francisco and we are raising kids just like everybody else -- when was san francisco ever a follower? we are leaders. help us set an example by normalizing cannabis. unfair tax burden will lead to the flight of businesses from san francisco taking with it blue collar jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities we are helping to create. >> howdy. jim freeburn. i am a cultivator in the 10th district and we have a temporary micro business right now and a member of the california growers association, san francisco chapter and i want to thank you supervisor cohen and fewer for

coming to our meeting. we appreciate the amendments and working with uses to get our feet on the ground. i have one specific request, and that is to simply take a nurturing approach for us in the industry. i hope to build a thriving business in the next few years, but i hope to just simply survive this year and next year and probably the year after that. we have a lot of expenses in front of us. our business is getting into a c. u. process right now. we have a long catalog of new fees we will be paying and right now the whole market is uncertain and the supply chain is shaking itself out and it will take years for the retail to get built where our products will land, but in the meantime we need to survive and then there is downward pressure on

prices. i have lived here all that time and my daughter is going to san francisco state and we have lived a comfortable life, but we and my partner have not gotten rich here and we don't own a home. we are example of typical business. >> typical cannabis business. >> i would say a typical business. if you help us get on our feet we can build industry here together that will prosite employment opportunities and please nurture us while we are getting going. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> i am a policy group student at berkeley, and also have been interested in working with a

number of cannabis startupst. i just wanted to first of all taking the due diligence to reach out to the community and get their feedback before proposing those amendments, that has been really helpful, but i want to make a specific concern regarding one of the propositions within the new law, and that is the fact that the proceeds of the cannabis business tax would be deposited in the general fund and could be used for any purpose in the city. i feel this proposition would better be useful for bringing the black market into compliance. because we are putting a lower cannabis tax rate, i feel that the shorter amount of money that we would get would be better used for a more specific case and best catered towards

bringing the black market towards compliance. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> my name is rob king and i would like to add my voice today as a local grower with sense. we are trying to set an example for creating batches of small -- cannabis. we run our facility on renewable energy via the city's clean power program and proud to align with the city's climate change goals. we had the sfpd over the other day and we invite you to join and check out our facility. we don't do these things because

we have to, but we are trying to set a positive street for the city to have san francisco. we are good neighbors and i think we are the kind of neighbors that the city of san francisco wants. it is a huge risk to move our business here we are not a tech industry. . we are dealing with incredibly high rent and limited space. when it comes to taxation, we just want to be taxed like any similar small business brave enough to give it a go here in san francisco. to propose a tax rate many times the rate of noncannabis-based businesses wil. we want to be taxed in line with

any other business. >> i'm here today to advocate for a tax policy group that's fair for the industry. i degree notes are goini agree that it is going in the right direction. the industry is very hard to enter. anytime you have industry that require as huge amount of overhead and then you add taxation on that, they are not even getting any sort of relief at the federal level also, it can be very high and san francisco has equity program and this equity program is very well

intentioned by taxing at this high rate is i guess unintended consequence that will kill the equity program because these applicants already have a hard time getting capital and on top of that a very high tax burden, it will probably force some of them into the black market or have the black market continue. the goal of the city should be to get the black market licensed and permitted so that way the industry can grow rather than to force businesses back into the black market. i would like the city to propose a zero or one percent tax

overall. >> thank you for your engagement on this issue and for your brilliant and energetic staff we appreciate your engagement in past week and beyond, and i also thank you for the amendments today. it is headed in the right direction, so i just want to advocate for an amendment that we have proposed which would rather than impose a tax as a percentage in article 30 that you have proposed, it would define the tax as relating back to the gross receipts tax that already exists in san francisco and adding a multiplier for cannabis. i think this accomplishes three of the immediate goals right now. one is normalizing the cannabis

industry. treating cannabis is different just because is part of the policy group problem of sales regulation right now. it would address that and address the need of a higher tax right now, but it also allows the city to tier it to the gross receipts tax going forward in 2020 when that is readdressed, it's possible that the multiplier could be reduced or eliminated all together because it might not be necessary in 2020. if we continue to create cannabis as a separate tax, that gets baked in for longer and less ability to be nimble in the structure for cannabis going forward. i hope we can only to engage on this over the next week. thank you very much for the engagement on this issue.

