applications were in the department of public health. there's some discussion by the board of supervisors about that time period, but right now, the legislation was amended to extend out the period to july 2017 for those who have submitted a permit at the department of public health. but have either, you know, gone through the process of planning or still have yet to go through the process at planning. >>president dwight: right. >> and then, supervisor safai submitted an amendment that was accepted at the committee for portable permits for cannabis businesses, and there is to allow businesses who either -- their leases may not be renewed, there's a way -- 'cause usually land use entitlements stay with the land, and so many businesses, either the property owner is taking advantage of this or

larger entities are coming in to take advantage of that land use space because it's a fairly premium commodity, so the portable permits will allow the owner to be able to transport that permit to another location. there, of course, are a whole set of criteria to ensure that it isn't a new owner-operator during that process, and they have 18 months to find a new location. also, consumption, so the definition of consumption was changed, so now, consumption does mean smoking and edible consuming or other ways of consuming -- drinking -- and will allow the retailers the ability to add that on. there are going to be specific criteria. right now it's being proposed as you have to have a separate consumption room, so again, this is going to be, you

know, a bit of a challenge because there are some mcd's that are small, and if -- when they transfer into a cannabis retailer, they won't have the room to create that space, so it'll be interesting to see what the director comes with in terms of how the portable permits may be able to be used if a current operator wants to relocate to be able to allow on-site consumption. and there will be, of course, a whole set of building code and health code regulations to be able to ensure. >>president dwight: and any mcd should be affordable operator, right? >> the retailers, as i understand it, but i will clarify if it extends beyond the retailers. >>president dwight: okay. does that sound good? >> and then, there is a local

hire requirement that has been established by supervisor safai. unfortunately, it was not -- he initially -- he initially submitted the amendment to a 30% local hire requirement but then, it got amended at committee to 50%. >> for all operators? >> for all operators. >> that's outrageous. we cannot be mandating the hiring practices of small businesses, any businesses, to that level of specificity. there may not be that many qualified applicants in this city, and you're going to hamper the city before you even get to that point. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: oakland's having that problem right now. >> who can live in this city anymore, and so you're going to -- you're going to hamstring this industry right out of the gate, and any -- i can't support any -- frankly, i can't

support any local hiring requirements, because businesses -- i have tried to hire people in a retail space. i can't find candidates. people can't afford to live near here. they don't want to commute four hours from livermore, where they can afford to live, so to make that a requirement on anybody's business, whether they're in cannabis or sewing or any kind of retail, i think, is an absurd requirement. >> we have the lowest employment rate in the entire country. >> this is a nonstarter. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: and if i could just shed light is because people thinks it's going to be a bonanza. once it becomes illegal, it's not. that's why prohibition

happened. so, like, i'm just -- >>president dwight: well, i don't see why this industry should have its own hiring requirement that is not foisted on any other industry in this city that i'm aware of. if you have a local hiring requirement for a city and county funded project, that's entirely different. one, it's a job, you know, it's a defined job. it's not an industry, it's not a business. it is a contract, right? that's totally different, having requirements like that for contracts, but to subject a business owner, an entrepreneur -- any small business owner, our equity owners, to subject them to this requirement, it is -- >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: it is failure right out of the block. >> and if i may, i think it was

sort of pushing toward the hiring of the harder to employ, but that is better done through very specific workforce programs. >> they have workforce programs that channel people into this industry, not make a mandate on the otherwise that said we must hire thus. we don't run those programs. >> so that may be something that you might want to take some action on, so those are the core elements of that -- i think, the highlights from -- >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: how do we take action on this very specific requirement tonight? >> you could say that because of this local hire is currently in the legislation that is before you, on page 48, and so you could take specific action on that item. and then, let me just quickly say additional -- so staff -- >>president dwight: pardon me, commissioner adams need to leave because he has --

