, chair ronen. and actually thank you so much just for all of the work you've done, as such a strong advocate for medical cannabis patients. and i had a question around just wanting to hear your perspectives on the labor issues for the cannabis industry, since that's also an important area, you know, i think for the board and in setting up this oversight committee. yeah. and for the apothecary itself, are you a union employer? >> we are not a union employer. however, our employees have always been paid with checks. we have 401(k), which is matched. our health benefits are fully covered. we have vision, dental, medical. they are paid a living wage. and we also have a great deal of education that comes before they come on the floor. one thing i'm really proud of, because people don't stay with you forever, is when my staff leaves, having apothecary on their resume is a sign that they've had a good work experience and they are ready for the professional world of cannabis. we have a very diverse staff,

, chair ronen.lly thank you so much just for all of the work you've done, as such a strong advocate for medical cannabis patients. and i had a question around just wanting to hear your perspectives on the labor issues for the cannabis industry, since that's also an important area, you know, i think for the board and in setting up this oversight committee. yeah. and for the apothecary itself, are you a

thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you. if anyone else would like to speak, please lineup so we can take public comment one right after the other. thank you so much. >> i'm holly richards-babcock. i'm a resident of district five. i'm speaking on behalf of tenants that are trapped at home during the construction of a.d.u. units and the construction of units around them. it's utterly unconskionable that tenants have to endure this. corporations own thousands of units in the city, no doubt some of which are vacant and can be refitted for those who are disabled or always at home. dur during the a.d.u. construction below my unit i applied for and received a small rent reduction. i cannot make plans for my grown children to visit in a construction zone. since last january i've been plagued by the din of demolition. there are bob cats, drills, and generators that crack and shake things off the walls. we need to start a discussion on how to expand the existing temporary relief to enable tenants to apply for temporary respite. there

i am supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. seated to my left is rules committee member gordon mar and vice chair walton will be joining us shortly. our clerk is victor young and i would like to thank jason and matthew from sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices and speaker cards and documents to be included shall be submitted to the clerk. awe>> superviser ronen: and can you please read item number one? is an ordinance to the amend the administrative code to allow tenants who have received a pass-through relief from the landlords from the rent board from financial hardship. >> superviser ronen: i am wondering if supervisor peskin will join us. i don't see anyone from his office. i will open this up to public comment first and get someone from his office here. if there is any member of the public would like to speak on this item, please come forward now. >> good morning. teresa from senior disability and action. i am so thrilled that mr. peskin, supervisor peski

i'm chair hillary ronen. seated to my right is rules committee supervisor shamann walton, and to my left is gordon mar. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. items acted upon today will appear on the november 5 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> chair ronen: thank you. can you please read item number one. >> clerk: item number one is an ordinance dissolving the workforce advisory committee and a statement on the workforce alignment. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm angela calvillo. i'm simply before you because of the housekeeping language in the ordinance which actually sunsets these two bodies and sunsets these in july. i understand that there is a desire for the bodies to be reauthorized, and if that is the case, we are happy to work with the committee and the supervisors to reach that organization. this is just a housekeeping step to remove them from the administrative code. if there is to be reauthorizing legislation, it would just be put back into the code. i'm a

. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you, chair ronen. just same question. how important do you think it is to have diversity on this committee? >> i think it's the most important. i think that my entire business, my partners, like i said, my equity partner, who i have known since i was a little kid, is african-american, my business partner in the delivery manufacturing and distribution is -- she's half hispanic, half korean woman. we've been meeting with, you know, local men and women that are, you know, low-income, diverse. i think that one of the things i'm excited about is that i hear that the office of cannabis is going to start making retailers put equity products on their shelves. i think that's very important. yeah. that would be my answer. >> supervisor ronen: wonderful. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> supervisor ronen: next speaker, please. >> hello. good morning. my name is andrew silva. i'm an attorney practicing cannabis law. i have been for the past five years, since law school. i worked in dispensaries during law school

>> supervisor ronen: thank you. that makes sense. if there's no comments, we'll open up this item to public comment. if there's any member of the public who would like to see. seeing none, public comment is closed. does anybody want to make the motion requested by supervisor peskin? >> so moved. >> supervisor ronen: and if we can take that -- would like to say anything, supervisor mar? no. without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] i will make a motion to continue this -- so there's now two pieces of legislation. i'll make a motion to continue the substituted piece of legislation to the call of the chair. and a motion to continue the other part -- the original file to next week. >> clerk: committee report. >> supervisor ronen:. >> chair peskin: no. we can't send as a committee report today, because mr. givner deemed these amendments -- >> supervisor ronen: sorry. i didn't hear you. it's not a committee report, we're just continuing the original file one week to the next rules committee meeting. >> clerk: thank y

