Turn to page 3 of of the document. So and i want to make sure that the nuances of this may not necessarily be as verbatim as i say it just because certain things still need to be worked out but the intent of what he plans to change is to deal with the solo practitioners who colocate with chiropractors and acupuncturists and completed and find a means to allow massage establishments and he specifically requested that the Department Come back to him with a means of how to incorporate the massage establishments into the cb 3 program making them eligible for that and then to amend the definition of Service Medical to include massage and how that, you know, ends up being articulated, you know, is being worked on right now. So those are the 4 key things. Supervisor weiner is only going to be dealing with the planning code amendments and no changes to the health code and it will be introducing new legislation as opposed to amending the divided file. Uhhuh. The 2 pieces of legislation items nu
With the legislation and weve accomplished the best in the shortterm and we have got a Good Foundation Going Forward and good on you and you know its gratifying to us up here to have had some of that happen in this forum because sometimes you know were advisory sometimes it can feel thank less and rather lonely up here and you guys are six times the number of people we often have in the gallery and its actually been very comforting to have you here so thank you. We have Public Comment first and well make some recommendation out of our committee here to kind of keep the thing going and let them let the supervisors know were still keenly interested in this issue Going Forward and you have my assurance that we do and well remain your allies and try to move to the next step and thank you very much without further ado if theres Public Comment on this matter please come up and state your peace. We do have speaker cards. Just to remind you, theres no shame in reading what you have to say beca
Thank you for considering this. This is a subject thats been going around and around for a long time. Ive been a professional massage therapist for over 40 years working in San Francisco in the healthcare business cpmc aids patients Ortho Services and working for chiropractors and licensed by the city of San Francisco and they have been in business for 30 years and everything is going along wonderfully and ive provided myself over sixty thousand healing massage sessions in my career so far. Im probably one of the few in the bay area that has more than 30 years as an American Massage Therapy Association member so im pretty aware of most of the people that are in the business in San Francisco and i want to thank them for stepping up just like you thanked them and i want to thank supervisor weiner for taking an interest in this and i think hes hes a could not she hes a good supervisor and i see some things that i that i that i find i wouldnt say disturbing but alarming and ill bring this
Essential in in the legislative process is you have found yourself a sponsor in supervisor weiner and a supporter and dare i say a champion at this point and someone who will you know listen to and give you some considered thought and sometimes its hard to pierce the veil and i think you have and we all feel very comfortable working with supervisor weiner hes a very level headed and thoughtful person and i think you have a good person on your side and hes committed to not only these amendments on the planning side but addressing some some of the things on the dpa side Going Forward with the legislation and weve accomplished the best in the shortterm and we have got a Good Foundation Going Forward and good on you and you know its gratifying to us up here to have had some of that happen in this forum because sometimes you know were advisory sometimes it can feel thank less and rather lonely up here and you guys are six times the number of people we often have in the gallery and its actua
Who may be working parttime in one location and parttime in another, this is a gnaw a nuance and im not sure i dont know how well it was understood i think you know, for our office and i bring this up just because for our office we are seeing, we do see i would say different kinds of sort of healing arts, businesses being developed and coming forward so i mean i talked about one in your notes in the past about, you know, there is a business in the eks is he also i in the exce lsior and one of the elements she wants to provide is massage and we have these different hybrids and trying to understand those nuances and really the healing arts , different entities come together to provide sort of a whole, you know, kind of package in sort of the of the way in which they want to do it sort of like restaurants in terms of restaurants have different types of food and individuals in the healing arts come together to sort of provide a unique sort of package in which they deliver their healthcare