department to encourage sustainable mode choice around school commutes maybe with not quite as much success as we would have hoped for. how did that go? >> well, it certainly -- let me just pull that section up. >> it's the bottom of page 2. >> the bottom of the page, the bottom of page 2, very last item, last bullet. >> yeah, i mean we did have 11 schools participate so that's not an insignificant number of schools. and then there was a launch activity at two of them just to promote it. >> yeah. >> this is not going to be a one-time thing, the idea is to

do this on a regular basis to encourage carpooling to schools. it's kind of a follow-up to our safe routes to schools project. >> you're replacing it or in addition? >> it's an addition. we're still doing the safe route to schools, it's an addition. it's all aimed at getting away from single occupancy vehicles taking -- well, it will never be single occupancy vehicles if you are taking a child to school, but trying to combine trips so we are more efficient in terms of getting children to school. so 11 schools, i mean there are 250 schools in the city, it may seem like a drop in the bucket but it was an initial attempt and i would assume that we will have a lot larger participation the next time we do it. >> great. >> yeah. >> it's one of these things it's one of many, many ways to try to encourage efficiency in transportation and it's a step

in the process. >> then the other thing that i was interested about was the zero waste enforcement. >> uh-huh. >> i think we've spoken a bit about this before. what happens if buildings don't comply with sort of their zero waste obligations? >> ultimately fines are an option. we have not gone down that road yet but we certainly have that as a part of our tool kit to try to get those buildings that are not participating to comply. so far voluntary efforts have been successful. >> great. >> when we get to the stage where we've gotten everybody to do it who is going to do it voluntarily then we will have to look at fines to be able to deal with those who just say we're never going to do this no matter what you say to us, and there are people like that. >> how much are the fines, are they enough? >> they are graduated. they

start fairly small and go up. >> for the number of days you are noncompliant? >> it's not per day but per violation. i believe it's first time, second time, third time. >> any other comments? seeing none, item closed. >> public comment on all matters pertaining to subsequent closed session on department of the environment executive director interviews. >> good evening, last time, eric brooks, san francisco green party and our city san francisco. just want to say that i don't know who you are interviews or what the interviewees are going to be like, but i want to bring this back to march of last year when our presentation on clean power sf was given to you and

your staff and interim director assmann wisely and rightly said he and his staff were ready, willing and able to go forward with this office and this department doing extensive work on clean power sf, even above and beyond energy efficiency. and so my call on this is that if you have trouble deciding who to hire or you've got candidates that are not quite where you want them to be, i would just ask you to do everything in your power to convince interim director assmann to stay on. i don't know what it will take to convince him to that, he probably is looking forward to getting up into the mountains and hiking and stuff but it sure would be nice to have somebody that is clear in their head about an important program like clean power sf to be staying on in the direction of the department. thanks. >> are there any other public

comments to the closed session that we're about to have? seeing none, i will close public comment regarding the closed session and so that leaves us on item 9, while we're in the break i just want to say i've done everything except blackmail and extortion to keep mr. assmann. i'm a law-abiding citizen so i'm not willing to go there and mr. brooks apparently is asking too much of us coming here asking us to keep mr. assmann against his will. but, hey, you know, we're the can-do department commission so what can i tell you? that being said, item 9. >> vote on whether to hold closed session to hold department of the environment executive director interviews. this is an action item. >> i move we go into closed session to conduct the interviews.

>> second . >> public comment on the vote? you are now going to go into the closed session. >> let the record note that closed session will not occur here. >> and it is 4.40pm >> thank you. all right. >> the commission will be going into closed session pursuant to government code section 54957, administrative code 7.10b, personnel action executive director interviews. >> okay. so it is 7920 open session we'll convene an open session to disclose all the

items and the administrative code 12 b this is an action item that. colleagues motion to disclose or not disclose >> i mom. >> there's no public present without objection. >> all in favor, say i. >> the next item is adjournment 922. >> i want to commend the selection committee the h l committee or whatever you guys are called sarah and david and george on doing all the heavy lifting on getting us those great candidates. >> thank you, commissioners and

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a welcome to lingus to christofi mueller (clapping) joined by a number of digital tars including the mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee. mr. mayor (clapping) for san francisco and the city of cork the sister city has a relationship we're happy to welcome the deputy mayor laurie king stone raise your hand. and the cork chamber of commerce ceo conner healy. thank you (clapping) also present from the san francisco sister city committee the chairman during mat. thank you (clapping)

and the business committee chair jim. (clapping.) and a warm welcome to the consul general of ireland phillip grant (clapping) and we have a large irish community in san francisco a lot of those folks joined us we want to welcome san francisco former gentleman representing dianne feinstein (clapping) we're pleased to have ireland's award winning service ireland and san francisco share special connections including strong hi, tech industry and a general with the bus community and 20u6r78 industry. on either side great connections

of service where passengers fly connecting to bubonic listen and san francisco one hundred connecting flights to benefit from. we really aim to provide world-class set of standards for the industry it exceeds customer expectations and we're reviving one-hundred $2 million in upgrading our facilities including this bar-and-grill terminal to add amenity and additional services and building a new 4 hundred room 5 star hotel connected by your train system we're committed to have the services for the airline partners to air lingus and all the passengers using the airport

