now they're getting closed down because they've never been more than a fourth full. my life in san francisco has expanded like that historic context. i claim worked as a case manager and after school educator, where the youth program i worked with started to be harassed by the police department. we wrote many, many -- like we put in a lot of reports to the police oversight committee or whoever is suppose to be accountable during that time period. we could not maintain a program because the kids were so fearful of harassment. supervisor ronen helped work on the order to address the harassment that was happening with our youth. we made sure that the general order was comprehensible to a 15-year-old, so we knew anyone reading it could understand that we need, you know, more

compassion towards our youths here in san francisco, especially from authorities. that definitely rooted down my approach to cannabis. in 2014, my brother was arrested for cannabis in new york city and sent to a year at wreckers island, and during that time period, we were looking at 3 to 7 years for him. he asked me to take over, potentially launch his business and i did. i took it over and i launched his cannabis business as a delivery service. i attended every meeting in oakland because what would the rollout look like? i asked the question every single time. how do people like my brother

come back and how about those incarcerated not get shutout. if you had a conviction, you were not allowed to own a business. i started to realize that my testimonial of being in san francisco started to harm those in oakland because they were also fighting this whole mass exodus, and feeling like their narratives are getting pushed out. so knowing that my business was in san francisco and i mostly served the san francisco community, i took my narrative out of oakland to let oakland fight for oakland. i waited for san francisco to develop the office of cannabis where i sat down with her to map out what -- i helped co found an

organization to help support the efforts going on and continued to ask the question how do people from the community be able to participate in this cannabis industry, and how proposition 64 was written as a proper takeover of cannabis. so, any co -- so, nicole was great, and we worked through a loose organization, a body of people who care, essentially, that continued to talk about how do we create the equity program here in san francisco? through my work with super nova women, i helped to create panel discussions from here to boston, massachusetts and the woman that helped us to create the panel became a commissioner in massachusetts and she created a statewide equity program, very

much fueled by our conversations and the work we are doing here in california. now, in san francisco, i head up the original equity group, which is dedicated to building pathways and bridges for our equity capplicants. we have been working with larger cannabis organizations to figure out how to do mentorships, potential grant programs and accelerator pra programs so we can see more equity products on the shelves. there is so much more than that, but i could be here forever. we also ran a six week program to give a high level overview of how to navigate the current legislation, the current regulation and we took that education and we did some units in the mission, and then we participated in educational

opportunities in the fillmore. we go to these large consequences that are expensive and they don't make a lot of room for equity operators, so we try to take that level of operation and bring it into the community for free and do sponsorships of businesses that want to support equity. i qualify as an equity applicant and i would like to get back to just selling weed because i don't know how you deal with politics all the time. i just want to do yoga, smoke weed, and help people heal. i do feel that i am a very qualified person for seat 13. i have a large historical context, as well as a large network that are working towards building equity and things we do in san francisco affect the things happening in massachusetts and beyond. i'm looking forward to seeing this body develop for all the

work we can do. thank you. >> thank you supervisor fewer. >> wow. hi, how are you. so you have applied as an equity applicant. so, what are some suggestions that you would give us to help le meet our equity goals and push this process along. >> so what we hear from marissa at the office of cannabis, the new director, is that the city attorney has actually said that money from the city cannot be given to help jump start any of these cannabis businesses because they have been advised that it would be federally illegal and they would be aiding and abetting the sale of an illegal substance. because of those funds are not able to be allocated, it's hard for us to advocate for that permit navigator seat and to be able to get grant programs or even the technical assistance

that we've been asking for since the onset of this program. if we can potentially get some financial assistance or for us to put pressure on the city attorney and let them know that as a community, we will back them up in the event that there is any backlash for relinquishing funds to help small businesses. i think that would be number one, to open up that pathway for money to fall into the program. i also know that we applied for the 5 million state funds, for our equity program, so i'm hoping that maybe they won't be tied up as much as city funds. >> thanks, and we have heard about when we were talking about equity, we were also talking about gender too in this business. we have heard from many people up here that it has been a male domina dominated profession or business or industry, especially at the

