>> (speaking spanish.) >> so i've been without a home important a period of time i've been hopeless and thinks how hard it is thankfully i was able to move out of that situation and find a place in a hotel but i have been kicked out of my hotel room twice and i'm here so that didn't continue to happen in the mission.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> so i've been living many a hotel room for two years in the tenderloin but i fear with those rising prices and values of rooms i might lose any housing it will be difficult to find oath place with those high prices. >> (speaking spanish.) >> thank you and hopefully, you can support this amendment we're fighting for, thank you. >> thank you tony rob else after tony a few more cards

(calling names). >> supervisors thank you for introducing this piece of legislation my name is tony i work for seniors and date action seniors have been very hard hit by the affordability and they've shoulder much of the burden of this crisis for many seniors the sro hotels are the only housing they can get and to put that in danger is to put seniors in danger of being homeless i've seen that scenario happen we know when seniors and people with disabilities become hopeless their lives are very much in danger this legislation and the amendment is very much an issue of common sense a its

been a long time coming and it desensitize the illegal conversion and the ramon and other schemes that sro owners and operator have used on their tenants for many, many years and gives dbi the enforcing powers to monitor the sro heretofore and again seniors have and people with disabilities are a hard enough time justice navigating day to day living issues and having the stress of that they shouldn't have thank you very much. >> thank you teresa. >> good afternoon teresa and i'm today representing north beach tenants committee because the past year and a half people

are afraid their lose their sros rooms the new owners or management is not no longer renting to permanent residents or san franciscans rather to tourist they're very worried when they ask about maybe having a senior friend who is looking for a place to live they're told no. we're not doing any more renting but rooms are remaining vacant i want you to know because the communities the sros i'm familiar with in my neighborhood one in particular was - was sold was bought and attempted to evacuee people and so create a tourist hotel out of this this is where 82 yearly person working as a fisherman

his entire life but one person came to his rescue and so i'm glad that supervisors are again coming to the rescue we need to preserve those communities they are community people depend on each other the fisherman and the longshoremen and the sros i'm fume with i know there are families i know there are elderly in other sros also in the neighborhood i'm so glad you're doing something about that remember those are people in the community so let's keep their homes affordable i also found an ad for the same place where that is actually advertised as a tourist home and $1,500. >> welcome. >> yeah. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> ma'am, your glasses. >> teresa your glasses were left up here. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon my name is a dining at manager of the sro collaborative a program of delores street services wire enthusiastically in support of the hotel conversion ordinance amendment we particularly support the new definition of residential rooms from 7 to 3 two days that will close the loophole that allows tourists to book for 7 days and check out early this is a common practice that sro and landlords use to get around the fact that they have to report all the tourists staying where they are you will probably get environmentalist from any sros

and landlord their renting it out to families and i encourage you to visit those sros and met their so-called tenants you'll find what we find a hotel full of tourist and site approaches and no accurate reporting landlord will pay sro tenants they would make them ought to be bad people that don't pay rent landlord have protections against people that violate their lease and sro tenants need protection that's a fact we work with sro tenants and visit those sros everyday and found that the tenants are thoughtful and working hard families students, children, mothers and arts and people with disabilities they're smart and their politically engaged so we love the amendment to the

hbo and thank those who are sponsoring and co-sponsor and will work tirelessly to help our live changing work thank you. >> thank you, thank you. >> brenda washington. >> brenda. >> sorry i got brenda washington up next okay. >> hi good afternoon, supervisors thank you for hearing us today my name is linda washington i'm with the divorcing collaborative and work with the disabled action also i'm a senior and lived here my whole life a resident of sros that i've been living in permanently for the last seven years and i was around back in the day when randy talked about how they

used to shut off us like cattle go to this hotel and that hotel everybody was pushing a cart with their belongings and going back and forth and been on the committee to catch 40e89 people that would renting their room overnight i heard it with my ears and seen it they are trying to get us out it all about money i appreciate me and and companions we get to the bottom of this we need our sros really, really bad thank you. >> thank you brenda. >> i love brenda. >> all right. >> next speaker. >> come on down. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good afternoon. my name is merri

merriam. >> (speaking spanish.) >> >> it's more much more attractive to lease rooms. >> (speaking spanish.) >> to lease rooms on a short term basis to tourists and students from families that have a lot of money. >> (speaking spanish.) >> one of the things as someone that works in the soma looking at the critical conditions our families are living under. >> (speaking spanish.) >> where families have the beds and a little bit of clothes maybe a tv and something to eat a refrigerator to eat on top of.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> they don't have their basic necessities not a bathroom not a kitchen. >> (speaking spanish.) >> and i really wonder where those families will that have so little resources to be able to pay a high rent here in san francisco. >> (speaking spanish.) >> and i ask you since you have this in our hands to consider the reality we are living in in san francisco and

across the country. >> thank you. >> okay. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. supervisors noimdz a gail and i'm a tenant organizer with the sro collaborative i'm here in support of the divorce hotel conversion like brenda i was on that committee that made phone calls and walked in to the sros that were not supposed to be rent to tourist and they were we have quite a while it is important for the community and those of us in the sros and those that need to be in sros that we just want 24 law and thank you supervisor peskin. >> thank you, gail. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> cabinet members /* /- good

afternoon. welcome i'm sorry a proud member of a sro collaborative a project of the community services i'm here to support supervisor peskin changes and owners of the hotels they need to be held responsible for the h co violations to change this proposal will give the dbi the authority to do just that. >> i'm sorry my notes are kind of. >> that's okay. >> finances should be increased to insure compliance and measures put in place so the charter services serves the people it is meant to serve with the state of emergency on housing here in the city the city please don't let the

residents of san francisco go down supervisor peskin thank you for thank you for all your hard work and hope you guys continue to serve our city well. >> thank you. >> good evening supervisors and listening supervisors i'm asia ac e i have big, big problems with those bogus vendors that are managing those sros i only recovering from surgery general hospitals so all the policymakers's know i'm getting housing when i get the application it stops because of the sro and over 15 one of the owner is standing up there

acting like he didn't know who i'm talking about randy shaw with 13 or feinstein buildings one of the biggest reciprocates of this funding and most are landlord and landlord now the thing i was at rowland was one of the boater ones managers and people got stabbed i told randy i'll not pay another damn dime until they pay for mine and people are evicted and ax ace was going to pay but randy said i refuse to pay the money for ace so i am so sick and tired of all the developers and the city and county funding people

hundreds of misdemeanors for people they don't give a damn i'm speaking for the residents and mine and randy shaw i don't know why you funded them i'll further any investigation to show the investigation of the sros thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon land use and transportation i'm randy a community organizer and a sro collaborative to support the amendment and actually give any time to michael. >> thank you, roy appreciate that. >> my name is a michael harrington work with the san francisco collaborative those on church street i'm also one of the people that were making phone calls to try to catch the

