don't specifically tackle the security, but we do know that there are locations where it needs to be a high priority, and we are working on the phasing of the project and one of the things that we are looking at on the protro, avenue is how we can pay lot the security measures along with the roadway and the service increases, because like you, we are hearing from constituents, that it is a high priority, and we had originally proposed some changes to the 27, and on the bryant and we ended up not implementing the changes, in part because we were hearing feedback that protro, was not working for the customer and one of the main reasons because of the security. >> on a personal note of

someone who uses a bus for the purposes of elimination and i want to commend you for your it

is hard to balance, with the need of rider ship and in the case of my bus line which is the number six, and i think that you did a great job. >> thank you. >> what we can do to support the commission and perhaps, the commissioner could lead us up that effort and maybe, bring back to us what we can do and maybe take the action to support.

i would love to do the brain storming on the commission. >> and with the staff, and the commissioner josefowitz can head up that work at the commission level and circle back to the policy meeting thank you for spending the time and all of the information in the presentation. >> thank you for having me. >> . >> public comment on this item? >> any public comment on tep? >> could we hear 6? >>review and approval of draft resolution 2014-08-coe in support of amendments to the clean construction ordinance. (explanatory document: sf planning department draft resolution of proposed amendments to the construction ordinance and draft resolution file 2014-08-coe) sponsor: commissioner johanna wald; speakers: wade weitgrefe, planner, san francisco planning department; jessica range, senior planner, planning department, and jonathan piakis, industrial hygienist/noise control officer, department of public

health (15 minutes) (discussion and action) >> joining us from the planning department, and just kind of in the spirit of some of the conversations that i heard earlier, and this has really been an effort between our departments and the department of the environment and william and bob that we have been working with and we have done tons of out reach with the other city departments in trying to update this, ordinance, and so, this presentation, will be similar to what i gave at the policy subcommittee back in march.

this is a health protective ordinance and it deals with the exhaust from the construction equipment. and air pollution is one of the leading environmental causes of cancer deaths, as recognized recently by a world organization of leading scientists that it is, or carcenogin and more and more research is coming out and almost, daily from scientists and journals that my colleagues that the department of public health pass on to us, and the

ordinance that became effective in 2009, applying to the public works projects and the projects that are publicly funded and the construction projects that are longer than 20 days in lengths and live in the environment code and it helps to find the funding mechanisms for the construction contractors. and but it is enforced by the individuals to the departments such as the department of public works, and the public utilities commission, and we have worked with those city agencies over the last year, and insuring that they were, okay, with these updates to the ordinance, and, really the heart of the existing ordinance, was under the

standard best management practices, well which talks about the tier two engines or the verified diesel and the mission control strategy and i am going to call them the vdax for the rest of the presentation and i will find out what that means in a minute and also the b20, bio diesel which you have heard william talk about earlier tonight. and they are really enforced through the contract bids and the specifications and this

shows the new engine and mission standards and don't pay close attention to the numbers and they are standards. and as the time has moved on the equipment has become a lot cleaner and so the, and then you have the tier one equipment and it is not showing up on mine, but, then as you move further to the right, you have the tier two, equipment and so the new, and only the new

engines that were manufactured would have to meet those standards, and if you just take the example of between 25 and 50 horse power, and between tier one and two. you would reduce, particulate matter emissions which is the major concern in the city. and finally the tier four, final and then is just became available last year and it was reduced another 90 percent, and so that is all, with the new engines but a lot of, construction and equipment, and lasts for 15 to 20 years or beyond, and so, there is another strategy, that is verified by the california or

resources board, where you can retrofit, the existing engines which will or can reduce the emissions up to 85 percent. and so, although, the existing ordinance was great, you know, being a progressive city that we are, and realizing the newer technologies are becoming available, we felt that we could maybe, do more. and partially what was pushing us to do more, was through the california environmental quality act, and that is really where the planning department has stepped in and we are often finding out that the public works projects were having to do additional modeling and or do modeling and have to do additional measures, beyond the existing clean construction ordinance to comply with sequa. and so, we did not really feel that that was the most

efficient way of doing the development and review, of the public works project and has to compile the ordinance and then the sequa has to do more. and so us collaborating with the department of public health and we went on an extensive modeling effort to map the areas in the city that have the most burden from the air pollution and that is what this map shows and the blue areas are and i am not going to go into it too much and i am happy to answer the questions about it, but essentially in these areas of the city, we think that there should be additional measures to protect the public's health, yes, commissioner? >> could, i ask a quick question, this the air pollution, associated with the construction as a sector or all air pollution period? >> great question. >> all air pollution and, this is based on all known, modeled source, or all known sources of

air pollution, stationary, sources, roadway sources, and as you can see, 101280, and clearly olining on the blue. >> it definitely matched the construction, i mean, rather a transportation corridor and highways as well as some of the most heavy developed. >> yeah. >> and so, just quickly, on the roadway sources are the primary driver and there are two criteria that go into the snap and pm 2.5 small, particulate matter as well as excess cancerous, and the low ray sources are the primary driver through, you know, kind of when the corridors and to the north east water front, and the maritime sources are a big driver and the stationary sources are also a big driver, and from such of back up the diesel generators that you see on a lot of high-rise buildings or industrial sources, and this map, would look different ten