higher level. >> when i came into this business, there were 37% of women that owned businesses. the money, the capital infusion and the capital coming in is what we usually see, wall street, banker types, as well as people that made money in tech, and they are usually white males. we seen trends where people tend to just give money to people that look like them or they can relate to, just because they are confident they can yield the same results they may have done. it's a matter of ignorance than anything else. we seen a decline of women. i think it's at 27% now. >> okay, so how do you think that we bring more gender diversity? >> i definitely think that getting grants, like small business loans or small business

grants through the money handed out by the state. so maybe there's $3 million that be used for loans and grants, 1 million to build the equity campus and focus on education, and $1 million set aside for staffing, to move these processes along as far as application processing. i definitely think that there isn't a pathway there. we need to build up a structure and infuse it with the energy it needs. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you. thank ms. parks, the same question, how important do you think it is to have diversity on this committee? >> i think diversity, it's amazingly important. if we can see our committee as diverse as you guys up there, it would be really helpful for us.

people made decisions based on their life experiences and as much as everybody may have a heart for the experience, it's only the folks that are from those experience, or women, or anything that can properly advise into what that experience is like and what they need. i think it's very important. >> thanks. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> good morning. >> good afternoon. >> it's 12:39. yeah. i have two applications. one would be the application for seat 13 and 14. >> got it. >> i do wish to respect your

time. if there are any questions, i wish to be able to say such. just going with evidence though, i do have a political science degree from the great state of arizona. make that be the copper state, the aztec state, and the grand canyon state. the definition of the great seal, with title 5, united states code, section 5721. i do have the applicability of the agency on the federal level. i also have certificates with the definition of california and the united states code of emergency management institute from fema, with evidence as well-being the following

exhibits. one would be effective communication. the second one would be surveillance awareness. the third would be national incident management system. i also e-mailed ms. edith, if i got that correctly, from supervi supervisor fewer's office that i would be stating if i were given the opportunity to be hear, what would be the publicability of my linked in profile, connecting the national laws to agricult e agriculture. as article xvi deems cannabis as agriculture, and with that expansion, agriculture, if led on to the cannabis oversight committee would be my standpoint. it would not be solely cannabis,

but what the bill on the state level and the state level of laws with cannabis, a directive with agriculture. everything with agriculture would be on the state level, as well as the national level for my political science degree, with the great seal of the state of arizona, and that seal is my root of mandate in regards to what i'm able to do extensively outside of the cannabis oversight committee and also within the committee as well. the bill i would like to refer to is with current senator, currently in office, just going to my profile on linked in. i would also be the

publicability of a san francisco applicant. i believe it's section 1608 and 1618, section j, it's that the applicable one. if i'm wrong, it's article xvi. excuse me for not having the article. i sent it, sorry, i'm just going through my e-mail account, going to sent and looking for it. >> mr. raybold. would that be okay? thank you very much for coming today. so how do you think that equity

applicants can operate under and be thriving equity applicants under federal and state regulations. federal regulations, would be the control substance. california does have the law that says to the charter would be the strongest law going against what could be considered the supremacy cause of the united states constitution. however, i do have a certificate from arizona state with the great seal of arizona, with the mandate i can go over such. with the equity applicant on the business side, getting rid of the fees, the costs, and the rules of article xvi would be the best reason to do so. most of the up front cost and even with agriculture, going

through the applications, i never received california assistance, such as e.b.t., however, applicants are denied for such. since cannabis is deemed agriculture, equity applicants without any rules, if we speak solely about equity applicants, starting their own cannabis business, or agriculture production or farming with a new lens to agriculture, and leading to article xvi, i believe businesses would thrive spontaneously if they were able to farm throughout the process. i do understand that testing, cultivating, manufacturing, distribution, retail, as well as delivery are all allowed. you're not allowed to farm with those, and removing that

