. >> i think the more collaborative we are, the better we are as a city, so i like the fact that sfpd is working more with the department of public health and getting stakeholders really more involved and more at the table in terms of mental health crisis because we are at a crisis point in the city. so i think the more that we collaborate, the better we all are, and the more we serve the public as a city. >> supervisor safai: great. i don't have any additional questions right now. i think a lot were asked by my

colleagues. any additional comments or concerns, supervisor yee? i'm going to ask the same thing of supervisor stefani. >> supervisor yee: no, no, i'm ready. >> supervisor safai: to move forward? okay. supervisor stefani? move forward. >> supervisor yee: well, i'd like to say to the credit of mayor breed, she's presented us with two strong candidates. your character is so strong, and your commitment to doing the right thing seems to be there. one of the things that many of us want on this commission, in particular this commission, are really strong people that can actually withstand pressure because you're going to get pressure. you're going to get pressure to make decisions politically, and that's not how you should be making decisions.

when it comes to the question of taser, i hope you have an open mind in the discussion whether it's the right thing to do or not, and try not to only listen to one set of people that really really want to use it and listen to everybody else with the same wait. and i really like both of you -- both of your understanding that, you know, we focus a lot on how do we reform, as if the officers themselves don't need help, and it's good that hopefully, with your understanding, the mental health of police officers is very important, that we need to support them with their day-to-day -- not only with their day-to-day, but there's

real specific incidents that's dramatic to anybody, so they need help. so that's a good thing that i heard from both of you. overall, i would say that i'm looking forward to working with both of you. so i would like to recommend both miss taylor and both -- d.j. to be appointed as a police commissioner with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor safai: before we take that vote, i just want to make one quick comment. i just want to make a note for the record, it's something that's very important to me as chair of this committee, that once we move forward with these recommendations, and they are affirmed by the full board, we will have put five commissioners on this body. i think that this body has been very important to me, and it's

for the mayor and other voices on this committee, that we have fresh voices and perspectives on this community. there's been a lot of anger, rightfully so, and i think that we need to move this in a new direction with new voices and new faces. after the 7.5 hour hearing, the mayor put a recommendation on that. we thank you for your time and your commitment. this is not an easy commission to be on. as new commissioner, this is over 20 hours a week. there's a tremendous amount of pressure on you.

i'll just turn it over to supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: i look forward to working with both of you, and you know, i want to thank everyone else -- everyone in the audience who came out to speak in support and to speak your mind on this very important subject. i mean, it's -- like i said, it's one of the most important commissions, and i want to thank you for your willingness to serve. i know that the both of you are going to be incredible, and what supervisor safai said about keeping both sides in mind, i know you'll do that.

we've been through so many of these hearings now, and it's nice to be able to put forth two good names to the board of supervisors. >> supervisor safai: thank you. so did you -- we made a motion and positive recommendation, we can do that without objection. so congratulations, we look forward to a final hearing in front of the full board of supervisors. [ gavel ] [applause] >> supervisor safai: please call the last item. >> clerk: item number six is a hearing to consider appointing two members, term ending november 2, 2019, and two members, term ending january 31, 2021, to the central market street and tenderloin area citizen advisory committee. >> supervisor safai: okay. we have six applicants for this citizens advisory committee. we'll hear from the first, mr. sam dennison.

is sam here -- or miss dennison, i apologize. miss dennison, if you could come forward and make some brief remarks. >> sure. first, i just want to say that i appreciate the time and commitment you've put in the previous appointments. we've been here a long time, and i'll keep it short. i've been involved with the tenderloin c.a.c. i moved here in 2011 and started attending the meetings in 2011. i think with the exception of antoinette adelman, i have been involved with the committee since its beginning. my term came to an end or ended

under the change in legislation, i'm not sure which precipitated the event. after i became appointed to the committee, there was some change to the committee, and i am now chair of the committee and have been for a chair. we've gone from meeting less than the regulated three times a year for a while. once i took over, we were able to get quorum more frequently although it remained difficult because of the number of people dropping off of the committee. in the last year we've worked hard with the community and the corporate liaisons to create some meaningful engagement positive and beyond the community benefit agreement. most notable is the agreement