>> i have a 9:00 flight. >> so what i just proposed to you is going to the board of supervisors to take action on. they divided the file so they can keep this document in committee to the call of the chair, and so they're going to be continuing to work on adding a section on compassionate -- compassionate program for medical, allowing patients to have access to those products, and that items sold in the cannabis for -- or medical cannabis is -- it's -- the patient is able to access the product in a loose form, so what that sounds like to me is in the regular retail environment, i was not able to hear this first section, but

because of that section, what this says to me is then all items sold in cannabis retail is prepackaged. so -- and then there is, again, sort of developments on criteria to develop more criteria around delivery, the commissary and commercial kitchens, and then, there was much discussion, commissioner tour-sarkissian around the percentages of ownership, and so that is being continued to -- to be worked on. and then, for land use -- so there were two files that were created, and i had to agendaize both of them to be able to talk to it. so summary is they whittled it down to one file, so the file was continued to the call of

the chair, but where things are landing with land use is 600 feet initially in the legislation and zero in file 170141, 600 feet was the orbit. it was amended in committee today with 600 feet for the radius, and then 600 feet for a buffer zone. so i anticipate that there will be much discussion amongst many supervisors tomorrow, and that's not -- that may not be a final outcome. again, brittni talked about the small retailers colocating and not subject to individual use or clustering codes. what was proposed today or amended today was to require a mandatory 312 notice citywide for any mcd converting to article 16, cannabis retailer, and to delete a mandatory dr

for districts 4 and 7. supervisor tang expanded, allowing cannabis retailers in the mc-1 district for district 4, but is limiting one mcd for the neighborhood commercial districts for district 4. and supervisor safai has limited his number of districts for district 11. and then, the land use changes were to mirror the -- allowing the conversion -- excuse me -- the conversion of mcd's into cannabis retailers. those changes are reflected in the land use, in addition to the pipeline -- businesses in the pipeline. and with clarification that the grandfathered mcd's are not subject to locational restrictions should there be any change, and cannabis may be

smoked at retail locations. so those were the changes at the -- as of today, though, subject to change tomorrow at the board of supervisors. >>president dwight: yeah. okay. well at least they're talking about some of the right things. >>commissioner zouzounis: is that 600 feet mcd to mcd or retail to retail or does it also include the distributors to retail. >> i'm sorry. the first 600 feet is from a school. >>commissioner zouzounis: and then, the second -- the clustering one. >> the clustering one would be 600 feet from cannabis retail from cannabis retail. >>commissioner zouzounis: okay. my question is if you have a cannabis distributor, can that be closer than 600 fe 600 feet from a cannabis retailer, or manufacturing to retailer? >> i don't know right now without seeing how that language was specifically written.

>>commissioner zouzounis: i haven't seen anything specifying that. >> i mean that -- because certain things, like a distributor, to be a distributor, you are likely having to be zoned in locations that are not close to mc districts. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: at this just -- i know this is not part of the first phases, but for restaurants, this is not going to make sense. i'm just, you know, small businesses. i just want to keep reiterating and reiterating it, so, like, in north beach, all the commercial corridors, we have our amazing fine dining, where it's mom and pop, good restaurants, so if i want to do cannabis infused cuisines, i cannot. i can only do a monopoly if i own the whole block. that's not right. >> i think this is where the supervisors can provide some

clarification, or would a restaurant be considered a cannabis retailer? those questions have not been fully answered. i think, you know, there's definitely the need for continued refinement, but we do -- the -- we do need to get some rules and regs in place because at least for the current mcd operators, for them to be able to get into compliance locally, and then be able to apply with their license at the state and be a cannabis retailer january 1. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: i'm just throwing pebbles slowly but surely, slowly but surely. >> and i think it's pebble that the commission can continue to address and bring up. >>commissioner zouzounis: and there's no confirming definition for a nonconforming cannabis operate jog yet? >> a nonconforming? yes. it's in the preexisting. it's under

