the opportunity to do the same. one of my friends today told me he pays $20 for everything in city college for four classes and i know that if he had to pay $1,000 in tuition, he would leave school right now and not because he wanted to, but because of the wage gap. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors and thank you for holding this hearing. i am a city college instructor and the new political director for aft 2121. i have big shoes to fill after a lisette messer. we are really proud of what free city has done. we see the impact and how people in every single one of your districts evaluate what city college has done, what can be, and i have been moved by speaking with many of you and your staff, because everyone has ideas about what else city college can be. especially i appreciate a

dialogue with your staff. and all of those ideas about how what we do next all rests on this foundation. how do we get more satellite classes and more esl classes out into the neighbourhoods, it all rests on the foundation of free city. this is something we can come together on and we look forward to having your sponsorship and campaigning with us. >> hello. i am with san francisco rising. i am a recent college graduate and i am a resident of san francisco. i support and am advocating for free city college because i truly know how hard it is to succeed and stay in college without financial assistance and how crucial it is for everyone just for education to be accessible to all youth. i urge the board of supervisors to move this charter amendment out of committee.

thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am very happy to be here to be supporting this charter amendment, and i also support supervisor he's extension of the term. it is fabulous. i want to think --dash i'm a trustee at city college. i want to think supervisor kim for starting us on this road. i just finished my race for reelection and i cannot tell you how much a resonated when i said to people, you should be getting -- we should be getting our fair share of proposition w. there's not a person in san francisco who doesn't understand how important it is that the money they voted on for the students of san francisco be given to the students of san francisco. i really appreciate this move on part of the board of supervisors to make sure that happens. as you all know, we are up to $1.5 trillion in student debt.

higher than the mortgage debt in this country. we have a real huge problem. thanks to you, we don't have it here at city college. thank you, very much. >> good afternoon. i am a community organizer with community housing partnership. i work with low income and formerly homeless residents. before free city college past, college wasn't an option for the people in our buildings. but i am in full support of the passage of this legislation because we can -- we are realizing that the elimination of barriers for low income people is a human rights issue and i want to thank supervisor kim for making this happen, and

of course, this committee and i urge that you passed this. thank you. >> hello, board. i am here with district five. city college has been truly life-changing for me. when i heard that city college was going to be free, i went back to school after a ten year hiatus. i'm currently in the cinema department and i've shown, in four film festivals in the city and i have a short film on at the roxy tonight. i received my first paycheck for working on a film last month and i am working on a production happening in san francisco this weekend. i just wanted to say how much city college has helped give me confidence as a female filmmaker it has given me the tools that i wouldn't have otherwise been able to afford, and we all know how much of an uphill struggle it is for working-class people in this city.

city college really makes it worth it to stay here and to work here and to make beautiful art here and donald trump wants people uneducated. can we please educate -- >> hello, board. i am a resident of san francisco and a student at city college. i support this amendment. i would love to see the city of san francisco continue to lead the way in educational justice throughout the nation. thank you for your time and listening and i love that all the public comments so far have been unanimously in support of this amendment. thank you.

>> hello. i will read a student statement who got into an accident brushing here. >> good afternoon. my name is all my. i'm 19 and a benefit greatly from the free free safety program period last year i was fortunate enough to attend usf. but due to finances, i had to transfer to city college. my mother works two jobs to pay for the mortgage. in the last two years, we lost my grandparents on my mom paid for all of the funeral expenses on her own period due to these financial hardships, a tent city college for free, as i cannot afford any other option period i am beyond grateful for the opportunity to attend city and work towards my career goals and veterinarian medicine. without city college chakra free city program, i might not be attending school this year. i urge the community to think about this decision as it affects the education of many people. free safety is an amazing program and i love to hear it is extended for a few more years. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am an instructor at city

college and i am also an organizer with san francisco rising and a member of the union i wanted to share some sobering statistics about the latino community. students have the highest dropout right in high schools. latina women have the highest right of unwanted pregnancies and latino students in general in the state of california have the highest incarceration right 2 by. and many times the students that come to my class are students that are trying to get a second chance at their education. they re-enrolled because they realize that without an education and with the economic hardships that they come from, that otherwise they will not be able to succeed. i'm very proud to have students from my class who will be sharing a little bit about their experience as to what this program would mean for them in their lives, and i was also able to ask some of my students today how the free city college program supports them in their education, and they say it supports them in graduating faster because they can take more units without having to pay an additional fee and it also motivates them to do better because if they don't pass their

classes, they are charged if they withdraw from their class period they also mentions that it had inspired them to read and roll. i'm really excited to pass the microphone onto my students who are here and they will also be rushing off to class immediately after their public comment period thank you so much. >> hello. let me introduce myself. my name is jacqueline. i am a student at ccsf city college. i am here to speak out for students who are in need for a stable way to succeed for their careers, because i know how challenging that can be. think about the new students who are coming by and are in the same shoes as s. i am a daughter of first-generation to be a college and i want to help my family and my self to have a better life. as well as for other students who are in the same situation as us.

