call this meeting to order. charles good evening. this is a meg san francisco commission on the environment. te is 5:06 p.m. pleaseust 26th. note that the ringing and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar devices is prohibited. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of anyone using phone or similar device. public comment will be available for each item on the comments on

matters that are not on the agenda. there will be annera puc comment. participants who wish to. who wish to comment will be asked to come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. each speaker will be aowed three minutes to speak. alternatively, members of the public may submit public comment by email to environment at sfgov. org. comments submitted via email will be forwarded to the commissioners, wud as part l file. please note broadcast on sfgtv will end at the conclusion of agenda item 11 b wheoes into closed session. broadcasting will not resume when the commission reenters open ro. president juan. here vice president sullivan. here. commissioner, on. here commissioner bermejo. here mm commissioner. tompkins. here. commissioner yuan. here.

president. juan, we have a quorum. next item, please. the next item is item. the next item is the consent calendar for items two through four. number two is the president. president's welcome.hi is for discussion. number three is staff introductions. the speakerhe director. this item is for discussion. number four is theae 24th, 2024 commission on the environmenttingthe explanatory document is the june 24th, 2024 commission. the vironment draft minutes. this item is for discussion and action. good evening. item two is therethe commission on the environment acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral homeland of ramaytush ohlone peoples, who are inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. we recognize that the ramaytush ohlone understand the anhave maintained harmony withgs

nature for millennia. we honor the ramaytush ohlone peoples for earth as the indigenoust to protectors of this land, and in accordance with their traditional traditions, the ramaytush ohlone n seed lost nor forgotten for their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all who reside in their traditional territory. we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland as uninvited guests. that sovereign rights as first peoples and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors, elders, and relativf h communits environmentalists, we recognize that we must embrace indigenous knowledge in how we care for sa. commissioners department staff, members ofelme. today's presentation docket includes staff introductions.

update to fix lease san francisco municipal green building tasrc initiatives and edible food recovery andfoo. we also have an agenda item for re jules performance appraisal. with that, let's get startedso the next item is item number three. directoroe, would you like to introduce new staff to the environment department? testing feel like it's a all right, if i can ask everyone who's here, who's going to be introduced to. just come on up. just. we'll save a little bit of time. so, commissioners, we have done a tremendous amount of r thpast month, which is why you see so many pe introduce everyone, i do want to give a huge shout out toomeone we recognize at our all staff meeting, sana ahmad, who is our hr analyst, who really has just

done a tremendous job getting all of these hires here and now we going to introduce everyone. so first up, we have a familiar face to san francisco environment. it's a rehire. brian s rejoins us as the senior circular economy coor team under cindy comerford. and he will be collaborating withames slattery on the construction and demolition ordinance. so if you want to comep. hello. thank you. a lot of, old faces and new faces. so glad to joie department again. thank you for having me. staff and. yeah. look forward to working with you all on circular economy. all right,m the recreation and parks department. we have brian dewitt, who is joining us as our brian. hi. glad to be here wi the environment and, look

forward to helping out) and, working on the environment, not just for me, butkidsnd my nieces and nephews and, and spent a lot otime in scouts as a leader, taking kids out, teaching a lot of webelos. the principles of doug trace. so, and i was lucky enough to gw up in pennsylvania in a rural area. and brought that love of nature with me out here to california. thank you so much, next up, we have. oh the. speaker is very interesting. test, test testing, testing. it's on.t'just a little soft. testing, testing. do you want to maybe give the otheric? well, i contacted. i have to try that

on that was not on. so be right here. okay go test alls xt persc will sing a duet with me, so we're goingo welcome our new whis joining us as a senior commercial toxics reduction coordinator. beth bodner, our commercial zero waste assistant coordinator. anna zimmerman, who's ourction and demolition associate. and three new environmental education associates, walter jones, raymond liu a f to sfa, who was once our california climate action fellow, carly chang. so in any any order name is sue

chang,nd i'm the senior commercial toxics reduction coordinator.honod and excited to be joining the san francisco departmentthe environment. i have over 30 years of experience in the environmentaalield, specifically working on d mo recently, iublic from toxic was working at the center fo tal health, a national ngo based out of oakland, on getting toxic ch out of food packaging and foodware and getting, environmentally preferable reusables back into k tnks. thanks hi, my name is walter jones. i'm joining the environmental education team as an education environmental education associate, i'm super ci to be here and to get the opportunity to engage youth across sfusd. hello everyone. my name is raymond liu. i'm going

tojoining the environmental department as an education, environmental education associate. i'm really excited to be able to go back into sls wona couple of years ago to teach abroad as a teacher. so i'm kind of bringing a little bit of a international sense over her i used to work in healthcare, so i'm doing a bit of a career change, but i'm really excited to jump back and work with kids and sfusd. hi everyone. my name is the three new environmental education associates. i was really fortunate last year to be a fellow on the commercial z sfe,m really excited to be hired on to this new team and bring my experience in zero waste and my oundedat in wildlife and conservation biology to my new role. thank you. hello everyone! my name is

beth bodner. i'm the new, zero stnato on the commercial team, the jorofeional experience has been in the public sector inorporate, social responsibility and operations. and a bit morecent,e food recovery, which is what i'll focus on he. so i've kind of crept closer and closer to this world ovi. really excited e herehi anna zimmern and i'm the zwasociate d demolition. i come from a background in customer service, waste management, landscape and into the environment most of myn life and i feel really to be a part of this team. and yeahst more and learn more and meet everybody. great and we have one more new

hire whom the commission knows is not here today. alice herr, who is our new commission secretary and policy affairs manager, kind of got the title right. anyway, she here clerking this meeting next month, and so she'll be sitt in the seat that charles is sitting in, in addition to the new hires, weave several interns that were really excited to welcome, some usf fellows, perhaps, we have nicole wilmot, izzy shoals, and hogan kinder. and i don't think they're. oh, come on up. okay, there we go. oh no. is it working? okay, perfect. hi, i'm nicole wilmot i'm a student at the university of san francisco, double majoring in international studies and spanish, i am here as i sd before, with a fellows program at the through the

mccarthy center at usf,nd i'm just really excited to be here, learn and observe whatd of goes on, especially during these meetings as well. so yes, thank you for tpp here and we have one more persoe have hui lee, who has beenver ne seen presentations from him. he has beenmo to our senior toxics reduction coordinator, filling the big shoes of maggie johnson, whom we recognize at the last commission meeting. but we all know he's up for the task. so, hui, if you want to say■ a few words virtually, sur. i hopene c see me or hear me at least. so good evening commissioners. my name is hui and yes, as ty said, hopefully younow me by now. i've been at the department for just about nine years doing work mostly around household hazardous waste, and used. is ae privilege and an honor tor be sr

residential toxics reduction program coordinator. i look forward to continuing this great work me and my team has been doing, and i hope that in this new role, i'm able to kp work going and hopefully take this program to the next level. thanks for having me. and that concludes our hires. if want to give a round of applause to all of o n. okay, i'm going to give give the kind of note you don't have to stick around for the entire meeting. so if you have somewhere you need to go, just feel free to, you know, quietly step outside if you'd like to stay. you're more than welcome to stay. and that concludes the new. thank you. it's exciting. welcome, everyone, the final item in the consent calendar are the minutes. so, commissioners, we have an action item for this. is discussion on changes to the draft minutes, do i hear a motion to approve the minutes? so moved. thank you. commissioner second.

