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that happens on the streets. that that, bringing that aspect of the way people are living on the streets is actually creating more impact on the streets. if you imagine, i look at the sidewalks of the tenderloin and we are pressure washing the sidewalks constantly. public works is pressure washing them as well. they're still often very dirty and it's because there are so many people living throughout the whole day there, eating there, lying down there and so we are trying to catch up to make sure that the sidewalks are clean enough that the people walking on the streets, also the people who are on the streets, sidewalks, forced to live on the sidewalks, also have cleaner places. i guess i don't have an answer to your question except to say, yeah, the need is very great. it continues to be very strong. >> in may i really see a big difference in the tenderloin in terms of the number of individuals that aren camping in the tenderloin. i had never seen that before. >> it's a good point.
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the population may be stable but it moves around. it moves around the city based on pressures from different neighborhoods. tent encampments might and i don't have a careful track to say that. i would say we do see month to month we see fluctuations of where people are living. >> thank you so much for your work and i'm very excited to celebrate safe packages with you next week. glad to see the security program office to central market and tenderloin has been used successfully. >> thank you. >> thank you. ok. and so we're back to ms. mar for our final community benefit district.
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>> good morning, supervisors. helen mar. project specialist with the office of economic workforce development c.b.d. team. today we're here for the fiscal year 2016-17 annual report for the lower polk community benefit district. as you may know, c.b.d.s are community benefit districts are governed by two pieces of legislation. state law or the 1994 actor article 15 local law. our review process insures all c.b.d.s or b. i.d.s are meeting their management plan. we conduct a annual report of the and oewd provides the supervisors with a summary memo like the ones in the packages in front of you. the c.b.d. currently assesses 309 parcels. it is a property-based district
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with an initial assessment budget of 486 -- $846,000 and it is set to expire on june 30th, 2029. there's executive director is christian martin, who is also here to present later on the achievements. their service areas are cleaning, maintenance and safety programs. marketing street scape improvement and beautification programs as well as management and operations. we reviewed the same four bench marks for lower polk c.b.d. the only variances in benchmark two where the requirement is 5 and 5,500th percent of their actuals. for benchmark one, lower polk c.b.d. met this benchmark
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requirement. for benchmark 2, lower polk c.b.d. met their general benefit requirement as well. for budget versus actuals, they met the benchmark and have historically met this benchmark. they also indicated the carry forward and spend down in their annual reports. our findings and recommendations for lower polk c.b.d. is, we found that the c.b.d. met owl four bench marks and they secured and renovated a long-term office space at 1170 sutter street using their cpmc mitigation funds. the c.b.d. made significant progress in raising new funds beyond their general benefit requirement. they secured grant funding to execute the lower polk tenderloin art walk series hemlock mural projects and rest room services and tenant-landlord clinic to prevent homelessness.
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they played a very pivotal role in assisting the steering committee in fiscal year of '16-'17. in conclusion, the c.b.d. has performed well in implanting its service plan. they also continue to successfully sponsor and help implement programs and events in the district. and they have an active board and committee members and will successfully carry out its mission as a c.b.d. if there are no questions, i'd like to bring up kristen martin to present on the program achievement. >> thank you, i did not know about your storefront office. it is outside of my district. that will be my excuse. >> no problem. thank you, chair kim. supervisor brown for allowing us to come and present the fiscal year 16-17 bor17 lower polk annl
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report. this was the tail end of our first year and the beginning of our second year of operations. we were still in the process of building the foundation for the c.b.d. establishing our programs and our internal systems and controls. we are happy to say that i think we've made some significant progress and progress that you can see, smell and feel in the lower polk. i'll walk you through some of our highlights from the year. so, we rebranded and promoted our art walk. we provided information to merchants, pedestrians and sponsored the lower polk wine walk to bring foot traffic to our merchants. we redesigned and took part in the funding for fern and austin allies which have been a
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priority for the neighborhood to reinvent our back allies and to pedestrian-friendly clean, safe community spaces where people recreation. we built our c.b.d. website and set the website for caulley park for community members to stay up to diet on what is happening there. we initiated a lower polk is open construction mitigation program and with the assistance of ooh wd market nad to our perch ants that are struggling with the construction on the van ness corridor as well as the polk street corridor. we installed planter boxes in austin, hemlock and cedar allies to make them cleaner and
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greener. we pressure washed blocks and conducted daily outreach to our homeless population and made runs of referrals to other community-based organizations like lava may, glide, saint anthony and st. martin. we also provided access to clean and monitored rest rooms. it was on a trailer hitch we dragged through the allies overnight to give people a clean, safe place to relief rele themselves and give our crew a break from some of the deluge of clean up on a daily basis.