i want to help students who can't apply for financial aid in students who are immigrants. we need to think about them because they have a future as well. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a third-year city college student on the verge of transferring. i am a san francisco native from the excelsior district. i'm here today not only to advocate for those in free city, but i also am here because i come from an immigrant family. a family who worked really hard to get me to where i am. and all of us deserve another chance and we deserve a chance to bear -- be where we at -- we are at and we want to be where you guys are at. and a chance at free city would give us that. if you hear us, know we are your future. thank you.

>> hello. i have grown up in napa for most of my life but i have moved here recently with my roommates. my mom is a font -- farm worker and i moved here with them because my plan was to go to san francisco state university. that plan did not follow through due to not receiving a financial aid. i am very thankful for the opportunity to attend community college for free. this allows me to be a full-time student and graduate faster and relieves financial stress from myself and for my family. thank you. >> hello. i am a first generation college student in a first generation to be born here in the u.s. i live in the excelsior and i'm currently a student and i am

part of free city. my last year of high school, i applied to several universities and got into many prestigious schools. i was unable to attend due to the lack of funds i could provide to pay for my tuition. does not take into consideration how expensive the city and housing is. but free city gave me the opportunity to have access to higher education. it is crucial for this bill to be passed as it evens out the playing field and provides equity that allows low income and people of colour to succeed in an area that they are highly unrepresented. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for having this important hearing. i have been a part-time faculty member at city college since 1980. i remember what it was like when it was free, and most importantly, caps on here in strong support of free safety for eternity. because i know it changes lives.

it changed mine in 1973 when it was free. i have been able to achieve more than my wildest dreams as a kid who grew up in ohio and went to high school in between the cornfields. it has been a support for my godchildren. i know how expensive one textbook can be. it can be $250. imagine my surprise when i helped pay for books one semester. most importantly, it gives young people hope. it gives middle age people hope you need to retrain in this rapidly changing economy. it gives elders -- i finally want to learn spanish when i retire and will have time to study and i'm counting on city being there for me because i have been there for it. thank you for hearing this. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the director of san francisco rising. we work to lift up the voice and

power of our low income, immigrant communities of colour. we are so excited to be here to support this amendment moving out of committee because we know city college is a model for the rest of this country. we saw that when we saw four out women of colour elected to congress to represent us and their platform, number 1 at the top, was free college for all. sorry, i'm getting emotional. it is so important to our community and we are doing this. this is the most exciting thing happening in san francisco right now. we are making it a model for the rest of the country. that is why there is a statewide campaign to pass college for all it is an estate tax on the richest californians to fund free u.c. and free community college for all californians. we are excited to be part of that movement where everyone else in the room. thank you. >> hello. i am a san francisco resident born and raised living in district 11.

i'm also a member of san francisco rising. i spent my underground -- undergrad at u.c. davis because a missing one class to finish my educational requirements. i'm afforded the opportunity to finish my degree by taking a college at ccsf instead of hauling my purse in to davis. my brother is also currently in his first year at city is another free city beneficiary. i urge you to support this expansion and continuation of free city because i think everyone deserves the right to an education without the burdens of high rent, residential and citizen status, transportation costs or having to take multiple part-time jobs to pay my tuition and textbook cost. thank you. >> hello.