40e89 owners renting to tourist i live in an sro and blessed to see one i don't want to go back on the street we need to update the rules and regulations. >> thank you fernando is the last card anyone else that wants to speak please do so quickly come up to the podium and last call for (calling names). >> good afternoon corey smith on behalf of the housing coalition. we're supportive of the legislation thank you. >> next speaker >> good afternoon, supervisors and thank you for prorng in legislation i'll fernando with the community counseling organization and want to point out that the definitions for the comparable units with the

housing developers is important as we saw in the hotel conversion attempt in the beginning of the end of last year that when potential conversion units are presented they actually become low income unit that are defined in the amendment that are represented to you for example, that proposal that came before the planning commission was proposing as the conversion a project that was presented on their website as a project that would before ma illegal units here at the pretty much for the 21st century urban user group folks that live in the tenderloin in south of market in the mission and sros we need to create housing that serves those

folks thank you. >> thank you very much please last speaker come on up. >> good afternoon. i'm raul hernandez i'm here representing the divorcing uniteed collaborative thank you, supervisor kim and others for in legislation and we are facing an unprecedented housing crisis in the city that is not nudes we have more than 3 thousand plus homeless children in san francisco unified school district the sros are a last resource now it is there becoming a hot commodity because the gentrification of profits the city is facing we are here to provide our only conditional support and thank the department of building inspection for the support of our sros thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen,

public comment is closed. at this time supervisor peskin thank you supervisor sheehy and for all the moving testimony and testifiers thank you one and all i have one tina technical minor amendment on page 6 at line 21st and would like to make a motion that we strike the last 4 letters on that line so that that ends at permanent resident and perspective permanent resident. >> without objection that legislation passes and like to send the item as amended to the full board with a positive recommendation for hearing next tuesday, january 31st, 2015. >> all right. without objection we accept that motion thank you.

>> thank you supervisor peskin. >> (clapping.) >> congratulations for all the hard work. >> all right. mr. peskin madam clerk bring item one. >> ordinance for the subdivisions code to require the subdivisions for the map parcel map with the communication services building for each parcel. >> thank you, madam chair. >> after a brief side chat with john gibner, deputy city attorney. i have not had a chance to speak with the office of maker i'll i'd like to suggest we insert some language that says as those 3 public utilities commission code sections maybe amend from time to time er words at that effect if mr. gibner will incorporate into the matter i'll

make that a motion for item number one. >> motion accepted and that motion carries unanimously thank you all right. madam clerk >> item 3. >> no ma'am, minute recess thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone we are going to come back into session thank you mr. clerk i think the last item of business item one i think we introduced the amendment and we accepted the payment but doesn't vote on the item as amended that's correct. >> could we get another motion and take a vote. >> madam chair as far as i made the amendment i'd like to move the amendment to the full

board with a positive recommendation that item passes thank you all right. madam clerk item 3. >> amending the planning code for a transportation demand management to require the development projects with the design features for the port of sustainable forms of transportation. >> i'm the author this is the third consultant of sustainability program that is aimed to improve the transportation program as the city will accommodate for new growth the planning department and mta have been working on this program for two years what we have is the result of a robust outreach progress by the planning department and mta staff with the public and transportation advocates developers and stakeholders so colleagues supervisor peskin

you may recall supervisor sheehy we heard this item we continued this item brown from december since then the planning department and mta and my office have been working to resolves the outstanding issues i'll be introducing a number of false imprisonments amendments resulting in light conversations but first want to acknowledge the team of the planning department and we want to recognition mta staff who have been working on this program and done an incredible job thank you very much and now want to bring up our director of the planning department director rahaim he gave me a frown i don't know maybe he's not illustre after director rahaim we'll hear from sinking from the mta board and

commissioner were you sheryl and now wade. >> with craft from the planning department that will be making the presentation wade we'll call you up last. >> thank you. i'm john rahaim with the planning department and thank you for working with us i would like to thank our partners at the mta and the ta both of whom have been involved in the process and thank you for a lot of work this is how we address the transportation impacts from the new development as you pointed out the 3 part strategy that included the changes to the fee structure and second changes

how we analyze the impacts and this is the 3rd of a way of addressing the demand for transportation that is created by new development so as you pointed out we've had a lot of outreach over the weeks to address some of the final concerns from many members of the community we're at the point the stakeholders are in general agreement and further discussion the legislation before you sets out the policy and regulatory framework for the tdm, if you will, the memo of items that the developers may choose from it maybe amended overtime they did on thursday fact of the matter made changes to the program they approved a few months ago we believe those amendments will alleviate the concerns from a

small subset of projects that are small projects and large projects that were coming out i caught in the program as we defined it so we do think that it - we're at the point we'll urge you to move forward given the transportation challenges that we face and the growing number of promotions that are coming online we hope to get this online to address did transportation amendments from those projects and move forward so with this i want to introdch brinkman from the mta. >> thank you supervisor cohen and supervisor peskin and supervisor sheehy i'm cheryl brinkman i'm now the chair of the program there's been a lot

of changes to the program since you last heard from us in november or december that addresses the concerns again say what sets this program apart a few things the flexibility this ordinance calls on point the fact of the matter for the flexibility of how they're met to respond to the specific projects concerns and it is responsiveness the ordinance is built to be responsive to the city's landscape it changes a lot of everyday we'll make the - we're committed to incorporating new information and keeping this program up to date like many of the programs and policies and projects at the sfmta that will be a living program and make changes as we go it has a commitment to monitoring with the developers moved to be held

accountable for the demonstration of ongoing compliance but the city with the enforcement to make sure the projects follow through on the commitments and the transparency never before has the public the neighbors and others and the concerned individuals have as much sight into this and a new interactive online tool will help to do that and morning aside from reducing the trail miles reduces the green house gas emissions and promotes active months of transportation and with the vision zero by reducing the number of vehicles on road i ask we move forward as quickly as possible the sooner we can see the benefits on the transportation system and keep up with the growing city thank

you for your time thank you, thank you. >> well, wade wait craft oh. >> no problem. >> hi, thank you chair cohen and supervisors cooperate for the transportation authority and wanted to add our voices to with the executive director tilly chang sends her apologizes she can't be here she's in negotiation with caltrans torso we're proud to be here with the colleagues if a breeder strong interagency team that develops this ordinance and programs we greatly appreciate the work we've been able to do with the mta and folks with the city attorney's office and making sure that all of the dot all the i's and cross the t's this is really a program san francisco, california be proud of both because that is already stronger in and of itself and

