The women. They deserve to be heard just as any other woman who has submitted an application for this committee. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. Im here to speak on behalf of anna. Im a long time resident and employee here at San Francisco and an equity applicant. Im here in support of my colleague, which i mentioned a moment ago as she seeks to become a member of the committee in seat 12 and seat 14. We worked together at norcal cannab cannabis. I am the primary point of contact for our delivery drivers. In addition with norcal allowing me to apply for this position and has helped me create a better opportunity for myself and my family. She is a Strong Female leader with a great deal of experience in the industry and i believe she is experienced in exper tease and love for what she does will make her a valuable member of this committee in either seat 12 or seat 14. Thank you for your time and you have a wonderful day. Thank you so much. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors, my name is amber morris. Im here also for anna. I developed the first statewide regulations for cannabis cultivation. Since leaving the state, i took a job with norcal, and the director of Government Affairs and worked with anna ray. Its a dynamic to work on the other side of the table. Learning from someone that implements those regulations and can understand the pain point from the industry side. I think particularly for seats 14 and 12, that her experience with not just knowing the laws and regulations, but also understanding the implementation process is very important. In addition to that, she already spoke clearly about her qualifications, but i like to add that she is very competent and capable in actually moving the agenda of this committee forward. So shes a clear communicator, both verbal and written, and i think you will need many people on the committee that can actually take the goals of the committee and move them forward. Anna ray has the ability to do that. Working for the government for so many years, theres a lot of committees that spin, and you need someone that can help identify whats needed and move it forward. So theres no doubt in my mind that she would do a great job on this committee and i appreciate you filling the seats and taking my comments into consideration. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker. Im here to support ms. Parks for seat number 13. Im an immigrant. I came here when i was 10, went to school here, and every single obstacle you guys talked about, im experiencing right now. Ms. Parks has helped me for some of those things. I think shes competent and aware, generous. Thank you. Anyone other member of the public wishing to speak . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] i just want to thank everyone for coming. As supervisor ronen said, this is a really highly qualified applicant group. I was member of the rules committee before and we appointed many commissioners, advisory boards, and this by far has the most expertise. I means the incredible. This is the first round, i think of this body, meaning that we are just launching it now. We hope that it will advise the board of supervisors and also give us good recommendations, but also help us to perfect what were doing here in San Francisco to have the cannabis business be a robust viable business here with meeting our equity goals too. I want to thank everyone for coming today and your willingness to be part of this movement that were doing here in San Francisco to make us better and actually to lead other cities in how we can do this through a really strict equity lens. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other comments . Supervisor walton. I dont have any comments per se, but before we well, i guess i do have some comments. One, i want to thank everybody that applied as supervisor fewer stated. This is the first make up of this committee and of course this will be ongoing in helping us shape the future of what we do around equity as we move forward. I appreciate everyone for putting your name in the hat because that shows the dedication and the importance of how the Community Feels about this role. The one thing i do want to say is that and i also appreciate everyones excitement about diversity for this committee. I know i asked that question to everyone, so im asking that for seats 10 and 12, that we dont take action today. The reason for that is so we may have more time to conduct outreach and get a diverse sieve pool of applicants. We are charged with making sure this committee is equitable and diverse and we have the right type of participation there from everywhere. I would like for us not to take action on seats 10 and 12 this week and move it to next week or even the meeting after next week. Okay. Well since Jennifer Garcia wasnt able to join us and was the only applicant for seat 10, that makes sense. Did any of my other colleagues have any comments on supervisor waltons motion . No . Okay. So, i just had a question for you supervisor walton. Is there a particular type of diversity that youre looking for, that you dont see represented today . I didnt see one black candidate and that is very concerning to me. Okay, fair enough. So supervisor walton has made a motion to continue items 10 and 12. We dont need a motion on that, you just dont need to fill those two seats at this time. Got it. So with the remaining seats. I support that request supervisor walton. As do i. Seems that supervisor mar does as well. Well take the remaining seats. Supervisor fewer, i just have tremendous respect for the amount of work you have put into this effort. You created the legislation to get us here in the first place. I know you and your staff have spent a tremendous amount of time. We have an impossible choice in front of us today because we are filled with unbelievable, overqualified applicants for every single seat. Im wondering if you have some thoughts for this committee, given your tremendous work on how you would like to see this moved forward. Yes, i would like to mention that when the board and i was newly on the board as with supervisor ronen, we were tasked with developing a program and i have to say that most of us didnt know what we were doing. We have this office of cannabis that actually we havent heard regularly from and we also dont have actually recommendations on how to make it better. We have only heard frustration from many of the applicants, not really coming to us and saying these are the things that we could do, that amendments we could make it easier for applicants and actually to have a more diverse pool of applicants, but also as our equity applicants. I think its been frustrating for all of us. We grappled with geographic equity and our own neighborhoods. Also, we have heard from parents about the regulation and heard from communities about the fact that they are anticannabis. So i think that as legislators, what were looking for here is some oversight on the office of cannabis, not to really regulate them, but actually to give suggestions on what the legislative branch can do to actually advise the office of cannabis on how to address some of these issues from people who actually have real on the ground experience in doing this. We, as legislators, do not. None of us, as far as i know, own a cannabis business. I dont even know which ones have used cannabis. So, i think we are starting from a place with no expertise. I want to say personally, i just through stuff on the wall, and if it stuck, it was in the legislation, not knowing what we were doing. Were looking towards this group, this body to give us some expertise, on the ground expertise. We want to open this up for Small Business owners too, to have this opportunity to say how do we launch. We know that we have had an industry here that many people have profited from and made good money on and we dont know about this expansion of it. In every neighborhood, to have it, you know, legal for recreation use, and my apologies for saying black