between the corporate liaisons to work for the benefit of the public schools in the tenderloin. they're really focused on a strategic plan to raise somewhere between 250 and $500,000 a year to benefit the local schools skprks that would be beyond what the community requirement benefits require. it originally started with 11 members, with three members being residents. when the legislation was reformulated a year ago, what we did was to say that all positions could be either representing a certain area of expertise or being a resident. and it's a really important piece of the puzzle to notice that the people who hung onto the committee and stayed, have

been very steadfast and showing up and providing quorum have been residents. the representatives from other interested groups have fallen away. so i want to speak both steve to -- speak to both steve tenes and myself. >>. >> supervisor safai: we'll call you up if you have any questions. let's hear from our second applicant, sylvia lewis. sylvia's not here, so we'll go to the third applicant, kathy brazenwit. kathy's not here. mr. steve -- steven tenes.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you very much for allowing me time to speak. i've been on the commission for about three years a, and my record speaks for itself. i've only missed one and been late for one. i work with three nonprofit: safe passage, which i'm late for now, the s.r.o. collaborative, so i'm very involved in the community and i think i'm the right person for the position. thank you. >> supervisor safai: the next applicant is jonathanto get in

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so i worked as an on-call desk clerk at these properties in the tenderloin and eventually became a property manager. during this time i have been protective of affordable housing and the homeless crisis we face in san francisco. initially was a critic of the tenderloin tax break. i had friends that were facing eviction at 1049 market. my friends beverly upton and jackie nailer were evicted from their home about five blocks away from twitter a couple years ago. as i worked on a proposal for h.u.d. bash at the cadillac hotel, i began to see benefits

of the tax break, i have come to support it. but i feel we have concerns with the homeless issues and with the drug epidemic and drug dealers in the neighborhood. and i would like to continue to support building more housing, both affordable housing and market-rate housing. i just want to see us build a tenderloin for everyone that protects low-income people but also pushes forward with building new housing and revitalizing the neighborhood. also in terms of my personal

experience, i'm h.i.v. positive. i'm a recovered crystal meth addict. and to me, i really enjoy coming to work each day in the tenderloin. i work on the 300 block of ellis as supportive housing property manager. and it's really good to be getting to know people on the block and having block meetings with the captain and with the other housing providers and with glide and youth with the mission. i would like to offer up my service for the citizens advisory committee for central market and tenderloin area. thank you. >> bryant dwong, our next applicant. >> good afternoon, supervisors. a little bit about myself.

so i started my career in public service around the corner at supervisor kim's office. since then i have transitioned to chinatown community development center, working as a services coordinator on the 200 block of turk. since my tenure as services coordinator, we have established semi-daily e.s.l. classes for our residents. weekly citizenship classes for residents. and we have partnered with the salvation army to provide my residence, particularly arabic mothers with their own private gym classes. so my goal is to be on the

committee to help keep the neighborhood economically viable for my residence as a place to live. and to -- sorry, i'm blanking. and to provide my residents, afford them the same opportunities as other san franciscans living in other districts but keeping the tenderloin as a gateway to america for yemeni refugees fleeing civil war in their country. thank you. >> i don't think we have any other applicants with us today. so we will open it up for public comment. any members of the public wish to comment on this item? please come forward.

>> how do i turn, okay, i am online. i have a few things to say. first i want to suggest that we have a continuance in order for more people to make applications. i would like to point out that the vacancy notice, there was five seats and the agenda said there were four seats to be filled. and also candidates need to be residents of the central market or tenderloin area.