because it has several ways to make sure that it keeps improving over time i'd like to add two main points to one director rahaim and director brinkman made first is cost effectiveness we oversee the sales tax we pay attention to the cost effective of the public investments and we know that people who have transit passes will use muni more and people with the bike lanes are those so to people that live and work are going to make your transportation system work better and reducing the impact of the growth from both traffic and a carbon stand point the second on monitoring and elevation evaluation as a county

km a the transportation authority will support the implementation of the tdm through the monitoring and evaluation like in the design of the program we're committed to bring a focus in a performance based approach we are confident those will continue with the investments and the transportation services emerge so finally join any colleagues and ask you to implement that as soon as possible thank you. >> jeff i've got one the question if i may madam chair. >> absolutely. >> let me start by saying we are i think all pleased to see a collaboration between 3 agencies that are truly independent of one another obviously the mta which has its own independent

charter and the transportation authority that is actually, the other hat that the board of supervisors wears as commissioners that actually is a subdivisions of the state of california and not part of the city and county of san francisco and uses separate legal counsel what have you and i'm not trying to be knit picky i don't think we wearing our board of supervisors hats can actually as a matter of planning code law commit to separate sate agencies to anything that says shall we can encourage i think - i realize the deputy city attorney represents the board of supervisors not that transportation authority commission but i think the language on page 13 i don't think that i'm not a lawyer

trying to play one on tv i don't think that is legal the ta can do it in the absolute authority but at the top of page 13 that the city and county of san francisco can bind the transportation authority in fact, of policy that's we don't want to break that precedent either attorney. through the chair. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney. got a couple of different versions so page 13 it says every 4 years following the report of ta. >> uh-huh. >> the planning department shall prepare a report containing the same information so the board can direct the planning department to take actions throw by ordinance and could make those conditional on the ta actions but as you said

the board can't direct the ta. >> your read is the shall applies to planning but not to the county transportation authority. >> is that correct? >> okay. perfect. >> thank you for that classification john gibner, deputy city attorney. >> wade come on up and begin the presentation thank you. i think you provided a copy for us; is that correct. >> good afternoon wade planning department staff and as you heard i'm once again here with a great interagency team has been discussed i'm not going to go over this at length this element this component of the overall transportation sustainability program is the last to be adopted of this program we had two hearing and seeing none, hearings and i was asked

to look at this we've heard and building we have done that. >> just a reimbursed this shifts from sro trips to the option this occurs through the lovely acronym transportation demand management or tdm and/or onsite amenity and programs for new development this program reduces the amount and distance of the vehicular travel for new development and therefore the goal to reduce vehicle miles traveled the program has received unanimous support from the planning commission both in august originally and then with amendments look various other boards and commissions as well other advocacy grasps as director brinkman referred to the initial goal to reduce the miles traveled but other

additional benefits like the vision zero goals because every mile we rows if driving is less traffic exposure particularly for our month vulnerable citizens and those walking and bike i'll go over the 3 program basics as we've gone over this before but the program will basically have 3 basics and those basics will live in what's called the tdm standard that is referenced in the ordinance which the planning commission has the authority to adopt and easement over time the first basic component a point that every project needs to achieve that is unique to each project the points the fact of the matter will be achieved through

project sponsors selecting transportation transportation demand management measures with a memo of options and so through the reflection of those measures will create a tdm plan for their projects the memo has 66 options for importance to have flexibility how they create the tdm plan and etch option is assigned a point value that is point driven not policy driven based on how effective those measures reduces the vehicle miles they reduce the vehicle miles to an extent some more so than other the few look at the bottom of the slide thing on the low range that reduces and points with commercial development to the more memoranda and to provide for bicycle beyond what the code

required and then on the high-end one of the most effective tdm measures to reduce the parking supply and the third component of the program and maybe the most important is the implementations strategy so there are two parts this is the first is that we would evaluate and update the program over time based on research that we do so we want transportation demand management a come a time field we want to be nimble and update reflect that the second part you've heard the program standards will have a pro-active monitoring and reporting this occurs through a preoccupycy site and reporting and once

every 3 year site audit this consists of an ordinance that sets the policy that director rahaim talked about the box for the program the regulationsism will live in the tdm standards i mentioned earlier the ordinance just references the creation of those standards the tdm program standards are living documents and they are created and amended by the planning commission they are not subject to the boards approval today but they implement the policy that will be and so forth in the ordinance which is before you. >> and they include those 3 basic components the point, to death the memo of opposition and the implementation strategy

this document as mentioned was adopted by the planning commission in august and then we had some amendments that were adopted last week and again, this document is a living document and can be amended over time by the planning commission and the reign we want the document to be updated over time to reflect new research and to address the significant comments to make sure the program works and that's exactly what occurred last thursday these - this slide summarizes the amendments made at the planning commission last thursday we transmitted this morning or afternoon the resolution and staff report from that commission hearing i'm not going over those but to point out something future that director rahaim pointed out that the

program prior to last thursday worked for the vast majority of projects and the amendment we're making were dealing with the projects at the margin and some amendments to individual measures. >> in terms of next steps staff plans on posting those amendments tdm online and those maximums will be incorporated into a web-based version of the tool we realized released for the decision makings to see how the program works the toll is a some version we plan an incorporating those from last week into that in terms of the legislative process obviously you're aware we hope to go to the full board after the committee hearing and then when the ordinance is effective really we all consider

the fun will begin we'll hire staff that has been approved in prior years budgets and do initial evaluations to make sure the program works and we would evaluate and amend the program standards over time with the planning commission this is again, a living document that insures the program works with that, that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions thank you, thank you colleagues in any questions. >> why don't we open up for public comment ladies and gentlemen, come forward and public comment in some amendments i'll take into the record after comments. >> how do i switch to the overhead awesome i'm jonas from

the hayes valley association we cautiously enforce the transportation demand management program before you but reject that the two amendments that went through the planning commission last week, we don't think that was in the right direction we on the tdm ordinances was too generous on parking parking is the strongest tool in transportation demand management so we were appointed to those those go through the commission as a living document an ordinance that will be revisited that i urge the city to look at the baseline for the parking right now it is 13 points for the first 20 parishes and go up one point i'm going to

get into the weeds this is market octavia you've got thousands of new parking spaces coming in here and i don't on the planning department if you look at the eir for example, for one oak understand this generates car trips to the 101 ramp to the south bay the methods right now are not picking up they're old methods used in transportation analysis that really underestimating the impact of this parking space so i think instead of one point for each additional 10 parking spaces it should be 5 and doing everything we can to discourage excess parking and also ask questions what were the 3 projects that would have gotten through with the warriors eastern i know there was another

