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. [♪]

>> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. when i meet with seniors in the community, they're thinking about the future. some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood that's closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. that's why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. so how does this work? prop 60 was passed in 1986 to allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into a new home. under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2% growth

a year. but when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value. compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the -- which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. that's where prop 60 comes in. prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed income may not be able to afford higher taxes so it allows them to carryover their existing prop 13 value to their new home which means seniors can continue to pay their prop 13 tax values as if they had never moved. remember, the prop 60 is a one time tax benefit, and the property value must be equal to or below around your replacement home. if you plan to purchase your

new home before selling your existing home, please make sure that your new home is at the same price or cheaper than your existing home. this means that if your existing home is worth $1 million in market value, your new home must be $1 million or below. if you're looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105% of your exist egging home. which means if you sell your old home for $1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than $1.15 million. if you sell your existing home at $1 million and buy a replacement between year one and two, it should be no more

than $1.1 million. know that your ability to participate in this program expires after two years. you will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. so benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. for more, visit our website, sfassessor.org, >> the hon. london breed: hi, everybody. thank you all for being here. many of you know that housing production here in san francisco is my number one priority. we know that we face a number of challenges, especially the bureaucratic red tape that sadly gets in the way of producing the kind of housing we need here in san francisco. we're very fortunate because

there's so many creative ways to produce housing, and the reason why we are here today is to talk about a.d.u.s, accessory dwelling units, otherwise known as inlaws. and what we have discovered in trying to move forward the process is a number of challenges that exist with various city departments. sometimes, unfortunately, inconsistent information. and part of what we know about a.d.u.s is we've already awarded 377 permits. over 90% of those 377 are rent control. they're subjected to rent control because they will be built in rent control apartment buildings, and that is pretty amazing. so with over 900 units that are in the pipeline that have yet to be issued permits, we can probably expect that a significant portion of those would be rent control as well. this is the only way when

producing housing -- new housing stock that we can provide rent controlled units. these are often times more affordable, and we have to make it easier in san francisco to produce these units so that they are available to the public. just imagine being able to put 900 plus the 377 units. that's over 1,000 new units here in san francisco that will go into our housing stock. this, along with new development, along with preservation and building more affordable housing is something that is key to producing housing here in san francisco and meeting our goal of producing 5,000 units every single year at a minimum. and so today, what i would like to talk about is my executive directive, and that is working with our fire department, our planning department and the department of building

inspection, putting forth a directive to do a number of things. first of all, those over 900 units that are in the process of getting permitted, my goal is to make sure that they not only get permitted, but they get through the process within six months. i also want to make sure that the backlog of units get addressed within a four-month time period. and finally, because of the challenges of inconsistent information, i'd like to make sure that the departments come up with clear guidelines so that when people are coming to the city and asking for direction, they're getting the clear guidelines they need so they can produce the information to get the job done within a timely manner. the goal is to get those units on the market as soon as possible, to get them completed, and to make it easier for the property owners trying to provide these units, to make it easier for them to get done.

that's what this is about, and so i'm excited about this. i know that our departments are coming together to work on this particular directive already, and i really appreciate their efforts in trying to get it done. i want to also thank a number of the commissioners who are here, commissioner myrna melgar who's here from planning. i know that commissioner debra walker is here from building commission, as well as angus. people are working together to make sure that our departments are working together, that we are doing everything we can to create housing in san francisco, and this is one of the most creative ways to produce housing stock of rent controlled units here in the city. and so at this time, i'm not sure if there is any other speakers other than me, since this is just a directive -- oh, yes, thank you. thanks for reminding me. so someone who has been an

incredible advocate, a fierce advocate in helping to support this particular program, my former colleague on the board of supervisors and someone who i truly admire, someone who's innovative and is really pushing to develop new, creative ways to provide housing, and that is supervisor from district four, supervisor katey tang, and so she's going to say a few words at this time. >> supervisor tang: first of all, i want to thank mayor breed so much for lighting this fire around the issue of a.d.u.s. first of all, it's not enough to have it on the kbobooks tha say we can create a.d.u., we have to take action. i want to thank all the different city departments that are working together to make sure this happen. recently at the board of supervisors we passed a piece

