boards and commissions leadership institute which trains community leaders to serve on boards, commissions, and leadership panels. when we were looking for a nominee organizations, we looked for organizations in the richmond district, and sandy did not feel any of them would want to nominate me, so we looked at poder, and they nominated me without hesitation for work that i've done in the past. we hold park and recs for work that they've done on community issues. i've challenged our department head, phil ginsburg, that everybody could walk to a park, rec center and open space within ten minutes of their home. that while true, for many people, that is not a safe

walk. tenderloin, mission, bayview, excelsior, i have challenged that. this year, i'd like to move forward with challenging why our rec and parks process and programs process is not equitiable. for example, camp mather is not affordable for many kids. my parents worked a lot of over time and second jobs, and it was my responsibility to take care of my younger sister. i took her to parks, and we had to walk a mile to get to the park. one of my favorite cities is mexico city, and their parks are so amazing. everybody there feels they have a community gathering space, so i would appreciate being

reappointed to this community and continue serving on prosac until my next term expires, and then continuing to serve on prosac. >> chair ronen: thank you. is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: i just want to thank you for your work on this committee. it's extraordinary. i also want to thank you for bringing up the nonaffordablity of camp mather. i go there every year with my family. it's a city treasure, but it's very expensive, and i think that making that city resource more widely available is really important, and hearing you say that makes me really excited.

please keep up that work. i will support you any way i can, so please continue to represent us well as you've been doing. really appreciate that, and with that, i will make a motion to repaappoint wendy aragon to the rec and park open space advisory committee -- what seat is it? sorry -- seat 13. i can move that to the board with a positive recommendation? without objection, this item passes. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. mr. clerk, can you please read item number seven. >> clerk: item number seven is a hearing to consider appointing two members, term ending november 19, 2020, to the bicycle advisory committee. two seats, two applicants. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. is christian tisch here? hello. and i see burt hill, as well,

so you can both come up and speak to your applications. >> come up together? >> chair ronen: no, one after each other would be great. thank you. thank you so much for being here. >> good morning. good morning, supervisors. first of all, my name is kristen piesch. i've lived in the richmond district since 2007, and i want to help make biking a safe and inviting form of transportation for all richmond residents. i love the richmond district for its proximity to nature, bordering the golden gate park, presidio, ocean beach, land's

end, making this neighborhood ideal for biking around. however, despite the richmond's reputation for being family friendly, it's not quite safe. every time i ride in golden gate park, i'm reminded of heather miller who was killed in 2016 in a hit and run. and about this time last year, two senior citizens were injured due to an out of control truck driver on geary boulevard. so we have a lot of work to do. these fatalities and injuries can be prevented? we can do much better for our residents, especially the most vulnerable members of our district. as a member of the bicycle

advisory committee for district one, i will prioritize improving the public safety of richmond residents of all ages, genders, ethnicities, income levels, abilities, and cultural backgrounds. i am uniquely qualified to serve on the b.a.c. for many reasons. i'm an active and outspoken member of the san francisco bicycle coalition, a long time member and odd row indicate for sustainable transportation, safe street, climt resilience and vision zero. i've attended vision zero workshops to be better informed on how to reduce traffic deaths and injuries. as a profession, i'm a film maker, and i've had opportunities to present stories of real people who ride bikes for transportation around the world, locally, and

nationally. as a graduate of city college of san francisco's sustainability program, i also understand the importance of elevating walking and biking as goals as the climate resilience goals of the city of san francisco. so as a city, we cannot be fully committed to achieving climate change goals if we don't make walking and biking safe and convenient for everyone. to wrap up, i've been active in richmond district campaigns to make streets safer, including arguello, masonic, and 8th ave. bikeways, i will continue to advocate for them while on the b.a.c. for these reasons and more, i

look forward to serving on the bicycle advisory committee for district one. thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. >> do you have any questions? thank you so much. >> chair ronen: great. thank you. >> thank you. >> chair ronen: mr. hill? >> good morning, chair. i'm going to be very brief because i think you've probably read your application already, and i kind of know i've been around for a long time with it. i will mention something that i overlooked. i am a childhood immigrant, and i contributed to the homelessness. i'll just take one moment and say that i wanted to, for the next four-year period, i am interested in expanding the bicycle advisory committee that has spoken about expanding

