>> good evening everyone. i now call this meeting to order. charles. >> good evening. this is a meeting of the san francisco commission on the environment. the date is monday, june 3. the time is 507 p.m. please note the ringing and use of cell phones pagers and similar devices is prohibited. the chair may order removal from the meeting with anyone using a phone or similar device. public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. for comments on matters not on the agenda, there will be a opportunity for general public comment. participants who wish to

comment will be asked to come forward and speak clearly into the mic. each will be allowed three minutes to speak. members may submit public comment via e-mail and will be included as part of the official file. i'll call the roll. wan, here. commissioner sullivan excused. commissioner ahn, here. commissioner bermejo, here. commissioner hunter, here. commissioner yuen, here. we have a quorumism >> next item. >> the next item is consent calendar item 2-4. the first is president welcome. >> good evening everyone. first of all, i'm going to speak on the commission and environment we

acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. we recognize that we must embrace indejinous

knowledge how we care for san francisco and all its people. commissioners, department staff, members of the public, welcome. today we are engaging in active discussion around two resolutions and receive a couple exciting updates from the climate team. additionally, please join me welcoming chief administrative officer leo che. we have updates related to department relocation and reception of the department budget presentation at the budget and appropriations hearing a few weeks ago. with that, let's get started. and-- for the second item, we do not have staff introduction today and for item number 4, that will be the approval of minutes. commissioners, we have action item on

consent agenda. any discussion on the draft minutes? if not, do i hear a motion to approve the minutes? >> i move to approve. >> second? >> second. >> okay, hearing no further discussion, let's open up public comment. >> are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item 2-4 of the consent calendar agenda? seeing none, public comment on items 2-4 is closed. >> hearing no further public comment, would you please call the roll foretum 4? item 4? >> president wan, aye. vice president sullivan excused. commissioner awn, aye. commissioner bermejo, aye. commissioner hunter, aye. commissioner tompkins, aye. commissioner yuen, aye. members may address the commission on matters within the commission jurisdiction and not on today's

agenda. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> next item, please. >> the next item is 6, presentation of johanna wald environmental service award to marry munat. this item is for discussion. >> i like to introduce commissioner yuen to present the environmental service award. >> hi, everyone. honored to present here and really standing on the sholders of igiants. if you attendeded big festivals like outside land, hardly, strictly, the pride parade, fleet week, juneteenth, on and on, you likely see the event teaching how to properly sort

and guiding attendees from front of house and supporting staff in the back of house, so things you don't see, sorting waste and in the san francisco bins that are created. those don't happen by accident. the three bin systems. a lot that can be thanks to mary munat. these containers equip with lines custom made signage crafted from cycled materials and insure all the waste is sorted and clean compostable land fill waste. this incredible system is made possible by the green mary greening team. so takes a village. at the helm is eco friendly initiative is mary munat. 20 plus year of zero waste, trail blazer in sustainable event management and certified woman owned business leader. since the early 2000, which is when i came to san francisco, so mary

has been a steadfast advocate for the environment collaborating with event producers, sf environment staff, industry leaders to implement innovative waste management practice. provides service to hundreds of events every year. in addition to the service to provide, insure edible food is donated. every [indiscernible] properly disposed of and every item that can be reused finds a home and every bit counts and matters. her work ethic is unparalleled working a 14 hour day isn't unheard of and sure every discard reaches the appropriate destination leaving city streets and parks clean for the next visitor. soy, we are very very thankful for you. it isn't a accident that kids who grew up in the city knows what goes in the black, blue and green bins. on behalf of the commission we extand heart flt thanks to mary for

invaluable contribution to san francisco zero waste goes. your work inspires me and all of us, so thank you very much mary. [applause] >> thank you commissioner. we are griteful grateful for your service. i also organize many events. your group has been really really like inspiring and really role model for young people as well so thank you for your great service. any other commission like to make comments? great. any staff like to say a few words? >> i have a little esa. essay. it has been a pleasure to work with mary and her team of green angels or trash pirates some call themselves, some are here. for the fast 5 years i reviewed

many special events permits, many who hired mary to insure events comply with expensive sewer waste requirements and any event producer that gets to get a contract with mary is very proud to do so. i personally have seen mary and her team dumpster dive during events. [indiscernible] blasts in the background. it isn't easy to sort waste at an event. every piece of waste is carefully sorted to the last tooth pick. zero waste events are success because of our event greeners and mary, your leadership in this space. congratulations. you really deserve this. [applause] >> good evening commissioners. my name is [indiscernible] part of the zero waste team and honored to

be here to talk about green mary who i have known since february 2015 when i first entered the field and e-mailed mary and said, hello, i would like to get involved. this is what i do in life and you do these amazing things, can we collaborate and immediately mary replied and since then it has been an amazing job creating opportunity to know mary and to continue to collaborate with her and i'm so very very happy that the department and you all are recognizing her work, her tremendous contribution to the city and bay area and it is without her commitment and passion that we would not be where we are today as she is creating hundreds of jobs every year, because of the staff that she hires and creates continued relationships with people that are still here today, like myself and some of our team. thank you so much to you all and thank you most of all to mary for

everything that you have done for our city, for the planet, for the community, because it is tremendous and a continued inspiration. thank you so much. [applause] >> good evening commission staff. i'm jessica, work on the residential zero waste team and former green mary staff member. i want to express my heart flt gratitude for mary for providing a pathway for folks to get into the zero waste field, and it is through the work that green mary does that attendees percentage out of town get to see the composting ordinance put into practice. so, mary, thank you.

[applause] >> good afternoon. alexy with zero waste program. i'm so happy the commission is finally acknowledging green mary. i got the pleasure to work with green mary over 20 years. i came to the city in 2001 and started as a associate and i met mary and there is nobody who is more committed, diligent, and impactful with work around zero waste and events and it is because of her leadership we get to be leaders in san francisco, so we get calls from all over the nation. we had a long meeting with new york on how do we green events and we get to be leaders because mary has really paved the way and what's great is, i get to be a briefcase repsycholer and she gets to do the implementation, so without mary, we can pass policy, we can develop programs, but it is the implementation where the rubber

meets with the road and without people like mary and her team, we wouldn't be where we are so i'm so deeply grateful. thank you. [applause] >> [unable to hear speaker] >> so, i appreciate the opportunity for one, you being friendly, record friendly, because without you being that, i might be unemployeeed and thank you. i appreciate all the great opportunities you made for the other people as well, and i love to be able to demy part your company and thank you. i do appreciate it. you all have a good evening. [applause] >> thank you for all the great comments. mary, like to say a few words? >> that was a wonderful segue.

thank you so much everyone. this is such a honor. truly, it couldn't happen unless in san francisco and elexa and kevin drew at the helm saying, this is what we need to do and this is how we are going to help you do it. there were times when kevin drew would show up blue grass on his bike and help us deliver lids out to the station. it was way old school how we did things. it really develop under to a much more streamlined and equipment supported industry, but derek appearance now is the perfect segue to a, i'm honored to be in this position as a uninvited guest in the home of the oholone and feel very appropriate or timely to be acknowledging all the peoples who have come before us and us doing our best to carry on and support the planet to the greatest degree possible. but derek is wearing a shirt that was probably cast at a marathon.

we collect all the green clothes. we only go to good will and salvation army because we recognize the cotton industry is very detrimental to the environment, so all our clothes, none of the green shirts match and it is every mismash or dpun with green shirts at google so we throw our google over them, jp morgan, we are all over their shirts, any shade of green and some not so green. aparentsly a little color blind. it is a joy to repurpose everything we come in contact with and the fabulous crew i get to work with is such a joy. i definitely couldn't do it without them. we probably have 60 staff now and still hiring. we are having to turn away events because there is so much going on in san francisco and the extended bay area. if you know anybody that wants to get dirty and have a lot of fun, it would be our honor to meet them and show them the ropes from the ground on up.

thank you again san francisco and to all of my fabulous supporters. [applause] >> thank you, mary. >> [indiscernible] >> let's open up for public comment for this item. >> any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? no members wish to comment? okay. seeing none, we'll close public comment and maybe we'll take a photo over here. that sound good?