second. thank youki. so we havey commissioner bermejo and a second by commiser. hearing no further discussion. oh, sorry up for public comment. yes, sure. are there any are there any members of the public whoh topeak on items two through four of the agenda? madam president, we have noheing no further public comment, my name is deirdre pardon for deirdre. she'st. calling media services to deal witht. a she was not on mute, so no worries. she's, she's helping out from afar. so, thank you, deirdre, for that. i muted her. thank you. no worries. public comment is now closed. trials. please call.

thank you for that. predent juan i, vice president sullivan i commissioner john i bermejo i commissioner hunter i commissioner tompkins i commissioner yuan i. so the motion passe n please. next item is item five. general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on ma are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. d here any membf the public who wish to commenth, we have no speakers. great. is now closed. next item please. next item sixn update on the fixed lead program. the sponsor is lowell chew energy program manager. the speaker is ryan ramos, senior s, environmental specialist karen yu, senior environmental health inspector, department of public health. this item is for discussion. good evening.

evening. this is a bit of a change. it is working. i just good evening, commissioners and director drew. my name is lowell chew. the energy program manager. and thank you for the opportunity to present a fixed sef this evening. i'm joined by my colleagues, paul and ryan, as ll as my colleague from the department of public health, karen you to present an update on the fixed lid sef program. the fixed that sef program was born in 2019 after 20 years of hard fought lawsuit against lead paint manufacturers. today, the program is cim by sef environment and the department of public health, leveraging the unique talents of both agencies in designing and administering public facing programs. great honor that i asked my colleague ryano

presentation. so i'll pass it over to ryan. thank you. good evening, commissioners. okay. my name is ryan ramos. i'm as lowell introduced. i'm a senior and environmental specialist with the environment . i'm joined here with my colleagues, karen yuhas and paul gray. and we're here to give you an update on the fixed lead sef program. and i'm going to turn it over to karen. you hoped to provide an overview of the fixed lead program. thank you. good afternoon commissioners. my name is karen hope. and i'm a senior environmental health inspector with the environmental health branch of the health department in san francisco. and i have the last 33 years, since the

inception of the lead program. and i'm very, very gratul that the lead program can partner with your department in doing and implementingead f. not only do paul and ryan bring proper management and construction skills for the project, they also bring the h e environmental, environmentally sound methods and materials to protect the environment while we're protecting the children from lead poisoning. so right now i would like to provide the background ctext for the fixed lead sef program. so why is lead a concern? well, lead is a toxin for both children and adults but children tend to get lead poisoning more often because they get the lead in their body more frequently because they like to non-food items in their mouths. so since lead does not have any use for lead whatsoever, every little bit of lead that goes

into our body is considered a poison. and thus every little bit amount of it in our body we are poisoned. and so lead affe neurological or neurological system. and so it children's iq, their growth and as well as their behavior. and so when the lead is just a little bit in our bodies, there really isn't a medicinal treatment for lead poisoning. and so the only method for treatinngurther lead poisoning is really to remove the le problem. and there are many lead sources in our envien but primarily in san francisco. that is found in our buildings. we have e over 20 residential units in san francisco that probably contain lead based paint andea soil. because these buildings were built before 1978, whenle ,

basically there are two approaches for reducing the amount of lead in a unit. and thrs control. and these are basically temporary measures to reduce the exposure oflead hazae approaches include just repainting, specialized cleaning or establishing maintenance. operational programs, so then so then t really temporary. that means the lead hazards can comeey can be people can be exposed again. andco metd strategy of eliminating leadll s is basically permanently eliminating the lead or lead hazards such as replacing the building elements with new ones. and abatement approach is

preferable because they're really getting rid of the lead. but it's also the more expensive approach. and so sf is not the first city program te of housing had hud grants for wd provided very valuable÷:atioforr work, so before fix, sf develop this program. we interviewed theayor's office of housing lead certified contractors, lead certified inspectors, propert owners, tenants, as well as our own lead staff. one significant feedback we got from these dialogs is that and we incorporated, is at needs to reduce the speed at which the cont who do the remediation are paid. f t fixedd

contracted with rebuilding together sf as an environmental as an administratorm. the secone second piece of information we got from these dialogs that really helped us was how to target our program. first of all, we really have inpitef how much we think we have it really is limited, so it lp tard rs of blood lead data that we have in the 2020 census tract, fixed lead sf has determin that we're going to target first primary. now, later on, we may change in zip (941) 109-4112 and 94124, and the second piece of information that we have incorporated is how going to target the scope of work that we'll be engaging in, so fixed lead sf has decided

to do abatementather than interim control for the last 30 years. the property oers and the mayor's office of housing had primarily focused on interim controls. so with this, once in a lifetime funding opportunity, we remove as much lead as from our residents as possible. fixed lead assets would do the abatement that is most expensive and dangerous for property ownerso their own, and those are the windows and the friction pointon doors and the soil. the property owners can easily and inexpensively take care of the other component, such as the baseboards in their home the applicants to these ra, they know, we tell them several times during this period of work that we will not leave their building.

that's really impossible. and they seem to be okay wi that. and they acknowledge this reality that we have in san francisco. so we began the program with seven pilotojects , during which we learned about working withily care, child centers, how to manage the soilt methods for doing abatement and relocations. and so now we're in the midst of the program core asht now, our applicants mainly come from people who call e department asking and being concerned about lead in theirwom about fixed lead sf and also tht to about 1000iannual medical providers and child care services per year for child care services providers and from these we have recruited participants as well. and now,

paul gray right will come share about the scope of work. required good evening commissioners. mme gray. i'm an environmental specialist at the environment department conducted on the fixed sfo dony state certified lead professionals, which includers,, supervisors and their workers. we are a government program running projects in private homes using prat. i have a carpentry background and i'm a certified project monitor. i write the scopes of work and help manage the program projects. the supervisors are theho cduct the actual abatement or interim controls, and they are truly a niche group to do the work that we require. with the special certifications required.

