the next step on the part that darrell was talking about that is automated, the parts that can be automated ids we are wrapping up the intake and we will -- at that point, we can review the permit history that we have existing today and to display its. that is what the three r. is all about. this is the worksheet that shows the permit history and that is what you can see. that is the worksheet that popped up. >> go ahead. >> this is where all of the research is aggregated. they can then select from these which ones they want to include on the reports but there is no photocopying. all of the records they select are associated with that records

so they have a complete record of everything they have included >> that is the completed report. now what goes on behind the scenes is not necessarily captured here. it is all the research they have to do. is this complete? was or something done where there were adjacent properties and somebody wrote at 16 b. and we are at 16 a cleat they do a ton of research to make sure the list is complete. depending on if the work was done prior to 1980 they have to go hunting through boxes and hunt down the information and to manually add that. this only shows you what is captured. >> so if they find something that isn't captured, do they add it to the database? then it becomes digitized. >> they are able to add it to the report. >> as you saw the three art reports generated, that gets --

if the applicant wanted and e-mailed it to them they can automatically e-mail it out. those documents are automatically attached to the record. >> so next time someone brings it up -- >> so if someone requests the report, same address, people aren't starting from scratch they pull that off and they can see all the permit history that was, at the time done and they simply have to augment that going forward. it will be a real timesaver for them. it is one of those examples of something that is -- it is a good thing but it does require change management and understanding. >> exactly. >> thank you for the demonstrations. it is something we can all look forward to. i do have two questions. regarding the uploading of the plans to the system, have you

tested it to see how much volume it could hold on the speed of the uploading? because plans can be very big. >> yes. uploads do work and one thing i want to caution is we are not implementing any form of electronic plan check but basically this is replacing what they do by e-mail today. they were able to upload it. the exact thing happens today with existing infrastructure. the only difference it is through e-mail instead of up to -- uploaded. >> the occult -- the electronic plan check will come later. >> are we going to -- is the permit systems going to be handling -- do they have to respond to the same system? will they be done separately like they do now through e-mails and letters?

>> it is largely done the way it is done now. everything is visible online. if we had to ask the applicant to change some plan pages, this process is what happens today. >> it will be documented and it will not be -- >> you should be able to see that or request went out and that is what we are waiting on right now. >> since we have embarked on this whole thing, one of the most major changes has been demands on data security and backups and redundancies. i know you have addressed in the past many of the redundancies that are built into this but could you specifically speak to any modifications or changes you have seen necessary? >> the data security, this will be hosted at a site and there

are processes that they must go through. there is a number of audits. there is an i.s.o. audit that they must complete and adhere to and send documentation and proof that the audit was conducted by a third party and compliance was confirmed. and there is a number of audits that they are subjected to to ensure that the data is secure and the data transmissions are encrypted appropriately and not visible to the outsiders. they have submitted and provided that information. it is very good. these are industry standard audits and do, in fact, have proven compliance. thank you. >> we don't store any credit card information or any of the transaction that happens and we passed that to your city

third-party payment providers to do the actual transactions for payments. we don't run the risk of having this data available. >> thank you. >> thank you, for the presentation. i want to stress that this is a gargantuan list that has been going on for a while and i think it is important to make sure that all of the bugs are worked out and not focused on a specific date. it would be horrible to roll this out after all this work and have it not work. i want to thank you for what you are doing. i am wondering about, forgive me if this has been discussed earlier, in terms of staff training that you have spoken a lot about, are there other plans for training the public? when that is rolled out to, where there be days where you'll be training at d.b.i. for contractors?

>> there is a full outreach plan that is pending at the ready upon completion of a good rounded test but there is a lot of outreach planned and there has been a lot of forethought into exactly how that will unfold. we need to get to the point where we are confident those dates are legit by the time we start publishing things and putting them in journals and reaching out to all the organizations. once we put that out there, the dates are stuck. so we do have a plan. it has been worked on in detail. it is on hold until we believe we are ready to proceed. >> commissioner walker has another question. >> to that point, the commissioner should be invited again. i have been one to one of one training which was very helpful in understanding. and even though we were not able to move through everything, it

really does give you a hands on so hopefully we all can go in and give her a run when it is time. >> definitely. >> not all at the same time three at once, right? >> i think that does it. thank you once again for your continuous dedication to getting this finished. >> thank you, very much. >> item eight. director's report. >> good morning, commissioners. before you is the september 2018 financial report. it provides first-quarter

