before, they're new to city hall, talking with shelters and wraparound programs. i'm not going to waste my time with you right now, but in my report, it's going to show you totally different than all these people standing up here saying we've got this, we've got this. you need to hear from the homeless people how they're treated. when i was in these shelters, if you left and come back in, you've got to stand in lane. be aware, ace is on the case on this particular homeless programs, particularly since you've got all these millions of dollars -- >> supervisor safai: next speaker, please. >> my name is lucy schwartz, and i was the lead crime reporter at

the san francisco chronicle. because of various things that happened in my life, above all, my tender situation, i have become extremely active in the transsituation in the tender lane and frankly with the disadvantaged members of our society. woman's place is a scandal, a scandal, a scandal. i am working with someone who i have -- i have a pretty diverse past, as i'm sure you can imagine. i'm working with someone who's worked with francis coppola on a film. it's a film that's based on a french novel that casts trans women in traditional female roles. one of our stars living at a women's place -- i could give her name -- i can give her first name on request, documented, mexican immigrant, extremely fine person, her hair was cutoff

in the middle of the night without warning. now that obviously changes how we approach the project for a film. another woman that i know, not actually really trans, but nonbinary, lesbian, was harassed out of women's place over alleged sexual rivalries. this is a woman that i know, and i know her extremely well. i appreciate everything you're doing. i appreciate the progressive stand of the supervisors, not just progressives, but of san francisco leadership as a whole. down in the streets, it's real bad, real bad, and people are suffering. i live in an s.r.o., i'm safe, but i'm just appealing to you, do what you can and focus on women's places above all. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is dennis mcray, and i'm

the drof irector of e.p.s., episcopal shelter centers. i just want to tell you about those 126 complaints that we've had in 16-17. we have in the last fiscal year reduced the complaints -- i think they were at 68. that's a 44.72% drop in the complaints, so we did our own analysis. we actually changed all the administration at that particular shelter, site manager. we added an additional administrator over there, and we actually now do our shelter trainings quarterly so that all of our shelter staff, whether -- wherever they come in, that they receive all their trainings, and

we actually redoubled our efforts to training our supervisors, changing our staffing schedules, so that we have custodians on 24 hours a day. a number of those complaints were about our bathrooms, so now we have someone on aisle 7 24 hours a day just in case someone's needed. we also hired an associate director of shelters. i believe he's going to speak a little bit more about the programatic h programatic stuff that we've done to address those complaints. so we expect this year, fiscal year 18-19, they will go down even lower this year than last year, when they were 68. thank you. >> supervisor safai: next speaker. >> good morning. my name is marlon mendieta.

i'm the associate director of shelters for e.p.s. i'd like to use my time to talk about the solutions about the complaints. one of the key changes we've made is rather than just focus on the rules and take a punitive approach to problems, we have a restoreative justice coordinator. we can take different approaches to solving problems, rather than simply going by the rules that we have to enforce. this allows us to do more mediation, more conversations one-on-one, small groups. we introduce community building circles on a regular basis. we hold those circles and it gives people a chance to -- not only our guests but also our staff to communicate with each

other on an equal level. this goes a long way to ease tensions within the shelter. we have a chance to introduce what we call restoreative circles. i think it's been instrumental in decreasing the number of complaints and improving the quality of life for our guests at the shelter. obviously it's an ongoing process but i'm very excited about it because i see the difference in terms of people's experience at the shelter. what i can say about the restoreative justice approach, it runs parallel to the griefance process, as least the way we look at it. every time we speak to our guests about a warning, there's the option to take a restoreative approach. we all take that restoreative approach any time there's a problem in order to prevent

minor complaints -- >> supervisor safai: thank you. thank you, sir. next speaker. >> hi. my name's gilbert canelo. i'm a formerly homeless vet, homeless for 12 years. during that time i was asked to review a medical clinic in the mission district which had 85% hispanic clients. first thing i noticed was the state advocacy groups that had put signs wiup all over about t patient's individual rights, they were in english. i asked the director why they didn't have them in chinese and english and spanish, and i don't -- can't even remember what he said, but it was whatever. then i asked him about how many complaints -- they didn't have any complaints. i said, well, you have a silent majority here that doesn't understand what their rights and

