. >> 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 so much. >> thank you. >> supervisor ronen: next applicant. >> good morning. 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 wou

next speaker. >> chair ronen, supervisors walton, mar, fewer, hello. i'm a fifth generation san francisco native. i'm an alum of usf where i received my mba. i want to be on the cannabis oversight committee because i want to be an access -- asset to the city of san francisco and all of you, through collaboration, using my experience, and through my deep commitment to the community here in the city i love. i have experienced some judgment to provide a valuable voice on the oversight committee and hope to earn your recommendation today. i don't usually put myself out there politically like this, but i feel i'm uniquely situated in providing you support in creating the best environment for legal cannabis in our city. i serve as the chief compliance officer where i oversee multiple permits of cannabis, in cultivation, manufacturing, distributi distribution. i have experience and expertise, and genuine commitment to community and equity. i also lead our company equity and public affairs work. it's inclusive of all people. to help us meet our equity goals, w

[gavel]. >> chair ronen: supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you, chair ronen. thank you to everyone for bringing this farther and making sure we do our due diligence and act in accordance with our duty with the city. i just want to start off -- and i'm not going to go deep into history, but these committees were started to make sure that opportuniti opportunities were provided for folks in community to be able to work here in san francisco and also to make sure that our c.b.o. community that was providing workforce services could work together with the cities to figure outweighs to stream line resources because we have so many different pots of workforce money from several different departments and we wanted to put together something that was going to provide a space, an opportunity, for all of our city departments that provide workforce services to figure outweighs to stream line services so that it makes it easier for the workforce community to provide services to our most vulnerable populations. i do want to say that even though unemployment is down here in

they are supervisors yee fewer, ronen walton, peskin and moore. supervisor brown is not a cosponsor. >> on behalf of. >> for the jobs housing linkage fee, i have haney, fewer ronen mar, peskin, walton and yee. i was going to ask you about brown. >> yeah, i just stated those are the correct ones. supervisor brown is not a cosponsor. >> okay. >> so from the office of the economic analysts the floor is yours. >> thank you chair peskin. as i said today our office issued an economic impact report on this item. i'm not going to walk you through the full report but i will discuss some of the highlights and i'm happy to answer your questions. of course our report is charged with assessing the economic impact of legislation. in this case the fee increase which is approximately $40 per square foot on office we determined might have a significant impact on office development in the city in the future as well as raising new funds for affordable housing. as you know, there's a couple of studies that have already been done on the impact of this item, the nexus

>> supervisor ronen: thank you. supervisor walton has a question for miss giraudo. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, commissioner giraudo. just a quick question. i know you talked about wants to combine the office of early education and children and family first commission. have you had conversations with the state about this? or is there going -- do you anticipate any issues with the state, because of how first five commissions are set up? >> it's not a merger. it's align aligning the two pro. and we're very well aware. we've got two different streams of funding. and obviously we -- the first five is funded by the prop 10 funds. and so this is where we're looking at aligning the services, not merging them at this point. that would be a discussion with the state, with the city attorney and god knows who else. but it's really looking at the services aligned. and if, in fact, we even are able to cross staff is a work in progress, because the h.r. systems are very different. we're very aware of that. right now we have two differe

i was excited about how impressive the applicants were and i want to thank supervisors, ronen, walton for weighing the applications and prioritizing diversity and representation. i look forward to the final two seats being filled and ensuring we have a diverse representation of our community. thank you, very much. >> supervisor yee: i want to make a comment on this. i am sure the applicants that are putting fourth today are qualified and i guess for me i'm a little days pointed with the make up of this committee that we're putting fourth. one, i believe there's at least four of them that need waivers who live out of town. to me, this is a high number. which was on the committee when we consider something living out of town providing a waiver, it was really the exception. not the rule. i mean, it seems like we're moving in the wrong direction. i know for the last few years, we keep on talking about making sure we have diversity and this gender diversity here, which is great. i like to see more ethnic diversity. there's no a.p.i. on this committee. there's noah american o no afrin this

objection, that motion passes. >> that matter was passed without objection with member walton being not present. >> superviser ronen: we are going to skip out of three and we will have to wait until supervisor walton gets here because we have to excuse supervisor mar. if you would call item four please, mr. clerk. >> item four is a hearing consider appointing two members, terms ending december 3, 2020, to the cannabis oversight committee. >> superviser ronen: thank you so much. and we did have a long hearing on this item a couple of weeks ago, but we did not fill seats 10 and 12. and so for today, we have four applicants for those two seats. jessica cry and -- i'm sorry. jessica cry is the only applicant still here for seat one or is -- maybe jennifer garcia did not pull out. both of them are applying. and then erich pearson, shawn richard, and annarae grabstein. if the applicants are here, feel free to come forward and if you could limit your comments to three minutes, that would be great. good morning. >> good morning. i am jessica cry and work with united local workers and a resident of san francisco and been in

. >> 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 then, given that there is support from two members of this committee for jesse stout, if you don't mind, if i would amend your motion, i

i make a motion to excuse supervisor walton. >> chair ronen: and without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: first, let me thank jessie and maya from sfgovtv for staffing this meeting, and our clerk today is victor young. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. please make sure to silence any phones and electronic deviced, a -- devices, and be sure to submit any speaker cards to the clerk. items today will appear on the october 27 board of supervisors agenda. >> chair ronen: thank you. will you read item number one. [agenda item read]. >> chair ronen: thank you. and i will open this up for public comment. any member of the public wishing to speak, please come forward now. >> good morning. i'm a district eight tenant, anastasia manopolous. currently, the policies offer a bare minimum and safety nets for tenants being displaced, and some owners and landlords abuse the right for evicting for repairs. i believe these proposed -- in these proposed amendments. however, you have to acknowledge that the relocation payments are not sufficient to cover the fi