information on revenues and expenditures. that is july, to september. revenues are at $60 million or $1.2 million more than the same time last year. that is primarily because of about a 600,000-dollar settlement that we received from a mitigation case. that is where the bulk of that comes from. on the expenditure side we are roughly the same. about $11 million. right now we have a projection that are at budget simply because it is so early in the fiscal year. if you look at the first page of the memo, you see services of other departments on a 16 million. it is really hard to make any projections because these aren't real expenditures yet. we are waiting until we have more expenditures. in the first quarter we normally set up eos and start working on ordering things pick may be by six months we will make more accurate predictions.

i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. >> and then one other comment, last month i stated that we provide a separate report. it has taken a little bit longer citywide. we did go to a new financial management system. i hope to have that year in our report from the next fiscal year , next month. thank you. >> good morning. i am a legislative and public affairs manager. i will hit a few highlights from the documents that we sent along to you this morning. as you probably know, there is a government accounting and oversight. that has started about the same time and restarted today. they are still on the first item

and dealing with contractor safety. that was tied to the accident in the west portal tunnels that you probably already about. but the last item on the agenda is the standard building standards. the assistant director and i will be going down to participate in this. we understand that supervisor peskin is actually going to have the city administrator and some of the participants in the recent tall building study make a presentation to the committee and answer some questions. we are also there to answer questions. the director has already established an internal implementation team that is cochaired by the deputy director and senior engineer. that they have already had a couple of meetings and begun to look through the various

recommendations and timing from the tall bidding -- tall building study. we will provide you with more details on that as we have them. in addition to that, we do have supervisor tang dealing with expediting solar approval. the department of environment asked us to withdraw the finalization of that in order to add to battery storage and ev charging. the idea is to have an omnibus bill that will cover all three of those areas. we are working with the department of environment and with supervisor tang's office to make that happen. it will probably happen between now and the end of this year. that other item that you approved here a couple of months ago where we establish a formal process for reviewing legislation that comes from the board of supervisors has now

passed. it will take formal effect as of the 19th of november. as a mention to you before, this is a process that we do right now there, it only codifies and puts it into an ordinance that had been missing. the -- with that, i would say, the one other item that rules the committee today is supervisor ronan has recently introduced ordinance to give the building official and the fire marshal additional authority if a building owner has two or more outstanding notices of violation they could require such things as upgrades of sprinkler systems or fire alarm systems. i will be going through that

hearing at 1:00 today, even though i expect that there won't be much questioning around that and that there is uniform support on the board for it. with that, i will be happy to take any questions. >> thank you for the update. i have been seeing there is an initiative from the mayor's office to add a position to help expedite housing development. i want to talk about that a little bit. >> i can't talk about it because i don't know much about it. >> i am just curious what we are doing around that. >> to answer your question, we have a meeting with the mayor and the department head and then

we come up with recommendations to have somebody oversee all of the department to smooth out the process for all the housing projects. then we will create a position. they are still changing the name they are thinking about the name but i send you the e-mail copy this morning. actually, yesterday, i think i sent you and president mccarthy the funding source from our department and the department of public works. we agree to help this is overseeing all the housing project because of lots of issues. they have their own interpretation. >> so it will be included in our next budget as an additional position or something.

>> right away, because they need to hide to the person they are. they already announced that person. >> but we will put wider funding >> that's good. >> but they need to work out with the city attorney and budget office. i sent the e-mail. i said it was ok with me. we need to work it out with this city attorney office. >> perfect. i wanted to make sure everybody -- great. thank you. >> thank you. >> update on major projects. >> the major project is roughly a little bit increase and we also add the number of units into the summary. and any other question you have. >> seeing none. >> also, i want to take this opportunity to remind the commissioners here, we have a departmentwide meeting next

wednesday. you are more welcome to join us and we will pass all the information to all staff. >> is that at eight? >> next wednesday. >> at what time? >> 8:30 am. >> said the 24th? >> coffee is provided. >> we should schedule the commissioners to stand in different areas. >> item eight b. is enforcement. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm the chief building inspector this is an update on code enforcement for the month of september. 396 cases complaints were received. of those, 375 were responded to within 24 hours. that is a 95% response right. of those complaints, there were