market. I do know people who have left the permitted process of a retail space and they identify it as the black market. I will say private market. We will say private market now. I do think that is a concern and that growing number is a concern. Because actually, they are able to get great product at a much reduced price, right . Even ones that have gone through testing. If we want this to be a business where we can say to the public, this is a business that not only is, you know, regulated well, but also is safe. It gives equitable opportunity to many people, i think that we are going to be depending on this body to give us that exper tease. I also to say this is a very, very hard decision for im not a Voting Member on this committee, but for this committee to have. I think personally when im looking at is opening this opportunity to get more voices at the table that havent been at the table traditionally and also how can we help launch this from the growers, the cultivators, all the way to the retail. So, what we can do at the state level is to push through legislation. I want to thank everyone for being here. I know that we are looking for diversity within our pool. I think that because this is a business that has been dominated mainly by men and we are focusing on bringing other voices in so were very, you know, we think thats super important. We also think that we are looking at people also who have been in the industry for a long time, but we are also trying to wait for people trying to come into the industry. I dont know if that discussion helps at all, but what i really wanted to say is thank you so much for your willingness to help us with this in San Francisco, because San Francisco, we think we can do it right. I dont think we have been doing it right. I think in San Francisco, we can lead the way for other cities. Thank you very much. So did you not have suggestions for the specific seat . You want to leave it up to the committee . Well, i would actually defer to the Voting Members of this committee, quite frankly. Okay. Supervisor walton, would you like to make a motion. Yes, thank you so much. Please forgive me if i accidentally mispronounced someones name. So, i am pushing that we move forward the names of ali for seat number 8, aaron for seat number 9, doug for seat number 11, nina for seat number 13, burke for seat number 14, teresa for seat number 15, and sarah for seat number 16. Im sorry, what was seat number 15 . Seat number 15, teresa foglio. Okay. May i ask if you would repeat seat 14. Seat 14, burke hanson. Sorry, just give me one minute here. This is a lot of seats at once. Thank you chair ronen and supervisor walton for putting forward your proposed appointments to the various seats. Im in agreement with all of your proposed appointments except seat 14. My preference is on jesse for seat number 14, given his extensive experience and expertise with cannabis law and regulation statewide and locally. His direct experience facilitating hiring Disadvantage Community members by cannabis businesses and his very long commitment to ensuring equity and social justice, principles and practices, ensuring that these are essential in regulating the cannabis industry and i think mr. Stout, we received broad support from his appointment from a range of stakeholders in San Francisco. Thank you. I too in agreement with seat, 8, 9, 13, 11, 15, and 16. I also was having a hard time deciding for seat 14 between jesse stout and anna grabstein. Who are both extremely qualified and have done so much in this industry. So what i will do then, given that there is support from two members of this committee for jesse stout, if you dont mind, if i would amend your motion, is that okay . Or would you like to vote separately on each seat . Or take 14 separately . I would agree with supervisor mar. We have some great candidates and if two members of the committee wants to support mr. Stout, who i think is very qualified as well, i can amend the motion to include jesse stout for seat number 14. Great. Mr. Clerk, is there clarity for the motion. Can you repeat it to be sure. I have ali for seat number 8, aaron flynn for seat number 9, seat number 11, i have doug block, for seat number 13, i have nina parks, seat number 14, i have jesse stout, seat number 15 i have teresa foglio and seat number 16, i have sarah. Just to note, several of the seats have a waiver requirement. Fantastic and can we take that motion without objection . Without objection, that motion passes. I just want to note that the waiver requirement for teresa, nina, anna excuse me, my apologies. And doug block is waved. Thank you. In my excitement, i forgot to mention that in june, i move to oakland because i could no longer afford my rent in San Francisco, so i too need a waiver. Thank you. Thank you. Can we note that for the record . My apologies. Could you note your name please . Sarah. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, thank you so much to everyone. You know, again this is the first of many opportunities to serve on this body and you are just an amazing community. Thank you very, very much. Mr. Clerk, are there any other items on the agenda . That completes the agenda for today. And with that, the meeting is adjourned. [gavel] [ ] i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the community ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. It had been rain for several days. At 12 30 there was a notice of large amount of input into the reservoir. We opened up the incident command and started working the incident to make sure employees and the public were kept were safe there is what we call Diversion Dam upstream of moccasin. The water floods the Drinking Water reservoir. We couldnt leave work. If the dam fails what is going to happen. We had three objectives. Evacuate and keep the community and employees safe. Second was to monitor the dam. Third objective was to activate Emergency Action plan and call the agencies that needed contacted. The time was implement failure of the dam. We needed to set up for an extended incident. We got people evacuated downstream. They came back to say it is clear downstream, start issuing problems and create work orders as problems come in. Powerhouse was flooded. Water was so high it came through the basement floor plate, mud and debris were there. It was a survey where are we . What are we going to do to get the Drinking Water back in. We have had several emergencies. With each incident we all ways operate withins dent command open. Process works without headache. When we do it right it makes it easier for the next one. We may experience working as a team in the different format. Always the team comes together. They work together. Our staff i feel does take a lot of pride of ownership of the projects that they work on for the city. We are a Small Organization that helps to service the water for 2. 7 million people. The diversity of the group makes us successful. The best description we are a big family. It is an honor to have my team recognized. I consider my team as a small part of what we do here, but it makes you proud to see people come together in a disaster. Safety is number one through the whole city of San Francisco. We want people to go home at the end of the day to see their loved ones. We dont want them hurt. We want them back the next day to do their work. There is a lot of responsibility the team members take on. They word very they work hard. They are proud of what they do. I am proud they are recognized. Sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very Minimal Energy use. It Still Matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. So having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. We heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. It was super easy to sign up. Our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. Nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. Its an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around Climate Change and its so easy that its hard