older adults. the presentation, and all the information, is available on the long-term care coordinating council's website. including minutes, agenda, other things like that. so if folks would like to review you can look at that and contact me directly. do you have any questions? >> thank you, valerie. any comments or questions? >> any comments or questions of the public? thank you, again. >> thank you. >> the case report. no case report. the nominating committee is recommending the commission to reappoint the following advisory council members who are incumbent. william marota, kay parek, and beverly taylor. because this is coming from the nominating committee we don't need a second. do we have any discussion? any comments or questions from

the public? call to question all in favor of reappointing these three? >> aye. >> any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. please thank and congratulate all three. right now it's time for general public comment and that is for anything that is not on the agenda. please come up. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is anna sylvester. i have one visual i'm going to show on the projector in my speech. i'm here to ask for your support and your e-mail help. the sfmta board meets next tuesday, august 21st, here at

1:00. to vote on final approval of the gerry rapid project. there are no more appeals. the m.t.a. staff recommendation is to lead the 38 inbound stop at starking and not to relocate the stop to goff and gerry. this is not a good recommendation for seniors and people with disabilities. here is why -- the current stop is isolated, scene of crime, and dark at night. in m.t.a.'s words there are no eyes. what that means is there's nobody around. >> please speak into the mic. >> sorry. there's no one around to see you. it's a long, winding hill. it is scary at night, it's scary in the morning too. it's notorious. there are people loitering,

sleeping in the bushes, around there and everything else. so i can't take this stop anymore. i'm afraid to stay there. wait for the bus or get off the bus. the current stop is on the slope hill. it's difficult for seniors and disabled to dis mount and get off and on the bus. especially if you have a baby stroller, wheelchair, shopping start, et cetera. i myself have trouble doing this. the proposed stop is open and visible with a lot of eyes. it is in front of saint mary's cathedral. you can see what is going on there. you don't have to be afraid to stand and wait for the bus. it's' year to get on and off. the proposed stop is the site of community meetings, conventions, tourists and pilgrim destinations as well as a

landmark and architect actual gem in our city. here is a list of community stakeholders who support relocating the stop to goff and gerry. m.t.a. accessibility advisory committee or mack. the m.t.a. owned advisory supporting supports relocation, yes, you heard that right. senior disability action supports relocation. the cathedral saint mary's cathedral. the cathedral hill tower homeowners association. the dr. ellen clark, grace cathedral. patricia tuttle, mr. don lee, mr. murray, fifth church of christ the scientist 450 or farrell street. deconan see brian. robert brown stone attorney, sean fletcher. >> thank you. >> steve white and i will conclude by just asking you to e-mail the mta board to support relocation of the inbound 38 to gough and geary.

the board meeting is next tuesday at 1:00. >> thank you, very much. any other general public comments? hearing none. any old business? hearing none. new business? item a. requesting authorization to modify the exiting grand agreement with institute on aging for the provision of increasing the center for elderly suicide prevention and grovgrief-related services for programs capacity. during the period of july 12,018th through june 302,019th for $180,000, for a new grand amount of 485,273, plus a 10% contingency for a new total amount not to exceed $533,800, welcome. >> good afternoon. president, commissioners and

director mcspadden. i am program annalist. today where here to seek your approval for a modification to i.o.a.s, center for elderly suicide prevention as known as the cesp program. the cesp program provides 24/7 crisis support to older adults and adults with disabilities. out calls that increase social connectiveness for isolated individuals. as well as grief support groups, grief counseling sessions and outreach and education for caregivers, and provencials related to topics on suicide risk, assessment and suicide prevention. the program has seen a increase in its demand for services over the past three years. additionally, the community education and training sessions it provides. during that time, the program has provided more than 2,000 individual grief counseling sessions, provided trainin traid outreach to 3,900 individuals

and served 5,000 residents in san francisco. in addition to the increase call volume, cesp has seen a shift in the types of calls it receives. callers are presenting with more complex emotional issues, including showing initial signs of mental health issues, as evidence by exhibiting symptoms such as delusional thoughts, paranoia, anxiety and depression. it could be relighted to increase in promotion and awareness of the program services through insurance companies, clinics and other community providers. to manage and properly serve clients in the community need, csp is looking to increase services, which includes increases in staffing, as follows with proposed contract modifications. the program will use additional funding to help pay for five friendship line councillors, part of their role is to support and manage the volunteer staff.

