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SFGTV Port Commission July 13, 2024

The ownership of relief provides good prices, they are communitybased and they interact with us and they help us do things that get our children, including mine, off of the streets and into a working environment where they can in turn pay taxes which helps to pay your salary so please, please, take into account the people that have shown their faces in front of you are humble, most of them are nervous thats why their voices are shaking because theyre only asking for one thing to be given a dignity to be able to purchase a product and a safe environment without having to be harassed or arrested or put in any type of inconveniences. Next speaker, please. My name is alan steiner. I reside in oakland, california but ive been a licensing consultant in Cannabis Space for the past three years and i just want to call in, i want a second everything that everybody has said about the value of this business on the value of the plant and has just, were talking about the longest operating cannabis dispensary in the city one that has fully supported compassion and the value of that and one that has been a great neighbor, i have a friend who lived on lass ski and he cannot say enough good things about this business and i dont think can you live any closer to relief than on that street. Right now as an industry were dealing with a huge lack of shelf space that hurts every producer in the industry having the loss of a dispensary is a very, very deep wound. Right now in this moment is the reason for this, is the change in ownership that led to a change in banking and a bank that does not want, that has challenges with being an owner on a cannabis business. Were not talking about a failure in compliance. Were not talking about a failure in being a good member of this community. This committee absolutely needs to vote yes on this. The detriment is extreme. Thank you, very much. Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon. Ive been a street artist for 35 years and a volunteer with the street fair for the past 42. I have seen a lot of things in this city and ive seen a lot of club is the green cross had to move and its going to go out and go over to oakland and you need the money to support the seniors and we need the medicine and do your job. Thank you, very much. Next speaker. My name is direct remills and im a retired air force veteran. I can tell you personally that theyre good for the community. They go above and beyond to help you out. I mean, i like giving you deals and theyre family oriented and i consider him family everyone in this door consider me family. I consider him where they went by land would be a benefit to the neighborhood. Thats all i have to say. Thank you, next speaker. Im pamela and i think relief should be given a medical cannabis sense pens reand they were Good Neighbors to the community all around and they should be given this permit. Thank you, next. Good afternoon. My name is victor flemming. I live at veterans common here in San Francisco. Im here to support relief and i was in the military and i did the vietnam evac. I think you know what ive seen. Without relief and compassion they supply the veterans with the medicine and an awesome thing they do and we cant lose relief. We need them here in the city like randel said and with the remarkable work that people have working for hem and to lose that and please, please. Keep relief. Next speaker. Thank you. Good afternoon, im ronald jones. Im also a disabled veteran and relief has been a big factor in my life. I also live at the veterans commons and relief has been close by gotten theyve helped me in my depression and my Pain Management and theyve also been a platform for operation evac which i attend regularly and it also helps me in my addiction problems and Pain Management and relief say good place. Please, go for the relocation of relief. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is rudy. Im a native of San Francisco. A loyal and faithful 49er fan. Im born and raised not too far from here but i wanted to support relief, my brother dale, he is a filipino owner. He has 100year history of filipinos in the south of market. This is filipino heritage zone. This dude has been so instrumental in helping out a Youth Organization and i wasnt going to come up here and speak until i heard everybody else. But this dude has been so under the radar helping out the people and keep them up here. He didnt ask for nothing he just said what yall need for christmas. For the last 10 or 12 years he has been hooking up the kids in the community at the Christmas Parties with a gang of toys. I just want to come up here and represent for the brother. And they deserve what they would get. Being a native of San Francisco, lets keep this a San Francisco thing. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon, Committee Members. My name is nina parks. Im born and raised here in occupied in San Francisco. I run into Delivery Service and i was amongst many activists that fought for the initial language of the equity program. Im here in solidarity with the continued fight to work for the implementation of a just equity landscape here in San Francisco. I have now just recently been voted into be the first chair of the cannabis oversight committee. Sf has led the compassion movement. Its value system is what has allowed us to get as far as we have in our fight for equity, diversity and inclusion and it has changed the landscape of conversation across the country. But we cant just all be talk. We need to see these policies implemented in a way that actually preserves an up lift legacy that all of these activisted in this community have fought for. I hear the Community Today and they have shown up here to tell us that they need a club that treats them like theyre human and not just a number to meet a profit quota. We have a serious publichealth issue here in San Francisco. And we need to push even though were pushing for universal health hear we need a supporting Caring Community and mitigate the compounded trauma of being inlow come in this city. Please vote yes to keep relief lit. