-- >> i'd like to move jordan aquino forward for the seat 3 and move it forward to the full board with positive recommendations. >> supervisor yee: we're so excited to appoint you we're fighting to nominate. >> supervisor stefani: and thank you for your service. >> supervisor safai: without objection, that is ordered and moved. congratulations, thank you for your service. >> item number 4, a hearing to consider appointing one member for indefinite term to the city college financial assistance fund oversight committee. there is one seat, one applicant. >> supervisor safai: unless any initial comments, let's hear from the applicant ms. conny ford. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is conny ford. i'm vice president of the san francisco labor council and happy to be here. i've been waiting for this commission for several years now to be in this status.

just a little bit about me. i am not native to san francisco, but i raised my children here, who both went to public school. my son ended up graduating from city college. my daughter took some of her first nursing vocational classes at city college and that was a nurse practitioner for planned parenthood. i'm a strong advocate of city college and have always talked about, we have k through 12 as a free public education system, and i was always looking forward the day we can extend that for two more years. that came about three or four years ago as you probably remember. city college was in crisis back then, but we worked hard to get it reestablished and then i was a part of a great, great, great team, committed to making it and extending it to free for all san

franciscans. took four years to do that, but we passed the legislation here at the board and proudly we passed prop w which helps pay for this benefit from the city back in 2016. right at the same moment president 45 was elected, it was one of the hopeful signs during those depressing moments after that election. since then, many of us in the same coalition, which is comprised of students and faculty and labor and community and many, many other people have done outreach to make sure that the community knows about this wonderful benefit and probably have seen some of the reports in the paper recently that the students, ftes are increasing by at least 15%, we're almost up to 55,000 after being at a low with 35,000. going up to our goal of 100,000

where it was back in the day when everything was peachy keen and free, of which i was a part of going to city college free at that time. way back when. so i'm a firm believer of city college. i feel like it gives people that opportunity to go to school and to continue their education. you know, with all of the vocational arts that have there, the nursing programs, the machinist program, all of the ged graduation opportunities, the life long learning classes for people like me who want to learn about philosophy or go to school to tap dance. that's my goal next year as kathy is the teacher there that teaches tap dancing for seniors. i love that idea. i might come back and do a little tap dance after that. i am embedded with this program and want to the next step as you know is to be -- to look at the

oversight committee and make sure the funds are transferred in a transparent, open and honest way. eye on the prize of expanding this opportunity to more people. i'm proud to be here nominated and to serve on the committee.

i hope that you will give me this opportunity to serve. >> great thank you. >> supervisor yee: first of all, i want to say that i really -- i'm really respectful of all the things you do for the city. in particular city college. so i think we're going to can lucky to have you on this oversight committee. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee: and the -- i didn't realize we were not supporting december classes. and i will -- if you need help in fighting for this, i will join you, because it's ridiculous we're not. you're basically saying to students, why don't you take another year to finish up your courses rather than taking summer classes. so in many ways, we lose money.

not allowing -- not paying for the summer classes. and i agree with you that, we have a great system, education system, that is up to 14, you know, but i want to correct you a little bit. we're not k 14, we're pre-k 14. >> good point. if you look at the school district theirs is pre-k and hopefully in the next few years, we'll make it i to 14. >> i'm with you. >> supervisor yee: let me know when you take the tap dancing class, i'll join you. >> ok great. >> supervisor safai: supervisor yee is an accomplished dancer in salsa, i don't know about tap, but definitely in salsa. >> i'm not an accomplished dancer so you'd have to take it slow and easy with me. >> supervisor safai: i just

have -- thank you, just be formal here today, for all your commitment and dedication to this issue. i know that like for lack of a better term, this is one of your babies and you've dedicated significant amount of your time and life to this long-term goal. and i know you have other long-term goals to continue to keep expanding access to higher education and education for those who don't have the means. so i really commend you for that work. and so kudos to getting this forward and passed. the thing that you and i did talk about was the idea of moving the oversight forward and some of the responses in terms of not getting any funding and we don't want to do anything to destabilize the funding of city college. so some of the ideas that you talk about, can you mention a few of those that you think will be helpful in this situation? i know that committee has not