functionally speaking, there are only about a dozen companies in our zone marin, san franciscocoe the potential of doing the work we require. then wecoince them . karen mentioned the difference between interim control and abatement. well, interim control is the standardrae of most jobsh our colleagues throughout the state. and currently outside our program in the city. we decided to do morek, which results in a greater level of long term health protection. but increases the costs. as karen mentioned from the supervisors perspective, their end of the things since the costs per job for overhead does not change much based on the project scope size, we wanted to fbance of nol or big to get the reduction with our program mone, i was asked to project scoping, so in order to speed things along, i will talk about doors only and the complexities that go into the

decisionsxñ. interim control for doors would be to make sure that they close properly with no friction. then stabilize any peeling paint and make and give it a fresh coat of paint. if the pais you would do nothing at all. we don't do this in this program include a complete removal of the replacement of the doo and just the strip. the contact area of the frame, or c fitting the door and stripping the contact area o the door and frame. these are all different levels of lead paint abatement methods are an option based on specific circumstances on the project site. if we go with the complete removal, we also need to be aware of the potential disturbance of asbestos in the plaster or joint compound. this requires a couple of extra trips to the job site, along with any of testing necessary of the

substrates. then decisions be made on the project scope. the property owners wishes need torpated and negotiated. perhaps they want to keep the original doors and hinges for architectural integrity. many doors are nonstandard sizes which would increase in cost replacement costs and affect my decision stripping paint. theser fo the e methylene chloride was prohibited, but labor and rias significantly due to the increased set time of modern cut strippers and a 4 to 5 time increase in labor going after itemsch as the doors throughout the unit that test positive, leads to a larger scope of work, and the number of rooms worked on, which increases job site logistics and the percentage of projects that need relocation. this has an entirely different bucket of jobsite complety and may add to the decisions made for my

scope ofould go on with examples, but you canee that not all jobs are the same, and all present unique challenges. and i'd like that while environmental issues are always on my mind when i these decisions, reduction of lead hazards is my primary concern. thanks for your time. pass it back to ryan. thank you. paul. and to give you commissioners an update on the e program, the collaboration with the department of pand e envirot began in the fall of 2022. since then, we've r approximately 30 applications. and out of those 30 appl completed 1212 projects. and in the presently, we have seven additional projects that are in different stages, of is presently under construction, two more which will be in the next few weeks, and the remainder kind g process. so out of these

projects, we inc is included a home care facility, whichar t, approximately to date, the $600,000 on the project work, which includes lead and asbestos testing. the actua lead from the buildings, as well as tenant and owner relocation.o discuss lessons learned related to these projects, so■ i would say the first thing i, i personally learneds, that, you know, talking to people who have had exp engagement is very important. i believe that we have been able to ramp up this project so quickly because we have learned from the peoplene this in the past. just as i had mentioned before, with the limited number of certified inspectors and is, i mwe didn'te didn't reduce, we don't reduce

the speed at which the city pays, then they would not work for us. so that's, that's that was the primary thing we learne. and we really worked har getting that barrier eliminated. and the second thing i learned m really is going to help me in my normal w health department to continually improve it. normally i just ine violation, and expect the property owners and the tenants job really has shown me all the details and all the, the things that t through in order to, to get the lead hazard remediated. and s really helps me to appreciate what they do, what they have to g think il help us, you know, improve our, the health department's lead program as well. and theas thing is we don't know what we don't know. and the program is always encountering new challenges, and we will always going to be needing to adh.

them. and that's pretty common with, with construction projects, we're just going to have to sort chaenge as they come up. so the last thing i wanted to discuss was the future plans program. so right now we have about we htw new plans that we have. one is enhancing and improving the outreach and actual conducting of the lead hazard re. anthe second is to utilize fixed lead to improve the outreach of theno some of the planned enhancements include ramping outreach, which which the department of public health is starting with engaging promotoras, which are community health workers and bring more projects io the program. in addition, the program is looking to find wayss that may hindern

efforts. for instance, there are homes that may require extensive renovation, such as onesroof, c. and this prevents lead reduction activities from taking place. so the department isking for funds that are available to help to help with types of issues. since the lead funds are not allowed to se in this case, the other area that we're planning on helping on is using the fixed lead approach as sfd goals. so the leadnce other settlement funds, as i mentioned before, are limited to strictly, working on lead reduction. so we've looked for ways to secure funds under another depame of public health grant under a healthy homes initiative, in order to allow us to catalog natural gas equipment in the wcr heaters, furnaces, cooktops and dryers, evaluate the condition of this equipment and then aookg

constraints that may be present. this will help san francisco environment characterize the building. the residential building stock, and then potentially offer them future current decarni. i want you, commissioners, for your time, and we're available for questions. commissioner, anyone have questions? can i ask you mentioned about 600,000 total r does it mean it's not time bound. but xhauon all the funds then the program ends. or how is it going to be like or is it still a pilot phase like so we are presently in what we're cag the core phase of the program. so we've spentcts theme have another. so we've set aside 14 million to cover projects and thadministrative costs. so we are hoping to scale up the

program in order to gette a our. it's been a bit of a challenge getting the word out of the to the program and making sure we have sufficient number of contractors ailable to do the work, but we are doing our best efforts to increase programs anh of contractors available. okay, so it's 40 million. that will go for aretty long way. i guess. so presently, our contract with together is five years, with the option to extend admit, we are not we had hoped for, so we will be looking to increase that spend rate significanov nex couple of years of the contract with the program administrator. i see. ao to be in certain type of like income caps program, or is it open to any facility? considered the an income cap. presently we feel

like the zip codes that we've selected tend to have the homes with the highest lead and also in with homes that have typically lower income families. so as a part of our screening criteria, wely aempt to look at, the income of we don' specifically ask for the income, but the program, the projects tt we prioritize are ones that have the equity component of lowerfalies, and to the owner. it is no cost to the owner. if they have children, there's a littlenk in it. but if the property owner wants to complete a project in which there are no children in one, so say 'sily building, they can we can treat the units with children the unt children, we have a cost share. great. thank you. iefinitely learned a lot. any other fellow commissioners have questions?

one other question. so is the limiting factor right now labilo are able and willing to partice . i would not say that's the limiting factor that in the future where we have a higher when we scale up, that could potentially be a limiting factor. but right now, i would say the limiting factor is having qli enrollees. and that's why we're increasing our outreach using promotoras as les, meaning people who have come forward and said, i'd like to have my home. yes. and they fit the profile of actually having a child having sufficient, lead in the homes. sometimes we do get applicants that have very minor, like maybe they just need to, like, repaint one window. we found that our contractors tend to want to have a minimum order to actually participate. and so that that presentsttleit.