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker. Im mark, im a Third Generation San Francisco an. I live with 108 veterans in the only neighborhood you cant grow pot. The relief and i was in the service and many friends havent made it. Through illness and through suicide, theyre not here. Programs like relief and operation evac have made a major difference and i thank the committee for its intention to forward a recommendation of approval to the board. Thank you. Good afternoon, erika major and honorable members of the board of supervisors. My name is ryan miller and i founded operation evac, an organization to prevent veteran suicide and opioid overdose with reoccurring social support groups in partnership with cannabis dense pens res. When we launched a memorial day 2016, relief herbal cooperative was our first dispensary client and its not only an honor but my morale obligation to advocate on their behalf. Our work and service to welcome home warriors is only possible with a support of our generous dispensary hosts of which relief has led the way to ensure that the San Francisco veterans wonting left behind. The veteran population that we serve is among the vulnerable and deserving portions of our population. Our members are mostly poverty class elders, and veterans of color. Many of us are formally incarcerated, have experience with housing insecurity and recovering from substance abuse. Its my privilege to report to you that were experiencing transformative results in the community. That relief is curated. Members are revealing hud is helping us get off the streets and were choicing cannabis instead of opioids and street drugs. Were abstaining from alcohol and were finding hope while sharing space in our safe container of camaraderie. Relief is not only integral to our origin story but with your vote, you can also support San Franciscos veterans in the future. Said differently, we humbly request the supervisors of San Francisco support ethical operators like relief and expedite their relocation process. Were in the veteran Suicide Prevention business and the veterans of operation evac depend on you. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is don now im a disabled veteran with a Third Armour Division and i just wanted to lend my support also to the relocation of rerelief and the no johnny come lately. Theyve been in the business a long time and some of the best Compassionate Care offered in that industry is being emulated by other groups because of what they saw relief do for so long to so many. I do ask you to support the Compassionate Care and the relocation of relief. Hell oh im a member of operation evac. I have also been a member of relief since 2016. It helped me a lot with not getting in trouble in the streets and stuff like that and having a place to motorcycle cannabis and not worrying about the police breathing down my neck. Worrying about where im going to stay and chill out of the rain and stuff like that. Being able to have that place where that and they also provided operation evac with a place to provide compassion cannabis with meditation for all the veterans there and its working really good for them. Im just saying that im in support of them moving into a new place because they are amazing people and i always got smiles and they always made me feel good when i came in there. Thats all i have to say. Thank you, sir, next speaker, please. My name is julie sin claire. I work in soma close to where relief was located. Ive worked there for nearly 14 years. I wanted to speak on their behalf because theyre greatly missed in the neighborhood. They were always good for the neighborhood. I never, ever saw anyone who was involved with the business or who was a customer of the business causing any sort of problems that people often believe are associated with cannabis. I was also a customer there. My father passed away in 2018 and they were very good about giving me as much information as i required and i also had a knee surgery during than time and i was able to safely access quality information and medicine to help me and im much better now. Im a ballet dancer and im back in the studios again. So, thats all i wanted to say. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. If there are any other speakers lineup to your right, my left. Otherwise this is the last speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is hiedi and im a native san franciscan, a wife, a mother of two, and one of San Franciscos two women cannabis Business Owners for 15 years servicing the south of market area. With a few more women on the horizon, which im so proud of, weve seen an explosion in the evolution of cannabis recently. However, there is one thing that re mains stagnant in this industry. Federal law. After doing so, we still find ourselves evicted and our business shut down through the federal banking laws. They would allow others to have our land lots permitted to a new location. I am equity and i please ask you to support myself and future equity applicants and all cannabis policies. I want to thank you the city for recognizing this issue and that operators in Good Standing need protections in place through no fault of their own finding thatr businesses. I appreciate your time and i respectfully ask that you vote yes on this proposed legislati legislation. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is vaughn and i represent a small cannabis retailer, who holds a medical cannabis permit and who was wrongfully evict bid a landlord in San Francisco. With supervisor haney introduced this legislation, one the goals of the legislation was to protect Small Business who are vulnerable to eviction. Because mcd holders are tied to their location Small Businesses are good actors can lose the goal is to provide protection to Small Businesses for equity business applicants that to prevent big wellfunded cannabis groups from pushing out Small Businesses in sf. I believe this legislation in its current form does not safeguard against potential abuse by landlords at the new location. Were not opposed to the legislation in principle, equity mcd applicants who have been abused by landlords. My client say perfect example. However, the current language of the legislation fails to consider behavior of the landlord at the new location. If the goal to prevent abuse and create loopholes, we encourage them to behavior the landlord at the new potential location. To ensure that no landlord abuse actually occurs at the contemplated new location, we requested it be amended to prevent portability where theres a wrongful judgment or forceable detainer judgment against the landlord that was successfully obtained by the prior m. C. D. Holder in that location such as my client. To ensure the legislation design to benefit only equity applicants and an amendment the permitment holder who moves to that location must have at least 51 opioid of the cannabis business for five to 10 years. After moving to that new location. Were willing to meet with the committee to discuss some of these proposed changes to the current version of the legislation. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is i was wrongfully evicted by my landlord. I operate a Small Business and also the permit order for m. C. D. To provide the protection to Small Business and should be also considered potential built bit lender at the new location. Im not opposed to these regulations. I emphasize with applicants who have been billion dollar b buil. I would like to say how we could prevent the new land youll built otherwise it could be a danger of moving around another location and another location. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker. Hell o my nam hello. Thank you for your time and thank you for listening. Im here basically just to say please give relief what theyre asking for. Ive been a citizen here in San Francisco for 25 years now. I moved here when i was diagnosed with aids. I knew this was the place to come to live and i would survive here. 33 years later, and countless dispensaries being closed and me having to look for new places, to get affordable medication, i dont think there is anymore in the city. I keep searching online looking and price and looking for prices that i can afford and its not here. Its not here in the city anymore with the taxes. Its unaffordable. I can go to relief and buy the same product for less than half the price that other places are selling it for. It matters to me. It matters to me to stay alive and to be healthy. Im trying to get back to work. Im in school. Relief has been major in keeping me safe, keeping me alive and keeping me healthy. I just have to ask you, please, give them what theyre asking for. Thank you for your time. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is an tan. Mtwan. Before i was in californis in arizona, where i had an extreme drug issue. I was addicted to many, i guess, problems or things that i should not have been taking. I came out here to california not in search of, i guess, a need to use but a way to get away from the things that i had done. With the medicine or the drugs from relief, i was able to ease myself back into the real world or at least a stable, i guess, mode of thinking. And with that, i was able to play football in college and win a state and National Championship with the team that i had played for. Due to the fact that i was able to come back to, i guess, a real mode of like, i guess, a real stable place to progress my supervisor peskin i think we hear you. Right. It helped me to stop what i was doing to progress back no a regular living situation. Further myself there. I also performed well in track and instead of going cold turkey and easily being drawn back into the situation, it allowed me to ease the tension into a regular living situation. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you for your testimony. Seeing no other members of the public on item number 1, well close Public Comment. Supervisor haney and his staff have asked for an amendment that is in the long title on page 1 and the substance is subsection c on page 3. If theres no objection colleagues, i will move that and we will take that without objection. And i have been advised by the City Attorney that because ha amendment is deemed to be substantial in nature, this will require a oneweek continuance so without objection, we will continue the item as amended one week to our meeting of the 20th of theres no meeting on the 20th. On the 27th. We will continue this to the 27th of january. Well do that without objection. Madam clerk, could you please read the next item. Clerk item number 2 is the ordinance to establish the inner balboa street neighborhood commercial district. The outer balboa, bay view, the court land avenue ncd, geery, the san bruno, the coal valley, Lakeside Village, lower haite street and the ncd amending the zoning map to include the new neighborhood commercial districts and affirming appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin thank you. Before we hear from supervisor ronens stave, i want to thank supervisor ronen and her staff and the co sponsors supervisors fewer, wall son, haney, preston, yee and i would like to add myself says a cosponsor and supervisor safai would like to be added as a cosponsor. I really want to thank Planning Department staf

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