the rules are. therefore, you don't have any complaints. and i asked them, who was the point person, who would you talk to if you have a complaint? they didn't seem to know that, either. i wanted to fail them, but politics say no, no, give them another chance in a progress liberal city. we like to give everybody a second chance in progressive cities, but i'll bet if you go to shelters, if they have signs up, they're in english. we have a diverse community, english, spanish, chinese speakers. and they're not being represented. any way, new york city has 880 different languages that -- when people vote in new york city, they mail out 880 different languages in new york city, so they have a more diverse group than we do. so if anybody wants to complain about three languages, go to new york and try to translate your

ballots into 880 different languages. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any other members of the public wishing to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we have a motion -- any other questions or comments? i would just say in closing, it would be helpful to have a little clearer idea, when i asked the questions publicly, they were different. i understand that the numbers are different than the numbers in the presentation in terms of the number of shelters, the number of beds. it's important for us as a said, as a member of the board of supervisors this is a constant question of information from the city. but i appreciate the report. i think it certainly does help to inform us. can we entertain a motion to file this report? great. do it without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor safai: mr. clerk,

please call item one. >>clerk: item one is an ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the cannabis oversight committee to advise the board of supervisors and the mayor regarding the implementation of city regulations related to cannabis. [please stand by]

-- the committee will not have the ability to hire or evaluate the personnel in the office of the cannabis. that lies with the city administrator. the city will be in the city administrator and the city administrator is responsibility for hiring the facilitator. during 2018-2019, the committee will be funded by funds from the department of public health. the budget for this committee for the fiscal year 2019-2020, is part of an annual budget discussion. this oversight committee will help to advise the board on amendments to the current legislation, the situation of new amendments and the overall health of the cannabis industry in san francisco and the effectiveness of our current policies to meet the goals set forth by this board. like all article 5 advisory bodies to the board of supervisors, the board of supervisors select the voting members of this committee.

i am proposing some amendments to this ordinance. and as you can see i will walk them through -- i will walk you through them right now if that is okay. and as we see the first one is on page 3, line 4, we're adding a nine voting seat for the entertainment commission. line 3, page 3, line 6, adding a non-voting seat for the fire department. and page 3, line 17, this seat will be for an equity applicant as defined by police code. and page 4, line 19, to clarify that the city department is required to respond to requests for administration from this committee. page 5, line 1, the city administrator will provide administrative and policy support for the committee. >> what is the last one? >> page 5, line one, sorry.

and then also we are adding that it's not in your legislation here is that on page 5, the powers and duties, we would like to add this language that says, "this committee does not have the authority to hire, fire or evaluate personnel in the office of cannabis. that authority is still held by the mayor and/or city administrator." also we would like to add on page 6, to line 23, that we are switching from biannual to annual reports. >> okay. >> and today we have the city administrator's office. >> before we have bill speak i would just say on that last amendment -- no, no, on the last amendment that you gave instead of saying that "authority is still held," it is held by the mayor and the city administrator? >> absolutely.

>> and then mr. -- >> mr. gibnor. >> on this last amendment, if i can jump in, offline discussing with supervisor fewer's staff, just two -- two quick thoughts. one, this is -- this new language states i think for clarity what is implied in the text of the ordinance. this body, like all advisory bodies that the board creates, will not have decisionmaking authority over the executive branch, including the decisionmaking authority over any employment matters? >> that's clearly laid out in the charter of the city. >> right, right. so the language is legally unnecessary, although certainly up to -- up to the committee if you want to add that language. if you do, i would suggest not

specifying the second piece of that clause about the -- that authority. i think that it's fair in this section of the code to simply say that this body does not have the authority to hire, fire or evaluate employees. >> got it, thank you very much. yes, that was strictly included for clarification. thank you very much. and, chair, also you mentioned about the last amendment on page 6 that would actually -- instead of biannual report it's an annual report. >> i got it, i got that, i got that. >> and this committee only meets five times a year and we thought an annual report is the most adequate. >> and just for clarification on seat number -- so many -- is that 13, the equity applicant? >> yes. >> is it "shall be held by an equity applicant"?

