want to make sure you know, i want to make sure people get access those to those kinds of opportunity and certain unions are more challenging to get into than others. just on that one note we've seen clarification from the state saying that solar is multi craft work kind of opened up a lot of solutions on that front in the past year or so >> building trades they should put that on the same page and yeah. the building i know you're a member of the labor union so it's a good discussion it have. >> that was a weak one in the first place. that will be something in the report for containing here's the

potential for the new solar in terms of looking at the commercial pipeline and the subsequential pipeline that's don't believe >> at some point in time awhile we're talking about this i, you know, if we can't build homes in san francisco; right? but you're going to have multi unit condo what's the policy around the electric vehicle, you know, because your precluded from having an electric car if you don't have a garage home we're not building anymore. >> that's an outstanding subject for another commission meeting that's a great point. >> if you - you might not be able to do the roof thing because the complications but

that one right there is a straight shot. >> that's a good one. >> before we treason another motion i want to conform with our deputy city attorney owen we can forevermore before this thing becomes law have the commissioners name in honor of his important issue attached arrest all right. can i get a motion to approve. >> i move we >> second any public comment? any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed. can i please ask all all in favor, say i. opposed? ids have it resolution is adapted. thank you if we can now call item 9 >> the approval of the draft resolution 2014 commending

nicolas for the service to the environment and the draft resolution is included discussion and action item. >> so he joined us not that long ago but accomplished a list of things i think you would say this guy was serving for years at the commission maybe before we bring him up our good friend nicholas maybe monica you can read us many of the things our clearance did for the environment. >> commending nicholas for the service those even environment whereas nicholas was appointed by mayor edwin lee on january 31st, 2014, and served

on the san francisco environment commission and whereas commissioner nicholas served on the san francisco environment commission policy committee to march 2014 and whereas nicholas has dedicated his service on the environment of the san francisco environment commission would like to extend an accomodation and whereas, he appropriated a assistance of important environmental policies areas including the solar and renewable and transportation and strategic partnership and whereas the department of the environment is appreciative therefore, be it resolved that the commission on the environment and the department of the environment recognition honorable nicholas contribution to protecting and advancing san

francisco's well-being and wish him the very best in his future endeavors. >> you forgot one thing. >> he's a fan of chelsea football club. >> that he stuck in there in that tough hiring meeting we had that went way long. we had some fun that invite (laughter) >> that was good. >> i'll bet you'll never look at glaciers again. >> a that's an inside joke. >> testing hesitate gone on to better e bigger and better things why not here from our friend nicholas. >> thank you so much josh and thank you all of you.

i think it was a real pleasure serving on the commission i don't know what to expect but we did tremendous work together an important issues in san francisco. i've been honored to be able to serve with you in this capacity and try to advance some of the myself shared goals we have i'm particularly excited we worked on pace together to help san franciscans retrofit their homes in an affordable way as possible some of the work we did on toxics and the solar it was important upper talking about today president. i said even though i'm not sitting up there even though i've got my ticker going down here i prefer not having the

chickers. i hope i can be an ally in our work and still help as much as possible where you see i can lend my expertise i'm sorry i'm not going to work with our new director i'll thrilled she's there wing (laughter) and i'm just really touched with the resolution so thank you all very much. thank you. (clapping.) >> one of the first things i got to work with with the commissioner was just learning about his initiate to go out there and start moving idea, you

know, and one of the things that started working on was pace property assessed clean energy financing with folks were saying it's illegal and the federal folks involved in gee mortgages said we can't do it so every state across the country from 2010 said hey we're not going to touch it's it's illegal and here he was creating a document showing you how you could do pace and continue the clean energy efficiency and i find myself a lot of times open some things things i've worked open people say you can't do it local hiring people say its illegal i

love to it is it's not illegal we'll show you how and here's the commissioner nicholas i said nick it's illegal he and he said it's not illegal he talked with the mayor's office and the staff now we have it going forward one of the first programs in the state and probably beyond the envelope to say we'll show you how that was great it have when we had nicky worked open the clean energy for transportation and this item together i want to make sure we have his name on there as something he's worked open we'll need him to goaded it done down the road thank you for everything you've done. >> colleagues. all right. public comment on our