section 1605k on page 21. >>commissioner riley: the thousand feet or 600 feet from school or child care facility, what is the latest? i know some communities feel very strongly about the thousand feet. >> right. so as i understand, this happened not too long before our meeting started, the final land use recommendations was that what moved forward was the 600 feet. again, that still could be debated more at the board of supervisors, but the 600 feet, in terms of the radius from schools, i don't know, and the daycare could have been amended in committee today, but i would -- because of my meeting schedules and and

ma man -- maneka would have been the one to see it, but -- >> okay. we'll wait. >>commissioner zouzounis: and my reference to that nonconforming cannabis definition if that was going to include -- it says engaging commercial cannabis activities related to medical cannabis activitied in the city. so if you were a distributor, like, that -- you were an accessory distributor or you provided the equipment and the raw material that, you know, created these things, that was -- besides the cannabis, is that considered a preexisting -- >> so, like, if you are selling the instruments that you make the pens to -- to -- i -- that

will need to be clarified, but my understanding, you're not really selling a product that has cannabis in it. >>president dwight: i suspect if you do not have cannabis in your product, you're not subject to any of these regulations, so you can be selling equipment, you can be selling accessories, you can be selling paraphernalia, and there's a whole industry in that alone. i don't -- sorry. for example. if i start making stash bags, i am not now subjected to the requirements of the cannabis industry, i'm pretty sure that's -- >> i mean, that's how i would interpret it because you do not have any of the cannabis product, so if you're making pipes or bongs or what have you... all right. so any other questions? all right. so that's it. i do -- the last thing i do want to say is i want to extend

my appreciation to director elliott, to aaron starr, dan sider, and the city attorney's office, and of course all the supervisor's offices skm thean aides, because things have been changing and they've been doing a terrific job keeping up, still trying to keep track and understand all the nuances, which is very complex when you're talking about four to five significant different types of industries that, you know, make one big industry, so i just want to give them a shout out for the great work that they're doing. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: and our office, too. >> yeah, and our office. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: they've been killing it. >> and your recommendation is very clear, so the supervisors took those very seriously. >>president dwight: good. so we've kind of got -- were those your -- director -- was that

your director's report? >> no, that was not the director's report. that was the final wrap up of just giving you an update on items. >>president dwight: okay. i'll call for public comment on that. do we have any members of the public that would like to comment on the director's wrap up on items 5 and 6? seeing non, public comment is closed. that means we can move onto item number 6. >> was there a motion? >>president dwight: okay. >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: i would like to -- regarding the proposed amendments as to requiring 50% local hiring, i would like to make a motion that that be stricken from the proposed legislation. >>president dwight: yeah, i'm fine with that. anybody want to second that motion? >> may i just make one recommendation, in case the number got modified a little bit down in committee? >>president dwight: i don't think there should be any local

hiring requirement? >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: i believe that the local hiring requirement, first of all, is in -- frankly, in this environment is not realistic, and second, would hinder the growth of the industry, would cause a major problem in hiring. there's no way that the business could be held to that standard in the city and county of san francisco. >>president dwight: and furthermore, if you had to revalidate that every year, if you had employees that said screw this, i'm not commuting like this anymore, and next year, you're noncompliant, you cannot manage your workforce anymore. that's absurd. >> and if they move out of the city. if you do think if this local hire is included, dow think it has the potential of affect being any future noncannabis related small businesses? >>president dwight: well, i

think it should be objected to the subject of no other business have been imposed these kind of penalties. >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: i think it's really causing major damage to the growth of these businesses, and frankly, if they can't hire in san francisco, then they cannot grow, they cannot open their doors. 50% is a huge number. >> and do you think that they might pull away employees from other noncannabis related -- >>president dwight: well, it just creates a competition, an unnatural local competition of hiring. people should want and be allowed to work in the industry that they're interested in. we shouldn't create an artificial market for those people, because what you will do is in fact create a bounty on those local hires, and you will artificially

inflate their incomes, and you may argue that that's a good thing for those people, but you're going to get people migrating to an industry that they may or may not not want to be because they're seduced by a piece of legislation that is solely focused on one industry and i think that represents just the -- the fundamental flaw in the legislation. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: president dwight, you said earlier, this is not a public -- public works kind of project, this is provide sector industry, and this is capitalism, you know. >>president dwight: this is outside the bounds of our le s legislative bodies to be mandating this. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: i think there's a misconception. we're business people. that's why we're in this commission. i think there's a misconception that there's going to be a bunch of billionaires and stuff like that.