we've considered other areas of potentially procts together in order to get a higher threshold, however, that that he to we have not put one of those together yet. so another approach might be, if that's the limiting factor, to expand the number of zip codes down the line, that is certainly that, but we arehave in mindt e certainly have that in our back pocket toove moving forward. yes, commissioner, is there a way estimate how many total facilities or homes may need this kind of remediation or there are 200,000 units that were built prior to 1978. andth0 have lead paint in them, we don't have an exact estimate of, say, homes■á9kha also have

children that also have deteriorating conditions that require intervention, however, we have specifically prioritizee based on health department data they've collected over the many deca lead programs, we feel like that is the highesnc homes, and we want to focus our efforts there for the timering f maybe, i don't know if this is possible, but a home is sold, it has to go through a home inspection. if there's a way toaybelag that and flag if there's children moving into a home,on a way to like prioritize those with children in the homes. right. that's a good suggestion. wel to consideration, commissioner. whats all of public housing just to have that mandated and work, adn in that in those spaces, just put them on a schedule? it seems like those units are the ones that are definitely in need and

may not need to go through, you know, someone making a call or an addition or additio right? se suggesting that, there should be some effort to look at public identify lead hazards there? yeah. i mean, the assumption is that there are definite facilities that know, you know, pre prior what prior to 1978 would have been utilizing lead paint put those on a list immediately. and not worry about the outreach. go directly to those sources to get them scheduled. okay. that's and investigate you know inspectstiu know, approach yo take to ensure that they meet the profile. right? so just to give you a little bit of context on our the projects that we have

first have entered the program, they have been referralsm the department of public health, that have receivote of violation. so we are looking to address the ones that we are aware of with children that have a blood lead level above a certain threshold, but that is a lo at a new way to bringke projects in anbe in a more proactive manner rather than waiting for them to come toso wd thinking into that, thatchthat . and i don't know if there's a data analyst t directly between health department and environment, butt approaches of how do you mine the data give you the leads for those that you need to put ist. right. thank you. just one question to follow up on, commissioner tompkins can you use promotoras to do

that kind of outreach talk to folks, in public housing or and also myecond question was, what are the zip codes? i don't think i goe zip codes that you were focusing on. karen, can you remind me the zip codes? oht of all, i want talk about the public housing, most of the public housing in sanralrdy bee, and so, yeah, and i some outreach in section eight housing, but we haven't had much success yet, so. but we will continue doing that. and the zip codes we're concentrating on are 94110, which is the mission area 94112. that's our mission. excelsior. and, yeah. and 94124, which is the bayview. okay. thank you have one more question. once you remediate, is there a period of time which you come back and he

again? or once it's done, it's fully abated? i think that we wn we were talking about the difference between interim control and abatement. those are the two strategies of reducing lead. so the interim control, we didn't want to choose it because that's whate do. you have to go back because basically you're is deterioratet cover over it. and the next time you dityou know, bump into it and it deteriorates, then you have to do itin the abs where you take out the lead. you just strip it off or you replace the door altogether and with a new door without the lead inandt have to. but because there's so many componentsn san francisco with lead, they will never be a time when a building at least. e are, because theomeoers have paid to have literally the whole thing rebuilt. unless you out the building and do rebuild,

there will be lead paint in the building,n the unit. is there an inventory of what's been interim remediated at this point, i would say all the cases that we have ever with in terms of the health department cases and the m's of housing, most of those have been interim because the abant very expensive. for example, we concentrate on taking out windows. paul can tell you, i don't know the windows are very expensive. that we can't use methylene chloride and, you know, probably why is because it's a carcinogen. we can't use that anymore. now th use other methods and other strippers as very muchk, . and so people don't do abatement because it's very painstaking and very expensive. thank you. well sometimes we have to hear of course, this is quiteird complex, convoluted sometimes. yes. i think that's all the

questions we have. thank you so muchoupresentation. thank you, commissioners, for the very insightful comments. appreciate your time as always. are there any members of the ic comment on this itemspeakers. okay, public comment is now closed. next item pleasethe next item is item seven. presentation and update on municipal. the sponsor, cindy comerford, the climate program manager. the speaker is nick kestner, senior ilnar, and elise mclane, building decarbonization associate. this item is f discussion. and good evening, commissioners, can you comerform

the climate program manager and i'm here to introduce our next item, which is an update on the work building task force, for those of you who don't know, our work on our municipal green building started about 20 years ago when we passed legislation that established the municipal green building code and the associated task force that goes withand thg code has played a really crucial role in letting the city lead af building resilience and sustainability. so last year, last march, we came to the commission to present on an update of the municipal green building code, wherele overhaule code with our climate action pl important future initiatives, so over the last 20 years, we've seen some very notable leaders force. we had mark palmer and

eden bruckman and now the municipal green building task by colleague nick kestner and is supported by elise mclean. so they're going to provide an update of the work t green buik force, and also talk about a very exciting deca project that is, again, having the city lead by example. and i'm going to introduce nick. thank you. good evening commissioners. my name is nick i'm just going to briefly provide an overview of th the mg task force before my colleague elise explains oulr ni gas equi. and we spend most of the timeanr questions around that topic. i've bee last april, and i'm excited to be doing a lot of representatives from the various departments around the city, and

basically our work falls into three categories. we educate the members of the task force about green building topics. we asked departments successes and discussions around green building with us on the task force. and then fill we work on policy development, similar to the chapter seven updates thate got here. in terms of ongoingou c sf the topics we've looked at over the past year. these areot of them, but the main ones. i do want to spend just a little bit ofbodied carbon. as part of the last chapter seven update, we did inud the requirement for embodied carbon checklist for projects greater than 10,000ft d spend four meetings going through various aspects of reducing embodied carbon in the building environment. that means things le purchasing products that have a lower embodied carbon footprint, using wood materials like you can see in

this project, i believe it's in soma, and just understanding also procurement and costs for these materials that would replace things like concrete or steel. as second big agenda item are department presentations. we've had a number of themthe through, and it's always great to hear from colleagues to see what's going on in the various departments. and to just share ideas and experiences with new materials or new products or approaches. i will also remind you that any time a department wants to request a waiver from our green building requirements, for to use a different rating system, or because a particular project is too small in scope to really have sustainable requirements, make sense inheontext that we apply them through leed, they will come to the committee and requestr basically make the argument for why their particular project should receive athe committee agrees that that recommendation is passed on to tie final signature, and

