on a follow-up on the statement venture capitalist

commitment. how do you begin to inoculate the small businesses on the ground? some of them operating the shadowing of coming out into the light. how do you account for that? >> yes. the biggest one of the biggest challenges the small businesses that we seen in colorado's record three compliance. mandatory compliance >> meaning does not complying or too much? >> to much compliance and the challenge of complying. making the process easy were not easy but as easy as possible in a streamlined as possible for existing businesses get one of the things we discussed on the passport is alone existing dispensaries to have a minimal process to convert an adult use making a more challenging browse i businesses are common to san francisco to come in and locate the state does have a two-year mandatory residency requirement for licenses but

that sunsets in two years. so creating a process that it existing dispensaries can go through and written up little impact on the state process. however in san francisco we can make regulations that are fossil to existing businesses >> do you have any thoughts-i'm sure you're probably watching what's happening over in oakland the city across the bay in after own struggle i think in figuring out how they're going to regulate how to make building equity do you have any thoughts on their process and how it can complement and enhance or frankly not even i didn't things we do not want to incorporate here in san francisco? >> just the news was i don't honestly follow it too closely but i did see just last week that there's two or three supervisors actually proposing that the existing businesses give 25% of their business to the city of oakland good that

sounds a little bit radical to me not only with the city be a regulator could also be an owner of the business. my interest is to make business as normal as everything else is in society. not displacing the folks who are already operating status undershirt-i don't think i understood the regulation proposals by open city councilmembers to be that >> yesterday we talked about equity of it in the equity provision that the grade was about eight months or so ago that came out good i like i said, i'm not very well versed in a. i've seen some pros and cons on it. just recently last week i think to councilman, counsel persons, one and two, actually had the city of oakland owns these visit >> to me a favor i want you to pay attention to look at what's

happening in oakland because i love to get your feedback it gets interesting what's happening in the conversation that there happened to the good keep an eye out i would appreciate that. >> i will >> i have no other questions >> thank you. supervisor mar >> but me cut to the chase i love spark and how the collectives come together and the fuel of spark. it such a great community feeling and i just want to say, there's no conflict because you are seat number 10 you're the only person there but i think you bring tremendous experience to either but i have a question about-harvest is my district so i met with mr. higgins and his wife as well. i know there's a model of expansion that some businesses have good i know spark has a pop-up i visited the lower haight but am wondering what your goals of expansion are? >> we are business that focuses on vertical integration. so we are a seat

to sale business and her primary focus right now within our company is we cultivate under permits here in san francisco. were cultivating under a natural light artificial light production costs are high to the impact on the environment is not great but the reason we're permits in san francisco is because we forge this process many years ago. so our current expansion objective is were working in sonoma county with local regulators and with the board of supervisors here soon to take up cultivation activities tomorrow appropriate location using sun, using organic practices among best practices, less pesticides and so forth >> thank you mr. pearson >> thank you very much. now let's move onto brian hudson for seat allowed 11. is ryan here? okay looks like ryan is not here. next, wayne justman.

wayne justman. okay kevin read. kevin read also not here. to wreak i was right. sorry if i pronounce your name wrong. >> again thank you so much to all of you for waiting. >> good afternoon. my name is tariq--i guess i'm replacing michelle aldrich the retired from the customers. i operated [inaudible] since 2003. i have cultivation facility supervisor cohen's district. >> where? >> on wallace and jennings >> news to me. >> our dispensary is in district 5. i have just like

everybody that's on the task force, eric and the rest of the folks, extensive expense in medical cannabis. in it since 03. i would like to participate and bring along whatever the task force is working for. thank you. >> supervisor mar >> i was going to say i relate-as well and one of the close ones to the richmond district. i wished was more of a spread of different dispensaries throughout the city but you have great staff and i think it's one of the really well-run dispensaries that i've been to. so i want to thank you for stepping up to serve as well >> thank you very much. i don't have any other set of questions but let's see if michael nolan is here? okay. >> good afternoon supervisors.

