>> good evening the san francisco commission on environment monday, june 24. time is 5:04 p.m. >> note that the ringing and use of cell phones and device system prohibited. advise the chair may order removal of anyone using a device. public comment be available for each item on the agenda. for comments on matters not on the agenda there will be an opportunity for general public comment. participate who is wish to comment will be asked to come forward and speak in the mic. each be allowed 3 minutes to

speak. members of the public may submit comment by e mail. comments submitted will be forwarded to the commissioners and include as part of the official file. >> i will note we did receive a number of public comment items through e mail. they have been posted our website and transmitted to the commissioners. >> i will call the role. >> sullivan >> aye >> commissioner ahn >> commissioner hunter is excused. commissioner tompkins. >> here. >> commissioner yuen >> we have a quorum. >> the next is consentful items 2-4. item two of the president's welcome. this is for discussion. item 3 is staff introductions to speakers. this is for discussion. and item 4 the approval of minutes of june 3, 24

commissioner of environment meeting. draft mantle this is is for discussion and action. thank you. il start with the land acknowledgment. >> commission on environment acknowledges we occupy the home lands of the ramaytush ohlone peoples the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. the ramaytush ohlone understand the connectedness of all things and maintained harmony with nature will honor the ramaytush ohlone people for enduring commitment to [inaudible] mother earth. in accordance with their traditions they have never forgotten responsibilities as care takers of this place. for all peoples reside in their traditional translator. we benefit from living and wing on their home land. as uninvited guests we pay

respects to ancestors and irrelevant tifs of the ramaytush ohlone community. >> we recognize embrace indigenous knowledge and how we care for san francisco and people. >> welcome. >> this meetingil step in for commissioner yuen. we'll have a presentation on the success of the fix it clinic in library branchs and update on the grant s and prizes in departments aao budget and out going grants associated with the line items. >> lastly taking action on a resolution authorizing the director to execute an extension of the current landfill contract with recology. let's get started. >> next item on consent is staff introductions. director. >> thank you. you have a few announcements on

the staff introduction side. first i want to acknowledge and bring up matt marvin from our toxic production team of matt, come on up and let the commission know when you will be up to. >> good evening. thank you. i'm matt marvinful healthy xhintee served with the department a week ago on the 17th. i will help lead the landscaping equipment ordinance working with other departments, stake holders, buildings and the community at large with implementing best practices and transitioning away from land scaping. thank you. >> and from our community partnership team. we have tran nguyen andan jell caminor. you want to come on up?

>> good evening. pleasure to be here. i'm a community out reach associate. i grew up in san francisco in the tenderloin and college san diego for environmental policies specific low focusing on fostering health and he local communities. moving back to the city i worked as a fellow in the office. work for district 5. and now with my role i'm excited to not only engage with my local community here but also give back to the rest of the city and many neighborhoods. thank you. >> welcome. >> good evening i'man jell caminor. i work with the community out reach team. prior to joining i did work for the metro transportation

commission. within the legislation and public affair's team full time as an intern. graduate of san francisco state and east bay native from hayward, california. i have been here for 3 months and excited work with the teamful thank you. >> thank you. >> welcome >> and our final two folks, this is related to the h pc u at the last meeting. in partnership with industry leaders the mayor and doctor davidson, launched a [inaudible] initiative. launch today this month and through the opportunity for all, students participate in a 6 week summer session paid intern ships and experience in san francisco. boarding is include part of the program and work on d pack our senior cord narrator will host

two black tie interns that have joined i'm pleased to introduce to you them. welcome yoochlt hi. good afternoon i'm jaila williams a proud graduate of stillman. bachelor in criminal justice and plan it pursue jendz and race studies as ply masters. i'm excited get in policy making world and basics and growing in that area. >> welcome. am i'm jada johnson i go to fon monclaire state, biology and excited learn about the environmental department. >> welcome. thank you. >> that concludes staff introductions. >> final item in the consent calendar other minutes. an action items on consent is there discussion or changes to the minutes do i hear a motion to approve?

so moved. >> second. motion by commissioner and a second. seeing no discussion, open up to public comment on consent calendar. are there members who wish to speak on 2-4 of the agenda? mr. vice president we have no speakers. >> hearing no further comment. it is now closed. charles, call the roll for item 4. >> president is excused. vice president sullivan >> aye >> commissioner ahn >> aye. >> commissioner tompkins. >> aye and commissioner nguyen. >> aye. >> motion pass next item, please. >> next is item 5 general public comment. members may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and not on today's

agenda. are there members of public who wish to comment on this item? >> seeing none, no speakers. public comment is closed. next item, please >> next item is item 6. presentation of the wad environmental service award to margaret johnson for discussion. commissioner, would you like to present in the award to our >> recipient >> yes, absolutely. pleasure to present this to maggie gentlemen of the juries. who was retiring after 10 years of service with the environment department. and over 20 plus years in the field of hazardous waste management. has a deep commitment to public service and the residents and rate payors that make the work possible. maggie helped transition house, waste from the early days of how

are we going to deal with this stuff to providing one of the most robust house polled holds waste collection programs in the nation. she has an encyclopedia's worth of knowledge. when maggie work for consultants provided assistance in waste. minimumization to the city and worked with darryl, the department's first dpreshth on the city's first sustain ability plan. foundation for getting the city to establish the environment department. >> brought her experience and expertise in the hhw industry from san francisco to youtubea a permanent facility on wheels to 2 areas residents safely and

conveniently get rid of household hazardous waste. and a dedicated advocate for stewardship and lead the efforts to develop safe and environmentally sound disposal option for unwanted medicines. cull monating in the passage of san francisco's lands mark state drug disposal ordinance in 2015. over saw successful implementation result nothing a program that now provides residents year disposal options in 60 drop off locations and collected over 14099ed poundses of medicine. given her experienceful has been a caring, thorough and supportive mentor to her team and especially those just starting out in their

environmental careers and how lucky for them to be with a pie pineefrm we are luck tow have maggie who worked tirelessly throughout her career to ensure people and the environment are protected from waste. a pioneer. on behalf of the commission, we thank you are maggie for your service for your incredible dedication to this city. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner. [applause] any discussion from other commissioners. would staff like to say a few words. start with staff in the room. maggie can you hear us okay?