the program will be using funds to cover the cost associated with training the volunteers. which is a corner stone of the cesp program. last fiscal year, they had 176 volunteers come through the program. costs with training volunteers include background checks, putting together and producing materials for a training binder that every volunteer receives. in addition to providing lunch for the all-day training sessions they have for volunteers throughout the year. the program will use funds to pay for the overnight supervisor of the friendship line. this is a 24 hour crisis line so the crisis line is operative for 15 hours a day during normal business hours and in the evening hours there's a volunteer each night that staffs the phone line for crisis calls that come in. additionally, the program will be increasing service units to increase the call volume and need for program services in the

following catagories. i'm going to speak to the service unit increase that's will happen. first, the unduplicated client will increase from 850 to 1200 per contract year. the hours for grief education. we're talking hours not individuals. the hours for grief education, training and community outreach will increase from 25 hours per contract year to 50 contract hours per year. the number of participants who are provided grief education and training will increase from 500 per contract year to 725 per contract year. the number of unduplicated consumers provided formally motional support increasing from 125 consumer a year to 150 per contract year. and finally, the number of individual grief counseling sessions will increase from 50 per contract year to 150 per contract year. thank you for your time and i'm happy to answer any questions

that you may have. >> thank you, very much, mike. any comments or questions from the commission? commissioner lou. >> what is the patten for this program? in san francisco we have different ethnic groups. do they have bilingual people in different languages? >> that's a great question. right now services are provided in english and spanish. i.o.a.cesp program looks to engage diverse communities within san francisco to get individuals to come in that speak multiple languages. there's active involvement when they're out doing their training education and their promotion to seek out bilingual individuals to help with the program. at times, we're able to get more people. there's a low. they did have chinese-speaking capacity with some of the volunteers later in the last fiscal year. those people have since moved on

and now they're actively looking to recruit more volunteers from the chinese community. >> we have a large asian population in the city. i thought, you know, maybe with all the staff at least they could be actively recruiting bilingual-asian and volunteers just are volunteers. >> correct, yes, my understanding is they are actively pursuing that and it's part of the interview process to find out if they have bilingual capacity. chinese and spanish and the targeted languages in san francisco. >> when they do the educational to the community and other agencies, do they have bilingual materials? do you know? >> to my knowledge they don't have bilingual materials at this time. >> will you be encouraging them to have bilingual materials, because, you know, we a diverse

community in the city of san francisco. >> it's a point that's very well made and i agree and part of my on going conversation with leadership and cesp is diverse staffing and looking into getting materials translated as appropriate into alternate languages. >> one last question. and i just feel very uncomfortable about the increase of the rent on the last page. it's jumps from $9,856 to $19,445. i mean, i know that -- i brought this question up in the past. it's like a base on the number of the staff. but it really -- i just feel uncomfortable about only having four additional staff and a

little increase of other staff and yet the rent has gone up so much. i'm a program person. i just felt like if we have less to reduce the operating costs, we will be more beneficial to have the program. >> sure. >> john. good afternoon. contracts director for h.s.a. we'll see this a lot more with the increases in rent. i'm sure the commission understand the non profits are struggling with the cost to rent. it drives a lot of the non profits out of the city. out of city government, there's a program to help support non profits to stay in the city. so having said that, when we review the contracts as they come in from the program and we present them to the commission, we look at line items and try to

see if they're within a reasonable cost. and so, a lot of times with non profits they own the property so there's zero rent. in the old days, if you were to break it down per f.t.e. it might be 200 or 300 per person per month. on this i think it's 5.6 and it comes around 430 -- it us didmendoesn'ttake into account . nowadays square foot for office is $76 per square foot. this is actually -- where we're seeing the increase is. some of the stuff for some of the programs we're seeing $900 per person per month and this false in the $430. it's a big jump but i think it's a reflection of cost to rent, office rent in the city. it is one thing, i think an easy rule of thumb is to take it and

divide it into the rent and try to factor in if there's additional space that that program uses. >> institute on aging have their own buildings so they have no threat of increasing rent. isn't that right? >> i.o.a. is here. you can talk to them? >> it's their own building. >> my name is car -- >> speak into the mic. >> i'm the senior director of behavior health. i oversee the friendship program. this is mia greg the director of the friendship line. i.o.a. owns the building. >> may i ask a question. it's my understanding that some of the programs of i.o.a. have

been utilized at a building owned by cpmc that they lost that lease and so they're actively looking for office space. i'm wondering if this is part of that issue? >> i don't know that i'm qualified to provide the answer to that question. i don't know whether or not that is what would contribute to this. that is true, we have lost space and we're seeking out additional space for our programs. >> ok. >> we're not sure if this program represents incremental, actual incremental cost in terms of rent or a riel occasion of existing rent. we don't have the answer to that, is that right? >> so our rent is based on a standard equation used across all programs in the organization. it's based on, as was said, f.t.e. and square footage and

