Welcome to the 238 members and welcome to the teamsters. It is great to have you here. [applause] teamsters local 238 negotiates 270 contracts across the state of iowa, both the Public Sector and private sector. It is safe to say there is not a single aspect of the iowa handsy that teamsters do not touch. We are everywhere. As the first caucus in the nation, teamsters have also been everywhere dogging these candidates. We have been following them around for months asking them questions and educating them about our issues, as well as our brothers and sisters in north carolina, south carolina, new hampshire, nevada. We have done a great job of coordinating our messaging to candidates across the country. Some members from those states are here and we would like to welcome you and thank you for traveling across the country to be in iowa today. Today we bring you the candidates. And we bring you the candidates with the help of the storm lake times added the guardian, our sponsors today. We
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
Micro Mobility Technology might be a good firstmile, lastmile solution, but i think mta and these Companies Still have a little ways to go. And relative to the item that president yee introduced, item 47, on todays agenda, which is cosponsored by every Single Member of this board urging the mta to issue permits that are compliant with ab5 and respect workers rights, lets be clear that some of these Companies Continue to exploit loopholes in state and local employment law. And i was actually informed by a representative of the Teamsters Joint Council 7 this morning, that at least two of the Scooter Companies that are anticipating permits in two weeks are using thirdparty basically temp agencies, like Silicon Valley startup blue crew to get around the obligation to hire employees with adequate compensation packages and benefits, even though these employees are technically w2 classified employees. This labor model has been a problem for decades in the Agricultural Industry and in the Food
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
With our along with first five for our citys jointly funded Family Resource center initiative. Our work is stronger because of the participation, engagement and guidance from our commissioners, that you have met here today. And i urge you heartly to support their appointments and recommend them. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. [bell dings] is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] well, were lucky. We get an easy one this morning. We have four exceptionally qualified people, who have done this three of which have done this work for quite some time. Were so grateful for you lending your expertise to the city in this way. Your work is so important. As you mentioned, as Mental Health becomes every day a bigger crisis in the city, we know that the best way to prevent people from declining to a state, where its very difficult to help them, where they end up on the streets, is to get them while theyre young. An