my name is michael nolan. i work agreement cannabis dispensary [inaudible] in the city of san francisco. i worked diligently with numerous different groups here including friends of the urban forest. [inaudible] foundation to build parks to bring in our projects for students for the parts better. i been [inaudible] work with many people including eric and to wreak as well as others. start with the ccc, compassionate care council for over 10 years ago. i worked with american for safe access it was that numerous meetings and our location. the paulson part. i've worked with numerous different politicians in the past that help write legislation and more than 23 states. been very fortunate to great experience and while here

today just to say there's anything i can do a better what we can do with a cannabis opportunities, medical and future aspects when it comes to recreational use, i would love to be a participant could i would also and certainly endorse to wreak as being just a great demand who has always been a forefather of that. i like to endorse eric pearson as well for being receipted as well. i'm just very fortunate to be here. i'd like to say if there's anything to help i can do provide for the city that's what i like to do as well as the patient's and [inaudible] as well so provide jobs and help the children. >> thank you very much. supervisor mar >> thank you mr. known. i know perceived 11 your the one the needs of residency waiver. we now live in hercules but i know your history is been in oakland with the green door in san

francisco. but how much time do you spend in san francisco compared to the other parts of the bay area? >> actually i spent a considerable amount of time. i own the building on howard street between fourth and fifth across from mosconi and mosconi west. i lived friends of the urban forest and we planted all the trees did we do treat conservation. i work we do the gun buyback with the united place and we went been supporting them for numerous years. as far as the my time here i would say it is well of the work day, probably 80%. >> very good. thank you. he was my pleasure and i spent a lot of time at the [inaudible] >> thank you very much for everyone some >> thank you very much. i apologize just about activism call up sarah palin >> good afternoon supervisors.

first of all, excuse me-like to thank you for appointing me last year. it's an amazing experience to work with all these amazing [inaudible] and to have some good conversations around cannabis from all different sides of people that experience with this bit from people who support our city, for people looking at it from a political, e-commerce, and also a health perspective. i am reapplying for my seat. ibm seat number 12 but i'm also on one of the vice chairs of the task force. a lot of the work that we've done this year, we come to some good conclusions around working with tourism land use, social justice is been a big one for me because as an activist, and advocate

and educator, social justice and education are two things that are near and dear to my heart especially being a cancer survivor. we have my colleague daisy and i have done a lot of work towards community agreements where she's doing a lot more work which is amazing. also, just talked about the basic premise of if we do go into adult use this is a substance that does create a reaction to the body whether we call it medical or whether because adult use, and to be with to have intelligent conversations around that to keep people who are visiting our city who may not be experienced to keep them safe and also some really real discussions about where is this a place to meditate especially for those who live in the city may be housing if we medicate in it we may lose it. >> [inaudible] >> exactly. so i has to be reappointed this you because i'm really sad about the work that we've done so far. i know we can do a lot of crates work in the coming year and i would very much like to be part of it. >> thank you so much. is it.

>> pion >> thank you. is duncan alecto here? for seat number 13 >>? margaret walker for seat number 13? i see the slb for seat 14. >> good afternoon supervisors cohen and mar. the pleasure to. my name is via selby and audi honored to be reappointed to the state cannabis legalization task force or i think that's the cannabis state legalization passport good i been on the task force for a little less than a year and i learned a lot in the process. to our work on the caspers. i talking to people in the business community

. as i struggled to represent them on the task force and also was happening in my own neighborhood the cannabis club. what i've learned is this. this is not going to be an easy task. creating policy that will create good legislation and our role is to create him to you with recommendations of good policy. this is not going to be easy i don't think to actually bring the recreational cannabis to san francisco. i have also learned that the legislation needs to be good, not only for the cannabis clubs, not only for the workers in the industry and not only for the formerly incarcerated will be rejoining us and need our support to come back but also for the neighborhood businesses that are there now that will be competing for the scarce space and we all know how difficult it is to as a small business with a ridiculously high rents were all dealing with right now in san francisco. i have also learned that the legislation prop 64 may not go far enough.