and this is a question, an equity applicant or an ebbing e- >> someone in the pipeline as an equity applicant. >> if they're an applicant smat point, if they're chosen and they botto become a partner thed have to get off the seat. >> they could then apply for seat number eight which is the owner of a cannabis business permitted through the equity program. >> i'm just saying that seems to be -- if we're successful, that might be an ever revolving seat hopefully if there's equity applicant. because once you choose someone you are hoping they are selected. so i wonder what seat did you say they could apply for? >> seat number eight, owner of a cannabis program permitted through the equity program. >> oh, okay. so... what? oh. >> right here.

>> permitted... okay, got it. okay, no, no, i see it. i was reading the other eight that was crossed off. i got it. okay, sounds good to me. mr. barnes? >> mr. barnes, thank you. >> thanks. >> good morning, rules committee, supervisor fewer and members of the committee. bill barnes, the city advisor to the city administrator. and i want to begin by explaining why this is needed. the and the task force was created by this board of supervisors to advise on implementation that was extended as part of the legislation that created the permanent process but sunsets this year. supervisor fewer's legislation which create this is committee replaces that task force and we're really grateful for her for her leadership and for the health department for carrying us over in the fiscal year because we have gone from thinking of prop 64 to thinking about how the office fupgz bees and how things can be improved and how they can be better positioned. so the supervisor fewer raised the issue around not hiring or

evaluating personnel. and the city administrator wanted me to clarify that this committee isn't going to be where you get your permit. that happens in the planning commission and through the office. and i'm just looking at the questions of how the whole system is working, policy, data, statistics, reporting, so that we can get an organizational sense of what's working and what's not working and what can be improved. so i wanted to clarify that on personnel and on permits. public health has agreed to help us with the financing this year. and the next year there's a need for the budget committee to consider both the policy and the administrative role to make sure that the group can be successful. so we'll be back with you in july on that. and i wanted to thank the supervisor for agreeing that an annual report would be better, that's going to ease some of the administrative burden. and i would note that some of data sets are data that we have and that are available. and others are harder to get. how many records have been, espionagebeenesponged are theree

will do our best to get the data. i know that the language was added to encourage the departments to comply. and i want to state that some of the data sets are outside of our control and we'll do the best we can. with that we have no concerns about the legislation at this time. and i'm happy to take any questions that anyone might have. >> thank you, mr. barnes. any questions, colleagues? >> no. >> thank you very much. >> anything else? >> you have questions for me? >> we'll ask if we have any more afterwards. and we'll open it up for public comment. any members of the public that wish to comment on this item, please come forward. depending upon how many people we have -- hold on one second. >> i'm sorry. >> clerk: i'm trying to get a gauge on how many are here. limited to one minute. >> sorry. i apologize. my name is lucie schwartz.

are these minutes available to the public? >> yes, they're recorded the. >> they're online somewhere? >> clerk: pause time for a second. if you start asking questions -- >> forget it i apologize. all i have to say is this -- okay, all i have to say is one minute and 50 seconds. i'll do 50 seconds. as a member of the commission under mayor brown i had been appointed because i was secretary of the newspaper guild. and it strikes me that the city commission should be very inclusive in terms of the institutions and the community, like the newspaper guild and the league of women voters. one concern is that groups like access of love should be on these commissions, on this commission, and should have a seat reserved because of its history. and bottom line, cannabis is a matter of life-or-death for trans people. i have gone through it myself and it can prevent suicide. i don't care about recreational,

i care about medical, health and access of love. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i am denise dory, and i have to make this quick. so now is a good time to regulate the industry, and the low-income patients, we need separate committees because we have different interests, different agendas. and the industry makes money. and the other -- we just want to live and harm reduction is very, very important. so we need our own committee and we don't want to have to -- because this is an ethics violation, really, to denic dena plant that costs us $10 a pound to grow. i'm just saying that we need to regulate the agreed factors first and we're last. why are the patients last? that's what i am just wondering to myself for so long. why were we last? we had our own committees. i've got videos of all of the committees for years and how we