my name is caroline. i'm the current community partnership specialist at the youth commission. before i was there, i was a broke food and insecure college student hustling with three jobs here i am advocating for all of us marginalized folks, undocumented folks, disabled folks, that struggle with imposter syndrome because we did not just get here to get here. so the struggle to stay in higher education is hard enough and with free city college, it allows open access for everyone to have a seat at the table. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the policy director at family services. for the last hundred years, we have been dedicated to supporting homeless and at-risk families in san francisco and achieving housing stability. one of our flagship programs is the house where we connect homeless families with educational and employment opportunities. for a lot of the families we serve, free city college is the first step in their long-term journey for economic self-sufficiency and

independence. free city college is one of the most important tools that we have in ending the family homelessness crisis in san francisco. i ask you to stand with the homeless families that we serve at compass and we are all committed to serving bite supporting this charter amendment. thank you very much. >> good afternoon. my name is connie and i want to say,, with supervisor kim, that passing the free city college, i consider one of the most important things that we have done together and together in the city. it is so exciting. this is what you go around the world and talk about and everyone wants to duplicate this now we have the opportunity to really institutionalize it in our charter amendment. i support. i also want to tell you i've been working, as all of you know on the oversight commission for the funding of this. meeting with city administrators and safety college administrators and myself to make sure that those funds that we have given from prop w. to

the city go to city college and are spent wisely. they are spent wisely. we have had many discussions about how to make sure that every single penny that the city gives that city college spends in those invoices that we get are justified. the funding of this thing right now is going well. it is being served by everybody and i definitely support this. i also support supervisor yi's moved to make it a 20 year program. it should be unstoppable because of the advantages you've heard. i can't speak anymore beautifully as you have heard today here. i support it all. thank you. >> good afternoon again. i spoke before you all two years ago after the voters of san francisco past prop w. i voted for that. you kept your promise. now i support locking in that

promise with the charter amendment. i say if a program is successful it helps the diverse community in the city in an extremely equitable manner we should continue its. given the realities we live in now, the only people who oppose this amendment are republicans. do not want to be -- not be a republican swamp monster. i want to -- [indiscernible] >> i may have butted heads with you and the possible you have left a legacy that i can only hope that the new progressive suits can live up to. thank you. >> i only have a minute. okay. i am the district 11 youth commissioner and the chairman of the commission. i'm here today to say that free city college is beneficial to all of us because it allows our workforce to adapt and develop and evolve as the market continues to grow and into new areas.

and there are personal accounts from ex-boyfriend's mom who was using free city college to get her ged. it is something i have notice and i have seen for the immigrant community, the way that free city college benefits us as it it gives immigrants the opportunity to boost themselves in the economic ladder here in san francisco, which is a very expensive city. because of this, they are also able to pay higher taxes for their higher wages. the more people get paid, that is how taxes would work. people pay more. this means that san francisco could grow economically substantially with the college. it benefits all of us. >> hello hello. i'm a full-time student at ccsf. i am also from san francisco.

i went to public school the whole way. i truly believe the most valuable things i have learned in san francisco completely changed my life. i'm a huge advocate for it. the classes are super, they are everything for people who don't have what they need and i hope that this stays around for other people. it makes me proud to be from here. san francisco is the future and we can be part of helping other people realize the power of free education. thank you. >> hello. my name is sally. i ima organizer was san francisco rising. also a third-generation san franciscan and i organized with college students at city college and the struggles that they go through our outrageous. i think education should be liberatory and it can't be when students are thousands of

dollars into debt. if students don't have to pay for tuition, they can read the whole book that they are assigned and actually get into the content of what they are learning. when students don't have to work two or three jobs, they can spend more time with their families and spend time with their friends. they can volunteer. they can do unpaid internships which would probably be paid to. they can really enrich their lives to become more full and well-rounded human beings, which is clearly what we need in this political moment pick i really hope you prioritize this as something that goes to the voters next year. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i work with the union. today i have my disheveled professor outfit on as i just ran from meeting with students at city college. there are so much to say about this and about the importance of

the free city program. it's a national model. it's unlike anything that's happened since the early eighties in california when education used to be free. the fact that san francisco has done this is something that we hear from all over the country that it's an inspiration. not only are we doing amazing work to make education accessible to stop rationing education, make it accessible to san franciscans but we are inspiring people everywhere. i want us to continue that and to make sure that free city college is a sustainable, fully funded program for the foreseeable future for san francisco, and for education in the u.s. in general. >> thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment on this item cost seeing non, public comment is closed. supervisor kim? >> i will let other members speak first. >> supervisor mandelman?