then the third area where the task force is active is in developing new guidelines and policies for municipal. besides chapter seven, we had an opportunity to■$ biodiversity guidelines. this last year, my colleague peter came to and presented on kind of the goal of the biodiversity guidelines participants and representatives from the departments to think wd streamline those requirements and incorporate them into the day to day work of project managers. and then at the end of this presentation, i'll share with yexting new project we're doing to try to streamline our green building requirements for smleject but before we get there, let me introduce my colleague elisewho will share with you her amazing work on the municipal natural gas equipment invento good evening. commissioners, sog stride of progress f municipal green building was the completion of the municipalgaeqy in 2023, which i'll share briefly about today. so as

referenced earlier, chapter forf requirements for our municipal buildings to ensure that we're pushing towards our green building andbo goals. and one of these requirements was the municipal tural gas equipment inventory, which was outlined in action b024 of the climate action plan, as well as isection b, four of the municipal green building code. so over theourse of 2023, the san francisco environment department conductes across 22 departments. and this list of inventory buildings only required within chapter seven. so this excludes port buildings, school district buildings, water treatment facilities, and of course, any buildings did not depend on natural gas in the first place, and the work

inventory all of these buildings was thanks in large part to dozs across these departments who worked really hard to collect all of this detailed equipment information and submitted it, submit it to the environment department. so the big picture goal of the inventory was to collect baseline data on gas equipment to support planning acrately and effectively track our citywide progress towards electrification, so i'll just provide a few of the key metrics provided by the inventory today. but more detailedormaon can be found in the inventory report and also on data sf. so the inventory revealed that across these 228 buildings that were inventoried, there are over 1600 pieces of natural gas equipment in use. over half of this equipment serves a function of space heating and

then cooking and water heating equipment each make up another 20% of the inventory, while clothes drying and miscellaneous equipment up the rest, so the inventory also provides valuable insight into the age disbursemen showing an e age of 13 years and a mediange of six years for this equipment. and given that most of this equipment has an average lifespan of 20 years or less, it's evident that most of this equipment will reach the end of its useful life, or at least its projected life, before our04trao knowing that knowing these specifichat uipment items were installed will help departments to assess the predicted year of failure of these equipment items and f the electric replacement and any associated work that mi that. sl load increases. and finally, the

inventory, of course, also reveals insight into where our gas equipment is concentratedsor half of our gas equipment is used three departments the airport, recreation and parksndl transpo. so knowing where this equipment isoncentrated is really important when it comes to prioritizing electrification planning effor and resources so that we can maximize the impact in terms of carbon emissions reductions. so now that this inventory has been completed, there are several next steps that are laid out to build upon this work. and the participating departments to for continue updating their inventory as natural gasequienth electric alternatives. so this allows for an effective way for us to really keep closely tracking citywide and deparogress toward

electrification, and allows this resource inventory to remain useful rather than just beingnal the inventory has been propelling collaborative and larger scale between the department of public works, sfofce of resiliency and capital planning and the sf public utilities commission. so these collaboratingther to identify a pathway to implement phased electrification by strategically rition projects, updating the capital plan with projected, estimated or projected and estimated costs of electrificaon finally centralizing and streamlining the project management of these electrification projects within the department of pubc works. so we are still in the early phases of this plann but there's certainly a lot of great

energy and motivation behind this work, so we'll be excited to share more updates in the future. and i'll pass it back to nick just to round us out you. elise and just to finish uo finishing the decarbonization planni a that planning back to the task force to start having conversations with individ departments is one of our main priorities right nowwithhe ongoing education sessions and department presentations. and then the other p t alluded to earlier that's really important is making sure that ourustainability guidelines are streamlined for projects under 10,000ft!s, when i first started this job, i had informational interviews with as and a lot of them independently brought up the factalr projectst managers are having to handle a lot more work because they have fewer consultants on board for those small projects. and so requiring them to turn in things

like a lead checklist that isn't actually being required for certification, it adds a lot of mi so what we've done in collaboration with the members in theto figure outn stay true to our sustainability goals, but incorporate tm gts l projects need to submit, rather than requiringt of paperwork. se have a meeting set tomorrow to start finalizing what that would look like, but hopefully, t time next year we will have a slightly upda ted chseven that will make it er for us to comply with our sustainability goals. so with that, ink i'd like to finish today and offer some space you to ask questions of any of the three of us. thanks for your attention.ha you for the information, fellow commissioner. anyone has any discussion o questions? items? yes, i have one, so nic for the presentation, which was great, i have an acquaintance who's an arborist who had heard

from some contractors working with theabouthe biodiversity requirements. and th while ago. so it's not fresh in mmo sense was that there had been a recent change and a requirement for very, veryic use of, of native plants to the pointre it was the contractor felt it was it was kind of inappropriate to native. so has there been a recent change? and is there a is there that strict of a requirement for, for native plants when you're working with the city? i'm going to see if cindy has a better answer than this, but i will say that the biodiversity talking about todat for municipal buildings. so i'm not suref this project was for a municipal project or for i don't remember. yeah. cindy, do you have an update for. so the guidelines are just guidelines. so they're not mandatory requirements for native plants. they are suggestions on best practices around native plts for biodiversity. there also is a

separate effort that you might know about around theee to try e prioritization of native street trees, but theti will be a whole menu of street trees available to different arborists. so hopefully we have not. there's not any misconception about what the guidelines are and what they're for, and we'll be happy to follow up wh you. and we can speak to that individual. but there's nobody at sfd that looks at somet a nope, nope, nope, nope. that's not happening. okay. thank you. not yet. thank you. i'm back over td to clarify. thanks for the question. any other questions or discussions? i guess we can open up for public comments then. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this ite? madam president, we have nokersu for the presentation. let's go to the next item.he item eight d an update on progress of reduction initiatives. the sponsors, tyrone chew, the

director. this item is for discussion. it's broken up into two parts. item a presentation on an updateo thkitchen zero sf grant program. the speaker is alexa kielty, senior zero waste coordinator. this item is for discussion and an item b presentation on theood■a waste reduction campaign. the speaker is shradha mehta. community partners engagennar. s for discussion. commissioners. we've had a few conversations regarding edible food recoveryes meeting. i want to say that th t hard work of the team you're hearing about and many others, san francisco and this department has been a model for the rest of the state as far as how our approach has been on food recovery and so today, we want to talk l some of those programs to give you an idea of what's beenmiiond that we received a calrecycle grant original request was 1.3 million, if you recall.o how grm