1 16th stre 1 16th street potraro. >> i've been here several times talking about the transportation demand management last meeting we spent a lot of time with the planning and talking about this to family-friendly housing thank you, supervisors for encouraging staff to continue to work on the plan and thank you to the staff and recent activities in the legislation we're pleased to enforce the amendment before you with the ultimate tdm plan thanks so much. >> all right. >> next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors thank you for the opportunity to speak my name is megan i'm the director of the program on health and equity with the

department of health i'm happy to be here to support the transportation demand management ordinance and program standards for the potential impact on health in san francisco many years you've program works to productive the air quality and safety and active dpw health plan i'm chief executive officer reducing the fees is essentially, we building the tdm program will be an important part and housing jobs estimated more than 6 hundred thousand cars will be added to the streets if we remain status quo this the congestion and a significant reduction of quality of life more people will be killed more on the public transportation will decline it is essential to reduce the cars with support in helping with the

walking and biking the tdm is a smart approach by providing great credit for intervention and reducing parking and shuttle services we appreciate the flexibility of the program construction that will allow for judgements and standards on best practices we pleased to see built in monitoring as the tdm lacks oversight we understand the policies are important to insure those health benefits to the resident are reflected in the next generation in conclusion we believe the policies consistent are key to meeting the air quality and transportation we support the tdm ordinance and program and look forward to ongoing collaboration with the planning department and other agencies to advance those who work and live

in the city thank you for your k. >> thank you. i'm with the san francisco human services and in appreciation with the nonprofits we had been expressing some concerns about this ordinance for about a year particularly it's impact on city's funded providers that serve the disadvantaged resident and thankful for the opportunity to work with the supervisor cohen and commissioner peskin and sfmta and planning department and hope the amendment to address the largest of those concerns for public understanding those developments are different from other developments they generate far fewer vehicle miles traveled we work with community-based organizations serving the low income populations that walk and take transit and not increase

the costs are barriers to developments that will address the crisis of nonprofits displacement we have been faced over the last several years and especially concerned about parking spaces that are department of the emergency management for city funded services like shuttles for seniors and people with disabilities those doesn't matter what incentives they're still not any reduction in vehicle miles traveled doesn't make sense it will there the cost to the developers we will asked for a few exemption for the nonprofit and exemption for those parking spaces we hope overseeing amendments will be accepted today and by the full board and again, thank you for working with us on this issue.

>> next speaker, please. >> calvin wench a steering committee member and with the hours organizations i'd like to associate myself with the racks of ms. learner and ask you to adopt waving the fee for city funded health and service nonprofits i'd like to also address and thank first of all, commissioner cowen's and others for supporting the exemption of permanently 100 percent affordable housing developments from the traffic math plan i believe there is a consistency if that exemption the exemption language defined affordable housing up to one and 50 percent of medium no other jurisdictions in the area independence affordability a lot of one and

20 percent above medium this seems like to be an oversight clearly i'll hope that b-1 section 169.3 on page 8 percent would be amended to see one and 20 percent of medium which will be consistent with the findings of within the document that is found on page of 169.1 which defines affordable housing as welder and 20 percent of medium and studies that shows quote household earning more than one and 20 percent of medium drive more than twice as many miles and own more than twice as many vehicles as extremely low income household as thirty percent of medium is seems odd to find in a transit reduction program

affordability at a level in which you are giving household that drive cars more heavily than otherwise i urge you to amend the ordinance thank you. >> thank you in depth. >> game-changer chair cohen and commissioners i'm nicole the executive director of walk sf on behalf of the walk sf and members we want to share our support for the tdm ordinance and urge to move forward with approval by the board last friday marked the inauguration of the most powerful person in the country that believes is climatic change is a hoax and will dismantle the process on public health department i along with you marched an saturday to demonstrate we'll not stand for going backwards and everyday for the next 4 years we are going to need to work at the local level

to move climb friendly policies forward this ordinance does that by macro sustainable healthy the choice as you know walk is the most sustainable way to get around and the easiest on ways to experience with equipment it is also a critical pathway to taking trips every transit trips begins and ended with a walk we'll be working with the planning department to strengthen the tdm program and working to incorporate complimentary legislation into this policy and with that, we will urge again, our support of this policy as it stands and hope that it move forward thank

you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors corey smith on behalf of the housing coalition. here to support the transportation demand management proposal in front of you today asking the other departments and organizations in terms of the ordinances that were introduced with the ma'am, parking this is trick because we believe that less cars are better, more transportation is a better idea and more walking at the same time our members prefer parking for their projects so it is a tricky balance i know that folks are trying to figure out the other aspect i want to encourage based on any comments - by the previous speaker to work on ways to implement this

into the ordinance and appreciate that they are looking to find solutions that will appease owl stakeholder i support this bill today. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm with the community of housing organization first of all, i want to thank you for moving forward i think this is high time we began to really emphasis the direction of folks out of cars and using transportation affordable housing developers that is what our tenants do they ride transit first, i want to support the words of deb r yes many of the tenants are clients of the organizations with h s n they don't drive to supportive services they take transit so i think that is certain to main that exemption for the fee

organizations and we find ways of exempting the city organizations from this requirement the second thing i want to say i appreciate the work that the planning department has done with us to address the concerns around affordable housing as calvin mentioned it is interesting to see awhile finding is pointing out the critical need and the critical difference between housing that is affordable to folks under one hundred and 20 percent under medium and i want to share a table done by jeff hopkins transform that shows that vehicle miles traveled by different income levels on the blue that you see there you see very low income and extremely low income and low income

moderate that is folks up to one hundred and 80 percent area medium income and jumps to more one hundred and 80 percent area medium income so as you cancer the standards consider all the income levels under one hundred and 80 percent of area medium income in providing housing. >> thank you fernando >> next speaker. >> sue hester i've been vrd the eirs and commenting on them for a long time that colors any testimony the planning department like eir and have enormous amounts of parking are portionly high dense cords speaking have been reading the eirs if you give a lot of parking at the initial time when

you consider the project that will drive forever and we have to face a couple realities one we are developing a lot of housing in the corridor market and van ness and mission van ness as has a lot of park and two things have happened one is that we have a commute that is enormous and as the planning department goes through rezoning central soma as they go to 15 hundred mission and 1 hundred market that is the same thing as 1 oak street they're making decisions they can't undo by policies like this if at the give the market-rate that will be a lot of people

from san mateo county their commuters in reality you'll not be able to out change the project by doing a project process tdm we've had area plans adopted specifically from central soma and the eastern neighborhoods called for a new muni line they were never implemented so we do grant printing calling for additional muni from potraro and to south of market and don't do these and putting too much market that's the context. >> thank you very much any other members that want to speak on item 3 seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you i wanted to give the planning department or probably the planning department is the most interesting department (laughter) i think to give feedback on some

of the testimony from calvin's testimony from the ami level from one 50 to one hundred 20 so we're consistent >> with some of the other regions. >> the reason for the one hundred 50 that was used in the sustainability fee program there was a exception there are mobility a city program that will support the projects at that level the rest of the code the gentleman is right the program for the housing up to one hundred and 20 percent we'll be fine with lower than one hundred and 20 percent we were you using the numbers from allocate part of sustainability fee program. >> so beginning from the other parts of code but not going - >> to put it in jeopardy.