>>president dwight: it's going to be a competitive business, just like any other. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: correct, and it's an agriculture business. >>commissioner riley: director, if i remember correctly, there was such a requirement for the construction business, is it? >> and from what i understand, there has been challenges with that, but understand from the construction industry, a project goes up -- >>president dwight: that's a contract by contract basis. that doesn't require that the employees of the contracting company, because they employ -- they employ temporary workers on a project by project basis, so they're required on a project basis. nobody says that construction company ayz in san francisco has to have this composition of employees, because these are purchasing agents, those are all the full-time employees that you keep in place. >>commissioner riley: and again, they didn't come here and explain to us that they can meet that requirement because

they don't always find -- >>president dwight: yeah, that that's an unnatural requirement for contracts. >> right, so even in an industry where you have a pool of workers, and let's just say you can't meet or get close, they're working, and when that project's done, they're available for another project. in an ongoing industry, it just doesn't work that way. >>commissioner riley: yeah, agree. >>president dwight: so the answer to your question is yes, i think it will have an adverse effect on all businesses in san francisco because it creates an unnatural market, and around one specific industry which is in its infancy, and so as you say, we don't know how this is going to play out, and to hamstring this industry at this point in its development, that's just not the place of our legislators. >>commissioner zouzounis: the supervisor has good intent, but it doesn't make sense.

>>commissioner riley: how about if we have a motion? >>president dwight: well, i think the motion should be to reject any local hiring requirement, yeah. >>supervisor fewer: i think the -- >>president dwight: regardless of the number. >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: i think the requirement for 50% or any san francisco workforce in the proposition should be stricken. >>president dwight: yeah. >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: should be stricken. there ought not be any requirement that the workforce be all san francisco residents, and all definitions relating there to should be stricken from the proposed, you know, legislation as amended in committee. >> so that includes both just the standard local hire for all cannabis businesses and under the equity incubator, is that what you're proposing? >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: i mean, the equity incubator,

it does not talk about the understanding of what was presented to us, at any 15 percent percent, 20 percent percent, 25 percentage. >> it is under -- on page 16, it does say -- >>president dwight: it should be stricken from all legislation. >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: let me make my motion. i would say that any reference to the workforce be hired in san francisco be stricken from the proposed legislation. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: and just also to reference construction, going back to construction first, so the equity component in construction is the lbe or the acde component, and they don't have those requirements. i know this well, and even the prime on a -- on a public or on a private project, there's not requirements, 50%. >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: it doesn't serve anybody. >>president dwight: i think we can go on record that we are in

agreement that we are absolutely opposed. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: but i think it's essential for them to understand, we need to give them a detail, because we're business people. we make payroll. a lot of the people that we're explaining this to, they've never had to make a payroll. >>president dwight: well, more importantly, they've never had to hire anybody, and so before you even get to the payroll, we would be unable to construct a payroll. we wouldn't have anybody on it. it would be impossible to comply, and it would be impossible to continue to maintain that because your workforce is -- people are free to work where they want to work, and they're going to leave -- and you know, imagine them holding you hostage. you know what? i'm thinking of quitting, and you're not going to meet your local hire requirement if i quit. i think it's time for me to get a raise. that is crazy. that is absolutely crazy. >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: i don't dare going over the definition, but as to what it means to be a resident of san francisco and so forth, so it's

so restrictive, that would -- it's not good for the city, it's not good for the workforce, it's not good for the businesses. >>president dwight: shouldn't matter. >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: for businesses and general, and specifically for the very business that we're talking about. >>president dwight: that we're trying to enable. >>commissioner tour-sarkissian: i renew my motion that any reference to local hiring requirement be stricken from the proposed -- >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: i'll second that, and now -- 'cause we explained why. we explained why in great detail. >>president dwight: yeah. or the oer. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: i second the motion. >>president dwight: do we have any mobile home berz of the public that would like to comment on this outrageous proposal? seeing none, public comment is closed. . >> clerk: okay.