>> thank you. i am back. i did have to run back to my office for a minute but i saw the folks from the ark here. it was joe shea reminded me of something that i knew and learned when i was on the city college board, which is how embedded city college is in so many communities and how related it is to so many of the issues that we deal with on this board and that the city deals with -- seeing paul from compass and thinking about the relationship between larkin street which sends so many of its youth to classes and class -- programs at city college. it gives people the skills and qualifications and credentials that they need to survive in an increasingly unforgiving economic environments. so i think, in any situation or condition at 50 million-dollar annual investment in access for folks to this incredible

institution would be worthwhile. i do generally share concerns, of lots of us about set-asides, but this is a measure that is, thank you to supervisor kim, and thank you to all the community groups and folks who work so hard for this, it is funded. it has a tax associated with it. prop w. i think this is something we should do and i want to echo the things that others have sent supervisor kim's way for the leadership you have provided around this. thank you. >> supervisor kim? supervisor unique. >> thank you. i want to thank the public for coming out and sharing their stories and again, i want to say , once more, i'm so proud. what am i. i am brown. it has been a long time.

i'm so proud that for my purposes, having free tuition at the time gave me an opportunity to work with ups and load trucks and that gave me an opportunity to save money so that i could go on to eight for a four-year college at cal. and otherwise i would probably not have gone to be truthful. as i mentioned earlier, i did want to understand where the 15,000 -- 15 million came from and was able to target -- talk to our controller and ask questions about where it came from, and after speaking with them, i feel very comfortable that this is the right amount. so i want to offer to be -- add my name as a cosponsor to this ordinance. to this charter amendment. and i also would like to make a

motion, if it is okay, to just make one change, which is on page 5 of the legislation. the last line, which is l, which is sunset. changing the date of the sunset from fiscal year 2030 to 2040 which gives the charter amendment a 20 year life. >> okay. supervisor kim, do you have anything to say before we moved to amendments. >> know, i believe you had questions so i was going to wait >> i don't. okay. so there is a motion to make the amendment. i am fine with making amendments

i don't know exactly -- we have a whole host of questions that we will not get answer today. i'm happy to make that amendment we can do that without objection at this point. that is done. supervisor stephanie, do you have any comments or questions that you want to start with? >> just briefly, i spoke with supervisor kim about this yesterday and i definitely agree with three city college and we are happy to extend this to summer school. when i was on the budget and finance committee earlier this year, i agreed with the sentiments with everyone that we must reduce barriers and the story of a young woman who couldn't go because it was to be too expensive. it shouldn't happen. i think with the income equality wanted by children in america, and in poverty that education is a way out and we absolutely must make every effort to make sure that everyone has an education and a right to an education. it is something i definitely support. i want to commend supervisor kim

on her advocacy. i think this is one of your legacies, i know there are so many people out here who are grateful for your work on this. as supervisor mandelman said, the issue that comes up is a set-aside issue. there is time to work through that. those are my only questions. i know the controller came out with a letter that issued yesterday that said the proposed amendment is not in compliance with the voter adopted city policy. i just have questions around that. i do of course, agree with the premise. i think city college to be free. it is something i will always be creep committed to and just have creations -- questions on the mechanics of it. >> great. thank you. for the record, the way that the charter amendment process works for the november ballot, we have until june of next year.

normally these conversations will begin in a meeting like this and will have a whole host of conversations, ideas, amendments and people can come forward and present. i have a lot of questions that i had for the controller and may be for the mayor's budget office they are not here today. some of them around the general numbers and how they relate to the number of people that are enrolled per unit cost versus some of the other strategies for funding this. i don't necessarily -- i'm looking forward to asking those questions when you have folks here from the budget committee and other, as well as the controller's office to get into a larger conversation about set-asides. i will just reserve my questions for a later date when we have further conversation. >> my expectation and my request is that this come out of the rules committee next monday. i'm hoping that committee members will ask all the questions today and on monday to feel comfortable forwarding it out without recommendation.

i would like to pass this before i finish my time on the board of supervisors, out of respect for the work that i've done over the last two and a half years to make this initiative happen. so we will certainly request the controller's office and the budget office to be here on monday. i am also happy to answer any questions on the m.o.u. process. as you all know, ed lee penned an m.o.u. with city college of san francisco in february of 2017 which was finally signed the following july by all parties. it was for $5.4 million in each fiscal year, which was not enough to cover free city, city college of san francisco felt it was important enough we move this pilot program forward that they covered the remaining increment for the students that were not covered by proposition w., which i just want to note, raised $28 million in the first eight years. we only allocated 5.4 million of

