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 fees because they have not been increased for over a decade and cover expenses for the operation of the site and the markets because it runs as a deficit. That would close the gap, but it wouldnt completely get rid of it. We did a survey of other markets in the area and for example, a heart of the city, which is in the u. N. Plaza, a nonprofitly run but received a lot of gifts and private funds charges 55 a stall per day. Thats more than what were proposing. We sent the proposed change in fees to the city attorney, who then under took and rewrote the entire sections because it hadnt been done in so long and there were things that needed to be cleaned up. It relasz places the agricultural commissioner. The agricultural commissioner is not a building or facility or Land Management person. It doesnt have the resources to operate and manage the facility in the markets. The Real Estate Division has been managing and operating the land for over a decade. It transfers responsibilities from the agricultural commissioner to the director of property to approve applications for permits to sell products at the city operated Farmers Market. It allows the director of permits or suspensions there of. It allow it is director property to impose fees and to appoint and form an Advisory Committee for the alamani Farmers Market and guidelines to rule the market. The heart of it is to increase the fees that an individual farmer and or flea market vendor would pay. Currently its 50 a day, just during the summer, we would like to raise it to 50 a day all year round. It wouldnt go down 10 during the winter months. If a farmer went everyday that the Farmers Market is open and its open every single day, every saturday of the year, they only closed once, that particularly farmer would pay an additional 240 a year in fees. The vendors, which are usually food trucks, would pay 85 a day, up from 60 a day, pretty much what theyre having to pay in other markets. Thats why we went to that. The fees for the flea market vendors would be 50 a day, which is just every sunday, up from 45. The revisions also increase the certification fees paid by the markets themselves. So the markets have to be certified. We are a certified Farmers Market. That certification is done by the agricultural commissioner under the department of Public Health. They are recommending that the Farmers Markets with less than 16 vendors stay at 500. Markets with 16 to 45 vendors go up to 1,000 per year from 500 and markets with over 45 vendors would be 1,500 a year, up from 500. The department of Public Health can wave the fee for city operated Farmers Markets. We would ask them to allow us to wave our fee. It also authorizes the agricultural commissioner to charge 113 per hour for inspections unrelated to the issuance modification or renewal of a Farmers Market renewial certification. And also fining the illegal use of the premises. There have been car shops and others that go on to the property because its a huge vacant space and actually set up businesses and try to run businesses on the market. We had to kick them out when there wasnt a law to do that, it was very difficult to have the police enforce it. We just asked them to do that. Were putting up gates, which we think will prevent anything from occurring in the illegal use of the site. The agricultural commissioner had to leave, he had another meeting. Im here if you have any general questions. Yes, im wondering what outreach you done to the farmers themselves. I know in the relative scheme of things, not the hugest increase, but it could be substantial. So there wasnt any formal. We dont have that committee anymore. It was years ago, i think it was when it first came over to the real estate commission. We had a committee which consisted of the various people that the mayor chose and farmers and the manager. People left, other people didnt want to do anymore and it was no longer in existence. Thats why were putting it back in the code so we can have it under the direct property. Both the manager on site and the manager, her supervisor walk the stalls every saturday, basically. So when we kind of did this, i think they did an informal test of it and they know who will be there during the winter and who isnt. Not all the vendors sell during the winter because they dont sell winter crops. They get other vendors that come in to do it. They didnt seem to be bothered and half of them felt they were paying that any way. They didnt know they were being charged less during the winter months. They didnt think it would be a very large issue. Supervisor walton. Thank you, just along those lines, why the additional 244 vendors that are there more frequent . It seems that you said vendors who are there more frequently well, thats just if a farmer went every saturday, the whole year round, that would be the additional cost. Most of them dont go all year round. You have summer ones and winter ones. Got it. Thank you very much. Really appreciate it. Thank you. We will open this item up for Public Comment. Feel free to come forward if you like to speak. Good morning, or good afternoon, i keep saying that. Good afternoon, my name is ashley. Im speaking on behalf of what this lady is just talking about. I lived my family lived at 376 bradford street since 1962. I was born i was raised right there at the alamanis Farmers Market. I feel this is overblown as far as the outrageous changes in the prices and the opportunities for people to have an opportunity to make some money down there