bicycles into all active modes of transportation, nonautomobiles. we have a whole new generation, they're using bicycles, using facilities. they have no representation. but we meet regularly with the m.t.a., with the p.w., and i think it's upon opportunity to expand, but not only that, to include a lot more youth in our organization, in our government. and the second proposal is to look for the administrative title 14, administrative code to include that, but also to have a permanent youth member, who is a floating member, who's a 12th member. we work for consensus. so having an odd number is not nearly as much of a necessity

as it would be for other committees. so with that, i'm open to questions if you have any. >> chair ronen: no questions. >> that was fast. >> chair ronen: okay. i'm now going to open this item up for public comment. if there's any member of the public that would like to speak, come up. hello. >> good morning. andy thornton. i'm a resident of district one, and i will voice my support for both of these applicants. you have in burt hill one of the city's if not the nation's foremost educators and ambassadors for safe, inclusive bicycling. kristin represents the other end of goodness, an expert citizen, not professional, someone, as you heard, who is not courageous --

extraordinarily courageous. kristin is one of those advocates who will speak up for everybody in an equal regard. i hope you'll give full consideration to both of these individuals. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. is there any comments or questions? no. just said i thank you so much for the work you do on this really important board, and i'm really proud to make a motion to send forward with a positive recommendation kristin tiesche for seat one and burt hill for

seat seven with a positive recommendation. and without objection, that motion passes unanimously. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. thanks again for all of your hard work on behalf of the city. much appreciated. mr. clerk, can you please call item number eight. >> clerk: item eight is a hearing concerning appointing seven members, term -- my apologies. i believe there's -- i did -- there's an error in the title. hearings are appointing seven members, term ending december 31, 2020, to the sugary drink distributor tax advisory committee. the seat expiration date is listed in the agenda but is not correctly listed in the title. >> chair ronen: okay. is that a problem or -- no. okay. great. we can move forward. thank you.

so we have seven seats and eight applicants, and i wanted to invite all the applicants to come up and speak. yes. if you want to just lineup over on the side, and feel free to come up in any order. >> point of clarity real quick. the expiration date was december 31, 2018? >> clerk: it's december 31, 2020. >> chair ronen: sorry. for this term. so you're applying for the term that ends in 2020, that's right. >> thank you. good morning, supervisors. happy black history month. my name is -- thank you. my name is joy jackson morgan. i am a san francisco native, specifically, a hunters point native. i have an m.p. h. in urban

public health, 11 years of experience in research, currently healthy active living. and will i'm the current cochair for this advisory committee, along with robertovargas. i'm really proud of our work that we have gotten done over this past year. we put the task that we were going to focus on community, and our recommendations exemplify that. 97% of our recommendations were implemented by the board and the mayor, so we were really proud on that. but this year, we're going to be focusing on food access, drink access, and the drinks

that this will be targeting. i want to speak to jana and vanessa, who are not here today. they are the ones getting the work done. i am excited to continue doing this work with my committee, and i look forward to any questions. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. any questions? no questions. thank you. next applicant. >> good morning. my name is dr. jonathan butler, and i am -- i would like to continue my reappointment as a committee member, representing seat number five. currently, i serve as the subcommittee chair for the data and evidence committee, and part of my role was to organize multidisciplinary groups of bay area scientists to help to form our recommendations.

my work synergizes data with my work. i do community-based participa participa participatory research. this has allowed me to collaborate with the y to address what i think is an important factor for obesity and diabetes, which is financial stress. so i look forward to continuing my work with not only the community but on this board, as well. so thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. is there any questions? no questions. thank you very much. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is roberto vargas, and

i work at ucsf in the community engagement health policy program. prior to coming to ucsf, i worked mostly in community based organizations and the school district, primarily serving young people out of low-income communities and communities of color in san francisco. and i came to ucsf to build partnerships between the universities and communities to address health inequities. so i'm fortunate that my work at ucsf is to help figure out how we can leverage the research and science of the universities to support health initiatives, but i'm also fortunate that the mission of the program that i serve is to focus on health equity in particular because that matches with my own personal mission,

which is to serve the communities that i was born and raised here in san francisco and that i identify most closely with. i was born in the mission, grew up there. live index bayview-hunters point half my life. and in the world around sugary drinks, we focused on that because that is one of the ways we found we could make a difference in chronic disease inequities in san francisco. we looked at all the different priority health issues in 2009 across san francisco and understood that for the most years of life lost, those were around diseases like stroke, heart disease, diabetes, etc., which were all what we refer to as cardio metabolic diseases or diseases that are associated with what we eat or our level of physical activity. so we decided if we truly wanted to make a difference in the number of years of life lost for those communities disproportionately burdened by

