6b special cook license, consumption lounge where one can bring their own products, whether that be entertainment, restaurants, yoga studio or gym and temporary event that include cannabis cups, cultural venezuelas and Farmers Market examples. It should be noted the above licenses will not include retail activity except in the case of micro businesses. Consumption lounges and temporary event should be allowed in San Francisco. The city should look into whether a license is necessary in these cases. From an advocacy stand point and social justice stand point and also compassion, consumption lounges support safe access for patients using cannabis who might use their housing if they medicate on the premise. As weve seen on the dispensary side, safe access to cannabis lowers usage rates of opiats of which use is epidemic in our country. Whoops. Excuse me. For social equity, Workforce Development and Business Ownership, 26 states excuse me for one second. Im sorry. Excuse me. Are you moving the slides . Because the slides arent moving. Oh, my slides arent moving there. We go. Just so thank you so much. We can follow along, but the viewers will not be. Sorry about that. Social equity, Workforce Development and Business Ownership. So, for retail licensing im sorry. In our discussion on retail licensing, we made 44 recommendations. Im sorry. I think i really did no, im sorry. We are actually back in the old slide. We were talking about consumption under that as well. Because that is talk about temporary event and Farmers Markets, for example. They should be allowed. Im sorry about that. Here we go. So woe are talk about consumption lounges in both of these areas, the nonretailz and the retail because the nonretail would be a lounge where you are able to bring your own cannabis to consume. So, there wouldnt be any purchasing involved in that when we are looking at People Living in section eight housing, lowincome individual, they shouldnt have to be pressured to purchase merchandise in other words to have a safe consumption area. And then were going to 11. License portability. San francisco should issue local nonretail license toss the operate tors and take steps to ensure that the licenses are portable so that we may close a loophole allowing takovers of alreadyestablished cannabis business locations. And then number seven, information and the federal Government Security of information and local government. Local licensing agencies should do everything within their legal power to prevent disclosure of personal information to federal agencies to reduce the risk of thefts, local licensing agencies should keep nonretail facility, physical addresses discrete with mailing addresses as an appropriate way of providing information. Now well go to the next slide for not for retail licensing. The Task Force Made 44 recommendations. Onsite consumption. So were going back to that. 19. San francisco should allow onsite consumption at Cannabis Retail locations and these locations must include proper ventilation systems. As we go on to social equity, which includes Workforce Development and Business Ownership, San Francisco should engage Community Members in the target populations people of colour and former will incars rated pencer ands in these groups, traditional age use, 21 to 24 and lgbtq people along with development organisations, communitybased organisations and other Key Stakeholders to develop the strategis to reduce economic barriers to enter the cannabis industry as workforce or entrepreneurs. San francisco should reduce annual permiting fees according to target populations. 25 pkz off for 25 employment of target populations. 50 off or 50 of target populations. The task force encourages legislation to address Compassion Programmes and Supportive Services that may fall outside the permiting system currently adopted. As a seat representing advocacy, i feel it is important to note the industry began the compassionate cannabis programme by providing cannabis to those who didnt have financial means to purchase at retail. The Compassion Programme has a history of improving patients quality of liefz and we firmly believe that our current permiting system should make permanent the practice of compassion. As many of our critically ill patients live on fixed income and cannot afford medicine, these programmes are essential for their survival. San francisco should encourage nonprofit models and make nonprofit licenses available for those that provide supportive, compassionate programmes and for example tax and licensing incentives to cannabis organisations that provide Compassion Programmes and Supportive Services. And then well go on to my colleague, jen garcia. Thank you, supervisors. The Task Force Made 17 recommendations. The recommendation to expand where cannabis businesses could be was made with a desire to include cannabis in areas where other equivalent businesses could operate. There is also a grant for the recommendation, to brace for the recommendation of future sensitive use that is may choose to locate near an existing cannabis business. The task force feels strongly that lounges should be addressed sooner rather than later. Community engagement must be a part of the application process. The city should encourage and promote a Good Neighbour culture from this industry as it continues to grow. In the discussion of social justice has been and continues to be a priority with the task force. The seven recommendations we