Passing that legislation in the course of implementing this we learned that various city issued devices actually have excuse me, the amendment today essentially provides that the city may retain that use that technology, provided they do not use the face recognition function. We see this consistent to the spirit of the regulation passed earlier. It maintains the ban on the use of Face Recognition Technology and i think supervisor peskin in our office wants to work with the city to exercise our purchase power and try to find alternative devices without that embedded feature. For now, its a stock feature that is impossible to remove, its necessary to preserve the citys standing. Great, any questions . Thank you so much. Were going to open this item up for Public Comment. Any member of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] is there a motion . Excuse me, there are a number of clerical amendments. I apologize. Theyre throughout and clean up things to make sure what were talking about here is city issued software or devices and essentially to provide that for these software and devices, they would be subject to the rest of the chapter. Do i need to be more specific about that . Okay. So we would request those amendments to be made. And you submitted that paperwork to the clerk . I did. Well, heres for the clerk. I submitted copies to each of your staff. I do have one copy additionally here and the red line for the clerk. Wonderful, thats what we needed. The red line. Thank you very much. Im happy to make a motion to adopt the amendment without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] ill make a motion to move this item forward with positive recommendation. Without objection, that motion passes. Thank you very much. Mr. Clerk can you please read item number 6. Item number 6 is the ordinance amending the administrative, police, health, planning, business and tax regulations, and campaign and government codes to change the name of the office of cannabis to the office of cannabis regulation. Thank you. Good morning chair ronen, supervisors mar and walton. Im the director of the office of cannabis. Before i sfart my remarks about the Cannabis Clean up today, i want to make all aware of an amendment at the request of the mra Mayors Office to split the item. This will allow more time to discuss the proposed name change. It is my hope that we can move the rest of the items forward today. If you want to briefly go through the summary of the legislation. Yeah, in my remarks i will go through all of it. Do you want to address the split first or do you want me to Read Everything . Go ahead and Read Everything. Well decide whether or not to do that motion after Public Comment. All right, thank you. First i want to thank everyone for having the office of cannabis to this hearing. This is referred to as Cannabis Clean up legislation, not to be confused with cannabis 3. 0, which is much anticipated this winter. The subject of todays hearing narrowly addresses some administrative technical changes that would clarify provision 16 of the police code and align this code with state legislation. My remarks will list the items introduced in my presentation. This ordinance which create as new cannabis business permit type for cannabis nursery, mirroring the license nursery code under state law. The state no longer allows applicants to apply for a cannabis business license as a member of to apply under this framework in order to conform a state law. If state law were to change on this topic, we would be happy to revisit this item. For existing operators, this ordinance would further clarify the processing order of permits as outlined in section 1606c of the police code, for temporary permit holders and article xxxiii permit holders, m. C. D. S as Priority Group 4. In addition to further the goal of enhancing Public Health and safety, state in section 1601 of the San Francisco police code, this ordinance would require cannabis distributors to notify the office within 48 hours of learning cannabis products in their possession failed testing standards. As this Legal Industry matures, enforcement will become a priority and more focused core function of the office of cannabis. This ordinance would further support and encourage the individuals who have elected to transition from the unregulated market to the regulated market by providing a tool to the office of cannabis to thoughtfully address violations associated with equity applicants that have pending permit applications with the office. To conclude this presentation, i like to reiterate that this ordinance is being referred to as Cannabis Clean up legislation, different from cannabis 3. 0, which will be a completely different conversation, including a whole host of exciting topics and is anticipated by stakeholders this winter. The purpose of bringing this Cannabis Clean up operation to you is to refine our regulations to reflect and align with the spirit and intent of our process here in San Francisco. While todays presentation is more narrowly focused to the items before you today, i hope you will listen to the broader equity interest that may be shared by members of the community during Public Comment and im happy to answer any questions. Thank you so much. Great, thank you so much. Any questions . Nope . Thank you. Were going to open this item up for Public Comment. Anybody who would like to speak, please go ahead and come forward. You can line up to your right, my left. Good morning. All right. So good morning supervisors. I am speaking in front of you today, representing a diverse collective of cannabis business hopefuls, soontobe operators and allies to the equity group s. P. C. We convened a meeting this past