disease inequity, that we should focus on dealing with what folks are eating and making sure folks have access to healthy foods and spaces that are safe to engage in physical activity. so been doing that work since then. cochaired the bayview healthy active living zone for a handful of year, between 2012-2014, convened meetings between policy makers and scientists to develop policies, including the soda tax policies of '14 and '16, and have been serving -- cosharing the soda tax committee for the last year. also, along with my colleagues at ucsf, providing policy to others cities, and i'd be happy to continue serving san francisco communities in this capacity. thank you.

>> chair ronen: thank you. perfect timing. that was perfect. any questions? thank you so much, mr. vargas. hello. good morning. >> thank you to the rules committee, to chair ronen, to supervisors walton and mar. my name is john mal. i've served on the board of directors on the american heart association bay area division for the past 16 years and i'm also the immediate past president of the san francisco marin american medical society. i also served as the chair of the u.c. service related toe bass owe disease research program which was administered $200 million in research revenue over the past three years. as a medical student and surgery resident as ucsf, i already never participated in an operation for a patient for obesity, but between 1998 and

2004, the national rate of stomach stapling soared by 800%, and the procedure became one of the most common that i performed at the end of my residency. by the end of 2015, nearly 1 million patients under went surgery for obesity. my understanding of potential prevention strategies are derived from a health care fellowship at ucsf where i learned the purpose of tobacco research from san francisco. my interest in serving upon the committee is to ensure that the intent of the voters in the passage of prop v is ensured. i would like to bring my

personal experiences from clinical surgery, ucsf, and the office of the president to ensure that my experience can be applied to reduce the dual epidemic. i have attended community meetings as an observer and assisted in communications with city hall and the mayor's office. i believe that effectively disbursing the funds to advance health inequities will enable san francisco to continue to be a national leader in this important effort. honorable members of the rules committee, it would be a privilege to serve along the esteemed colleagues of our city. thank you for your leadership. happy to answer your questions. >> chair ronen: thank you so

much. i had one question. your qualifications are obviously impeccable. the question is this particular seat that you're applying for asks for a representative of a nonprofit organization advocates for communities disproportionately affected. can you tell me which organization that would be? >> i believe the american medical society advocates for childhood obesity, so i would focus on being a chinese american myself a first generation.

i believe that all minorities that are impacted should be a focus of this effort moving forward. >> chair ronen: okay. fantastic. any other questions? no? thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> chair ronen: thank you. hello. good morning. >> hi. good morning, supervisors. my name is derek ioke, and i'm applying for seat 16 which is seeking a person with expertise for children up to

department of public health that shows there's an epidemic of dental caries in children. my main area is in -- [inaudible] >> -- which provide community building, parenting education, and skill building and also help to provide concrete support to families to access basic needs assistance and also families who are involved in the child welfare system. i think that these experiences will inform my approach in serving on this advisory

committee. i also have experience in a city grant making organization and i hope to be able to serve on this committee to add a zero-to-five voice in their work and help them move forward in their organizational development. i have attended meetings for about five months as an observer. i have seen that they're a group of 16 hard working collaborative people that work in the collaborative spirit, and i think a good deal of credit goes to the cochairs who are seeking reappointment today, and i hope to have the opportunity to join them. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. any questions?

i know that miss cordrero and baum couldn't be here today. okay. i will now open up this item to public comment. if you'd like to speak to any of these condid thes, now is your time. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: i just want to express how lucky we are as the city and county of san francisco to have such a group of distinguished people serving us in this capacity. there's been a whole host of articles recently about how effective the soda tax is as -- at improving public health, and i believe that's true, but i believe it's because we have an advisory board that's so incredibly skilled and thoughtful and diverse, and really integrated within the communities that benefit from

this law. so i just really wanted to express my gratitude and my excitement about the impact that you're having on the health of so many people in san francisco, so thank you so much for your work. and i wanted to see if any of my colleagues had any comments or -- okay. want to make a motion? >> supervisor walton: so i'd like to move forward with a positive recommendation vanessa baum for seat one, joy jackson morgue began for seat three, roberto vargas for seat four, john mah for seat two, jonathan butler for seat five, janet cordero for seat three, and jonathan ioke for seat 16. >> clerk: would you like to waive the residential requirement for joy jackson morgan, roberto vargas, and

