Coke. This addiction. Secondhand smoke is involuntary. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Caller good morning, supervisors. I am with the american heart association. We support protecting the residents in multi unit housing from all kinds of smoke. We support the Public Information campaign about Secondhand Smoke exposure in housing. We hope that increases the number of smokers connected to evidence based services. There is no safe level of exposure to Secondhand Smoke. It has immediate and longterm effects on nonanother nonsmokers. It is dangerous to others in the building and contains the same harms as tobacco smoke. We encourage you to pass the comprehensive policy to all kinds of smoke. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Caller hi. I am a member of the San Francisco tobacco free coaliti coalition. Marijuana doesnt have to be smoke. It can eaten in other ways. It is possible to include the protections. To allow people who use it for medical reasons. Smoke free spaces in multiunit houses is necessary to protect seniors and children and people with existing health conditions. Children of color are more likely to have asthma. I have been living in multiunit housing for 20 years. It is disproportionately impacting communities like mine. I am five months pregnant. I am excited to have a pregnant with the kicks and all. It worries me to be exposed to Secondhand Smoke and greater risk for low weight babies. There are more things to worry about. Breathing deadly smoke in the home doesnt have to be one of them. Thank you board of supervisors and community for the leadership and time. Thank you. Next speaker. Caller hello. I am mya. I am a general internist and assistant professor in the department of medicine and i live in district 7. I offer support for the smoke free ordinance. Not only will this help people with Secondhand Smoke exposure but it may help people quit smoking. Our work has shown that smoke free policies has the potential to motivate people to quit smoking completely. We have a real opportunity with this policy to reduce tobacco related disparities among the most vulnerable in the communities by reducing exposure and helping people quit smoking while safeguarding housing for the most vulnerable. Thank you so much for putting this forward. Thank you. Next speaker. Caller good morning. I am chris show man. I want to speak to the cannabis issue. I appreciate the Public Health concerns and i know the Public Health issues are of utmost importance. I think it needs acknowledged and supervisor mandelman mentioned it appropriately. This will essentially ban cannabis smoking for anybody who lives in the multiunit building. It is not allowed outdoors. It essentially offers no option. I understand the issues with the medical marijuana exception, but i want to speak to the disabilities. They cannot go outside. My wife has a disability, multiple disabilities arthritis, she cannot go outside. She uses marijuana medically for relief. She does not prefer to use alternatives to smoking or vaping because she does not react well to edibles. She needs to smoke or vape. Without even considering the exemption which i appreciate that is proposed it will add versely impact her medically and her relief from her disabilities. Thank you for your consideration. He appreciate the overall ordinance and everything that everyone is doing. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Caller hello. I am a resident of district 2. Thank you guys for taking the step to reduce exposure to Secondhand Smoke in homes like mine. I live in a multiunit complex and am the mother of twin driveways 10 months old twin boys crawling everywhere. I support the smoke free ordinance in San Francisco. It is important to protect vulnerable populations like children. Some dangerous second hand smoke exposure. I do not support the exception for medical marijuana. Pass a policy for all kids to live with clean air. Thank you for hearing my comments. Thank you. Next speaker. That completes the queue. Public comment is closed on this item. President yee, did you want to make final remarks . Thank you, chair mandleman and supervisors walton and stefani for allowing me to present this ordinance to you. I want to also thank ms. Siegel for her presentation of the facts to remind us why we are doing this. I want to thank the public for their comments. As you can see, there is going to be some that think this is not going far enough. There are some that think that it is going too far. I would be comfortable where we are at today with the amendments. And that in the future nothing is forever. Maybe in the future other supervisors will pick up this issue again and see if it can be improved. Passing this today to the full board is a big step for us, and for us to address the certain percentage of the Secondhand Smoke you are talking about today. As i was mentioning before, it is about priorities. What do we feel are more important . The rights of people to breathe clean safe air in their own homes above those to smoke in homes . Hopefully, my colleagues on the committee will agree that breathing clean air is very important and should be the priority. Considering what a health risk that people have whether they have disabilities. I have spoke about the amendments that i would like the committee to pass, and, hopefully, i have the support of the whole committee to pass this out of committee with positive recommendation to the full board. Thank you very much. Thank you, president yee. So i think this is an important piece of legislation, and i recognize the tremendous amount of work that president yee and his office have put into it. I do it has moved quite quickly, and i understand that president yee is interested in having us act on this before it leaves the board. I want to do everything i can to help make that happen. If that were not the case, i would probably move to continue this item for a week or until our next meeting to sort of get more feedback and input on this cannabis issue. I think there is a real point here, which is that cigarettes and cannabis and nicotine are in a different position. People cannot legally go outside their home and smoke or vape cannabis. That is not true of cigarettes. They are limited where they can go but there are placing place o smoke marijuana. Maybe medical cannabis is the right way to deal with this. It is the one piece of the legislation i have a little bit of concern about. What i would propose, if my colleagues are willing, we accept the amendment, forward to the full board without recommendation and give those who may have concerns about the cannabis issues a little time to try to think about that between now and when this comes before the full board. Supervisor walton. I was going to propose to accept the proposed amendment from president yee for the legislation first. I will take that as a motion. We will vote on it after vice chair stefani speaks. Thank you, chair mandleman, and thank you president yee for the legislation. As you know when you spoke to me about it, i let you know about the concerns from residents in my district. A lot of elderly residents about the concern. I want to thank those in Public Comment in district two who called in. I hear you loud and clear. I am very supportive of this legislation. Thank you, president yee. So we have a motion to accept the amendment. Mr. Clerk. Do you want to call the roll. The motion offered by member walton to accept all of the amendments offered by president yee. Vice chair stefani. Aye. Member walton. Aye. Chair mandleman. Aye. There are three ayes. The motion passes. The amendments are adopted. I will move that we forward this to the full board without recommendation. On the motions of the ordinance as amended be sent to the board without recommendation to Neighborhood Services vice chair stephanie. Aye. Member walton. Aye. Chair mandleman. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Great. The motion passes. Congratulations, president yee. Thank you very much for your time. I am looking forward to having your support at the full board when we vote on this. Thank you. Mr. Clerk. Do we have any more items today . There is no further business on todays agenda. Then we are adjourned. Thank you everyone. Chair ronen good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 30th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen. With me on the Video Conference is vice chair supervisor Catherine Stefani and rules Committee Member supervisor gordon mar. Our clerk today is victor young. Id like to thank sfgov tv for staffing the meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members and employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Committee room are closed. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conferencing and participate to the same extent as if they are physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. You can offer Public Comment by calling 415 6550001. Again thats 415 655000 415 . The meeting i. D. Is 146 045 2296. Again that is 146 045 2296. Then press pound and pound again. You will hear the meeting discussion and will be muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Call from a quiet location, please clearly and slowly and turn your television or radio down. You may submit Public Comment via email to myself at victo victor. Young sfgog. Org. That completes my initial announcements. Chair ronen thank you so much. I just wanted to mention that im very, very excited about the items on the agenda today. We have items that both acknowledge and bring some justice to two communities, the American Indian community and the Africanamerican Community in San Francisco, that it has been denied justice for a very long time. So i just wanted to recognize the historic importance of todays rules committee meeting. And with that, mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 1. Clerk yes. Item number 1 a motion amending the rules of order of board of supervisors by adding rule 4. 7. 1 to require the president to read a statement acknowledging the Ramaytush Ohlone community. Chair ronen thank you very much. This is appear motion that im sponsoring that wool amend the rules of order, of the board of supervisors, by adding a new rule that would require the president of the board to read a statementing recognizing Ramaytush Ohlone. This is a time when we must not only celebrate the history and contributions of native people, but also engage in the critical work of recognizing and repairing the generations of harm caused to native communities at the hands of our own government institutions. It is undeniable that our own city of San Francisco has been complicit in the marginalization of people to systemic underfunding of American Indian organizations. The board of supervisors has a duty to honor the first people of San Francisco, Ramaytush Ohlone nation by recognizing their continued relationship to this land of which we are guests. This motion would require the inclusion of a land acknowledgment statement at every public board of supervisors meeting, as a way to recognize the presence and power of San Franciscos American Indian residents. And inspire others to take action in support of native communities. The proposed statement, which was authored and approved by members of the Ramaytush Ohlone community, reads as follows. The San Francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are the unseated ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, the original nal inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. In accordance with their tradition, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never seated, lost or forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place. As well as for all people to reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and members of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. In the coming weeks, we plan to expand upon these efforts by working with American IndianCommunity Leaders to introduce a City Ordinance that would require the use of the statement during the Public Meetings of all city, boards, committing and commissions. I would like to express my deepest expression to agrees of Ramaytush Ohlone and the American Indian cultural district for developing the statement and their tireless advocacy on behalf of the San Franciscos American Indian community. I also want to give a special acknowledgment and huge thanks to paul mohay from my office, who worked very, very closely with this community on this item, as well as the next item, the American Indian cultural district. And with that i wanted to see if any of my colleagues had any remarks. We also have cheryl davis here from the the director of the Human Rights Commission in case she wanted to say anything before opening this item up for Public Comment. Anything . Okay. I dont see anyone. Supervisor oh, director davis, did you have any comments . I just wanted to thank you and your office for your leadership in bringing this forward. And also to recognize sharah and greg. They were amazing and have just been pushing through. And i think coming off of thanksgiving, but false a day of remembrance and having all of these different emotions and feelings about how we engage and how we see people, i think this is really a new habit that im hoping will become so automatic, that we just, you know, realize that we havent done it, so thank you for your leadership on this. Chair ronen thank you, director davis. Supervisor walton, who has joined us in the committee. Googood morning, supervisor wal. Supervisor walton good morning, chair ronen. I want to thank you for bringing this forward. This is something that we should be doing at our board meetings. And i appreciate you for taking that step to make sure that its indoctrinated in our rules. So thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much. Oh, supervisor mar. Supervisor mar yeah. Thanks, chair ronen. I also just wanted to thank you for your leadership on this issue. And for working and also for the leaders of the community for working with you on this. And i would love to be added as a cosponsor. Chair ronen thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani i, too, want to thank you for your leadership on this. I think its so important. And, you know, for the healing to begin over what happened is is actually that i think is required and i just appreciate it. I think its really good to do. So thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much. And ill just mention that i feel incredibly privileged to be bringing this forward, but this statement and this effort has been led by and created by the Ramaytush Ohlone community. And i feel almost like a vessel to bring it forward. But its really their leadership that i feel so grateful for. So thank you for all of the acknowledgment. Really all of the acknowledgment goes to the Incredible Community of survivors and advocates. So thank you so much. And with that, if we could open this item up for Public Comment. Clerk oh, yes. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001. Sorry about that. I was just disconnected from my computer. I am on my phone right now. So i am on my phone right now. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 146 045 2296. Then press pound and partnership pound again. Please dial star 3 to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. Mr. Coup, do you have any members of the public for Public Comment at this time . Yes, i do have three callers on the queue. Caller hi, this is april mcgill. Im the executive director of the American Indian cultural center. And i just want to say thank you to everyone who has supported this. And all of the hard work that shariah has done and also to greg castro. I think its really important as we think about today being the last day of native American Heritage month and thinking about all of the things that have happened in history and, you know, we think about all of the things that have happened in the year in 202