is doing that ey us more money to expand our programs in the city. and sofiro sf, we have alexa kielty and then she'll be joined by shraddha afterwards. good evening commissioners. nice to see you all again. for those who don't know me, alexa kielty i'm the residential zero waste senior coordinator, and i'm going to give you some background on why we're focused on food. i'm sure many of you know,ut particular. so the first part, i'm just going to give some background, whic up trevor's presentation on why we focus on food waste reduction in households. a talk about the results from our zero waste or our kitchen zero sf cal recycle grant. so many of you know, 38% of all of our food that's raised and grown in the u.s.ten unsold. a lot of that gets thrown in our landfills, which has a huge impact on the climate, because food in our landfills produces

methane and all that. unneeded transportation, of course, has a climate impact, here's the breakdown. the latest from refe, nonprofit partners, who tracks food waste, if you look o, basid so produceis country comes is that doesn't meet spec, is lefte supply chain. so manufacturing and in the business community and then 48% is actua happening in the home. so that's a higher number than we it was more like a third. so it really sheds light one ed to focus on households, even though it's a really difficult area to connect with. we decided to with the household waste campaign, work on produce. why? because 80% of our of the food that's getting wasted% food. that maks

sense, right? and of that, 35% is produce, and produce isn't necessarily the climate reduction opportunity. but it's a great place to start. everybody eats produce, and we all can learn how to preserve it better in our homes. but today i'm basicaloc on, our in our climate action plan under our responsibleroduction and consumption section. that's what our pc is to we have a food section in. the last part of that is getting excess food to communities in need. so today i'm going tok out the couple successful grants. we've had with cal recycle and the reason why we went down this path is, in 2016, governor brn passed sb 1383, which is a huge, short lived climate pollutant reduction bill. and there's abut components to it. but one of them is requiring food

generators. that means businesses that have food to donatehe and there's two sections. there's tier one and tier two, bss tier one think grocery stores. prepared food. so hotels and venues, but at this point, both of these sectors have to comply. everyone thinks it's a no brainer to donatfo right. but the thing is, is there is significant cost to the business community tort ts food as well as to the food organizations that want that food. so who pays for all that transport? it's significant and it's a big lift. so that's basically why we applied to cal recycle. we said wes to n get ts into compliance with the law to them and basically help them form those partnerships and th what i mean is the business community working with food recovery orgs, we have to make that connection. so the

first grant was fo 500,000. second one was for 220, 12,000 212,000, and it primarily as isf the food from the generator, the grocery stores to the food recovery orgs. but it alsod sofe talked to you all about this before,swo businesses in san francisco that have food donation matching software, which is rll andantase it allows food organizations, sorry, organizations feeding the community to decide accept that food donation. and if they do,tr also their own vans, and that delivery will happen in 30 minutes, which is super efficient. we wanted to make sure all the food recovery orgs, the tier one, tier two businesses knew about this opportunity. so we outreach

in three languages, and we sent the, we electronically as well as mail and we also created a really easy online portal for orgs and businesses to apply with. not too many questions, because a lot of organizations are overwhelmed with the amount of steps they have to take to get support, that picture is one of our grant recipients. excelsior strong. they■& serve 0 spanish-speaking families in the ex we worked with organizations to develop a for service model, which was sort of new to them.ut what we wanted them to do is ask them, what is the cost per pickup for yourrg to do this work? and they had to do some calculations around staff time, fuel costs, bridge tolls, and that was not something they had done before, but really important for their organization. and there was a full range of costs. some were

$15 up to $300au sometimes it's a pickup truck, going down to pick up a few boxes and sometimes it's a box t w somebody with a class b license and a pallet jack. and so there's qte a range of what we're talking about. and some of thee to do. 129,000 pounds of food over the last tea we did over 800,000 pounds. so we're prettyf nancy hernandez, a leader in the community from e strong. making stuff happen on the e the partnerships that werese created, i'm going to highlight the big os. so basically extra food and safeway extraarted picd from safeway. and they over the last two years, they did over 600 pounds of food. they dn' have a regularly established program until now, and they had

it here and there. but this really solidified partnership. and then we also have white pony express, that's picking up from sf marketway, yl invited to come on a tour if you'd like. hopefullyothat invitation, so since the beginning of the grants, those two rounds of grants, we've done 3.5 million ds i'm going to fly through this section. so what are some of our learnings t give money. we want to learn from from how to move forward, the preparedd is very complex, proper storage, packaging. everybody wants packaging. how do we make sure it's recyclable, that the labelt things aren't leaking, the partnerships require a lot of hand-holding. it was a huge amount of time for our staf but it was it was well worth it. but it's not a natural link always for safeway or a hotel to francisco. and i think that's a

great, niche for our staff, unexpect c food recovery organizations sometimes get a mountain of foo that's not that's spoiled. sometimeshee through artichokes that have gone bad, sohe quite a bit of food waste that they then have to either compos. so that's a huge expense on them. and they're doing creative things by donang some of that to community gardens so they can compost. i we really need to address. a lot of the food orgs are required by law to track the number of foods they pound foods they receive, and it's a lot of administrative lift them. they don't necessarily have the scales, they don't have the excel tracking, and there's a lot of on cal organizations for example, that's sf market. carolyn lazar, she has to move pallets and pallets worth of foo in a very

short period of time. and we've had to rely on, organizations outside the county. unfortunately to pick some that food up. so we're losing be kept local. so we're in this next round of funding we're really going to hope to address that, food recovery organizations do not want to charge the food generators. they might be against their mission, but the money has to come from somewhere. so that'ss a big puzzle we're trying to solve here, a lot of our staff do feel li the generators should pay because it is a real cost, and so how how do we sustain the funding for theseroongoing basig question, we did try to offer od technology, a lot of them declined because they were busy trying to comply with sb 1383. but, at's the future of food waste prevention. we don't wantrs tgo up, up,

up, up, up. we want to reduce. that's where the real climate ct and as our director mentioned, we got another 2.1 million. we're and we want to do more innovative practices going forward. so thank you for listening. and i will hand it to my ea raddha mehta. good evening, commissioners. i'e community partnerships and engagement program manager at the department. and alexis presentation was a great lead in to my presentation, which isab n campaign. as alexa mentioned, out of all the food that's

wasted, 48% comes from households making household food waste prevention an importantste action goals. and reducing foods accessible to the generale ny dt opportunities for food waste reduction, so we first wanted to understand residents perceptions around food waste. before is campaign. so in 2021, we conducted some pre-campaign research and found that fresh produce leftovers of home prepared foods are seen as the most common types of food waste. based on that, pre-campaign research, we decided to launch an education and awareness campaign to encourag residents to reduce food by preserving their fresh produce. since produce was also food, as we saw in alexisasted