. to say hello and acknowledge you are out there. >> i can, thank you very much. good evening, everyonech hi, maechlg thank you. good evening, maggie and commissioners i'm the program manager for the toxic healthy community team. and i have been working with and learning from maggie for the past 10 years. both in the out reach team and now on my role on the toxic's team. so, something that adorns the walls of our old office and alcohol old office is the values written out and framed. they reminds us of who we want to be as an organization and how we want to carry ourselves in our work. the values are collaboration, and innovation, credibility, equity and impact. maggie embodies each of these

fully. on collaboration, maggie is thinking who the right partners might be and a sense for how to break down cycle sxoes work with allis to be more effective. on innovation. behind our san francisco firsts. you heard these already. most notable shaming the hazzard waste program we have today. which is the most robust in the nation. on equity has worked to ensure our house hazzard waste program are reaching people all overnight city especially those in low income neighborhoods and communities of color which the dumping ground for this type of waste >> maggie ensures there are plenty of convenient options for disposal. people don'ts boonldz the waste on the sidewalk and alley and to ensure the city is tracking and responding to illegal dumping. on impact. i will say maggie does something

she does it 100%. maggie incredible project manager with attention to detail. pours all of herself in projects and executes beautifully you learned about our successful programs the safe drug disposal ordinance she over saw. maggie, i want to congratulateow a career that left san francisco and our plan net a better place. i want to thank you for your leadership and meantorship to me and to otheros our team and in our department. i want to thank you for sticking with us as a prop f employee to make sure that we are well prepared take the rairns when you decide to fully retire. it has been an absolute privilege and honor to serve the city with you. congratulations. on a well earned retirement. >> [applause] are there staff

in the room? i will say something. >> maggie, congratulations. on this award. so deserved based on everything you heard from commissioner. your story lists accomplishments that benefited how we think about hazzard waste and the disposal of it. has been nothing short of -- a bar that has been set across the nation for other cities. our safe drug ordinance and implementation of that the reason we had the success in the papers because of your leadership. and bringing that program and the implement agsz of it. thank you because you have been encyclopedia of knowledge.

brachld hi. >> yes, we hear you. >> great. i met maggie in and 1989 about this time of year. i walked another world i knewingly of hazardous waste. i liked environments but did not

know how to take tear of them limp i remember she was sitting in a table and sharing an office with somebody. i found she was writing a hazardous waste permit to take waste to our facility. she looks young to do important work. and that was the beginning of no matter who you are or where you start can you do important work. i had the privilege of working with mag and he watching that happen. along the way she taught me to write and taught me to think.

i want to say that maggie johnson is a towering figure in the waste world. we are luck tow have her. maggie, good job and keep on keeping of thank you. next person is christopher lester. and can you hear me? >> yes. >> good evening i'm chris lester with environment d. i like to share comments on bill he worked with maggie over the years. a program benefiting southern counties and small businesses. develops a permit facility on wheel in a flood zone.

hi. hi. maggie i wanted say congratulationses on receiving your award and achievement.

i worked with mago healthy homes and worked with her on the hazzard waste collection program and she helped me it cultivate being ino vatdive and working with different teams in departments. i thank you for allowing me to be myself. i thank you for teaching me the ropes how to start. and i want to say thank you. i love you and appreciate you and congratulations on reaching the top.

i'm at maggie's place now. so i want to say good evening. commissioner and the public. with san francisco environment department. and it has been my privilege to work with maggie for the past 9 years since she hired me in 2015. i will keep remarks brief given the initial others here who appreciate her as much as i do. i can't [inaudible] 10 years in the field. i can attest that her dedication, intelligence and

efforts made contributions to making san francisco [inaudible]. program the best in the nation. she continues to work not oust necessity because she considers this program her passion. ensure nerve san francisco benefit. tonight i want to congratulate you and i want to express my gratitude for giving me the opportunity to work with you and an opportunity to work with you. and i feel honored be a part of her life and as she transitions

to retirement i look forward to maintaining our friendship. congratulations issue megan. thank you. next up is jen jackson. hi, maggie. good evening. commissioners. my pleasure to be here tonight to wish you congratulations, maggie. i'm jen jackson the former healthy ecosystem program managerir have a pleasure of working with maggie for my 8 years. on credibility and for me when i

was preparing that presentation. i thought of the many people who [inaudible] regularly. for me maggie first came to mind. and credibility is a quality and has many definitions but the three words that come to me are high competency with maggie, everyone heard she has displayed throughout her career. sheness her stuff and if she does not know she knows how to get t. and another word that come together is trustworthiness. i knew if she gave me information she had done dill gent work to give me good information and i trusted hefrm third is reliabilityism could depend on maggie if she was

going to do something she would do it. >> so. beyond corrected what we might be remembered for and all of these accolades that are you heard all the accomplishments, another one is maggie's kindness and generosity of heart. she has given herself 110%. to not only our colleagues and especially her staff am she shared this incredible competence and he knowledge in a generous and kinds way. and it was a gift to watch and appreciated that in her. she left me with an incredible sense of honesty, kindness. authenticity. thank you for giving us yourself. all these year its has been a pleasure to work with you and i, too, really look forward to

continuing to have a friendship. mag city has been a pleasure being on the to beingic's reduction team with you. and serving on the commercial reduction teamful i knew i could count on you if i had questions about hazzard materials. i remember working on our tiered certification for green business i had requests did goals for the program and i knew you were an encyclopedia of knowledge.