were obstructed for years and years and years and it's all on video if you want to see it. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors, i am brandon brown with the cannabis retailers alliance. i'm the treasurer of that group. and i'm also on the cannabis equity working group. just a few comments and questions from the consensus through the retail lens. we're wondering where the cannabis oversight committee will secure funding. we don't want to see a committee with oversight of our industry with an unfunded mandate. and we ask for a funding source may be from the general fund just specifying that. i wish i had more time. we believe that the number of seats should be expanded. we sent you an email itemizing that information. and then, third, we believe that the current seat definitions should be more broad, like the guy said earlier, you know,

sometimes those seats, you're looking at a specific person and over time things change and if they're broader then it's easier to replace those people in those seats. we sent you an email outlining our information. so thank you for your time. >> clerk: thanks a lot. next speaker. >> good morning, mr. chair, and members of the committee. doug block with teamsters joint council 7, representing 100,000 teamsters in northern california, including 12,000 in the city and county of san francisco. here to speak in support and to thank the author for bringing this forward. this will bring the cannabis industry in line with other industries in san francisco where our members work such as film, that have commissions and that have oversight authorities for them. and so we're here to speak in support. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker.

>> good morning, supervisors. my name is nina parks. and today i'm will representing the cannabis equity working group. i am really happy that you're pushing this forward for us to figure out with some oversight and continued guidance from the cannabis industry will look like. just a few recommendations as far as the equity applicant seat, and having that equity seat by someone employed in the cannabis industry but equity verified because that's a very specific area since all cannabis companies have to have 50% employment as a verified person. so that might be an interesting voice to have at the table. and specifically to have the equity incubator and someone with a verified business, as a business owner or the business partner. so that's my two cents. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker. >> hi, my name is gilbert, i'm a

member of wake for warriors and acts of love. i saw the medical cannabis in the capitalist cannabis and now we're taken over by the capittist and they're not interested in the patient and not interested in the consumer. they're interested in themselves. but that's not unusual for a capitalist. so it's me, myself and i. and money, money, money, and more money. we're innovated by foreign powers, is it mosanta that wanted to take over the industry in california? well, anyway, you should watch the dark money. we're influenced by all of these outside sources and some people don't even know where the mob secoming from. it could be coming from isis, who knows. but, anyway, the thing is that we need to represent the common consumer, the disabled veterans, the people that can't afford medicine. they've been forgotten.

>> clerk: thank you, next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. jennifer garcia, ufcw local 648. i'm here to speak in favor of the cannabis oversight committee. i have been a member of the legalization task force for three years and i have been a co-chair for two years. and i will say that serving on the task force and being the co-chair of the task force has influenced the decision to support the oversight committee. as a cannabis industry continues to adapt in a regulated market there should be a body that can oversee the process in the best interest of the community as a whole and advising the board of supervisors and the mayor regarding the impelementation and the enforcement of the city laws. and having key stakeholders on an oversight committee would ensure accountability and transparency that the industry and the community deserves. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is david goldman, from

the brownie mary democratic club, a policy club and i'm here in support of this oversight committee. i'd like to see additional seats. before you is a document with my name on it, david goldman. it lists a whole bunch of recommended additions for additional seats. i want to call your attention in particular to seat 14, to make sure that we medical cannabis patients have representation on this committee. specifically for medical cannabis patients. we also would like to see in seat 15, san francisco residency seat, and by an equity applicant who is an incubator applicant. and seat 18 held by a representative from the neighborhood association. i would like to also recommend that a seat be held by a disabled veteran. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon -- good morning, members of the committee. my name is michael cohen and i'm

speaking on behalf of the san francisco cannabis retailers alliance. thank you. the first thing that i'd like to speak on is the funding. the funds needs to be secured through the general fund and earmarked for the office of cannabis. this will ensure that the priorities of the committee and the o.r.c. are the same. and the city created the o.r.c. and we need it housed within -- [alarms going off on phones] >> clerk: it's just a test. okay. your time was paused, don't worry. please continue. >> may i continue? >> clerk: yes, please. >> funding and staff for the committee through the o.o.c. is critical for success. if the committee is housed under the d.p.a. as currently planned, the priorities of the o.e.c. and

them will differ on certain policies and the industry would suffer. you would not house the entertainment commission within the police department. let's not house the cannabis oversight committee at d.p.h. my second point is the data. the o.o.c. also needs access to data for a successful outreach. please clarify that all departments must respond to data requests from both the oversight committee and the o.o.c. within 30 days. and also please clarify what department is responsible for delivering each data set. this will ensure that all departments are ready to deliver the required data that is requested. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker.