jonathan butler. >> supervisor walton: yes. >> chair ronen: okay. without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, would you read item number nine. [agenda item read]. >> chair ronen: thank you. and mr. donald lee randall is here from supervisor stefani's office. >> thank you. supervisor stefani would like to have a continuance until march 18. we're still working on legislation and will bring this to you at that time. >> chair ronen: okay. great. i'll just open this up for public comment. is there any member of the

public that would like to speak on this item or the motion to continue the item to march 18? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: with that, you want to make the motion? >> supervisor walton: move for continuance of item nine. >> chair ronen: to march 18, 2018 -- 2019, not 2018. past 2018. without objection, that item passes. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, are there any other items for today? >> clerk: there are no other items for today. >> chair ronen: thank you. the meeting is adjourned.

>> item 3c is ss product and they sell milks, soaps, medicines, paper towels and more. in is the 75, they helped

support their family. in 1999 the business controversied to the niece and nephews to worked together to keep s&s grocery in operation. item 3d is yuet lee restaurant. the business opened at 1300 stockton street on stockton and broadway where it is today. it was established by the husband and wife team. the restaurant name is a combination of both their names. they ran a family restaurant in hong kong for a number of years. when they immigrated to san francisco they brought the family recipes with them and in

there are four draft resolutions for consideration by the small business commission. one for each of the legacy business registry applicants. note that a motion and support of the businesses should be a motion in favor of the resolutions. in the resolutions please pay close attention to the fiscal features that define the business. once approved by the sbc the businesses must maintain their

physical features or tradition to stay on the registry. for armstrong linoleum company flooring and coverings and for world market it's eastern european goods and for yuet lee restaurant it features restaurant fare. i'm happy to answer questions. there's business representatives in attendance who would like to speak on behalf of the applications. >> thank you, richard. do you guys want to go right into public comment? okay. we'll open this up for public comment. let's hear from some of the business owners. >> the clerk: would supervisor fewer like to begin the public comment?

? have >> commissioner: first, thank you i'd like to recommend new world market. new world market used to be located two blocks from my own home. i frequent it all the time with my daughters discovering a lot of russian foods we had never experienced. when it moved to the current location on geary boulevard it expand the variety of foods it offers. in my district i have a large concentration of people who have immigrated from russia and they are russian speaking. this is the core of my neighborhood service for our russian community. not only do the russian speakers in my community depend on this one store, but all the members of my community, i believe, know new world market and have been there and purchased food from there. it's absolutely delicious. they have also expanded to an area where next door where they took over an empty storefront

holding banquets and have parties there. i highly recommend this business to be part of your legacy business registry. i also would like to give a recommendation to yuet lee rest ran. a family my family and i have been visiting many years and have authentic cantonese food which is sometimes hard to find in san francisco. this simple restaurant so brightly lit on the corner of broadway and stockton was known to us for a long time as the coca-cola restaurant as it had a big coca-cola icon on it at one time. i want to say this is a restaurant that represent the chinese immigrants that came from canton, china and also from hong kong to eat really authentic food and also a gathering place for many families. when i'm there i also see many families filling full tables and also it's a popular tourist attraction in chinatown.

commissioners, today, i give my recommendation for new world market and yuet lee restaurant and hope you'll give them the prestigious legacy award. >> commissioner: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> thank you, commissioners. my name is lauren stu i work with the oewd. yuet lee is one of my clients. thank you supervisor fewer. sam lee the owner, has planned to come over but he had an emergency so he couldn't make it so "want to say some words for them to extend what supervisor fewer said. they are an icon in chinatown and i know when i worked with

sam i know that because he has been around for over 40 years and has helped a number of his employees because of the job. they were able to support the families coming over from their hometown in hong kong or china. and they had been at the corner of stockton and brode w-- broadway and sometimes there's accidents. it may be minor or major but always offers help by offering shelter for the victims to stay waiting for paramedics. he always tries his best to help the community. two years ago there was a chinatown fire on pacific and stockton.