years ago, honestly with the power plants in the city, and but, the roadways i would say are the primary generator. >> and so, with that, we needed to figure out what was feasible, though, as additional strategies to impose on public works projects and this one comment, this mapping, and this modeling is part of a larger city wide effort collaboration. and where we are trying to reduce the burden of air pollution, both on the existing and in the new developments in the city. and so this is just one strategy, among many including looking at private construction projects in the future, and commissioner had a question about that at the policy subcommittee that we are working on through a larger city wide effort. and so, in, and this is, my title, got thrown off somehow. but, this chart was one of the first things that we looked at in trying to figure out what is

feasible, as indicated earlier, there is here for the new engines are being, manufactured for the tier four, but this graph shows that new engines are largely correlated to the economic growth and we are starting to see a lot of new engines in the air basen for contracting and this is just construction equipment. >> and purchasing the new engines and the manufacturing and warm. that is tier one and tier two, engines and approximately, 47 percent, of all engines, in the air basen are tier two, or

better, and tier three or four and but only two percent, are tier four interim and so that was kind of a first indication that, you know, we would love to require to the tier four but it is really not feasible at this time. now, an indication of cleaner equipment, being greater demand is by this pi chart and the green, purple and the blue are 2, 3, 4, and although, they only count for 47 percent of all engines in the bay area, they are being used 59 percent of the time. and this, this pie chart shows that, you know, once again they are used being 59 percent of the time and they are only 32 percent of the pm emissions and so the equipment is much cleaner than the older pieces of equipment. >> and so with that knowledge, our proposed updates to the

ordinance are pretty simple. and we are proposing that within those limited areas of the city, we have an additional requirement. and so, instead of the chair two, or the verified diesel emission control strategy, we say tier two end. and these, emission control strategies and they are available, for all different types of engine sizes. and so, if you put the tier two on top of the vdeck you are reducing the emissions almost equivalent to that tier four, final which is not yet available. and so the other aspect, that in those blue zones, they are proven exposure zone and there is the plant to help out the department and the public are assured that these projects are actually complying with the requirements of the ordinance. and i will touch on that in a second, here. >> and so, again, this is how

protective and this is the tier two, and i already kind of touched on this, but combined the emissions reductions and compared to the other equipment, is a much cleaner, and this is consistent with the sequa and i did not, and and lastly, it provides a greater ability to monitor for compliance, and this picture here, is highlighting these red stickers on the construction equipment. and this is now required by the state law, that all construction equipment is supposed to have a sticker on each side, and six characters, and you can write down the six characters and go on-line, so that the resources board website and look up the equipment and see if it is actually meeting the ordinance. and we will tell you if it is tier 2, or 3, and that is the public may not do that.

and and we will help the agencies monitor the compliance and so over all, and we just leave that up and the ordinance will be more health protective and we think that it is continues to be feasible, and they are really protecting the workers and the residents and so i am happy to take any questions and we don't know if i mentioned this, but i asked for your support and i need this resolution. >> thank you. >> thoughts in commissioners? >> yes, so this, item has been before the policy committee? we had a thorough discussion of this. and we, i think that i can speak for all of us, i certainly can speak for who is not here, but i think that we

agreed that it was addressing a very important environmental issue and then it was an excellent example of data driven, adaptive management, using the sequa process and so i hope that my fellow commissioners will in fact, approve this proposed resolution. >> thank you. >> commissioners, colleagues? it sounds great. it sounds like we are going to get an increase in the environmental benefits from a program that is already doing that, and serving to bolster the national leadership on this and perhaps we can get a motion to approve. >> i move. >> so moved. >> second. >> and is there any public comment on this item? all of those in favor of approving the resolution to support the amendments to the clean construction ordinance? >> please say aye. >> all of those opposed?

>> none, thank you very much. >> and the motion passes. >> thank you. >> thank you, for your patcinece tao. >> so we are skipping 7 and 8 and maybe we can move to number 9 >>review and approval of draft resolution 2014-07-coe commending acting director david assmann for his service to the department of the environment, commission on the environment, and to the city and county of san francisco. (explanatory document: draft resolution) sponsor and speaker: commission president joshua arce (5 minutes) (discussion and action) >> in your packet is a copy and the commission, joshua acre and this is a discussion item. >> thanks, and i feel like it was, a long time ago that we had a big sigh of relief, because we thought, oh, we well have got david until june, or july. and you know? and well it is like we have a lot of time. and we can get a lot of stuff done. and we have got a lot of stuff

done. we did a national search to find our new director and we are all excited about that. june second. and we got a chance to spend a lot of time with david during that and it was great. and we got to talk about birding. and i found out that there is not a bird that you can't think of that you could throw his way that he does not know and like when i asked, about the cinaloya ran. >> yeah. >> and you know, it is all of that and he is so respected and we thought that it was the least that we could do to look at his accomplishments of what he has done at the department and he is one of the originals at the department of environment and it goes all the way to the beginning. and he has accomplished a lot in the different roles that he has had and he is an institution and maybe one of the things that we can do before we kind of share our