>> how's this? this okay? good morning, i'm charlie papp, co-founder and the chairman of divinity tree which closed in 2011. the first of the dispensaries closed by the fed and the medical cannabis commissioner. i haven't reviewed the makings up of the oversight committee but there's nothing more important than political oversight and this committee could help to you do that. san francisco had the best political oversight from 2005 to 2011, and, you know, it was unfortunately not enough support when the feds came but you're on the right track. my advice is previously the medical cannabis commission announced a san francisco task force. too many people, it's going to be hard to advise you if, you know, too many opinions. so i would power down more,

would be my advice and good luck. thank you. >> clerk: thank you so much, sir. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors, chris schulman. i would like to thank supervisor fewer for bringing this forward and the co-sponsors. when it was a proposal for a commission and the new regulatory agency, we had some hesitation and, frankly, some opposition, but we recognized that there was a need for oversight and public input and input from the agencies and we would like to thank the supervisor for bringing this forward in its current form. we're very supportive and we're looking forward to participating and making sure that it's a success. thank you so much. and we're going to look forward to seeing this through. thank you. >> clerk: great, any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor fewer? >> if i may address some of the

public comments. so this position will not be paid for by this, and we are paying it through the general fund. i know that was a big concern. and also there's a seat for a cannabis patient and the seat is described as "a person who has been a medical cannabis patient or a medical cannabis consumer for at least five years with an extensive history advocating for medical cannabis patients or involvement in the implementing and running a cannabis compassion use program in comcomplaint with the act of 1996." and we have another comment that i heard was -- i wrote it down -- we did add an equity applicant there. we are open actually to adding seats if we find that we're missing expertise at the table.

and then it is not going to be housing d.p.h. i think that we just heard earlier before the public comment that this will be housed in the city administrator's office. and that we actually -- i would like to ask our city attorney about the san francisco residency requirement because it is my understanding that under article 5 that it's required that they are san francisco residences until it is waiver is granted by the board. >> deputy city attorney. that's right, under the charter the default rule is that all -- all members of the advisory bodies must be san francisco residents and registered voters unless the appointing authority, the board in this case, waives that requirement for an individual or the ordinance itself. this ordinance says that you don't have to be a san francisco resident. but right now the rule is that you must be a resident unless

the board waives. >> thank you, mr. gibnor. and every person on this committee will be a san francisco resident as per required by article 5, unless waived by the board. and so i want to thank everyone for coming today and giving us your comments and i think that we first thought about having a commission and you're right, we got a lot of pushback on it. so we heard from the community and we think that this oversight committee is so needed now. i will not say that this might be needed in five years but right now when we are rolling out a program and i think that the supervisor knows that when we wrote this ordinance that we were both on the rules committee together and a lot of ideas came forward and a lot of thought. and, quite frankly, that we did not have the expertise on the board. but we made that legislation and that ordinance anyway and created it. but now we really want to hear on the ground, is it working?

does it need amendment? how should we amend it? how should we meet the needs of our equity applicants? , quite frankly, that the board of supervisors 100% agreed on with an equity program. i have received letters from the san francisco equity group that gives us many suggestions and i'm glad that we have representation from them on the board and we will have a representation on this committee. i would encourage people to apply. we will send notices out and once this is passed i would hope to have this in place by january 1st. and so i am encouraging people to apply or your networks to apply also because we're looking for people to actively serve on this committee. the commitment is five meetings a year. i would like to leave it at nine members because i think that there has been an issue with quorum. i'm open up to any questions

