if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like. right good morning and welcome to our january 13th 2025 first rules committee meeting of the year. >> i'm supervisor walton, the chair for this meeting and i'm joined by supervisor chin as well as vice chair supervisor dorsey and we also have president menem in here with

this this morning this morning's clerk is victor young and i would like to thank james kawana from s.f. gov tv for broadcasting today's meeting. >> mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> oh yes. public comment will be taken in each item on this agenda when your item of interest comes up in public comment is called please line up to speak on your right alternatively may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways email them to myself the rules committee at s.f. gov talk if you submit public comment via email it will be included as part of the file may also send your written comments by us mail to our office at city hall one dr. carlton be good place room 244 san francisco california 94102 please make sure the tenants are cell phones and electronic devices. documents to be included as part of the fire should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today are

expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of january 28th 2025 unless otherwise stated. that completes my initial announcements. >> thank you mr. clerk would you please call im number one? >> item number one is ordinance amending the administrative code to extend the sunset date of the cannabis oversight committee from january 1st, 2025 to january 1st, 2027 and providing that the ordinance sh retroactive to january 1st, 2025. >> thank you so much and this morning we are joined by president randleman thank you chair walton and thank you supervisors dorsey and chen and congratulations supervisor chen on your first meeting of a committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. thanks for stepping in today. >> so this is a pretty simple ordinance. >> i believe it would amend the administrative code to extend the sunset date for the currently existing cannabis

oversight committee from january 1st, 2025 when this committee expired to january 1st, 2027. >> so it is a retroactive of ordinance. >> the committee goes back to 2018 when then supervisor sandra lee feuer introduced legislation to establish it and the purpose of the committee was to advise the board of supervisors and the mayor regarding implementation and enforcement of city laws and regulations relating to cannabis in 2021 the board adopted legislation introduced by supervisor connie chan to extend the sunset dates for the committee from december 3rd to 2021 until 2025. >> i generally am of the belief that we are probably over oversight committed in this city but this is a oversight committee that seems to be doing good work in both the

members and and our staff who work with them seem to believe it would be useful to keep it going for at least a little while longer. the committee has played an important role in h■elping inform the work of the office of cannabis. the committee issues recommendations related to grant priorities for supporting equity operators facilitates discussions about processes and policy matters that impact the cannabis industry and convenes city representative and other professionals to weigh in on local and statewide issues as they arise. extending the sunset date will allow the committee to continue to do that work. >> they're looking at a number of things including temporary cannabis event events and i think and promoting and ways to promote effective regulation addressing challenges related to the illicit market, supporting the the illicit markets and so i think we

should obviously as i've introduced it give them a couple more years to do tha work. i want to thank sophia hayward with the city administrator's office for her help with the ordinance. nick ash patel, the director of the office of cannabis who is here to answer any questions. want to thank deputy city attorney sarah crowley for her work on this. >> and i want to thank adam tonks of hat formerly of my office for his work on it and thank henry graaf who's taking this up now that adam has moved on to greener pastures. and i think that's what i got again nakash patel is here if you have any questions. >> thank you. thank you so much. president amendment colleagues do you have any questions or anything? director patel did you want to say anything? >> all right. if not mr. clerk, will you please call public comment? yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this matter should to speak at this time each speaker will be allowed two

minutes. are there any members the public would like to speak on this matter? there are no public commenters at this time. thank you. scene of speakers public comment is now close colleagues i would like to make a motion to move this forward to the full board with recommendation yes on that motion member dorsey i dorsey member chen chen i chair walton high walton i the motion passes without objection thank you motion to send forward with recommendation passes unanimously thank you president madam and mr. clerk would you please call item number two? >> item two. item number two is ordinance meaning the administrative code to reestablish two african-american arts and cultural district community advisory committee extended deadline for the written report and recommends that the from city departments describing the cultural attributes of the african-american arts and cultural district and proposed strategies to acknowledge and

preserve the cultural legacy of the district. thank you so much mr. clerk colleagues this ordinance before us today is reestablishing the african-american arts and cultural district community advisory committee a significant initiative aimed at preserving and promoting the rich cultural heritage heritage of the community. as part of this effort this will extend the timeline for the critical chess report which for lack of a better reference just gives you the information on what the cultural district will do of the importance of the cultural district etc. ensuring adequate time for thorough review and planning. additionally a new sunset date june of 2028 will establish to provide a clear framework for future progress and accountability in this vital project and i don't see anyone on a roster with any questions or comments. >> mr. clerk, would you please go for public comment on item number two? yes members the public who wish

to speak on this matter should line up to speak at this time each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who like to comment on this matter? you can approach the podium at this time there are no speakers. >> thank you public comment on this item is closed mr. clerk i like to make a motion to move this item forward to the full board with recommendation. >> yes on that motion. supervisor dorsey dorsey i supervisor chen chen i chair walton all right. well tonight the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. motion carries unanimously. >> mr. clerk. do we have any other items on today's agenda? >> there are no other items on today's agenda. thank you, everybody have a good week. >> this meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> think smooth

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san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by 1850 ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their

ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was

passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and

first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire

after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was

increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around

transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after thesj■ earthqe and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and

what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of

the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a

novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a

number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the

bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom

new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to

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>> (multiple voices.) >> landing at leidesdorff is as the new public school in downtown san francisco for people to come together for 0 lunch and weekends a new place to enjoy the architect and our culture. >> landing at leidesdorff one of several initiatives to the road map for the initiatives all about using your public space and network for now environments to 0 invite people adopted not just to the office but any time of the day. >> it shows there is excitement and energy and people wore looking forward to enjoying the space that people may want to end up in downtown. >> we've been operating in the financial since 2016 with the treasury and coming up

we had a small surge in business in the leidesdorff and in about the financial district and a good time to grow here. >> as a small business the leidesdorff is making us being part of it as being part of in project. for me makes we want to be part of san francisco. >> so landing at leidesdorff for me represents hope for san francisco and the sense that this is become such a safe welcoming area. >> we local artists coming in and exercise boxes and live music but the hub of culture. >> the downtown partnerships has a studio in san francisco. they identified 6 locations throughout the downtown area we come together with new activity and spaces. >> is between us a place to

tell our own story and history. >> it was named after a captain one the black leaders of san francisco before that was called san francisco he was the first treasurer of the city and commercial street a cross street the hifblg original shoreline of san francisco was just a few feet behind where we're 12357b8z around opportunity to bring people to locations we have an opportunity to tell stories and for local businesses. >> ■?

. >> ready to go. thank you very much. i'm going to ring the gavel. the time is 104. and good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the executive committee. on wednesday, january 15th, 2025 i've called the meeting to order. i would ask our commission secretary monroe's dhaliwal to call the roll. >> president collins present vice president shio to present commissioner beltran present. commissioner cher is absent. commissioner shelby is absent. we have corm for today's meeting also for the record. director of cultural affairs ralph remington. deputy director of programs evan glenn. deputy director of finance and administration sara hallenbeck. and chief of staff alissa ventry are all in attendance. >> do we have any agenda changes? no agenda changes. but i would like to s i