Meeting of the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. role call . Thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , we have a quorum. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv, miss men doe didnt mr. Smith who record our recordings and make a transcript to the public available online. Any communications . None to report, mr. President. So today we are approving the minutes from the october 8th, 2019 Board Meeting and any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor furer and seconded by supervisor ronan. And without objection those will be approved after public comment. Madam clerk, will you please call the two pm special orders in. Yes, the special order at 2 00 p. M. Is the mayors appearance before the board and it is the appearance by the ho
Joined me as we cut the ribbon with mayor breed, but essentially designed to work with wonderful programs like Young Community developers and the lead agency out there in the intercity youth to attach and refer people to the opportunities, many of those actually in the Construction Industry and we have many of our brother exposbrothers and sistee carpenters unions and they have been a phenomenal partner in putting people to work in an industry and giving many people their first opportunity for longterm employment. So today after that, last year, many of you supported our citygrow program, which was designed to help expand apprenticeship into a new industry in the cannabis industry. And we authored that with the support of the unanimous support of this board as a way to work with preapprenticeship pathways to state. Approved apprenticeshp program and iowu workers and so we now are looking forward to working with employers and getting graduates of this apprenticeship connected. Bases on
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
Of conscience whistleblowing in an age of fraud. He takes you through these cases. What you find with most whistleblowers is they tend to be very interdirected. You tend to have a loyalty essentially to a higher purpose or calling. I have spent 26 years in government either full or parttime service between the national guard, the cia, 10 plus. Ears on capitol hill and so on i take it deadly seriously, i will until the day i die and that is what drove me in that circumstance because it was very clear during the war there was an amount of intelligence flowing out of the theater in the early days of the conflict potentialated chemical agent attacks had taken place or alarms had been going off. I was working at the equivalent imagery Headline News operation at the time, very. Uick turnaround reporting every time during that war, that six week period these reports , we would call the headquarters in riyadh and asked the question is this real . Every time, we would be called false alarm, don
To the clerk. Items acted upon will appear on the october 8 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Item number 1 is ordinance amending the planning code to designate 2031 bush street, aka Kinmon Gakuen building, as a landmark under article 10 and affirming appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin thank you, ms. Major. Before we introduce Shannon Ferguson from the Planning Department, i would like to be listed as cosponsor of this landmark designation. The case report was really a pleasure to read and very well done. And very edifying and of course, speaks to terrible parts of our American History and San Francisco history relative, not only to executive order 9066, but acts of local governments, including our school board in the day. Its almost the opposite of todays dynamics where we have a racist, xenophobic president and a very Progressive School board. In those days, actually, Teddy Roosevelt i learned from the case report, was the one accusing, and correctly so, our s