[taking photo] thank you everyone. >> once again, on behalf of the commission and our staff, thank you for your great work mary. next item, please. >> thank you for that.

the next item is item 7, review and vote on whether to approve resolution file 2024-04-coe resolution authorizing the green business network grant extension and increase. the speaker is pauli ojea, senior toxics reduction and healthy communities program manager. authorize the green business network grant extension and increase. the item is for discussion and possible action. >> good evening commissioners. charles, do i drive? okay. great. i'm pauli ojea the program manager for toxic reduction and healthy community team and i think you all know, the green business program is one of our programs. this is an extension of a grant that we have had the last two fiscal

years with the california green business network and this chart shows you the amount. we are asking to extend this grant for two years for $60 thousand and it would be a total of the four years of 120k, so 60 have already been distributed over the last two fiscal year and now we'll distribute another 60. the funding source is a work order we get from the water conversation division at the sfpuc. the kind of work that the california green business network has done for us through this grant for one, they supported our rebate and prebate program. i think a few months ago you heard from my colleague kevin who talked about this program that we have called the rebate and prebate program where we help green businesses that are

going through the certification process purchase services and products necessary for certification, and we made up the word prebate, i think it works, to say that, we will help purchase in advance so they don't have to spend money out of pocket for some of the services. some cases they want a regular rebate, but other cases we'll help make the purchase for them. the california green business network is a non profit organization. they help support many green business programs around the state, including ours, and one of the things they do with this grant and they help us vet products and services to make sure that they are meeting the specifications of the green business program that they will help the business get certified. they also make sure that they are purchasing at a good price and that they prioritize purchasing from

other green businesses as well and priority goes to local green businesses too. that is one piece of what they do for us. the other piece that they do for is us is they leverage their marketing services to help market our program. again, as a state, they really-as a state wide organization they helped other programs market and have branding in tact that looks the same all over whether you are in fresno, whether in san francisco and so they have a great marketing team and so they helped us with some of our digital marketing, mostly social media whether it be promoting the businesses that have gone through the program, or whether it might be doing some advertising to bring more folks into the program. they just did a wonderful campaign for us in collaboration with climate week and also with small business week. so, we want to keep that going, so we want to extend the grant for

another two years and all of the rest of the information is found for you in the resolution and i'm happy to take any questions. >> any discussion or changes to resolution file 2024-04-coe from any commissioners? if not, do i hear a motion to approve the resolution? >> so moved. >> anybody second? >> second. >> great. we have a motion by commissioner bermejo and second by commissioner hunter. hearing no discussion, let's open up public comment. >> any members of the public who wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment on this item is closed. >> hearing no public comment, charles, please call the roll. >> wan, aye. sullivan excused. commissioner ahn, aye. commissioner bermejo, aye.

commissioner hunter, aye. commissioner tompkins, aye. commissioner yuen, aye. >> next item. >> item 8. update to the 2022 greenhouse gas inventory. sponsor: cyndy comerford, climate program manager. speakers: stephanie lee, building decarbonization coordinator. explanatory document: community-wide greenhouse gas inventory at-a-glance. >> good evening my name is cindy comer ford to introduce the next item. the first step for cities doing climate action planning is to identify and measure their emissions. we do that by developing a greenhouse gas inventory. today you will hear the results from our 2022 inventory. san francisco has been measure emissions for a long time and we established a base year in 1990 and that was the first year we did a greenhouse gas inventory.

a inventory enables cities to understand where contributions are coming frame different sectors. it helps focus mitigation efforts. it helps set emission targets and design strategies to meet them. so, understanding our greenhouse gas inventory and setting targets is essential and foundational for climate action planning. san francisco updated chapter 9 of the environment code in july of 2021 and we set our greenhouse gas target through that ordinance. by 2030, we want to see a 61 percent reduction in emissions and by 2040 to be net zero. so, this slide here shows the scope of emissions that could be measured. within our inventory, we measure both scope 1 and scope 2 and part of scope 3. in scope 3, we measure our waste and we

also measure some of our transportation out-bound transperitation emission, specifically maritime emissions and lastly, we measure transmission distribution loss in our energy system. so, collecting all this data for inventory could be very difficult. it requires expertise in environmental science data and also knowledge of emission factors, so each year there is changes in data sources and methlogical updates and if is really important for cities to maintain consistency and compareability over time. i'll introduce you to stephanie lee who spearheaded inventory for 2022 to discuss the results. i want to thank stephanie for all her diligence and want to thank agusta lewis the spark fellow for developing this complex body of work. stephanie. >> thank you so much cindy. good evening commissioners. stephanie lee, i am a climate

program assistant coordinator and working with the department two years now. before i dive into our emission results for 2022, i want to share with you some background context to what was happening in 2022. as the economic social environment in the city does effect activities that effect the emission we generate. first up, i'm sure you remember we were entering post covid-19 economic recovery, but while that was happening, we continued to see economic or impacts from covid-19, including variants such as omicron and started to see push to return to office and while this was slow, we saw that hybrid work continued to-started to be the norm with office vacancies also being continuing to be a trend, due to remote work being

prominent. in 2022, we also started to see strong job growth compared to prior years in the pandemic. alongside mild shift in housing with building permit frz housing starting to increase at the end of the year, and alongside the return to office, we also started to see a gradual increase in the usage of public transportation. lastly, in 2022, we did see decrease in population compared to our city peak in 2017. so, without further ado, the total emission we generated as a city in 2022 was 4.12 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, and this is about a 48 percent reduction compared to 1990 baseline levels and compared to 2020, we say a less then 1 percent increase, which is essentially

stabilization of emissions and ultimately this was a really positive outcome as with the reopening of our city economy, post pandemic, we expected emissions to rebound, but i think that these results really do reflect our city efforts to kind of manage and mitigate emissions. so, to dive in deeper into the emission data, we'll take a look at the breakdown by sector. as you can tell from the snapshot of 2022 on the left and the comparison of 2020 and 2022 on the right, transportation and buildings remain the largest contributors to emission in our city fallowed by land fill organics, municipal agriculture and wastewater. this will be the kind of format that we'll share the data in the next couple

slides. first up, in the municipal sector, we saw about 3 percent increase compared to 2020 and municipal emissions are broken into buildings and fleet emissions and one interesting trend observed in 2022 is municipal buildings emissions increased. i think that aligns with the return to office that we saw in 2022, so just more people occupying buildings, hence increasing emissions and one thing to note about municipal emission is that, majority of emissions all most hundred percent are due to natural gas consumption. next up is the transportation sector. we saw 5 percent increase compared to 2020 and this increase is kind of spread out across all the transportation sub-categories.

