Good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the first meeting of the year, the january 13th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor ronan, and seated to my right is supervisor catherine stefani, and seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar. And we are joined by supervisor shamon walton. I would like to thank our clerk and those from s. F. Gov. Tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, please silence all electronic devices. Speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 28thf supervisors agenda. Item number one is a hearing to considering appointing one member term ending 2023, to the Oversight Committee. One seat, one applicant. Chairwoman hi. Is atori laou here . A beautiful name, did i pronounce it correctly . Yes. Chairwoman is good. Come on up. Do you have any presentation or thoughts you want to share with us. I would like to introduce myself a
Last meeting, we have gone from summer to winter and from fires to floods, as is how it goes in San Francisco. I just wanted to say thank you and to acknowledge the department of Emergency Management, the p. U. C. , public works, m. T. A. , fire and rec park. We met yesterday to review the citys response to the december 7th storm and recent flooding. As folks are probably aware, we had an out of nowhere, almost tornado, technically a micro burst, but it dumped a whole lot of water on the city in a short period of time on a saturday afternoon. So, due to that, we have been working on adjusting our plans to be more ready to respond in a no notice storm event, which is fairly unusual. However, due to the variability in weather and Climate Change and changes on the planet, we have to be ready for the unexpected. So, we are working on improving our situational awareness, operational response, and our public messaging regarding the storms when they do happen. Secondly, were going to move int
Speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 28thf supervisors agenda. Item number one is a hearing to considering appointing one member term ending 2023, to the Oversight Committee. One seat, one applicant. Chairwoman hi. Is atori laou here . A beautiful name, did i pronounce it correctly . Yes. Chairwoman is good. Come on up. Do you have any presentation or thoughts you want to share with us. I would like to introduce myself and share with you why i would like to join the committee, if that is okay with you. Chairwoman that would be fantastic. Ive been living in San Francisco for 21 years, and i work both for software and Investment Management companies. And im very fa familiar with expenditure ough aud dids auditd oversights. I attended the meeting of the ashbox since last september, and i visited the re reservoir in december, and the southeast Water Treatment in november. And in august, i visited the hedgegy water s
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
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 lov