the 28 million in the first year to be at the m.o.u. the board of supervisors, through its wisdom, realized because pop w. is a volatile revenue source, decided he reserve -- decided to make a reserve fund. they made a reserve for the years that you popped up. and we did that again last year. and as supervisor stephanie had mentioned to, last year the board of supervisors extended free city to the summer semester which will begin this upcoming summer. the m.o.u. does and this august. we don't know if free city college will continue into the fall semester. while the charter amendment will not address the fall, it will ensure that from the spring semester onwards, the city college will remain free thanks to supervisor unity for the next 20 years. we did work very closely with the controller's office to come to pinpoint the 15 million-dollar amount. i'm happy to have the controller 's office come and

meet with colleagues to explain how we came to the dollar amount i completely understand the debate, the philosophical debate of whether you set aside or not. separate and apart from what it funds. understanding that, if that is a consideration, all i ask the committee is to support it out of committee without recommendations so that we can have an up or down vote at the board of supervisors. if we don't have six members of the board ready to support this amendment to, it will not move forward to. or may be moved forward at a later time in the year. but out of respect for our offices, i do ask for an up and down vote for this program. a couple of things that i will mention, because i don't think i need to belabour the point, there is so much so -- his on the other aspects of this program that we did not covered. we did not cover undocumented students and three city today. that is because undocumented students are considered no

different than for international students and they pay, i forget what the directors with the dollar amount is, to pay $200 a unit to attend. we hno out a solution yet for undocumented students that are san francisco residents. i hope, as his program continues to move forward that we figure out a way to include undocumented students and how to include them without a fear of registering and therefore being on a certain type of list in this age of the trump presidency , i think many of our undocumented residents are very reluctant to sign up on anything where their documentation may become an issue. it is something that i hope we can work out in the future. i will just say, i really believe it is never a waste of taxpayer dollars to invest in our citizen's education. might point earlier was slightly off. it is not $9,000. the average job in san francisco to city college graduates is $11,000 on average than for the

same individual with a high school diploma. when i originally started working on pop w. their real estate transfer tax, my thinking was i would invest in affordable housing. it has been one of the trademark policy priorities of the board of supervisors and the mayor's office. after doing a lot of research, it became exceedingly clear that yes, we have to make housing more affordable but we also have to put more money into the pockets of everyday san franciscans. there is no better way to do that than by investing in our citizen's education. we know that city college matters. community college is our nation 's only lifelong learning institution, meaning for individuals like me that half -- happen to go to a four ewart university like stanford, i can't go back to stanford -- i can go back to stanford if i want to take a class to upscale with the new jobs and technology and to take another language. however, community college is something that is accessible to

me at any point in my life. as technology changes and we have not talked about this yet, as automation moves forward and more and more of the jobs today don't exist in the next three, five and ten or 20 years, academics have predicted that anywhere between 20-70% of jobs today will not exist in the next 20 or 40 years. we need to make sure our only lifelong learning institution is fully funded so citizens are ready for the jobs that we are creating. we are living at a time of upmost wealth in the bay area and in san francisco. but not everyone is benefiting from it. that is why we are seeing the fastest growing income '-backquote -- gap in the country in san francisco and why we have seen a shrinking middle class in san francisco. in 1990, they made it close to 50% of san francisco's population. as of 2012, the middle class, which is widely defined as households making 50 and $250,000 a year has declined

down to 34%. it has declined even further since 2012. if we want to give san franciscans a fighting chance of regrowing our middle class or allowing those that are in the middle class to struggle to continue to stay there, i do believe funding is a way to do its. i know set asides are one of those philosophical debates, but there's no better way of funding free city been through this vehicle. if we believe in it, then we will believe in it for the next ten years in the next 20 years and it shouldn't be a debate on the floor. i do have two other amendments that i would like to make to the charter amendment and i mentioned them earlier today. they are both on page 4. one is online one. just clarifying or any california or federal grant program that funds community college fees. one of the public members spoke about this but there is a statewide movement to make community college free. if that were to pass, then this funding would not, the need for

this funding would cease to exist and the board of supervisors can have a discussion on what to do with the funding. - the stipends. the second is a clerical error online five. raising the stipend for part-time students up to $250 and then one other amendment that i will make in light of supervisor you's announcement is on page 1 online 24. says it says that the city should make a baseline contribution to the fund for each fiscal year beginning with 2028-2031, and extending with fiscal year, and i will men's that would 2013 to 2040 and 2041 there are two instances that we refer to the timeline of the charter amendment. if it is the will to extend it to 20 years, i will make that amendment as well. >> supervisor he quaffed. >> does your last amendment include 2,013th of -- 2031,

