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Asked them to stop operating they the immediately, the second one over the hearing before you i didnt know anything about that but asked do Public Health Department Staff on their own if we were able to operate and staff said, yes that is documented by email and the board of appeals staff knows about that that was a mistake and ones that was discovered within it was two or three hours of operating i had them stop immediately i dont know about that i know the general rule about a preempt still suspended and had them stop immediately. Thank you i have ha i have a question for the department of health. Good evening. Im june the manager for the medical Cannabis Dispensary Program at the San Francisco department of health. Can you verify what the department did in those instance. We made a mistake i take full responsibility for 2 we can call that a supervisor issue i was out of town at the time of the last hearing not present to be providing appropriate supervision and direction our inspect
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[ inaudible ] commissioner kopp, i think you were in the middle of your comments. A large percentage, not a plurality, a majority of these pending matters are tributable to deferring to a request by the District Attorney to abate our investigation, while the da investigates. And some of those requests, as the chairman noted, go back to 2013, as others are 2014. Others are 2015. There they are at least a year old and does that a disservice to the people of San Francisco. Itdoes a disservice to this commission which tries to execute its responsibilities. And i have marked, and i will initiate a motion, as required, to seek a return, or a reinstitution of our own investigation in about 20 of these cases. And alternatively as the agenda indicates, the commission can formulate a policy for the guidance of the public, and the District Attorney as well, of putting a time limit on the District Attorneys request for us to abate an investigation with a provision in the policy that at the end of
Meet a lot of great friends and glad oo coupt cory and javier great friends and positive addition to the neighborhood. Thank you. Jeff and lived in San Francisco since 2008 and live on polk street. I met javier and cory in law school. Im a attorney as wem as they are. I want to talk about them prnlly, they are fantastic peem people. I vust them with my kids lives. There are so many things i can say about them but they are concerned about the community and building up that neighborhood so fully recommend approval of the project. Thank you. My name is ron john from india, went to scoom school in texas and moved to polk street about 12 years ago and when was there i serve public convenience and necessity. Thank you, sarge chblt sergeantsdy San Francisco police. You have before you a pcn report for trade r joes. This would allow beer, wine and distilled spirits off the property. There are two letters of protest, no letters of support. They are located in plot 210 which is considered high c