Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

That was what i was about to say, were going to open this item up for Public Comment. Anyone who likes to speak, feel free to line up to this side of the room. Every speaker will have 2 minutes to speak. Thank you very much. Good morning. Good morning supervisors. I didnt come here today to speak on this item, but now that im here, i im a resident from engleside and i want to know if this legislation has anything or mechanism that brings back the first gentrification of those from engleside. You speak of other areas, Hunters Point, visitation valley, army street, but you forget engleside, we dont have a bunch of projects, but we do have folks that are using section 8 vouchers, living in these places, these homes and they were gentry fit side first, when there wasnt enough money to allow us to stay in these homes. I hope there is something that bring back focuses folks from the engleside area. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hello commissioners. I have my name is ashley roads. The thing i wanted to say in regards to this great milestone thats being done for our people. Im concerned about construction itself. When the construction aspect of this great plan comes to fruition, how are we going to be gaurng guaranteed that we can get jobs that will be a livable source by having a real job, a union job that can survive them . I think its so very much important to also look at the point that even some of these Young Brothers were talking about, they had a job and opportunity to build their own houses, as well as live in them. It would be a great aspect for our city and for our people, especially in our communities. So whatever you do, that aspect of the process needs to be thoroughly investigated to make sure whatever contractors come out of there, whoever comes out there, that they have to identify what hiring young people in our community so they can have an opportunity. Thank you. Good morning everyone. I would like to say this is a long time coming. This is something really close to my heart. I am a resident of hunters view for the last 54 years. I have watched many people be pushed out and it is imperative we have young people that are still sleeping on the streets, not just cars. Theyre sleeping at the park because theyre afraid the police they dont have an address, they will be pushed outside. I want to commend everybody on the board and hope s. F. For pushing this to the forefront. I am honored to be a part of this and to be here to see it happen. Thank you very much. Thank you. Before we continue too much further, i would ask that if anyone in the overflow room that would like to speak on item number 4 under Public Comment, if you would make your way to the community room. Thank you very much. Hello commissioners. I have the privilege of patrol hill Public Housing since 2001 and i have a nonprofit in Public Housing as well. This is a long time coming. My mom herself was pushed out where she had to move to chico years ago. Shes back now living with my sister and shes 80 years old. My mom is. So i just look at our people that have been pushed out and have an opportunity to be able to come back, as well as us parents who still have their children living in their house. They finally can get out. I thank you very much. I am very serious because its very hard. You want to stay in San Francisco, but theres no place for them to move to because the rent is so incredibly high. Looking at our young people that are living from place to place or couch surfing, and giving them an opportunity to grow up, not just grow up, but pull themselves up by their boot straps, looking at the construction part and really looking at getting our young people hired on in these jobs where they become successful, as well as having a career. We have some gentlemen that are in here now that theyre able to work in their own community. This has to be across the board in all communities of color and low income communities where people are able to work in their community, not just during construction, but after construction as well. Some of the people should be managers of those buildings, and some of the people should be managers in the shops and im going to stop because i actually know when to. [laughter] how are you doing commissioners . I am a native of bay view, Hunters Point. I just want to say thank you. This is the first time i heard of this legislation. My heart is pounding because im excited and shamann walton, the supervisor, we have faith in you. I am glad that you and mayor london breed and the rest of your colleagues are looking to bring in africanamerican backs, but we have to keep in mind that were coming back, but we dont need to be coming back. We need to be coming back and we need to be thriving like everybody else. We need to come back and we need to know what its like to live amongst our asian community, our latino community, because were diverse now in bay view. Theres no use in bringing people back if we cannot get on the same accord right now and not only saying that our youth and everything. My children are all grown now. I have an 18yearold and 27yearold. My 27yearold is paying over 1,000 to live in the t. L. With a 2yearold. Shes fighting raccoons. My grandson has to go through drugs and all that. We want you to see our people out there that cant afford to live out here and they go shelter to shelter, and place to place and make sure you dont forget of those families and get them babies out of there. [applause] next speaker please. District 10, good morning. Basically we feel that its been due time that Something Like this gets brought before you because its just like