see another one on page 2. >> we can just do it based on throughout the document for parallel. >> that is correct. >> the dates appear on page 1, page 2, page five, throughout we would change the life of the set-aside to end in 2040-2041. >> thank you. so then i don't need to make that amendment. it will be reflected as supervisor he has made and that has been adopted. i would like to ask the committee to make a motion to add these two additional amendments. >> we can do that without objection? okay. thank you. i just want to say, for the record, i am supportive of free city college and supportive of the fact that we put in money to fund the summer free city college program. i want to commend supervisor kim and the organizers, all of the

people that were involved in this campaign. i just say that as terraces -- of this committee, i have about 20 or 30 questions. they will not be answered today. we do not have the budget people here or the controller here. i don't want people to walk away feeling disappointed. it is normal that when we have charter amendments to have successive conversations. nothing has been decided. there is plenty of time to have this conversation. we are not up against a deadline i respect the work. her legacy will live on. there is a significant number of people who will carry that on. we will not get those questions answered today. out of respect to her, i scheduled this item. we have a very full agenda. we have items on the agenda that are up against a deadline that if we don't pass them today, businesses -- people will go out of business. we have scheduled those. we were originally going to hear this for the first time on monday, which is a special committee hearing so we can meet

the deadlines, what we have a very short agenda because i'm also on the land use committee. we will not be hearing this on monday. we will make these amendments today and we will continue this item and continue the conversation and we will pick it up and there's plenty of time and opportunities for everyone in this chamber to be involved in the conversation. the deadline is july 2619 --dash 26, 2019. we have a significant amount of time to be involved in this conversation. i will make a motion to continue >> can i speak? >> go ahead. >> we also have a rules committee on wednesday. >> if i may speak, i'm sorry. i thought i spoke with you earlier on the phone. my request was originally that we hear today and continue it to the monday december 3rd.

the charter amendment must sit with the full board for one week before it can be voted on. it was -- it would move forward on december 4th and sit for a week before a final vote on december 11th. again, i would like the opportunity for an up or down vote and i would prefer that this not get stopped because of process but because i wasn't able to get the votes on the board of supervisors. so i really, out of respect, would like this to go for an up or down vote at the board of supervisors on december 11th. the only way for that to happen is for this committee to hear this item one more time on monday, december 3rd. if i had known the chair would have known that they would like them to be here, i would have asked them to be here to answer all of these questions. this has been sitting for 30 days. on 30 day hold. during that time, any of my colleagues could have stated they would like these questions answered. my staff walked into every office and asked if there any

questions i needed to be asked in regards to their support. if you cannot support it on december 11th, i respect that. however, i asked the committee for an up or down vote on december 11th. >> thank you. do you have anything else? >> no. >> supervisor stephanie? did you have something you wanted to say? okay. i respect that. i know you put a lot of time and effort and energy into this. i also do you think i want to be clear to the folks in the public that this is not a deadline that has to happen. you can hiss all you want to, but this is something, a conversation that can be had over the next few months. this plenty of time. this is a significant set-aside. adding an additional ten years rechanges the calculations that we will have to look at. so that is the charge of this committee, to look at all the different aspects in a way that it is not normal for you to have one hearing and then have it

forwarded here. i am going to continue this. i will make a motion to continue just continue this item. we will move on to the next item >> i ask that you make a motion to continue this to monday, december 3rd and that go for a vote by the rules committee. >> we don't have time on the agenda. i'm sorry, supervisor. >> if the committee makes a motion to continue this with two fouts, then it will be heard on monday, december 3rd. >> i get it. >> that is my request of the committee. >> i will make a motion to move this item to the call of the chair. can i get a second? >> again, i want to request us to be heard on december 3rd. if it doesn't come out of committee, i understand. i would like the opportunity for this board to be able to vote for this on december 11th and they will not be able to do it if it is not heard. otherwise, my request would be to undo all of my emotions to amend and to forward this out of committee today.