>> okay. thank you very much. >> okay so a couple of things colleagues, i want to i have several amendments i'd like to read into the record first, i'd like to change the grandfathering and phase in those to apply with the mraktsz and instead of the development application second i'd like to remove the requirement to present a complete tdm plan to reapplication and third i'd like to make a requirement of a one year preemption analysis and report fourth i'd like to subject tdm standards to be in effect at the time of the application instead of the development project approval fifth suggest a change or amendment changing a clerical

error are grupgs the electricity should be 10 benefits in the beds and exempting the building with 24 or less units from annual monitoring and enforcement fees and voluntarily update fees the 7 is exempting the nonprofit organizations to receive the funding from the city from paying development review ongoing monitoring fees and voluntary update fees and also want to recognize that the tenacious leadership of debbie letterman you heard during her public comment there is some concerns from the nonprofit providers particular those that receive the city funding to provide those serviced and the concern about air their ability specifically many of the parking

spaces and the facilities provide the city funded services i'm thinking meals of whole and meal delivery or transportation of clients as much as seniors and people with disabilities i do think we should subject those to the program and introduce the amendment for the spaces from the tdm standard and will find that it will find those - these in a document circulated to you on page 6 line 19 and colleagues for clarity any other parking spaces with the nonprofits choose to implement in their facilities will be subject to tdm okay now the graham our police to any right pointed out another error i want to correct thank you

supervisor peskin this is on page 6 that the legislation line 21 the full sentence reads start on line 19 as such comma the board of supervisors finds the spaces dedicated for the supervisors provided for human rights and service organizations should be included in the existence i'm going to change that from should be to shall, shall be excluded in the definition of parking space on the definition of standards any questions i can take them up inner i believe commissioner cowen's you have an amendment. >> i agree with the commissioner kim's raised by members of the public and director rahaim poke to relate to the one hundred and 50 versus the one hundred and 20 on page 8

as well as the change you read into with the human services should to a shall i think as far as you, you as is department will reside over the program standards unless we get cranky and legislate them to you should to show a is good let me say that is obviously evolving thing and we've now had a number of hearings thereon or there's been many cooks in the kitchen nobody so totally happy i agree with director brinkman this is flexible and will evolve this the dawn of this new pioneering system we'll continue to tweak it for all the staff that have tried to convince me

this is the best thing sins spread i thank you for your adolescence and a consistent theme with those no disrespect for planning the enforcement quite frankly isn't one of your strong suits not a square foot this is a system that is prethd with the dedicate i mean this is an age-old thing you guys need more enforcement staff but this theoretically comes with a source of funding for those staff and you've analyzed how many projects that employs to and how many projects that will likely do pounce of the market

in the future and how many people you can hire with that said, one of the amendments that supervisor cohen has just suggested which is and there is some rational for it we'll actually done it in other areas this is relative to 24 or less units any big question is kind of a question more for the controller but maybe you guys see in as far as a flat fee of one thousand bucks of property and exempting out the smaller properties what does this do for the resources for the ftes you'll not have enough funds to enforce it it falls flat on its face. >> thank you. do we have

controller staff director rahaim take a stab. >> i totally understand the need i appreciate the question i know your concern i'll say that in the last 9 years we've tripled the staff so thanks to the support of this board i will say we're looking at it what we think is the number of projects in that size rank 24 units is a small percentage the total project subject to the ordinance that is doable within the actual fiscal analysis not uncommon for the other forebodes for the subsidies of smaller ones done throughout the planning code and remember that the way this program is structured when we do the analysis you start with a base fee in a project goes beyond that we're able to charge time

and materials i think there is a number of ways to do it i'm committed to have full-time staff committed to this. >> director rahaim any only concern is that first, it seems counterintuitive you'll charge the same unanimous fee as a 15 unit project i think that staff did a pretty good job of explaining why that was counterintuitive but make sense i don't want this sorry mta you'll think i'm picking on you but i am for this to turn into a google bulb i bus at the beginning people say no, no, no cost recovery is a buck and myself went this don't make sense and after they sharply their pencils yeah, it is a lot higher this is a little bit

different you have a captive audience of google or whatever and the kind of audience so i don't want to be in a position you come back in 6 months or year or even two years and say wow. now the 24 and under project has dropped out we have a wave the fee for the big projects to $2,800 a year i want to make sure you guys have crushed the numbers and the promise of real dedicated staff particularly this economy will not last forever and will be a down turn and pick between the things and this presumably has it's dedicated source of revenue you'll not have enough money - i - i mean i want to make sure that the people below the level of department at wade's level

really building that if you exempt out the 24 from the annual fee you'll not be back here in a year to raise the fees or all the complaints and the person moving urban design group the improvement by the way, none of us are dump we saw a former department of inspection commissioner doing his own development project hello so - >> wade assures me buildings it. >> and specifically for the director rahaim referring to the sized project when we looked at two fiscal years of projects that were before the commission for approval one was less than 20 unit sort of a cut off looking at it the next fiscal

year 5 or 6 projects that were combined six or seven projects that would have been at this size i think yes. i believe that. >> thank you wade. >> all right. let's make one more motion thank you director one more motion to change the i'm level that stated on page 8 from one 50 to one hundred 20 as area medium income and this i'll add an amendment i've made and a comment from supervisor sheehy. >> yes. through the chair i'd like to join as co-sponsor. >> great with the amended version and show the appreciation for all the work that is done over the years definitely need real transit as someone that gets my kids to

school every morning the more cars we get off the streets the better. >> are you schlepping. >> i think people there - >> okay. >> about two hours on public transit. >> it's okay supervisor okay ladies and gentlemen, we've got a whole bunch of amendments thank you to mta, ta and the planning department staff you guys i want to recognize any staff that have been equally tremendous and supervisor avalos put a lot of staff hours that is not easy and supervisor peskin said this a fluent document we'll take a time out for now and colleagues without objection colleagues okay without objection this passes as amended