roll call. [ roll call. ] motion passes, 5 to zero. >> clerk: item #, director's report, update on the small business and the small business business center, policies and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding small business activities. discussion item. >> so commissioners, thank you. i will be very quick. just want our commission to -- our policy analysts has been very sick for a week, so just want to make sure wish her a speedy recovery. so last week, the small business round table had its regular meeting with the mayor, and items on the discussion

were around housing for small business workforce, discussion around beat cops, and having a -- you know, continuing to sustain beat cops. there's -- the mayor and chief scott have made it -- and the board of supervisors made it a priority to increase the number of beat cops in neighborhood commercial districts. also, an update on the meetings that members of that group have been having with the department of homelessness, sfpd, and the department of public health and dpw, so those four organizations are meeting on -- on pretty much on a daily basis to deal with a unified sort of command response to homelessness, so it was a

pretty good discussion, and the mayor talked about a few of the things he wanted to accomplish through the end of his term which is, of course, bringing on more affordable housing and, of course, continue to work on the homeless issue that he's been working on. we have signed a contract with -- for the -- under legacy business, we have signed the contract for the osaki creative group. we have also received a letter from -- of determination from our city attorney that we no longer need to require our businesses that are going to be receiving a grant or the landlords to be 12-b compliant. this'll make the process for getting businesses registered as a city which no, we're no longer saying is a vendor, but is a supplier, which will help speed it up, which will make it

much easier for us to get the grant money out the door. and rick and rhea are getting close to finalizing all of the grant applications, the 73 grant applications that we have received. this week, on friday, i'm not sure if you are aware, but they've already started demolition of the old goodwill site as mission and south vanness intersection and 11th, so this is now called 1550 mission street, which is going to have housing, some down stairs retail, but then, there will be dpw, dbi planning, and a few other smaller departments are moving over to 1550. the second floor will be a permit center that will have dbi, all of dbi, the mechanical, all of that broken out.

planning, dph, all the regulatory agencies that a business needs to go through or anybody needs to go through, including the police department's permitting center will be over there, which is great. people don't have to go over there to 3rd street to dale with their permits. there'll be hearing rooms, rooms -- areas for people to be working on things while they're waiting, so our office, it -- we have a small section there, so katey sharping, who is doing the open in sf who is dealing with the food related businesses will be there, next to the entertainment commission, so really excited, and we're starting the official process of meeting to sort of define that particular space,

and the projected opening date is 2020. and those, i think, are the just key things i want to highlight of activities that are taking place right now. >>president dwight: okay. commissioners, any questions? do we have any members of the public that would like to comment on the director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> clerk: item 8, allows president, vice president and commissioners to report on recently small business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small business committee. >> i attended the meeting last week with the mayor. i was there. i don't have anything else to put forward myself. any other commissioner reports? i'm engaged. i gotten gaug en paris a few weeks ago. shout

out to my fiance, juliette, if she's watching sfgovtv. sometimes she does. >>commissioner ortiz-cartagena: i attended opportunity funded ga gala, and want to give a shout out to odwd, and the mission district corridor. now that it's not such a popular topic, 'cause it's not negative, they've been still working on this day, almost every week, in trying to help small businesses in that corridor survive, so i just want to give a shout out. >>president dwight: great. not to out myself as using myeelectric tronn my electronic device in a commission meeting, but i just got a text from juliette. she