been convened. you're one of the first that will added to the committee? that's a good first step. we'll get that going. there will be a report submitted to the mayor, board of sfls supervisors and city college trustees. i think there has been confusion in terms of informing people to ensure that they're going through the necessary paperwork and process. can you just talk about that for a minute? >> well, from what i know, which is minimal, and what i read in the paper, i know that some of the invoices that the city college sent to the city have been returned. we want to get to that as quickly as possible and make sure both sides are organized and together and able to produce the information they have. i know that one of the things the city required, which i agree

with, is that they produced the zip codes for the students because i think that will be a good way for us as oversight committee to see which neighborhoods are being served and which need a little more outreach. there is questions about financial aid and things that fall into the categories and those sort of things. i'm looking to blazing new paths forward. >> supervisor stefani: i wanted to thank you for your service and passion on this and reaching out through the e-mail. i didn't have a chance to e-mail you back, but i received it and it's so important that people reach out through e-mail about ever the committee meetings, but i commend you on your passion and thank you for your service. >> thank you, i'd love to have a cup of coffee some day. >> if we have questions we'll call you back up. any members of the public wish

to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisor yee: i'll make a positive recommendation to appoint conny ford to city college financial assistance fund oversight committee clerk of the board. >> supervisor safai: great. without objection, that item is moved forward. congratulations. congratulations.

>> i worked for the new york city mayor office in economic development. i teach economics now in the design mba program at california college of the arts. my children going to school. i learned about the eastern neighborhoods a couple of years ago given my children's school expansion. i spend a lot of time in this neighborhood. it was my first exposure to san francisco. where i worked on project

including the barclays center in downtown brick lynn, the revitalization of time square as well as lower manhattan after 9/11, i'm really interested in how the city of thinking of wholesale neighborhood in this space. over the couple of years, i've watched the population of the area has grown and changed and how new housing and retail has come in. as the space gets more active in the space of city life i'm interested to see how the city collectcollects input. we're building housing, as you probably know, but i also have my students out in the neighborhood much more than i used to. they interviewed hundreds of homeless residents in the fall. you know, from the perspective of students who spend a lot of time in this neighborhood, it's changing quite a bit. i think we're currently the only middle school. as we look at the changing

landscape of the neighborhood, we think about things over there in the context of crossing the streets, open space, parks, we are a school that's grounded in civic engagement. we think a lot about the ways in which our students go out in the community and serve the community. it's an interesting moment to me in san francisco and this is the most exciting neighborhood i kind of wish i lived here actually. i'm really excited to hear more about the 16th street plan. i would like the idea of the from' very much. i think the warriors are a very interesting opportunity. i'm interesting in traffic and street crossings and things like that. it's a really important neighborhood we get right as a city. so i'm delated to be here ask to present my qualifications to you guys today. >> what's the name of the school your kids go to? >> live oak school. >> ok. >> great.

>> any questions? supervisor sheehy has joined us. do you want to say anything? >> well. >> are you here for this item. >> she's my appointment? >> for both. >> you can say you came for that? i'm just kidding. >> i ran down. i met with sarah. her experience in new york and her background makes her extremely well qualified for this position. as a fellow parent, i think her commitment to kids in this city is important as we start to talk about how we build out our neighborhoods. the perspective is powerful. >> great. thank you. thank you for joining us.