and i'm endorsing sam deniston and stephen tennis for their seats on the commission. i would like to point out one of the applicants who was not here decided working for a non-profit since february 2018 but the non-profit is not in the area. i don't know if this person lives in the area. i have lived in the tenderloin since 1990 and i have been able to maintain residency there in the same place. thank you. is that my -- >> you have 25 seconds. >> okay. also, i want to point out this

item is against the brown act because it has not been properly noticed. that's all i want to say. but i do hope you have a continuation so more people can come forward. thank you. >> supervisor a. safai: next speaker? >> hi, good afternoon, supervisors, todd david on behalf of the san francisco housing coalition. we are here today giving our strong support to john bonano. his personal story, i think is really compelling. having found himself homeless at one point and able to get himself healthy, recovering from an addiction and working in the affordable housing world and he was really one of the leading advocates in the city from a pro-housing point of view. he is a strong believer in that we need more well-located

housing all levels of affordability. and his commitment to the city, the tenderloin central market area is really, it's incredibly compelling. unfortunately the other candidate we are supporting catherine riserwood had to leave to go to work. that's part of the problem with having these meetings at 11:00 during the week. we are supportive of kathie. i want to read an email from jack gardiner president of the jon stewart company where mr. bonano works. greetings supervisor stefani. i want to take a moment to encourage you to appoint jonathon bonano at your rules committee meeting. jonathon is employee of the jon stewart company and a long-time manager resident of affordable housing in tenderloin mission neighborhoods. he is an intelligent and

thoughtful person and a great deal of experience with affordable housing, homelessness and tenderloin market street areas. i can assure you both he would make an excellent member of the c.a.c. and that he will have the full support of his employer for serving on the committee. thank you for your consideration, best wishes and please feel free to contact me if any questions. thanks. >> supervisor a. safai: next speaker? thank you. >> my name is will duffy, north of market activist. i would like to speak to the support of candidates sam dennison and mr. steve tennis. they are both long term, very high-level organizers. better than anything i can do. i also appreciate your

attention being able to ascern the gender pronoun, it's something others have struggled with. [ laughter ] mr. tennis has a bio that's just incredible. i'm sure sam does as well. i think the other candidates sound like they are qualified. >> supervisor a. safai: thank you. >> hi, my name is michael nolty, i'm a san francisco civic leader. my neighbors have several concerns about the central market c.a.c. we are talking about today. it's an official body of the city. and we have several concerns. the vacancy notice mentions five seats, yet the agenda only mentions four. the actual applications were altered to say all four seats if you actually look at your

packet. and that's not right because some of them don't actually live in the area that we are supposed to be in for the actual c.a.c. on the 28th, i received a notice of cancellation. i only received a notice of cancellation of the c.a.c. i never received notices of the actual meetings which means these meetings are not really reaching out to the community. so i'm here as a body of the board of supervisors and this is probably the only time you could have public comment about a committee that meets that has helped regulate it. so this is the only time the community can talk to the board of supervisors about a community operating for several years now. and there's, it doesn't seem to have the right ways that some of the other committee meetings have. the minutes are not on the website. the last set of minutes were in

2016. and so again we are asking for a continuance to allow more people to apply. we feel this is a decision-making body. there are currently five entities that are doing stuff for the community. so we strongly ask for a continuance because it's only important to have all five seats filled at the same time when you have a notice. so thank you. >> supervisor a. safai: any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? get in line, brother. i gotta go! please, go right ahead. >> my name is dennis gregory, the founder of the san francisco mural project in the tenderloin. we have been running that project for seven years. i myself would never run for a citizen advisory committee because i live in the mission

district and i do work with the community in the tenderloin. part of our goal of our project is to give voice to voiceless populations in our community. and i think that if we could have a continuance, it would give us an opportunity to do more outreach to the actual residents that live there in the tenderloin and call that place home everyday. and i think in having more residents that are located in the tenderloin on that advisory committee would help steer the direction of the program's outreach they are tasked with doing and to start to actually get out to people who really do live there. >> supervisor a. safai: thank you. i appreciate it. sorry, the only reason i gave you a hard time is i need to get to a doctor's appointment. no, no, i want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to speak. any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing none.

public comment is closed. i just want to ask the clerk. was there some confusion on the listing in terms of how many seats were available, versus how many seats we had? >> clerk: i'm not aware -- the centers posted listed five seats posted december 22nd, 2017. there's a possibility one of those seats were filled in the interim or no applicant qualified for seat 5. >> supervisor a. safai: the problem for members of the public so you understand, the reason this was ask today be put on the agenda today is this advisory committee has had quorum issues, hasn't been able to meet. that's one of the reasons there hasn't been an opportunity for the community to engage. because they have tried to have meetings, there has not been a quorum. but it sounds like for some of the folks who came out today, sam, would you like to come and -- please come to the microphone. >> [off mic]