care and infection and time you took to answer my questions. i felt really heard and i appreciated your time and taking the time to plain how your program works. thank you, so much. yea. i'm really in the midst. in our team meetings. wish the best time in retirement >> thank you, kevin. next larry. hi. maggie. good evening. i have known maggie many years with too many stories to tell in a public forum.

it is a niche of its own. i worked with household waste throughout california and mag segood to work watch a small world but -- one of the few that understand this is stuff and have good discussion busy temperature what san francisco need combhd there is an idea. do this service or collect this stuff. not saying no we have not done it before am she has been good with that enjoyed working with her on the regular issues.

the house facility she was there from the beginning because i was there and appreciated working with her on that in a variety of things with that program. throughout the years. nobody xhengz mentioned the first of a permanent facility with dedicated staff am congratulations on a deserved reward. congratulations. thank you. larry our last person is margaret shield. i'm margaret shield an

environmental policy consultant in seattle. great to be here. thank you to the commissioners to supporting all of san francisco residents. i worked with maggie 10 years ago. i was policy staff in a county hazzard program in washington state. both of us were focusing on the produce are responsibility pressures for toxic or difficult products including the local products stewardship for pharmaceuticals that were new and complicated. i discovered she is smart, generous and a lot of fun to work w. she is an excellent sounding board for new ideas and problem stoling and a trusted ear. few people in the field have the knowledge and understanding this

maggie does from community needs to practical proo operations to policy strategies. maggie is a national thought and action lead in this work. her positive impacts extend beyond san francisco. she shart charted out through a local, state and federal actions. it is system changing solutions. what i value is the great friendship over the years and i am heart broken that mag seretiringil miss my work buddy greatly but grateful we continue as friends always. congratulations, mago receiving this honor. it is well done and wishing good

things for you in your next chapter and sending you love. after the warm words from colleagues. maggie could you say a few words. hi. everyone. can you hear me now? >> yes. >> good evening, commissioners and all my colleagues. thank you for your kinds words and i really appreciate this award. it has been an honor and privilege toendz my career which as you heard from so many is a long one. at the departments i have been inspired and challenged by so many of my colleagues. some of whom you heard from tonight and others who have not.

of it is consistently really been a pleasure to work for the department and more represent san francisco. both in the house will heed hazzard waste world and medicine disposal world you heard about. i like to add that the award is meaningful to me because johana was the first for disposal and key in passing the local ordinance and in developing the programs that have been due to the efforts of so many successful and solved the programs for san francisco and the environment who taught a solution. all of my colleagues and also like to give a quick shout out to all the house hazardous waste

technicians at recology who operate the programs daily day in and out winter, spring, summer fall. they don't get much they don't get very much recognition but i like to recognize having said that, thank you, again and good night. [applause] i wish we could present this to you in person. congratulations on this deserved award. if there is no further discussion. charles. open this up for public comment. are there members who wish to comment on this item?

if so you can approach and -- be -- over there. >> good evening. commissioners i want to thank you for acknowledging maggie and giving her the wad environmental service award. i'm maurice the gm for recology of san francisco and correct record maggie involve instead industry for over 40 years when i was a young manager, she taught me everything i know about environmental stewardship and managing hazzard waste. on behalf of the recology family and workers of the waste facility. i'veed like to congratulate mag and he on her retirement. anyone else for public comment? mr. violent. no more speakers. >> public comment is closed.

>> next item. >> the next item is item 7, presentation on fix ittics jack macy. the speaker is freddie, residential zero waste cord narrator for discussion. >> good evening. jack macy program manager. i'm pleased to be sponsoring this item and introduce freddie. he is our zero waste coordinator been with us for 6 years we are excited about this new program that freddie has lead in the creation and implementation the fix it repair events this . is giving residents a new opportunity to get repair items fixed and learn how to low pair and help change the culture and norm around repair. i'm happy he will updateow this

new program over the last year and a half. we are scaling and up looking for the futures. and i hand to you, freddie. take it away. good evening i'm freddie. and i'm implementing program and do enforcement of our ordinance and the compliance ordinance this program -- this is the slide i have. san francisco sends 45,000 pounds to landfill every hour. 39 million pounds sent every

year it is a crisis in the united states and the worlds. ef our program that we received from the members of the public is how to recycle and repair clothing. in our climate action planful using and recycling textiles to recover. materials from landfills and also waste generation reduction strategy under production and consumption chapter. by 2024 to have inclusive network scaled projects landing

libraries repair clinics and exchange. this is the start of what we hope is an citywide repair program for textile and hard to recycle items that are landfilled. we chose the public library for many reasons one is a place of education. our members going to the library as a trusted resource. it is across the city. it is not two. and the public library systems serves for the fix it clinic program. it is not new. it has been happening -- our

partners other san francisco public library and scrap. and bike repair partner. i'm hearing statistic now of our fiscal year. host 11 clinics across 11 library branches. repaired 146 clothing items and we hosted a bike refair events. we have 120 bicycles repaired around 273 san franciscos able to get an item or bicycle repaired. scrap is a long time grantee we added them under the associates

contract. acquired materials e terrible for clothing repair in the bayview and do provide stereotypens for our repaired coaches. we are one of the paying them for time and expertise that is great we want to pump the economy and get more people to have an income through repair. this is a picture of the clothing workshop. and each attendee gets paired with repair coach and the most common repair that is done is buttons, zippers and ming and what not.