i think that when we are talking and discussing and trying to figure out what to do as far as policy there may be things san francisco is connected to up that go above and beyond proposition 64 as far as the legislation is concerned. this will take political will and thoughtful legislation to try and an act that. so what i would like to do, if you reappointed to the task force's personal continues to meet with the business community could i've called into the tech companies through sf city to see what they think about and want to do with the cannabis industry. i've already met once with virginia-with the office of small business of other meetings set up. also the san francisco council district merchants association. we are meeting duncan and i are meeting with them in october. we need to hear from our variety of businesses voices in the business in the world have a

price c cannabis sitting fitting in. what the pros and cons are. i will continue to ask education be considered as one of the means to get those harmed by her cannabis laws in the past to be able to move forward in their lives. i will continue to look for ways that they not be left out of the of the next gold rush as people are all calling it for a product that is cost him so much harm in the past. much as we would hope that people can go directly from jail into jobs some may need retraining. not just in the cannabis industry but also for other industries and of course city college to be a great place of lee to partner with. finally, while my purview is not directly about use, as a mother of two teenagers in public school in san francisco, i will continue to probe how we can make sure

that our youth are not forgotten. proposition 64 makes recreational cannabis legal if you are over 21. yet many people in high school, as my son and mission high can attest, are experimenting with cannabis. in fact, this may be the time in their lives they use canada's most. whatever policies we recommend to the board should not encourage the illicit market for our most wonderful art youth. this is a tricky wicket i would love to see san francisco make it through safely. i thank you for your consideration. it's an honor and i think it's a responsibility that i do not take lightly to be on this task force. >> supervisor danaj >> thank you. good afternoon. it's good to see you so you represent on the task force seat 14 and that is the business interest in san francisco. so in the last year what have you seen some of the challenges that businesses are facing. not just those in the cannabis industry but also those businesses that surround and cds or grow houses

>> yes. that is a great question. i happen to have a friend who's julie, who is in the part of the dna, which stands for-how miller >>.exe neighborhood association >> thank you..net neighborhood association. he's worked successfully with rowhouses to make sure the various issues they have like older. people concerned about order, sometimes knows any large sort of scale or small-large scale manufacturing a growing of crops can of issues there. i can attest to my own neighborhood which is been somewhat of an up in arms. there is a attempt by spark to come into a space that was held for many years by another cannabis operator and while the neighborhood association has put together an mou and then i think very thoughtful in terms

of their interaction with spark there have been, there's been a fair amount of resistance and that is why i think i say this is not going to be easier if you look on this on the broader scale there's a narrowband that businesses can actually be because of the limitations of 1000 feet from high school which is in proposition 64. i think will be recommending to you we look at more like 600 feet good i think we will be recommending that we expand the borders so we don't get these little cannabis corridor and with the cannabis corridor of course with that happen is tremendous neighborhood and most of the resistance in my neighborhood is actually comes from another small business whose landlord has threatened to double the rent. if the cannabis [inaudible] >> let me interject. earlier this week at a meeting with a gentleman who's got a proposal to open up that etienne cd on the third street corridor. no

real plan or thought at least present you might have it did not share with me. but i was curious to know what you think, what can i dissipate some of the feedback or concerns that already existing businesses on third street in the bayview not dogpatch and 80 weather concerns would be? he was i think the main concern which may be legitimate i think there's a lot of concerns not legitimate and windows for example is a crime goes up crime does not go up when and cds go up that's been well documented. one of the concerns that we have was congestion. if you have upwards of 500 to 1000 customers a day depending on the size, there may be congestion that we address that in ireland own mou. there may be also be i think the real concern and this is a concern with anything when you have such a disparity of revenue is that this business makes a lot of money and is able to pay a

lot for rats. so the concerns i think maybe legitimate that are think we need to deal with as a city is if you have a small mom and pop back and only afford a certain amount of rent due another business able to afford quite a bit more at that for rent then how do we deal with this gift can we do with this with the legislation spirit >> thank you. i've no other questions i think supervisor mar >> yes, thank you for not only try to negotiate better communications with community and dispensaries and encountering the myths that are out there about the culture dispensaries as well. i did want to say, your hat as a mom i'm doing with the same thing with a 6 and how education becomes we are part of the implementation of proposition 64 another efforts to me are critical. as we as parents get support in how we talk to our kids as well but i think that