>> i'm not in favour of doing that. go ahead. >> supervisor kim, are you the chair of land-use? >> no. >> in the past, when we had conflict with overlapping time, we have been able to delay the next meeting. >> i actually have some big items on monday. everyone is up against a deadline. >> i understand. there are two options before us. we can either undo all of the amendments that were made today, move this out of committee without recommendation to the december 4th board of supervisors meeting, or keep the amendments and at least allow the charter amendment to have the potential to come out of rules committee on monday, december 3rd. again, that is my request. i understand that there is not a charter amendment deadline in terms of the passage of this item, however, out of respect

for my work over the last eight years, i am asking this committee to give this charter amendment an opportunity to be voted up or down on tuesday of december 11th. i don't have -- if i don't have the votes, it will go back to the rules committee for further consideration. however, i believe i do have the six votes today to move this forward to the ballot that i have enough colleagues that feel confident to support and move this forward to the ballot, and again, i would not want process to be the reason why this did not happen before the end of my time on the board of supervisors >> okay. thank you. supervisor yee, do you have something else you want to say? >> i want to respect a supervisor kim's request and make a motion to send us onto committee and continue this for monday, december 3rd. >> right. there was already a motion on the floor.

>> there was a motion motion to continue the matter to the chair as amended. >> can we get a roll call vote on that first? >> on that motion to continue the matter to the chair as amended. [roll call] >> matter is continue to the chair as amended. >> please call the next item. >> next on the agenda is item number 5 pick an ordinance amending the police code by making a number of changes in the regulation of commercial cannabis activity. >> okay. let me get my bearings. i think we are joined by supervisor mandelman.

do you want to make opening remarks? >> i will make exceedingly brief opening remarks because i have to get over to public safety. i have -- i want to think the chair for that robust discussion we are able to have about this ordinance and the amendments they introduced to rules on october 24th. this process is ongoing. anticipate additional amendments will be offered by others today but we do have additional amendments as well. i don't believe i have time to go into them, but i've handed them out and i am leaving my aid here, if folks have questions, they can come forward and speak on them and with that, i will thank you. >> okay. great. i will handed over to director elliot. president cohen? i did not know we were joined by here at this moment. >> yeah. you know i wouldn't miss this. i have been waiting all day for item five.

good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. how are you? are you guys fired up? item five, here we come. all right. we are here to talk about the health code regulation of cannabis businesses, blah blah blah. i specifically have a couple of remarks that i want to talk about. [please stand by]

>> president cohen: i expect that this will decrease the number of cars on the road as delivery dispensaries won't need to exceed any use of -- increase in any individuals, vehicles to meet the demand in a timely manner, but actually, it rather allows them to delivery -- to deliver instantly. so for example, russian hill could be coupled with another nearby neighborhood in, say, pope gulch. this is about decreasing the

traffic congestion and decreasing the number of trips. there's another piece of -- another amendment that was introduced not too long ago that i also wanted to speak to introduced by supervisor kim. i want to revisit that discussion that we had about the equity program. this was at our last meeting. this was a hot topic. the equity program was designed to give an opportunity to new entrepreneurs from diverse communities, communities that have traditionally not been a part of the cannabis community. specifically we're also talking about community members that were targeted from the war on drugs in san francisco. and the reason why we added this component is we added a housing and security piece not because we think housing and security is in and of itself a qualification, but we added it because we recognize that there

are people who were targeted by overpolicing in san francisco, overpolicing of certain neighborhoods and may have been priced out of the city and do not currently live here. i want to recognize there are a large number of bayview community members that have moved to antioch, vallejo, but still work in san francisco and are still fabric of the city. as such, i'd propose an amendment to section 16.04, section c, that we strike the language added in the last meeting, leaving it to read as follows. since 1964, hawsing insecurity in san francisco as evidenced by eviction, foreclosure or revocation of housing subsidy, end quote. and mr. safai, that is all i have at this particular time.

>> supervisor safai: great. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you very much. >> supervisor safai: and i actually have a whole benunch not a whole bunch, but i have a number of amendments that i want to talk about. do i hayou have anything you w to talk about -- supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: supervisor cohen -- >> president cohen: yes, i have language for you. >> supervisor yee: maybe i can answer my own question. >> president cohen: sure. just give me one minute. >> supervisor yee: in regards to the delivery pieces, that were the languages -- >> president cohen: that's right. >> supervisor yee: i'll save my question since i haven't seen the language. >> president cohen: my apologies, i got ahead of myself. >> supervisor yee: no, it's okay. i haven't seen a lot of language on this. >> president cohen: i'm flying fast and furious.