>> bridget may. i run a small manufacturing company in san francisco. i am still waiting to get licensure, and like many other small manufactures that's been a hurdle to even get back into business. i live here and i have called this great city my home since 1989, and i would absolutely prefer to have my business stay here, however, i have to admit that the other cities and jurisdictions are looking for attractive. i support normalizing cannabis taxes to bring them on par with other businesses and make san francisco for attractive to other businesses like myself. >> thank you for the amendments. my gave is dave hula and we

build software for the industry. i am also a husband to my wife stephanie who is a cannabis marshmallow maker here in the city. these are some of the handicaps she has experienced trying to build this up for the last three years. with guiding text principles, the first is around equity and fairness. taxing similarly taxed payers and tax rates. she is a marshmallow maker an and she can't get a bank, whereas another person that doesn't have noninfusion can do that.

the second principle is the ability to pay taxes. taxes should be noncausing undue financial distress, and with her, she hasn't had the ability to deduct business expenses. she is looking at 20 to 30 percent of expenses not to be able to deduct, which is really difficult. the third economic growth and deficiency. we should not have tax policy group that punishes the growth of her business and just having four months to get a building permit to put an ada bathroom in the city has slowed down her ability to work through this. the last point is minimizing noncompliance. the state already sees a big thriving black market because of the overregulation and taxation we have an opportunity to go

another direction. >> good afternoon. i actually know both of you from when i worked downstairs in this building. in addition to the principles of tax policy group i have other considerations i would like to be present and central in this debate at all times. what place does the board of supervisors see for cannabis in the city's ecosystem. is the intent to nurture or encourage this industry? what is the extra tax revenue for, these businesses already pay one gross receipt to tax. if a second is collected will it be leveraged for other campaigned throughout the commune. what about brings those currently under taxes and industries up to fairity instead

of adding to an already ave overtaxed industry. although our idea is to tax cannabis in the same way other businesses are taxed, if the board is set on treating the business differently maybe that would bring us closer to what david just spoke of. there are many cities that look at cannabis and see a source of tax revenue, but we don't have to do that. we are small businesses and have families and i hop let's be inclusive and fair and welcome this community instead of

siloing it and feeding misconceptions. >> if there are any other speakers that would like to comment, please get in line. >> my name is loss gor dens and i work with california grower's association. i work around the state and at the state level. i think the idea that medical cannabis should not be taxed and there is a recognition that there is regulation with the market are important issues of tax policy group. i think that the problems with competition with the unregulated market is hard to emphasize just how serious those are, and you may be a ware that first quarter tax numbers have come in and

they are about 40% of what was estimated. it was 38 million and that was supposed to be closer to 80 million or so. even that underestimates the problem. so about 10% less than that of the cannabis being purchased is being purchased on a legal market. the average tax rate hoar in california on cannabis businesses is quite a bit higher not just than other businesses but even cannabis businesses in other states. the average tax in california is 40% higher than the tax in colorado and about double that

which is in oregon. this idea that there needs to be greater parity and how can we regulate without additional burdens on it, that kind of paradigm shift. >> i ran a business from 2015 to 2017 until i was a pre-existing non-conforming operator. san francisco you guys have proposed one of the allowest tax rates in the state, so i can't really be mad at you, but i think you can do better. >> you're welcome. [laughter] >> san francisco has always been a leader and item 20 important to be a leader in progreesessive

values in the city and you have the opportunity to lessen the burden on cannabis businesses here. it's already really expensive to do business in san francisco. we have talked about this before of the committee pound effect and i know that you have been looking at it so thank you again for that, but if you have one percent that you moved it too, it is still compounding on each cultivation, manufacture, distribution, retail, plus sales tax, so all we ask is to be treated like every other business in san francisco. if we are going to tax more to

help our equity partners and to help with education, sure, but just to tax simply because it's cannabis is not the way to be a leader in the state of california. thanks. thanks. >> good afternoon, supervisor cohen and supervisor fewer. i want to echo support from any of my colleagues because i am not an export. i came in as an artist, but as i started to transition the business into a legalized structure, i started realizing the amount of money i was going to bring was in less too because i was going to are to pay employees and the amount that we pay on our properties is even

taxed more properties were like $1.75 now they are like $4 for us. coming in here i was like 2% and then hearing the 1%, thank you for lowering it, but learning that is still more than other businesses are paying in fra san francisco as business owners, i felt like we are still considered to be a sin and not n normalized at all, so i encourage you to work with us to figure out something that is workable and normalizes the industry. >> i don't see anyone else in line but i would like to give a last call. seeing none, public comment is