farming, or removing the restriction to farm for all that would be best. if an equity applicant, and i have purchased agriculture and agriculture does produce seeds in some of their fruits or vegetables, if an individual can do such and do such without an applicant or without a license or worry about police, such would be able to thrive beyond the county and city of san francisco. since it would be agriculture, and with definitions of the california civil code, as well as with the two rivers split, then the allowance to farm without any permits or licensing in the city -- excuse me. i'm a native, i have heart for this city. that doesn't mean because there are additional people that are

not from the city from here, but that's the thing. earth. excuse me. that's the thing though. equity applicants, however the definition of younger age is, you can farm anywhere and they'll be able to be able to use the cannabis oversight committee as a legislative res judicata. a root of mandate, i would be able to assist the equity applicants. >> thank you very much. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you. same question, how important do you think it is to have diversity on this committee? >> diversity is the definition of the one that beholds diversity. if an individual sees a fruit as a fruit, or vegetable as a vegetable, then we would say

it'sing it's agriculture. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> hello, good afternoon. >> good morning -- no, good afternoon supervisors. good to see you, thanks for having me. my name is jesse stout, i'm an attorney in the cannabis industry. i live and work here in san francisco. i've been an organizers and an activist in the cannabis industry since 2002. i first got started on medical cannabis 17 years ago because it really bothered me that people can go to jail for following a doctor's recommendation to use marijuana. seriously ill people in my family and my friends could be threaten with incarceration for

something that could heal them. i was the cofounder of a non-profit organizing patient meetings across the state to talk about what are your needs in terms of influencing the legislative process. ? how can we help legislators, the media, and the professions to help you more. i was able to help patients to influence state legislation, which is why i wanted to apply here for c-14, to help the cannabis oversight committee to understand the regulations in our city. i graduate in 2012 from uc hastings law. i got started in criminal defense, helping medical cannabis patients avoid incarceration when the state of california charged them with crimes including helping other patients access medical cannabis. for the past three years, i

served as a diversity recruiter, helping women and people of color. for the past six years, i've been a corporate lawyer in the cannabis industry, meaning i help clients understand the laws and regulations concerning the cannabis industry and how they can track and influence us. i finally wanted to add i had a valuable experience in 2015 when the rules committee helped me get on the san francis francisco cannabis state legislation task force. i was the only attorney on that body. we were able to help draft the reports to the board of supervisors and present them to you all to talk about what our city's new cannabis ordinance ought to mean and do. we had the equity program, the benefits that the equity applicants received in the

program and the criteria that not only people that are personally criminalized for cannabis sale, but also their family members. the zoning and set back rules for cannabis retail and non-retail businesses, and events permits that cannabis events should not be more restrictive in nature than other places in california. and i want to say that my priorities on the cannabis oversight committee would involve that we have more equity permits faster. the biggest problem with the implementation with the equity program so far has been the delay. other businesses are able to get that leg up. our medical marijuana identification card still cost money in san francisco, even if a patient is indigent.

san francisco still pays for sales tax. i think the office of cannabis, which you are going to rename, should have money in its community re-investment fund, to help operators and their community to heal from the harm of war on drugs. i think they need money in order to help these applicants in their communities. thank you. >> thank you so much. supervisor fewer. >> yes, so, we have heard about a lot of the state regulations impeding on our ability to deliver for medical patients and also around the black market and so can you give me, i mean just your idea about how we can bring those people in, considering the state regulations and the restricts, and the hoopla you have to go through so that

people would be in the black market instead of actually having a permitted legal business here in san francisco. >> first of all, we prefer you not say black market because the cannabis industry has this great opportunity to work into a legal and regulated system. we want to draw the distinction that people who are making good faith efforts to comply are still partners and stakeholders in this process, this transition. second of all, how the state law and regulation has been an impediment to the equity program and what we can do about that. i agree you're right that the state law has been a big problem. we in san francisco help applicants be equity operators. we want to make it so that those who meet the criteria are not going to have to pay for their

license or application fee, are not going to have to wait as long, but regardless of who you are, or where you're from, we're going to charge you that same license fee and have you wait just as long as everyone else. we want them to speak back to the state, saying we want to have state recognition of our local equity programs, that even if the state will not have their own separate parallel equity program, they can do something for the local jurisdiction, city and counties that have the programs, so that the applicants will not have to pay as much or any of the state application fee or license fee, so when the equity applicants go to the state government and say here's my premise diagram, the state can work with people instead of rejecting applications and putting them in the back of the line. we want a separate parallel track so they can get state licenses more easily, the same way as they can get city licenses more easily. >> expedited.