he offered there were 19 living upstairs in the plaza. he offered two nights of free dinner for all the eldery who -- elderly and he took the business over from his parents and he said its very helpful for him to be named as a legacy business because it is named after his parents. that's what i want to say. i hope you can approve our recommendations. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm francis one of the owner of s&s grocery. i'm here because i really want

you guys to recognize my aunt and uncle. my aunt worked really hard to get us here. worked day and night to petition our family here. today, she's not here with us but spiritual. and the family's been really passionate and hard working and dedicated to the s&s grocery. and they like the way we serve the community and we work really hard and one good thing about us is a lot of customers are single and they live by themselves and they always come to ask for help

and one thing is they drop off the key us. that's really telling me the community trusts us and we've been here since 1959. also i feel like we're part community. and like everyone said they left their heart in san francisco and i can tell you guys i left my heart in north beach in san francisco. the thing about today is the landlord has been increasing more than 100% of our rent. that will force us to go out of business. if you guys would be able to recognize us as a legacy business it may be able to help support us to be there staying

in business otherwise we'll have to and up want to thank you all the legacy program staff. they've worked hard and help us and aaron peskin's office in helping us try to get through the will lease situation. thank you everyone. >> commissioner: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm liam caldwell owner of armstrong carpet and i appreciate your recommendation. we represent generations of craftsmen in san francisco doing this since 1946. i've seen at least two, working on three generations of

installers and craftsmen coming through. i started working at armstrong in high school and used to take uni from high school and proud to own a shop 15 blocks from where i grew up. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you. any other members of the public? okay, seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner dooley? >> i want to say north beach love s&s grocery. i have experienced all your generations working there and i'm just so happy that you're still there. you're just part of our community. no one could be more deserving than you guys.

>> commissioner: commissioner yee really. -- yee riley. >> i want to comment on the garlic and clams. they're the best at yuet company and armstrong company i walk by your shop almost every week. thank you. >> commissioner: any other commissioner comments? i want to thank armstrong carpet and linoleum, new world market. i've been to new world market because you also sell polish food as well as russian food. and s&s grocery and yuet lee i have been there many many many times. it's one of the better restaurants on broadway. congratulations. thank you for filling out these forms. it's very important that we get legacy businesses applications

in because it's part of the fab lick of san francisco. -- fabric of san francisco. do we have a motion? >> i move. >> i second. >> the clerk: portion by commissioner dooley to approve all draft resolution for the legacy. roll call vote. commissioner adams. >> yes. >> the clerk: commissioner dooley. >> yes. >> the clerk: commissioner dwight. >> the clerk: motion pass 2-0 with two absence. >> commissioner: congratulations. next item please. >> the clerk: item 4, board much supervisors file number 190109 business resolutions code and cannabis permits and application fee establishing procedures for

the office of cannabis to issue permits authorizing cannabis sales or consumption or both in

s unlicensed, unregulated cannabis activity. we requested a list from scott in rec and park to aask for a description that may include the events and 420 and strictly and how weird and pride fest and carnival. >> well, the grateful dead aren't playing anymore. >> that's not an exhaustive list by the criteria we would use. >> outside land is too much of a public serving event. they should be carefully curated

to be highly cannabis specific. i'm not a cannabis hater. i just think because cannabis consumption unlike alcohol has an ex ternality that you can smell it and it's not pleasant to all, i kind of feel like this requires more scrutiny than just giving an alcohol permit to an event. >> >> the office of cannabis is required to consult other city departments. so what other city departments and how do you ensure you have consultation with all of them. do you have a checklist? >> essentially this does not create a new permitting process. so for all the events referenced that would already be essentially applying for a permit, you would additionally

support a cannabis events permit alongside it. all the regulating authority with regard to parks and rec, if appropriate, or the san francisco police department would still be responsible for issuing the permit. we'd just have the opportunity to issue a cannabis-specific permit. it doesn't essentially replace it just a permit. >> a tack-on? >> exactly. >> commissioner: commissioner dooley. >> i wond her what your plans will be for -- i wonder what your plans will be for mitigating smoke like commissioner dwight said, not everyone likes pot smoke. i'm wondering what you're planning on going in terms of protected others not interested. >> commissioner: neighbors, for example. >> here's a question where we'd work with the department of

public health for anyone interested in applying for a consumption permit to regulate that kind of event so as the not externalities associated with this. >> commissioner: i can see it at outside land. and pride and other events. it's already being done so you might as well legalize it and let's get a fee from it. i want to thank the supervisor, this is something we should be doing. other than the smell, because some people don't like the smell, i'm sure we can find something around that like a vapor or something. i know too much.