closed. [gavel] supervisor fewer, any comments? at that point i want to pivot to ted eagen who wrote a knowledge memo. could you present to us your memo? >> thank you, ted eagen, controller's office appreciate the recommendation. we initially felt this was too small to require and economic impact report but your office asked us for this memo to subject what would be the overall impact and as you suggest, we have a couple of facts to add to the discussion. like any stacks would have

adverse effect on the industry and consumers, whether it would lead to contraction of the industry depends on two things, first, what is the overall growth, and secondly what is the ability of the industry to pass the tax on to consumers. if consumers pay the tax that doesn't harm the economy. one of the things we know is that from the first quarter of last year when it was not legal to the first quarter of this year when it was. -- they had revenues grow by 25%. some of that is consumption by some that were not consuming cannabis a year ago and now

are. if just a quarter of that is an increase in prices, then the industry as a whole could absorb a two to five increase in taxes. secondly, reviewing the existing research on cannabis demand, it does seem that consumers are price insensitive to price increase in cannabis -- at the retail level in particular is feasible. based on our number crunches we think conservative estimate we think about half the tax could be passed on to consumers which means it would feel like a 1% to

2% tax. this makes us feel like it is fairly unlikely that would result in a contraction of the industry to the pre 2017 levels. >> supervisor cohen: ted is an economist, he doesn't work for the mayor's office, he is an independent entity so his reports are based on empirical research and the point i'm trying to make is that it's not favored or skewed towards any one entity and we asking him for a data analysis and it is based on that we will drive it forward, so thank you. i recognize there is not much

information out there to some of the speaker's points there is data coming in that will shape the legislation, which is why i really wanted to build in some mechanism to allow for adjustment for the tax rate. what i would like to do supervisor fewer is to make a motion to accept the amendments and then i'm going to ask that we continue this item until july 19. all right. i will make a motion to accept the amendments and we will do this without objection. please note that the house has changed. supervisor fewer and i are here and we will take this without objection and continue this to july 19,. [gavel] thank you for continuing this conversation. is there any further business. >> there is none. >> supervisor cohen: thank you ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourneit.

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there's a fire or any other emergency. many of the officials standing behind me are the ones that will be in charge to help our city move forward and address those particular issues. and one of the take aways from today's meeting is that we need to make sure that san franciscans are prepared. we need to make sure that you visit 72.org or alertsf because we know when a disaster hits, you know, sometimes, our resources are restrained. we know we can prepare as much as we can try on a city level, but ultimately, we want to make sure that every san franciscan is doing all that they can to prepare, as well. so that is the take away from this meeting as well as some of the things that we are definitely going to improve on, including making sure that many of our senior population, that

we specifically do something to support what their address and concerns might be. i was actually -- actually, i grew up here right across the street, and i was here during the '89 earthquake, and i remember the lights being out, and it being dark at night, and the power not coming on for days, and a number of other issues that occurred during that time. and so we can definitely learn from some of the things that have happened here in san francisco in the past, and i am excited that even during the time that i served as acting mayor, when we had a terrorist threat because of the men and women standing behind me, that was averted, and so that is the kind of thing we've done here in san francisco is to continue to coordinate with our state and federal officials to make sure that san francisco is in the best condition to address any issue. it's not a question of, you know, when is an earthquake coming. we don't know. we know the fact that it is going to potentially come

because this is earthquake country. and so here in san francisco, it's important for us to be prepared, so please make sure that you visit 72.org and alert sf. [inaudible] >> thank you. and if you have any questions, please call 3-1-1, and i'm willing to take up to a few questions.