you know, we just feel that people that grew up and were raised and work in the community have a chance to own something and live in the community at the current rate. You get what im saying . Basically thats it. Thank you. Thank you for hearing us. [applause] good morning, my name is quanica and im the Vice President of the public wide Tenant Association. I think its imperative we make this prioritization for those families who have been pushed out and the families that have done their best to actually get educated, get work, and plan on staying in San Francisco. Being born and raised here, even with protections like these, its still a struggle with the high cost of living, so being able to allow other opportunities, such as employment and seeking Home Ownership opportunities as well is very key. I want to thank you guys for finally getting this brought in front of the supervisors. Hello and thank you supervisors for having us today. My name is sophia. I am a first generation american. As the island of american was colonized, my family was pushed here to the west coast of the americas and we were placed in Public Housing. So my grandmother had, i think it was a four bedroom and each family stay in a room on top of each other. So it was kids upon kids in a room. So in north so this legislation, im very grateful for the investment to the vulnerable populations that have been pushed out and displaced and really isolated and alienated from each other, that a type of isolation and alienation doesnt give us the capacity to build culturally and grow together. So in gratitude and in support, thank you guys for pushing this along. Oh my god, i got back in town just in time. [laughter] no listen, seriously. I thought there were problems here with baltimore, it is ridiculous. So, im back here pleading and begging but also stating there must be an update to all these housing situations, all this legislation because it goes back to r. A. D. , before it goes back to hope s. F. Weve been promised, the Housing Authority promises year after year with the r. A. D. Program first came together under the administration, and the other lee was involved. I was there. I sat down with naomi and gave her my recommendations. My name wasnt mentioned, but thats okay. I got the documents. I got the receipts. So what im saying now, there must be an all hands on deck meeting about the r. A. D. Program. The residents dont have a clue whats being done with Public Housing. They dont know that these developers are the ones who own these properties now, except for the ground. They dont know that they hired the nonprofits to get rid of them and the people that look like me. They dont know that yet. They dont know that there are programs to keep you going on. They dont know that just because their family members have been arrested theyre not going to be kicked out. These nonprofits that will be coming into these communities owned by these developers. They aint going to stand what the Housing Authority did. Ace is on the case with the Housing Authority. Thank you. What use to be the Housing Authority. Good morning, good afternoon. Good morning, my supervisor ronen. I have to realize i dont live in district 10, although i work like a dog there. Shamann walton is not our supervisor but we support him wholeheartedly and thank you to all of you for this legislation. My name is Joyce Armstrong and im the president of the Public Housing Tenant Association city wide. Yes, sir, we do have Public Housing in westlake. We have what is called the scattered site that is Public Housing along with the section 8. At the Housing Authority, if you need to talk to me. Please address to the committee. Sorry. A lot of people dont know that we have scattered sites. We have properties all over the city that dont fall directly in the name of a project, which i call developments or my home. I live there for the past 17 or 18 years. Before that, i came at 1967 to have my first child at 18 and ive been working and supporting them ever since. I want to come along and support hope s. F. And the effort that the mayor and let this legislation go through. If you need me, you know where i am. Just reach out. Is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this idtem . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor walton. Thank you chair ronen. I want to thank everybody for coming out and voicing how important this is to the community. I also hear the voices in terms of the amount of work we still have left to do. This is one step in the right direction and were going to continue to work hard, continue to push policy that will make our communities whole. With that said, i love to move item 4 forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. Without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] [applause] thank you so much. Thank you supervisors. Thank you chair. Thank you so much. Mr. Clerk, would you please read item number 5. Item 5, the ordinance amending chapter 19b of the administrative code, governing the citys acquisition, retention, and use of Surveillance Technology to allow the acquisition and retention of Face Recognition Technology. Anybody in the north light court, we do have open seats in the Committee Room. Now please come forward. Thank you chair ronen, Committee Members for hearing this item this morning. This item is a little piece of clean up legislation following legislation that we passed earlier this year at the board of supervisors to create surveillance use policies, for all surveillance used by City Departments and relevant to the department. The amendment before you acknowledges the prospects that we have under taken since passing that legislation in