this and have potential back and forth, or clear understanding of what the fees are going forward. what i have in my hand, it doesn't say that the department needs to get approval before the fees take effect, which is what we would ask. otherwise, the fees occur and all this is basically is a noticing requirement. so once a year, conditional and board approval would be what we would ask the ordinance to contain. if it's going to be as you outlined, that this should be transparent, it should be open and have a good reason. if the amendments say that, i apologize, but i would ask if they do if they don't. thank you. >> good mid morning, supervisors. i'm bonnie, i'm the area manager at san francisco parks alliance. and i want to stress that san francisco parks alliance

supports the nonresident flexible pricing at these specialty gardens and coit tower, as well as the japanese teagarden. we've been consistent in voicing our support at the r.p.d. commission as well as the commission meeting on may 16. we believe adult nonresidents, flexible pricing will allow for more manageable traffic flow within the sites and in the surrounding neighborhoods. it also encourages attendance at non-peak times that will result in a richer experience for all people who attend because there will be less congestion. we support the fee increase at japanese teagarden, the japanese teagarden is one of our historic gems and residents and visitors alike walk away stating that constantly. we fiscally sponsor two of the specialty gardens, japanese and

the conservatory of flowers. the japanese teagarden is dedicated to raising funds for this renovation. we also feel flexible pricing and the maintenance fee will have long range effects and benefit the people that visit them. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker. >> good morning. fellow citizens. my name is kathleen wells. i'm a united states constitutional practitioner and a national executive entrepreneur. my request is unique and unusual. i have requested a half a million dollar budget to fully implement all of the legal groundwork i have laid here in the united states of america. specifically, i'm looking to

collect and receive on a united states constitutional judgment demand and lien placed on the united states currency presses. let me say that. i exercise my united states constitutional right that this moment to exercise freedom of speech and freedom of the press. first amendment, united states constitution. what i need to do -- and i don't have the time now -- is to talk to each one of you to educate you on how this city can move forward now and receive currency funds rather than cutting the budgets for all of your honorable agencies. again, my name is kathleen wells and i am the national executive entrepreneur. thank you for your attention. >> supervisor fewer: next speaker, please. >> good morning. president yee, honored supervisors fewer, stefani,

mandelman. my name is jane chin. resident of the outer ridge district number 1. i have to say that i am really, really blessed to be living in an area that is surrounded on three sides by parks. ocean beach, lincoln park and golden gate park. i am also a member of the board of the san francisco botanical garden. i'm here to speak in support of the flexible pricing program. noting that the program will only impact non-san francisco adult admissions. admission will remain free to san francisco residents, members of the garden and school groups. and flexible pricing offers free admission to everyone at certain hours, which removes any hardship this might create. important to note is that according to the american public garden association our current price at $9 for nonresident adults is below the 25th

percentile for large botanical gardens across the country. so we're due for an increase. flexible pricing will not negatively impact visitation. since august 2010, when we first began charging nonresidents, visitation has increased 129%. flexible pricing will only help us better serve our visitors and community. it will help encourage visitation at less busy times and provide enough needed support for revenue, improvements and programs. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is ryan. i'm the curator of the botanical garden. i'm in support of the flexible pricing. the garden is an amazing resource. we're visited more and more each year. we're a respite in the city.

and our high attendance on the weekend, more and more people come on the weekends, and i think this flexible pricing would be great, because it will encourage people to take advantage of this fantastic resource during the week. and help a lot of the pressures we face with extra visitation to our amazing garden. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm dr. joseph, i'm an mauritius professor from madison. i partially retired in 1996 when i began to volunteer at the botanical garden and i learned that children doseant and adult dosant did walks and became a director of the board of society. i continue to serve as a life member on that board.

over the last 24 years, the botanical garden has been a major activity that i've participated in to bring people closer to the world of the nature around us. which i think needs more attention than is usually given. we live in district 7, in norman yee's area. and i just want to thank supervisor yee for the close working relationship that we in that district have with him in looking at issues. after careful consideration, the board and the leadership team of the botanical garden society voted to wholeheartedly support the flexible pricing program. it would only impact -- [bell

ringing] -- nonresident visitors. since 2010, since we began to charging nonresident admissions, we've seen an increase in the number of nonresidents and residents, and most importantly thing, we've gained resources to improve garden from the point of view of irrigation systems, planting, pathways and so forth -- [bell ringing]. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, next speaker, please. this is just item 4 and 5, about flexible pricing on these park facilities.