as you tell, cars and trucks comprise emissions from all on-road vehicles comprise majority of transportation emissions. one interesting observation we saw in 2022 is that, the public transit emission actually increased all most doubled in 2022 compared to 2020, which might not necessarily sound like a great thing, but i think it really does reflect that people are taking public transit again, which ultimately is a lower carbon generating form of transportation. next up is building emissions we look in terms of residential versus commercial, and in 2022, we saw about 1.2 percent increase compared to 2020. another interesting trend is there was a slight decrease in residential building emissions and slight

increase in commercial building emissions, so kind of adding to the narrative that people are spending less time in their homes and residential areas and spending more time in the office and commercial spaces. in addition to that, i also want to dive deeper into the different field commodities that power our buildings in the city, and this slide shows building emissions across commercial and residential and also municipal buildings, and what we see is, i think not surprising that natural gas comprises the majority of emissions across all the buildings in the city. one cool thing i want to note is that, looking at 2022 versus 2020, the eelectricity emissions actually decreased and this was surprising for us because we saw in 2022, electricity usage increased compared to

2020, so i think that kind of reflects that our electricity is becoming more and more supplied by renewable sources and that will kind of lead into the next slide, which shows us the percentage of renewable versus non renewable electricity that we consume in the city a. . as of 2022, we had about 89 percent renewable electricity, which is a really awesome outcome we see from the inventory as we do have a goal of reaching hundred percent renewable electricity by 2025. only couple years away from that. lastly, i wanted to touch on land fill organic emission. if you can recall from the earlier slides, land fill organics is the third largest sector in terms of emissions following transportation and buildings, and in 2022, we saw a 27

percent decrease in landfill organic emissions compared to 2020 which is 60 percent reduction compared to baseline 1990 levels. one thing i want to add, while i did mention our population is decreasing in the city relative to its peak, that might cause people to think, well, do we just have less people to generate less landfill in the city? that is actually not the case. when we look at per capita emissions comparing 1990 to 2022, we do have a population increase in our city, but we still see that per capita emissions from landfill decreased by 65 percent, and that really is due to all the amazing efforts our city implemented to kind of reduce the amount of organics and reduce amount of landfill

so wanted to call that out as well. this is the last slide, so thank you so much for your time and let me know if you have any questions. >> thank you for your presentation. quick question, i know the goal for 2030 hope to decrease to 61 percent emission. do you think we are on the right track we will hit that goal by 2030? >> so, i definitely think we are on the right track. i think in terms of whether or not we'll meet that goal by 2030 definitely a lot of different factors at play, but right now the results we see in 2022 are definitely very positive and show that we are kind of in that decreasing trend of emissions, but we really do-in order to get to those goals have to address the two largest contributors to emissions in our buildings and transportation sectors. >> thank you. fellow commissioners, anyone have any questions? >> i just wanted to know if you

compare apples to apples looking at occupancy rates of the buildsings whether commercial or residential and transportation if you look at miles driven as far as public transportation goes because a lot of the routes have been paused post pandemic? >> definitely. on the first item, occupancy is not a metric that we look at. the data we use to calculate emissions is directly electricity or natural gas, so amount of fuel consumed to power a building. but, in terms of your second question how we calculate emission and whether miles traveled impacted the emissions data we get? in terms of public transit if we look at agencies like mta, for the most part we get the data directly from the energy use to power those

vehicles. light rail it is electricity consumed or muni buses the amount of fuel consumed, so we don't look at mileage, but that is data that we are using maybe for other analysis that we do. >> climate program manager. i want to add one thing what stephanie said. when we look at our emissions from our private vehicles, it is based on a model that looks at vmt, vike miles traveled so there is a subset we use that data for. >> i think the occupancy question also is highlighted based oen the two comparison years, so looking at 2020 occupancy was pretty much not quite zero, but pretty close to zero,

so with the economic recovery it is good to compare in occupancy from global point of view. large commercial buildings you can't turn on each floor for like the heating and cooling of the building so as long as you have one floor occupied you are turning on the system for the entire building so the trend is still in the right direction, but we'll know another slice of the pie in our next inventory when we see how the recovery progressed and what that trnd looks like. >> thank you. any other commissioners with comments? questions? hearing none, can we go to public comment? >> any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment on this item is closed.

>> thank you sendy and stephanie for your presentation. nextetum, please. >> thank you. >> the next item is item 9, update to general climate action plan. the sponsor is cindy comerford, program manager, speakers are sylvan ludewigt environmental assistant and explanatory document climate action plan progress report. >> this presentation dove tales with our last one and serves as the two year report on implementation of our 2021 climate action plan. this report is vital understanding and communicating our progress and action set forth in our plan. as well as for understanding our successes and implementation. so, our report on progress helps us foster learning, enables us to make informed decisions around adjustments over time, and also helps boost both internal and external

transparency and accountability. i will go to the slides. this slide shows our key tenants for implementing our climate action plan. i will review this slide very quickly so you understand where we are in the process. so, the first step in the process is to establish a roadmap and that roadmap was established in 2021 within chapter 9 of the environment code. within chapter 9, we set our targets and just talked about our greenhouse gas targets. we also set our goals too, so sector based goals for all the different sectors in the cap, which we have seven of them. for example, in the responsible production and consumption, by 2030 we want to reduce the amount of solid waste generated, 15 percent below 2015 levels. once we developed our cap our

cap set the direction, the context and the specific actions to achieve both those goals and the targets. so, that's--and then within the cap, we have 34 strategies and 179 actions. each strategy defines what success looks like and it also has climate and equity metrics. after we release the cap, we developed a monitoring evaluation and reporting system and this helps support the delivery of our actions in the cap and also collect the metric. and then we continue to track progress over time. over the last couple years we have been collecting information, we have been tracking progress, we have been establishing routines and holding meetings with city staff for robust dialogue. the last pgoal is to insure transparency. we want to make sure that this

whole process is visible to the public and so we have a website that has a dashboard that shows our progress and our collection of metrics. i like to turn it over to my colleague, sylvan ludewigt and thank him for all his persistence collecting all this data and also developing the report in your packet. >> thank you cindy and good evening commissioners. my name is sylvan ludewigt, a climate program assistant coordinator at the sf environment department. today i'll provide with a update. the climate action implementation as of the 2023 calendar year. i'll provide you with the following information, start by explaining our monitoring evaluation reporting process that is used by sf staff. talk about the utility and features of the completed cap dashboard.

next provide a status report breaking down the city progress towards full implementation of the plan, highlight challenges identified in the last reporting year and lastly, high level overview of upcoming 2025 cap update. as mentioned we have monitoring evaluation reporting process initiating following publication of the 2021 climate action plan. utilized since 2022 and collects data for previous calendar year designed to promote accountability for climate action among city stakeholders and continually inform our work. coordinate the collection of the progress from all city departments involved in implementation. we distribute a reporting form annually. beginning of the calendar year and allow departments to self-report on wide raisk of information including the status of actions assigned to them. they can also describe the activity and progress made through narrative

and describe any planned activities they have related to their actions for the first 6 months of the current calendar year. they are also asked to describe any implementation challenges in as much detail as possible, identify how other deerment departments can support their work and make note of funding changes . you see drill down to cap implementation progress. we established performance metric for cap strategy, reported on the dashboard which i'll talk about on the next slide. in order to promote transparency, we developed release a cap dashboard in 2023. the dashboard is our primary method providing up to date information and available in three languages, english,

spanish and mandarin. including greenhouse gas emissions compared to net zero goal shown on the slide. there is a summary of the cap, including all of the major goals and brief sector descriptions. there are charts with a overview of implementation progress which we'll talk about shortly, and the dashboard is where we report key performance indicators. a example kpi for transportation and land use is shown on the slide. all kpi prevented using a variety of charts and graphs and illustrate the progress and provide important context to the reader. there are two types, climate and equity and each is linked to a cap strategy that includes a short narrative that covers four main parts. the purpose of the endicator and the goal city is working towards and relates to, explanation of the data and how to interpret it, and as well as the source that information in the reporting frequency.

