We were lucky to have you for throw and a half decades and cant thank you if you have for that work. Supervisor yee supervisor fewer. Yes, i just wanted to thank you for your decades of service to the people of San Francisco and in particular to our tenants community. Thank you for being the light shining hope and assistance to renters in San Francisco. Thank you for your decades long work of advocacy and activism which is rare nowadays actually in San Francisco and i just want to say on behalf of my neighborhood, 65 of which. Thank you to everybody who came. I have mixed feelings for being honored on the rent board because im not done. I refuse to fade into the background. I will still here and i will work to save the homes of the thousands and thousands of people protected by rent control that are the heart and soul of the city i love. I was 22yearsold in 1979 when i fought alongside and worked for proposition r. Precursor of todays rent ordinance. I was 24yearsold when i co founded
Supervisor yee good afternoon. Welcome to the october 8th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you mr. President. [ roll call ] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee so, on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, tom and madias who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, were in receipt of two communication the dade the october 27th, 2019 from supervisors haney and walton stating they will be absent today in request to be excused from the meeting. Supervisor yee can i have a motion to excuse haney and walton from at
Cannabis oversight committee. Thank you, president yee. I create the the legislation of a Cannabis Oversight Committee to advise the board on regulations, growth of the industry and to help the board meet its goals of equity within the industry. I believe the creation of a public advisory body made up with these Key Stakeholders to oversee the office of cannabis and the implementation of laws governing commercial cannabis activities is the best way to provide transparency and accountability for this brand new growing industries. This Advisory Board will provide valuable in sight and recommendations to the board of supervisors as we implement the voter mandate the recreational cannabis. I want to thank all of the applicants who applied for their interest in serving on this committee as it is an allvolunteer committee. I was excited about how impressive the applicants were and i want to thank supervisors, ronen, walton for weighing the applications and prioritizing diversity and represen
Supervisor yee good afternoon. Welcome to the october 8th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you mr. President. [ roll call ] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee so, on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, tom and madias who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, were in receipt of two communication the dade the october 27th, 2019 from supervisors haney and walton stating they will be absent today in request to be excused from the meeting. Supervisor yee can i have a motion to excuse haney and walton from at
Also my boss litellally. I had the opportunity to work with poly at goldfarb and litman. Shes an excellent lawyer with far more tolerance for reviewing loan documents than i ever had. She was an extraordinary mentor for younger lawyers at the firm. I know there are past and present lawyers, especially women lawyers who persisted as practitioners and made their on contributions and public law because they have the great good luck to work with and for polly. She worked there for 30 years serving as council to non profits and public agencies helping build thousands of units Affordable Housing across the bay area and beyond. Along the way, she wrote or co wrote a number of publications including several additions of a legal guide to california redevelopment, a real page turner and a guide of housing which came out in 2003 and i think i worked on that with you and then in 2010 after i left. Excellent a lawyer as she is, even when i was, it was clear her true passion was her service on the S