thoughts about david, is maybe to hear the resolution and maybe monica can read it just so that we can put it into the record everything that you have accomplished in all of these many years at the department of environment. >> resolution, for his service to the department, the commission on the environment and to the city and county of san francisco. and whereas stated he started working with the city and county of san francisco of administrative services on july, 1, and 1993. and then, with the department of the environment as deputy director on august 20, 2001, and to june, 30, 2014, and as stated and he served as the director of the department of the environment from august 16, of 2008 to august, 9, 2009, and as february, three, 14 to may 31, 2014 and was david created

and sustained the environment now, program and the second environment jobs practice and as david was the role for the department to 2011 and as he was responsible for all personnel issues in the growing department and whereas he also directed a budget that grew from 777,000, to 20 million and whereas he eliminated the department, for the general support, while securing other sources of funding for ultimate of the departmental programs and was david for the implementation for the environmental justice program the largest in the country with the grant budget of 13 million and responsible for upgrading the departmental, offices, and from a single floor of the 11, grove street to the show case of 1455 market street, and whereas david coordinated the department of the environment role in the gender analysis under the implementation of the

cew, 8, and wedaw, and conventional of the elimination of all of the forms of discrimination against women and whereas he played a leading role in establishing and maintaining the california, stewardship council and whereas he played a leading role managing the green cities california and a state wide coalition, and whereas he was instrumental in helping san francisco achieve ground breaking programs, such as the program and the energy and climate programs and, toxic reduction and the out reach program and the clean transportation program and whereas he served as acting director with the department of the environment on four separate occasions and whereas he was established a city first bio diversity program and provided the support to the staff throughout the transitions through the years and whereas he has continued to

direct the program, and under the mayors, and was he will be retiring from the city and county of san francisco on june 30, 2014. and now, therefore, be it resolved, that the san francisco commissioner on the environment come mends him to the contribution for the department of the environment and the commission on the environment and the city and county of san francisco and be it further resolved that the san francisco commission on the environment wishes david assmann well on his future endeavors. >> let's hear it for david. [ applause ] >> thank you. i really value all of the years that i spent with the department, and with the commission, and with a growing awareness of all of the issues that are important to the residents of san francisco.

and i see the future of the department, and the environmental issues as being one that will continue to grow and that there is a bigger need than ever for the leadership in this area. and that i feel honored to have been able to play my role in helping to move these issues forward. and i think that the department remains in great hands, and i look really forward to seeing the achievements that will come in the future, and i think that our new director will do a wonderful job and i think that we have a dedicated staff and i think that we have the secure core of funding, and i just, this has been a part of my life for more than 20 years. and it is going to be hard to say good bye. and i am not going far, and i will still be in the city and i will stay pay attention to what is going on. and i will still be available, and meet with the people periodically, to talk about environmental issues and contribute to whatever way that i can.

and however, it is time for me to take another phase, and i like to say, i spent many, many decades working for the environment and now i want to go out and enjoy the environment and so i appreciate the accommodation and the support that the commission has always provided from day one, from the day that i started working with the department, and i felt that the commission has always been very supportive, and appreciate being able to work with each and every one of you. and so, thank you. >> thank you. >> on the resolution, we do have to add the fourth date that david served as acting director. >> and we have to. >> and that the fourth one? >> yes. >> well that is i will tell you a story about that. >> vetor recruited me to be the deputy director of the department of the environment back in 2001. and i was all enthusiastic, and came to the department and got all of these plans and started

working on a number of project and about four months after i started she came to me and said that i have the news for you and i am leaving the department and so, just after i started, that was the first time that i became the acting director was back in 2001. and so shortly after i came over to the department. and when it was, and the department was with the eight people and that was the 8 and there were 7 people when i joined the department. and so it is obviously seen tremendous growth, i mean, from what it was in those days to the point where we are now having the hearings in the board chambers and we have 111 people on staff and a budget of $21 million and that was beyond dreaming in 2001, and and it was and i would have a chance

to kind of see the way that your experience and values is part of what we are looking for in that next direct and her so i think that it is, you know, obviously, everyone is going to remember you, and think you for a long long time and i think that it is great to remind us that you are just a phone call away, or available to sit down for lunch and we will pick your brain and we will take great value in that. colleagues? >> i got an insight into what a pleasure it would be and we were looking for the out reach director and i went through that process twice as it had been and what i remember very clearly at the time was really appreciating that your blend of just solid insight and true

environmental commitment that just shown through everything that you were doing and but also, just the relaxed love of what you were doing, and to sit in your office and interview the people surrounded by the birds, and you know, it was sort of like being out in nature and inspiring and i appreciated that in the introduction into the department life and we will miss you a lot. >> thank you. >> commissioner wan? >> sure. you are really one of the person in the department that i could go and ask the question, and you really know the department inside out and the history that brought the knowledge that you have really inspiring me. and i really wish that you could stay longer so i could learn more from you and i am also happy for you because it is hard to enjoy the environment and we will hope that we will continue the spirit that you have and the solid work and you will be a real for the department. >> thank you. >> i think that so much of