you are the perfect person proceed 14 or seat 13 because you bring that communication and countering of myths i think in this difficult process that you're doing with in lower haight but also a citywide even out statewide level. think you for serving again in addition to all your other hats >> thanks >> c 15 is the tourism and hospitality represent him hope john ballesteros is with us. >> good afternoon supervisors. first i feel the need to speak to the reason why i am reapplying for a position or seat i resigned from and many months ago i has been i try to relocate after seven weeks we realized san francisco is our home and there's no place like home. so i was lucky on off to return to my duties at san francisco travel and we were

able to relocate back to san francisco and while san francisco travel doesn't have an official position on proposition 64, we do see value in ensuring that if the adult use of cannabis is legalized the cannabis culture is effectively integrated into the fabric of the city. return to some, that means ensuring those interested in accessing the cannabis culture have safe and convenient access. at the same time, we see it's vitally important to ensure that the city take the appropriate steps to guard against any issues that might impede travel and tourism to san francisco. those might include unwanted exposure or unintended exposure to a culture. finally, as a member of the california travel board of directors and the chairman of the government relations committee as well as serving actively on the advocacy

committees of both us travel association and destination marketing association international, i have the opportunity to engage with a number of colleagues from throughout the nation and the state to explore best practices on a multitude of issues effecting destinations including interacting with representatives from destinations that are currently doing with cannabis issues. so i would hope to bring that information derived from these relationships into the task force in order to inform the work of the task force. those of be my major goals in the second year on the task force. just real briefly some of the accomplishments we've seen so far is that in this position i helped develop the tourism recommendations that focus on

those two important issues of safe and convenient access while also guarding against any undesired or unintended exposure from some of our visitors. so with that i would be share your support to return to the task force and answered a question >> thank you for not leaving the city. >> i don't have any questions. i would like to see you again >> thank you. >> the next seat is seat 16 and 17 which are the representative of neighborhood associations can is barbara bugatti here >> is that how you pronounce it? >> pacitti fugate get we been here a long time so it's been anglicized. my name is barbara fugate and am named member of a neighborhood association in the outer mission >> which one? >> which one? he was [inaudible] i belong to the association for more than 20 years. as of the number 30 position on the board of directors begun currently the editor of our newsletter and the chair of our safety

compliance committee. i'm asking to be reaffirmed this position because i think the neighborhood support -neighborhood will support some of this legislation if the education is that. but our big concern is the sequestering issue in that something of an speaking on the most. and a lot of other things to say but in the interest of time if you have questions we happy to answer them >> i have no questions >> not that easy. i do have one. this is more around the clustering issue and the issue i think really have grown sensitive to largely due to the advocacy of supervisor avalos. recently, there was a very long i think contingent contentious [inaudible] 100 [inaudible] if i'm not mistaken how did tioga appalling on that location? >> the location was a problem for us because was below apartment building so the a lot

of residents above and or residences all the way around it. it wasn't what we consider commercial corridor. so to speak of but also in my neighborhood we have five within a mile. so the problem was not necessary the location where the owner. we just we have too many. the neighborhood-this is the first one in my neighborhood association has come out against because we want to bring medical marijuana into the neighborhood get we thought was the right thing to do but at some point we do not reveal me green corridor and we don't want to be the only green corridor, next year which is one of the reasons i'm on this board >> thank you very much >> thank you for acknowledging in your statement the different and the cds he worked with and with the cayuga improvement association as well. the next speaker is mr. tom mcelroy >> good afternoon supervisors. tom mcelroy a member of the neighborhood association for about 10 years. i'm an

architect practicing in san francisco for about 12 years. i have extensive experience with the planning department and the permitting process mosley around residential uses are commercial uses could i see the adult use as an medical merit medical marijuana businesses faced with a lot of challenges coming into neighborhoods and what i'm curious to see is how we can possibly work on the ground work with the planning department to potentially develop a more streamlined process could take some of the weight off of planning commission and other requirements such as variances in discretionary views might be better suited given more time for housing and other mysteries like that. i think that planning has willed out a lot of good programs such as

