[background noises] good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. What is the subcommittee i chaired the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation. The other is a subcommittee to economic growth, Energy Policy and regulatory affairs. Which is chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. Since this is a joint hearing will have Opening Statements of the chair and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements i will tend to keep mine brief. Cybersecurity spent a major focus of our since it became a subcommittee chair and confirmed we as a nation are not prepared for the increasing the for cicada and Cyber Attacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country to face Cyber Attacks him and forced to pay huge sums of money and ransom the federal government itself still store Sensitive Data
That appeals to be heard and later joined by thomas owen for legal advice at the controls is the board cloak alec my name is Cynthia Goldstein the boards executive director. We will be joined this befrg were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. Spent to say joe duffy dbi representing the department of department of building inspection and Scott Sanchez Planning Department. Shall be here representing the Planning Departments and Planning Commission as well as chris burke with the San Francisco bureau please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited. Out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. Have up to 3 minutes no rebuttal. To assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or Business Card to the clerk. Speaker cards and pens are
Consumption and adequate ventilation and under the requirement of the health code in this permit regulates the land use a permitting process that regulations the operator of the property and so this is to an entitled property to allow the medical cannabis dispensaries theyll have to meet all the requirements of department of health so in reviewing in the letter of determination the parcel is eligible theyll go through the discretionary review process a marnd here like other uses we send out a neighborhood use and in this case we have a public hearing noted people they can cockamamy other hearing of last year staff recommended that we the commission take discretionary review in order to prose the conditions and thats the standard for review of the medical cannabis dispensaries because to order the condition to permit the project i think there was initially a vote to deny and that was a 3, 3 vote not prevailing had no other motion the project would have been approved as without any condi
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Family you have to take the kids out. But if the agency is giving a family the choose of being on the street or taking the kids out of school its the same i think in terms of liability i think this is something we need to do not only because hitting thats the right thing to do telling you but there are legal concerns. Point welltaken ill address that with the provider. Thank you. Thank you. I think we have members of the public to pick up their kids and members of the public that are disabled if we can let them come up and after kathy ill call up more speakers. Hi my name is julia formally homeless i work at the coalition of homeless everyday i have families come in i have individuals coming in asking for housing and asking for the housing list that barrel changes when i was homeless every month things were coming online to apply for hoping you could be housed we dont have it we need to fix that the last proposal were turning over properties i know we have the money the city definite h