so, our program is quite large. we have over 100 volunteers at any given time. we actually have a fair amount of square footage within our building. the rent that was presented is based on adding those f.t.e. in a larger space. previous personnel allocated were generally in much smaller office spaces sharing -- you know, two desks within a space that was previously for one person. you are seeing an expansion because it's in a larger space. >> and again, even if the premises are owned, there are expenses associated with rental property, they would have to be allocated out. this program, is it taking place in owned premises or in leased premises? >> owned premises. >> owned premises. so this represents an allocation to in theory, the costs are fixed so another program would

be getting less of an allocation, which mayor may not be a program we'rmay -- may orme funding. >> one thing that sometimes i think for non profits in the budget, there are costs that are associated that are treated as rent that are not rent. there's ways to capture through depreciation and other items. i think we'll have to look at this budget item and categorize it in terms of how it's charged and determine what costs come under it. >> what might be helpful in the future for issues like this, is if we might told whether this is actually an incremental expense to the agency or rie re allocatn of existing expense. any other comments or questions? >> i just want to thank you for the presentations but also on

the challenges non profits face. my organization convenes the c.e.o.s of the 15 major faith-based non profits, which, during the great recession, were being asked to cut their budgets by 30% and the programs and staff were disappearing. they were never fully reinstated and with the housing affordability crisis and the real estate affordability crisis, so many of them were displaced. and so, they are struggling. they continue to struggle. the issue of retaining and attracting staff is an equal struggle. i just wanted to thank you for highlighting that. i would also ask, with the question of language --

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>> i don't have the latest numbers off the top of my head. i can get those for you. there has been an increasing age 50 and above the. we can get those to you off-line eric and the other part of this is a communities are more aware of the friendship line than they were in previous years. there is a more common resource that may be four or five years ago. now there is a combination of statistics of suicide rates of for seniors increasing, and then locally, more communities, more providers out there and referring clients to it. it is a combination of both. i will get you those numbers so you have them for reference. >> president serina: don't go to a great deal of trouble, it is just something to monitor. because if the need is

increasing as well as the awareness, then we may want to look at this again. thank you. any other comments or questions? called the question. all in favor? >> we actually have to wait for commissioner loo to return. >> president serina: thank you. [laughter] >> you don't have a soft shoe act? >> president serina: i do. but i did not bring it. music art -- [laughter] >> may i ask a more -- more questions about the friendship line in general? with this modification and the questions that have proceeded, with this modification helped me to demand -- do we have the capacity of volunteers and resources to meet the perceived demand that is out there clearly does this get us there? >> that is a great question as

well. the program for program file for the last three years has physically seen the increasing services needed. they are monitoring visits. they have met or exceeded their service units. the areas where we are seeing increases is based on the fact that there are more people in need and more people calling in and more people wanting the outreach. the big indicator could be the tripling of the grief counselling sessions. i mean, that is huge. that is the in person or group sessions. entered -- individual. you know, when i was reviewing the service unit increase, that is one that stuck with me the most. the individual need for support around loss and grief. >> president serina: out of curiosity, are there care for the caregiver programs we for folks who are injuring secondary

trauma. >> right. there is a component of that in the program with the grief and loss groups. sometimes people call in who have lost somebody and maybe they're not exactly suicidal, but they are going through a major life trauma and to the friendship line has the capacity to field the call and get them appropriate services, whether it is with this program or something else. >> my question was more towards a volunteers who are on the line or the staffing. is there some support for five them? >> that's a great question. the friendship line counsellors that are now staffed, there is someone there for every hour of the day picked a 15 hour shift is supervised by the friendship line counsellors. they are there for for the volunteers if they have any questions. if an unexpected call comes in that they need assistance with, yeah. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions?

