. >> 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 the

supervisor fewer, supervisor walton, supervisor ronen, supervisor mar, my name is burke hanson. i'll tell you a little bit about myself, just so you kind of know where i'm coming from. i'm a bay area kid, graduated from berkeley high. spent a few years living abroad and came back to san francisco to go to hastings. i was in mexico and japan and i have to say that's that kind of diversity of experience, living in other countries, is one of the greatest experiences you can have. it's something that i have carried with my whole life. i spent seven years living in the tenderloin, in the mid otts, when frank and skyline realty were going around basically with, you know, guns, rolling people out of their apartments. i was one of those guys. and i had worked back in the late '90s at the hope center over on 6th and market. really it was the only dispensary at the time. they had a compassion program. so every day we had a lot of transgendered people, people from that area, it's a very difficult part of town, coming up and we would give them cannabis for free, to take care of their ailmen