accessory dwelling unit program recently actually, just a couple weeks ago, to legalize additional housing units and i think that it would be great to come up with something like that for medical-i don't use in medical marijuana businesses that i think will start to inundate the permit applications at planning and i think that would be helpful for everyone involved good by experience in the past several months has been very engaging could i've learned a lot from a lot of my colleagues. speaking myself, mostly about land use in identifying the green zones. i have reached out to other neighborhood associations in san francisco to ask what they might think of existing dispensaries in their neighborhood, how they may view

several more coming in and what they think that would be like. i have a lot of feedback from them yet but i'm hoping to get more as we move forward and that is one thing i like to do more of and also again work with planning as arduous as a task that might be >> yes, i agree. we love them anyway. tom, couple questions for you. how are you, good to see you. has the year that you been on the task force taking you to other parts of the city to begin to understand other how other parts of the city are operating in the world of the legalization of cannabis? >> in other parts of the city in terms of the other colleagues on the task force, just hearing their experiences and other agencies from the

police department to people who have more experience of social justice and workforce development and where they been in the on the ground. personally, myself, i've reached out to some other neighborhood ribs >> which ones? >> bayview hill potrero, boosters did i just randomly picked. i contacted north beach neighbors, cold alley proven associate one in the operation i forget the name of >> good good i'm glad to hear you say that because a lot of times it will get stuck in the inner court of the city and particularly when the commissioner of responsibility to get out of your comfort zone in areas you know, areas of expertise and get into the outer extremity particularly when you consider the excelsior and its clustering issue. getting on the ground and listening to people. a

neighborhood that love for you to start to work and in our reach to would be the visitation neighborhood. i had three and cds approach me in the neighborhood has not been so welcoming and i would imagine as we get closer and closer to november obviously, and just as a san francisco begins to figure out what and how it's quick to respond i.e. with the planning department and their overall strategy, which they themselves are also working on, we need to be ensuring that we have the voice of the neighborhood kind of in the forefront of our minds my neighbors like visitation valley that always feels like there are left out. so i'm happy if you want to before you leave city hall getty some contact names baby you could sit down and talk to neighborhood organizations as well as merchants in the merchant corridor it was interesting is in this value will want to increase foot-not [inaudible] foot traffic to support the existing businesses. but there is one or

two property owners in particular that keeps attracting and cd onto maneuvers and it keeps getting shotgun. so i want to i think there's a certain level education in asap and from community perspective as well. >> i greet >> i see it and comment on every member of the task force to be ambassadors begin to educate people on the positive medicinal effects and quite frankly to dispel a lot of the prejudice that surrounds an associated with the use of cannabis. your little homework >> yes, that's part of my goal would be to legally speak for myself but for my colleagues to do some additional work beyond the monthly meetings. >> thank you. >> to my colleague and her leadership on the venues committee i'm sure you probably

join me in appreciating that you bring planning experience and when used to the task force and i want to really get propositions to the triangle neighborhood association to think in two different issues with your leadership as well.. the overlay planning codes i'd be curious what you've come up with it but i'll ask you off-line about that, but i just want to say for ms. woodgate and usurping conceit 16 and 17 i think you both bring great perspective for the task force. >> thank you, tom i think of any >> next his seat 18 extensive public health advocacy and focusing on drug policy. laura thomas >>

>> thank you for listening to me about and how could you can intersect a positive way and negative ways. i have really appreciated being on the task force. it's been actually really fascinating positive i've learned a lot about land-use and planning and zoning regulations and towards him and things that i had not previously really spent a lot of time thinking about. i appreciate that. but my focus as i said it would be when i you appointed me last summer has been around the social justice implications and the ways we can address barriers to entry, both as owners and onto the numerous illegal marijuana industry also is a force in the

legal marijuana industry and how we can make sure we are using legalization to the greatest extent possible to help undo some of the damage that probation has caused and to that end i am proud of the recommendations we've come up with so far in terms terms of creating incentive around hiring from incarcerated people trying to figure out how we can address some of the barriers and to access capital which are often various for people who are formerly incarcerated or for coming from low income communities to be with to own and operate these fans of small businesses, especially in an environment where banks are unable to work with businesses because of the nature of it. we have put in a recommendation round equity licensing. i think him going to supervisor hasz question open has gone around