that's our opinion. >> supervisor ronen: supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: thank you, chair ronen. mr. bloch, i just had -- wanted to ask a similar question that i asked of ms. foglio from the laborers' union. i guess in addition to all of the really important work that you -- you guys are doing to ensure labor rights for workers in this emerging industry, what ideas do you have about how we could strengthen career pathways for victims of the war on drugs and other disadvantaged community members here in san francisco? >> well, again i think using your power, the power of the permit to tie requirements to that. i go back to the thousand-plus workers who drive for facebook, apple, all of these companies, who organized because this body urged the sfmta to put a laborer piece requirement in for those companies to be able to use our bus stops. every single employer in this industry is coming here to ask for a permit. and again local hire could be attached to that. across the bay, in oakland, we got a 50% local hire requirement attached to the development of the oakland army base projec

we are joined by supervisors ronen and mandelman. we are grateful to our colleagues for joining us today. however, this meeting will be conducted in all respects as a regular audit and oversight committee meeting. any substantive decision will constitute a recommendation of the committee rather than action by the whole board. mr. carroll will make a note. >> at the present moment we don't have a quorum. this committee is operating as the normal committee with a few extra guests. >> do you have any announcements. >> plea silence cell phones. speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. items today will appear on the october 29, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. do we have a motion to excuse supervisor peskin? can we take that without objection? >> who was the mover on that. >> roger brown. >> please call items one, two, three, four together. one hearing to discuss the removal of 41 out of 55 long-term beddings from the adult residential facility. >> agenda item two is an ordinance

so supervisor ronen, you're up. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. wait for the amazing ward 86 staff to leave. thank you so much. if we could call up the leaders of the incredible united educators of san francisco to the front. [applaus [applause] >> supervisor ronen: today, i have the privilege and the pleasure to celebrate the united educators of san francisco on their 100th an versely. we have here today, the current president, susan solmore, anabelle ibanez, dennis kelly, former political director, ken trey, and there are some other people that aren't on my list, so i can't wait for susan to introduce them when she cams up. a century ago, several san francisco educators recognized it would be necessary to form a union that would be part of the greater house of labor. by the end of the year, they'd established the san francisco federation of teachers local 61, and grew to more than 100 members. in 1920, the superintendent at girls high where local 61 founders were based started to purge union members who are teachers. it got so bad that there are

supervisor ronen, i believe you're up. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. amazing san francisco mind troupe can come forward. [applause] hello. this is on behalf of supervisor peskin and myself, although i know supervisor peskin will want to chime in when i finish, but it is truly a privilege to honor the legendary mime troupe on their 60th anniversary. for the past 60 years, the san francisco mime troupe has inspired, educated audiences throughs the city, across the country and around the globe with this brand of revolutionary theater. they have received local and national awards, including nomination for this year's treasure island. and they're studying in universities and colleges inspiring the next generation of activist artists. mime troupe veterans including performers and writers on broadway, television and film, as well as founders of theaters like the pickle, family circus, heart beat ensemble and countless more. but more importantly for the last 60 years, the troupe has always stood for speaking truth to power. and has brought its working class an

. >> chair peskin: commissioner ronen? >> supervisor ronen: hi. it's nice to see you. mine -- aside from the obviously congestion concerns and the impact on traffic, i'm very concerned about the impact on the residents surrounding this area concerning light and noise pollution. i'm wondering what mitigation for those residents -- because this will be 24-hour ongoing construction, if they cannot sleep at night, what are the type of mitigations in place for those residents? >> right. so right now, the current schedule with the 18-daytime line shows the contractor working 24 hours a day basically seven days a week. we have been taking measurements in the area with the existing traffic, and it's already approaching the 80 decibel, so we will have walls up to dampen the noise. if we can reduce this into seven day or one week work window, it will be 24-7, but we will minimize those impacts, getting in and out of there. instead of 18 days, it will be a week. reduce the impacts as much as possible. we do have some mitigation factors in place for worst case scenarios. we have l

supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: thank you. sorry. colleagues, today, i'm introducing a resolution urging the state of california to rescind or amend new department of health care service medi-cal policy regarding fee-for-service covering medical prescriptions. a new drug policy now reimburses pharmacies at a much lower rate than what they pay for the specialty drugs that treat complicated conditions, including psychiatric conditions, hiv and hepatitis. honest and hard working pharmacies are being completely bankrupted by these changes. it has become financially infeasible for their to continue providing services to vulnerable patient populations who depend on them to access life saving medications and care. according to the california pharmacists association, a pharmacist providing a medi-cal patient with a certain skrits (i can't drug will loose $533.38 per patient per year. a pharmacist providing another drug will lose over $600 per year. it is also demanding that pharmacies payback the higher reimbursement rates that they received