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] [ ]. Morning everyone. The meeting will come to order. Come to the thursday, october 3 meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. I am supervisor gordon mar. It i am joined by supervisor brown, and supervisor peskin. I would like to think matthew and korman at sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. Please ensure you have silence your cell phones and other electronic devices. Copies of any document you have to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the october 22, 2019 board of supervisors agenda. Thank you, mr. Clark. Please call items 12 and three together. Agenda items 13. Three ordinances for item one, 190832. Memorandum of understanding Fire Fighters including Firefighters Union union local 798, units one and two, to update the Union Security serve update provisions and Laborers International union local 261 to open date the overtime compensation and Health Insurance provisions. Thank you. I would like to invite carol to present on this item. Good morning, chairman mar, and supervisors. Before the amendments to existing labor agreements. I will start with a firefighters agreements. The first environment involves the security provisions. At the time we negotiated this labor agreement. Not yet fully developed, it is on administrative processes for Union Security, and union dues deduction. We have since resolved that issue. We have worked it out with all of the unions. As promised we are circling back to the firefighters to update their language on Union Security. That is what that person is about. We agreed to that premium in 2018 negotiations, but we had many errors in citation of the firehouses and where those individuals would be house. We have corrected that administrator lee, and now we are asking you to allow us to update that in the labor agreement. With respect to the laborers union, once bargaining had concluded, both parties were somewhat dissatisfied with two separate portions of the labor agreement. After discussion we agreed to modify both of those sections. The controller has deemed them both to because neutral. One involves the employees contribution to family medical, involves overtime calculations. Thank you. Colleagues you have any questions. Thank you. Are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Colleagues, can we recommend these items to the full board without objection . Great. Thank you. Mr. Clerk to please call item number four. Agenda item number four is the hearing on the 20182019 civil grand jury report entitled joint Terrorism Task force balancing Public Safety with civil rights thank you. I would like to welcome harvey of the civil grand jury who will make brief remarks and introduce the Committee Chair, Janet Andrews. Ms. Harvey is not here. Are there representatives from the civil grand jury to present on this item . Okay. Well, i do want to thank the civil grand jury for all of your work this year. At our last government audit and Oversight Committee meeting we had hearings on three other important reports that you issued. The report today on the joint Terrorism Task force and San Franciscos involvement in it. I think its also very important. I get so much for your work on that and highlighting that issue. I did want to note that there were responses to the civil grand jury recommendation in this report issued by the mayor and Police Department. Consolidate a. There was also a response from the chair of the Police Commission. Those have already been a part of the Public Record for the civil grand jury report. You know, i guess actually in order to have a fuller public understanding of the important issues around the joint Terrorism Task force. I did want to invite a special expert member of the public to speak on this, um. So, um, that is mike who is a fellow at the Brennan Center for justice. Um, mr. Jerman is going to make a five minute presentation. May be able give you a little bit more um adequate in deduction. Regularly called upon and share his expertise with congress on f. B. I. Related subjects. Um, he is a former f. B. I. Special agent who, during his 16 year career, specialized in domestic terrorism and covert operations. On two occasions he used constitutionally sound techniques to infiltrate two different groups of violent White Supremacists to prevent terrorist attacks. He recently published a book entitled disrupt, discredit and divide. How the new f. B. I. Damages democracy. C