[inaudible] >> so i just started yesterday at 11:43 a.m., and i've already been meeting with a number of officials, including one of the most important things that we need to do, and that is, of course, protect the public. and so having meetings and meeting with department heads, our public safety officials, and doing what's necessary to understand exactly what's happening now, and making the decisions to improve on what is already happening is important and what i plan to do. it will take time. there -- this problem that has existed in san francisco was not created overnight, so to get to a better place, it will take time. and so i am committed to working with all of our department heads and others for the purposes of getting to a better place. i love this city. i grew up here. i want it to be a cleaner city. i want it to be a safer city for all of our residents. i'm committed to safe injection sites and to doing our

conservatorship program in a way that effectively helps address the challenges of mental illness, something that we know is impacting our homeless population more than anything else, along with addiction -- challenges with addiction. and so i'm committed -- i'm started. i started, and i'm moving forward. when we can see the results is yet to be determined, but i'm looking forward to just really pushing forward as aggressively as i can to get the job done. [inaudible] >> what kind of push back are you anticipating from fellow members of the board -- [inaudible] >> well, actually, i'm not sure if you're aware, but about last week or two weeks ago -- the days are just blending right in together. i went to sacramento with

supervisor rafael mandelman to support senator scott wiener's bill, sb 245. he is a support of sb 1045, along with other members of the board of supervisors, and it passed through committee unanimously. i am hopeful -- i had a conversation with the governor about it. i'm hopeful it gets through. it got through the senate. hopefully, it'll get through the assembly, and if the governor signs the legislation, he would have to opt in for the purposes of using this tool here locally. and i'm feeling good about this particular legislation taking effect here in san francisco based on the support from the board of supervisors. maybe not all members of the board will support it, but i think that there's sufficient support to get it enacted here. >> in terms of emergency preparedness, were you just briefed or were you --

[inaudible] >> yes. [inaudible] >> i didn't hear the last part. [inaudible] >> so it's not a rumor. ann kroneberg announced last week that she had plans to retire. as far as briefing, yes, there was definitely a conversation about a briefing, but also, again, the recommendation around making sure that our senior population is aware or prepared or gets the kinds of resources they need to be prepared for these natural disasters because not everyone's on the internet, not everyone has access to a cell phone, so we have to remember that we do have a vulnerable population here, and we need to make sure there's another system to outreach to them. so what we will do here in san francisco is look at what exists and improve upon our systems for the purposes of

keeping all residents here in san francisco safe. [inaudible] >> well, as you may know, greg, as a former member of the board of supervisors here in san francisco, i have had, really, the strongest environmental record on the board. pushing forward, our styrofoam ban, the save the bay ballot measure, getting cleanpowersf through this board, the single most important thing we can do to combat climate change. this is something that has to be an important part of what we do, in addition to getting our seawall prepared. so this is something that's really important to me, i know it's important to the governor,

so i'm looking forward to this summit and the work that we hopefully will accomplish as a as a result of bringing leaders from all over the world here to san francisco to discuss this really important issue. thank you for your question. >> and we have time for one more question. otherwise -- >> when do you plan to make your appointment to district 5? is that coming today or tomorrow? >> of course. as always, josh, you're always nosy, aren't you? i'm just kidding, josh. i will let you know when i make that appointment when i make the appointment. [inaudible] >> yes, i'm interviewing candidates. i'm talking to residents of the district. i've been talking to a lot of residents here in district 5, asking questions, what do they want to see in a supervisor, what are their recommendations? i've gotten a lot of e-mails, i've gotten a lot of phone c l

calls, and so we're still working our way through the process. this is still my home. this is an amaze be community of people who -- amazing community of people who have come together and been through a lot, so i want to make sure the supervisor, someone who is not focused on politics but who is focused on the people of this district. that is going to be so important, and someone, of course, that i can work with on the board for the purposes of continuing to do many of the things that we started here when i served as supervisor. >> have you narrowed it down to a certain number of people? >> yes. >> how many? >> i'm not going to tell you that. >> that's all we have time for. thank

>> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural

district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet,

but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one

of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience.

i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia.

there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood.

it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve.

>> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture.

i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy, >> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the

airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main

goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade. >> one of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and it's on a different level.

more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. >> we look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete a certification process. and they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior

travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. >> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. >> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the

stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are

stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig. >> wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of

the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi. we are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. ♪

1951, 60 years ago, our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center -- rec center. >> i was 10 years old at the time. i spent just about my whole life here. >> i came here to learn dancing. by we came -- >> we had a good time. made a lot of friends here. crisises part of the 2008 clean neighborhood park fund, and this is so important to our families. for many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. this is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. >> a reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is

because it is part of the history of i hear -- to name this rec center, is because it is part of the history of san francisco. >> they took off from logan airport, and the call of duty was to alert american airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. >> i would like to claim today the center and the naming of it. [applause] >> kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong -- the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping- pong, so i accept your challenge. ♪

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