no aterations just basic repair. hosted 7 repair events. have 2 coming. and we have recovered 95 pounds reuses. we award them a zero waste grant. coordinate bike repair events. they do this all overnight bay area we wanted more of the service we decided to award them with the grantful bike mobile schedules the mechanics and provide bike repair and

education. bike repair in the city and it is expensive for a lot of people. we do have bike repair in the city but it is inaccessible for many. here is how the bike repair works. you get your name on the list and your item. and bike mobile is repairing 25 bikes per event, they are two hours. our bicycle repair this started later. we hosted 4 events. 120 bikes repaired. this is a map of where we posted a clothing repair.

the golden stars represent an event. those were the pilot events we did bicycle and clothing repair. pink is repair and blue is bicycle. 15 branchs 1 affordable housing. one community center and one public school. how we are doing out reach to community numbers is through our fliers. and through social media and the posters are translated. and in our calendar and the news letter of the library as well. i do want to work with schools and environmental education team. and the upon green team.

i think it is a great idea we need youth involved. we want to empower community events so there are inspect repair events happening. and we want to extend our grants to focus on repair. we don't have a lot of guarantees that focus that is an area of focus to drive more repair and also highlight repair shops and services on sf recycle. that's it. thank you. haep to take questions. >> thank you, freddie. any discussion? thank you for that presentation with that alarming statistic

about the close nothing landfills. you mentioned the out reach event. can they get the out reach by going to our website. is there. it teem seems post that and save you then and there and this is what you will go. you got information. >> we are puffing the eventsos our calendar. they have such a large saturation of events we have gone and it is hard to navigate to look for events on the public library website. we are going to put them on our website as well. we are chauffeuroth calendar and news letters. yes, thank you. it seems that this is a natural

fit for youth and fast fashion. >> absolutely. so. the school system you know having other out reach directed to them. and you are indicating well is additional grantees needed. what is the process for them on apply. >> i believe our grants are 2026. the next cycle. we will probably another around of zero waste grants released probably, later this year. may be early next year. >> okay. >> and yes working with youth it is a must in my opinion. they are excited for it. comments? thank you >> thank you. appreciate it.

>> go to public comment. are there member who is wish to comment on this item? >> public comment is closed. go to the next item. >> next item is item 8. review and vote on to approve resolution file 2024-interior 6 resolution authorizing it is direct to execute an extension of the current landfill agreement with recology. speaker is jack macy zero program manager the document is file 2024-06-coe authorizing the director to execute an extension of the landfill disposal agreement with recology. second amendment of the executed agreement. and the first amendment 050116 this is for discussion and possible action.

good evening am pleasure to join you and give you an update for your consideration. to approve the execution of our landfill disposal contract with recology. the current agreement we have with san francisco was executed back on july in july of 2015. this designated the landfill in

the seoul disposal for san francisco's trash. recology received. there is an increase for the landfill disposal or operation's part. government fees don't have that. but can change. these fees and the total cost this contract are actually include in the refuse rates that residentses and businesses pay in san francisco that go through as you may recall. last year we had a rate in process.

a bit of a new one. everything that refuse rate payers pay go through the process. these costs, which total as of july first, to be 40.60 per ton are included in the rates. and a mall part if you look at that cost of 40 dollars and 16 cents i ton it is 4% of what residents and businesses are paying. big are part of the costs what they pay is the collection of the material. the transfer and the hauling. versus the essential low the gate fee or cost at the landfill. this landfill agreement had a term of had two term options one was 9 years from the date of signing. and that was july 22nd. 2015 or reached 3.4 million tons

that was disposeod this contract. which came first. where are we. well we are hitting the let mow refoou view the upon disposal tons. as of may first, which is the last formal reporting from recology. we have disposed 3.2 million tons under this contract. that's.22 or 200,000 tons short of the limit. the current rate reach the term limit on october 27. the 9 year term. clock started on 2015 will be july 21 of 2024. 9 year term will reached sooner.

this is everything through recology under this contract. you see that disposal went up a bit in 2018. shows you where the disposal trends with 3.4 million tons you see where we were at the may first, 2024 we are close to where we have not reachd that tons limit. we talk about the landfill

happening extension the agreement has language this gives the city one option to extend the contract. by aciding 6 years or 1.sick million tons of disposal capacity. which come first. if we extend at this time contract term would be if you look at the tonnage. a total capacity of 5 million tons in this agreement. so this . agreement the way we extend this agreement is through

a landfill amendment the second amendment. i do want to point out the mayor experienced a resolution that the board adopted. that was in support of the amendment. no opposition. unanimous vote by the board of supervisors. we are coming to you when we can after the board has taken that action and may team like a formality. a no brainer we need to extend it one thing i want to say not shown on the slide is that the current contract is favorable when recology bid they were half the price of the competitor. ranging from over 50 to 95

dollars a ton that is significant low more than the 40. we believe this is in the interests of00 autorate payors. and gives us the next slide is this contract attention gives the time needed for us to go through a new contract solicitation process, rfp selection, ceqa. board approval that is take up to 4 years. we are welcoming that time we will do that in a prudent way and expect to complete that. the landfill process took longer there are things that happened

we expect will not happen they had to change landfills. and there were lawsuits. we never knew about lawsuits we use this. the other thing is this gives us you may remember. the refuse rate process we had a priority to look how we can take the trash. because as much as we are a model program. with collection throughout the city. nobody is doing a perfect job. and to achieve our vision and targets we believe that we need to be able to process that

treasure to recover from when we can. we did a pilot test of over 100 tons of our trash down in san jose. so, we expect that will issue part of a future contract to give that you context. i welcome questions you may have. >> thank you, jack. commissioners any discussion? >> no questions i department to offer insight it was a pleasure to have toured the sight with commissioner hunter as well and extensional appreciation for the team there and acknowledgment that recology is a partner in