made began with the questions of what are the characteristics of an equitable Business Ownership structure and Workforce Development structure. Sorry. Thank you. For the cannabis industry. The task force intent was to make recommendations that would commit San Francisco to helping repair the damage to community most impacted from the war on drugs. We commend the District Attorneys Office for proactively expunging thousands of misdemeanor cannabis convictions and to review thousands more for reductions and resentencing. This will help ensure equitable Employment Opportunity and the opportunity for Business Ownership. Diversity belongs in ownership as well as in the workforce. We have recommended that the city support applicants by providing Technical Assistance and possible zero interest loans. We recommend San Francisco allocate revenue from cannabis tax and or cannabis funds received from the state to go toward Education Programmes and workshops, loans for equity cannabis businesses and to nonprofits. Workforce training and Job Opportunities for impacted communities is another important recommendation we have made. San francisco should ensure existing workforce protections are tendsinged to this industry. The labour peace requirement for cannabis businesses an important opportunity for workers to have access and understand their rights to act collectively. As the union labour representives see, i have encouraged and supported the participation of our workforce in a state registered apprenticeship programme. Also, working with first source for local hire helps ensure that a broader selection of San Francisco workers are the people that benefit mosts from having a sustainable cannabis industry. Social justice inequity is a category that touches all in this industry. The task force will use Due Diligence as we continue our work into year three. Thank you, supervisor, Terrence Allen back again to talk about Agency Oversight. You heard the words permit portability mentioned one or two times during our discussion andan area that within Agency Oversight we would like to, as a task force, bring the subject up and bring it forward so that a permit given to a particular location when they outgrow or that sloex no longer appropriate does not have to abandon the work involved in getting that permit, but there is some methology for portability. I dont believe were suggestioning that it be like a Liquor License so they become horse traded commodities. But as communities evolve, our permiting system within San Francisco has to accommodate the necessity of moving this business from here to there. Also in Agency Oversight, the task force had many discussions about what is the best interface between individuals that are working within the system overseen by the office of cannabis or individuals part of a community in which businesses would like the open, having interactions with the applicant and having a challenge. And decisions that are made, being challenged by both. In other words to do that, one thought that was brought forward by the task force was an independent commission. I respect and honour the discussion that was had at the board and so the task force brings it up only as a point of reference. So as long as there is a process in dispute can move beyond the initial individuals working on the project, i believe that it will satisfy the need for Third Party Review of any dispute. Were happy that the office of cannabis is stand alone. Thank you for that. And lets move on. The important one. Year three. What framework and vision should we have and supervisors, if i can have your attention for the next two minutes, it will be great because there will be a leading question at the end of this presentation for you. So, year two our recommendation categories morphed. They became more aligned with what the legislative intent was going to be. Now year three, were shifting again into three areas. We recommend that we shift to regulatory, land use, equity and social justice. We believe as a Task Force Leadership team, that these will be the three areas most needing the kind of Community Input and facilitation that the task force can do. And then you see on the side cross cutting. Cross cuting is a subject which occurs in all three. As you heard. Consumption, social justice and inequity. You cannot have a regulatory discussion without considering social justice and equity. So, in our proposed year three vision, and this is where a little attention is needed because youre going to guide us in what we actually do. In the regulatory side, you hear about compassion. It was bookmarked in the legislation. Thank you very much for that bookmark. Now we need to build that Compassion Programme out. And we need to involve the office through the regulatory process and if there is a requirement for legislation, come back to the board. Remembering the compassion was the purpose that medical cannabis was born. And ill just take a moment now. Two weeks ago on saturday, we lost the pioneer who made medical marijuana you notice i say medical cannabis but the pioneer who made medical marijuana, dennis perone, a thing. Almost 50 years ago. His single handed and singleminded approach that cannabis belongs in patients hands and appropriate hands and it should not be an illegal substance, it should be something that we use in our compassion, or giving in our society, has lead us to where we are today and with this mention, i would like us to note