mr. clerk item 4. >> shall we i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> off it goes item 4 a hearing on the impasse of adult use of marijuana use. >> okay okay. and the sponsor of this item changes the house quickly thank you. >> thank you to the sponsors and stakeholders for item 4 we appreciate you sitting around all day we're grateful. >> i'm the sponsor of this item this is a very important item before you the california voters legalized the use position and retail sale of non-medical or adult marijuana

use across the state of california 64 lagoons the regulatory prop 64 allows the locality to tailor the implementation of the law to the needs and preserves so in anticipation of this the board of supervisors created the cannabis state legalization task force to advise the board and mayor and the departments of potential legalization we can understand the policy questions that are specific to the cannabis industry no doubt that the board of supervisors and the city agencies will be faced with difficult policies discussions and post proposition 64 environment my hope to work alcoholic with the residents and stakeholders and you experts to

develop policies that will allow this industry to thrive in our city, to become complaint with new existing laws and to also to compliment the neighborhood the neighborhood character and the environment that of what they're trying to blend in today we'll hear in the cannabis legalization task force for us to consider and bring up the task force staff who will kickoff this presentation want to recognize the task force staff and members thank you. the floor is yours welcome. >> thank you very much thank you for your time today my name is michelle i'm a member the san francisco cannabis legalization force team on on behalf of the task force i'll begin this one update and that the presentation that is prepared for the committee the

task force is in two parts part one i'll provide a high-level and succinct overview the task force purposes and the theme of the recognitions that are designed by the task force in the 3 main categories public safety and land use and social you gentrification and city prima facie case for part two the task force were lined up will address the committee and highlight the specific represents one the 3 main categories that members feel are important for the supervisors consideration in the interest of moving the systematically through our presentation and the timeframe i'll requesting the questions be held. >> after the presentation. >> yelping. >> got it. >> so in november the voters

passed the adult use of marijuana the act the key provision are legalize the adult use and possession and retail sale of number one medical adult cannabis across the state for 21 and older and creates a regulatory system for the cannabis industry and the bureau of marijuana controlled to oversee the process at the state level and have local control with left to right to their those to their needs and preferences the state is scheduled to begin listening in january 2018 the task force was in response to the legislation legalization efforts at the state level the board of supervisors created this in the ordinance of 2015 the task force was established as an advisory body on the legal

social and land use and enforcement issues so the policymakers can address this process thank you. >> the 22 seat will task force will be active for two years that began in 2016 and the work of the task force is first year is presented to begin today in january of 2017 the goal of task force what as to make represents in the 3 main areas we discussed and the task force conducted in order to do that monthly public meetings to design the finalize 84 represents that are referred in the year one report so the first main area is public safety but the recommendations of all categories are the conformation of research and

analysis, expert testimony and discussion that will be evident to the committee in the summary they are meant to all the universe of issues with the legalization of this and year two builds on the recommendations and makes specifically relate to the implementations at the local level in san francisco the could he topics under the public safety social environment category combined thirty recommendations to address the sub categories public safety, public con smupgs and tourism and hospitality the discussion during the task force of this area focuses on driving under the influence policy, neighborhood safety issues and social environment consideration the key recommendation that are addressed in this report include that public safety standards and

protocol should be revised to insure the protection of the community. >> san francisco should provide public consumption options in the city and use exposure can be limited by the existing model for the research and san francisco should develop policies that include a variety of cannabis and hospitality options the second main category of land use is social justice has 3 recommendations count ii recommendations of category land use and social justice and workforce development the discussions of this topic focused on retail and non-retail adult use and business zones and approval process as well as the diversity within the cannabis industry office of economic workforce development and business opportunity the could he recommendations themes that are addressed in the report includes san francisco should

provide for rail and non-rail cannabis locates to a effectively assess the adult zoning the land use businesses making process it in need of objective standards and san francisco should develop cannabis office of economic workforce development and pathways that reflect social justice principles in all aspects of the industry the third main category is the framework deputy 23 recommends to address the 3 sub categories licensing and taxation and revenues and agency oversight the topic in that area the regulation and framework included local licensing possibility local cannabis regulatory agency responsibilities and local taxation consideration the key themes that emerged include san francisco should have a local

cannabis licensing that builds on the system and considers the local needs and san francisco local cannabis taxation theme should consider the impact on the allot market the tax revenue 19 could support the justice and cannabis regulation will require the oversight in collaboration across multiple city agencies that provide a high-level overview and the content i'll transition to the task force members that will present the public safety and social environment thank you. >> welcome. >> good evening my name is sarah i was a appointed to the cannabis legalization task force as the public policy

i have fibromyalgia i was born and raised in san francisco i want to see good policy we're here to discuss the over consumption and driving under the influence we landlord from the state of colorado when they didn't have allowance for public consumption so for smoking the elbow use the eatable use causes the number of people that visit emergency rooms they're only treated for water it make sense a simple educational campaign like try 5 milligrams to side educational campaigns to show people we showed - people who are overly medicine indicated status on women and allow the

public use of medical cannabis so how to have san francisco look at outdoor it should be consumed where abstract tobacco is and dispensaries shall have safe places to use onsite and the attorney to look at privatizing locations with the beer places swrs this we saw the state of mayor willie brown they treated people like criminals my concern if i'm driving any kid's to school and have not smoked in what week not credit card a criminal how with, support of chp how we can figure out the high toners versus low tolerance and vapor requires and being the

lead in having education simple to the drunk campaign thank you for your time. >> just as a point of your information commissioner cowen's will be stepping out he is a 5 o'clock commitment but supervisor sheehy and i will remain. >> please. good afternoon. i'm sarah ic 12 on the task force and one of the vice chairs i'm coming to talk about education both for patients and into cult use for consumers and in the industry itself just because we are going to adult use didn't change the reaction in the body we need to empower consumers by having

educational materials available for anotherables, etc. and also have a empower push with the industry to educate people that are working in this so they can educate the consumers in having higher standards of education and people working in the agency in conjunction with the other institutions city college, oak street etc. i came to the task force as an educator and a cancer survivor both to show it is incredibly helpful for us to have access to cannabis in addition to be effective you need to have education standards in place thank you very much >> good evening my name is corey a administrator from san francisco who represents the unified school districts i'm responsible for the educational

program funded by the education i'll share some information about cannabis and legalization how we are working together to with mindful of exposure and health and education and support education in the public schools and vocal and job opportunities for the graduates i'll share good news we are funded actually with the compliance of federal funds that is important to know that state and local funds for health education and services and the other educational services out of sf and ucsf so nationally the youth survey we survey 7 ac and 9 graders on their use of substances and