san francisco. to witness the technology. the use of automation. i appreciate that and -- would like to again say -- if you have a chance to go down and tour it is something that everyone needs to take advantage of. i saw it is incredible the 9 year and the cap you hit it within 3-4 months. 4.7 years to they or 6 years. is there a reason >> worn is based on time and

originally the contract we looked at this the original treatment plus the extension to as well a total of 15 years. state likes to have cities capacity planning for 15 years that is one reference point for that that is separate. if the tonnage would be coincidence if we hit it at the same time we are dispotion more then and there we want. we had challenges. economic and otherwise that we are addressing and that's why the processing piece if we find a way to do that before the end of the contract we could amend it. that would faendz and the 6 years before the 3.4 million

tons. i'm excited about the pilot project. i wish well on that. what's hope of getting stuff out of the trash? organics? >> yes. there are recycle annual in there we can pull off you know the metals and the aluminumful class and plastics that are not too dirt. the biggest chunk is organics a lot of that is fiber. anything left in the trash and mixed with everything and enough food in there that -- it gets soild and hard to market it. it is easy to capture all of the

food with the fiber and compost that the fiber is paper towels and tissues.

a recovery i'm hopeful we have a recovery of half or more in nechlt but we'll see. it is a good reference point for us. it is a facility that has been evolved and improved over time. looks similar to pier 96 in terms of using that same technology. you know but also in optical the different screens. that is the front end and the back end going to another facility. we have all seen the black bins. wish you well. thank you. >> this san action item.

do i hear a motion to approve. >> i move. >> second. >> motion and seconded. we can open up to public comment, charles. >> are there members of public who wish to speak on this item? >> we have no speakers. thank you. public comment is closed. charles, call the roll. >> president is excused. vice president sullivan >> aye >> commissioner ahn j. aye. >> commissioner hunter excused. commissioner thompkins. >> aye. jot motion passes. thank you, jack. >> thank you. >> next item, charles? next item is item 9. update on the approved fiscal 24/25aao budget. and presentation on the out

going grants. this is for discussion. joochs thank you if you recall at the last meeting we passed a resolution related to grants that we ghaet have out going grant in them and how the board and commission approved the action item was for board approved grants and prizes that go throughout aao process. we would come back or -- going forward will do it before but today we are coming become to talk about what was in those

grants and prizes were in the aao the board approved. that is why i'm here temperatured starting off with grants and prizes that wents throughout board process and also about to conclude. goes through quickly the grant for less then and there 9 million that will reoccur for a couple years a 4 year grant. food recovery grant put in for within.3 million and got back 2.1 sick million. and related sb1383.

how we recovery. i'm going to explain both of those. the next we include department of energy. block grant we are entitled if we apply as a city and county. we are executing the contract with the d. energy on that. i will nuance the resolution in

approval of commission was about grants that were over 100,000. so of the sb13 ands ep, they have guarantees over 100,000 we will get to those in a bit. next 2 are the recycle funds for crv bottle and can recycling. those don't have out going grants. money for emergency ride home program. unclear if than i will have grant in them. the next is used oil money. we are a clean city with the department of energy around clean initiatives and and 1

thenldz to be determined if there are grand in there or not. >> the two line items where we will have grands that are over 100 thousand dollars are sp1383 and government to government grant. sb1383 the edible food recovery grant. and there is broken down in terms of00 autoout going grants and when we are doing. so, put it is funds from cal recycle that is going to go toward the implementation of our city's edible food ordinance we pass in the 2022. recover food providing to food insecure. in terms of the out going grants 440,000 out going to sfusd for

food recovery program. 420,000 issue through rf p's for grants for drivers and so this is for like food pantries that -- need to hire drivers to pick up food. the third all of the these grants will under 100,000 it is they are all like little minigrants and adding up to 405 i include today and for professional services for food recovery. for also item. fork lifts and large refrigerators and like subing skripzs.

sfusd and food recovery drivers. i will move to the next one. the next is epa government environmental justice grant. we applied near this and finalizing the contract tell fund community activities for climate action plan that will lead to positive public health impacts in environmental justice communities. for a million dollars. we got two one grant over 100,000 and the other two will be for under 100,000 i would include it as well. the first for 1 fwent,000. issue an rfp to manage no cost of electric appliances. hot water heat pumps.

similar with the climate hub and add what we are doing there. we do out reach to low income and trying to help them install hot water heat pumps at no cost. a program we have will add and augment to that. that will be for over 100,000 that grant. the next one -- multiple rfp's under 100,000 to community organization everorganizations to build capacity to tackle environmental issues in their communities. and iville some explanationos that later and finally, there is another source of funds that were finalizing should be 200,000. but 2-4 grants to help the community build capacity to

tackle environmental issues and environmental justice areas and so i want to explain when i talk about building capacity i mean helping like -- hosting workshops. community organizations understands the financial incentives there. for low income communities to install the water heaters and making sure they than those incentives are available and more important how to apply. being be for staff goal to empower community. build capacity to better be our partners and that was the focus for the grant from the ep aside. those other two big grantses out going grantsil pause to see if

you have questions. could you give a time line. i'm interested in the government to government environmental justice grant. when will you be back with the commission for that to report out. we are working with the epa on finalizing our agreement with them. i think i mentioned our out going grants that is when a lot of this grant is for it is like a grant we get and turn it and grant that money to the community. we like to include -- getting the grants out via rfp later this year with the big out going grants i mentioned zero waste grants. we did it two years ago now like to have our second. hope to get those out the end of

this year early next year. st. john'ses like next year >> yes. all of those grants do come back to the commission per 10 years. you get to approve them. know what each is and look forward to bringing them back to you. >> do you have a sense of may be examples of the where the money would go and the community activities based on the pastore what the requirements for the government to government grant -- sure. broadly, i mean. one, i referenced it will be to a nonprofit provider. that is going to take money and give out incentives and help residents install heat pumps that will be something we will

do. other grants may take the form of a community based organization. prepare residents and small businesses for the transition to cook. that is a program we had. others to organizations to help us do out reach. in the communities. host forums. helping people tap in and rebates that are available from the government for the first time. teaching them to do it the welling them know about availability. and there is a few others that -- we will develop when we put pen to paper and start brain storming when they look like. those recall examples. everother comments >> just to confirm as long as a line to the climate action plan where an organization needs to g. and see if they have something they can do.