>> absolutely. >> what would legislators do to make that happen at a state level? >> we can have our city legislators speaking with and advocating with our state regulat regulat regulators, to ask for that difference in program if the bureau of cannabis control or cal cannabis won't give us those exceptions, then we will have to pass regulations to speak to the officials to create that change in state law. >> we were on the committee that we had the discussion on transitioning to recreational use. did you bring this to our legislative branch or have you started any effort in doing this at all? it seems this is something that legislat legislators, that it would be hand in hand, when we were developing equity programs, looking at the barriers, and

have you started this process at all or did you bring this also to the prooefrs previous body you served on? >> yes, we came around to legislative offices and spoke with city supervisors and aides on what difference we can make in san francisco to lead the change to those processes. at the time we did not have the benefit of hindsight we have now on how difficult the state would make this even for equity applicants. at that time, we were told that there would be this equity grant program where local jurisdictions will receive millions of dollars to help the applicants through their processes. not only has that not appeared but also on top of that, we met with the additional city delays we heard about this morning, on top of the state problem. it's much more difficult than we could have expected at that time when we were asking for that help. >> now that you have a connection at the state level,

right? this body of work, have you had discussions at the state level and what was the reaction when this was brought up in the committee? >> the state equity grants are supposedly going to be decided and issued this year, which could be great depending on how it's implemented. to speak directly to your second question, how did the office of cannabis react and how to work with the legalization task force and the board last year, we were told, well, first we were saying let's have the equity ordinance, the 2017 local law include a community re-investment fund that would help operators to be able to enter the industry and maintain and stabilize within san francisco's cannabis

industry. this is a great idea, absolutely, let's do this. later you may have heard the city attorney advised the board and the office that the community reinvestment fund would be in violation of federal law and we should hold back and not do that. i'm an attorney and i disagree. i think that the risk to san francisco's city officials and both legislators and the regu r regularregula regular -- regulators that our local officials should allocate money to help equity applicants and get that leg up as permanent lie -- licensees. if you won't do it, who will? we're asking them to help the equity applicants and their communities to benefit and heal from the war on drugs. from the city attorney to advise you as their client that the

equity funds should not be dispersed this way because the aiding and abetting laws may prevent it is a tangible risk, i think there's a different consideration that the board of supervisors should move forward to distribute funds through the cannabis redistribution fund to help applicants. >> okay, thank you. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you so much. same question, how important do you think diversity is for this committee? >> supervisor walton, i think it's very important as we all heard and agreed with today. i will go further and say not only will this committee be diverse, but we as the cannabis community need to do more not

only as our representatives but our own businesses and associations to be more diverse. for the past several years, i've been working with t.h.c. staffing groups to help the cannabis industry recruit more women about people of color into leadership positions. even if we can't wave the magic wand of capitalism for today's business owners be more diverse, we can use our privilege and networks to give people connecti connections so they can be tomorrow's cannabis business owners. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, i really appreciate you applying. >> thank you. >> do we have any other applicants that have not yet spoken? i'm just going to call your names out to make sure.