their behaviors you ask about 40 percent plus young people tried marijuana in high school in san francisco we're about 28 percent and middle school 9 percent we don't have national fingers but working to have more on the top of exposure at the same survey captured the number of students that are - 2005 of students in high schools and in 201523.8 percent a decrease so some areas we work together in education and comprehensive services and sort of support for our students is we have a sort

of a disproportionate use of marijuana in our non-traditional schools about 12 percent on gastro campus again, we surveyed the students and the numbers are not great as in number an amount in quantity the numbers of students that report seeing marijuana generally in their lives is 6 point plus and mission high school is 17.4 in high school so folks like to see folks not using this age group and choosing to roll focus on their health and education with that, our health and education we have the proper support of services to address any needs and their families as well so we support

our students opportunity for you know beyond college and beyond high school and also to make sure they are space adequate housing for them to continue their education thank you. >> good evening supervisors my name is bashar i'm representing the neighborhood coercion and past wanting of an association and the chair the the compliance committee we have on our board i volunteered for this task force i felt the committee had a learning curve we have 3 mcd approved on the same night the committee found there is loopholes in the existing mcd we want to see this addressed i hope to have more information to take back to my district i'll

ask the board of supervisors to place importance on the concerns where will that be legal to smoke and are the burgundy checks adequate and how to remove the retailer not in combines or compliance with the cbo school the biggest issues before the neighborhood and the majority of association members and the individual i've spoken are concerned about the clustering in self-defense under a ground for the board of education will be the green zone a lot of people didn't want to advance the green sown 3 years the supervisor alavlos talked about they have the green zones expand we agree with that but at the time, no supervisor willing to do that it's been suggested by my neighborhood anyone that is as an mcd will keep the taxes

earned and that money goes to the police department for their needs and also to require we want to go indirectly to the supervisor of that district so for the civic improvement if any supervisor wants to talk with me about that i'll be happy to meet you in your office thank you. >> hello supervisors i practice business law and talk with the land use about land use and any ideas our retail locations and rail zoning district and non-retail locates for retail location gray draw a comparison to the medical rules first pointing out this cannabis is made possible by age groups to bring the medical cannabis into

2014 for a retail locations of medical retailer the planning commission recommended 6 hundred feet from schools by comparison for adult use retail we recommend that retail 6 hundred feet from schools and the buffers exist but boss both of those are measured by path of travel we know that san francisco is a dense city and sometimes you walk around the block to get to the door depends on to say the street line will be a measure of distances as a path of travel hearsay evidence location to retail zoning the zoning process should vary from one zone and not be the same for all zones we recommended the zone process be more rigorous and like a commercial district we can have conditional use

authorization and less rigorous like downtown and zoning district have notice finally for non-retail use for the manufacturer the cannabis use the planning code to have the zones for schools because they make sense. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors noimdz a jennifer i'm with the local 648 i'm in the labor seat train and education is something that san francisco values the task force recommend a training component for that workers like an educated apprenticeship program some residents of san francisco are over locked they don't have a college degree they can have classroom train to retain those good jobs the apprenticeship is a proven track

record of success been around a long time human resources apprenticeship was one of the organizations that protected the minority and women in the industry apprenticeship is about working with business all work sites benefit there are certify practices and have a standardized training san francisco workers that have apprenticeship training and education will not only understand the workplace they'll be getting the train and skills and compensation this san francisco, california do there a cannabis apprenticeship committee approved at the state level working with city college and other educators to implement this program thank you.

>> good afternoon, supervisors i'm laura thomas with the policy alliance and the seat on the task force we have xhoeven communications with the job train we spoke about ways to create opportunities for enterpriseship and our recommendations address to overcome some of the barriers that are experienced by people trying to get employment but as ownership stake in a legal cannabis industry we see the negotiation of marijuana as an opportunity to repair some of the damage done in the country and in the city to serve and we recommendations

around reducing the barriers and creating priority rights or preferences for those harmed by the war on drugs and trying to aid the economic barriers including the access to capita with loans as a way to increase access to the business using some of the existing small business support models to give people who previously been working in the economy the support they need to become a legal entity under prop 64 and including pathways like amnesty programs for people working in the illegal industry to move into a new legal industry overall we think this is an opportunity for the board of supervisors and the city and county of san francisco to be creative in a racial and social frame to address the harms and

move forward to create an industry that is responsive to the people that have been working in the industry and those who experienced harms related to the war on drugs this is a great opportunity to move forward into something different and hear from the communities thank you. >> thank you, ms. thomas. >> next speaker. >> hello i'm director jocelyn kane sitting often the task force and asked to come up here to talk about the agency oversight and i wanted to take the opportunity i think that working at the entertainment commission kind of a baby agency of city been around 20003 this is a

complicated issue and made a simple slide to show up with on the task forces came up with the board should consider a stand alone agency like a commission like ours that allows you to have trantsdz and a place for people to you know express their needs and certainly to do the outreach that is necessary the board should consider the stand alone agency but no commission and look for policy guidance where or the board can consider using part of an existing agency to do this work as well i think this obviously within a year there's a lot more discussion but it is something that from the get go certainly i think helps you to locate how

we'll work on the issues from seat to address some of the concerns you'll hear from the neighborhoods so are you going to come up and handle the rest of this. >> thank you jocelyn. >> under the regulation and city framework the key issue as jocelyn laid out the more important issue will we get started right away since a one year deadline by the state and if so what or what are the priorities so we can find the political and the private will to move forward in a regulation you will find that the second year of the task force will be dedicated to developing specific policies around your direction as to how we should precede it is our recommendations that we start with non-retail you should start with the part

of this entire industry subscribed by proposition 64 through the licenses types start with those non-retail licenses with the testing and production, transportation let's start with those relatively i think visible population and move forward create a city agency framework for this and begin to feed to that agency regulations how they can create a permit scheme so if you are a testing lab and want to at cannabis to our testing benefit a direct and simple way to political to this body so add cannabis as one of our testing ingredients the same is true for transportation and distribution. >> cultivation we have in

place cultivation approval process put together by the did you get and improve and codify in doing so take the non- retail of cannabis industry and set it up four success we know the difficult part of this process is when we get into neighborhood by neighborhood discussion as to where something belongs i love medical cannabis just not next to any school just not next to where i go to work and where i walk by not next to the bus stop or the place i buy coffee at that point we are going to need to have a robust discussion the last 6 months of this year should be dedicated to public hearings and discussion how we are going to expand medical cannabis and then how will we

develop a way to con assume cannabis what is called by the legislation the consumption lab this is retrofication like a box you can only go into that when our 21 and that's your cannabis consumption experience san francisco's has always said we have a san francisco way we would like to create with the help of the board of supervisors and the community consumption lounge experiences socialization is taught you our experiences between community members can be exchanged if you go and you're part of a platform of 5 individuals and the one cannabis yours there are 3 people that like to drink within and one person if drink or smoke you feel comfortable in that consumption area that's the san francisco way consumption we can