friend nicholas. seeing none oh, yes >> since you're a civilian now. >> yes. when i came on the commission my particular expertise was for renewal energy i was excited to be working. >> prayer by the chaplain. >> on that. one of the things that i reflecting on the short time i've been on the commission how much i've learned about the different areas of san francisco's focus on the environment and i've learned >> huge amount from staff so i owe a huge changes e thanks to all of you but i've learned a tremendous amount from all of you. i think a lot of us we bring a set of values to our work but we don't know how to comment those

values and put them into practice i didn't know about bio diversity as i do now thanks to staff i don't know about environmental justice and those issues that effect the community of color in san francisco thanks to commissioner king and didn't know about the project labor agreement as i do now and it's a nexus of how we can put as many san franciscans to work creating a better environment as our president is saying. and commissioner wan we didn't spend that much time but you've been learned a lot from you as well. i said to specifically thank you for leaving me a better person able to round the collective

yawned thank you. (clapping.) all right. colleagues a motion to approve >> i move we approve that resolution commending my former colleague committee who will be very much missed. >> a second. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? motion carries resolution accomodation adapted thank you, commissioner. all right. thank you. if we can hear the next item >> the next is commissioner secretary written report in our packet is the correspondence log for all the correspondence received along with the committee the departments

communication and policy director has provided in the future update obey permitted weekly and in addition the staff will provide two reverberations of meeting minutes to review and approval one of the longer than meeting and the more condensed meeting for the future meeting minutes. >> everything is included in the written report and commissioner king. >> number 4. >> thank you monica i only thing i want to say when you know, we do the accommodations monica is the catalyst to get together a lot of information to make sure we tell the story of folks like nicholas and helps to pull things together and could be a good kind of craft eerie

replacement in the draft we had things like the nicholas i participated in the first ever live twittered shuttle conversation and shifted his alliance to support of the liver football club and knows what to do to make it on point so our unsung hero monica helps to pull really good stuff together to really do the send the right megs message and honor the folks we want to honor. >> yes. commissioner. >> she's going to do two minutes of the meeting is it necessary to detail every last word because this is testify

advised there is a record of the meeting it might be a more effective use of her time but in order to answer that question you'll see the traditional minutes versus a new version and wait our thinking of whether or not our comfortable with the other version that's what's going to come our way the next time you get the minutes take careful note of the difference and hoping help us understand you're thinking on that. >> thank you director raphael. questions or comments it's not an action item unless there're none any public comment on that item? 0 open our secretary report seeing none, public comment is closed. physicals there's that they other discussion move on to item 13 >> the highlights of the may 14 meeting and for the august 13th

item this is a discussion item. >> commissioner king. >> i need to table the report because i was not able to attend that committee meeting. >> all right. so no action required have and - i think we don't have to table it maybe just well, i guess yeah. is that how we can do it talk about it next time. >> yeah. grateful i'll talk about the next one next month. >> sound good the committee chair report seeing none item 14. the policy information and chairs report highlights of april 9th and july 14th meeting review the agenda for the august meeting to be held in the city

hall. commissioner gravanis >> thank you, commissioner commissioner wan as excused because there's four meetings to cover i'll talk about that at the april meeting john the city planning recorded on the urban plan and how it relates to the exit goals and the urban forestry plan will be going onto the planning commission we'll find the timetable and the upper chair spoke about the relationship between the urban council and the commission on the environment. we then had a presentation on assembly bill 2188 the solar permit and the commissioners spoke about and alison of our

staff spoke about this bill how it establishes an issuance of proprieties for the rooftop solar installation it wouldn't change things for san francisco but help with the exceeded permit for the solar hot water systems this resolution to support the resolution was adapted 4 to zero because we had a full commission at that time. and acting director gave us an update on the process. at the may fwurd meeting we heard about the van ness transit proposal we have a group from the bs n r t there was no aforementioned taken but a hardy discussion and suggestions made

and then a discussion working with the board of san francisco to create a policy to prohibit the transcript of fuel materials like petroleum and other in san francisco. and again, we approved the motion to as a full commission to approve working with the port to work on developing the policy. and then we had a report climate consumption inventory we've had discussions will consumption how to help the consumer make wise choices and the head of our staff gave a stock home requirement consumption inventory for san francisco which gave specific quantities