[reads names] >> nobody is here? okay, thank you everyone that applied and did speak. now we're going to open this item up for public comment. any member of the public who would like to speak? please feel free to come forward. >> hi, i actually was on the original cannabis task force in the late 1990s. i began working with cannabis to help alleviate medical problems. in 1997, i became a member and worked with the task force and work in the health department. i created the program at laguna honda, and i did a lot of talking at their conferences. i'm here today to support ali

and his bid for being on the seat. i have just a few notes that have come up in all the conversations i thought i would share. i did the patient work back then and champ was closed in 2002. i've been helping patients underground and with medical cannabis. i started the whole education for the membership there and stuff, and the card system. you did that based off of education i gave the city on how we were verifying the doctor's letters and stuff. so some of the things i noticed with how to help with the equity program. in 2011, i spent a year in the city jail here for a cannabis charge. i thought i did not qualify for thi the equity program because every as i live in did not zone in the zone. i knew i did qualify because my

brother had some cannabis arrests here in san francisco. i did not realize he had been arrested. with all of my work and my 25 years here, i didn't think i qualified. so that census, zoning of your residence's address. there were people across the street from me that would have zone, but the addresses i held did not zone. as far as helping the patients, because that's really important. there were all these -- >> sorry, your time is up. thank you so much. >> i just really want to say it's important to maintain what the patients access and it's very true the disenfranchisem t disenfranchisement. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisor. my name is ed donaldson. i'm a lifelong resident here in

san francisco. i'm also an equity applicant on two deals with norcal cannabis. i'm also the director of community development for norcal cannabis. beneath of of these two things without did not happen without her. she has an application for seat 12 and seat 14. i don't want to go into her qualificati qualifications, but i want to talk about the attributes i noticed. she's authentic, she's tough, she has integrity and more importantly, she has compassion. she cares about the plant. she cares about people. she is a native of san francisco and she cares about this city and what happens here.

more importantly, she's a woman in a men dominated industry. i believe there should be room for voices of women to really speak to the issue of cannabis here in san francisco. all of these things have really contributed to some very special things that are happening at r norcal, where we have been able to get outside of the box and think of equity in a different fashion and it's given rise to things i'm encouraged about as the industry moves forward. i hope that you would support her candidacy as well for the cannabis oversight committee. i want to speak on behalf of all the women. they deserve to be heard just as any other woman who has submitted an application for this committee. thank you. >> thank you so much. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors.

i'm here to speak on behalf of anna. i'm a long time resident and employee here at san francisco and an equity applicant. i'm here in support of my colleague, which i mentioned a moment ago as she seeks to become a member of the committee in seat 12 and seat 14. we worked together at norcal cannab cannabis. i am the primary point of contact for our delivery drivers. in addition with norcal allowing me to apply for this position and has helped me create a better opportunity for myself and my family. she is a strong female leader with a great deal of experience in the industry and i believe she is experienced in exper tease and love for what she does will make her a valuable member of this committee in either seat

12 or seat 14. thank you for your time and you have a wonderful day. >> thank you so much. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is amber morris. i'm here also for anna. i developed the first statewide regulations for cannabis cultivation. since leaving the state, i took a job with norcal, and the director of government affairs and worked with anna ray. it's a dynamic to work on the other side of the table. learning from someone that implements those regulations and can understand the pain point from the industry side. i think particularly for seats 14 and 12, that her experience with not just knowing the laws and regulations, but also understanding the implementation process is very important. in addition to that, she already

spoke clearly about her qualifications, but i like to add that she is very competent and capable in actually moving the agenda of this committee forward. so she's a clear communicator, both verbal and written, and i think you will need many people on the committee that can actually take the goals of the committee and move them forward. anna ray has the ability to do that. working for the government for so many years, there's a lot of committees that spin, and you need someone that can help identify what's needed and move it forward. so there's no doubt in my mind that she would do a great job on this committee and i appreciate you filling the seats and taking my comments into consideration. thank you. >> thank you so much. next speaker.