27. complaints with first notice of violation was 50. and complaints that were received unabated without an nop for that period was 156. and abated complaints with no n.o.v., the number was 278. additionally, i have some numbers for you on vacant and abandoned buildings and vacant commercial storefronts. for the week of october fifth 2018, a total of 326 vacant abandoned buildings were on the list. and a total of 507 vacant commercial storefronts were on the list. >> wonderful. >> thank you.

i was not expecting that update on the storefronts there. when you say the storefronts are vacant, are they vacant because there's no for least signs in front of them? is there a reason why they are vacant? >> the chief inspector is here and he will but you better equipped to answer that question >> i was actually going to ask for an update on that. i did not know -- how far into your survey have you done now? that is hugely labour-intensive to get that information. >> good morning. most of these cases are on the list because we are triggered by complaints. the reason they're saying they're staying on the list is because they are partially compliance to the ordinance. they are either being leased but

we are having problems where the persons are saying, we are putting it on the market but three months down the line it is still being shown as a lease. we still have to keep it on the list for vacant storefronts. >> so in some retail it is hard to lease right now for a lot of reasons. we will not get into that right now. we are just trying to figure out how do you know a bad player to a good player, how are you defining that? >> at this point, what we are doing is if they come up to us and say that we will apply and we will put it on the list, sometimes we update the case and the reason this number is big because a lot of these cases are a yearly thing. where it goes through the list and next year it is up on the list again. because they paid their fees and

they are still open for a whole year. i think there is only a few cases where we have one owner having multiple open spaces or open storefronts or vacant storefronts. and now we are working on it and figure out whether it is a good thing to send it to a hearing and preparing those cases for a hearing. it is kind of difficult when they come in and they partially comply with the ordinance. and now ok you have to hold onto our case. >> i was going to call and have an update on that. who would be giving it? would it be dvi or housing? >> d.b.i. >> ok. so i want to have a conversation about planning to understand how we define these vacant storefronts. i'm getting mixed information on how we get there and i know there is some strong opinions

about some of the retail uses and that will never be able to be filled for one reason or another because of the zoning issues and so on. we will have another conversation about that. i was not expecting an update on that but it is great you're putting that in front of us as well. would that be done on a monthly basis as well? >> yes. great. >> commissioner moss? >> in terms of the public reporting vacant storefronts, i do believe that is an asset that so far has not been tapped as much as we can. i know your office only has so much manpower. is a possibility that the department could issue some type of e-mail that -- and explainer of how to tell if something is vacant and how to report it that can be e-mailed out? like if you are on the city's

e-mail list? i am asking how to get to neighborhood groups. i can think of a couple of citywide groups that i think would be happy to participate. i believe it was supervisor if fewer who had a weekend where they went out and did that. certainly with the elections coming up everything -- everyone is busy. i do think eyes on the streets is something we can tap. i guess i am wondering if this has been contemplated. >> we have something on our website to file a complaint for vacant buildings and we know that d.b.i. and inspection services are proactive and providing us properties when they go out into the field. but we do have that on our website. >> right. i am wondering how often, or if ever we are telling the public that it is on the website. [laughter] >> good morning. i'm a communications director

for d.b.i. i wanted to respond to your question, commissioner. it is something that we are developing right now. the website is definitely something that we have had online. i do think, is more focus and -- this has been since beginning of this year, more focus has been on vacant storefronts with supervisor fewer, supervisor ye, there is also some legislation that is looking into possibly providing stricter adherence to the registration requirements for vacant storefronts. we will be doing a number of outreach and marketing efforts on that. whether it is notifying businesses along the corridors. we are trying to figure out with invest the neighborhoods also in how to best do outreach. we unfortunately don't have e-mails as you are saying. it is something that they have to sign up with us and that we

use for that purpose only and then also we only have property information. there is about 26,000 of them. >> yes. thank you. >> thank you. >> clearly the vacant storefront is a huge problem and the 500 looks like a big number but it is probably a fraction of what is really out there. these are just the ones we know about and have cited. they have been either noticed by your inspectors support when they're out there or they have received complaints, so we have this tremendous problem and i know we are trying to address it in a variety of ways. while i applaud any efforts to do things like temporary uses and quicker permitting of that, do you have any sense of how big