saturday to discuss the clean up legislation brought forwath tod with over 25 black and brown cannabis stakeholders and few allies. At the end of the meeting, we asked ourselves a few questions. One of them is why is the city concerned with making minor changes when we have bigger problems . The office of Cannabis CommunityReinvestment Fund has not been funded yet. In order to benefit these minor changes, we need the funds to be funded. According to the Reinvestment Fund, the dollars should be used in order to address racial disproportionate arrests, generational poverty, community degradation, loss of education and employment opportunities, and burpdens from the failed wa on drugs. Also workforce development, access to commercial real estate and access to investment financing. The access to commercial real estate and investment financing is crucial during this time period where we have our operators draining out their capit capital without being operational. We ask to have more support in getting money into the fund and we can set up our community for success. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning again supervisors. Im from the engleside community and our community has been left out of the equity justice when it comes to cannabis. Im here today speaking in opposition of item 2 of the cannabis regulation, not allowing equity applicants to apply for a permit as a cooperative. Forming a cooperative is the only way that the 200plus equity applicants can own anything in this cannabis industry. Theyre all monopoetalized by the wealthy investors. 1. 3 million was given to the community by the state, and it should not be siphoned off through administrative fees to the city and torattorneys. Congress is going to have its first vote to remove cannabis from the controlled substance coming this month and descheduling cannabis as a schedule one substance. Im hoping that this ordinance that you guys are working on will allow cooperatives. Thank you. Hi, just the last note to anybody in the overflow room, there is seating in the Committee Room and we ask that anyone in the overflow room please come up to the Committee Room. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. Thank you for having us. My name is braham goodwin. Im one of the founders of the San Francisco social club and the democratic club. Weve been working to get access for people for medical cannabis and access in general. I just like to speak to something important, which is we worked with the office of cannabis and they done a good job. The resources they have, relatively speaking, are limited. Theres a queue of about 300 applicants. I would just mention to all three of you that a lot of jobs could get created that arent getting created. A lot of revenue could come to the city that would help in some of these areas that are not available because of the lack of resources and importantly, there are many storefronts in many communities that live on hate, that could be used as businesses for cannabis and operations like that. I really urge you to look at this because i think the investment that you would make by expanding the resource of the office would come back big time and help you in a lot of these other areas, and lot of the issues that people are talking about. Thank you very much for your cooperation and for your look at this. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. My name is perry jones, im a San Francisco native. First of all, i would you tell me like to give thanks to the office of cannabis for allowing the work theyre doing and the Community Group in the audience thats been showing support towards the development of upcoming operators and entrepreneurs such as myself that have been impacted by the w. O. D. , the war on drugs. Mainly i hope that it doesnt be tok tokenizeked when it comes to those who live in this community, and Business Owners, being able to contribute to the committee and give back, and some of us who have been taken away from the community to have the opportunity to give back. Having a collective with the permitting, we all know that San Francisco is expensive to live in and to start a business. When it comes to planning and commissioning, it seems that its red lined. What it takes to get through a conditional hearing, it takes a lot. It makes us investable. Who will want to invest when you have to wait a certain amount of time. Just as the terms are permitable, i think it would be a good idea to have people in these groups to do business with each other and we nvr had a chance to do that. I think it would be a good thing and way for us to contribute back to our community. There is money that could be made, opportunities that could be made and also showing the different face of business when it comes to cannabis, which use to be a taboo. Thank you, next speaker. Hello again. Even though everything has already been said, i would like to say and let the record reflect and let the city know that i am also too impacted by the war on drugs being born and raised in bay view, Hunters Point but im not necessarily looking to be a dispensary. Im not looking to be a cultivator, so im being left out of the movement because those are the only things lined up. I am an educator. I have spent 30 years of my life going to school trying to be an educator, an activist and voice for the community. The funds released could help me start the california lets talk cannabis movement. I didnt initiate that. That came out of california. Thats the movement that california, the Public Health is using to get the conversations going so that we can educate the youth, so that our youth wont be thinking they can drive around smoking weed. I dont need to be a dispenser, but i do need to benefit from the aftermath of the war on drugs. Thank you. [applause] good morning, my name is rami. I am an equity applicant. The citys concern for this piece of clean up legislation is in vain until funds are dispersed from the Community Investment fund through the office of cannabis for the purposes of workforce development, commercial real estate, and investment funding. Thank you. Thank you. If there are any other members of the public that would like to speak, please line up so we can go one right after the other. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning supervisorser terrance allen, served as your three year chair of the Cannabis Legalization Task force. Ive been taking time to build my own equity business in the castro. I come before you because there are three legs that youre hearing the Community Speak of. One is the need to release and invest in the equity programs that you all established so carefully. The second is one that i thought i would never stand in front of a public body and say, the need to begin the conversation about moving those that remain in the unregulated market into the regulated market. We have a very draconian policy that says if enforcement hears that youre in the unregulated market, then youre banned for 10 years. That draconian policy does not afford the opportunity of the cannabis, the office of cannabis to move people into the regulated market. We need to give them the power of coercion, suggestion, and the beginnings of enforcement for that to happen because those who have been waiting in line for the regulated market are running out of resources to do that and those who maintain 1 foot in the unregulated market seem to have an unlimited amount of money due to black market sales. So, with those two things, i urge you to move this forward and the third, the office of cannabis was never designed to handle 300 permit applications. We have to give them immediate resources to get this project moving, whether a City Department can give up those resources after they have them is a question for the future, but if we dont afford those resources now, this entire Program Continues to grind as opposed to ushering forward a new day for San Francisco and their equity members. Thank you very much. Thank you, any other member of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor walton. Thank you. First of all before i make a motion, i do want to say that i share the same concerns about not allowing cooperatives, but in this case were bound by state law so were making a change and hopefully that changes in the future. This is definitely administrative to being in line with state law. I do have a quick question. Can i move to duplicate the file and amend a new file with the circulated amendment or do i have to do them one at a time . You can duplicate the file as a single supervisor, you dont need to make a motion to that. Just say i like to duplicate the file and then you can amend either one or the other. I like to duplicate the file and amend the new file with circulated amendments that strike the reference to the name change in the new file. Thank you. Oh, to amend. I wanted to make a couple comments. Thank you. I, i just wanted to i do think we have to make these amendments in order to comply with state law. I wanted to echo a lot of the concerns i heard from the public, particularly the Community Reinvestment fund, anxious to get that funded and distributed so that we can make equity real in this industry and right the wrongs of the failed drug war that has decimated so many communities. So i just, you know, i dont think we should stop these cosmetic well not cosmetic changes, but these changes to comply with state law, in order to get to the meaty work we need to do in order to have some reparations injustice in these communities, but i just wanted to make that comment that im anxious to get that work under way and its a huge priority as well. With that, i will second the motion to amendment the duplicated file and without objection that motion passes, and then the original or that duplicated file is the one then that we will send to the full board and im happy to make a motion to send that with positive recommendation. Without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] thank you very much. And the action on the original file . And the original file, if we could leave it in committee to the call of the chair, that would be great. That will be continued to the call of the chair. Thank you, we are very encouraged by your remarks over the Community Reinvestment fund and funding it because i think its very important and needed. Thank you. So. So much. Make sure i have this correct. The file has been duplicated. The original file has been continued to the call of the chair. The duplicated version has been amended, and referred as amended to the board. Yes, thats right. Thank you. Thank you so much. And if you could please call item number 7. Item number 7 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to affirm the county agricultural Commissioners Authority under state law to certify and inspect Farmers Markets and producers, and to enforce state law governing the direct marketing of Agricultural Products to consumers. Thank you, claudia, the director of the Real Estate Division. Before you is an ordinance amending the administrative code dealing with Farmers Markets, including the city owned and operated a main any flea and Farmers Market. Its the longest operating Farmers Market in california. Most are operated by nonprofits and receive public funds or private fundraisings efforts. The Real Estate Division, which took over responsible from the parcel and the operations of the mark over a decade ago increased