we're to going to make this the easiest airport connection airport. it's now great pleasure to introduce the mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee (clapping) >> thank you john. congratulations to, you know, last year, we had 16.9 million investors come electro there 0 the airport that's express or implied so i want to congratulate john. more and more i'm coming out for events this is another wonderful occasions welcome the ceo from air lingus they spent 10 hours in the air on this flight the

first and he hopefully, we'll endanger this in the future and because the relationship with e.r. land i want to see that san francisco and ireland are benefiting from our economy because of the relationship. certainly culturely and with the presence of our business community and sister city that's a strong reflection. over a year ago i had an opportunity to go on my first visit to cork a year and a another thing. we had a great time representing san francisco and being the the chairperson the master person of the parade for the stds in coverage we're talking about where we got the responsibility name of the lee river in coverage this was one of my

first invests and i also met a group of kids there when i was brought to the black castle center where they teach off-street parking projects on science my technology. i made a mental note i had a great time watching the kids and being kathy how they draw in a 3-d way and seeing the excitement. i made a mental note if we're lucky enough i ended my trip meeting with the chamber of commerce and conner reflected open that we were he will hopefully a decision to regig this direct flight and i really want to be gracious and grateful to the a airline for making this appropriate decision i want to welcome not only the crew and

ceo but on this integral flight thanks to the generosities of those we sponsored 5 of the kids for could do joe's to be in the trip they're here today, i give them some cookies with my face on them (laughter) i figured john self-we gave cookies out to the arriving passengers from the international flights we'll jump over the sky tracks someday; right? we were just laughing and celebrating we were named the third most important airport in the world they consider our airport to be friendly if we did

nor cookies co- do joe's. they're to spend 5 days here we have a lot of technologies copy companies in the be sure but we look at bubonic listen and they're considered the nation capital of the world and from bubonic listen not only from europe but from east africa and here in san francisco we consider ourselves the nation capital we have a lot of technology companies her and the kids will be visit game developments and companies their bebe at the academy of science and the "x" platform. i hope you enjoy users here but again congratulate air lingus

again for this inaudible flight and know we'll be supporting our convoys e criticize efforts on this action let me thank you for the opportunity to present mr. mueller with your plaque and please, mr. mueller please come on up as we palatium this day to be air lingus in san francisco (clapping) >> thank you, mr. mayor.

a representative from the state assembly bill couldn't be here but a member of the staff is here to air lingus. i want to ask assembly member to step forward and ask christofi mueller to step forward again as well >> thank you, everyone and good afternoon. i'm norway restrict i'm here on behalf of the assembly member 39 i phil i'm here to present this plaque to air lingus. we want to thank air lingus and mr. moourt for visiting us today and on behalf of the assemblyman phil congratulations on this occasion

(clapping.) san francisco o has a strong partnership r with attracting international service. i want to ask you to join in in welcoming sandra (clapping.) thank you, john it's my pleasure to add my thanks to air lingus we're thrilled about the tourism time between our two countries. the tour is the number one tour industry is the growth is strong it's extremely important to making sure that flight is both

ways coming in san francisco and going to ireland. dublin is a gateway and we look forward to working with the central europe. over 50 of irish coming into san francisco come from dublin i was with may team and to promote this flight we look forward to working with i for a strong relationship pr congratulations and welcome again (clapping.) thank you, john i'd like to welcome the ceo christofi mueller >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, may i ask the crew please to join me on stage we have the gun is all over the

place but please join me (clapping) so mayor ed lee and keep in mind guests thank you for the warm welcome i'm overwhelming i have not seen people to pick up their came forward to take beautiful pictures this was what difficult time for ireland but this is a contribute to what's been called in the previous speaks the technology sector in the bay area and dunn listen where month american companies have chosen to base their european headquarter and we hope to contribute to this relationship.

but for you who don't know us lingus we're very, very old but still very modern at this time 78 years old and very modern we serve almost 90 percent of our tickets on the internet and have the most equipment we fly and recognized as being in ward regard to direction policies. it's not just technology it is going both way the island enjoyed the visitor numbers in the united states and that is attributable your landscape and very attractive hotel prices we want to continue we increased

our capacity 15 percent this year hopefully 20 percent is usually unusual but you tourism inbound is important and the vice chairman of the island and jim is here with us to make that point again but also out bound tourism in upper california is the most attractive tourism designation in the united states and we see that today. i check the 5 o'clock we carry only 95 from the island and the rest is in paris and all over europe that's basically the next step not only to connect idling island to california and europe but the whole world.

we have an irish community in san francisco we believe approximately 4 hundred and 50 thousand people and building it or not lingus makes half of its revenue we call them relatives and family. we have 70 million people worldwide but it's a huge market and that's basically our mission we want to complete the mission every year and this flight to san francisco contributes. we have one hundred and 50 years old we thought of something of our flying equipment it is in 3 o'clock we e 3:30 we took over the north atlantic and the designation is ireland the sf our more importantly all the the

aircraft's is called for our crew after 12 hours of work still big miles. >> thank you very much (clapping.) i'd like to ask the crew to remain up front while we had a toast and ask the mayor to come up. a big toast to the air lingus in san francisco welcome san francisco. cheers

(clapping.) this means good height and good look. thank you