the problem really is? apart from the 500 we have actually cited, even if it is anecdotal, are we looking at a magnitude of three, four, five, you know, what is your personal sense of how big this is? >> to be honest, it is difficult like you said, we have different cases and different ordinances that we have to deal with. this is one of the ordinances that actually has multiple inspectors. we want to be proactive. you have to have inspectors go out there every single day, every single time to walk the streets and march. and then the next week i will guarantee it will go off the list and then you go back the next street. you see what i am saying? it is difficult for us to take -- make an assessment and say this is an initiative that we need to recruit every single time. for us, like i said, the best

thing we have done is we have different inspectors and signed for it -- assigned for this. he will get more help. for right now, he is the only one that is following up and all of these issues. >> a second question, regarding the 326 other vacant and abandoned buildings, do you have any finer grain on that as to how many of them are single-family homes or two or three family versus commercial? >> 326 are residential buildings and then 507 are vacant commercial buildings. >> so the commercial is retail storefronts in and any commercial industrial? >> yes. >> thank you for that. >> i might add one more thing. i think that this is a good

point. this is a very fluid situation. these businesses are coming online and going off-line all the time and coming up to the holidays, we may see some more retail spaces being used. the effort is every week. it is changing. it is ongoing. it is fairly a big task. >> totally. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on the director's report? item nine is approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of september 19th, 2018. >> moved to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second. is there any public comment on the minutes? are all commissioners in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? the minutes are approved. item ten is adjournment. >> madam secretary, before we adjourn, i would like to close our meeting in honor of sean

mcnulty who is a very seasons chief of the building inspector for the city for many, many years. he joined the department in 1983 and he retired in some time and three. he was brave enough to come back in 2007 to help out for a year or so and bring his expertise. and his relationships back to the department to help. he was very well respected by the file. he treated everyone with such great respect. somebody pointed out to me it was like as if you are family the way he mentored you. i would like to close out, if i made this meeting in honor of sean and our condolences to his family. >> thank you. >> i join in that. thank you. >> we are now adjourned. it is 11:34 am. [♪]

>> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft

story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and

make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk properties but fewer than one-third have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. let's talk worst case scenario. what happens in a collapse? >> buildings have the tendency of rolling over. the first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. in an earthquake the building is a total loss. >> can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit? >> one of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. in an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. you have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force

he to the upper floors. where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. >> so, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. can we talk a little about what kinds of repairs property owners might expect? >> it's a very simple process. we deliberately tried to keep it that way. so, what's involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it with this gypsum material. this adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse. and that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the upper floor. >> so, potentially the wood and the steel -- it sounds like a

fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30? >> that's exactly right. that's why we're hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great. let's take a look. so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready, >> hi today we have a special

edition of building san francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪ >> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san francisco. >> well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really

important and being able to know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. >> how long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in san francisco. >> it depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. >> what kind of neighborhood and community involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. >> it is important to have a good relationship with your neighbors and your community. go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you.

it is important to have a battery-operated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the community around and how you can communicate with other people. >> one of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. >> yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. so a title to a home, a passport, a driver's license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any vital information on your computer. back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. >> in your home you should be prepared as well. >> absolutely. >> let's take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. >> we have no water, what are we going to do about water? >> it is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water

able to use on a regular basis, both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. >> we have this big container and also in people's homes they have a hot water heater. >> absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well >> what other things do people need to have aren't their home. >> it is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. >> here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. and this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. >> yes. >> so in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. >> having an ice chest on hand is really important because

your refrigerator will not be working right away. it is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. >> and here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. >> i hope that you have an alternative one at home. >> oh, i forgot. >> and in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. >> i have them right here. >> good. excellent. that is great. additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. >> i am okay and i will meet you at... >> exactly. exactly. water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. >> we have matches here. and my spare glasses.