of legislation that i sponsored trying to remove the legislation around a.d.u.s. we did quite a few listening sessions and working tours to find out what are the challenges to building a.d.u.s. some of the things we found out were street requirements or bicycle parking. those are really important but we can't let those things stand in the way of creating more housing. i think in san francisco we really need a mixture of solutions for housing, right? there might be some neighborhoods where high-rise developments might be more appropriate, and there are some neighborhoods like the sunset where a.d.u.s are more appropriate, so we need to have the solutions for all of those. i definitely want to thank some of the staff who are really instrumental in pulling together all of the different interdepartmental meetings. i know my former legislative aide, monica mojan, and so many people, including mark hogan,

who you'll hear from next after me were just really instrumental in sharing with us what we need to do to ease the permitting process for the creation of a.d.u.s. i want to thank everyone who made this possible. look forward to constructing more in our neighborhoods, and next, i'll turn it over to mark hogan. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor tang. i'm mark hogan, open scope city architects. had the pleasure of working on the a.d.u. handbook starting in 2014. at the time there was only a few small parts of the city that you could build a.d.u.s and then had the pleasure of working with several members of the board of supervisors to bring that legislation citywide, and it's been amended several times, but i think the missing piece is what we're hearing today. the missing piece is getting all the various departments coordinated so that these permits can be processed efficiently, and we can

actually get those units built. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you. and i also would like to acknowledge the president of the planning commission, rich hillis is here, thank you for being here today. and just to be clear, the goal of the directive is to move the process forward as quickly as possible. specifically, we want to make sure that we get -- address the backlog by pushing forward those particular projects within six months, and that a new directive is set for future projects, those who will submit applications for a.d.u., that we do it within a four-month time period, and finally, that we have an organized process with departments so that we give people clear direction of what could expect here at the city, and the departments will be continuing to work with me and report back to my office so that i know exactly the numbers, what we have in the pipeline, what the delays are, what are the challenges, so

that we can move san francisco forward. housing production is something that is really important. we have, sadly, for far too long, pushed for job growth and addressed other issues in if oif -- in our city, but we have definitely not done our part in producing more housing, which is why we're experiencing such a significant challenge, a significant affordability crisis. this is just one way i think that we can get the job done, and we want to make sure we make it easy for the people who are trying to move these projects forward, to do so, and i want to thank everyone for being here today. [applause] >> good morning. tom huang, department of

building inspection. i'm here to have all of you come here today, and especially honorable mayor breed and supervisor tang to come over here, and especially their staff helping us to work with all of the department, including planning, department of public work, p.u.c., and fire department, especially. we all working as a team with -- and we're going to fully commit to achieve the goal from that little directive, and then working as a team with all of the departme departments. and then also, i want to thank the commissions from the planning department and fire department and d.b.i. and other. we will work together, and then, you know, we will achieve all those goals. thank you to come over, and then, if you want to interview the mayor or anyone else, we can, you know, still stay on the floor to answer any

questions. thank you. [applause]

>> all right. good morning, san francisco. [applause] >> welcome this morning. my name is miguel bustos, and i am the director for the center for social justice at glide, and we welcome you. [applause] >> before we get into our program, i just want to acknowledge some family friends that are here. we have sheriff hennessey, who's here. i saw her earlier.

we have a glide board member, herby foster, who's here. we have janice mercanti, the founder of our organization. we have the reverend cecil williams, the man who started it all, and we have our illustrious director here. ad glide, we believe it's about radical inclusion and love in all we do. not just in a few things, but in all we do. and this safer inside demonstration site is an example of unconditional love and radical conclusion for all. we're glad that you're here. we're glad that you care, and we're glad that you, too, believe that every single life

