Absolutely. I understand that most workers are also categorized as essential workers, but at the moment, a lot of our buildings are still closed. How has your staff been redeployed to help out during the pandemic . There are 100 people assigned as Emergency Operations centres. They have worked on everything ranging from finance and logistics to accounting, to a communications. We have also had some of our staff been reassigned where we had people who were working within the bureau and we had them redeployed within the street cleaning groups. We are trying to solve problems as best we can. Some city interior painters would normally be working inside city buildings and have been repurposed to work outside and remove graffiti. Yeah, and that really and that is also a good example of trying to find ways that we can use those same individuals, those same skill sets but use them in a way that is safe. The one thing we have learned throughout this process with covid and shelter in place is that, you know, if you are inside, it is more at risk. So you could be an individual resident, or you as an employee or worker for the city and county of San Francisco, getting you outside is important and for everyone, if you are at home, you may have to go on a walk around your neighbourhood, you know, you dont want to see graffiti and things like that. We are trying to make a conscious effort to clean those things up. That is great. Im glad to hear that the pandemic hasnt halted ongoing construction. Can you tell me how the new animal care and control centre is progressing and how about the ambulance deployment facility . They are moving along very, very well. And the care and control facility, it addresses a lot of the facilities that they have. And being able to separate the animals in a safe way and that project, along with the ambulance and deployment facility, those are all on track to be wrapping up towards the end of this year and at the latest of the beginning of next year. We had we just want to understand what the rules are in operating and construction. We worked closely with a Health Officer and other departments across the city along with the contractors to come up with rules and the way it would work and the way we have had to implement things. We are trying to limit the number of people that are going up in lifts and things like that one of the things i am proud to say is procedures are not just used here locally or regionally. They were adopted across the state. It is one thing im very proud of. The speed at which the city and county of San Francisco are working with our partners to keep our projects going. These are a handful of examples that are now on schedule to be built on time. People are pretty fascinated by the floating fire workstation 35 project. How is that going . Is that. 22. 5. It is a two story building. It will be 15,000 square feet. This is a floating station. It was built in shanghai and it is currently over at pier one in treasure island. It will be there for the rest of this year. The plan is to flow it over across the bay and it will find a permanent home at the embarcadero at the beginning of next year. Finally, i understand we are doing street improvements. How has the jefferson street scapegoat in. Can you tell us about the upper transit and pedestrian improvements . Those projects are going well it is one more example of the thought and the collaboration of the project team at public works along with the merchants that will be impacted by those projects. Once we go to a soldier shelter in place, we could pivot and realize realize, okay. It could be time for us to speed up the schedule. Because as the number of the storefronts were open. What we are able to do is speed up the schedules on the upper haight street and we were able to be able to speed up the schedule and finish early on that project and likewise for the project on the jefferson Street Project where we were able to make up some ground that we had lost, allowing us to do things some sidewalks and school streets. That is something we would not have been able to do without the partnership and the collaboration between the contractor, Public Public works, and emergency. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you coming on the show. Thank you for the time you have given us today b thank you. That is it for our episode. We will be back with more information shortly. You have been watching coping with covid19. Thanks for watching. [ ] in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. The adult use of marijuana act. San franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75 . And the law went into effect in january of 2018. [ ] under californias new law, adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. Adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. In the state of california, we passed a law that said adult consumption is legal. If you are an adult and in possession of certain amounts, you will no longer be tried. You will not be arrested or prosecuted for that. That is changing the landscape dramatically. [ ] to legalization of cannabis could bring tremendous economic and social benefits to cities like San Francisco. This industry is projected to reach 22 billion by the year 2020. And that is just a few years away. It can be a huge Legal Industry in california. I think very shortly, the actual growing of marijuana may become the biggest cash crop in the state and so you want that to be a legal tax paying cash crop, all the way down the line to a sales tax on the retail level. The california medical industry is a 3 billiondollar industry last year. Anticipating that multiplier as 20, 30, 50 times in the consumer marketplace once adult use is really in place, you could go ahead and apply that multiplier to revenue. It will be huge. When that underground economy becomes part of the regular tax paying employment economy of the bay area, it not only has a direct impact, that money has a ripple impact through the economy as well. It is not just about retail. It is not just about the sensor. Is about manufacturing pick a lot of innovative manufacturing is happening here in San Francisco in addition to other parts of the state as well as the cultivation. We should be encouraging that. There is a vast array of jobs that are going to be available in the newly regulated cannabis industry. You can start at the top tier which a scientist working in testing labs. Scientists working at extraction companies. And you work towards agricultural jobs. You have ones that will require less education and you look towards Cannabis Retail and see traditional retail jobs and you see general management jobs. Those things that are similar to working at a Bar Restaurant or working at a retail store. We are offering, essentially, high paid manufacturing jobs. Typical starting wage of 18 20 an hour, almost no barrier to entry, you do not need an education. That means that people who do not have college educations, workingclass people, will have an opportunity to have a job at cultivating cannabis plants. Theres a whole wide array of Job Opportunities from the seedling to the sale of the cannabis. [ ] last year, they said 26 Million People came to San Francisco. The Tourism Industry continues to be very robust here and the city and county of San Francisco is about a billiondollar industry. If we use a conservative cannabis user Adoption Rate to 15 that means 4 million tourists want that means 4 million tourists want to purchase cannabis. And we need to be ready for th them. In 2015, as adult use legalization efforts gained momentum in california, the supervisors created the San FranciscoCannabis State Legalization Task force. This task force offered to research and advice to the supervisors, the mayor and other city departments. We knew that adult use legalization was coming to the ballot and stat that would bring with it a number of decisions that the city would have to make