>> vice president zouzounis: no. i think -- thank you for explaining kind of where this lies within the trajectory of the commercialization process. our commission's been active in the last five or so years, but, yeah, i just think i would have loved to hear the stakeholder perspective here. i understand this is part of getting in line with the city and the state and moving into commercial cannabis law. i feel like as much as our commission has been involved, i don't feel like we're up to date. it's hard for us to make decisions that we might -- it's hard for me without feeling like i understand the conversation in cannabis, like what's happening in the industry and why the city, you know, is making proposals like this. like is this to help them or is this to put on their radar or if this is meant to be a punitive mechanism to get you there. i just want to understand what this means to the industry itself. >> i definitely don't think it's a punitive change. it's really a change to make sure that there is parody in th

vice president zouzounis. i saw you typing. >> vice president zouzounis: thank you, director dick endrizzi. i'm also trying not to get emotional. but this -- you have been a mentor to me in every capacity in which i participate in the city. and i'm so eternally grateful to that relationship. i think that have created a really strong precedent for public servants in our city and you set a high bar and for directors of departments, i think you're an anomaly in a sense that you really operate in a bottom up way. you really look at policy from the perspective of those who are on the ground and you advocate so hard for those people who are the ones dealing with issues firsthand and you honor small businesses by elevating their perspective in this way. so we're so thankful to you. i'm so thankful to you. you really did support me a lot too as a young woman of color on a policy body for the city. i could not have been -- done for the commission what, you know -- i don't think we've been able to get to this proactive

vice president zouzounis. i saw you typing. >> vice president zouzounis: thank you, director dick endrizzi. i'm also trying not to get emotional. but this -- you have been a mentor to me in every capacity in which i participate in the city. and i'm so eternally grateful to that relationship. i think that have created a really strong precedent for public servants in our city and you set a high bar and for directors of departments, i think you're an anomaly in a sense that you really operate in a bottom up way. you really look at policy from the perspective of those who are on the ground and you advocate so hard for those people who are the ones dealing with issues firsthand and you honor small businesses by elevating their perspective in this way. so we're so thankful to you. i'm so thankful to you. you really did support me a lot too as a young woman of color on a policy body for the city. i could not have been -- done for the commission what, you know -- i don't think we've been able to get to this proactive

vice president zouzounis . >> thank you. i attended or was invited to an event put on by sons ofblack wall street and bsf filipino chamber of commerce . i think it's so amazing that merchants are still working together like this . it is something that's directly inline with what our racial equity committee wants to support . they're inviting each other to sit on their advisory boards for different projects and its great president and collaboration so i just wanted to give them props for that and that was the main thing i had right now. i will give more updates on our racial equity committee goals as they come but we are creating some great policies, policy goals for our commissio . >> president: very good to hear. is there anything else or was that it? okay. commissioner adams. >> thank you everybody again for your kind words. to let you know i represented the small business commission on december 4, saturday in the sunset merchants association. they actually had this cool thing. they had members of the council of district m

vice president zouzounis . >> thank you. i attended or was invited to an event put on by sons ofblack wall street and bsf filipino chamber of commerce . i think it's so amazing that merchants are still working together like this . it is something that's directly inline with what our racial equity committee wants to support . they're inviting each other to sit on their advisory boards for different projects and its great president and collaboration so i just wanted to give them props for that and that was the main thing i had right now. i will give more updates on our racial equity committee goals as they come but we are creating some great policies, policy goals for our commissio . >> president: very good to hear. is there anything else or was that it? okay. commissioner adams. >> thank you everybody again for your kind words. to let you know i represented the small business commission on december 4, saturday in the sunset merchants association. they actually had this cool thing. they had members of the council of district m