>> yea. pretty much. all of these will -- will be in line with our climate action plan the ones funds individual to be in aline am with what they want. but -- what they want and what is in our plan is aline am we are excited to get going on that. congratulations on the food recovery guarantee not often you apply and get more. is there a back story. it is mandating composting

through the state. we already do it like we -- saying that was new that we are working on is the food recovery components. and i do think that cal recycle in recognition of the fact that many parts of sb1383 were modelod when we do here and recognition of the hard work we have been working on food. since 2017. i think it is trust that we are going to do excellent things with the funds this we will be good stewards and recover millions in pounds of food we are at 4 million for the first year. shooting for 5 for the second year. there will be updates later. they then and there we can do

temperature they know we can be an example for the state. this is why they put that trust and gave us more than we asked for. i'm getting nods. >> thank you. seeing no discussion, charles, go to public comment. are there members who wish to comment on this item? mr. vice president we have no speakers. >> public comment is closed. next item. >> the next item is the director's report item 10. tyrone the director this is for discussion. commissioners just a few items to brief commission of one, we are moving throughout hiring process for the replacement for your former commission secretary.

we near final stages of the selection press. commission reconvenes we will have this person in place and will be reaching out to you to make that connection. the second you heard from our wonderful summer interns. from our opportunity program. we have another 15 opportunities for all interns. this is our youth climate action fellow program we are hosting through environmental education team will be here for 6 weeks. two other things to highlight. you may have season the press announcement the mayor's initiative curb side challengering making progress. and the announce am by the mayor was we stream lined the intake process to accept mrakzs for locations we will consider. and we will move through that process stream lining the

permitting and the other barriers that might exist for curb side charging. we will be coming back to the commission on the curb side charging report the mt a is leading in august we'll be the time to share what our long are term plan is. and hopeful low have examples of early pilot projects through the intake process. >> final two civil know grand injury reports and we were mentioned in both of them. i want to make surety commissionness the context. first a report on number of commission this is exist within the city. focussed on looking how weather should be a reduction on commissions, task forces and councils and et cetera . this exist. and i want to focus on our commission. we were mentioned the commission of environment and urban

forestry and municipal green task force they were mentioned they are mentioned in either charter or in administrative and environment code. so. we were spared. . we were recommend for keeping all 3 of those bodies in place. in case anyone is going to do it that is not the case. second a flooding report on sea level rise and flooding. sf environment and the commission was mention in the that grand jury report in the request we hold a hearing. further on down the road. in a year, to hear when we are doing as a city on flooding and sea level rise that was mostly the extent where our commission was involved. we are right now working with the major lead averages the port, puc and office of planning

and resilience and capitol planning on responding become to the grand jury report. that will be put forth. we were novelty mentioned to a degree. >> charles had a busy day at admissible works. director carla insure from public works presentod the collaborate rigz with our department. and charles presented there. and represented what we collaborate with public works. with that, i conclude. happy to answer questions. >> commissioners? >> i will say i appreciate the efforts to coordinate with future departments. i think sea level rise is something to addresseen if we don't have jurisdictional authority there is a perception that we should be doing something. thank you. those are upon comments.

i was theme see the announcement on ev charging infrastructure does that mean we are ahead of schedule? >> i think we are what we have done throughout intake press we work with the mt a with public works and building inspection alining all of the approvals. and permitting that will be required. curb side charging you are looking at building inspection for the electrical work. looking at a sidewalk encroach am permit where you will install it and on top of that you need mt a frufl designate as far as this a designated e very close charging location. it has been a great collaboration and getting to the point where we have we think a stream lined press we are ready to accept requests where than i might go in the city. not the full role out this it is

to test or process. and see how like our cities are we want this as easy as possible and scale it we can't have the barriers this will give us a chance to try out technologies and different models. see where might be a good opportunity to locate it and feed that in the larger curb side role out it is move nothing parallel. to answer, yest is going to accelerate the roll out. we are juggling things. great. thank you. >> seeing no other input from the commission. charles. go to public comment. >> are there members who wish to comment on this item? mr. violent, we have no speakers. >> public comment is closed. next item. >> the next is 11 new business,

future items charles policy and public affairs officer for discussion. thank you, commissioners. the next schedule meeting for the commission is july 22nd. we think that will be cancelled. so stay tuned for this cancellation notice. the commission meeting after that is monday august 26. look ahead we are in the second half of the year we will look at the agenda items and have ip m for you in september. we will have the director's performance evidence i think august. and um -- there will be more on food waste coming up. report to cal recycle on pounds collected i think we will report to them and want to dive in what that report says for the commission. and -- may be an update on our

[inaudible]. there was -- a healthy pipeline of agenda items for second half of the year again. probably starting with august 26. i will puz to see if there is anything to add or questions. >> questions, comments? >> only about the commission meeting that might be kaenlsed on the 22nd. i have a meet nothing phoenix that day i does. >> i am fairly certain we had 2 in june and minimal attendance i think tell get cancelled. >> i just add, part of the commission records, a number of public comments came in regarding work that will happen in twin peeks. staff are take a look at that now. so we can work with the

president on scheduling an item we need to do more home work investigation and we will have that as an item. >> discussion? seeing 91. go to public comment. >> are there members of the public who wish to comment on this item? seeing none. we post agendas for upcoming meeting on monday tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday the week before. >> anyone in the public who wish to comment. >> we have no speakers.

