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And i believe that this and the 1,000foot limit should be retained. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. [clearing throat] good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Michael Cohen and im one of the officers in the democratic club. I would that you not increase the footage from 600 feet to 1,000 feet. For for dispensaries from schools and Daycare Centers. This is this is really going to basically, in a city our size, and in a place and city where many areas of the city are just not allowing cannabis to be had, it is going to increase clustering. In the areas, in the neighborhoods where we already have dispensaries. So i plead with you. Please do not increase the limit. Also if you increase the limit from 600 feet to 1,000 feet, whats to prevent somebody who doesnt want a cannabis dispensary in their neighborhood from saying im goi ....
Employment, they tend to have less or no recidivism. They dont go back into the criminal lifestyle. They become taxpayers. If they have had some type of alcohol or drug addiction, they stop that. They become clean, they become sober, they become homeowners, they become taxpayers, they become all the great things that we envision for all of our citizens in San Francisco. And i just want i believe that we definitely need a unanimous vote. I think we need to accepted that message to sacramento. Thank you. Thank you, ms. [speaker not understood]. And before our next speaker im going to call up 10 more name cards. Madam clerk, are there any more cards for this item . Thank you. So, i have charlie goss. Jesse stoute. Michelle rodriguez. Roxanne doningues shell. C. P. Van derhorst. [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. And anisha [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, my name is manuel la fontaine. Im a proud member of al ....
And a house, but it was just really hard and i could only imagine for people who have more kids than my mom or anything like that, who has a lot of felonies and arent able to work. So, yeah, im done. Thank you. Thank you, ms. [speaker not understood], for sharing your story. Hi, my name is jeannetta johnson. Im the director of programs at transgender [speaker not understood] also known as ttijp and im also a proud member of all of us or none. And i just wanted to come up and just say that i work with transgender people that are getting out of prison and its been really challenging to find employment and housing and its almost like being transgender and you have the other like stripe on your back or other different franchisement on you. We would like to eliminate if we could at least eliminate that, that would be really, really great. So we could possibly have better opportunities at housing and employment. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Johnson. Hello, my name is cynthia cruz. I am a proud ....
To go, not being able to find a job where they could pay the rent and stay in San Francisco. Few of the women have family out here. When they get out they feel like theyre a burden to their family. A lotful them are single mothers. Thinking about the choices they have to make about their life experiences. They have children but they feel safer in a way returning, being able to be out and have the opportunities to have, you know, a being able to afford housing and find a good job. Its was really difficult to hear, but something we wanted to help support this community. National statistic show that 50 of black men and 50 40 of latino men will be incarcerated at some point in their life ~. Those percentage numbers are very high so we need to support communities of color and having access to jobs and housing so that they can build themselves a future. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to call up the last set of name cards before the last ....
Sure you can ban that box. Good afternoon, im pete riley with the California Partnership and were a statewide coalition of antipoverty organization. Thank you to you, supervisor kim, and your cosponsors, for bringing this forward. We see poverty is created by a bunch of big things but can be aloe limb nayedth by little things. We strongly encourage you to make a big move on. We do work at the state level and have been heavily involved in the conversations around recidivism and correction spending and we think a unanimous vote from the San Francisco board of supervisors would go a long way. There is an open conversation in sacramento about what are resolutions, how can we get to incarcerating less people and bringing people home safely. This would take a huge step and really send up a flag to put the energy into that conversation in sacramento. So, wed love to have that ....