>> okay. i'll withdraw. >> supervisor fewer: done, okay? any other public comment on item 4 and 5? seeing none, public comment is closed. any questions? nothing? okay. can i make a motion to move these amendments to the full board with a positive recommendation. president yee, seconded, take that without objection. thank you very much. oh, excuse me, someone -- >> we're just going to clarify to the board of supervisors meeting on 7-16. >> supervisor fewer: that's right. so sorry. madame clerk, did you get that. july 16. >> just want to make clarification that item number 4 is amended, was amended and recommended to the full board on july 17 -- >> supervisor fewer: 16. >> sorry, and item number 5 was

recommended. >> supervisor fewer: so i'd like to move item number 5 to the full board of july 16. take that without objection? seconded by supervisor mandelman. thank you very much. okay, madame clerk, what i'd like to do now is recess this budget and finance committee. is mr. wright here? oh, mr. wright, i'd like to open up public comment? >> is this on one and two now? >> on items 1 and 2, and remember, if you speak now, mr. wright, you can't speak later. >> always want to speak after you speak when the trail is hot. >> supervisor fewer: okay, trail is hot, come on up. another thing, i want to tell the listening public, if you would like to comment later when we recess back, i will open up public comment again for those people who would like to speak.

right now, mr. wright would like to speak on items 1 and 2 while the trail is hot. >> now, talk about you sleep at the wheel, you more asleep at the wheel, you're drunk driving, that's what you're doing. being disappointed in yourself, you should be furious. you talk about your wasted money, that demonstration you did yesterday, where you agreed to another goddamned navigation center, when you have the audacity to what is the best way to house people without sending them through your system and putting them back on the goddamn streets and i show you how to build a 27 story apartment building complex to give permanent housing for the people that need housing. it didn't matter. makes a fool out of his self after his demonstration. this is not a solution to the

homeless problem. this is not a solution to the goddamn homeless problem, what the hell you doing it for then? if it's not a solution to the homeless problem, why you doing it? you're ignorant, and unproperty tax -- about the goddamn services and salary, you want to talk about salary. you see this guy here, city college. everybody is going to school for free. if it's a good goddamn program how come your $32 million in debt? he said he was $11 million in debt. all the other colleges in the bay area, their students not going for free. you got them coming out here and now you got to have them going to classes for free and by the same, where they live at, their

junior colleges don't charge. had this chance to work for free. you ask me that question, how we going to take care of the problem and keep them off the street. i show you how to house people -- [bell ringing] -- and you still don't take my advice. >> supervisor fewer: thank you for your public comment. i'd like to continue -- do i close public comment? any other public comment? come on up. you have two minutes. >> i'm housed at la nay and i think it's ridiculous that you give me housing in a dual diagnosis building and i'm in district 6, and this doesn't even say district 6 downtown. they lump us in with tenderloin. so from the time that i've been there, i've cleaned up that block. i've gotten those honduran drug

dealers. i've got a fence put up in front of the old city college building. bottom line i'm being identified as a nuisance. they're in the process of evicting me. and i would like to know how all these agencies that keep putting signs on my door saying they want to help me from being evicted. i'm going all the way to the judge. because when you give someone a notice to quit, you don't continue to collect rent from them. there is a lot of ridiculous stuff going on. why do you have a.d.t. and i live in an s.r.o., which i call it a charming studio and a charming building. and everybody in my building is turning into ice people, who

don't even speak english and it's atrocious. and i just -- i want to just take time -- some time off of this record to find out this young lady who you are, and then the other woman, because i really would like to talk to you all personally, to let you know exactly what is going on. because it's appalling. it really is. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any other public comments? seeing none. public comment is closed. we will recess this meeting until 2:00 this afternoon. and so i'll see you back then. >> this is the budget and finance committee. we [gavel]. >> supervisor fewer: this is the budget and finance

committee. we are reconvening, and i am going to recess until 4:00 today right back here in this room. [gavel]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. [gavel]. >> chair fewer: so we are reconvening the budget and finance committee, and i would like to recess again. so sorry, apologies to everyone who spent their whole day here, but we're just crunching some numbers. we're very, very close, so i'd like to reconvene until 5:30, and we'll see you back then. thank you very much. >> chair fewer: and i'd like to recess this meeting again until 6:30. thank you.

[gavel] [gavel]. >> chair fewer: we are reconvening the meeting of the budget and finance committee. i would like to recess this meeting until 8:00. thank you very much. [gavel] [gavel]. >> chair fewer: so we are reconvening the budget and finance committee, and we will recess until 9:00. thanks. [gavel] [gavel]. >> chair fewer: okay. we are reconvening the budget and finance committee, and going to recess until 10:30.