about zoning and regulation and so forth. And i decided at that time, at a know it was a great, that rather than have a fire drill after the ballot measure passes, as suspected it would, we should plan an event. So i authored a task force to spend a year studying it and we made it a broadbased task force. We prepared ourselves by developing a Health Impact assessment and partnered that with key stakeholder discussions with washington, oregon, colorado, to really learn lessons from their experience rolling out both adult and medicinal cannabis. Within days of the passing of the proposition, ed lee called on agencies to act decisively. He issued an executive order asking the department of public health, along with planning and other city departments to think through an internal working group around what we needed to do to consider writing this law. We collectively, i would say that was representatives from g. S. A. , as well as the mayors office, met with a lot of departments to talk through what prop 64 and the implementation of prop 64 it meant to them. The mayor proposed an office of cannabis, a onestop shop for permits allowing operators to grow and sell cannabis. He wanted a smart structure. He wanted a regulatory structure that ensured that kids didnt have access and communitys were safe and that consumers were safe. And he wanted to ensure, more importantly, it was a regulatory structure that encouraged diversity and inclusivity. This is an office that will be solely charged with a duty of wanting not only the policies that we create, implementing and enforcing them, but also executing the licenses that are needed. Were talking about 20 different licenses that will put us into compliance with what is happening on the state level. This is a highly, highly regulated industry now, at this point. We have anywhere from 710 departments that will be working with these industry participants as they go through the permitting process. That is a lot of work at a loss of coordination. We are creating a permitting process that is smart and is digital. It is much easier for the user and for community input, and is less mired in bureaucracy. For the First Time Ever in San Francisco history, standalone licenses are available for all aspects of the nonretail side of the cannabis industry. Now, a cultivator can go in to the department of building inspection and to the department of health and say, with this first registered and temporary license, and then what will eventually be a permanent license, this is the project, this is what i am going to do. Very rarely in City Government do we interact with industries that are asking to be regulated. These guys want to be regulated. They want to be compliant. They want to work with the city. That is rare. San francisco has created a temporary licensing process so that the preexisting operators here in San Francisco can apply for a temporary state licensed. We have taken teams of up to 12 inspectors to inspect the facility twice a day. We have been doing that with the department of building inspection and the department of public health. And the fire department. It is really important for the industry to know that we are treating them like industry. Like manufacturing. Like coworkers pick so that is the way we are approaching this from a health and safety and a Consumer Protection network. This is just the way practice happens with restaurants or manufacturing facilities. Because there are so many pieces of industry that people havent even thought about. There are different permits for each piece. You have to set up a permitting system for growing, for manufacturing, for testing. For delivery. For retail. You have to make sure that there is an appropriate health code. Certainly the regulation of alcohol in terms of restaurants and retail its probably a model for how this industry will be regulated as well, both on sale and consumption. It is completely uncharted territory. There is a blessing and a curse with that. It is exciting because we are on a new frontier, but it is very nerveracking because theres a lot at stake. And quite frankly, being San Francisco, being the state of california, people are looking to us. We hope that cannabis does become more of an accepted part of society in the same way that alcohol is, the same way coffee is. It is a very innovative fear, particularly around manufacturing. San francisco could be an epicenter. San francisco can be a leader here. A Global Leader in the Cannabis Movement and set a bar just to other communities and cities and states and this nation how it is done. [ ]. My name is dave, and i play defense. My name is mustafa, and i am a midfielder, but right now, i am trying to play as a goalkeeper, because they need a goalkeeper. Soccer u. S. A. Is a nonprofessional organization. We use sports, soccer in particular to engage communities that can benefit from quality programs in order to lift people up, helping to regain a sense of control in ones life. The San Francisco recreation and Park Department and street soccer u. S. A. Have been partners now for nearly a decade. Street soccer shares our mission in using sport as a vehicle for Youth Development and for reaching people of all ages. Rec and park has a team. Im been playing soccer all my life. Soccer is my life. I played in the streets when i was a kid. And i loved soccer back home. I joined street soccer here. It was the best club to join. It helps me out. The tenderloin soccer club started in the summer of 2016. We put one of our mini soccer pitches in one of our facilities there. The kids who kpriez the club team came out to utilize that space, and it was beautiful because they used it as an opportunity to express themselves in a place where they were free to do so, and it was a safe space, in a neighborhood that really isnt the most hospitalable to youth hospitable to youth playing in the streets. One day, i saw the coach and my friends because they went there to join the team before me. So i went up to the coach and asked, and they said oh, ive got a soccer team, and i joined, and they said yeah, it was he for everybody, and i joined, and it was the best experience ever. A lot of our programs, the kids are in the process of achieving citizenship. Its a pretty lengthy process. Here, i am the only one with my dad. We were in the housing program, and we are trying to find housing. My sister, shes in my country, so i realize that i have a lot of opportunities here for getting good education to help her, you know . Yeah. Thats the one of the most important things that challenge me. My dad was over here, making some money because there was not a lot of jobs back home. I came here, finish elementary in San Francisco. After that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. Last time i went back was a couple years ago. I came here six months, i know nobody. Now i have the team has a family, the coaches. Amazing. Im hoping for lifelong friendships, and im super inspired by what theyve been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. I love my family, i love my team. Theyre just like a family. Its really nice. Street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an important inreflection point for street soccer u. S. A. Because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just San Francisco recreation and Park Department, and together, were going to continue to work with our citys most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. I want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u. S. A. , and live your life. Get a better life. Right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be okay. Regular meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of this body. Im joined by gordon mar, matt haney and cynthia pollock. I would like to thank michael from sfgov for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, i do madam chair, in order to protect our commissioners, city employees