slides, our pre-campaign research also showed that factor for residentsrong to reduce their food waste. so our creative strategy focused on hilighted the financial benefits of reducing food waste and emphasizing thas equivalentg money. and empower residents with practical, straightforward tips that made it easy to adopt habits to and in turn, save them moneyouienc o different neighborhoods the excelsior and bayview hunters point neighborhoods, and we selected these neighborhoods because of the diversity in those communities, becausjustice considerations, and because of the large number of single in td the single family hlly the onese larger amounts of waste. and so

that was a one reason that we selectedree could reach people in single family homes. although our campaign did reach other households as well. so our conducted oured in february pre-campaign research. and like with many other things during the pandemic, the timeline for this extended. and so the actual campaign period when w was april through june of 2024, andn research earlier this month. our total campaign budget was $400,000 over the three year period, and that included theanh media buys on newspapers out of home displays, social mediafor s and small business partners,

collateral and giveaways for residents, and the collateral and assets thatill continue to be used as we move intofe move into expand this campaign in the future with the focus on the two neampaign was geo targeted, andt cluded three main components to reach our target audience. so i'll walk you t three components of, of this. so the first was out of home, this included bus cards on muni busses shelter advertisements in the two neighborhoods. so the transit shelters that we selected were in the two target neighborhoods. and while certain creative elements were focused on changing behavior through a negative reaction to rotting food and the money that's

wasted, wn food rot, we recognized that we needed a separate creative for our engagement with local sell producef course, would not want an image of rotting food next to their business. and so our creative messaging for businesse on fresh produce and how saving food is equivalentog money. and this is an example of of one of the stores that participated. our media partners did have a way of getting messaging inside the local small businesses in the target sta reached out to grocery stores and produce markets in those neighborhoods and signed on 17 stores to putlaysp . and our marketing contractor was then able toome small grocers for their participation in the campaign. these businesses also displayed

shta or tip cards that went in front of produce so thae appropriate tips and information at the point of sale. lastly participating small grocers received a few rolls of compostable bags printed with campaign messaging, and these compostable bags served a dualee business money on purchasing the bags and delivered our campaign message. providing these bags also supported businesses complying with san francisco's pre checkout bag requires. the last out-of-home component was that we put ads in shopping cartsn two of the larger supermarkets in the neighborhoo, so one of them was safeway o sts lucky's on third street. the next component is the online component. we kicked off our

campaign with some online banner ads. we had a number of socia pe examples of our animated social media ads. there were also user gera videos in english, cantonese and spanish. lastly, we had three campaign ur english, chinese and spanish. and for this campaign we piloted having our chinese rather than transliterating. the third element of our campaign was community engagement, and thisour ach to enhance or enhance our ability to engage with residents and other communitybe streduction messaging withod the community at a variety of eventsrtred with

three community based family connection centers and bayview seniorces that took our message to the communities they serve, and we e subject matter. prior to the outreach, one of the ge activities was a bingo game that reinforced the learnings of our campaign with ag as a prize. other activities included a spinning wheel and a pledge card for interested members. there was also a children'sy so that we could engage the whole familysod tip cards clips so that residents could post their tips on their refrigerator to remind them as they were putting produce in their fridge. we also gave away reusable produce bags.

and a frespr storage guide. our storage guide was so popular that the sf wind newspaper ran it. the entire which wasn't a part of the agreement with them. so that was a bonus. so let's dive into some of the results of the campaign. similar to the pre survey in 2021, we conducted a randomized post survey and these surveys were conducted innish a. in the targeted neighborhoods. and20 ierviews were done. what we found is that 1 in 10 the residents recalled seeing, hearing or reading about the campaign. in fact, unaided, some of the residents recalwa clear that they were able to almost describe the ads verbati, the compared to the 202 said the

like t steps to prevent food waste. morehan 28,000 people visited sf's and food wastethe three languages, and the. the population of the two neighborhoods that we targeted is about 94,000 people. soy hig. while we recognize that there could bepl neighborhoods, also visiting the web pages. but what's exciting is that 4410 people typed in the languages. so that's a reflection of the offline impact of then. 59% of those visitors visited the english page, 20% visited the spanish url, and 21% visited the url, indicating a strong engagementall three of the languages. and then for the

onlies, the total online impression delivery was nearly 3.8 million, meaning that there were 3.8 million single instances of the online advertisements being displayedh, resulted in 31,000 clicks, which means the user took an additional action of clicking on the advertist to find more information. and these ono times the benchmark for similar campaigns. we also got many positive comments on our social media posts. our user generated style videos had the best engagement rates across all the different ad types, so we also recently learned at a language access ordinance training that videos are an effective method of reaching populations with limited english proficiency. so this is something we would want to do more of in the future. our in-language ads were also very

successful. avocado and bok choy were the strongest performing creatives, and chinese eclipsed englishh e highest click through rate. so as expected, it's critical to select produce that's relevant to the audiences and our cbo partners and our environment. now team engaged with diverse community memrscip8 community events and engaged approximately 3000 residents through those events. so all engagementas conducted in four languages in english, sph,d manr mayor even picked up a few of our tips and tricks at a community en. there are a few key learnings that can be applied to future campaigns. the combinationonne and offline media with on the ground engagement proved to

effective strategy for this campaign, given the complementary strengths of each of those, and by focusingspifice able to geotarget ouressaging and work with community partners who serve those. those communities. while ilding the partnerships with local small businesses to participate in the campaign was a time consuming t good way for us to build relationships with those businesses and to support local businesses andeach residents at the point of sale. our traditional media channels, through our contractor, didn't have the agreements with thosent they did with larger grocery chains, chains. so it was necessary for our team to step in there. anth culturally relevant images, videos and messaging with

working with language media, in language media outlets and ethnic media proved to be an efor reaching audiences with limited english proficiency. so we see this campaign as the first phase of this work. in the next phase, we ho to expand to other neighborhoods. we want to add other culturally relevant produce. we want to additional community partners who serve the neighborhoods that are targeted, and we want to provide grants to community based organizations for food waste prevention projects. lastly, we want to continue engaging smallusinesses in this work to participate in the next phase of campaign. thank you so muc h answer any questions. well, commissioner, no question. but,

really applaud this effort. the creative and the results that you've talked about, those are so promising. and we'd love to see you come back with another round of results from, you know, further engageso thank you so much. thank you commissioner. thank you. commissioner tompkins. commissioner hahn, i really appreciated the gic design, actually, of the posters. who who did that in particular? iughthe rotten fruit and then the fresh fruit, particularly with grocery stores, was our contractor was most likely to, they're a contractor that we've worked in, the question i have isy the main question i had was next geographic areas you'd like tosu have a thought? sorry, i couldn't hear. oh, do you haveat you'd like to expand this campaign to? we haven't determined which neighborhoods o have we just got results

