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 programmes can be used to gather data and make sure that that data is complete and send that data to the appropriate departments for review. So, in the online in this minimum viable system, we have not only those things that happen within i gate permit, i need go to step one, step two, step three but then we also have the preapplication requirements to make sure that you make sure that you are an equity approximately kanltz or you have the appropriate number of equity employees. All of those things need to be data pointed and happen within the minimal, viable system. I probably fumbled that a great deal. By wanted you to know that the Cannabis Department is on the cutting edge of this technology. And i think it is going to help us. Now in conclusion, and this is the part where i ask for your insight. Our year three vision is outlined in this final slide. You saw it before. Where have we missed an issue that you as the board would like us to take up as we move forward and set our agendas for the next year. If weve done great, i thank you very much. If you think of something in your sleep and text it, that is great. If theres something now that you would like to bring forward and talk about, i open it up for your conversation. That the end of your presentation . And then i have a thank you slide. They were thanked at the beginning and on our website. And thank you for your time, supervisors. Thank you very much, mr. Allen. And ms. Garcia and pam as well for your work on this presentation and our director and everyone whos been trying to help us navigate this new era here in San Francisco. I appreciate the overview of the work that you have done in the past as well as highlight or preview of what you plan to do in the future as well. I really do like that you have a portion on here regarding youth. That is really important. And a lot of youth in our district through the Youth Council that we have in district four are curious about this topic. Ftz in, it might be one that theyre adopting to work on this year. Because they also want to understand better how it is that they talk to their peers about it. How do they understand, you know, kind of whats available to them or not and so forth. And i see ok. You are not getting up to talk about it. I would like to see what that Education Plan is for youth and now the Unified School District as a whole is going to institutionalize this type of outreach to our youth. Thank you, supervisor. Ive made that note and will make sure that it is included. From the department of health, we are in partnership. Currently with this Unified School District and dcyf to Work Together in collaboration. I already met with the Wellness Centre counselors to brief them about this and well be working with them and happy to work with the Youth Council to engage. Great. Thank you for that. Supervisor safai . Thank you, chair tang. Just a couple of comments. I know that, first of all, i think that the task force did a tremendous job of informing us throughout the process when we were crafting our legislation. We had the good fortune of having many knowledgeable and talented people. I think the tour we participated in our office was very beneficial. I dont know if all the supervisors participated in that. But i know that many of them did and that was something that was very influential in terms of an impactful in terms of the way i was able to encroach given the legislation. I know you highlight add couple of thing, one of which we fried to solve for and have conversations around portability. The biggest hurdle with portability has to do with the fact that the regulatory and entilement. Have to do with is it a land use conversation . And then to essentially take that in terms of your licensing. We did provide for the mobility of the license. But it didnt remove the ability the requirement that a new location would have to go through the land use process all over again. And i dont think there is any way were going to be able to remove that. As much as we would like it to. But what we did do, which i think was really important is allow for and control for the amount of ownership that the particular permit could be sold under. And how much ownership had to remain in the hanses of. So, we had instances where Property Owners came in and bought properties and were hopeful that they would then immediately assume that designation. In some cases they did. But we were able to, and correct me if im wrong, task force, but i believe we were able to solve for that in the sense that just because you have the land use designation, doesnt mean you immediately assume the permit. So we worked directly with director elliott on that. It was an it ray tiff process. There was a lot of good leadership on behalf of the departments, the task force, the office of cannabis. My colleague. And i think we got to a really good place. Woe are going to have to have a conversation about taxing. I think the taxing of