>> and your spare glasses. >> if you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. if it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. >> inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. >> very important. >> we have a little first aid kit. >> and lots of different kinds of batteries. and another spare flashlight. >> so, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we don't have damage? >> one of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. becoming prepared is not that difficult. taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra every-day items on hand helps to make the difference. >> that contributes

dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. >> absolutely. >> if you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. >> we are all proud of living in san francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. >> so, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. >> absolutely, it is my pleasure. >> and thank you for joining us on another edition of building . >> i love that i was in four plus years a a rent control tenant, and it might be normal because the tenant will -- for the longest, i was applying for b.m.r. rental, but i would be in the lottery and never be like 307 or 310. i pretty much had kind of given

up on that, and had to leave san francisco. i found out about the san francisco mayor's office of housing about two or three years ago, and i originally did home counseling with someone, but then, my certificate expired, and one of my friends jamie, she was actually interested in purchasing a unit. i told her about the housing program, the mayor's office, and i told her hey, you've got to do the six hour counseling and the 12 hour training. she said no, i want you to go with me. and then, the very next day that i went to the session, i notice this unit at 616 harrison became available, b.m.i. i was like wow, this could potentially work. housing purchases through the b.m.r. program with the sf mayor's office of housing, they

are all lotteries, and for this one, i did win the lottery. there were three people that applied, and they pulled my number first. i won, despite the luck i'd had with the program in the last couple years. things are finally breaking my way. when i first saw the unit, even though i knew it was less than ideal conditions, and it was very junky, i could see what this place could be. it's slowly beginning to feel like home. i can definitely -- you know, once i got it painted and slowly getting my custom furniture to fit this unit because it's a specialized unit, and all the units are microinterms of being very small. this unit in terms of adaptive, in terms of having a murphy bed, using the walls and ceiling, getting as much space as i can. it's slowly becoming home for me. it is great that san francisco

has this program to address, let's say, the housing crisis that exists here in the bay area. it will slowly become home, and i am appreciative that it is a bright spot in an otherwise >> in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. the adult use of marijuana act. san franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75%. and the law went into effect in january of 2018. [♪] >> under california's new law,

adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. >> in the state of california, we passed a law that said adult consumption is legal. if you are an adult and in possession of certain amounts, you will no longer be tried. you will not be arrested or prosecuted for that. that is changing the landscape dramatically. [♪] >> to legalization of cannabis could bring tremendous economic and social benefits to cities like san francisco. >> this industry is projected to reach $22 billion by the year 2020. and that is just a few years away. >> it can be a huge legal industry in california. i think very shortly, the actual growing of marijuana may become the biggest cash crop in the state and so you want that to be

a legal tax paying cash crop, all the way down the line to a sales tax on the retail level. >> the california medical industry is a 3 billion-dollar industry last year. anticipating that multiplier as 20, 30, 50 times in the consumer marketplace once adult use is really in place, you could go ahead and apply that multiplier to revenue. it will be huge. >> when that underground economy becomes part of the regular tax paying employment economy of the bay area, it not only has a direct impact, that money has a ripple impact through the economy as well. >> it is not just about retail. it is not just about the sensor. is about manufacturing pick a lot of innovative manufacturing is happening here in san francisco in addition to other parts of the state as well as

the cultivation. we should be encouraging that. >> there is a vast array of jobs that are going to be available in the newly regulated cannabis industry. you can start at the top tier which a scientist working in testing labs. scientists working at extraction companies. and you work towards agricultural jobs. you have ones that will require less education and you look towards cannabis retail and see traditional retail jobs and you see general management jobs. those things that are similar to working at a bar restaurant or working at a retail store. >> we are offering, essentially, high paid manufacturing jobs. typical starting wage of 18-$20 an hour, almost no barrier to entry, you do not need an education. >> that means that people who do not have college educations, working-class people, will have an opportunity to have a job at cultivating cannabis plants. there's a whole wide array of job opportunities from the

seedling to the sale of the cannabis. [♪] >> last year, they said 26 million people came to san francisco. >> the tourism industry continues to be very robust here and the city and county of san francisco is about a billion-dollar industry. >> if we use a conservative cannabis user adoption rate to 15% that means 4 million tourists want that means 4 million tourists want to purchase cannabis. and we need to be ready for th them. >> in 2015, as adult use legalization efforts gained momentum in california, the supervisors created the san francisco cannabis state legalization task force. this task force offered to research and advice to the supervisors, the mayor and other city departments. >> we knew that adult use legalization was coming to the ballot and stat that would bring with it a number of decisions that the city would have to make about zoning and regulation and so forth.

and i decided at that time, at a know it was a great, that rather than have a fire drill after the ballot measure passes, as suspected it would, we should plan an event. so i authored a task force to spend a year studying it and we made it a broad-based task force. >> we prepared ourselves by developing a health impact assessment and partnered that with key stakeholder discussions with washington, oregon, colorado, to really learn lessons from their experience rolling out both adult and medicinal cannabis. >> within days of the passing of the proposition, ed lee called on agencies to act decisively. >> he issued an executive order asking the department of public health, along with planning and other city departments to think through an internal working group around what we needed to do to consider writing this law.

