. >> for going doing this investigation as fiona the board of equalization she made attempts there are holes in that attempt some things worked i believe that the current legislation effecting the health code and planning code will bring us up to date to see what we can manage better the massage therapist are concerned about their businesses i am a small business owner and i realize what the cost of doing business in the city, however, through perhaps working this through the board of supervisors i'm not understand all the complaints but overall the legislation and intent is to not only regulating a legitimate business but providing save services but to protect the overall population that is take advantage of you >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm a student and the holistic institute i have not a statement but many of the therapists ones the one side r other side of the fence i want to make a statement i agree with supervisor wiener when we stayed about the whoisht having center massage therapists on hand that is the allied wellness cen

2006 san francisco stabbed a permitting process through the department of public health and we had our former supervisor fiona through the board of supervisors required a conditional review for all massage establishment in 2006 and 2009 there other was state law that passed sb 731 that created the california massage council for short that's c a mp c with the certification of massage practitioners there are also new limits on the authority of cities to impact or enforce the certified individuals and establishment employing only c a mp c certified folks when it was created you know it was residency really for a good rebate you you know there are not all cities in california have a prilt process like san francisco especially for those jurisdictions that don't it created a stated decided process throughout the state of california, however, one hardship more san francisco we had our own system in place so we had believe r essential a dual system so we had some people establishments that of certified through c a mp c and we also had another certified there the dpw and through the process many were left out of either system there's e

the chair if i can opening it up for public comment. >> yes. please. i have a number of speakers if you need to speak you'll be allowed to speak call up fiona from our state board of equalization and call up a few more cards line up in front of that window. (calling names) >> thank you very much members shortly after i got elected to the board of supervisors in 2002 there were 2 homes raid in the sunset district two groups of women from korea were trafficked here to the united states and it was contaminate i got sucked into the world of human trafficking the hotel and people came to my office and educated me on the plight of many of the women that are forced her their passports taken away you know their stripped of speaking to their family members and the shame they feel being revolved in this and the victimization that those women feel not only be duped most of the time but being involved in the trafficking we looked at ways to try to got this issue asset forfeiture for the people that own the property and know those businesses are going on and increasing the pentd and crime statutes but settled on requiring a conditional use permit for those establishment it