>> i'm here to support ms. parks for seat number 13. i'm an immigrant. i came here when i was 10, went to school here, and every single obstacle you guys talked about, i'm experiencing right now. ms. parks has helped me for some of those things. i think she's competent and aware, generous. thank you. >> anyone other member of the public wishing to speak? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> i just want to thank everyone for coming.

as supervisor ronen said, this is a really highly qualified applicant group. i was member of the rules committee before and we appointed many commissioners, advisory boards, and this by far has the most expertise. i means the incredible. this is the first round, i think of this body, meaning that we are just launching it now. we hope that it will advise the board of supervisors and also give us good recommendations, but also help us to perfect what we're doing here in san francisco to have the cannabis business be a robust viable business here with meeting our equity goals too. i want to thank everyone for coming today and your willingness to be part of this movement that we're doing here in san francisco to make us better and actually to lead other cities in how we can do

this through a really strict equity lens. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other comments? supervisor walton. >> i don't have any comments per se, but before we -- well, i guess i do have some comments. one, i want to thank everybody that applied as supervisor fewer stated. this is the first make up of this committee and of course this will be ongoing in helping us shape the future of what we do around equity as we move forward. i appreciate everyone for putting your name in the hat because that shows the dedication and the importance of how the community feels about this role. the one thing i do want to say is that -- and i also appreciate everyone's excitement about diversity for this committee. i know i asked that question to everyone, so i'm asking that for

seats 10 and 12, that we don't take action today. the reason for that is so we may have more time to conduct outreach and get a diverse sieve pool of applicants. we are charged with making sure this committee is equitable and diverse and we have the right type of participation there -- from everywhere. i would like for us not to take action on seats 10 and 12 this week and move it to next week or even the meeting after next week. >> okay. well since jennifer garcia wasn't able to join us and was the only applicant for seat 10, that makes sense. did any of my other colleagues have any comments on supervisor walton's motion? no? okay. so, i just had a question for

you supervisor walton. is there a particular type of diversity that you're looking for, that you don't see represented today? >> i didn't see one black candidate and that is very concerning to me. >> okay, fair enough. so supervisor walton has made a motion to continue items 10 and 12. >> we don't need a motion on that, you just don't need to fill those two seats at this time. >> got it. so with the remaining seats. i support that request supervisor walton. >> as do i. >> seems that supervisor mar does as well. we'll take the remaining seats. supervisor fewer, i just have tremendous respect for the amount of work you have put into

this effort. you created the legislation to get us here in the first place. i know you and your staff have spent a tremendous amount of time. we have an impossible choice in front of us today because we are filled with unbelievable, overqualified applicants for every single seat. i'm wondering if you have some thoughts for this committee, given your tremendous work on how you would like to see this moved forward. >> yes, i would like to mention that when the board and i was newly on the board as with supervisor ronen, we were tasked with developing a program and i have to say that most of us didn't know what we were doing. we have this office of cannabis that actually we haven't heard regularly from and we also don't have actually recommendations on how to make it better. we have only heard frustration

from many of the applicants, not really coming to us and saying these are the things that we could do, that amendments we could make it easier for applicants and actually to have a more diverse pool of applicants, but also as our equity applicants. i think it's been frustrating for all of us. we grappled with geographic equity and our own neighborhoods. also, we have heard from parents about the regulation and heard from communities about the fact that they are anti-cannabis. so i think that as legislators, what we're looking for here is some oversight on the office of cannabis, not to really regulate them, but actually to give suggestions on what the legislative branch can do to actually advise the office of cannabis on how to address some of these issues from people who

actually have real on the ground experience in doing this. we, as legislators, do not. none of us, as far as i know, own a cannabis business. i don't even know which ones have used cannabis. so, i think we are starting from a place with no expertise. i want to say personally, i just through stuff on the wall, and if it stuck, it was in the legislation, not knowing what we were doing. we're looking towards this group, this body to give us some expertise, on the ground expertise. we want to open this up for small business owners too, to have this opportunity to say how do we launch. we know that we have had an industry here that many people have profited from and made good money on and we don't know about this expansion of it. in every neighborhood, to have

it, you know, legal for recreation use, and my apologies for saying black market. i do know people who have left the permitted process of a retail space and they identify it as the black market. i will say private market. we will say private market now. i do think that is a concern and that growing number is a concern. because actually, they are able to get great product at a much reduced price, right? even ones that have gone through testing. if we want this to be a business where we can say to the public, this is a business that not only is, you know, regulated well, but also is safe. it gives equitable opportunity to many people, i think that we are going to be depending on