that my colleagues may have. >> i have no -- i asked questions and i have supervisor stefani, do you have any questions? >> i think that as you said, supervisors, i think that it's important to more formalize this oversight committee as we're moving forward and there's still a lot of unanswered questions. i think that i in particular receive a lot of inquiries, concerns, and feedback from equity applicants and those in the equity world, also patient advocates in the patient world. so having a more formalized body as well as those that we're working on a piece of legislation right now. as you know that deals with stabilizing and coordinating the workforce that we call "city grow" and working with organized

labor. to have those seats represented here is really important. so i think that the time is right. so we appreciate it. i wouldn't necessarily restrict where the funding comes from. because, i mean, there will be new revenue generators at some point that will go to the general fund. i understand that the industry is feeling squeezed by fees and so on. so we'll definitely have to work that out moving forward based on if there's any additional revenue. but other than that i don't have any other comment. >> great. did you want to make a motion? >> i would like to make a motion to move it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> vote on the amendments first? >> yes, we have to vote on the amendments and for clarity, are you accepting of deputy city attorney -- >> yes, i am. >> to strike the second part -- so the committee will not have the ability to fire or hire in the office of cannabis, period? >> i'm fine with that. >> so all of the amendments, can

we accept those without objection? so moved. great. and then on the final piece of legislation. can we send that to the full board with positive recommendation without objection? so moved. great. >> thank you very much, colleagues. thank you, everyone. >> thank you so much. okay. what item are we on? >> clerk: item 5. >> can we -- hold on a second. can we just do -- hold on one second. can we do item 7 first please. are the folks here for item 7?

>> clerk: item 7 to appoint two members, term ending march 1, 2021, to the in home supportive services public authority. >> hi. >> item number 7? >> yes. i'm the executive assistant at the public authority. >> you want to say a few word? >> so, unfortunately, tessie was unable to appear today and i'm working to reschedule her hearing. but i am here today to speak on behalf of kenzie robey and he was unable to attend because he has a very serious medical condition and he's recovering from surgery. we have a letter of recommendation. >> you can keep that for a minute that would be great. >> absolutely. so i'm here on behalf of the san francisco public authority to state that we support the

appointment of kenzi robi. he's committed to improving the lives of low-income older adults and people with disabilities. and as a long-time wheelchair user himself he understands the challenges that many adults with disabilities face. he has worked with the public mentorship team in helping residents to transition so we feel that he's very important to our p.a. governing body. >> great. and i understand too that due to a noticing error that it cannot be heard today. that's the second person. so for that purpose we won't -- we won't make a decision on seat number eight today. okay, great. any questions from the committee? okay. seeing none, can we have public comment on item number 7? public comment is one minute. >> wow, you have knocked it down to one minute. when i came to city hall it was

three minutes and then after we came, you knocked it down to two minutes. after a while you will knock it down to 30 seconds and get up here and say hi and goodbye. i think that is really unfair. but let me speak on this issue in this one minute. all of these appointees, whomever, i don't care what administration it is, i think that these appointees when they affect the homeless people there should be a vetting system that they and before the homeless and find out what they're about. whatever this is about. so 30 seconds, i'm not going to break my brains on trying to make a comment. all i'm going to say right now is that my name is ace and i'm on the case, and the case means community, assistance, service, enterprise. i think that is what is needed, community reform. because these procedures here are very unfair to the homeless and everybody else. here i'm a well-abled body coming up here and talking but i am a victim, and i think that it's really unfair. you don't see no homeless people and nobody coming up here for

community reform. >> any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? public comment is closed. so just for clarity, this is in-home supportive services, okay. did you want to say one last thing? >> no. >> okay, great. thank you very much, i appreciate you coming to speak on kenzi's behalf. any other questions? so can we entertain a motion to accept of kenzi robi to the public authority and continue seat eight to the call of the chair? great. we can do that without objection. okay. hold on one second. can you call item number 6. >> clerk: a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending march 19, 2021 to the child care planning and advisory council. there are two seats and two applicants.

>> great. so first person that we're going to see here and hear from is ester. are you here? easter, sorry. easter calvit. >> yes. >> you have three minutes left. >> i am easter calvit and i'm the program director for headstart within san francisco. and i have been working in the area of early care and education for over 13 years. and i had a headstart agency, and for the last 3 1/2 years in san francisco i have been attending the meetings continuously since i have been working in san francisco. and i oversee eight headstart agencies within san francisco fowrks of them within the chinatown area.