>> we collectively, i would say that was representatives from g.s.a., as well as the mayor's office, met with a lot of departments to talk through what prop 64 and the implementation of prop 64 it meant to them. >> the mayor proposed an office of cannabis, a one-stop shop for permits allowing operators to grow and sell cannabis. >> he wanted a smart structure. he wanted a regulatory structure that ensured that kids didn't have access and community's were safe and that consumers were safe. and he wanted to ensure, more importantly, it was a regulatory structure that encouraged diversity and inclusivity. >> this is an office that will be solely charged with a duty of wanting not only the policies that we create, implementing and enforcing them, but also executing the licenses that are needed. we're talking about 20 different

licenses that will put us into compliance with what is happening on the state level. >> this is a highly, highly regulated industry now, at this point. we have anywhere from 7-10 departments that will be working with these industry participants as they go through the permitting process. that is a lot of work at a loss of coordination. we are creating a permitting process that is smart and is digital. it is much easier for the user and for community input, and is less mired in bureaucracy. >> for the first time ever in san francisco history, standalone licenses are available for all aspects of the nonretail side of the cannabis industry. now, a cultivator can go in to the department of building inspection and to the department of health and say, with this first registered and temporary license, and then what will eventually be a permanent license, this is the project,

this is what i am going to do. >> very rarely in city government do we interact with industries that are asking to be regulated. these guys want to be regulated. they want to be compliant. they want to work with the city. that is rare. >> san francisco has created a temporary licensing process so that the pre-existing operators here in san francisco can apply for a temporary state licensed. >> we have taken teams of up to 12 inspectors to inspect the facility twice a day. we have been doing that with the department of building inspection and the department of public health. and the fire department. >> it is really important for the industry to know that we are treating them like industry. like manufacturing. like coworkers pick so that is the way we are approaching this from a health and safety and a consumer protection network. this is just the way practice happens with restaurants or manufacturing facilities.

>> because there are so many pieces of industry that people haven't even thought about. there are different permits for each piece. you have to set up a permitting system for growing, for manufacturing, for testing. for delivery. for retail. you have to make sure that there is an appropriate health code. certainly the regulation of alcohol in terms of restaurants and retail it's probably a model for how this industry will be regulated as well, both on sale and consumption. >> it is completely uncharted territory. there is a blessing and a curse with that. it is exciting because we are on a new frontier, but it is very nerve-racking because there's a lot at stake. and quite frankly, being san francisco, being the state of california, people are looking to us. >> we hope that cannabis does become more of an accepted part of society in the same way that

alcohol is, the same way coffee is. >> it is a very innovative fear, particularly around manufacturing. san francisco could be an epicenter. >> san francisco can be a leader here. a global leader in the cannabis movement and set a bar just to other communities and cities and states and this nation how it is done. [♪] >> look at that beautiful jellyfish. the way to speak to students and

motivate them to take action, to save the planet, they do, they care and my job is to speak to them in a way that they can understand that touches their heart and makes them feel powerful with simple actions to take every day. ♪ ♪ >> i was born and raised in the desert of palm springs, california. my dad was the rabbi in the community there. what i got from watching my father on stage talking to the community was learning how to be in the public. and learning how to do public speaking and i remember the first time i got up to give my first school assembly, i felt my dad over my shoulder saying pause for drama, deliver your

words. when i was a kid, i wanted to be a teacher. and then when i got into high school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. by the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. but as i did more work, i realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. i only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. i found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. i went, volunteered and my life changed. suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. i eventually moved up to san

francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through los angeles county and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. one of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, i'm teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. it was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. the san francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush

days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting.

>> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to suppo support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. you can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place.

trust if you want to do good in this world, that >> all right. welcome, everyone, to our and use and transportation committee, i'm jane kim, we have katy tang and ahsha safai. madam clerk,