all most all the indicators are reported on a annual basis. the case of this example, the city has a goal of 100 percent new car registration to be ev by 2030 and as of 2023 we are at 37.4 percent in san francisco. from the california energy commission. now we'll move into a brief progress report of climate action plan implementation starting with the pie chart on the roget. we see the percentage associated with each status indicators. as of the end of 2023, department report 10 percent of actions are complete, 42 percent of actions on track to be completed by the timeline, 11 percent are delayed, 6 percent experiencing major barriers, 19 percent started so there isn't enough information to report or they have not yet been started and 12 percent of actions received no response during the reporting period. however, i want to point out that, as you can see in the chart on the

right, the vast majority of the na actions are in the housing sector and planning department is submitting responses this week for those. on the left, we broke down each cap sector to show the sections within the sector are progressing. the good news is all sectors are reporting complete and on track actions. action by action breakdown. i will refer you to the apenedx of the report with a status endicator for 175 actions of the climate action plan. now that we have seen the overall implementation status and break down by sector we'll look at the type of actions contained in the cap and how each is progressing. there are 6 categories, programs, plans, partnership, ordinance and policy, monitoring system, educational and technical assistance and capital progress.

the largest category are those that result in programs. this categories counts also for the highest amount of completed actions, but all action types trnd in the right direction. we also wanted to illustrate that or point out more then half of the actions written in the cap include a target year of completion. on this graph we can see the count of cap actions that are reported as complete or on track by their expected completion year. it is important to point out this completion year is what was thought of feasible during the drafting of the plan. i think a big take away from this chart is to illustrate that timeline shift and challenges exist with this work, and so, yeah, i will move on now. into a slide where we cover

challenges related to implementation. it should come as no surprise climate work faces numerous challenges. within the cap reporting structure we allow respondents to identify more significant challenges, so i'll cover five challenges all departments implementing the cap. first and top of mind is funding. this commission has heard about the funding gap that must be alleviated or closed in order to fully implement the cap. and funding remains the number one reported issue from external departments. for example, many capital projects are facing delays and barriers due to funding pressure. funding also is closely tied to staffing, many departments are struggling to fill vacancies and do not have the funding for new positions that would be responsible for managing new contracts programs and capreolateed service. this ties to procurement and contracting which can slow down

the delivery of climate mitigation projethdue to staff time intensity and approval processes. finally difficulty is maintenance and sustenance of relationship and support of outcomes of the constraints and shifting timelines. on this slide i'll mention two challenges that face sfe when we deal with facilitating the cap reporting process. lacks formal authority to collect this information so we don't always receive complete and detailed response, so no formal mandate for this. successful implementation requires a clear authority structures departments and stakeholders can formalize and adhere to in a accountable and transparent way. in addition to this internal reporting process i covered so far, sfe leads the city responses for major

international reporting initiatives and some of the major ones are the american council for energy efficient economy receiving number 1 u.s. city ranking for 2023. we also report to carbon disclosure project the largest city climate reporting platform in the world. san francisco received a a rating every year reporting submission has been completed dating back to 2018. the city also fulfills reporting requirements to global covenant of mayor, which focus alleviated the energy burden of the most vulnerable san francisco residents. lastly, we provide reporting to the c40 cities initiative to demonstrate leadership on urgent climate action. within the c40 cities reporting structure, we report to the leadership standards and 6 climate accelerators related to renewable energy

[indiscernible] climate action is perperchual and staff are in a planning stage of update to 2021 cap by target delivery by end of 2025. we hope to revise and refine the city climate action at a new sector and complete supplemental technical analysis and plan to come back to the commission in the fall with more information and receive your feedback. this concludes my presentation. thank you very much. >> thank you for the presentation. i heard we have adjustment to the plan and wondering if there is any recommendations also included in the report for the adjustment or changes? >> hi. do you mind repeating the question? >> i wonder if there is a

recommendation or action plan included in the report in order to hit the goal for the climate action plan? >> for the update? >> yeah. >> specifically. sow, our goal is we are right now since we have just got all the information back, we'll do analysis and evaluate it. we also have something called a wedge analysis where we are looking at different contribution of emissions from the different sectors, so i think we'll take all the information together and look at what changes we need to make and our hope is we'll come back and present that plan to the commission in the fall and also get your feedback what changes you like to see in the 2025 update. >> some of those challenges are pretty hard to tackle, i have to say. >> i think these are similar challenges cities are facing across the u.s. and we have a lot of professional organizations we belong to that were able to discuss and brainstorm the challenges we have.

>> thank you. thanks. other commissioners? yes, commissioner hunter. >> thank you for the presentation. always great to see the amazing progress we made so far, starting zero where we are now. my question-request for the fall is, how as a commission can we be helpful to you? a lot of the barriers you described like political will, the vast majority are [indiscernible] advocacy organizations and more then happy to bring our boards together to support the department, or if it is funding, maybe we should reconsider the letters sent to the mayor office may be sent to sister commissioner, saying when you cut things please don't cut this position. when you come back in the fall my request is, let us know how we can support these efforts more strongly. >> yes. >> i ditto your comments with respect to the work you have done and

progress you made so far. with the 6 percent on major barriers, have you dug in more deeply to really yet understand what the risk mitigation might be applied in those areas or is that research analysis you are going to follow up with? >> that is definitely a part of-going to be a big part of the cap update is understanding how the delays and barriers that have impacted the delivery of cap actions has impacted our ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deliver other climate benefits to san francisco residents. >> okay, and for that sector for the 6 percent again, if we could know what the budgetary impact is, what is needed, specifically for that 6 percent, and whether there's are grants that could be applied to that

as well for external funding. >> that is information we can work on collecting for you and bring back. >> thank you. commissioner tompkins. commissioner bermejo. >> thank you, i echo the sentiments of commissioner hunter and talking about how great the progress. always great to hear the great work being done. when you were talking about the challenges, i had a question regarding staffing, because i think a lot of industries are having challenges with either finding retaining staffing. is that the same thing and people dont want to move to san francisco because it is too expensive or what are the constraints you heard when you try to recruit folks for this work? >> i might jump in for this one. tyrone jue. vacancy is part of it and some is the additional staffing needed to

implement the plan. there is two pieces and components. on the staffing front, for those commissioners here, if you remember around 2022 when i first started the vacancy rate was like 25 percent as far as the number of people that had left the department and we were hiring for. now, we are at roughly 5 percent give or take or so, so we made tremendous progress of the staffing of our department. the other piece that staffing were the positions we were successful which we'll hear more about during the presentation around the budget. getting the additional positions from mayor breed and incorporated in the budget goes a long way keeping the progress moving forered with but there is significant gap from those positions where we still need to go if we hit 61

percent by 2030 and 2040 goal. that is information we can pull together as we bring back our analysis looking at the barriers and seeing what funding, what additional staffing, what resources are needed not just in our department but could be other departments too, where they are not hitting their goals and maybe some barriers need to be addressed on funding staffing issue from that perspective, so we'll have analysis and discussion in the fall. >> thank you. >> thank you. any other commissioners, any other comments? thank you for the presentation and let's open up public comment. >> okay. thank you for that. we got a couple items here for public comment. we have request for accommodation to open public comment remotely, so caller, if you are on the line, if you can please press star 3 and before we get to you we'll handle in person public comment first, and i also will note, there was a e-mail

included in the file i believe. public comment in the room. xae members of the public who wish to comment on this item? please come forward. you have three minutes. >> good afternoon. denise louie here, a student of ecology and environmental geology and a san francisco native. i just want to say, the metrics and data presented this evening are impressive and i want to make recommendation for more. the 2021 plan mentions link between climate change and wild fire and wild fire smoke and human health. i urge you to fill in the gap by beginning to address wild fire risk and preparedness within the city, because there is a definite link between climate change and wild fire.