-- four of them being within the chinatown area. so i'm looking forward to this appointment if you see that i can serve in this capacity. thank you. >> thank you so much. i'm sorry for mispronouncing your name. >> that's okay. >> it happens to me all the time. [laughter]. >> it's okay, thank you. >> and i just note for the record that mr. graham dobson is unable to be here. he is an employee of the office of the early childhood education but sent an email to the committee to tell me that he was unable to attend but he was looking forward to reappointment. any other -- okay, can we do public comment? any members of the public that wish to comment on this item come forward? seeing none, public comment is closed. any comments or questions from the committee? okay, great. so i'm going to make a motion to accept the residency waiver and nomination of easter calvit for seat three and the reappointment

of graham dobson on seat 12 of the child care planning and advisory council. can we do that without objection? thank you, so moved. >> clerk: to confirm miss calvit, a written waiver requirement has been provided and you are recommending -- also recommending graham dobson to seat 12? >> yes, that's what i said. >> clerk: thank you. >> great. all right. so let's do go back to item number 5. >> clerk: item number 5 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending february 23, 2020, to the citizens' committee on community development. we have two seats and four applicants. >> great, thank you, and we'll start with graciela hernandez. each applicant has three minutes to speak. thank you. >> thank you. and you pronounced graciela very

well, thank you. good morning, thank you for giving me the opportunity to come before you and for considering me for the application of citizen -- on citizens committee on community development. i was born and raised in the bay area and i have been a resident of san francisco for the past five years. and i currently live in district 7. i would be honored to serve on the committee to advance the needs and the concerns of low-income community members in the city as i know firsthand the challenges of low-income families as a daughter of immigrant family who moved here with low social and economic resources. i believe that both my professional and personal experiences have helped me tow represent the needs of diverse community members in san francisco. i have dedicated my professional career for the past 13 years to develop and to implement programs that increase educational, work development in business opportunities for low-income communities and diverse communities. and i worked for the office of economic as a analyst and a

program officer for the office of -- i'm sorry, for the tech initiative. to increase the access of technology training and employment to local san francisco residents who were unemployed. in this role i helped to implement technology training that was provided at multiple organizations, including ccsf, the bay area, and bay view hunter for the arts and technology. with my support the program successfully met all outcomes and we were able to place over 300 san francisco residents into employment within a period of two years. and for the past couple years i have also been volunteering for not-for-profit agencies as a tenderloin mission district, including ccsf, mission economic development agency, meta, and the vietnamese youth development center in the tenderloin. i work as a principal analyst at bart. and i work with the advocacy

department and i represent bart on transit regional transportation planning committees. i have seen an influx of former san francisco residents who are moving east and north because they are no longer able to live and to work in san francisco. i recently even heard colleagues who were conducting a survey on first morning riders at the station who were conducting surveys and the riders said that coming -- the first riders in the morning were coming to work in san francisco because they have moved away and they have to get to the station around 4:00 in the morning to be able to get to work here. and i believe that the community members like them should have adequate and equitable access to affordable housing, community and economic development, and rental assistance and supportive housing programs. because these programs create a bridge for low-income communities to benefit from the growth of our city. these community members are, in

fact, the backbone of our city and our everyday society. for this reason i would be honored to serve on the committee. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. and now let's hear from our second applicant miss marilyn murrillo here? she is not. okay. third applicant is azalea renfeld. >> said it correctly. hi, thank you so much for -- i'm sorry? >> no, go ahead. >> thank you for having me. i would like to express my interest in serving on the committee. i was born and raised here in san francisco and i currently live in the sunset district and i have seen my share of displacement and i would like to be able to give back. a little bit about my background... i have been working in housing for a long time. i started on the san francisco human rights commission as the equity advisory committee for two years. and i have worked for cal works for 2 1/2 years, helping