is important and valued, and it's through this safer inside demonstration site that we want to show the rest of the world that it's about safety, it's about community, and dignity, something that we're all called by our makers to give one another, a sense of dignity, and so that's why we're here today, and that's why we're glad you're here today, because you will help us spread the word of this wonderful work of unconditional love and radical inclusion. our first speaker really needs no introduction. she was born and raised here in this wonderful city of st. francis. she's been a stuanch supporter of sites like this since before she were mayor. she believes in caring, she believes in leading, and she believes in the fact that we

all deserve dignity. so ladies and gentlemen, help me welcome the mayor of san francisco, mayor london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, miguel, and thank you all so much for being here today. what a beautiful day in san francisco. i'm excited to be here in the tenderloin to talk about something that we know is a real challenge here, not just in this particular neighborhood, but throughout the city. i want to thank safer inside for this incredible effort that has helped us to realize exactly what a facility like this would look like. many of you know that i pushed to start a task force back in 2017, one that brought people together to talk about the impacts of what it would mean to open up a safe injection site here in san francisco, and i want to thank so many of the people who participated in the task force, who sat and worked with people who spent an

incredible amount of time to develop a report which leads us here today, an example what a site like this could actually look like. we are here today to save lives. that's what this is about. we know that we are in the midst of one of the worst public health crises of recent memory. approximately 2 million americans across our country are struggling with substance abuse, disorders related to opioids. more americans are dying in one year than who died in the vietnam war. san francisco is not immune to those impacts, and we have an estimated 225,000 individuals who are injecting drugs. last year, 193 people died of drug overdoses, and if you walk on the streets of san

francisco, you can see the heartbreaking symptoms of this every single day. people who are struggling with addiction that they cannot beat on their own, and worst of all, they are suffering alone without access to medical treatment that can actually save their lives. continuing with the status quo and just hoping that things will get better is not an option. substance abuse is not simply going away because we don't want to see it. these type of overdose prevention facilities work. i've seen the results firsthand when i had an opportunity to travel to vancouver, canada, to see exactly how these places work and how they have saved lives. in fact, the insight location in vancouver, zero, zero overdoses in the 15 years of

its existence. these sites are not about providing a place for people to use drugs, they're about using a proven approach to solving the health crisises. they will save city resources that we are currently spending on the impacts of this crisis. it's estimated that one booth site could save san francisco up to $3.5 million by reducing hospital stays, hiv and help tie shelp -- hepatitis c overdoses. i want to show that these sites can be implemented in a clean, safe, and effective way. we are giving people the opportunity to see for themselves how these locations will work and voice any concerns or questions that they may have, so i want to invite

folks to come and tour this facility. people who have questions, people who are uncertain about what this actually means, here's your opportunity in san francisco to see for yourself, as well as hear from health professionals, researchers, community representatives, and civic leaders who support bringing this proven approach to san francisco. on monday, the california state legislature passed ab-186, which would allow san francisco to run a three-year pilot of safe injection sites. it is now up to the governor, and i am hopeful that he will sign this bill into law because safe injection sites help people in addiction and will help by reducing overdoses, reducing the drug uses on the streets and help get discarded needles off our streets.

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: i want to thank all of those who participat participated on the task force in 2017. i want to thank senator scott wiener and susan egmon for their leadership on 186. i want to thank glide for continuing to be a leader for pushing efforts that are controversial -- [applause] >> the hon. london breed >> the hon. london breed: -- but need to be done because it can save and change lives, a place of hope and a place of inspiration. thanks to janice and reverend katani for being here, and the work that you do in this effort, but also, the work every single day that you do for folks here in the tenderloin. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i also want to thank the senior program director of programs

for the glide foundation as well as reverend fong, who is here from chinatown community development. thank you so much. i want to thank the safer inside community who helped to sponsor this project and spent countless hours of putting it together in a way for people to see m.o.how it actually works. thank you to the tenderloin health improvement partnership and to capital one design pro bono for their support. thank you to laura thomas, and she has been in this fight for so many years. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: one of the first persons to bring it to my attention and to really, you know, help me to understand exactly what it could mean, and she has been an advocate with the drug policy alliance for many, many years, and we are just one step closer to making what is your dream a reality, so thank you for your hard work. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you to the st. francis foundation, the st. anthony's

foundation, the tenderloin health improvement partnership, and thank you to zendas, and the project leadership and design team, all of the people who came together and put in not only a lot of hard work, but a lot of love. love for the desire to make this a place about helping people and about saving lives. it matters, the work that you are all doing and the work that we will continue to lead the way here in san francisco. we know that there continues to be legal challenges, but here in san francisco, we are not afraid. we have faced worse obstacles in trying to move this city and this country forward, and today, you find a community of people who will stand strong and who will fight to do the right thing. the lives of the people who we are trying to help are counting on it. thank you all so much for being here today.

