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The inkind agreement regardless of whether or not it gets approved or otherwise needs to be continued. And we would propose december 12. Ill accept the motion for the inkind agreement going to december 12. We can handle that with other you dont have to take that up separately. We can combine that with the project. Theres no other speakers here. I just wanted to be sure to what pushed me over the edge on this one was the prioritizing of the spanish emerging childcare. I witnessed two speakers up ...

Is usually included by, excuse me by the permit holder. I didnt see that either. Lastly in the last page of their submission they show various sites that they attempted to look out, i presume, but they provide very Little Information there. The code says something about good faith efforts. When so many puts on the table that there was no interest. I have no idea whether that is a good faith effort, or not. I need to see these things before i make a final decision. I would be happy to respond. My...

Cannabis about seven, eight years ago. The Equity Program was designed to serve people like my partner mike, individuals persecuted and punished for whats now legal. A Program Designed to give those from the city a chance to stay and give back to the community, because this is our home and no one else will take care of the city the way someone who truly loves San Francisco can. I believe im a good candidate for the cannabis Oversight Committee, being a chinese american san franciscan, i can see ...

Income, disabled, food insecure, many with Substance Abuse, with former incarceration and were experiencing transformative results. Were shifting bitter crow money johns to warm members of our community and these are the most vulnerable citizens we have here in San Francisco. Ive been working with the senator for the past two years to get this bill passed at the state level. Its currently on the governors desk and its received unanimous approval from the legislature. I also advocated for multipl...

Okay, thank you everyone that applied and did speak. Now were going to open this item up for Public Comment. Any member of the public who would like to speak . Please feel free to come forward. Hi, i actually was on the original Cannabis Task force in the late 1990s. I began working with cannabis to help alleviate medical problems. In 1997, i became a member and worked with the task force and work in the health department. I created the program at laguna honda, and i did a lot of talking at thei...

Commissions at the local and state level. Most recently i was appointed by Governor Newsom to his commission on the future of work, which im very honored to serve on. Were looking at a lot of issues that are very relevant to this discussion, including income inequality and how that cuts deeper into immigrant communities and communities of color. Were looking at retail and small business, versus ever consolidating capital. The internet, apps, what we call the Amazon Effect. And were looking at th...

With our along with first five for our citys jointly funded Family Resource center initiative. Our work is stronger because of the participation, engagement and guidance from our commissioners, that you have met here today. And i urge you heartly to support their appointments and recommend them. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. [bell dings] is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] well, were lucky. We get an easy o...

Compassion towards our youths here in San Francisco, especially from authorities. That definitely rooted down my approach to cannabis. In 2014, my brother was arrested for cannabis in new york city and sent to a year at wreckers island, and during that time period, we were looking at 3 to 7 years for him. He asked me to take over, potentially launch his business and i did. I took it over and i launched his cannabis business as a delivery service. I attended every meeting in oakland because what ...

Supervisors agenda on october 8th. Thank you. Clerk item number one. An ordinance amending the administrative code to add a preference in City Affordable Housing programs to tenants temporarily evicted from rental units for Capital Improvements or rehabilitation work. And requiring landlords who regain possession of such rental units to provide evidence of complying with a tenants right to reoccupy such tenants rental unit. Thank you, colleagues, for hearing this item last week, where we heard t...

The idea of Retail Cannabis in their neighborhoods. I mean, everything is education. But the other most important thing is neighborhood outreach, right. My partner angel and are now on 11 different neighborhood associations in hayes valley, castro, and now in the dog patch, now on petro hill. You have to go and its one thing to say youre going to be part of the community. Its another thing to actually go, go to every meeting and hear everybody out. And, you know, i think that eases a lot of the ...