mr. hernandez. >> thank you, so much. so, the way we learned about this project was through our neighbors. our neighbors immediately researched core power yoga and found, not just one wage dispute but a history of wage disputes. so this kind of really concerned us. which is why we did approach them with caution. core power asked to meet with me individually and so instead i said no, you need to meet with us as a group because one thing you can say to me you can say to all of us. it was charles, myself and giselle. i don't recall who the core power yoga representative was. why think there was one. taylor was there, the public affairs person. and we were asked, you know, what would you want from a business such as this. what are your concerns? and we did answer. charles said diversity and inclusion. he wanted to make sure that the stavro reflected diversity of the neighborhoods and the students as well. that's very important. i said affordability. i was concerned about the price points. $189. you say a significant discount.

mr. hernandez. >> buenas tardes. try to cool down, take a deep breath for a minute. today, i want to undress this issue, and i want to talk about liquor stores. i grew up in the mission neighborhood, and i remember growing up as a kid, you can get schiltz malt liquor, i know it. i drank it. in 1994, as part of my recovery, i got together with a group of people to address the issue of alcohol in my neighborhood, and i was blessed at that time to know a woman who was working at ucsf, and i reached out to her, and she helped me. and actually ucsf took on this project and helped us conduct a study. in that study that was conducted, we found that the mission district in terms of a map has the most alcohol outlets in a neighborhood than any other neighborhood in san francisco. so with that study when it was finally completed, one of the recommendations that we did was to go meet at that time with the mayor, the board of supervisors, people from the planning department, a.b.c. we took nine months visiting all our elected representatives and commissions and boards and shared

mr. hernandez. >> good afternoon, commissioners. gus hernandez with affordable diviz. affordable diviz stands with the mission opportunity in opposition of 2918 mission. i want to start off with the fact that this is a conditional use authorization and -- can i get the overhead, please? what is conditional use? conditional use is a use that is not principlely permitted in a -- principally permitted in a particular zoning district. conditional uses require a planning commission hearing to determine if the proposed use is necessary or desirable to the neighborhood. so this commission has that power to decide, is this necessary or desirable to the neighborhood? all the comments that i've seen from the neighborhood have said that this is not necessary or desirable. in fact, it may potentially have a negative impact, just like it says right here, negative impact on surrounding neighborhood and whether the outside complies with the general plan. >> clerk: thank you. your time is up. >> that was it? >>. >> clerk: you have one minute. >> president hillis: you have a minute. >>

mr. vice president, [inaudible] >> president hernandez, when pump asked me to call, the president of honduras when this caravan was initiated he told me had been organized by leftist groupings in honduras that were being financed in part by venezuela. and organized by human traffickers who have no regard for human life. organized by dangerous gang members. moving people north. when i spoke to president morales, in guatemala, he informed me that they were already busing people in the caravan back who had been left behind. left by the side of the road. elderly, vulnerable families, simply left behind by this caravan. people need to understand the people that are driving this caravan north, to challenge our sovereignty, to challenge our borders, are doing so without any regard for human life. and doing it to advance some political statement or in the case of human traffickers strictly for financial profit. and the president is absolutely determined to use all means at his disposal to organize efforts to have mexico turn this caravan around and work with congress to close the loopholes that human

mr. vice president, that the -- do you share that assessment? >> president hernandez. when president trump asked me to call the president of honduras when this caravan was initiated, he told me it had been organized by leftist groups in honduras that were being financed in part by venezuela. and organized by human traffickers who have no record for human life. organized by dangerous gang members. they're moving people north. when i spoke to president morales in guatemala, he informed me they were already busing people in the caravan back who had been left behind. left by the side of the road. elderly, vulnerable families, simply left behind by this caravan. people need to understand, the people that are driving this caravan north to challenge our sovereignty, to challenge our borderse borders, are doing so without any regard for human life. and doing it to advance some political statement, or in the case of human traffickers, strictly for financial profit. and the president is absolutely determined to use all means at his disposal to organize efforts to have mexico tur