>> public comment is closed. next item >> next is item 12 adjournment the time is 6:35 p.m. going 90 charlie. go ahead. we moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids. nathan jessica.

going 90 charlie. go ahead. we moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids nathan, jessica and iva. i was really young. when i had neat, i turned 19. and then two weeks later, he was born. so when he was fine, i used to watch cops all the time. all the time and so he would watch with me. he had his little handcuffs and his little toy walkie talkie. and then whenever the theme song came on, he would walk around and he just thought he was the baddest little thing. i think he was in kindergarten at sheridan because he and i attended the same elementary school there was an officer bill. he would just be like mom officer bill was there then one day, he said, mom, i touched his

gun. and he was just so happy about it. everything happened at five minutes. i would say everything. happened at 4 to 5 years old. it's like one of those goals to where you just you can't you can't just let go. high school. i think you know everybody kind of strays. he was just riding the wave. and i mean, he graduated. thank god. one day i think he was about 20 or 21. he told me, he said mom. i want to be a cop or a firefighter, i said. no you're going to be a firefighter. but that's really not what he wanted to do. his words were i want to make a difference. and that was a really proud moment for me when he said that my dad was a cop in the philippines for 20 years. i think a lot of that played a role into his becoming

a cop. my dad was really happy about it. my mom. she was kind of worried, but i just figured i can't stop him. he can make his own decisions. stu. i just want to say what's up? how you doing? good. good. no i'm trying to look good for us to looking good for us to so when he was in the police academy, mind you this kid was not a very studious kid. but i've never seen him want something so bad when he was home. he'd be in his room studying the codes. he really fought for it. hi. what's your name? i'm nate. nate is great with kids, and he would give them hugs or give them stickers. i think that that's a positive influence on the kids, and then the people around you see it. once he makes that connection

with people and they trust him that foundation that respect people look at you and see your actions more than your words and so that i think will reach people more than anything. you could say you later, brother. thank you. all right, see you. it's a really hard job. i know you. you see a lot of the negative for me. i would not put myself through that if i didn't care. you know, you have to be the right kind of person. you have to have the right heart to want to do that. when people ask me if you know what my son does , um, i just tell him he's a cop , and i just feel like i'm beaming with pride. i always told him when he was young that he would do something great. and so to see it. it's i have a moment. i'm very proud of him. t

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heritage. >> and filipinos features in the community a indigenous community in weaving those beautiful textiles for hundreds of years we're proud to feature more than one antique ones and other fashioned from the community. and we're trying to have an

you are watching san francisco rising with chris manor. today's special guest is sarah phillips. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and eare imagineing the city. the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the

city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people shop. we have seen a lot of progress rchlt we are 9 months in and significant things we have seen is efforts creating permitinant

services and homes for people experiencing homelessness is dramatic. we increased the number of shelter beds dramatically and take-up of the beds dramatically, and there is more work to do. on the safety side there are exciting things that happened. we increased our police pay among the highest in the bay area which is a important thing for recruitment. police recruitment across the country is down so recruiting the best we can means we need to give a high pay set. august the highsh return in graduates. we see 75 decrease in retail theft and 50 percent reduction in car break ins which is quality of life crime san francisco experienced so there is real progresses we are seeing on clean and safe sides. one thing important in the mayor roadmap we are not trying

to get back to 2020 vision. i think covid showed having a downtown with people sitting at offices isn't the best downtown it can be. i think it is a opportunity to bring 24 hour life use downtown. >> music and concerts is a great way to bring people to a specific location. golden gate park we had lots of events in plazas throughout the city. can you talk about those and if there is upcoming events too? >> i think you touched on something key to the mayor road map. for san francisco and particularly san francisco downtown to move forward and be successful as a great american city, it is about bringing people together because they want to be together not because they center to be together and music is a strong part that.

the planet concert sear ries coming up and happening throughout the city not just golden gate park but downtown locations are a great example. there are smaller examples as well. the landing at--is a new plaza we constructed in the mayor roadmap where two streets come together akwraisant to a couple restaurants closed to cars in daytime, chairs and seating and throughout the week they have lunch time and evening music to bring people together after work. they participate in that. something we are working on setting up for next year which is really exciting is our sf live program and that will bring a full 2024 concert series where we match local venues bringing their work and partnership to useian square, music center plaza and embark

cadero. we will be able to announce concert series through the sf- >> you mentioned vacant to vibrant, that program has a lot of attention lately. can you talk generally what exactly that program is? >> yeah. so, we opened a program where we put out a call for landlords willing to offer groundfloor space for free for 3 to 6 month jz small business or storefront operators who had a proposal what they would do for 3 to 6 months. it is pilot. we had a incredible amount of interest. we had--i'm forgetting the number of landlords, but more then we expected because we are in a place where commercial real estate understands they need to come to the table to help make our groundfloor

lively and resulting in a transition where the groundfloor is seen less as a money making operation, but more as a leader to lease upper floors. if you have a active ground floor yields better on the other 80 percent of the building you are trying to lease. that was great, a lot of cooperation scr over 700 small business or operators responded to that call. it is pop up. there is no intention this would result in forever small businesses, but there is certainly a hope and i think what we are hearing, i don't have the final data, but there are 17 activators in 9 different spaces, some are colocated, which is why the difference, and out of those 9 spaces that are being leased for free, now 7 of them are in discussions for long-term leases so the spaces continue. it is the program. we are hopeful to have a second and third traunch and hoping to pilot in other neighborhoods with other partners. it is not an inexpensive