thank you. >> chair fewer: good evening, everyone. we are now reconvening the budget and finance committee of june 26, 2019, and thank you all for staying here. it is approximately 11:30 at night, and we have a budget, so we are thrilled. first, i'd like to call on madam budget director, kelly kirkpatrick. >> thank you, chair fewer, and everybody in the audience, members, and board staff. it is with great pleasure that i authorize and propose to appropriate $17 million to facilitate the board's priority spending as well as the appropriation of $52 million to help facilitate the

appropriation of the education reserve for the excess eraf plan, so i ask that the members of the committee accept the amendment to accept those priorities being appropriated. thank you. >> chair fewer: so i just want to say that this is -- thank you to the public and thank you to the advocates. you know, we started with an over $400 million add back list of asks. so it just demonstrates so much need in our city in addition to a $12 billion budget. it encompasses many things. nonprofit organizations and nonprofit workers, street

trees, rental assistance, support for seniors and people with disabilities, lgbtq communities, legal defense, and so much, much more. and because of our partnership with the mayor's budget office, this process has been less painful than as it has been in the past and less adversarial. i'd like to thank our partners, lisa, and of course we could not do this without the budget and legislative analysts. and i'd like to thank sophia and lisa for working so hard with us. and then i'd like to thank my colleagues who sat through 50

meetings, all about the budget. and then, i want to thank the clerk, linda wong for assisting us and guiding us through this process. i would not remiss if not did not mention lisa and chelsea. [applause] >> chair fewer: that's right. so i just want to say that she had a vision for how this whole process should work, and this is the thor hammer for her. she has a young child at home, and missed many, many nights with her daughter, and worked many, many nights. i just want to thank her for

sacrificing h sacrificing her time with her family and also her personal time for getting us where we are today. i think the budget should reflect the personal values of san francisco. because we have advocates here in the room, i think this budget does reflect san francisco. i think you should all congratulate yourselves because this is a collective effort. so i'd like to make -- oh, president yee. >> president yee: i don't often rise because it's so hard for me to standup. i really want to thank everybody in this process, and it's been -- i've been at this -- what is this? my seventh? my seventh budget season, and

this is never easy, never. so don't -- i kid you not, because we're putting a budget together before midnight. one of the things i want to say is i made a decision in january, and it probably was my best decision, which is to make sandy fewer the chair. [applaus [applause] >> president yee: that's because i knew she had chelsea. so besides thanking the controller's office and ben and the budget staff or kelly and sophia, you know, it's been kay te team -- been a team effort for

all of us. people were advocating for the things that they really care about, and we could always say, you know something? this is what i want and be stubborn about it, and if i don't get it, i'm going to pout about it. but that's not what happened. people realize there's more needs than we're ever going to have funding for, and this has been a great process. we've been able to expand the budget to serve more people in need, and the fact that we got this done before midnight is a testament of how we work together. not only was chelsea involved in this process, but many of

our own staff, and i want to thank them for their efforts. many of them are still here. thank you very much. [applause] >> president yee: so the only thing i really want to say is that thank goodness we got to a conclusion. and i also want to thank the -- mayor breed, you know, because it's always a give and take in all this process, and it really was a give and take. everybody wants certain things. we got certainly things partially, but not fully, and we -- we've shown -- and we're going to show the city that we're adults, and we can work on something that we can all agree with, and i think that's what we've come up, is a package that i think we can all agree with. thank you very much to my colleagues on the budget

committee, and i'm really happy i've been able to assign all of you to this committee. thank you very much. >> chair fewer: supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, chair fewer. i want to start by thanking my colleagues on the committee, and thank you, president yee, for allowing me to serve on the budget and finance committee. it's been an absolute privilege and honor. i want to thank the mayor and the mayor's budget director, kelly, and sophia, and our clerk's office, linda a and alisa. and thank you, chair fewer.

you are just so tough. you have set an example that we all matter to you, and i really thank you for including all of our opinions on -- and taking to heart what we thought. it really means a lot. and of course, chelsea, we know we can't do it without our aides. my office, andy, who just came on board, thank you so much. and sam and daniel, thank you so much. i love you guys. thank you so much for being here. i'm so grateful for you, and we are nothing without our aides. lastly, i want to thank the advocates, too. when we sat through public comment. it's really heartbreaking to hear we can't fund everyone, we can't save everyone, we can't do everything we want to do. but what we take home with us is the heart that's in this room and how much all of you care about san franciscans and

just really seeing this process is amazing. and lastly, malia taught me to look into the camera. and gianna sophia, my daughter, who turned ten today. happy birthday. i'm so proud of you. >> chair fewer: supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: you know, it was somewhat auspicious that we came to our budget on the first night of the democratic debate on t.v., where we saw a return to intelligent policy making, to candidates who care about human beings, and who

care about protecting those that need help in our country. and i think that it felt good to see that again at the federal level, and to watch it right here at the local level under the incredible leadership of supervisor chair fewer. i've been through -- primarily as a legislative aide -- my second -- gosh, the time. but i think -- so now i've been through nine budget processes as an aide and a supervisor, and this one, by far, was the best one that i've been through in the past nine years. as supervisor stefani says, it was so fun to watch you at work, chair fewer. i learned a lot about the budget and really sort of negotiation skills from watching you work, and it was extraordinary.