that without dennis perone, i dont think we would be having this discussion today. I thank him for his labour of work and memorialize his passing. Also in regulatory, there is the fun part event. We need to provide a vehicle by which San Francisco can participate in the invents system that has grown up around cannabis. Currently the state does not allow any space in San Francisco to be licensed for events. So this is a dual pronged effort. Through the advocacy and political will building at the task force, we can bring suggestions both to you and the office of cannabis with some force behind them and together take them to the state and ask that they expand the way in which events are seen so we dont end up with hippie hill on 420 and nobody knows what to do about it. The leadership of mayor lee last year brought that into the city. The Regulatory Framework now pushes it back out of the city. We have to fix that. Youth as well. Youth diversion has been a big issue throughout the legislative process at the state and here. The task force stands firm. One of our Voting Members on the task force is a San FranciscoUnified School District employee, which is unusual. The object Voting Member which is what i would call a Department Employee and that is to underscore the necessity of having youth consider rainfallsings in all the decisions that we make. In equity, equity programmes for year one and workforce protections and in land use, youll see some broad categories. Such as, remember when we created the legislation, we took the tours out of landing use. We took the tour capability and said we have to study that for a year. What an ideal petri dish to do that study the task force would be so that it can bring back recommendations to you as the Board Members and the office of cannabis so that we can create a Tour Programme to once again keep San Francisco on the cutting edge. All of you that went on a tour with me, i believe t came away from that tour knowing and learning something that you did not know that you couldnt have gotten from a book and would have been impossible to get from just sitting down with an individual or even looking at a youtube video. Tours are a necessity. San francisco is a tourist destination. How we weave that together and respect the industrial nranlds which most of the nonretail businesses are located is going to be tricky and that is where the task force can step in. And the big question that everyone asks me as i walk around the neighbourhood is when is my corner store going to have a cannabis shelf . In other words, accessory use. Accessory use, again a bookend. Whether it is the conversation of this year or next, it will be a conversation pushed by our Small Businesses who are seeing profitability in Cannabis Retail and want to participate in that opportunity and, as we evolve this system in one, two, maybe three years, well be ready for that conversation. The task force would like to bring that up as part of its year three vision. And, of course, consumption. We cannot get away from the fact that people will buy and they need to consume and the way the legislation came out of sacramento, it has to be in a private residence with the permission of the land lord. That is very difficult to get if you live in germany and you are coming here for two weeks. We dont want to be pushing our tourists to airbnbs. We just created a system that took the pressure off our housing stocks by limiting airbnbs. We dont want the only place that airbnbs will be the only legal place for people to consume with the permission of their land lord. In the sphere of equity, we have state tax and local tax. There is going to be a conversation about local excise tax at this board. There will be a ballot initiative, im almost certain of that. So what is the appropriate tax rate and where do we get to the point in our taxes that the price of cannabis, with the tax coming out of the state, the excise tax and the sales tax, make it more economically viable for customers to go to the blake market. Right now were seeing almost an 80 increase at the retail shelf. At what point, by adding an excise tax will we make that a doubling of the price that you can get it on the corner from your weed dealer . Is we dont want to go back to that system. So, lets not allow the tax discussion to fail to bring in that consideration and the task force would be an excellent place for that discussion to happen. And then finally, regulatory equity and land use all overlap in data. We cannot move forward without getting data. We have an excellent director in the office of cannabis who understands the need for data, who is going to help me understand my next slide, which talks about how data works with our system. But methods of collection and the stoep of what we need in the first years data, we need to decide now. So that we can start collecting it. And year one Regulatory Programme analysis. So, the task force is unique. It can look over the shoulder of the office of cannabis and hear both from its participants in the regulatory process, the applicants, hear from the equity community, is it working and hear from our neighbours. Is it working . We will be in the unique position to provide that ant. Sister and will do so with your blessing. Now what is this . Review of viable system. I like talking about this because im learning about it as i speak. What im understanding is that the office of cannabis is being set up as a model for how online