equity lysine that looks at the geographic areas and specific police beats and individuals who live in those areas could we have really struggled in the community around what would be the best way to identify people that we want to promote for equity licensing your i'm not sure if that kind of geographic measure is the best one to use for san francisco but we are looking at certainly a people formally incarcerated at other markers for that. unfortunately, given the ironic given the overtly racist nature of the war on drugs that we can't use race as a criteria. in identifying how to give priorities here but that's what the law says and sober try to figure out how do we identify people that we want to continue to promote and give additional opportunities and protections to in this prospect so we had some good conversations and they continue and i'm looking forward to being able to bring

these recommendations before the full board and with that i would like to ask you to please reappoint me to this great task force and help us bring the best recommendations possible to use >> supervisor cohen >> laura thomas went to tell you you're one of a handful but i'm happy to see on the task force. gradually upping good i can believe this further conversation in the rules committee was only been a year. my god, remember that meeting? many of you guys were there. the discussion, when i'm hearing equity license equity in licensing formally incarcerated the acknowledgment of public adults and of racism and how do we begin to fold people into the jobs of this industry. are all things really important thank you for being the voice of articulating it. i'm hopeful i would hear more from other folks as they come

before us in this body and asked for reappointment but i'm so confident you in handful of other folks that i personally spent time with that are paying attention and talking the talk and being consistent. so thank you for being at the table and thank you also for keeping an eye on things happening across the eight area specifically in oakland on not suggesting we duplicate it but i think we need to pay attention to when not operating in a vacuum and paying attention on this discussion the prickly effinger's lessons we can learn from opened so that we don't make the same or similar mistakes when it comes to the addressing the equity in or bringing equity and frankly parity as well to this industry. so, thinking i'm excited i will be supporting you today so i wish you the

best of luck in the prospect >> thank you. i want to say without strong support this but handful of us raising issues but we've got some support from across the task force. there is really strong shared interest in moving forward with these principles around equity and inclusion and parity so it has been--we are doing with new territory and there are necessarily in right answers. in ways we have to do this but i've been impressed with the ways the task force numbers have been step forward and engage in these questions >> i just have a couple questions. actually am appreciative of talking about the economic opportunities in the jobs and the business opportunities. what are the demographics of the ownership right now overturned and cds and cds. anecdotally it seems heavily male orientated with very little people of color in i think open trying to address that but what are the demographics of san francisco? >> i don't know the

demographics off of my buffet supper my head but i would agree with you they are very male and very white. i know you both probably are aware there was a woman of color who was trying to get a license to open or try to get through planning and she would've been the first woman of color to own and operate a dispensary here in san francisco. that's the one that was referenced earlier. unfortunately it don't make it through because i think of the clustering and location issues but from our perspective drug policy we are supporting a we wrote a letter to we would like to see more ownership among people of color. that's not happening yet >> then from about some of the industry gatherings about jobs and recruitment hasn't been much affirmative action were addressing the inequality within the industry that you seize the one this is more of a statewide not be to level things that happened at the [inaudible] and other places?

>> not enough good i'm in a deferred my colleague jennifer garcia who's going to be speaking here and she has been doing a fair amount of the assessment of the current workforce and can talk you more details about that. there is not enough. i think it's one of the opportunities that we have here in san francisco to say what our standards are and what our expectations are in terms of hiring preferences incentives, local hire, and things like that because i think that any industry left to its own devices doesn't necessarily advertise the issues of racial inclusion so there are a lot of really fantastic people work in this industry who are very committed to this including a lot of our current dispensary owners and operators here in san francisco who are working on this. i don't need to say nothing is happening but i also want us to

hold all of ourselves to our standard. >> then i think the culture of san francisco and cds have emerged from collectives and unique neighborhood-based but i think one of the dangers is the large chains or other economic interests that will scoop in so support for local policies of local businesses to me is important as what did i just want to shift because it's a public health focusing on drug policy position and a 16-year-old. the museum have a great exhibit and am wondering what kind of education is being done with sf ust school health programs to our own department of public health and how would you build off that said that we are raising awareness but also protecting young people whose brains might be more negatively impacted by use? >> absolutely. we're 14 on the passport to represent from the san francisco unified school district, [inaudible] and she

