Heard and agreed with today. I will go further and say not only will this committee be diverse, but we as the Cannabis Community need to do more not only as our representatives but our own businesses and associations to be more diverse. For the past several years, ive been working with t. H. C. Staffing groups to help the cannabis industry recruit more women about people of color into leadership positions. Even if we cant wave the magic wand of capitalism for todays Business Owners be more diverse, we can use our privilege and networks to give people connecti connections so they can be tomorrows cannabis Business Owners. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, i really appreciate you applying. Thank you. Do we have any other applicants that have not yet spoken . Im just going to call your names out to make sure. [reads names] nobody is here . Okay, thank you everyone that applied and did speak. Now were going to open this item up for public comment. Any member of the public who would like to speak . Please feel free to come forward. Hi, i actually was on the original Cannabis Task force in the late 1990s. I began working with cannabis to help alleviate medical problems. In 1997, i became a member and worked with the task force and work in the health department. I created the program at laguna honda, and i did a lot of talking at their conferences. Im here today to support ali and his bid for being on the seat. I have just a few notes that have come up in all the conversations i thought i would share. I did the patient work back then and champ was closed in 2002. Ive been helping patients underground and with medical cannabis. I started the whole education for the membership there and stuff, and the card system. You did that based off of education i gave the city on how we were verifying the doctors letters and stuff. So some of the things i noticed with how to help with the Equity Program. In 2011, i spent a year in the city jail here for a cannabis charge. I thought i did not qualify for thi the Equity Program because every as i live in did not zone in the zone. I knew i did qualify because my brother had some cannabis arrests here in San Francisco. I did not realize he had been arrested. With all of my work and my 25 years here, i didnt think i qualified. So that census, zoning of your residences address. There were people across the street from me that would have zone, but the addresses i held did not zone. As far as helping the patients, because thats really important. There were all these sorry, your time is up. Thank you so much. I just really want to say its important to maintain what the patients access and its very true the disenfranchisem t disenfranchisement. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisor. My name is ed donaldson. Im a lifelong resident here in San Francisco. Im also an equity applicant on two deals with norcal cannabis. Im also the director of Community Development for norcal cannabis. Beneath of of these two things without did not happen without her. She has an application for seat 12 and seat 14. I dont want to go into her qualificati qualifications, but i want to talk about the attributes i noticed. Shes authentic, shes tough, she has integrity and more importantly, she has compassion. She cares about the plant. She cares about people. She is a native of San Francisco and she cares about this city and what happens here. More importantly, shes a woman in a men dominated industry. I believe there should be room for voices of women to really speak to the issue of cannabis here in San Francisco. All of these things have really contributed to some very special things that are happening at r norcal, where we have been able to get outside of the box and think of equity in a different fashion and its given rise to things im encouraged about as the industry moves forward. I hope that you would support her candidacy as well for the cannabis oversight committee. I want to speak on behalf of all the women. 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] [ ] shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within neighborhood. 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