is watching. all right. do we have any other commissioners wishing to comment on commissioner reports? all right. seeing none, commissioner reports is closed. future items. do we have any new business items to propose? >>commissioner zouzounis: i'd like to hear an update on the retrofit. >>president dwight: office story retrofit? okay. any others? >>commissioner zouzounis: i know the quark of where that city funding is coming from or how it's distributed. >>president dwight: we'll get an update. any other new business? okay. any members of the public like to comment on new business? seeing none, new business is closed. >>president dwight: so before we close out the meeting, i'd like to give a little statement

here in memoriam of someone who was not here too long ago, accepting a legacy business award, and that is steven parr who passed recently. he was a film activist who was the founder and director of odd ball films. he had been a collector of rare and unusual historical films since the early 1980's and often screened visuals and curated films for live events around the city. in 19 # 4 his innovation for films caught the attention of director ridley scott. having secured his first client, and a well known one at that, his business grew into a full-time occupation that required a commercial space, he located his space at 275 cap street in the mission district and began to build his film archive, officially registering

odd ball films as a business in 1984. it gradually accumulated thousands of 16 millimeter, 35 millimeter and small gauge films. the collection is rumored to contain 35,000 cans of film. it has provided rare and critical footage available from no other sources. steven parr's contribution is a legacy worthy of recognition. he drew from the considerable strengths and talents of the community and gave back to innovators, independent thinkers, directors, producers and documentaryans in numerous ways. we close the meeting today in his honor. >> sfgovtv please show the

office business line. >> it is our kust on om to begin and end each meeting with a reminder that the small business commission is the only place to start -- the office of small business should be your first stop when you have a question about what to do next. you can find us on-line or in person here at city hall. best of all, all of our services are free of charge. it is the official forum to voice your concerns about policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business and the small business commission. thank you. all right. >> clerk: item 10, adjournment action item. >> i move. >> i second. >> clerk: there's a motion by commissioner ortiz-cartagena, seconded by riley.

all in favor? all opposed? meeting adjourned at 8:05 p.m.

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the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the

local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san >> this coffee memory i remember having coffee with any grappled. in the old days myelogram ma get

together >> i was six or seven i made a faces a good face. >> when i was younger i know it did something to my body. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i've been drinking coffee since i was 17 really the only thing i'm good at i was trying to find out what i was good at i got a job at the coffee shop i decided to do that the rest of my life. i like the process of the coffee and what are those beans where do they come from oh, they come from a fruit.

>> the coffee stays with me since i was a kid i grew up and opened coffee shops everybody. in the 8 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops maybe more to see why people go to coffee shops >> we're searched the beans all over the world from east afghan and tokyo. >> when i wanted to do was get into aspect of the personal coffee and the processing and everything else there was multiple steps in making coffee and we did have a lighter roost because of the qualities of the keep once you roost it it home

gisz the coffee. >> one thing about the coffee they were special blends and i spent seven years on one blend so that's my pleasure. each bean they were all chosen and blended with each with different cultural and beans is like people and those people give me a reputation i can't buy. people love you my clients love me they take me to the moves movies. >> fell in love with coffee and went to the coffee shops the community aspect i really enjoyed. >> i think it's important to have a place for people to show

up and talk to their neighbors and recorrect. your surrounded with all those behalf communicated i communities >> i love my city san francisco has a good name my has every cultural in this planet living in san francisco it's a small city 7 by 7 but it's huge. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i really like the idea of staying in the neighborhood and living in the mission i've lived here the whole time and the community really stick to it people talk about seattle and portland now they talk about seattle and san francisco.

or portland and san francisco but san francisco is definitely on the cutting-edge of the coffee scene in the entire nation. >> there's so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born to make coffee. i have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> we're just waiting on sfgov tv. all right. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. the meeting will come tord oer. this is the regular scheduled meeting for the budget & finance committee after i am supervisor malia cohen, chairman of the committee. to my left is supervisor tang and to my right is supervisor yee and the clerk is wong rr and the folks at sfg tv are assisting us with the broadcast. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> please turn off all electronic documents. items acted upon today will appear on the november 28, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. could you call item e