cal fire mapped multiple zones around the city of moderate wild fire hazard severity. most are on the west side. update to this 2007 map could increase the severity ratings taking into account two multiple year droughts and the west side of the city doesn't have high pressure pipelines for fire fighting. the board of supervisors expressed their concerns about increasing wild fire risk and the city lack of preparedness during the wild fire prevention preparedness hearing in 2019 and 21. insurers recognize wild fire risk here. state farm stopped writing and renewing home owner policies in zip code 94118. i ask each of you to take action to keep people safe from known harms, including but not limited to,

unirrigated aeucalyptus and other trees. i urge you to one, update the plan to include wild fire risk mitt fwaigz and preparedness in the city, two, ask the urban forestry council to report on the poor health of city owned tree stands, risk posed by the neglected stands and wild risk mitigation efforts separate from storm mitigation risk efforts. thirdly, to work with peter [indiscernible] regarding smart plant choices. fourth, publish on your dashboard real healthy ecosystem metrics not just the number of trees planted. most of which do not feed our ecosystems. i urge you to demonstrate genuine respect for oholone land and

keep citizens safe promoting the replacement of neglected dangerous non native trees with indigenous plants. thank you. anyone else in the room who wishes to speak? if not, we'll move to remote public comment. give me a second. caller, i'll unmute you. one second. >> good evening and thank you for allowing me to participate. my name is [indiscernible] graduate student in the school of environment at sf state university and lived here a decade and used to be a city employee. i like to advocate for the planting of native street trees. native trees have several benefits. in addition to providing the

typical ecosystem service of all street trees, such as cleaner air, quieter streets, more hospital public space [indiscernible] increased mental health benefit for residents and remedy for the urban heat island effect, native trees require less water, increase bio diversity, increase sense of place and sense of attachment for residents. in the long-term, native trees are more drought resistant and make city streets more hospitple. it is budget neutral, so lack offunding isn't a barrier to install and maintain native trees. in the long run, native trees provide higher return then non native street trees due to the benefit they provide in addition to standard ecosystem

service. some trees including but not limited to eucalyptus trees are current and future wild fire fallen tree water guzzling liabilities in addition to failing to feed local wildlife. non native trees add nothing to the uniqueness of san francisco city landscaping. i heard the argument that non native trees promote the image of san francisco as a global city but this is not further from the truth. the city landscaping lacks uniqueness by attempting to project other places instead of its own. the sacrifice and opportunity to provide habitat not only for native plants and insects and animals that provide the city with its sense of identity. native plants are proven in addition to many benefit to provide increased sense of place. a sense of place for those who might not be familiar improves attachment to a place as well as feelings of connection. increased sense of place

improves community cohesion, a sense of belonging and civic participation and advocacy. san francisco is 68 percent paved. san francisco remaining 32 percent is full of introduced and invasive plants. native plants are the foundation of health of our ecosystem and health within the city. san francisco was awarded $12 million in federal grant money to plant new street trees to fight climate change and provide green jobs. if san francisco would like to live up to the claims as a urban nature accelerator, pollinator protection city and biophilic city i urge the installment of native trees throughout the city. [indiscernible] >> thank you. i think we have concluded public comment. >> thank you for the public comment. next item.

>> item 10. review and vote on whether to approve resolution file 2024-05-coe, resolution requiring commission approval of department of the environment outgoing grants and reaffirming other commission approvals. speaker: charles sheehan, chief policy and public affairs officer. explanatory document: resolution file 2024-05-coe, resolution requiring commission approval of department of the environment outgoing grants and reaffirming other commission approvals.this item is for discussion and possible action. >> thank you charles. >> okay, thank you commissioners. i will jump right into it here. we could have the slides. there they are. so, what we are talking about here is grant making and this is where the department issues grants to the community, the community responds and we award grants and they

execute projects. there is a couple of grant making avenues that we have here at the department. one is, our carbon fund, that is funding grants since 2009. two, zero waste grants, that is probably funding grants since before 2009. three, we recently been allocated general fund dollars in some of those funds have wound up in our grants and this fourth one which is what we'll talk about today. that's federal and state grants that we get and we take that money and we grant it out to the community as part of our original application to the federal or state government. so, the commission's authority over the outgoing grants and approvals the commission has for outgoing grants rests in the resolution from 2022, the 8th resolution from that year.

i listed on the slide all the things we are proposed to stay the same, and the one thing that we are proposing should you approve a change. the first item in that resolution, which we want to stay the same is the commission approval on agreement with loents relating to hazardous waste collection or refuge service. with what we propose today that stays the same. the second thing that stays the same is commission approval for contracts over a million dollars and the approval to amend the contracts by 50 percent with total of 1 million or more. we say that stays the same. the third thing staying the same is the commission approval on grant craths that are going up by 50 percent. we had one today, item 7 and have total of hundred thousand or more and that is a staying the same. the fourth thing we are asking

for that is going to be a little different is about commission approval over outgoing grants that are hundred thousand or more. so, let me talk about the current process here and again, what we are talking about is commission approval over funds we get from the federal and state government from grants we applied for and how we regrant those out to the community. so, there is a process as listed. we applied for federal and state grant. the federal and state government approves our grant application and approves the award. then if it is over hundred thousand, the board of supervisors has to approve us taking that money and spending it per the agreement we have with federal or state government, which also lists our subpartners. for example, if we got a building decarbonization grant, maybe podare is a subpartner or emerald city and that all listed in the grant application we

give to the federal government, they approve and then for the board, if we go through accept and expend process listed there as well. the board approves the grant and they approve the dollar amounts that go to those subgrantees on the application. we also go through aao budget process as well sometimes and we'll talk about that on the next slide. after we do that, then the commission approves. and then we give the grantee the funding. that is the process today. maybe i'll see if anyone has questions before i talk about the proposed process beforeia. . >> anyone have questions? >> thank you. so, the proposed process is mostly the same. we apply for the federal and state grant. the federal or state government will approve us, then it will go to the board if it is over hundred

thousand dollars, and so this is now what we are suggesting or proposing change. so, as it goes through accept and expend process, which delineates all the information in the grant application, who else is getting awarded, how much they are awarded for, we are proposing that once the board approves accept and expend process we award the grantee. the commission would not be in the middle as secondary redundant oversight. however, if it goes to the board aao budget process, which is to clarify, the budget process that we are currently going through, the one from march to june 30 where the department has the budget approved, if it goes through the aao budget process it is usually just a line item. there isn't detail of accept and expend. if it goes through the aao budget process we still come back to the commission and present each individual grant we included in thaaao

budget process, and the amount and the sub-awardees and sub-grantees and then award the grantee. that's kind of the revised process we are suggesting. i'll pause to see if anyone has any questions. >> commissioner hunter. >> just a quick question. >> sure. >> this makes sense to me on paper. my question becomes, what previous grants have come to the commission that would not have come to the commission under the new process? >> sure. so, i believe the department of energy bike grant, we won it, we told the commission that we had won it, i believe we went through accept and expend at the board, and then 3 to 4 months later i came back again and i presented and we had a resolution and approved it. i was the original presenter