is a work on the health side within the school district and so she's been very engaged in terms of how we are thinking about drug education in the schools. she pointed out that one of the main reasons or one of the significant drivers of school discipline suspension and expulsion is sale of marijuana in san francisco unified and so how do we work to avoid suspending or expelling kids could hardly keep them engaged in the schools while reducing use of marijuana in the schools. so it's been great to have people like her at the table so that we can have these conversations as informed by what is currently happening in san francisco unified >> thank you. i see no other questions. let's go to seat 19 entertainment nightlife industry. terrance alan. thanks mr. allen for hoping to coordinate so much >> thank you supervisor.

terrance alan. pleasure to be here. thank you for considering me for reappointment. goals. my number one goal is involvement to spread the word to encourage the members of the task force to reach out beyond their comfort zone to members of the community around them, to members of the community on the outskirts of town, to members of the community they know that they don't know and to talk about cannabis in terms that they understand and that they don't understand. to listen and to talk. to bring the lessons that they are learning at the task force and to bring the questions that they hear from the community back to the task force. and bring them up. that's my number one goal. if we are going to deliver to the board of supervisors recommendations that you are going to be able to act on we

are going to have to bring recommendations with political will that follow those recommendations. for us to a political will were going to need to be able to demonstrate a clear trajectory of our engagement of the community where we have been participating with the community, not only in developing those objectives and those recommendations, but in listening to them and modify those recommendations so that they are reflective of what the communities want. reflective of the uniqueness of the different neighborhoods. that's what were going on towards. that's what were taking people out and that's why were listening to and that's why every time he got on the task force meetings, you'll hear me say at the task force chairman it's our job to go out and listen and it's our job to go out and find new people that we are pressed not always comfortable listening and talking to but that we need

to hear what they have to say about a subject that's so important that we are tasked with figuring out what were going to say to you all as ours recommendations are concerned for law. that's my number one goal. we've accomplished a lot. we decided very early on and i think our greatest accomplishment is that we are going to bring to you recommendations that are arrived at by consensus. these are not going to be those that are 50% plus one. these are consensus recommendations that everyone in the room will have worked through on their own terms and in their own way so that when they come to the time which is coming up very quickly, when we all sit down and go okay this is the time when are finalizing these recommendations everyone in the room will go, yes. i can get behind that and i have my reasons that i can justify to my community that i'm here to represent and to the people i've spoken to enter the board

that will ask me why i have said that i can support these. that consensus principle we agreed upon at the very first meeting that to me is very very important. sma, schmidt that i hold very high and very near and dear to me because i think that will allow you guys to the motherboard, to act with a lot of firm and a lot of strength because it will give you the belief that this is not just a bunch of people in a written agreement with each other as to what we should do. this is well thought out and well seasoned and well argued and well discussed. so that i would say is the best of, schmidt i bring forward so far. it's not easy work. it's been difficult. as you know, i reached out to each of your offices to involve you as much is possible so you can get a sense that we are not regulating a theoretical. were

regulated and actual physical substance. we are regulating something you can touch and that thing that we can touch is created by people in that it presents extraordinary job opportunities in that in the creation of a fair and equitable system for not only the ownership of the businesses that create those jobs but for the workforce opportunities, for the workers that are going to for fill those jobs we have a couple of ways to approach it. i know this question has come up so i want to address it in my opening remarks. that we can mandate, we can mandate we are going to do it by zip code or do it by what happened to you in the past. it has been my recommendation and i don't know what the task force is ultimately going to decide by consensus come up but it's been my recommendation that we try to find a way to come up with a very large carrot we come up

with a very large incentive, to bring out of what i believe is in everyone's heart. the desire to do the best thing. the desire to reach those people were formerly incarcerated, now were going to have an opportunity and provide them with an opportunity for not only a job, not all those folks are going to want the responsibility of ownership of a business that if they do, provide them with an opportunity and a track to get to. so part of my work is been to reach out to city college and sure enough there's people running for city college board that would love to be elected because they love to make city college the national leader for workforce and entrepreneurial training in the cannabis industry and to make it a national model for that. that would be a tremendous thing. we started out to 15 and the we've created the educational component to follow through with what

