People every day. Reject their new contract and create new legislation to defund thank you. Thank you, maam, for your comments. All right. We have 29 listeners and 12 speakers in the queue. Operations, lets hear from the next caller caller tonight im calling like so many of the other callers to object to the murderous, officials, and oppressive policing in this city, especially i wish we could change it. I dont exactly know the framework to have that conversation, but i know that our resources are misallocated and we have the resources to suppress a protest, but not see the future. When our food banks are begging for food and our nurses are begging for food and yet the police discussions of their vastly bloated budget to murderously oppress us are to be held behind closed doors. The discussion should be public. It should be our right as citizens to participate in is being renegotiated for three years behind closed doors . That alone is objectionable thank you for your comment. Operatio
5 million and 10 million here. That is 700 million budget. Supervisor ronen complains. The board should said fuck the p on. Ppoa. It is to protect the public. Defund the police. Reimagine Public Safety. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening. I am tim. I am a resident of district 8. We demand complete defunding of the s. F. P. D. And redirect to Public Health. We must reimagine Public Safety. This is one way. Half than half of the budget we can house every unhoused person. Why should s. F. P. D. Get the increase while schools get 26 million in cuts . Cancel the upcoming Youth Program to cost 2 million that is peanuts compared to the Police Budget. Defund and disband the Police Department. Under be the brown act you cannot censor. Fuck the police. Thanks. Next speaker, please. Hi, i am didi. I want to say what they have been saying all afternoon and evening. Defund, disarm s. F. P. D. Now in the budget and redirect to public house, and those of col color. I yield my tim
Zone. I knew i did qualify because my brother had some cannabis arrests here in San Francisco. I did not realize he had been arrested. With all of my work and my 25 years here, i didnt think i qualified. So that census, zoning of your residences address. There were people across the street from me that would have zone, but the addresses i held did not zone. As far as helping the patients, because thats really important. There were all these sorry, your time is up. Thank you so much. I just really want to say its important to maintain what the patients access and its very true the disenfranchisem t disenfranchisement. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisor. My name is ed donaldson. Im a lifelong resident here in San Francisco. Im also an equity applicant on two deals with norcal cannabis. Im also the director of Community Development for norcal cannabis. Beneath of of these two things without did not happen without her. She has an application for seat 12 and
Things im encouraged about as the industry moves forward. I hope that you would support her candidacy as well for the cannabis oversight committee. I want to speak on behalf of all the women. They deserve to be heard just as any other woman who has submitted an application for this committee. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. Im here to speak on behalf of anna. Im a long time resident and employee here at San Francisco and an equity applicant. Im here in support of my colleague, which i mentioned a moment ago as she seeks to become a member of the committee in seat 12 and seat 14. We worked together at norcal cannab cannabis. I am the primary point of contact for our delivery drivers. In addition with norcal allowing me to apply for this position and has helped me create a better opportunity for myself and my family. She is a Strong Female leader with a great deal of experience in the industry and i believe she is experienced in exper tease and lov
Okay, thank you everyone that applied and did speak. Now were going to open this item up for Public Comment. Any member of the public who would like to speak . Please feel free to come forward. Hi, i actually was on the original Cannabis Task force in the late 1990s. I began working with cannabis to help alleviate medical problems. In 1997, i became a member and worked with the task force and work in the health department. I created the program at laguna honda, and i did a lot of talking at their conferences. Im here today to support ali and his bid for being on the seat. I have just a few notes that have come up in all the conversations i thought i would share. I did the patient work back then and champ was closed in 2002. Ive been helping patients underground and with medical cannabis. I started the whole education for the membership there and stuff, and the card system. You did that based off of education i gave the city on how we were verifying the doctors letters and stuff. So som