Nicole young, nicholas i already called your name, tony i called, gary s. Hi, my name is laura, im a long time residence of is excelsior district of 25 years and id like supervisor avalos saying so beautiful about whats going on in our neighborhood. Im a compassionate person. I have a relative who suffered from cancer who was helped from medical marijuana. I think that things in our district have been so did fficult and its such a dell kate time in regards to business and whatnot, that while we support having these dispensaries, two or three is plenty and i dont know how many of you live in the neighborhood were speaking of. I have heard very few people identify with living in our area. Were trying to do right for all who live in our neighborhood so diversity is very important to us on a personal and business standpoint. I want to thank you again for putting this forth. Thank you. Good afternoon gentlemen, my name is nancy. I think what laura said pretty much hit the nail on the head.
There. We know i think you made reference to it in your Opening Statements that there is a study that says that crime is reduced around dispensaries so that just helps all of our neighborhoods, particularly the ones that are blighted at the moment. I want to thank you for your continued support. Youve always been there for us. I want to point some of the good operators in our city that we need more of. People like basa, people like the green cross. We need more dispensaries like that. Theyre great businesses great if any location regardless of where they are. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker please. Ill call more cards. Tony bowls, shawn ingram, nicole young, nicholas i already called your name, tony i called, gary s. Hi, my name is laura, im a long time residence of is excelsior district of 25 years and id like supervisor avalos saying so beautiful about whats going on in our neighborhood. Im a compassionate person. I have a relative who suffered from cancer who was he
Meeting was put out incorrectly by this committee. Lets dispel some of the spirit can actually help attract more businesses. Were seeing revitalization of cars in San Francisco, lets not give into fear and anxiety, thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon, my name is gary. Im a 15 year resident of San Francisco. I live in district 11. I am the president of lucky dragon which is the new application at 3140 Mission Street. It took over a year for us to find a home at 2130 Mission Street due to very, very strict zoning laws to find the right property and landlord and its a bunch of combinations of Different Things that have to go right in order for that to happen. We at lucky dragon have spent a pwupbdz l of money getting to this point lawyer fees, architect fees, Health Department fees, grants in Social Security is a burden, not operating. We feel that it s unfair for us to be changed the rules on this late in the process of application. What wed like to say is
He worked at Merrill Lynch 15 years where he developed his management skills and later left corporate life to pursue his calling in pastoral ministry. He leaves behind to cherish his memory his best friend and his loving wife tamara hall man jackson, his parents of washington, d. C. , and ruth jackson, also affectionately known as polly. Shes a leader right here in our own Visitacion Valley community. He left behind four brothers, brian, drew, james, and lorenzo and one brotherinlaw, raphael who resides in hollywood, california. So, please join me in lifting up our dear friend and sister ruth jackson as she mourns the loss of one of her children. On another note, another sad note, i also want to lift up another mother of the Bayview Community that has lost her son. Many of you know ms. Espinola jackson. She recently lost her daughter to a battle of cancer. Ms. Yvonne Jackson Harris was born february 9, 1956. She attended San Francisco Public Schools and in the fourth grade she had alre
And our minds were opened. We were able to support, learn, and be educated in how to stand up for the right things in life. One thing that i can say about the roth family, they didnt stand up for bull s. , that whenever an issue was right, thats what they stood for. Whether it was popular or not popular. A lot of times they caught a lot of heat for it but it didnt matter to them because they believed in doing what was right for the people that were in need of that. It was just again great to see that that name is being honored today. Thank you. applause fred, let me just say that we have a number of africanamerican or black History Month honor aloees in a month coming up in ray moment. I want to acknowledge labor president mike casey in the audience. applause i want to thank you for [speaker not understood] to our doors. We have this coming up on our for a vote. Your oscar time is up. A [laughter] i want to say supervisor avalos and campos are cosponsoring this commendation with me and