Official Tree Lighting committee my name is pippin i have been working for santa for 313 years. And today, this is blues very first christmas Tree Lighting. It is anybody else first christmas Tree Lighting . Oh, my gosh. Your first one, too. This will be so exciting. Are you ready . [cheers and applause] before we start anything, we have to do our if you want to do stretches with us, you can go ahead and stand up and follow along. We have to do our stretches to prepare for the christmas Tree Lighting. You can go ahead and stand up or adjust to it while you are sitting down. Whatever works for you. Here we go. Snowflake. Stir the cocoa. Stir the cocoa. Stir the cocoa. Candy canes. Toboggan. Finally, sugarplum fairy. Christmas. That was good. We are all warmed up. You guys were great. I feel ready. Do you feel ready . Wonderful. Before we begin tonight, a big thank you to the civic centre c. B. D. Off the grid and the Parks Department Parks Department for planning tonight s event. [cheer
Population compared to other area of the city and also an area where the issue of drug use poses a major problem. Our efforts tell others of other parts of the city such as chinatown and the sunset where permits have been denied or entirely outlawed. The children that i work with regularly find themselves in the presence of open air drug use and going to school or walking in the neighborhoods and many dont feel safe and even in large groups with adult supervision. When new businesses are introduced, they should not be ones that will make a Community Issue already known even worse. Next speaker. I lived and worked in the tenderloin for 12 years and work with a nonprofit in the 300 block of ellis. I dont want to take the time to repeat what everyone said. I want to express my opposition and i dont think we need a cannabis december pencery in the tenderloin dispensary and there is enough on the edges that people with use and urban farm and different ones on the edges of the tenderloin. I
This is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your San Francisco history used to be. We hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. Even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. And they tell us that. Youre going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something thats very, very good. The legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by San Francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. It really provides for San Franciscos unique character. And that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. Im Michael Cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. The bakery started in 191. My grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. It is a small operation. Its not big. So everything is kind of quality that way.
Same thing from oakland or tracey even. It is hard. You have got to ask yourself what keeps them going year after year to commute, to lose family time . To work in San Francisco and the answer for me is hope. I have seen San Francisco voters our government rise to the occasion time after time. We had prop a and prop g commitment to educators that we supported them. Prop a and e was the same. Everything you just heard about the collaboration with the union, city government, School District, all of you, it is the same. That hope that people are determined to keep us here keeps us going even when we know we are sacrificing our lives to come here every day to work with these children. I want be to thank everybody who is working on this, and who is going to push it forward. Thank you. I hope you will forgive me for using my notes. I want to thank the board offed. The mayor, my siblings and the voters who prioritize by voting for prop e. I want to state that i am lisa and i have lived in San
Withdrawn. The numbers over the years have gone down a built by it in terms of volume and jurisdiction requests. Looking on page 23, geographic distribution, not much changed there over the years. You can see in red, those are all the address points of the permits that were issued to properties at those addresses. So its the northeast quadrant. I just want to touch quickly on 24 on the appeals Management System. Its been really great. Its a significant improvement. Its unbelievable. I feel like we are in the 21st century compared to what we had before. And i think its really incredible in terms of reporting capabilities. Our old system, we had to export everything from our system through access and then cobble the numbers in compel. There was a lot of room for error so this is going to be more accurate data. We saw a number of very large sunshine requests, like even for this recent case, they wanted to know all the d. B. I. Revocations so ms. Sullivan did an excellent job going through