get through that that the first year we ask you respect the report with the recommendations we feel are important in those policy areas you give us the direction to begin immediately to traffic ticket a regulatory framework that you can take to the committee and begin do work on developing the actual regulations in terms of no cultivation this is how we are doing it based on the experience the last 5 years we need to make those 3 adjustment and present to you an online for regulations on how to do cannabis chief scotttion that goes to the public process and gets adapted into regulation that gives assurance it that part of business and will apply to the state we take one by one the various license types until we

get to retail and the last 6 months of year to deal with retail we spent a lot of time going out into the neighborhood and found out it is clustering that is the most important i don't think as the growth lie down how most people think they think of it as a path of travel and should we consider that to be able to determine where they're too close to the public use that's itself recommendations we would like to bring forward and ask for your participation in year two. >> thank you very much i have questions. >> we'll go to public comment and go back to you guys for questions. >> thank you for your presentations very thoughtful and high-level and got the entire one year recommendation and we've got a nice cheat sheet

other slides with the presentation that were given? >> okay we will work on doing that in the meantime let's go to public comment anyone will that wants to comment open up for public comment. >> okay. >> let's go come teresa anyone else please line up. >> can i have one more minute. >> sorry. >> two minutes for everyone. >> my name is a teresa with the san francisco call center i'm here on behalf of any neighbors and friends and family and san francisco community and public center merchant and they maintain the family for the - the asian alliance and san francisco shanghai and community

oppose any additional medical cannabis dispensary also asking all of you to create law to stop marijuana use in san francisco as you may know the population of asian people in san francisco is about 40 percent prudent person is about four asian so minority of chp people but many of them are limited in english do understand the mcd procedure not even the marijuana you know the reaction we have many people in our center come for help, help them to voice their concerns the planning commission departments have less of the community outreach non-english speaking residents we have 34 mcd in san francisco already we think it is enough federal law say this is an illegal drug i agree mcd one

thousand feet rereaction should be one thousand plus not just 6 hundred feet the task force is one and 8 is pages how about in chinese language reaction marijuana should not be in the commercial corridor commercial corridor have the residential community i think residential reaction marijuana should be in industrial area with the warehouse they have tough law for recreation marijuana we ask that you up to the time initial 18 months moratorium on all ncd in all mcd district we are going to have all the fight with the mcd already thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> madam chair and supervisor aim joann interest who is now

practicing a native san franciscan been here 5 generations first, i'd like to commend the task force what it is attempting to do to guide the legislature we've seen what others jurisdictions are accomplished in colorado and oregon passed the reaction and medical cannabis trying to fashion in terms of their legislation i feel we as san franciscans that invented medical marijuana need to set the high water marks for the rest of country and look to the board i thank the rest of the nation is looking at how we develop our bylaws. >> is there any additional public comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed so to the task force members you certainly heard from

the concerns about just many things consumption and oversight location i think that we have a lot of work to do to educate people the greater community mr. terrance i like your suggests to take of months to educate and teresa talked about the state law is we as san francisco have a fifth amendments you'll have to take to sacramento you'll be the lone voice in sacramento looking to repeal prop 64 you'll have to take to the voters and a truly uphill battle we need to understand what are people afraid of when it comes to consumption so that we can begin to address

the truth or separate the truth 2 f from the lies the myth from the fear so we can move forward and make sure that businesses that are operating they're in compliance with the law supervisor sheehy please. so first, i wanted to thank everyone on the commission did such interpretation work and struck that we shifted to a discussion of the stigma of marijuana use and reminder the documents that came up that showed richard nixon purposing enforced heavily marijuana laws to the target african-americans and the youth movement at the time in the early 70s that has led to incredible rate of

criminalization it is completely unfair and unjust personally i've been involved with medical cannabis since 199 of my friend and with all due respect it is dennis to the experience of the successes boyfriend jonathan saw and dennis is a colleague i don't think harvey milk wouldn't have done this without dennis but dense saw the benefit of cannabis use and jonathan was dying from aids and then really started the medical cannabis group and there were 12 one was the church of market and this fabulous club 5 stories was is where the law firm is it served

and offices at the time, no mitigations i've been a patient since 97 when i was diagnosed and at first there was not tolerance within the first generation drug that was extremely toxic and strange that the least toxic drug was the most prohibited then because the toxics of the drugs i got a disease one of the foe conditions are random in his control showing the controlling the pain that is associated with that disease conducted at the usf by the way, general hospitals so i think that one part to continue the work of this commission to i think we need to be prepared when proposition 64 comes both

effect one of the things after 2030 we didn't have the ground work i think that all of us will be benefited we're not left with the wild west situation with bad actors and none knowing what is going on we have to think about the stigma it reminds me as a gay man and the experience with something living with hiv and not unlikely that cannabis what about equality with the industry i personally have beened from pain and assistance in being able to take drugs it saved my life i hope as we move forward we can listen to each other i understand the neighborhoods concerns and should be mindful

but think that this is an opportunity to do role what is been almost thirty or 40 years cost many, many people their freedom. >> thank you, thank you for the reality check we appreciate it. >> i have a couple of questions briefly i want to hear from peck the youth you go activation is he here still maybe someone what speak to say she highlighted there was a decrease in a in numbers i think that i would sure what that number decrease and didn't explain what or the cause is of the decrease i don't know if you can provide some color. >> ma'am, supervisor i'll have to get back to i wasn't aware the decrease and what the

causality was and no problem. >> and then jennifer you in our presentation talked about you came to the rules committee he recommended the local is usc w still taking the lead in the cannabis city. >> they were the first union to cut the cannabis workers in needing before the change the public opinion so the usc wushgs working with the governor and i know your central wanting has met with him with the apprenticeship committee and on the state level we are in load as is regulation passed and come

into the regulated system that all the workers exist have protection they know they're right and have these good jobs no matter what happened there will be workings we want the workers to be protected as they community-based introduce the many changes. >> i was wondering which automobile was stepping up and taking the lead i know the tooerms have been involved i don't know the technology planets i guess. >> that's material product so, yes there are other units involved. >> who are they. >> i believe the usc w and the tooermz are the main unions and

in other states seiu. >> i don't know. i don't of any other questions it's looks like we're done you guys are a lot of work ahead of you, we can roll up our sleeves xhesh if we could make a motion to continue this item we can continue this item. >> madam chair. >> as a matter of housekeeping. >> i'll move to continue the item. >> without objection as well. >> all right. ladies and gentlemen, mr. clerk further business. >> >> there's no further business. >> thank you very