all in favor? any opposed degree thank you. the motion carries. item b. requesting authorization to enter into a new grant with trans- metro for at the provision to provide transportation services for office of the public conservator and adult protective services during the period of september first 2018, through june 30th, 2021 in the total amount, not to exceed $80,000. welcome, sandra. >> good afternoon president and commissioners and executive director. i am the program manager at the public conservator office. in the regular function of the public conservator office and the adult protective services program, we often need transportation services to serve clients who have very high levels of need. through the use of this contract, will be able to provide this service to those

linked to these programs. the public conservator uses a service approximately 5-6 times a month, typically to transport clients between varying levels of care to attend legal proceedings, and/or medical appointments. the adult protective services context, transportation is used to assist clients to meet with legal services providers, attend medical appointments and/or to obtain benefits. commissioners, i seek your approval for this contract. thank you for for the consideration and i am happy to answer any questions you may have. >> president serina: thank you. any comments or questions? >> i did have one quick question. so the staff for trans- metro will provide couriers to vulnerable clients. whether it be mental illness, physical fair teat -- failed to, welt -- wheelchair device mobility, et cetera, are they also et cetera, are they also trained in cultural competency, lgbtq awareness, different language considerations as well?

>> that's a really good question. i believe that came up in one of the discussions, but i defer to the contracts manager to verify. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions? commissioner loo? >> president serina: we have not asked for public comment. >> good afternoon. and the project manager. although those are very good traits and skill sets that was not part of the original association we had. however, that is something that if we need to incorporate as part of the dissociation going forward, we certainly would like to take that into consideration. >> sure. >> president serina: commissioner into consideration. >> sure. >> president serina: commissioner loo? >> vice president loo: this is a new contract, ok. how many people bid for this contract? how many agencies? >> two. >> vice president loo: how many? >> two. >> vice president loo: so they were selected.

i have a question. this is a new program. how would the client be -- before this, how was this handled in transporting the client's? >> through our previous contractor. this is a new contract for for us. we had a previous provider. >> vice president loo: oh, oh, k. how many clients are we talking about? >> we use the service about 5-6 times a month. our unit caseload is about 550 people. it is not often. >> vice president loo: ok. i just looked at the budget. it seems like its a little bit high. eighty-five dollars an hour. i don't know. i do not have any money to take this. [laughter] i am just wondering, is $85 an hour, and is a minimum of 44 hours per trip. am i correct? >> that is correct.

>> vice president loo: and also the attendant care is 49 dollars and 50 cents an hour. isn't that expensive? it is a question. i don't know. i know that some of the residents in my facility, they use attendant care and it is $25 an hour. and this is 4950. i am just trying to ask the question. isn't that a bit high? >> on the contract director with hsa. people are coming out of mental health facilities and are being transported from the hospital to a program or back. it is not like a normal transportation where you are just going in there. it is the rare circumstance when you have to bring in someone under that type of situation so

they can move from a facility to a home where they will live for back. so there is higher liability. >> president serina: commissioner pappas? >> commissioner pappas: typically services are provided by the driver themselves. if there are places where the park and accessibility, or if there is no parking where an attendant has to assist in this location to the actual permit itself, or have special needs, that is where the separate attendant is added. it is not a standard addition to the hour, plus the attendant. the attendant is optional. >> vice president loo: are you telling me that may be also the attendant has some special training create they are not the regular attendant that does housework? >> that is my understanding. it is also more so with the manpower and the actual assistance available.

>> vice president loo: thank you. >> president serina: what kind of vehicle do they use? do they have their own vehicle? does they have their own vehicle? >> yes, they do. they have their yard right across by 15th and scent bernardo avenue. right by ups by the freeway. >> president serina: ok. thank you. any other comments or questions? 's. >> commissioner wallenberg: i did have one other question. services will be requested by e-mail. i would assume that there is a provision if there is a crisis situation when somebody needs to be reached faster, that it would be by phone or through other means of communication. is that correct? >> that is correct. we discussed that in the event there is something more urgent, they would be willing to help us. they have a rather large fleet's. >> commissioner wallenberg: thanks. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions? and eat from the public? hearing none, called the question. all in favor?

every commissioner should say yes. thank you. any opposed. thank you. the motion carries. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> president serina: any general public comment or any announcements. >> clerk: commissioner, we have to vote on a. did weekly. >> president serina: we did. we voted on both. a and b. >> clerk: my apologies. >> president serina: >> president serina: any announcements. patty? >> good afternoon commissioners and deputy director. i wanted to announce the health and wellness affair that is coming up september 15th. it is a saturday. from 11-two i put out flyers for all of you at a put flyers out off i guess here that are in chinese, spanish and english. it is something we have been working at really hard to. we are happy to say the event is growing and we have five community business sponsors this year. we have an amazing raffle.

three vaccinations vaccinations, blood pressure checks, dental screening, and it is a family affair. it is fun for all. you are welcome to come join us. we invite you and we want to get the word out. we will be sending out electronically all over the city too. >> president serina: thank you eric any other announcements? any other public comment? do we have a motion to adjourn? >> vice president loo: so move. >> a second. >> president serina: all in favor? by rising vote, we have adjourned. [♪]