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finally we installed murals in hemlock alley that beautify the neighborhood, provide an opportunity for community building. they also deter graffiti. on the administration front, we secured and renovated a long-term office space at 1170 sutter street. it is a storefront and also a base for our cleaning operation. we ensure the day-to-day success of the program and we work with the city officials to address rights of way issues. we applied and received a number of grants for the art walk, the mural project and pit stops. the tenderloin clinic which aims to prevent displacement some
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things i find compelling are feces calls went down 34% in our first year of operations and contrast with that with feces calls 311 going up 40% city wide. our needles saw a similar decrease. 58% down in our district while city wide they went up 44%. and graffiti calls are down 36% while they were up 24% city wide. the next fiscal year got some numbers that also support our impact. or display our impact.
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115% increase from 2015 to 2017 of needles reported to 311. in the lower polk that number was flat. over the same period, we saw 58.8% increase in feces calls. only a 9% increase in the lower polk. 28.7 increase city wide from '1. lower polk saw 48.8% decrease. we certainly don't work by ourselves. we couldn't do anything without our great partners at the city. non profits and in the community. those include oewd. helen and chris are exceptional. mayor's office of housing and community development supports
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our landlord clinic. d.p.w. obviously many of human services agency, where we source some of our labor through the jobs program. the san francisco department association, the bar association of san francisco, u.c. hastings college of law, who all take part in our landlord clinic and finally lower polk numbers, middle polk c.b.d., steering committee and the residents and businesses of the lower polk community. so with that, i would be happy to take any questions. >> thank you so much, mr. martin. i know you only have a tiny portion of district 6 but i do really appreciate lower polk c.b.d.'s work with sergeant mccauley playground. thank you for in concluding us. that was a discussion when the c.b.d. was initiated and we had asked to have the playground
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included. it has made such a tremendous improvement on that block to have someone tabling the pit stop and thank you for having your team present. i'm really excited we'll break ground on the renovation of that playground. we have a lot of work to do. i really hope that we can continue to partner and i will proving that particular corridor. >> thank you, i want to thank you for your tremendous support of the park and the programs that are operated and everything else that happens down there. thank you so much. >> we have so few open space in the tenderloin. we have to fight to make sure that families feel safe using them. it's great to have a playground but if our community doesn't foal safe using the playground, it might asel not be there. >> absolutely. >> thank you for your work on that. i see no further questions but
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i'm sure supervisor peskin would also say some nice remarks about the work the c.b.d. has done in his district so thank you. >> thank you. >> at this time, we are going to open up for public comments on this item. if anyone would like to speak on item 7-10. public comment is now closed. do you have some closing remarks? thank you so much. it is really been such a pleasure to work with you and our entire office really enjoys being able to partner with you on all of our community benefit districts. we have the vast majority in our district. i do want to thank our executive directors and your teams many of it is a really tough and difficult job. i think it is only become more challenging over the last two years and so, i do want to just thank your on the ground workers because it's one of the toughest jobs in our city and they really
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are working to make you're district cleaner and safer and so thank you for all of the work that you are doing to partner with our city agencies. can we take a motion to move these items forward with recommendation to the full board without objection. >> thank you. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 11. >> clerk: number 11 resolution of improving agreement for the non-profit owners association for administration of management of the established property-based community benefit district known as the discover polk community benefit district. >> i want like to thank the community for getting the
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discover polk c.b.d. up to this point and on july 24th, 2018 the board of supervisors approved the resolution establishing the discover polk community benefit district for 11 years and this will allow a levee on the properties in the district and in order to transfer those funds from the city controller to the management association, the city must have a management agreement. this is a document that is a templet used for all c.b.d.s however there are changes made for the specifics of each c.b.d. in this case it was changed to reflect the general benefit requirement of discover polk which is three and 3400%. if approved they can transfer funds in late december of 2017, early january 2019 when distributions go out over the period of the district we expect $8.5 million would be collect inside assessment.
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are there any questions for staff? >> there are no questions. we'll open up for public comment on this item. seeing none. public comment is now closed. i believe we can take this item with recommendation without objection. can we call 12 and 13 together, mr. clerk. >> clerk: number 12 is a resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors to establish city and county of san francisco special tax district number 2018-1 for central comb so anticipate and other matters in connection. number 13, resolution declaring the intention of the board of exercises to incur bonded indebtness and other city debt for the formation of the san francisco special tax district number 2018-1 for central soma and determining other connected matters. >> thank you, i want to congratulate you. this is the last committee meeting you will sit with in regards to central soma plan.
