Mexican . It would have helped me fit in as a kid. I learned about my privilege and that privilege has led me to the streets of oakland. I was arrested in sacramento this year for Stephon Clark and also deployed with the veterans to the pipeline protest in standing rock, north dakota. Ill see you on alcatraz this year for thanksgiving, for the sunrise ceremony and im grateful to serve and grateful for all the advocates here also. Thank you supervisor fewer. Thank you very much. So do you think when were rolling out this Equity Program and were trying to wrong right many of the wrongs we have done around the enforcement of cannabis, do you think we forgotten about our veterans . Thank you for mentioning that. Absolutely, and in the most mill tar listic country in the world, veterans are often an afterthought. Yes, i love the Equity Program, the original equity group that has brought that legislature forward, this culture forward. I think its important to have a separate pathway for vete
Ms. Clerk, do you have announcements . Clerk please make sure to silence cell phones. Complete the speaker cards and documents are included should be submitted to the clerk. Acts acted on today, will be appear on the board of supervisors agenda on october 8th. Thank you. Clerk item number one. An ordinance amending the administrative code to add a preference in City Affordable Housing programs to tenants temporarily evicted from rental units for Capital Improvements or rehabilitation work. And requiring landlords who regain possession of such rental units to provide evidence of complying with a tenants right to reoccupy such tenants rental unit. Thank you, colleagues, for hearing this item last week, where we heard testimony from the community about the impact since 2017 of some 400 over 400 temporary Capital Improvement displacements or evictions. Many of which have gone well beyond the threemonth time limit for temporary displacements. As to supervisor mars question, i believe that w
Supervisor mar . How important is it that diversity be on this committee . Absolutely. The majority of the veterans i serve are veterans of color, low income, disabled, housing and food insecure, Substance Abuse experience, and what im here to say if youre going to put a white dude on the panel, im the one you want. [laughter] since coming back from the military, like, you could find me when were protesting on the streets of oakland. Im eyeball to eyeball with the police. Im standing between the police and the community, inviting the tear gas and rubber bullets on me to buffer between the Violent Police and the december Desperate Community demanding justice. Im here to leverage those privileges to elevate the communities affected by these terrible policies. Thank you. Next speaker. Chair ronen, supervisors walton, mar, fewer, hello. Im a fifth generation San Francisco native. Im an alum of usf where i received my mba. I want to be on the Cannabis Oversight Committee because i want to b
Cannabis about seven, eight years ago. The Equity Program was designed to serve people like my partner mike, individuals persecuted and punished for whats now legal. A Program Designed to give those from the city a chance to stay and give back to the community, because this is our home and no one else will take care of the city the way someone who truly loves San Francisco can. I believe im a good candidate for the cannabis Oversight Committee, being a chinese american san franciscan, i can see the split within the community. I hope to educate and do the outreach necessary to introduce the community to cannabis in a newly regulated and legal market. Having opened a fair share of small businesses, i know all too well the difficulty of navigating through the bureaucratic permitting process of San Francisco, from d. B. I. To planning to health, to fire, to the o. C. C. I see this as an opportunity to serve the city as a way to take fewer resources from the city and instead to have a great
Income, disabled, food insecure, many with Substance Abuse, with former incarceration and were experiencing transformative results. Were shifting bitter crow money johns to warm members of our community and these are the most vulnerable citizens we have here in San Francisco. Ive been working with the senator for the past two years to get this bill passed at the state level. Its currently on the governors desk and its received unanimous approval from the legislature. I also advocated for multiple cities and at the National Level. I have been involved with the decriminal nature movement. Im here really just to be of Greater Service to this beautiful city. Veteran voices are elevated in the halls of legislature and we mentioned access and how everyone in San Francisco can access cannabis, not my people. A lot of my people have to choose between eating and medicating with cannabis. So im here to serve as that compassion voice. I would like to answer the diversity question up front. Where