commissioner huie, please continue. >> commissioner huie: i'm okay. i feel like you're going to ask the next couple questions i would ask as well. so go ahead. >> president laguana: you please go ahead and ask them and i'll come in at the end. i'm just chomping at the bit here. >> commissioner huie: no. i'm actually done. i'll go ahead and jump back in if i have another question. thank you. >> president laguana: okay. please do. on behalf of the commission, i guess we're -- maybe, you know -- i think we're all just a little perplexed and also a little shy about advocating for changes without having a clear understanding of what this will mean for the industry. i see director dick endrizzi has something that may help the matters. please proceed. you're on mute, director. >> director: thank you, president laguana. and, through the president, just a little bit of a historical context. when the original legislation was passed to create a legalized structure for retail cannabis or just nonmedical cannabis, right. so there was some very significant deadline

commissioner huie. >> commissioner huie: i was really kind of nervous about tonight because this is a big night for us and i just -- i don't think i can, you know, really express how grateful i am to the amount of -- to you. like i'm trying to put it in words and it's one of the toughest things. i mean, i really want to thank you for welcoming me onto this commission. i really appreciate that you took the time out of your personal schedule to come and get to know me as a person and i think, you know, your support has helped me validate i think a lot of the things that i was kind of seeing and thinking about in my neighborhood and whenever i've brought it up to you, you would give me such sound advice and help me figure out how to like think through stuff so thoroughly and i think that has really helped me grow in this commission as well as just in advocacy and general. so that's just a very small, you know piece i guess of what i was kind of thinking about. i feel like i wrote down three words and i feel like, you know, your persistence has like -- it's so inspiring and it reminds me

commissioner huie. >> commissioner huie: i was really kind of nervous about tonight because this is a big night for us and i just -- i don't think i can, you know, really express how grateful i am to the amount of -- to you. like i'm trying to put it in words and it's one of the toughest things. i mean, i really want to thank you for welcoming me onto this commission. i really appreciate that you took the time out of your personal schedule to come and get to know me as a person and i think, you know, your support has helped me validate i think a lot of the things that i was kind of seeing and thinking about in my neighborhood and whenever i've brought it up to you, you would give me such sound advice and help me figure out how to like think through stuff so thoroughly and i think that has really helped me grow in this commission as well as just in advocacy and general. so that's just a very small, you know piece i guess of what i was kind of thinking about. i feel like i wrote down three words and i feel like, you know, your persistence has like -- it's so inspiring and it reminds me

this is david huie zouzounis. i want to pile out on those shout outsfor rick . he walked us through the legacy business process very supportive theentire way and i appreciate that . and executive director victor, thank you for reminding the citizens of san francisco how important small business is to our community. thank you very much. >> president: thankyou. any other colors online ? okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. next item please. >> clerk: item 8, small office of small business annual repor . the commission will review and discuss the office of small business annual report for fiscal year 2019 20 and 2021 . presenting to today is director andrew z. >> yes. okay. so commissioners, there we go. so as rick had noted, one is we are doing a two-year annual report because the 1920 report would have been due approximately around december of 2020. and we were in the throes of the pandemic and so again, we are getting caught up and the 2021 report is several months delay. so we're combining both years. and some places in the report you will see an aggreg

commissioner huie. >> i wanted to share i will be hosting a workshop in the richmond district on tuesday to just kind of i guess share information about ada issues to address the ada lawsuits we've had in the neighborhood and we have few resources coming for a little panel discussion. i'm hoping that we can get a nice little model down for future workshops so we can expand some of these workshops to other groups. my hope is that we can encourage our small business community to start thinking about how to make their businesses more accessible and more welcoming to all people. so i think i'm excited to see what kind of feedback the community members will give and what types of questions they will have and things like that. looking forward to more workshops like this and looking forward to more conversations that are really positive. and moving towards moreprogress . >> president: commissioner dickerson . >> i have the privilege, we were invited to ... can you hear me? >> president: yes sorry. i was invited as an honorary number of the san francisco chamber of commerce we were invited to th