specifically in the area of housing. i have served on different housing boards, the san francisco rent board, helping with rent control ordinance because i worked for palo alto currently on the program. and i have served on the housing advocates in northern california, affirming fair housing. and a couple of private organizations as relate to development. my hope is that i would like to be able to mobilize the communities in a way that makes sense, in a way that finds the common story. so that we could figure out new ways to actually translate that to tangible achievable and measurable outcomes. and it would be such an honor to do this in this capacity and to really give back. and i really wanted to say that when we try to figure out ways to find the story that we all share, that is where the community development really begins. for example, the fact that supervisor yee and i, we both

went to hubert hub ard middle school. and supervisor steafa nirch, we both attended the school of law. and supervisors safai and we both have a passion and a love for helping families and children. and supervisor fewer, i didn't know that you would be here, the fact that we both went to city college in san francisco and golden gate university. that's the part that engages people because we're now both focused and we want to give back and that's a good basis to start to develop in the community. so it would be my honor and pleasure to give back to this wonderful city and to do great things. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. all right. and now let's hear from our fourth applicant, maurice robinson. not here? okay. any questions for the applicants? supervisors? that said, i think that a lot of

times that showing up is 80% of the job, but even on top of that both of you had a wonderful presentations and i think that your background and skills and passions having been former deputy director of the office of community development and working with the citizens' advisory committee over years, i think that you guys -- both of you -- would make wonderful contributions to this committee. so thank you for coming here today. any members of the public wish to comment on this item, please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. all right. let's see. we... i guess that i'll make a motion to accept the nominations of graciela hernandez to serve on seat three and azalea reffeld to serve on seat 3 and 4.

congratulations, ladies. without objection. call item 8. >> clerk: a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending april 10, 2019 and one member, term ending march 11, 2020, to the graffiti advisory board. >> great. is mike petricca -- >> petricca. >> okay, great. please proceed. you have three minutes or less. >> i won't take up all of your time. you have my application and i'm replacing rebecca delgado who served on the graffiti board and did a great job and supported them. she retired and so for the last few weeks i have been working with the graffiti board and we currently are doing some public service announcements for the graffiti board. we will have that ready for the huddle on the 17th of this

month. but i'm real excited about replacing rebecca and i hope that i can do as good a job as she did. and i look forward to having more students involved in helping the city with graffiti abatement. thank you. >> real quick, what do you currently do? >> i'm the vice president of campus safety at the academy of art. >> you work there? >> i do. >> is this an academy of art seat? >> i believe so. >> seat 16, employee or office of a private school or an art school that operates in san francisco. okay. great. any questions from the committee? okay. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> let's hear from our second applicant, is miss margeaux casillas here? uh-oh. and i know that our third applicant for seat number 8 gregory dillon, is unable to attend today.

today's hearing, and so the request of the graffiti advisory staff -- ma'am, are you with the graffiti advisory staff? okay. got it. i just wanted to make sure. so we'll hear from seat number 18 at a later date and it looks like we'll have to hear seat number 17 at a later date as well. okay. i don't have any questions. i would just say comment-wise that having been a former employee of the department of public works and also someone in our new capacity as supervisors, all of us have a significant amount of complaints about graffiti and trash and the overall cleanliness of the city so this is an important advisory body. i appreciate the fact that you're taking time to be involved in that and we take this seriously and i take graffiti and these issues very seriously. so the fact that you have shown up here today and have you attended any of the advisory committee -- in the past, mr. --

>> yes, i have worked with them for the last couple months while i have waited to get before the commission. and like i said we have been helping them with getting our students to do some public service announcements and hopefully we're asking the mayor to be part of those announcements that the school is putting together for the graffiti board. the academy of art. >> at their cost? >> yes. >> great. all right. so no other questions? would you like to make a motion supervisors? oh, public comment on this item, seeing none, public comment is closed. okay. go ahead. yes? i'll just make a motion. motion to accept the appointment in residency waiver of mr. mike petricca to seat 16 and to continue seat 17 and 18 to the call of the chair. can we do that without objection? without objection, thank you.

any other items before us today? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> we are adjourned. thank you.

>> welcome. we're glad you're here. this is the regular meeting of the san francisco board of education, october 9, 2018. roll call, please. [roll call] >> clerk: thank you. >> we start the meeting in honor of maya angelou who said, when

you learn, teach. when y