and my colleague presented at the board and i came back to you again and presented again and approved the resolution. that is one example and there might be a few more coming down the pipeline that are like that as well. >> that makes sense. generally, plan to support the resolution. my only request would be, anything that circumvents due to the new process, maybe we just throw it into the director's report as a fyi if more substantive presentation. >> sure. we are i believe trying to put all the grants we win and pretty much all the outgoing grants we put out to the community, those should be in the director's report. as you noticed, we like to talk about the grants we win and all the sub-partners so why i came back for department of energy bike grant you heard from me four months prior because we were very excited we won it

so we told everyone including the commission. >> any other questions? >> thank you charles for clearly outlining the process. it is just to eliminate redundancy and not to circumvent the commission, but inform the commission at the right point and not to require approval of those contracts where we have to wait to execute the grants until the commission meets again, which doesn't always align. >> i think the purpose is improveficiency but we are still informed through the director report. any other questions commissioners? great. do i hear a motion to approve the resolution? >> so move. >> second. >> great. we have a motion by commissioner taumpcon ompkins and second pby

commissioner ahn. public comment. >> any members of the public who wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> great. hearing no public comment, would you please call the roll? >> president wan, aye. vice president sullivan excused. commissioner ahn, aye. commissioner bermejo, aye. commissioner hunter, aye. commissioner tompkins, aye. commissioner yuen, aye. >> motion passes. thank you everyone. next item, please. >> the next item is item 11, director's report. speaker is tyrone jue, the director. speaker are also leo chyi, this item is for discussion. >> commissioners, i have a fairly detailed report today because we've done a lot since april, and so i really want to highlight the tremendous work of our department and follow it

up. we have been really busy moving out of our previous office at 1155, technically the previous office and move to 1455 and so, leo will fill you in on that and the budget and how that is shaping up. first, we'll start with administrative stuff to make sure commission is aware that on may 20, the construction demolition team done zero waste program provided a update to the rules and regulations chapter 14 of the environment code. these will make our enforcement program more effective and equitable. the updates including extending violation cure dates to allow permit processing giving the environment team additional time to insure compliance before imposing fines so not going out and give more time for those contractors before we start fining people. it also implements a fine cap

for multiple violations to insure fines are proportional to project cost and avoid punitive amounts. we did update our rules and regulations in that manner. going into earth month and earth day, i want to commend the environment now team in particular, they were all over the city and that's a really testament to their commitment. they participated in 15 community events for earth day including the cesar chavez festival, [indiscernible] john mclaren park and several public library branches. in total the environment zero waste team engaged over 2800 san francisco residents including 200 people in cantonese, 40 in mandarin and 350 in spanish. this required extensive coordination, including a lot of in language expertise so thank you to all the staff that stepped up to volunteer

and work those days. and for supporting all our sfe climate week events, so thank you to the environment now team and i think [indiscernible] program manager for community partnership and engagement team is over there who was leading that effort, so thank you to them. following that into amazing end to april, we had climate week. this was the second year we held this and so, between the date of april 21 through 27, we saw over 750 event organizers hosting 350 events throughout san francisco and they range from street to beach cleanups, commissioner yuen participated in a panel. we had [indiscernible] over at the aquarium of the bay. tremendous amount of energy that was here and visible all focused on sustainability and climate. ■

when we look at the number of people who registered 32 were 18.500 people who registered to take part in events just that week. it had desired effect focusing our efforts in one week and we saw from the data there were a lot of people outside the city wanting to inphage and have conversations what we are doing here in san francisco. i want to recognize our partnership with climate base, who kicked it off in the first year last year and also helped lead this effort for this year. we just had a really really fun time leading up to our youth summit, which i think i will talk about. yes, i will talk about the summit. we also want to recognize charles and the press and communication team. if you are getting all the updates you saw we were cranking out announcement after announcement after announcement.

one, because we have an amazing team doing all the work so not just cranking out announcement for announcement sake, we were doing a lot of work, and we were putting those out there and so thank you to charles and his team who worked closely with the mayor's office on making sure those announcements are front and center during earth month. we announced our new grant funding to expand food recovery program. reaffirmed investment by mayor breed in her budget submitted to the board on earth day, and if you didn't see we were featured in a series of examiner articles on all the different programs our department has been working on, so great accomplishment there. finally closing out april, i do want to recognize one particular event, the climate action youth summit that was hosted at yerba buena gardens. commissioner tompkins was there.

various grade levels and schools and presented projeths how we can be more sustainable and what the solutions are to be more sustainable and so all and all we had all most a thousand people gathered in that one spot, so energy was very very palpable with smiles of the kids. when the mayor got there the screaming would not stop. we had california epa secretary garcia there and she commented that mayor breed it was a taylor swift concert with everyone yelling for mayor breed. but, that took tremendous amount of work so i want to recognize environmental education team with ester, this took months and months of planning and close coordination and partnership with the san francisco unified school district, the amazing teachers there leading their classrooms. [indiscernible] two kudos for this director's report and we had a lot of external partners that allowed us to

host this event, so i want to recognize [indiscernible] from the yerba buena conservancy that hosted us there. he allowed us to use that location at cost and covered everything as far as insurance, which a lot can go wrong with 800 kids in one spot as we know. uth nothing did go wrong and he stepped up to provide the leadership. also we had the children creativity museum yerba buena gardens hosting all the school projects in that museum space. if you didn't get a chance to check it out it is at the children museum and can see the amazing projects of school youth. also during april, we kicked off with bayview hunter point community advocates climate equity hub. this is under cindy comerford for climate team and building decarbonization team.

we kicked off the eco center at heron head park. we held a gathering and workshop and eco center transformed into a huge showcase with demonstration cooking on induction code, heat pump water heaters induction stove tops. fully crowded and subcribed as far as the room being packed so people were interested in the information. we also kicked off our heat pump water heater direct install program, which is offering free water heaters and instillation for income qualified residents so this is part that climate equity club initiative. and then, at the end of april, because it wasn't enough, we got to recognize all our amazing green businesses and so all our small businesses that are here in the city, so thank you to commissioner bermejo and yuen showing up there and congratulating all

our awardees. we had 147 businesses that were recognized between july 2022 and march 2024 for the sf green business awards, and we hosted at the california academy of sciences and when we talked to the businesses, the small businesses, we really highlighted when you aggregate all their work and efforts and sabeing energy and water, the results are tremendous. they saved over million gallons of water and reduced emission by 254 [indiscernible] city largest green business and we recognized the upper hand nail spa, which is california's first certified green business nail salon. yeah, thank you all the commissioners who showed up for the events. your presence meant a lot to the staff and i know to all the attendees of all these amazing events and that

concludes my portion of director report. it was long because we really did a lot of work that month and now i will pass it over to leo to talk about our move and our budget. >> thank you. great. so, i will start off sharing information about our move. we got the slides up. so, the department we have moved out of 1155 marth street as of mid-may, and i heard from our real estate department the city as a whole was able to get out of the building by the end of may so that is important because we were on a very expensive month to month hold-over lease and were able to move quickly and be able to move out that building to save the city some money. the agreement that the city negotiated

and the board of supervisors passed is a really strong agreement with our new buildings, which is owned by hudson. it is an agreement that includes one year of free rent, as well as an amount to cover tenant improvements and moving costs for the four floors that we will be occupying as a city over there. and additionally, one other aspect important to the board of supervisor is the real estate department have the option to purchase this building in the future. the city is interested in having ownership over more of its properties, so this was one thing that kept the lease renewal from moving forward and had the real estate department move forward with looking at this. this is definitely something the city will be looking at and working

