>> we're adjourned. >> thank you commissioners

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together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the

kids will go to school here. we hold the classes to no longer 12 and there's 23 teachers. i go around and i watch each class and there's certain children i watched from babies and it's exciting to see them after today. the children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. they get self-confidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their

commission on the environment. today is tuesday, january 28th. it is 5:10 p.m. first item on the agenda is roll call. commission president joshua arce? >> here. >> commission vice president [speaker not understood] is excused. commissioner ruth gravanis? >> here. >> commissioner [speaker not understood]? >> here. >> commissioner heather stephenson? >> here. >> commissioner heather wall? >> here. >> [speaker not understood]? >> here. >> next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes of the november 12, 2013 commission on the environment special meeting

retreat and december 3, 2013 rescheduled meeting. commissioners, in your packet you have november 12 and december 3rd draft minutes. this is a discussion and action item. ~ >> colleagues, unless there is any discussion, can i get a motion to approve the minutes? >> motion. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> . by commissioner wan [speaker not understood]. all those in favor say aye 2a aye. >> it is approved. >> [speaker not understood]. next item on the agenda -- >> there is [speaker not understood]. >> on the meeting minutes? >> [speaker not understood] public comment? >> very soon. >> that's the next item. >> my apologies for the confusion. >> okay. >> next item is public comment. members of the public may address the commission on items not on today's agenda. >> all right. we have one card, and that is

from rupa bose. thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment. and thank you for all that you do for the environment, in particular the reduction of pesticide [speaker not understood]. i'm here today representing the san francisco forest alliance and we'd like to make three comments. the first is on the natural areas pesticide use. natural areas has been using a great amount of herbicides by whatever measure n. 2013 it used more tier 1 herbicides than san francisco rec and park put together excluding the golf course which is a special case. also is treating [speaker not understood] golf course, not all the other golf courses. and that's a special case because of the contract that harding is under. ~ i'm going to try and show you two graphs. 2011 to 2013 are derived from

the original [speaker not understood] documents. we know the department of the environment has been working very hard to track pesticide use with its new database that was installed in 2010. we have spent a lot of hours trying to reconcile them and we found that the database still has significant data problems with months of missing data and we wanted to work with chris geiger and his team to improve the accuracy. but [speaker not understood] are the most accurate representation of herbicide use for the natural areas. people are particularly sensitive about the use of toxic herbicides in natural areas which are wetlands and our ga