. >> my name is dave, and i play defense. >> my name is mustafa, and i am a midfielder, but right now, i am trying to play as a goalkeeper, because they need a goalkeeper. >> soccer u.s.a. is a nonprofessional organization. we use sports, soccer in particular to engage communities that can benefit from quality programs in order to lift people up, helping to regain a sense of control in one's life. >> the san francisco recreation and park department and street soccer u.s.a. have been partners now for nearly a decade. street soccer shares our mission in using sport as a vehicle for youth development and for reaching people of all

ages. rec and park has a team. >> i'm been playing soccer all my life. soccer is my life. >> i played in the streets when i was a kid. and i loved soccer back home. i joined street soccer here. it was the best club to join. it helps me out. >> the tenderloin soccer club started in the summer of 2016. we put one of our mini soccer pitches in one of our facilities there. the kids who kpriez the club team came out to utilize that space, and it was beautiful because they used it as an opportunity to express themselves in a place where they were free to do so, and it was a safe space, in a neighborhood that really isn't the most hospitalable to youth -- hospitable to youth

playing in the streets. >> one day, i saw the coach and my friends because they went there to join the team before me. so i went up to the coach and asked, and they said oh, i've got a soccer team, and i joined, and they said yeah, it was he for everybody, and i joined, and it was the best experience ever. >> a lot of our programs, the kids are in the process of achieving citizenship. it's a pretty lengthy process. >> here, i am the only one with my dad. we were in the housing program, and we are trying to find housing. my sister, she's in my country, so i realize that i have a lot of opportunities here for getting good education to help her, you know? yeah. that's the -- one of the most

important things that challenge me. >> my dad was over here, making some money because there was not a lot of jobs back home. i came here, finish elementary in san francisco. after that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. last time i went back was a couple years ago. >> i came here six months, i know nobody. now i have the team has a family, the coaches. amazing. >> i'm hoping for lifelong friendships, and i'm super inspired by what they've been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. >> i love my family, i love my team. they're just like a family. it's really nice. >> street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an

important inreflection point for street soccer u.s.a. because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just san francisco recreation and park department, and together, we're going to continue to work with our city's most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. >> i want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u.s.a., and live your life. get a better life. >> right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be okay.

>> in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. the adult use of marijuana act. san franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75%. and the law went into effect in january of 2018. [♪] >> under california's new law, adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. >> in the state of california, we passed a law that said adult consumption is legal. if you are an adult and in possession of certain amounts, you will no longer be tried. you will not be arrested or prosecuted for that. that is changing the landscape dramatically. [♪]

>> to legalization of cannabis could bring tremendous economic and social benefits to cities like san francisco. >> this industry is projected to reach $22 billion by the year 2020. and that is just a few years away. >> it can be a huge legal industry in california. i think very shortly, the actual growing of marijuana may become the biggest cash crop in the state and so you want that to be a legal tax paying cash crop, all the way down the line to a sales tax on the retail level. >> the california medical industry is a 3 billion-dollar industry last year. anticipating that multiplier as 20, 30, 50 times in the consumer marketplace once adult use is really in place, you could go ahead and apply that multiplier

to revenue. it will be huge. >> when that underground economy becomes part of the regular tax paying employment economy of the bay area, it not only has a direct impact, that money has a ripple impact through the economy as well. >> it is not just about retail. it is not just about the sensor. is about manufacturing pick a lot of innovative manufacturing is happening here in san francisco in addition to other parts of the state as well as the cultivation. we should be encouraging that. >> there is a vast array of jobs that are going to be available in the newly regulated cannabis industry. you can start at the top tier which a scientist working in testing labs. scientists working at extraction companies. and you work towards agricultural jobs. you have ones that will require less education and you look towards cannabis retail and see traditional retail jobs and you see general management jobs. those things that are similar to

working at a bar restaurant or working at a retail store. >> we are offering, essentially, high paid manufacturing jobs. typical starting wage of 18-$20 an hour, almost no barrier to entry, you do not need an education. >> that means that people who do not have college educations, working-class people, will have an opportunity to have a job at cultivating cannabis plants. there's a whole wide array of job opportunities from the seedling to the sale of the cannabis. [♪] >> last year, they said 26 million people came to san francisco. >> the tourism industry continues to be very robust here and the city and county of san francisco is about a billion-dollar industry. >> if we use a conservative cannabis user adoption rate to 15% that means 4 million tourists want that means 4 million tourists want to purchase cannabis. and we need to be ready for th