toward in the upcoming few years. so, the current sich tuation it is expected to take 4 to 6 months for tenant improvements to be completed in the new spaces, so what the city has done is, they've provided at the 8th floor a swing space, which is available for us as well as i believe five other city departments to use as needed, so it is a smaller space that's intended to be available for those instances when we need to be in the area. i know sometimes like when our team has presentations and the community for part of the day, they are using the swing space for the rest of their work day. i saw folks getting their materials ready for a evening presentation actually for this week. so, that space is all most fully there. we have been having some it

problems, but the city has wired hard wired then relying on wireless and we are hoping in the next week or two everything will be configured so we have the full internet functionality we need. now we have the ability to do everything but it is extremely slow and irradic, so we are going to get there. i think to recognize real estate and dt they moved forward quickly after the agreement was finally there, so we are continuing to work with them on that. but the main core is that, for this 4 to 6 month period, the city allowed increased remote work. staff are primarily telecommuting during this time period. any times when they don't need to be here in person or in the community doing their work directly. that's required us to adjust and as a department we have been really thoughtful about trying to make sure that we are doing more frequent

staff meetings with all staff as well as providing news letter updates to everybody so people are up to date on what is happening and making sure we have all online tools we need for teams to feel connected. when all this tenant improvement and moving is done, we'll be move nothing to the 13th floor and we are the one department that was able to move forward with an interesting flexible hoteling floor plan, that really maximizes the use of existing furniture on the floor and minimizing the changes that need to happen, see this is the space plan that the architects have produced in coordination with our office. the one other department that we are sharing our floor with is the mayor's office on disability and they have the built out area to the left

toward the top of the screen, while the rest of the floor is san francisco environment's. ty and other staff were able to tour some different open space plans in advance of this and understand some of the concepts behind how to make shared space successful, and so reflecting learnings, there is a quite area that is planned for a section that's on the left side, and then there is a more convivial shared collective space at the sort of bottom of the map, and then on the right side is like work stations that are using the existing stand super ergonomic furniture already there. along with high tables and some little side tables bay the windows.

so, we engage with staff for a long time about this decision to move forward with hoteling plan, versus one with traditional offices and cubicles and ty took great video the way the space looks and how we are planning to utilize it and i think while i think talking to staff there is-there was a mix of opinions about whether people were wanting to do this kind of new shared more sort of contemporary format or more traditional format and staff largely bought in and the board moving forward with this and we think this will be a model for future moves for the city, so we are hoping it will be extremely successful and we'll have a lot of learnings from it. any questions on the move or ty, did you want to add anything out

about the space i might have missed? >> can i ask question? what is eco center area? >> that is the main like kind of communal space that after you enter--in the past in our building we used the eco center for all staff meetings and may continue to do that or move into the space further down, but there is opportunities there for us to figure out the way s we want to utilize that space and actually that is probably the most flexible or open-ended place where we are still doing some figuring out, so this morning we were talking about requesting having-whether feasible to have 4 mounted tv. so you can have a circular meeting where everyone has view of the slides or presenter but more in a community circular format and then the way it is configured now, there is four

separate seating groups, so we could choose to do that or highlight art or other characteristics but there is a lot of room to be creative and figure how we want that to work. >> the eco center has been in the previous space, so for historical context for the newer commissioners, the environment department was lokateed in the building here and then moved to 1155 and moving back, accept we are not on the 12 floor, now we are on the 13 floor. on the 12 floor there was this central core, which is common to all the floors and it is open space and historically it has been used for all staff meetings and also hosting events so a wide open space that allows different types of configurations and so that's why we labeled this as eco center space. it isn't a great space to have cubicles and desks because it is your central core where you have to traverse in order to get to north, south,

east, west into the space, so i think maintaining the flexibility and leaving open will give the options to do different things. probably all staff meetings at a minimum. >> do you mind share what other city departments will share the building? >> sure. -so i know that the human resources portion of the city administrator office will be in the building. it is everybody who has been with us in 1155, accept for ocea and the special drug enforcement entity. they are staying on the same block but moving next door. i'm trying to think who else was with us. there is treasurer tax collector and assessor's office. they are also going to be there. human resources is going to move--one of the units there.

originally the plan was for them to take over the second floor where we are in our space we just moved out of, but they will move into this space as well. department of children youth and families will be joining recollect but i believe they are one year later. and the city has the option to continue to increase number of departments over the next few years. >> that is the goal right now for the city. in order to have the option to buy year 3, the city has to meet performance goals around how much floor space is leased so they had conversation with other city departments looking to-the building is old and looking for longer term space, so there is a consolidation going on, which is good and would make the business case for the city to own the building if we occupy most of the floors, so that is the path the city is moving done. down. >> hopefully we have a permanent home. >> yeah. i think if i was a betting

person i would say, i think there is a strong likelihood the city will exercise its option. there is conversations with the human services agency like their location at otis has been in poor state of repair for a long time so they have been looking for options and now there will be floors here, potentially to move into that meet their needs. it will be a great opportunity for the city to consolidate our portfolio into a single footprint and then government entities like ours and others are not going anywhere so it makes a case to purchase it so the deal put forward in the lease and option to buy locks into historic low rates now, so it is a good opportunity for the city for the long run. >> any other commissioners have questions about this move?

[indiscernible] please continue. >> great. so, wanted to also give you a update on the budget process. so, we were grouped with a number other departments and heard on a may schedule, the city is about to enter into the rest of the budget process going forward in june, but a lot of enterprises and those smaller departments that receive less general fund were able toby heard in may. we have a lot of our decisions made and a lot of guidance, so it is helpful for us. just overall, my impression was the board of supervisors was really supportive of the mayor's proposed budget for our department. some questions that were asked were inquiring about partnership with other departments so we got to highlight for example, some of our work with the port and other departments that

provide work orders funding. they were also impressed by our ability to leverage city dollars to win a lot of external grants, and they also wanted to know just how we handle the uncertainty that comes with grants that come in one time, but then may not be available in subsequent years. so, we had some good conversation with them about managing that and how we handle multi-year grants and just how aggressively we continue to pursue money as well as how we make sure to just streamline so that we are using grants on a multi-year timeline and making sure to pace ourselves. we did not have a report from harvey rose office, the budget legislative analyst office, which allowed us to actually jus complete our budget review

within one hearing, rather then having to come back for a second hearing, so that was also really positive for us. and, finally i'm adding the city is going through the june budget hearings, so everything has to be finally approved as a package, but barring any unusual circumstances, our budget should be set and i think ty and i are pretty satisfied how it moved forward. i think a lot of you have seen this pie chart multiple times, but i think this kind of tells the core story about the department that you know, 3 percent of our budget is general fund in the upcoming fiscal year and 45 percent is funding from grants and prizes and other sources like that, so we are really able to leverage the impound account dollars, as well as the other monies we bring in and i think this is quite unusual for a city department and so, charles has done a great

job highlighting and compiling whether the different grantswy have and been able to highlight at different times and budget process, so that is something i think we'll continue to work for our department advantage. these are just the high level charts showing the revenues as well as the types of expenses that we hold as a department. so, this is highlight slide that we put together. i think one of the key things is that the mayor's office did budget 5.15 fte each year for the climate action plan positions ongoing and so this was a commitment they made and is really important. in the past even when it wasfunded it was largely just sort of a traunch of money for those individuals and we now

have the actual position authority that is needed, so we can move people off of temporary exempt salaries and on to permanent salaries, and i think it will be a really good stabilizing piece for the department. for the next bullet point, so for the healthy year cleaner quieter communities program, which is related to the landscaping work that we are moving from gas powered to electric, as well as our building decarbonization program which includes the climate equity hub, the mayor office and the board funded those programs for the first year of the budget, but that money currently is not there in the second year of the budget, so those were new programs that were moving forward. as some may remember, we paused on completing the hire for the healthier

cleaner quieter community program because there was a question whether that funding will be available ongoing. now we have money for upcoming year and not the year after that. what it means for us, we can continue to fundraise and try to win grants to fill in that amount, which is definitely possible. we can use this year to demonstrate the effectiveness of those programs, and what we are able to do with what we have and we can continue to keep an eye on that because that is one thing that we'll want to be tracking in the upcoming budget process. the other notes, we did get to include $2 million grant from the state sb1383, food recovery so that moved through and will allow us to start spending that money in july. and then, we also have $1 million epa government to government grant added in the budget as well.