proposition 215 needs if it's going to result in the to not just another opportunity for people to get rich but an opportunity for us to enrich in our community. for us to write some of the wrongs that have been created by this invented war on drugs. that, i think, you will hear from everyone and you have heard from everyone is very near and dear to everybody's hearts. we know that there have been huge injustices created by this war on drugs and we have a moment in front of us, a very short moment, and an opportunity to do something very special to right those wrongs and we want to see seize that opportunity and do something bold and present you with those ideas. that's our job and that is what our challenge is and we are going to go for it could so be prepared in november for chapter 1 because that's going to be what your seat. >> thank you. supervisor cohen

>> karen's only give you the highest compliment i think you've been incredible ambassador and personally benefit from your education and your willing us to set up meetings for the folks here in the committee room and at home. you have just helped educate me and have relaxed my fears and my nervousness of about an industry i really have no experience or understanding. i think that's absolutely important when i'm listening to my constituents and listening to other people across the san francisco they were focusing here i had largely due to ignorance. or maybe his education. between you and dr. sanjay go to. >>[laughing] >> yes. >> karen's, one a couple met you on your leaders. i think you are an asset but only to the nightlife industry but also

to the task force. i want to also appreciate the presentation made to land use committee not too long ago. basically presenting the landscape about land use in san francisco, the debacle and assessment of where we are and how we got to where we are in possible pathways to move forward so that we again are doing with clustering, dealing with the realities of schools and children and so the amount of work that the task force has to undertake is quite tremendous. i hope that we don't have to do this every year and go through this prospect may we need to extend terms to two-year terms, for your terms. i don't know, thinking extemporaneously maybe supervisor mar could work together with that but i just want to let you know that i think you've done a tremendous job good what is the-are you in a leadership position on the body on the task force you are

>> i have been by the task force members appointed the chairman and two coaches i work with and we have excellent superb staff support >> tell me whether coaches. >> sarah pye and we met she's in the audience and easy does it was not able to be up to she's our youth representative. an extraordinary young woman. >> yes, daisy (an impression on me >> quite an impression on everyone >> by complement to the three of you get you've done an outstanding job in creating some sense to the chaos i think you been dropped into a very unstable situation and you're bringing-making some sense to attend bringing people along. i just can set up your ungrateful your time and energy than happy to support you today. >> thank you. >> look for to working with you >> i will just add to commit

to consensus model of decision-making is by no part of that is but it says something about even people with more critical perspectives on proposition 64 voices would not be silenced and in some ways it's really listening and forming that i'm appreciative of. are there any other-thank you for the vision supervisor weiner great this local task force. i think it's really important. are other cities or regions doing similar things? >> boy, don't i wish they were. they are not. i am fortune because what were doing in san francisco to be invited to things like to learn about what's going on. last night the california growers association held its bay area chapter meeting we are oakland and san francisco, which is except the bay area chapter get-together

monthly and talk about what's going on in opens and in san francisco. he gives us a great chance to hear from the open expert about all is happening there and to hear from me about what's going on in the task force. the contrast is pretty remarkable because there, they don't have what we have here in san francisco. they don't have this brother unwieldy at times 21% body. there's 14 appointments and seven department heads that get together monthly and work through this. they don't have that task force. on which to base their decisions. they have a cannabis passports but it is not the same mandate in the same authority. so they are struggling with things that are teaching us and giving us great opportunities by the struggles they are going through. i believe that they have absolutely some of the same fundamental concerns and values

especially around social justice that we do. i think together in the value of the fact there were able to meet on a monthly basis together is that we are going to inform each other in i am hoping that the outcome is going to be that together were going to come up with something better for each of us that we will inform each other on what we should do. i don't know if that was the answer looking for but that's the one that popped into my head >> thank you for being so enthusiastic. i hear that in your voice. ideally for you to write your memoirs to hear about the date marijuana mafia from someday and the whole process that you're working through with the best of the task force members. thank you. next, or mr. evans images ask, proceed 19, it was ms. >> see number 20 mr. chairman >> go-ahead >>