[applause] >> thank you, mayor breed, for those wonderful words. always inspirational. next i'd like to introduce to you another wonderful leader, a leader at glide that has been doing incredible work, helping us see the light, and that's our executive director, rita shiman. >> thank you, miguel. good morning, mayor breed, i love being able to see that. good morning, and good morning community. it's a wonderful day. it's a day full of inspiration. you know, we're in the midst of the crisis that was somewhat described by the mayor. we're in the midst of a crisis today. what's the crisis? you know now the number one cause of death for people under the age of 50 in the united

states is overdose. the age of 50 -- under the age of 50, the number one cause of death in the united states is overdose. every day, we see our brothers and sisters of all ages suffering from drug use disorder. they're in the streets, you see their pain and suffering. i'll be repeating some of the things that the mayor said because it's worth repeating. here in san francisco, there are more than 22,000 folks using intravenous drugs. 33% of the overdose deaths that occur in san francisco occur right here in the tenderloin and south of market. the trauma we see in the streets is transferred to everybody in the community, whether you are suffering directly from addiction. we're all affected by this

crisis. so why am i inspired today? because i just toured the overdose prevention demonstration site at glide with the mayor and many of you. we just saw a tool that could save lives, could save money, that is effective, rational, compassionate, humane. we just saw something that works to end the overdose crisis. [applause] [inaudible] >> -- a demonstration site. when you enter it, you'll get a deeper understanding of what safe injections overdose prevention site is. safe injection environment

creates or prevents overdose. safe injection environment prechbss overdose. safe injection saves lives. saving lives means people have a chance to get in real recover recovery.so recovery. some people say we're just allowing people to use drugs. the -- [inaudible] >> there has never been an overdose death anywhere in the world for over 30 years in more than 120 safe injection overdose prevention sites operating in 65 cities in ten countries. never one life lost.

[applause] >> san francisco rates in overdose deaths. it's a little lower than some other cities, and that's because we're good at getting services to the people. thank god for all the services available to all folks in san francisco, but we can save more lives, and every life matters. every life matters. i'm super inspired because our safer injection overdose inside is all about the next -- [inaudible] >> i will keep repeating this. every life is worth saving, every life is worth saving.

[applause] [inaudible] >> the surgeon general said that alcohol and drug dependency are not moral issues, they are chronic conditions of the brain that need to be understood. we know that studies of the people who are challenged and susceptible to drug use disorders overwhelmingly have trauma, serious trauma in their past. these people are caught in a position that could easily befall any one of us. all of us deserve the dignity, love, and a sense of connection. all lives are worth saving. so i'm saying a lot, i'm repeating a lot today.

hard science, evidence based, love and connection because it's this attitude and approach that is going to make our site successful. so tell everybody to come down to see the safer inside overdose prevention demonstration at glide. it'll be up through friday. you can come and tour, and i especially want to thank, again, the cosponsors because glide is so happy to be hosting and one of the cosponsors with capital one design, drug policy alliance, st. francis foundation, st. anthony's foundation, tenderloin health improvement partnership, zen desk, and i want to mention a very important partner that helped us design this, and that is san francisco's drug users union. [applause] >> i have to give a special shout out to a few folks, paul

harkins and janet ector and the glide harm reduction team. [applause] >> who make the love and services possible for our folks. as one person who helped us design the demonstration site said, thank you for thinking about our lives. so glide has something for everyone. come to glide so sunday's celebration. we have famous fried chicken on thursdays. come help serve a meal, three times a day, 364 days a year. we're here for the whole community. everybody's life is worth saving, and that's why we're supportive positive safer inside safe injection overdose prevention sites. let's have san francisco lead the way. [applause] >> thank you, rita. i also want to acknowledge two of our health commissioners