>> any other members of the public wish to comment on this idea. public comment is closed. entertain a motion. supervisor stephanie. >> yes, i move -- now i'm going to get the move wrong. sarah bahat to c7 on the eastern neighborhoods citizen advisory board with recommendations. >> great. and that motion is seconded. congratulations and approved. >> thank you. call the next item. >> item number 6 is ordinance waving refunding investigations fees imposed for persons registered with the office of cannabis. >> great. unless there's any initial comments from committee members, i'd like to hand it over to supervisor sheehy. i know he would like to say a few words first. >> sure.

i want to recognize nicole elliott from the office of cannabis and what this legislation does is really try to rectify a consequence built into our regulations. we wanted to get everyone, this really relates more it's not about the retail operations. obviously for those of us, stefani you were lucky you were not here for cannabis legislation. >> we can make some amendments so she can participate. >> maybe some public comments, et cetera, et cetera. we wanted to bring the supply chain into compliance with the city regulations, city rules and they largely were outside because there was no pathway for

them to be functioning as a legal business. unlike the retail operations which were able to function legally as medical cannabis dispensaries. in doing that, they're all coming in seeking licenses and permits for the city, but especially where it goes to land use questions, they haven't been up to code so department of business was there and obviously because they weren't part of a process of getting legalized in the beginning, a lot of code violations are being discovered. now, given the way our rules were, cold violations including fines on top of fixing the violations. this is something they cannot

wave. we don't want these punitive fines to be a barrier or obstruction or deterrent to businesses coming into the legal market and complying with all of our rules and regulations. so what this legislation does is wave those fines and penalties so that we can continue our work, which i get, i salute director elliott in what must be unimaginably complicated and difficult work getting all these businesses into compliance. we would like to -- what this does is removes the fines and penalties for these businesses as we get them into the legal -- appropriate legal framework and in compliance with the rules and regulations in the city and county. >> we thought it was important enough to pull it out of another committee and get it on here.

>> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> we felt like that was a necessary move essentially given the fact that the whole conversation, as you've said, when we were drafting the legislation, was to pull people out of the woodwork for lack of a better word and we want to give them the incentive to come forward and be legalized businesses and that process we don't want to penalize them to come forward. so i see a great value in this and i think the trade off is a small amount in terms of what we get in return because director elliott were talk about bringing them out of the shadows allows us to then create revenue for the city and job opportunities and work with them to expand their businesses. so, director elliott, did you want to speak on that? >> supervisors, thank you for having me here today and again, thank you for the efforts made

to move this out of another committee into this committee so we can move it forward more quickly. as you mentioned, every day these dollars don't go reimbursed to these operators is a day that they have less money to meet compliance we're asking them to meet. registration process was meant to serve as an amnesty process for operators to start working with the city towards compliance and ensuring that we see these operators move towards compliance and providing a fair pathway for them to do that is the only way that we can be successful in creating i legal market place in san francisco and reducing the unregulated market place that previously existed through no quality of their own. it is in the best interest to do this so i want to thank you guys for considering this today. i want to give a shout out to the many inspectors who have

participated in this process and supervisor sheehy, these are fees being imposed by operators by the department of building inspection and by their inspectors for work done without a permit and so they do not have the authority to not issue these penalties so this ordinance would give them that authority. we're also being joined by inspectors from the department of public-health, the fire department and my office. up to 12 inspectors are visiting these sites on a daily basis. it's been an enormous undertaking and proven to be helpful in preventing life safety issues we're seeing at some of these operators' locations and in starting to move them towards compliance in a fairway. with that, i just want to state that this ordinance was heard by the building inspection commission last week and unanimously supported by the commission so they are also in favor of waving these penalties. with that i'm happy to answer

questions you may have. >> i think we'll call back up. i have a series of about 50 questions -- >> i'm prepared. [laughter] any members of the public wish to comment on this item. seeing none. public comments closed. any last words supervisor sheehy before we make a motion? >> i just wanted to thank you and the committee for considering this and for taking it on to expedite it. >> you are welcome. >> entertain a motion on this item. >> norman. supervisor yee. >> i'll make a motion. >> to cause and recommendation to the full board. >> i think that's all we need. >> does she want it as a committee. expedited. >> no, no. this is good. positive recommendation. >> ok. thank you.

do we need to -- that's a good question. do we need to send thought as a committee report to go? >> no. >> it will make the next report. >> ok, great. >> ok. >> so the motion is to send it with a positive recommendation. secondedwithout objection that item is ordered. congratulations. any other matters before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned, thank you.

>> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that

public investment has transformed our neighborhood. >> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features.

>> the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay.

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