>> supervisor a. safai: if you could do it briefly. thank you. >> we have succeeded in making quorum for about a year. we are doing that. we had five seats. four seats were filled. we were able to use those four people to complete those seats. we just recently lost one of our members so we are down to three now. under an interpretation, i'm not sure where it came from, it looked as though two of us had to be reappointed before we could meet again. that's why we needed the urgency of this particular meeting to make sure we at least have three appointed members. antwoinette's seat wasn't necessary to be reappointed. we need at least three reappointed to meet. if we could have all five appointed we can make quorum, it makes it easier and takes the pressure off the people there. as far as i know, there were

only four seats that needed to be appointed or reappointed and antwoinette's was the one that was stable. does that answer? >> supervisor a. safai: i think so. >> okay. >> supervisor a. safai: i'm hearing from the public that people feel they didn't really have the opportunity to put in applications, even though this is a body that's struggled with -- >> so notices were put out and have been put out through community organizations since last february, when we had another seat that was open. so while -- and one of the confusions, and again i don't know where this falls out, there are two sites. one on the sfgov network of websites that only goes back or stopped functioning in 2016 and another site that has everything since then. >> supervisor a. safai: let me just ask this question, i think this will help us make a decision. your next meeting is when? october? >> the first thursday in october. >> supervisor a. safai: the rules committee is shifting to a once a week meeting.

i think a continuance will give you the opportunity to have a little more conversation with some of the folks in the audience and we could bring this issue back up. that's probably what i would lean toward. but i also want to hear what members of the committee -- go ahead, supervisor. > supervisor n. yee: i feel comfortable appointing three of the four seats and continue for the other one. >> supervisor a. safai: we can do that. that's a good idea. > supervisor n. yee: two are reappointments. >> supervisor a. safai: why don't we at least do two reappointments. >> that will at least give is a quorum. > supervisor n. yee: in communication with supervisor kim's office. and she is strongly recommending one of the other persons. >> supervisor a. safai: i got it. i'm concerned, somebody had to leave, people didn't get to respond. why don't we make some

appointments and we can continue one of them. > supervisor n. yee: want me to make a motion? >> supervisor a. safai: sure, go ahead. > supervisor n. yee: i would like to make a motion to reappoint sam dennison for seat one. stephen tennis for seat four and bryan doug to be appointed for seat two with a residency waiver. >> supervisor a. safai: can i make a friendly amendment, since jonathon is here, why don't we put jonathon in seat three. there's opportunities for people to have conversation in the future. > supervisor n. yee: then there won't be a need for continuance. >> supervisor a. safai: yeah, then we won't need to continue. let's do that. that's fine. are you okay with that friendly amendment? okay, so jonathon would go to seat three. can we do that without objection? > supervisor n. yee: yes. >> supervisor a. safai: okay. great. so i think, i will just end

before we gavel down, i will end this is a body that is constantly changing. i think what some of the confusion is there were postings back in december. maybe the posting had one reading there. we filled a number of those seats. a lot of folks engaged on this. my office and supervisor yee's office engaged with supervisor kim and they made some strong recommendations for reappointment and putting people forward. i think we should go forward with that. we are happy to engage. as i said, there's opportunities for, believe me, there's opportunities for this advisory committee moving forward. yes? >> i would like to bring your attention back to item 3 and 4. i note there's possibility -- >> supervisor a. safai: can i finish this? >> yes, sorry. >> supervisor a. safai: we will move that without objection with a positive recommendation for the board. >> item 3 and 4, had a committee report and we didn't send it out as a committee

report. > supervisor n. yee: let's rescind the vote. >> supervisor a. safai: let's rescind the vote on item 3 and 4. can we do that without objection. we will send items 3 and 4 with positive recommendation from the committee to the full board? > supervisor n. yee: yes, thank you. >> supervisor a. safai: any other items before us today? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> supervisor a. safai: okay, we are adjourned.

>> 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]

>> 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. [♪]

>> president serina: good afternoon and welcome to the matinee addition on aging and adult services. will they please take the call of both? [roll call]