program because there is a lot of capital that goes into popping up for short amount of time but what we are seen is they visit the businesses, the businesses are successful and san francisco want to support this activation so hopeful to expand it. >> that's great. can you talk a bit about why piloting programs and testing things is so important? >> absolutely. you know, i would say not only the important generally but important in san francisco specifically. the benefit of pilot programs in the reasons they are really important here is, it allows us to try something and say, there may be consequence but let's understand those in real time rather then waiting to start a strategy while we think about them on paper and if they are too great we can modify the program as we go. mta has absorbed the strategy

whether a bike lane or other to figure how best to use the street? is this working? is it working for bikes and cars and buses? maybe not, let's switch it around and pilots have been important to oewd to our office particularly because we tend to have the ability and the mayor's support through the budget process to pilot things through request for proposals or rfp process where we can put out a small amount of funding, try activation and small public plaza, see if it works and i think the benefit there is, if it doesn't work we tried it and had the benefit of seeing real time and when it does work, we are able to uplift that and move into a permanent strategy and that is where our agency turns over something we piloted to another agency because it is part of the city operating

procedure. pilots also give people hope. when we have the short-term whether it is physical public plaza or activation that shows change is possible and allows them to vote for what they like. >> lastly, in lith light of the current ai boom, do you think there is a way to leverage those new changes to take a bunch of san francisco's status as a tech hub? >> i do, i think they work together. san francisco right now has a strong vacancy problem in our office space. and there is a back-story to that. our zoning downtown has not prevented other uses, in terms of permitting uses of the multi-story building has been open including allowing residential but we put other barriers, cost and code barriers et cetera and what happened also during the height

of our preevious boom is that, the amount that tech companies were willing to pay for office space bid everything out so we-without intentionally zoning a single use downtown, we de facto became a single use downtown and thereat is the opportunity you are pointing out. now because downtown was so convertible from work from home, particularly as tech based downtown was and how much companies put at the market in the office spaces we are seeing high vacancy now, all most 30 percent so there is lot of square feet but that presents a lot of opportunity. we have the ability to absorb expansion of the tech industry we are so strong at. we have seen over 800 thousand square feet of ai space leased just in 2023 alone and there is still more demand out in the market, more ai companies looking for space so that is a growth spot absorbing some of

the vac ancy. the opportunity too is prices for downtown lease s have also dropped and that opens up a breath of opportunity to a breath of companies that were priced out in 2018, 2019, 2020. san francisco has always been great at starting companies and allowing them to grow here. when our prices are too high it prevents that growth so now we are a super fertile ground for more start ups and invasion on the smaller end of the sector because they can come and enter our market and we have the space to offer. to talk about san francisco's assets and the leveraging that, we sit at the epicenter of really great university and educational institutions. we are between uc berkeley and stanford. the graduates produced just from those institutions alone stay in the bay area and want to rise up and work here, provide a real opportunity for the start ups to build their companies and companies to grow here so we confident we will

absorb a certain amount of office space with ai tech. with that, we are interested in increasing our human capital growing graduates. downtown university is something the mayor is open to pursuing and we are in conversations with uc berkeley we love to have as a partner in our downtown and then residential conversions are a great partner to that. as we build back the office space, people will want to live downtown again and we have a number buildings that can be converted to residential. the costs are high. mayor breed and her partners on the board made significant changes to reduce the costs. we waived fees for change of uses in the downtown area. there are code changes that will make the conversions easier. there is a ballot measure on the march ballot that will attempt to reduce costs for those as well. it is ongoing process and none of those changes we talked

about absent ai growth downtown, but institutional growth downtown, arts growth downtown and residential conversions downtown are long-term changes so one thing i want to say recollect i do think there is a opportunity per your question, but we also need to be patient because what we are talking about is is a real shift to the make-up of the downtown since from the growth it has been starting at since the turn of the century so that isn't a 2 year change, that is a 10 year change and we center to watch as it goes. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate you spending the time here today and your creative vision and positivity, so thank you so much. >> thanks so much for having me and hope you all downtown and shop. >> that is it for this episode. for sfgovtv i'm chris manors, thank

>> welcome to another episode of safety on today is episode we'll show you how 0 retroactive you're home let's go inside and take a look. >> hi and patrick chief officer and director of earthquake for the city and county of san francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt we'll talk about plywood. >> great thanks. >> where are we we if you

notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they don't lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing we'll nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately you'll see a problem in a typical san francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood we've got to wind block between the studs and we'll secure this to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. >> i notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking

we'll a xoich attach the plywood. >> the third thing we'll attach the floor framing of the house above so the top of the braced walls one to have a steel angle on top of this wall and types of to the top of the wall with nails into the top plate and the nails in this direction driving a nail it difficult unless you have a specialized tool so this makes that easy this is good, good for about 5 hundred pounds of earthquake swinging before and after that mount to the face of wall it secures the top of wall and nailed into the top plate of the with triple wall and this gives us a secure to resist the

forces. >> so you now see the space is totally available to dots blocking that he bottom and bolted the foundation in corneas what the code in the next episode you'll see you apply meter. >> hello, i'm captain tom the coordinator for the san francisco fire department. this oversight is the three and 4 anniversary of loma linda earthquake i want to go over a

few things to help you preparation building a supply kit and supply kit does is not have to be put together all at once take your time on the website have a list of recommendation and have enough food and water to feed your family through three to 5 days and purchase the fire extinguisher if you have an extinguisher at hand will stop a small fire from being a by fire it is simple to use check the gage make sure it is charged and then repeat the word task task stand for pull to pin aim the novel and screws the trigger and successes to the because of fire the last recommendation to look at the gas meter electrical gas

lines cause fires in the loma linda earthquake and we want to show you how to turn off the gay only turn off if you hear gas or hear hissing and coordinator nathan will demonstrate how to turn that off. >> with a whenever i'm going to turn it over one quarter turn. so in on holler orientation in turn off our gays meter don't turn it back on get a service call from