To have a cannabis shelf . In other words, accessory use. Accessory use, again a bookend. Whether it is the conversation of this year or next, it will be a conversation pushed by our Small Businesses who are seeing profitability in Cannabis Retail and want to participate in that opportunity and, as we evolve this system in one, two, maybe three years, well be ready for that conversation. The task force would like to bring that up as part of its year three vision. And, of course, consumption. We cannot get away from the fact that people will buy and they need to consume and the way the legislation came out of sacramento, it has to be in a private residence with the permission of the land lord. That is very difficult to get if you live in germany and you are coming here for two weeks. We dont want to be pushing our tourists to airbnbs. We just created a system that took the pressure off our housing stocks by limiting airbnbs. We dont want the only place that airbnbs will be the only legal place for people to consume with the permission of their land lord. In the sphere of equity, we have state tax and local tax. There is going to be a conversation about local excise tax at this board. There will be a ballot initiative, im almost certain of that. So what is the appropriate tax rate and where do we get to the point in our taxes that the price of cannabis, with the tax coming out of the state, the excise tax and the sales tax, make it more economically viable for customers to go to the blake market. Right now were seeing almost an 80 increase at the retail shelf. At what point, by adding an excise tax will we make that a doubling of the price that you can get it on the corner from your weed dealer . Is we dont want to go back to that system. So, lets not allow the tax discussion to fail to bring in that consideration and the task force would be an excellent place for that discussion to happen. And then finally, regulatory equity and land use all overlap in data. We cannot move forward without getting data. We have an excellent director in the office of cannabis who understands the need for data, who is going to help me understand my next slide, which talks about how data works with our system. But methods of collection and the stoep of what we need in the first years data, we need to decide now. So that we can start collecting it. And year one Regulatory Programme analysis. So, the task force is unique. It can look over the shoulder of the office of cannabis and hear both from its participants in the regulatory process, the applicants, hear from the equity community, is it working and hear from our neighbours. Is it working . We will be in the unique position to provide that ant. Sister and will do so with your blessing. Now what is this . Review of viable system. I like talking about this because im learning about it as i speak. What im understanding is that the office of cannabis is being set up as a model for how online programmes can be used to gather data and make sure that that data is complete and send that data to the appropriate departments for review. So, in the online in this minimum viable system, we have not only those things that happen within i gate permit, i need go to step one, step two, step three but then we also have the preapplication requirements to make sure that you make sure that you are an equity approximately kanltz or you have the appropriate number of equity employees. All of those things need to be data pointed and happen within the minimal, viable system. I probably fumbled that a great deal. By wanted you to know that the Cannabis Department is on the cutting edge of this technology. And i think it is going to help us. Now in conclusion, and this is the part where i ask for your insight. Our year three vision is outlined in this final slide. You saw it before. Where have we missed an issue that you as the board would like us to take up as we move forward and set our agendas for the next year. If weve done great, i thank you very much. If you think of something in your sleep and text it, that is great. If theres something now that you would like to bring forward and talk about, i open it up for your conversation. That the end of your presentation . And then i have a thank you slide. They were thanked at the beginning and on our website. And thank you for your time, supervisors. Thank you very much, mr. Allen. And ms. Garcia and pam as well for your work on this presentation and our director and everyone whos been trying to help us navigate this new era here in San Francisco. I appreciate the overview of the work that you have done in the past as well as highlight or preview of what you plan to do in the future as well. I really do like that you have a portion on here regarding youth. That is really important. And a lot of youth in our district through the Youth Council that we have in district four are curious about this topic. Ftz in, it might be one that theyre adopting to work on this year. Because they also want to understand better how it is that they talk to their peers about it. How do they understand, you know, kind of whats available to them or not and so forth. And i see ok. You are not getting up to talk about it. I would like to see what that Education Plan is for youth and now the Unified School District as a whole is going to institutionalize this type of outreach to our youth. Thank you, supervisor. Ive made that note and will make sure that it is included. From the department of health, we are in partnership. Currently with this Unified School District and dcyf to Work Together in collaboration. I already met with the Wellness Centre counselors to brief them about this and well be working with them and happy to work with the Youth Council to engage. Great. Thank you for that. Supervisor safai . Thank you, chair tang. Just a couple of comments. I know that, first of all, i think that the task force did a tremendous job of informing us throughout the process when we were crafting our legislation. We had the good fortune of having many