i know that you and chelsea -- chelsea, you are amazing. you taught me the budgets when i was first a legislative aide, and you were at coleman advocates for youth, and i said, teach it to me, and i took you to lunch, and you taught it to me, and it was incredible. it was a brilliant pick, president yee, but you two are a dynamic duo. but i just can't overstate, you work so hard, and you've been working working so hard for months on end. i just want to tell you from my constituents and the people of san francisco, thank you for working so hard. and then to the mayor's amazing staff, kelly. you're a fantastic, fantastic, and thank you for being so straightforward and honest in

your dealings with us. sophia, of course, ben and everyone from the budget and legislative analyst. i just have a lot of gratitude for all of you. thanks so much. >> chair fewer: thank you. supervisor mandelman -- >> supervisor ronen: sorry. carol carolyn gusen, where are you? carolyn, thank you for staying on top of the people from district 9. we love you. >> supervisor mandelman: in many ways, this budget process is depressing because we hear about so much need that far exceeds what we have the capacity to address, but it's also we need to see this amacing s amazing set of folks that you all are doing every sipping will day to try to meet the

needs of san franciscans in distress. i am just so in love with this because of all the work that you do. and i am also a little bit in love with the mayor and people in this building because their there are areas that we defer, and there are areas that we differ, but there are so much priorities where we are aligned, and i think there has been such great cooperation around this process, and i wonder if it has anything to do because this process has been headed by women, sandy fewer, who i have known for more than a decade with at this point, and i've really had the opportunity to work with you and see you in this role that i think you're meant for, i

think. intimidating and scary at the right times, and also figuring out how to make the compromises and include everyone else, as supervisor stefani was saying. and then chelsea, of course, absolutely deserved the standing ovation earlier. but our mayor and her team, with sophia and kelly, and ben rosenfeld, and the b.l.a. and tom temprano, you're amazing. i love you. and this is an amazing city, and choair fewer, i love you. >> chair fewer: well, it's a love fest in here. i was remiss for not thanking the mayor and all of her work on the budget. and then kelly kirkpatrick, so

professional and brilliant. i have learned a lot watching you work, and so i -- so you can teach an old dog some new tricks, i think, so thank you so much. we are joined by supervisors brown and safai. therefore, we are convened as a special meeting of the board of supervisors. okay. so supervisors, would you like to say something or nothing at all? okay. so i have instructions. the chair makes the final motion to do the following. i'd like to make a motion to amend the appropriation ordinance item 1 and salary ordinance item 2 to reflect the committee changes in the summary entitled board of supervisors budget spending plan. accept the mayor's technical adjustments as provided by the mayor's budget director, authorize the controller to make adjustments as necessary to implement the committee's

actions and balance accounts, forward items 1 and 2 on today's agenda as amended to the board of supervisors for the july 16 meeting with a positive recommendation. and so may i have a second, please? >> president yee: second. >> chair fewer: and so, president yee, may i take that -- oh . so before that, is there any members of the public that would like to give public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [cheers and applause] >> chair fewer: so i believe, colleagues, we have a motion, seconded by president yee. if i can take that without objection? [gavel]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> chair fewer: we are adjourned. [cheers and applause]

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>> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. when i meet with seniors in the community, they're thinking about the future. some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood that's closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. that's why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. so how does this work? prop 60 was passed in 1986 to allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into a new home. under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2% growth a year. but when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value.

compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the -- which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. that's where prop 60 comes in. prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed income may not be able to afford higher taxes so it allows them to carryover their existing prop 13 value to their new home which means seniors can continue to pay their prop 13 tax values as if they had never moved. remember, the prop 60 is a one time tax benefit, and the property value must be equal to or below around your replacement home. if you plan to purchase your new home before selling your existing home, please make sure that your new home is at the same price or cheaper than your

existing home. this means that if your existing home is worth $1 million in market value, your new home must be $1 million or below. if you're looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105% of your exist egging home. which means if you sell your old home for $1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than $1.15 million. if you sell your existing home at $1 million and buy a replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than $1.1 million. know that your ability to participate in this program expires after two years.

you will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. so benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. for more, visit our website, sfassessor.org, >> 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. [♪] test test test test test

>> this meeting will come to order. this is a regular meeting for vision zero committee for thursday, june 27, 2019. i am commissioner trent 10 and i enjoyed by commissioner stefani and mandelman will substitute in who had a conflict with another bar that he is on, california coastal condition. welcome and - - welcome, commissioner travertine. it's been a long time since i've seen you too. [laughter] was it