them. >> in 2015, as adult use legalization efforts gained momentum in california, the supervisors created the san francisco cannabis state legalization task force. this task force offered to research and advice to the supervisors, the mayor and other city departments. >> we knew that adult use legalization was coming to the ballot and stat that would bring with it a number of decisions that the city would have to make about zoning and regulation and so forth. and i decided at that time, at a know it was a great, that rather than have a fire drill after the ballot measure passes, as suspected it would, we should plan an event. so i authored a task force to spend a year studying it and we made it a broad-based task force. >> we prepared ourselves by developing a health impact assessment and partnered that with key stakeholder discussions

with washington, oregon, colorado, to really learn lessons from their experience rolling out both adult and medicinal cannabis. >> within days of the passing of the proposition, ed lee called on agencies to act decisively. >> he issued an executive order asking the department of public health, along with planning and other city departments to think through an internal working group around what we needed to do to consider writing this law. >> we collectively, i would say that was representatives from g.s.a., as well as the mayor's office, met with a lot of departments to talk through what prop 64 and the implementation of prop 64 it meant to them. >> the mayor proposed an office of cannabis, a one-stop shop for permits allowing operators to grow and sell cannabis. >> he wanted a smart structure. he wanted a regulatory structure

that ensured that kids didn't have access and community's were safe and that consumers were safe. and he wanted to ensure, more importantly, it was a regulatory structure that encouraged diversity and inclusivity. >> this is an office that will be solely charged with a duty of wanting not only the policies that we create, implementing and enforcing them, but also executing the licenses that are needed. we're talking about 20 different licenses that will put us into compliance with what is happening on the state level. >> this is a highly, highly regulated industry now, at this point. we have anywhere from 7-10 departments that will be working with these industry participants as they go through the permitting process. that is a lot of work at a loss of coordination. we are creating a permitting process that is smart and is digital. it is much easier for the user and for community input, and is less mired in bureaucracy.

>> for the first time ever in san francisco history, standalone licenses are available for all aspects of the nonretail side of the cannabis industry. now, a cultivator can go in to the department of building inspection and to the department of health and say, with this first registered and temporary license, and then what will eventually be a permanent license, this is the project, this is what i am going to do. >> very rarely in city government do we interact with industries that are asking to be regulated. these guys want to be regulated. they want to be compliant. they want to work with the city. that is rare. >> san francisco has created a temporary licensing process so that the pre-existing operators here in san francisco can apply for a temporary state licensed. >> we have taken teams of up to

12 inspectors to inspect the facility twice a day. we have been doing that with the department of building inspection and the department of public health. and the fire department. >> it is really important for the industry to know that we are treating them like industry. like manufacturing. like coworkers pick so that is the way we are approaching this from a health and safety and a consumer protection network. this is just the way practice happens with restaurants or manufacturing facilities. >> because there are so many pieces of industry that people haven't even thought about. there are different permits for each piece. you have to set up a permitting system for growing, for manufacturing, for testing. for delivery. for retail. you have to make sure that there is an appropriate health code. certainly the regulation of alcohol in terms of restaurants and retail it's probably a model

for how this industry will be regulated as well, both on sale and consumption. >> it is completely uncharted territory. there is a blessing and a curse with that. it is exciting because we are on a new frontier, but it is very nerve-racking because there's a lot at stake. and quite frankly, being san francisco, being the state of california, people are looking to us. >> we hope that cannabis does become more of an accepted part of society in the same way that alcohol is, the same way coffee is. >> it is a very innovative fear, particularly around manufacturing. san francisco could be an epicenter. >> san francisco can be a leader here. a global leader in the cannabis movement and set a bar just to other communities and cities and states and this nation how it is done. [♪]

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd

all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority, which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1. my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had

some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized. when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan. it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san

francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a breakdown on the ship. so she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us. i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these

ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a very organized, but stable environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. for a moment, i thought i was me. and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't

any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of

justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here.

i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it nevit. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop & dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so we're will you shop & dine in the 49 chinatown has to be one the best unique shopping areas in san francisco that is color fulfill and safe each vegetation and seafood and find everything in chinatown the walk shop in chinatown

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>> clerk: can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, i'd like to call roll. >> commissioner mazzucco: please do. [roll call] >> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, you have a quorum. also with us tonight is the chief of police, william scott and the department of police accountability, paul henderson. >> thank you very much sergeant kilshaw, and welcom