here: dan bernal and james loyce. thank you so much for being here and joining us on this special day. [applause] >> you know, it takes a village, and the city and county of san francisco, and especially the health department has been a really wonderful partner. and i want to acknowledge gary, who's here, the interim director, and i want to introduce to you dr. barry zevin who's a specialist for the san francisco department of public health. [applause] >> similmer down. thank you very much. the -- i'm a physician. i'm trained as an internal medicine specialist and an addiction medicine specialist. i reviewed the literature on

things related to people who use substances. i've been involved in the harm reduction movement for 25 years. i've been treating patients who use drugs for 30 years. t the -- i have had numerous patients in the past 30 years die of overdose. i've had numerous patients die of substance use related disorders, preventible disorders. i have embraced the idea that we meet people where they're at, a very fundamental idea in harm reduction practice. what we know about people who inject drugs is there are numerous barriers to them being

able to come in to a conventional medical office. there's barriers to treatment, there's barriers to care. we need to meet people where they're at, so i've been doing it for 30 years. this is a process that takes time. it takes time for individual people. today, in the street, in the alley where our offices are, just as i was coming out to this, i saw an individual alone, sitting on the ground, injecting. that is just from a practical point of view, a big public health problem, and a big problem for that individual's health. we need to have a way that that person can come into a welcoming door. that is somebody who's injecting in the alley not because they want to be doing that outside, certainly not

because they want to be dying outside, not because they don't want help. that's somebody who doesn't have a choice. there's not someplace else for that person to be in their current place in their current way. now we're going to outreach to the alleys, we're going to outreach to the streets. my programs are outreach and shelter health. there are many other departments in the city of san francisco that are working in the streets, that are working in all kinds of places where substance users are. we need someplace that's compelling, someplace that will bring people in the door with the idea that i can trust this place, and it's going to be good for my health 'cause there surely are reasons why just saying hey, i'm a doctor, trust me, is not something that's

going to work from the point of view of what our people's experience has been. this is a way for people to come into a door, a trustworthy door, and then have the -- have the experience of -- and someone used the word "love." i'm going to use the word "love" too, a word that is not always associated with the public health care. but that is the first step. when somebody can feel that love, that's where the trust is, that's where the change is, and that's where the lives get saved. i -- you have heard from several people. i'll reiterate. the evidence, scientific evidence is very strongly in favor of this model of care. the evidence is strong that people want help.

the idea that somebody that's using substances, it must be that they don't care about their health. i have 27 years of experience here in san francisco talking to thousands of people who, the first thing they say is i care about my health. there may be many barriers to may being able to care for myself, but it's not lack of caring. okay. we reach people where they're at with that care. this is a step in that direction. can people change? i think that's one of the questions that ultimately comes up for a lot of people. i can usually convince people with the evidence, with the idea of just the practicality of a safer injection space, that this will reduce death and overdose, this will improve

people's health. this will actually be something that people take advantage of. this is going to be something good for our community health. the question is is it something that will actually lead to change, and i've seen so many people who the smallest thing -- walking in a door that they've walked in 100 times before, but today, they were greeted in a way that led to that change to know that it actually works, to change people's lives, saves people's lives, and it's something i'm looking forward to working with as i work with people wherever they are. so i want to thank my team, i want to thank the department of public health, i want to thank mayor breed especially for the incredible support of doing this, and these steps are small steps, but we're moving in the

right direction, and that's what harm reduction is about, so i'm very grateful that we're here. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, dr. zevin. and i want to thank greg wagner. thank you so much for being here. well, ladies and gentlemen, that is it for today. we will have a spot for questions and answers for the press right over here on this side. come to glide, come see what we're doing. come see the miracles that happen, not just today but every single day, and we look forward to seeing you. thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. [applause]

>> 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. [♪]

>> 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,