from our contractor, the findings of ourost campaign research. so we're going to have a debrief and talk about which neighborhoods, but we'll use similar criteria of diverse communities, and because it's similar messaging, we want to make sure that there's a combination of single family householn . perhaps environmental justice considerations and, use the creative frois so we want to make sure that it resonates with the nextitie to k you. just wondering if there's any plan to also expand the language? ads to like including vietnamese and also tagalog? yeah. so what we did was we used data from the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs to look at the, limited english proficiency, proficiency rates in the neighborhoods we targeted. andth determine which languages. but

we will do the same as appropriate, we will potentiall. thank you. yes, comio. just seems like i think i've heard other projects that made me of this, but recology being a way to drive, you know, attention to the website, it just seems like a natural fit. if they just drivers had to post it withte a just put it on people's green bins, and then when they roll it back in, they're like, oh, i should check out and food waste sf. org thank you for bringinghat up. so recology actually put in their newsletterha out to their customers an article about food waste pnt url to help us get the word out. and ty did say we have some anecdotal information that they said that they of calls on their customer service line about the campaign and people seeing the ads. thank you. that's a great thing. i just wanted to add. great job.

this is a very, very eye opening because what you've done is really target what is working and what is not working, especially in those hb forward to hearing about your small business campaign down the road, because that's just such a great education piece. and thank you so much for what you're doing for food production. very important information. thank you. thank you so much. justne thing on the data is there, the thought of how youie wt you're doing and the prevention segment over to the recovery recovery segment and again, it was like w, right? lowering the recovery down to the pointhat that means prevention is really highly effective. so it's and in meeting about how to coordinate the two efforts. ands, that's definitely something that

we're, looking to do to try to harmonize efforts. but thank you. i also do want to comment that i went to a lot of community events an, sfd booth is always very engagiu for the great work. thank you. yeah. if there's no further discussion, i guess we'll open upent. are there any members of the public w wish to comment on this itemt,eo speakers. okay. hearing no furtherli now closed. next item please. next item is item nine. the director's report speaker is tyrone ju. the director of the explanatory document is the director's report. this item is for discussion.rs several key updates that i'll just highlight here. the m detailed written report is within your agenda packet. one did want topdate the commission that we are slightly

delayed in our move. our official our floor at 1455 market. we anticipate being able toove in by mid january. so that's the updated timeline for the project schedule, last commission meeting, we talked about the civil grand jury reportnd how our commission was mentioned in the civil grand jury report. we did introduce and agree to holding a hearing at the mmer or fall 2025, specifically in collaboration with climate sf, to talk about flooding and sea level rise. so that willmingorward next year, natural gas policies. wen, amendments to the all electric newe and expanded requirements on jos.oua presentation on that, a couple months ago. we're making progress. and so i'll. and so hl have good news to share in the neutbuilng decarbonization front, we

successfully launched the climate equity hub and heat pump water heater, direct install program. and so thiis for income qualified residents. and we've had a tremendous amount of interest in the first two months so far, 23 residents have signed up for the program. we've completed five installations and all ofsenstallations have been carried out by minority owned contractors and small businesseser, an update thattion at your previous meeting. we will be completing the transitione om and marketing ander to charles shop on the policy and communications team. so this of the messaging and the platforms we dohic design and social media, align those efforts on one side a on the other side, also expand the work that strada has leading on the community partnerships and engagement program team, agased, environmental education,

volunteerism, racial equity and engagement. so that's going to be kind of the one cluster here. and then the streamlined communications on the other end. and i think in the nt maybe we'll have a new hire for our volunteer. and oreach efforts. so we're working through that hr process. so hopefully we'll be able to that announcement soon, we did complete a city exchange trip with the city of dublin, ireland. and so charles s, cindy comerford and lowell tew went on a delegation trip over to dublin, this was sponsored through the internaal regional h is out of the european union. a lot about what they're doing on sustainability and circularity. we're going to be hosting a team from dublin in october. and so when theyome, we'll definitely invite, commissioners to come on and meet them, and then finally, just a couple press mentions. we've had a lot of milestones and a lotf prs activity, we've talked about the, our city

being the top city he nation for, the us clean ey the ac tr, we've highlighted our work around building decarbonization, green business programs and our curbside electric vehicle program. and i think mos recent article was a chronicle story on ev charging. so i invite to check that out. and that concludes my report. thank you, dir any questions commissioners? okay, i hear no discussion, no further public comment. are there any are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item, madam president, we have no speakers. thank you. now, public comment is closed, next item, please. next item is charles sheehan, chief policy and public affairs officer thist meeting is monday, september

23rd, it's in this room. and we doave nd of a packed agenda. starting with it's our annual, approval of the reduced risk pesticide list. and so we'll be covering all topics, ipm at that hearing, we will also hopefully have a presentation from the climate sf team on the hazards and climate report, it's a draft report and they are om a number of commissions, including this one. that meeting or future meeting bring ou our, you know, annual racial equity update as well as we are trying to, put some rules and regulations around our carbon fund that we may bring before you at that meeting, or a future meeting as well. so it is a packed agenda. and i will take anstio all

right. let's open public comment. are there any members of the public who comment on this item, madam president, we have no more speakers. we have no speakers. thank you. public comment is now closed. nextm next item is. it's a special item the next item is item 11. it's theerformance evaluation of environment department executive director tyrone zhou. this item is for discussion and action, i'm going to go through it because it's am. the first part is open session and part a is publicd then partn whether to go into closed session to evaluate the performanc e director tyrone zhou, that items for discussion and possible action, then presu the commission votes to go into closed session, there will be item c, which is a possible closed session to evaluate the performance of exeveor tyrone ze explanatory document is the performance review closed session material. this item is

for discussion and possible renvene in open session. and that is item don whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed discussion and possible action item. all right let's go with the item action a public puic comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? madam president, we have no speakers. all right. public comment is now closed. next up item please. the next s is item b. vote on whether to go into closed session to evaluate the performance of executive director tyrone zhou. is there discussion on this item? if not, can i hear a motion to approve the commission? go into a closed session to evaluate performance of executive director tyrone zhou on moves. thank you. any second. i'll second. great. we have a motion

by commissioner and a second by vice president. commissioner hao further discussion. we'll open f on this item. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on th item? madam president, we have no speakers. thankou. public comment is now closed, charles, please call the roll. president huan i, vice president sullivan i commissioner an i is bermejo i commissioner. hunter i commissionerompks i commissioner yuan i so the motion passes and wng csed sess

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