or be involved in it. It looks kind of like shedding people, shedding vendors out and other vendors come in. I dont really know. I do believe that to do this, they do need some type of committee, some type of investigation to find out the difference in what is going and whats not happening there because it is something that really worked for the people that are there, all the people that come there on saturday is awesome. So, i dont know how the vendors i dont really know. I just happen to be here to hear this, but i live right there. I know about performance market. She also spoke about the sunday where they do the flea market there and my time is up, but a lot needs to be done in regards to the clean up, in regards to the stuff thats around there on sunday, if you would come by and see how that is. A lot more needs to be done and i dont know where, but ill see whats going on. Thank you. Thank you so much. Any other member of the public wishing to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] im going to comment because im the supervisor of the area where the Farmers Market is. In my conversations with folks at the markets, they seen increases for some time. I think it will be okay and its not going to dissuade people from selling at the market. I would also sorry, were not allowed to have a conversation. Im happy to talk to you after the Committee Meeting is over, but i also just wanted to let you know that this is a site in the district that i had my eye on forever. Its both an incredible blessing for the neighborhoods on the two days that its operating and can cause some issues on the five days that its empty. We are looking into the possibility of what we can do to activate that site all the time without ever disrupting the market because its such a historic and plays an Important Role in the neighborhood. To be continued, if you have a couple minutes to stay after. This is the last item. I would love to chat with you about it. Moving forward on this item, im happy to make a motion to send this forward with positive recommendation and it looks like theres no objection. Without objection, that motion passes. Mr. Clerk are there any other items on the agenda to . That completes the agenda for today. Then the meeting is adjourned. Thank you. [ ] tuesday, november 19, meeting of the San FranciscoEntertainment Commission. I am ben bleiman and i am the commissions president. If you are a member of the public and want to speak, there are speaker forms which you can fill out which are located on the front table or you can just line up for Public Comment. We do ask that everybody turns off the cell phones or puts them on silent including commissioners and staff. I want to thank sfgov tv and Media Services for sharing this meeting with the public. We can start with a row call. Commissioner perez. Here. A president bleiman. Here. Commissioner lee. Here. A commissioner falzon. Here. We have a quorum and before we do the first order of business, i want to acknowledge that today or this week is Deputy Director acevedos oneyear anniversary with the Entertainment Commission. Already . First of all, i cant believe its been one year. I would have said its been like five months because it is so quickly. And i cant remember what we did without you. So thank you for the work this year. And i cant even remember. I think that director wyland did an incredible job and you have brought a lot of things into order that is very much appreciated. So thank you. So the first order of business is for Public Comment for any item not on the regular agenda. Seeing none, my cell phone says that Public Comment is closed. Next, agenda item is number 2 which is approval of the minutes from november 5, 2019. Do we have a motion to i a prove the minutes . An ill raise the motion. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes from november 5, 2019 . We can vote. A commissioner perez. Aye. President bleiman. Aye. Commissioner lee lee. Aye. Commissioner falzon. Aye. The next item is the executive director report. Normally i say thank you, president bleiman, but i am not sure after that intro. Just kidding. Good evening, commissioners. I wanted to provide a brief update about the Holiday Party that will be the next regularly scheduled Entertainment Commission evening, so that will be tuesday, december 3 at mezzanine this year. We are really looking forward to it. We have close to 700 rsvps right now but with attrition, that may be less so we encourage you to use your wonderful networks to continue to push the party invite out. It is free and open to the public and we want you to enjoy celebrating with all of us and just another year of entertainment in San Francisco. And also in our outreach for having our inspectors go out on the weekends with these flyers that are in your binder and going to businesses directly and letting management and bartenders and other staff know they are welcome and should come to this event. So we have a little Planning Committee in our office, and i really want to thank katelyn and dylan for helping prepare for the party. So were working on all of our food donations and other fun items for everybody for that evening. So again, looking very much forward to it and we are just nearing the end of the year, and its been such a great one working with all of you. That is my update. If you have any questions, let me know. Is there any Public Comment on the directors report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The next agenda item is report from our Deputy Director azevedo. Thank you, president bleiman