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if you want. and our clerk is ms. alyssa samira. do we have any announcements? yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and leng tro ng devices, completed speaker card and any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. thank you, ms. samira. colleagues could we have a motion to excuse supervisor farrell made by supervisor tang. we ll take that without objection. supervisor farrell is excused. i also want to thank the staff at sfgov tv,jim smith and jesse larson for live streaming today s hearing. and with that, madame clerk, if you could please call can item number one. item number one is relating cannabis land uses, allow m.c.d.s in additional zoning districts, establish a land use process for the conversion of m.c.d.s, repeal ordinance 186-17, created a limit of three m.c.d.s in cannabis retail in excelsior outter mission m.c.d. and making appropriate findings. thank you. before we turn this over to staff, i just want ....
hi, i m muhammad the director of public works in san francisco we re doing a show for public works tv and my guest today. interview: thank you. you run an organization that actually empowers people to be stew address of the land and troy to change people s lives. tell us about the organization and maybe a little bit more about kind of what you have been doing in public works? interview: well, i founded the hunters point family when i was 23 and basically it was in anticipation of having my first child and if i wanted a better community for my children, we would create that. we employ people who are in the reentry population, former life ers, people with life sentencing to monitor the toilets and that means to make sure that they keep them safe and they keep them clean and the thing this population does is they have overtime developed a sense of emotional intelligence so they are able to so easily and smoothly make sure people can come in out and diffuse and dees ....
the ride hailing is up is an increase from 2015. when asked what s the main reason you would use uber or lyft rather than muni. one is really the top three have to do with speed and direct service. those are the key reasons far and away. it s fast and goes direct to my destination. i don t want to wait. door-to-door services and there s others but in terms of the top ones they have to do with that theme. the last slide was an asked of a different group. this represents those who haven t used it in the past six months and asked what s the main reason you don t ride muni more. this slide represent what s people told us. we took down their responses and coded them into different categories. the commute travel out of the city is a tough one and other ones such as muni trips take too long, rules, don t want to be held to a schedule that are actionable in terms of riders who don t currently use muni. that concludes the presentation. thank you very much. director: thank you. ....
otherwise stated. ok. thank you. item number one. an amendment to implement charter section 16.129 providing that the city should maintain street trees and be liable for injuries and property damage resulting from the failure to maintain trees and making appropriate findings. thank you. i will turn it over to supervisor sheehy. thank you. good morning, colleagues. today we re here to consider an ordinance amending the public works doed implement charter 16.129. in november of 2016, the voterses paed proposition e which provides that the city shall maintain street trees and thus is liable for injuries and property damage resulting from the failure to maintain street trees. prop e passed with almost 80% of the voter s support and set aside $19 million a year to run this program, which went into effect july 1, 2017. thus public work code needs to be updated to reflect the city intention, which is that the city will be responsible for maintaining our street trees. i ....
so second amended with the board with positive recommendation appointment of mr. michael pappas to the adult and aging services commission. with that objection. thank you for your service commissioner pappas. thank you very much. any other items. that concludes our business for today. motion to adjourn. excuse me. that is not on today, sir. one. commons 3rd thursdays is a monthly event series really activate service center and un plaza food and music and other social activities oil stephanie the vice president of operations for this. in 2016 an initiative called the service center launched an effort by a bunch of the city agencies along with institutional stakeholder and community partners to have a program that is how to get people out here on a monthly and weekly and daily basis. my name is a - i m with the program manager and also commons 3rd thursdays will have live music important in the. the city approached us to provide food and beverages a ....