knowledgeable and talented people. I think the tour we participated in our office was very beneficial. I dont know if all the supervisors participated in that. But i know that many of them did and that was something that was very influential in terms of an impactful in terms of the way i was able to encroach given the legislation. I know you highlight add couple of thing, one of which we fried to solve for and have conversations around portability. The biggest hurdle with portability has to do with the fact that the regulatory and entilement. Have to do with is it a land use conversation . And then to essentially take that in terms of your licensing. We did provide for the mobility of the license. But it didnt remove the ability the requirement that a new location would have to go through the land use process all over again. And i dont think there is any way were going to be able to remove that. As much as we would like it to. But what we did do, which i think was really important is allow for and control for the amount of ownership that the particular permit could be sold under. And how much ownership had to remain in the hanses of. So, we had instances where Property Owners came in and bought properties and were hopeful that they would then immediately assume that designation. In some cases they did. But we were able to, and correct me if im wrong, task force, but i believe we were able to solve for that in the sense that just because you have the land use designation, doesnt mean you immediately assume the permit. So we worked directly with director elliott on that. It was an it ray tiff process. There was a lot of good leadership on behalf of the departments, the task force, the office of cannabis. My colleague. And i think we got to a really good place. Woe are going to have to have a conversation about taxing. I think the taxing of this use is imminent. The state will come up with a number in the city and county of San Francisco because of a lot of the needs in regard to health and equity and all the other desires. It is a conversation that is going to move forward in a rapiden maer, probably after the june election. But maybe even sooner than that. So we should engage in that conversation. And other than that, i appreciate the conversation. I would like to echo what supervisor tang said because of the expansion of retail use, the knowledge and the access and the exposure of youth has gone up exponentially and i think it is important we have a real conversation because the folks that will be exposed to a broader variety of cannabis on the market, whether it is the secondary or tertiary market after folks that are buying it through the expanded retail accessability, we have to have a fullblown conversation about how were disseminating that information. Its important to include, as you said, the department of children, youth and family because there are those that are no longer in school, that are out of school and are hopefully accessible through the Nonprofit Networks that we have in the city and it is just about providing information and knowledge and understanding. And that might be a good thing in terms of the expansion of the retail. There is a little bit more knowledge about the strands and the usage and the dosage of t. H. C. Levels versus just buying something on the street and not knowing whats exactly out there so that then there is going to be generally, what im saying is there is generally going to be more knowledge out in the general public. Hopefully. And i think the department of Public Health has a key role to play in that. That way well be protective of our youth in general. Thank you for your presentation today. We appreciate and look forward to a continued conversation. Thank you, supervisor safai and thank you to everyone who has been work on this. I myself are first and foremost interested in how the legislation that we just passed as a board will shake out in addition to everything that you presented today. I think that all of that will be very helpful in guiding us on your future work as well. Well certainly all be thinking about that. I see there are no other questions from this trung indicated committee here. So, i will open up this hearing item four to Public Comment. If anyone wants to speak. Come on up. Hello. Im jesse stoue. I live here in the neighbourhood. Im on seat nine of the task force these past two years. Thank you for passing this wonderful legislation two months ago in december thats enabled San Franciscos cannabis industry to begin the process of becoming state licensed. Appreciate that. A couple of areas from the presentation and others that i wanted to highlight. First the issue of consumption of cannabis that currently the city has allow add few of the retailer, i think eight in total, to have consumption spaces within the retail floor spaces but that is not accessible for most people who would either like to use cannabis in their home, might have trouble with their land lord and theres just not going to be enough physical spaces in eight retailers for all the people who want to use cannabis in San Francisco legally. So, we want to avoid a situation where people are going to use cannabis in the park or on the street corner. We instead prefer to allow some kind of space where people can go to use cannabis within city law and not run afoul. In other words to avoid people getting tickets that they cant afford to pay, we prefer if the board can continue to work on its legislation, to provide a place where people can go for safe consumption of cannabis. Another area that is important that we mentioned earlier is compassion programmes. Its wonderful that the new legislation has the sentence about the city will allow to have compassion programmes. We have a conflict with state law where the state regulations currently only alow for free medicine to be given out to people who qualified already as medical patients. We ask that the city lobby the state and expand city law to allow compassion programmes for anyone who cant afford it, rather than only people who have already gone through the expensive city card process. And finally i ask that the supervise source and the board to see your recommendation about the funding for eke wi applicants. Were concern that they may not be able to get bank loans and would be great if the city budget could include lowinterest loans for these businesses. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public who wish to speak on item four, please come on up . Hi, my name is wolfon im with the chineseamerican democratic club. I respectfully ask to reject all recommendations coming from the task force. It has been over a year of activism thats come of the neighbourhood and none of these recommendations come to support or address the needs of the neighbourhoods. I find that somewhat i nienlds offensive. I find that very offensive. Since the last time ive spoken in front of the board ands in front of planning, two and a half months has passed since theres been a lot of people thats reached out to me. Two of the top concerns that i have heard is cannabis grow within homes, rentsed homeswr and i respectfully ask that everything from the task force be rejected until there are resolutions to the neighbourhoods. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public who wish to speak on item four . Ok. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed on this item. I think that perhaps the task force could work with some of the members of the public who brought up suggestions. I think that would be really great. For example, i dont know if you heard earlier that we had chatted about the focus for youth. That is really important. Again, i was glad to hear that you have a plan moving forward and perhaps we can do a better job to share with the public what exactly that is. Supervisor safai . Yes. I just wanted to the last comment by the previous speaker thats on the task force. Jesse something to highlight for Task Force Members and maybe they can report back to us next time. One of things that we heard from industry folks that because of the way we drew the equity rules that there was a lot of existing cannabis owners that had employees and other folks that were qualifying members in terms of the parameters that we set for equity applicants, that they were interested in working to invest and work with them as well. So id like to see you know, id like to see a report on what youre seeing in the industry as we move forward. The way the rules are set the next 50plus applications that have to be approved have to be equity applicants. What we were getting some initial feedback is there were existing operators that were looking to invest and help to grow no pun intended the equity applicants and their ability to expand. It will be interesting to see how they plan on doing that. And to the last speaker, you did miss our conversation and request that we had in terms of education and outreach and how we were informing youth in this process, particularly high school students. We had quite a conversation on that. Director elliott, did you want to Say Something . Director elliott . Im sorry. Im kidding. Sorry. Sorry. Supervisor elliott, director of the office of cannabis. I want to a fluiinger for our website and on that website is a meeting page that gives every member of the public a sense of when we will be holding task force meetings. And we encourage members of the public to attend and participate in those meetings. As the recommendations of the task force are advised by members of the public as well. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Any other comments or questions . I dont have anything else. All right. Well thank you again. I know that this is ongoing conversation that were all going to have and monitor pretty closely. For todays purposes, were going to close this hearing that was again called by supervisor cohen. I think well try to make a motion to file this hearing. Ok. All right. Well do that without objection. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, are there any other items before us today . That completes the agenda for today. Thank you. This meeting is adjourned. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Im going to call to order this meeting. Microphone, sorry about that. Hi, everyone, were going to get started. Ill call to order this meeting of the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency board of directors and Parking Authority for tuesday, february 6th. Would you please call the roll. Yes. Director bordin. Present. Ramos. Present. Rutgy. Present. Torez. Here. Director brinkman. Present. And sue is absent with notification so you do have a quorum. Item 3, note the ringing of and use of cellphones, pagers and similar Electronic Device right side prohibited at the meeting. Please be advised any person responsible for ringing or use of a cellphone, pager might be removed from the meeting. Those on vibrate cause microphone interference. Please place them on the off position. Item 4, approval of the minutes of the january 16th regular meeting. Im going to go ahead and call the january 16th and january 23rd together. Do i have a Public Comment on those Meeting Minutes . No, seeing none. Do i have a motion to approved both . Second and all in favor aye. Aye. Any opposed. Hearing none, minutes for the 16th and 23rd of january are approved. Item 5, communications. I have no items at this time. Thank you. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. Board members. Does anybody have anything theyd like to bring up . No . Great, thank you i had heard about work going on a lot 6 00 street and i wanted to know what was going on with that project . Could we have an update on sixth street . Great. Thank you. Anything else . No. Seeing nothing. Well move on. Ok, item 7, directors report. Madam chair, members of the board i dont think your mic is on. There it is. Id like to ask our director of finance and Information Technology to come forward to recognize one of her employees. Is she on . Hello . Thank you. So im