this body to give us that exper tease. i also to say this is a very, very hard decision for -- i'm not a voting member on this committee, but for this committee to have. i think personally when i'm looking at is opening this opportunity to get more voices at the table that haven't been at the table traditionally and also how can we help launch this from the growers, the cultivators, all the way to the retail. so, what we can do at the state level is to push through legislation. i want to thank everyone for being here. i know that we are looking for diversity within our pool. i think that because this is a business that has been dominated mainly by men and we are focusing on bringing other voices in so we're very, you

know, we think that's super important. we also think that we are looking at people also who have been in the industry for a long time, but we are also trying to wait for people trying to come into the industry. i don't know if that discussion helps at all, but what i really wanted to say is thank you so much for your willingness to help us with this in san francisco, because san francisco, we think we can do it right. i don't think we have been doing it right. i think in san francisco, we can lead the way for other cities. thank you very much. >> so did you not have suggestions for the specific seat? you want to leave it up to the committee? >> well, i would actually defer to the voting members of this committee, quite frankly. >> okay. supervisor walton, would you like to make a motion. >> yes, thank you so much. please forgive me if i

accidentally mispronounced someone's name. so, i am pushing that we move forward the names of ali for seat number 8, aaron for seat number 9, doug for seat number 11, nina for seat number 13, burke for seat number 14, teresa for seat number 15, and sarah for seat number 16. >> i'm sorry, what was seat number 15? >> seat number 15, teresa foglio. >> okay. >> may i ask if you would repeat seat 14. >> seat 14, burke hanson.

>> sorry, just give me one minute here. this is a lot of seats at once. >> thank you chair ronen and supervisor walton for putting forward your proposed appointments to the various seats. i'm in agreement with all of your proposed appointments except seat 14. my preference is on jesse for seat number 14, given his extensive experience and expertise with cannabis law and regulation statewide and locally. his direct experience facilitating hiring disadvantage community members by cannabis businesses and his very long commitment to ensuring equity and social justice, principles and practices, ensuring that

these are essential in regulating the cannabis industry and i think mr. stout, we received broad support from his appointment from a range of stakeholders in san francisco. >> thank you. i too in agreement with seat, 8, 9, 13, 11, 15, and 16. i also was having a hard time deciding for seat 14 between jesse stout and anna grabstein. who are both extremely qualified and have done so much in this industry. so what i will do then, given

that there is support from two members of this committee for jesse stout, if you don't mind, if i would amend your motion, is that okay? or would you like to vote separately on each seat? or take 14 separately? >> i would agree with supervisor mar. we have some great candidates and if two members of the committee wants to support mr. stout, who i think is very qualified as well, i can amend the motion to include jesse stout for seat number 14. >> great. >> mr. clerk, is there clarity for the motion. >> can you repeat it to be sure. >> i have ali for seat number 8, aaron flynn for seat number 9, seat number 11, i have doug block, for seat number 13, i have nina parks, seat number 14,

i have jesse stout, seat number 15 i have teresa foglio and seat number 16, i have sarah. just to note, several of the seats have a waiver requirement. >> fantastic and can we take that motion without objection? without objection, that motion passes. >> i just want to note that the waiver requirement for teresa, nina, anna -- excuse me, my apologies. and doug block is waved. >> thank you. in my excitement, i forgot to mention that in june, i move to oakland because i could no longer afford my rent in san

francisco, so i too need a waiver. thank you. >> thank you. can we note that for the record? >> my apologies. could you note your name please? >> sarah. >> thank you. mr. clerk, thank you so much to everyone. you know, again this is the first of many opportunities to serve on this body and you are just an amazing community. thank you very, very much. mr. clerk, are there any other items on the agenda? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> and with that, the meeting is adjourned. [gavel] [♪] .

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part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating

at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business

but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his