once all those details are finalized we can move that forward too. other key notes are, you may remember i mentioned we have our first year of rent waived for our new office and so, we were able to work with the budget office to be able to allocate those funds into one time projects so we can potentially address any unaccepted needs related to relocation that might be it needs that come up or other environmental standsards or anything else that we see arising that the city doesn't have existing resources to cover. i did mention that tenant improvements and the move there was budget for that ■í in the agreement, but it seems it was just enough, so if there is anything extra or anything that changes with the city, we do have this as back up to support our department.

additionally, by not showing this one time drop in rent, it lets us keep a more stable over hp head rate so we don't have the strange situation where the overhead that is charged outside goes down one time and comes back up, but we are also planning to engage in a overhead and indirect analysis over the upcoming year to try to make sure we are recovering every dollar we can from federal granters who have strict requirements what is permissible and not for indirect funds, and our model has been arounds for a while and been growing as a department so we want to make sure we have a model that is going to meet any audit requirements and also make sure we are not leaving money on the table. and finally, i did want to again say that, from a position standpoint, we were able to do really well.

we have been able to fix a lot of cases where one time monies were put in and it was put in as temp salaries or a contract when we needed a actual person and a specific job class to be able to work permanently and so, we were able to make a lot of corrections like that. we were able to reflect when we had to make temporary changes in job changes in the class and get that reflected accurately in the budget so going forward if we need to back-fill the positions we dont have to go through new negotiation. i think that it will help for keeping the department stable and really moving us forward so that we are set up for real success later. so, that's what i have on budget. happy to answer any questions you have and-- >> thank you for your great work. excellent. thank you director jue. impressive, 3 percent general fund. that is historic high, right?

any commissioners have questions or discussion? nope. thank you. hearing no comment, i think we will open up to public comment. >> thank s so much. >> any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you. next item, please. >> next item is item 12, new business agendaetums. this item is for discussion. hello commissioners, i think it might be best to start with dates. the next commission meeting is scheduled for monday june 24 and the one after that is for monday july 22. we were hoping because of staff availability to go with the june 24 meeting and cancel the july 22 meeting, there might be commissioner availability, so we will have to schedule that off-line to see

what works. i don't have a definitive schedule between those two dates yet. stay tuned on that. >> [indiscernible] >> june 24 is the next one and july 22 is the one after that. at one or both meetings we are going to provide you ideally with a presentation on our environmental education fellows. we have number of topics within the food waste, kitchen zero sf, the grant we won, we have number of topics we are hoping to talk about. we are working on racial equity update as well. i don't know if that will be for the next one to two meetings or potentially in august, september that is something we are working on as well. and, finally based on the resolution that you passed today, we may be doing a aao grant presentation on what was included in our aao budget

submittal so that might be coming up as well. i'll pause to see if anyone has any questions. >> open up to public comment. >> sure. any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> next item, please. >> the next item is adjournment. the meeting is adjourned. the time is 654 p.m. thank you for joining us. >> thank you everyone. >> thank you. [meeting adjourned]

[♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.t., studying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same

home and they laid down their roots. [♪♪♪] >> it's different because again, we have little small storefronts. we don't have light industrial space or space where you can build high-rises or large office buildings. so the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. >> turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. that's my usual. >> mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. he worked in the drugstore forever. he saved his money and opened up his own spot. we're always going to support

home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. it's like a little community gathering spot. >> this is the part of the city with a small town feel. a lot of mom and pop businesses, a lot of family run businesses. there is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. i think there are some people that would embrace that. i think there are others that would prefer that not to be. i think we moved beyond that conversation. i think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the and s that we have here. in fact, it's more of a mom and pop style business. i think at the end of the day, what we're really trying to do

is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. we're the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. a lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we could pay for. i'm very fortunate to have that. >> hi, good to see you. just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how he's doing. everything okay? >> yeah. >> good. >> we spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to small businesses. we put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. this is like a commercial

corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a significant impact as you can see. what an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. >> for sure. >> we have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. so i think that's the richness of the mission and it always has been. it's what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i >> e it so much.

>> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's streets and sidewalks. local business communities are more resilient and our neighborhood centers are more vibrant and lively. fire blocks and parking lanes can be for seating and merchandising and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. when pair mets, firefighters and other first responders arrive at a scene, they need clear visual access to see the building entrances, exits and storefront windows from the street. that means parklets should be transfer in the areas above inches above the sidewalk level. it's best if these areas are totally unobstructed by transparent materials may be okay. you can check with fire department staff to make sure

your site meets visibility requirements. emergency response crews and their equipment need to be move easily between streets, sidewalks and buildings, especially when they are using medical gurneys, ladders and other fire fighting tools. that means that parklet structures need a three foot wide emergency feet every 20 feet and 3 feet from marked parking spaces and emergency access gaps need to be open to the sky, without obstructions, like canopies, roofs, or cables and should always be clear of tables, chairs, planters and other furnishings. emergency responders need to use ladders to reach windows and roofs to buildings and the ladders need unobstructed overhead clearance and room to be placed at a 72-degree angle against the building. clearances needed around the ladders to move equipment and people safely up and down. so not all parklets can have roofs ask canopies depending on the width of the

sidewalk in your area. please make sure that your electric cables are hung so they are out of the way and (indiscernible) to the structure, they can be pulled down by firefighters. cable connections need to be powered from an outdoor reciprocal in the building facade because hard wire connections are much more difficult to disconnect quickly. these updates to the shared spaces program will ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf dot gov slash shared spaces. >>

>> a century ago, building a dam in the high country of the sierra to bring a supply of fresh water to the san francisco bay area was a monumental undertaking. mayor sunny jim rafh turned to michael to mastermind the project. michael was a force of nature. air fwant in some ways but also a man's man. he supper advised the construction and it was the greatest engineering seats in the united states. >> the remow location of dam and reservoir made getting to the site a challenge. >> they had to get access to the slopes of the sierra nevada so they her to build a railroad to get construction equipment and materials into the site. they had to generate power so they

built another reservoir to generate power and they did a remarkable amount of work with much less sophisticated equipment than what we have today. >> concrete for the dam was processed at a plant just upstream from the construction site, using sand and rock from the valley. nearly 400,000 yards of cubic concrete were poured around the clock. >> oshansee was a detailed oriented guy. he was having his man dig down the bedrock and they would dig and dig and pull, you know, out debris and they come and say, okay, we've gotten down. we're down far enough. we need to personally look at it and say, no, dig deeper. >> in may 1923, the dam was completed and named first chief engineer and behind it, an 8-mile chef of the hetch hetchy valley was flooded and holding back 115 billion gallons in the

new reservoir. it would take another 11 years to finish the system and bring that water across california to the san francisco bay area. >> this was the moment. it was made pososososososososososososos