>> supervisor yee: you can go ahead. >> supervisor safai: no, now that you said that, i want you to make sure that you have them. we ended up, just for the record, some of this stuff, based on the deadline and the city attorneys that are drafting them, we just got them finished up, so i wanted to bring them in today and kind of talk them through with the committee members. would you like a copy, supervisor? >> president cohen: yeah, i would love a copy. supervisor yee, i just wanted to call your attention to my amendment. it's pretty straightforward. a manifest must be created for each delivery or series of deliveries prior to the completion of that delivery or series of deliveries, and the employee may not make any unnecessary stops between deliveries. >> supervisor yee: now i'm

reading it. thank you. >> president cohen: okay. thank you, supervisor. >> supervisor safai: okay. thank you. thank you, president cohen. some of the things that we're discussing today are things that we have been discussing over the course of the last 1.5 years as this industry has grown and expanded, no pun intended with the word "grown," but essentially, and i know that we -- and i know through supervisor cohen's leadership, we created a very robust and well-thout-out opportunity programs. we talked about how those opportunities would expand for folks. one of the recommendations we made collectively, working together, president cohen and i was the idea that there's a total universe of applications that are nonequity, and we wanted to ensure that the next 50% of applicants would be equity applicants. and so one of the amendments that i'm making today is that

it will be a true opportunity -- this is a socio equity program. this is designed, as president cohen has said in many ways, to look at how and turn the war on drugs on its head. there's been many communities that have been disproportionately affected by the war on drugs, particularly in san francisco and around the united states in urban areas. and those communities, now, we're trying to open up different opportunities for them. so this is a socio equity socioeconomic program. one of the flaws that we had in the amendment was to say if the next 50% of applications will be equity applicants, then there should be as many applications for true equity applicants as possible. one person, or one equity applicant should not be allowed to have four, five, six equity applications and then retain those permits. it's not fair when you have a

limited pool that we're opening up. we want to have as many opportunities for equity applicants as possible. so one of those is to say, essentially, is one bite at the apple. in all the different vertical cultivation, incubation, delivery, so forth, we want to have one particular applicant per person. another thing i want to say is one of the requirements to be qualified as an equity applicant is you would qualify under an income program. we want to make that now a requirement. that's one of the other amendments that we have today because we don't want people that are financially sound or stable or so on and so forth using the program. if you're already financially stable and you have independent

wealth, why should you be going into the equity pool? why not the other pool. so that's an amendment we're making today. the other one is to allow people that are in the cannabis industry right now, we've said -- and i believe the way it's written -- director elliott, correct me if i am wrong, but did we make the amendment last time that allowed for the ownership percentage to go from 20 to 49%? is that already in our legislation, right? we made that? okay. so the other amendment that we're making today is that if you're in the cannabis business and you own a permit, you can only sell up to a certain percentage. we've increased that percentage and you can get investors into that. one of the proposals that we're making today is if you've held your business for at least ten years, you have the opportunity to sell that business outright, just like any other -- if you

have a restaurant, if you have any small business, you'd have the opportunity to sell that after ten years, so essentially, it's a divestment opportunity. there are people that have submitted for their article 33 permit. they've been waiting for those permits at no fault of their own. they're very close to achieving those permits, but we're making an amendment to adjust the date to july 1, 2019 to allow for those who have already gotten their planning commission approval but are waiting for their article 33 to allow them into the process so that they would have time to be approved and be part of the program. so those are the main parts of the amendments that i'm introducing today.

the next item that we have on the agenda and we'll talk about that later is the opportunity to create true apprenticeship opportunities working with city colleges and others, state approve apprenticeship programs that would then work at the local levels with preapprenticeship programs that would go into the opportunity for hiring. so instead of a local hire number you actually would have a more well trained pool of group that have gone through a preapprenticeship program that we're calling citygrow. so i think i touched on all the amendments that i wanted to today, the equity program, changing the ceiling on the ownership program, to allow it to go up to somewhat of a middle-income. we've also added the change in dates, the change in ownership. and then, we want to make sure that there's a -- clarifies the

existing ministerial process to ensure there's fairness to those seeking a permit and having access to the temporary adult use permits. president cohen, did you want to say something? >> president cohen: yes. i need some better understanding around the 1:20 a.m.i. can you talk a little bit about that? >> supervisor safai: did you get the handouts that i handed out? >> president cohen: yes. i -- >> supervisor safai: okay. what it says as part of the requirements that you have that we talked about under the categories of qualifying for the equity program, that one of those would be one that would be made permanent so it's on -- it says as member of the household that earns no more than 20% of