Clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee out objection the resolutions are adopted and motions approved unanimously. Could you read the memoriams. Clerk yes, mr. President. Todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. I have, on behalf of supervisor stefani, for the late ms. Linda squires growing. President yee ok. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business for today. President yee thank you, madam clerk. There are no further business, go ahead and go out there and do your civic engagement. We are adjourned. [roll call]. Clerk we have a quorum. Thank you. Id also like to announce that the commission will have a different order of business at this meeting, and we will hold the closed session first before moving into our regular business. Madam secretary, will you read the closed session prior to Public Comment . Clerk yes, maam, president. And prior
This masterpiece to show the world today. [roll call]. Clerk we have a quorum. Thank you. Id also like to announce that the commission will have a different order of business at this meeting, and we will hold the closed session first before moving into our regular business. Madam secretary, will you read the closed session prior to Public Comment . Clerk yes, maam, president. And prior to doing that, id like to make a brief announcement. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and the recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of public health, and that Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the restrictions on teleconference, this meeting is being held by teleconference and broadcast on sfgtv. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to sfgtv and sfpuc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you would like to make Public Comment, 4156550001, meeting i. , 1467230055, pound, pound. To enter the queue to speak, press star, three. Madam
[pledge of allegiance]. Thank you, and as always, if i could ask for the commissioners to mute their microphones. If you would like to be heard, just put your name in the chat box. Members of the public who are dialing in, i would ask you to please mute any background noise so that we can hear you and there is no feedback. The dial in number is [indiscernible] 0001, access code 146424 [indiscernible]. You will have two minutes for Public Comment. Please call the roll. [roll call]. You have quorum. [indiscernibl [indiscernible]. Thank you. Im getting a lot of feedback, so im going to ask everyone again to please mute your microphones. Please call the first line item. Line item one [indiscernible] meeting of september 16 [indiscernible] of 2020. Do i have a mover . [indiscernible]. Second. Public comment [indiscernible] regarding the adoption of minutes. Please call 41565 0001, access code 1464241219, press pound, pound again and then hit star three to raise your hand. For members of the
Partners that are nonvoting partners on the advisory committee, such as public health, d. B. I. , all of these other city departments. What advice would you give them around this population, that has actually so uncomfortable with the idea of Retail Cannabis in their neighborhoods. I mean, everything is education. But the other most important thing is neighborhood outreach, right. My partner angel and are now on 11 different neighborhood associations in hayes valley, castro, and now in the dog patch, now on petro hill. You have to go and its one thing to say youre going to be part of the community. Its another thing to actually go, go to every meeting and hear everybody out. And, you know, i think that eases a lot of the stigma around it. I think also, you know, making places a little bit nicer, you know, not just the place where people come in and the stigma is, haney, im going to come in and get something here. But to make it beautiful and to make it medicinal and to have the educati
Cannabis about seven, eight years ago. The Equity Program was designed to serve people like my partner mike, individuals persecuted and punished for whats now legal. A Program Designed to give those from the city a chance to stay and give back to the community, because this is our home and no one else will take care of the city the way someone who truly loves San Francisco can. I believe im a good candidate for the cannabis Oversight Committee, being a chinese american san franciscan, i can see the split within the community. I hope to educate and do the outreach necessary to introduce the community to cannabis in a newly regulated and legal market. Having opened a fair share of small businesses, i know all too well the difficulty of navigating through the bureaucratic permitting process of San Francisco, from d. B. I. To planning to health, to fire, to the o. C. C. I see this as an opportunity to serve the city as a way to take fewer resources from the city and instead to have a great