You have a quorum. Thank you very much. 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. So exciting to get started again. Okay, on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, jesse larson and jim smith who and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . I have none to report, mr. President. We are approving the minutes from the july 9, 2019, july 16, 2019, and july 23, 2019 regular Board Meetings. And, the minutes from the july 11, 2019 special meeting at the rules committee. The meeting will constitute a quorum of the board of supervisors. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none. Can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor brown, seconded by supervisor m
If you want. And our clerk is ms. Alyssa samira. Do we have any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and leng tro ng devices, completed speaker card and any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you, ms. Samira. Colleagues could we have a motion to excuse supervisor farrell made by supervisor tang. Well take that without objection. Supervisor farrell is excused. I also want to thank the staff at sfgov tv,jim smith and jesse larson for Live Streaming todays hearing. And with that, madame clerk, if you could please call can item number one. Item number one is relating cannabis land uses, allow m. C. D. S in additional zoning districts, establish a land use process for the conversion of m. C. D. S, repeal ordinance 18617, created a limit of three m. C. D. S in Cannabis Retail in excelsior outter mission m. C. D. And making appropriate findings. Thank you. Before we turn this over to staff, i just want to start with a
Hi, im muhammad the director of public works in San Francisco were doing a show for public works tv and my guest today. Interview thank you. You run an organization that actually empowers people to be stew address of the land and troy to change peoples lives. Tell us about the organization and maybe a little bit more about kind of what you have been doing in public works . Interview well, i founded the Hunters Point family when i was 23 and basically it was in anticipation of having my first child and if i wanted a Better Community for my children, we would create that. We employ people who are in the reentry population, former life ers, people with life sentencing to monitor the toilets and that means to make sure that they keep them safe and they keep them clean and the thing this population does is they have overtime developed a sense of Emotional Intelligence so they are able to so easily and smoothly make sure people can come in out and diffuse and deescalate any situations that a
The ride hailing is up is an increase from 2015. When asked whats the main reason you would use uber or lyft rather than muni. One is really the top three have to do with speed and direct service. Those are the key reasons far and away. Its fast and goes direct to my destination. I dont want to wait. Doortodoor services and theres others but in terms of the top ones they have to do with that theme. The last slide was an asked of a different group. This represents those who havent used it in the past six months and asked whats the main reason you dont ride muni more. This slide represent whats people told us. We took down their responses and coded them into different categories. The commute travel out of the city is a tough one and other ones such as muni trips take too long, rules, dont want to be held to a schedule that are actionable in terms of riders who dont currently use muni. That concludes the presentation. Thank you very much. Director thank you. Very much. That was a good dir
So Second Amended with the board with positive recommendation appointment of mr. Michael pappas to the adult and aging services commission. With that objection. Thank you for your Service Commissioner pappas. Thank you very much. Any other items. That concludes our business for today. Motion to adjourn. Excuse me. That is not on today, sir. One. Commons 3rd thursdays is a monthly event series really activate Service Center and un plaza food and music and other social Activities Oil stephanie the Vice President of operations for this. In 2016 an initiative called the Service Center launched an effort by a bunch of the city agencies along with institutional stakeholder and Community Partners to have a program that is how to get people out here on a monthly and weekly and daily basis. My name is a im with the Program Manager and also commons 3rd thursdays will have live music important in the. The city approached us to provide food and beverages at the event kind of the core anchor to enc