the course of implementing this we learned that various city issued devices actually have excuse me, the amendment today essentially provides that the city may retain that use that technology, provided they do not use the face recognition function. We see this consistent to the spirit of the regulation passed earlier. It maintains the ban on the use of Face Recognition Technology and i think supervisor peskin in our office wants to work with the city to exercise our purchase power and try to find alternative devices without that embedded feature. For now, its a stock feature that is impossible to remove, its necessary to preserve the citys standing. Great, any questions . Thank you so much. Were going to open this item up for Public Comment. Any member of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] is there a motion . Excuse me, there are a number of clerical amendments. I apologize. Theyre throughout and clean up things to make sure what were talking about here is city issued software or devices and essentially to provide that for these software and devices, they would be subject to the rest of the chapter. Do i need to be more specific about that . Okay. So we would request those amendments to be made. And you submitted that paperwork to the clerk . I did. Well, heres for the clerk. I submitted copies to each of your staff. I do have one copy additionally here and the red line for the clerk. Wonderful, thats what we needed. The red line. Thank you very much. Im happy to make a motion to adopt the amendment without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] ill make a motion to move this item forward with positive recommendation. Without objection, that motion passes. Thank you very much. Mr. Clerk can you please read item number 6. Item number 6 is the ordinance amending the administrative, police, health, planning, business and tax regulations, and campaign and government codes to change the name of the office of cannabis to the office of cannabis regulation. Thank you. Good morning chair ronen, supervisors mar and walton. Im the director of the office of cannabis. Before i sfart my remarks about the Cannabis Clean up today, i want to make all aware of an amendment at the request of the mra Mayors Office to split the item. This will allow more time to discuss the proposed name change. It is my hope that we can move the rest of the items forward today. If you want to briefly go through the summary of the legislation. Yeah, in my remarks i will go through all of it. Do you want to address the split first or do you want me to Read Everything . Go ahead and Read Everything. Well decide whether or not to do that motion after Public Comment. All right, thank you. First i want to thank everyone for having the office of cannabis to this hearing. This is referred to as Cannabis Clean up legislation, not to be confused with cannabis 3. 0, which is much anticipated this winter. The subject of todays hearing narrowly addresses some administrative technical changes that would clarify provision 16 of the police code and align this code with state legislation. My remarks will list the items introduced in my presentation. This ordinance which create as new cannabis business permit type for cannabis nursery, mirroring the license nursery code under state law. The state no longer allows applicants to apply for a cannabis business license as a member of to apply under this framework in order to conform a state law. If state law were to change on this topic, we would be happy to revisit this item. For existing operators, this ordinance would further clarify the processing order of permits as outlined in section 1606c of the police code, for temporary permit holders and article xxxiii permit holders, m. C. D. S as Priority Group 4. In addition to further the goal of enhancing Public Health and safety, state in section 1601 of the San Francisco police code, this ordinance would require cannabis distributors to notify the office within 48 hours of learning cannabis products in their possession failed testing standards. As this Legal Industry matures, enforcement will become a priority and more focused core function of the office of cannabis. This ordinance would further support and encourage the individuals who have elected to transition from the unregulated market to the regulated market by providing a tool to the office of cannabis to thoughtfully address violations associated with equity applicants that have pending permit applications with the office. To conclude this presentation, i like to reiterate that this ordinance is being referred to as Cannabis Clean up legislation, different from cannabis 3. 0, which will be a completely different conversation, including a whole host of exciting topics and is anticipated by stakeholders this winter. The purpose of bringing this Cannabis Clean up operation to you is to refine our regulations to reflect and align with the spirit and intent of our process here in San Francisco. While todays presentation is more narrowly focused to the items before you today, i hope you will listen to the broader equity interest that may be shared by members of the community during Public Comment and im happy to answer any questions. Thank you so much. Great, thank you so much. Any questions . Nope . Thank you. Were going to open this item up for Public Comment. Anybody who would like to speak, please go ahead and come forward. You can line up to your right, my left. Good morning. All right. So good morning supervisors. I am speaking in front of you today, representing a diverse collective of cannabis business hopefuls, soontobe operators and allies to the

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