of green house gases released for the goods and certifies we consume in san francisco it was useful when we go forward how to educate the customer about carbon related impacts of our purchasing. on june 9th we had a presentation on the stakeholder engagement for the policy construction we've discussed and a presentation from nick from the san francisco unified school district on the school districts sustainability program we found infest the school district is doing a lot of things to promote a sustainability agenda we talked about the ability of the future resolution we send to the school board we heard they're working on the i p m and talked

about the possibility of a program in the future on the school districts eco policy program. on the june 13th we talked about the zero waste compliance bob go gave a report on our zero waste mandate and outreach and other programs. talked about programs that have been recovery 90 percent of what's discarded which is pretty amazing but the last 10 perris percent will change the way that parolee designed products are designed a lot of work being produced on the state level and above. robert talked about the outreach the need for financial incentives and disincentives having mandate obeying being very important to make our

outreach effective. so that was another discussion then the bio green ordinance we've approved at the tonight's meeting a great update if director raphael we've heard about the amazing things she's been doing next meeting is august 11th the draft agenda is getting the word out about our schools program and vision zero you've been reading reducing to zero the number of people maimed or killed in traffic collisions. we talk red light runners that's not an accident if you hit somebody. and then in the future we've talked about more discussion about what to do about the stuff

in the black benefit talking about getting a new technology for dealing with the last percentage of stuff we don't know how to get recycle. the methodology and the follow-up discussion our great month to month with the public utilities commission now what how do we follow-up and possible future joint meeting with the department of public health that's enough for now >> thank you, commissioner. comments colleagues. thoughts. did commissioner gravanis is there a letter you want us to send out maybe a letter to the

subsequent xhepd the sustainability >> we didn't ask anyone to draft a letter but we thought it would be a good idea for the support. >> either from the policy or the commission we did that on the puc to highlight the h renewable energy it's a climate proposal we're talking about a letter for the post office we've done a letter thanking the mayor and the puc ann kelly for restoring the sf energy and perhaps do another one president chiu called the energy to get the money back. there may be might be some kind of fund to get that process

going off like a routine to get the communications to move the agenda you know the policy agenda. any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed any other comments thank you a very thorough report commissioner gravanis. monica call the next item >> the information and discussion. colleagues announcements? announcements. announcements? any other announcements from our director? okay. okay we've got good okay public comment seeing none >> wants announcements. >> a couple of quick ounces or ones i was in brazil for a portion of the world cup i sent

a photo to our director and tweeted it and the department retweeted it and it was a nice photo there's nothing i can do with it here but in every world cup venue thankful had a mass cot recycling a goal make it your goal it was everywhere it was omnipresent throughout the facility it was nice to share. formats i have a letter from the mayor that went to all commissioners it's a reminder about the policy on commissioner attention commissioners, i was charged with pga that out to the closed session colleagues it's a kind of an outline of the commissioners participation for

director and i've got one up here you took it mopping can. for the record go solar was fully funded if it's the will of colleagues to send the communication to the mayor and the puc manager thanking them for getting this done we have full funding for two years. the last announcement is new it's exciting. learned this morning and actually received confirmation we have a champion on our proposal to oppose and prohibit the export of hazardous follows materials like cool and petroleum coke and be the first in the nation leader on this this is something the port has done it's a practice the port commission staff saying they're

not interested in cool coming out our port. we're learned today that supervisor malia cohen as taken up this issue at the board of supervisors she introduced a resolution pledging the board of supervisors support for this effort to create this policy and if the resolution passes it also encouraged the collaboration between the department of environment and the port department to present this to the board of supervisors in a report and a policy they can move to establish as city policy we've been looking for the champion at the board of supervisors supervisor malia cohen has done it not that long ago that's an exciting announcement to share. all right. any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is

closed. and our last item and the future agenda items >> colleagues. >> like i said earlier i think i'd like to see us have the discussion about electric vehicle charging stations. and condominium units since we're not building any two homelands >> all right. electrical vehicle charging stations sound like a plan it's a good topic. the only thought i want to share with the colleagues that was recorded by mit earlier in the year when it comes to the disproportionate pollution in san francisco for many decades

that was our southeast bayview hunters point because of the pour plant anticipate now with the shut down of the points mit shows that now the mission district is the most disproportionately polluted community i want to put out with the colleagues if it's the will of the folks to go back out into the community and feasible in september to do another meeting we did our retreat in the chinatown at the city college and that was great we did our meeting at the bayview opera how is it was very well attended to be an idea to put out there to devout to th