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and we will pass this out of committee today and bring this to the full board. i did want to just bring you up, if there are any questions in regards to the bond and the resolution of intention to form the central soma special tax district if if you have any awards. >> thank you, the planning department. we don't have any questions at this time. we did just want to highlight for the committee that based on the advice of the clerk of the board, they are recommending we change the date that is listed in both of the resolutions of intention in order to accommodate the first hearing of 2019 which is the inaugural hearing. currently, the r.o.i. file
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february 180622 specifies the date for the full board hearing to form the c.f.d. at january 8th, 2019. however, because at that hearing, substantive matters wouldn't be heard the recommendation is that be changed to january 15th, the following week. the other r.o.i. file number 180623 is currently flank is we numbecurrent blank so justadd j. no further comments or questions at this time. >> great. so i will be making that amendment based on guidance of the clerk just to change the date. i'm going to open up for public comment on these two items. if any member of the public would like to speak. seeing none. public comment is now closed. i'd like to make a motion to adopt the amendment as ms. chen to change the date from
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january 8th, 2019 to january 15th of 2019. this is on page 9 line 3. so we can adopt that without objection. and can we forward this item to the full board as amended without objection? >> we can. for clar took both the clarity,e whole hearing date of january 15th. it will be included in both the resolutions of intention. both the agenda items. so, the first resolution of intention for the formation presently has january 8th listed as the committee as the whole hearing date. there's a blank in the resolution of intention for the bonded indebtness item that will get amended to fill in the january 15th date. just for clarity. >> thank you, mr. clerk. we're going to take a motion to move these items to the full board as amendment without objection. with recommendations.
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thank you. so mr. clerk can we please call the final three items. 14-17 for closed session. >> 14-17 are various ordinances and resolutions offering lawsuits and unlitigated claims against the city and county. >> at this time we will open up for public comment on items 14-17. if any members of the public would like to comment. seeing none public comment is now closed. may we take a motion to convene into closed session and we can do that without objection. we're asking members of the public to exit the room so that the g.a.o. committee can >> we are back in session regular november 17th. >> city attorney john gibner. they voted 2-0 to amend item 17 to change the authorization that currently reads up to 76,866.20
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to instead say up to $80,000. and the committee also voted 2-0 with supervisor peskin excused to forward items 14-17 to the full board with positive recommendations. >> can i take a motion to not disclose the proceedings from closed session without objection? mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> there is no further business. >> seeing none, meeting is adjourned.
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residents of the city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services they offered and we're now encouraging our employees who have residence in san francisco to sign on as well. we didn't have any interruption of service or any problems with the switch over to cleanpowersf. this clean power opportunity reflects that. i would encourage any large business in san francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. it's good for the environment, it's good for business and it's good for the community. >> neighborhoods in san francisco are as diverse and fascinating as the people who inhabit them. today we're in the sunset,
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where we'll join supervisor tang for the inspiration of this show, where we explore san francisco, one neighborhood at a time. hi i'm katy tang the district 4 supervisor in san francisco, which is comprise of sunset and parkside neighborhoods. i think what makes district 4 unique is that we have so many different cultures here. we have so many different generations of people. different experiences and that makes it a vibrant neighborhood. for example, which you go down urban street you can do to a japanese restaurant, chinese restaurant, american restaurant, and the cultural diversity is just what makes it so amazing my name is ching le, and i'm the owner of the kingdom of bounty. 17th san francisco, 94116.
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we make the most authentic and different kinds of dumplings and dim sum. recently more and more popular because they are vegetables and meats that we use fresh vegetables and meats in the business. it's really inspired to start discover your district series, because i wanted to find a way for neighbors to come and get to know our small businesses and our neighborhoods. get to know each other, get know our office, and do so in a setting that was unintimidating and fun. so i launched this idea call the "discover your district," where we go every month to one or two small businesss in district 4 and we have done things such as learning how to make dumplings that we're learning today and there are so many different activities that we have exposed our residents to. >> today is the very special day, because the city of san
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francisco hosting this for san francisco city. learning how to make dumplings and knowledge of dumplings. they love to do it and all enjoy it. >> this is definitely not my first time making it, so i have definitely improved a lot. the first couple of time s i tried to make dumplelings they looks inedible. they have definitely improved. there is a special dumpling eating contest, which is amazing. everyone those eat the dumplings that they made and see how many they can do. i'm curious as to how many they going to be able to down today? >> don't forget to write down what you are eating today. >> we make all different kinds of dumplings and enjoy what they made. so after that, we'll have
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center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their homes after an earthquake. they may
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have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going to be perfect. there maybe
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cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake.
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>> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller
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soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san
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we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining
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>> 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. [♪].
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me. >> i just get excited and my nickname is x usher my mom calls me i stuck out like a sore thumb for sure hey everybody i'm susan kitten on the keys from there, i working in vintage clothing and chris in the 30's and fosz and aesthetic. >> i think part of the what i did i could have put on my poa he focus on a lot of different musical eras. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness shirley temple my biggest influence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast
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their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk
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i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a script based on our troop of 6 american burr elect performs in france we were
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woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i walgreens pedestrian care. >> land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film was not released in the united states nobody gave a rats ass let's say the music and berry elect and performing doesn't pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it ended i didn't feel kemgd to
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france anymore he definitely didn't feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey i'm from the bay area and an artist you don't make a living it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but don't really nurture it like having a potted plant if you don't warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant (laughter) i'm going to give san francisco one more year i've been here since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me i'll keep on trying and if the struggle becomes too hard
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i'll have to move on i don't know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i don't do that i'm sober and part of the being is an and sober and happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. >> few people happy of all ages i've gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong
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