a car not running on fossil fuel and rfps coming out wanting to do a railroad organization and deep dive into our energy program the rfp is closed we're going to bring an outside consultant to better reorganize staff i'm replacing them with the level of folks that can do the work on the post office the last time i showed you the postings and how the inspector generally did a survey the post offices around the country and found san francisco has the worse record for krooirl you asked how you can help so the letter that the commissioner signed invited the povsz to cob could you be with the progress report they're on notice your

inviting them back since that time they've invited our staff to do 18 site visits so on 18 site facilities they've changed out their service contract so get much for recycling and come posting and we've signed them up with our contractor for it is a huge postal area they want to have a great story when they can be (clapping) this is a huge week in prevention i'm grateful for jim glover he signed two builds around compost one is taking away the daily cover for green waste that means that the cities at&t park the state will not be

able to hide behind their green daily cover its not counted at diversions in san francisco it's a small number we're not afraid of logging that diversion credit but hurt a lot of cities that are produced of their diversion rates brown signed the bag band and yeah. to that (clapping) i love the quote from i'm not the he did this on purpose we're the first to ban the bags and we won't be the last so clearly san francisco was the first to ban the bags and sure did seven years we were not the last and my guess is not california is not going to be the late this is a wonderful day we have truth and landlord-tenant on family retardant we got a lot of wind

this legislation session i'm proud of the staff that worked with the lobbyists i want to do another heads up to the operations committee donny and his team are launching what we're calling a brand centralizing and reinvigorating effort this came up with something that commissioner wald as talked about i've heard her talk about that this frustration with our name are we sf environment are we a city department how do we communicate we're innovative and try to we are calling this a strengthening and any visiting we're going to be meeting internally and the commission is going to have to be a strong partner and come to the operations economy we'll be inviting you in and coming back

to the full commission and the last piece of news i want to share with you is that cal has been our phenomenal climate lead decided to leave city government after she recovered from a very bad accident had an e that i have necessary in mere life wants to be in nature more working with the marin cash project and, yes for cal to be working with them lucky her and us she's promised me to guide me as help me as we hire a replacement even though we're sad for her losses that's my update for now. >> thank you director for all your work (clapping) colleagues your great

work i'll add the ad jeff colleagues questions or comments. >> all right. kudos and thank you you know, i think that you know one of the things that you know we can talk about on the next maybe for future agenda items but spring or is it summer the u.s. conference of mayors are in san francisco we were in a meeting director reaping he will about the passion that mayor ed lee has for zero waste and community partnerships to do that and engaging as we try to get to zero waste nothing it going to land file we're right now at only 20 percent flip the

80 percent it is going away from landfill at one hundred we're at zero waste he's pack at about and to present the opportunity and this brainstorm we've had to an though how to get to the last 20 from 20 percent down to zero and perpetrate it as something to work with that the mayor can show case to the other mayors apart from things we do but our pathway to zero waste sets up apart from the nation and parching with the community of color pea workers is something that came out of our meeting such the next week day i met that sxhoild and she proposed having a community depth working with the community organizations particularly in community or

color and low income community and limited english speakers that's an innovation that could be a last mile with respect to the 20 percent at&t park zero waste so you thought that was great she talked about sherry macintyre those kinds of innovations at the conference of mayors and something to work through that will be exciting especially with the idea of commissioner wald wanting a council you you know things happen you could be great great to link up with the council to move the needle they'll find that right now food scrapes are that ended up in the landfill and in the black bin instead of the green bin and get this out in a language that's the languages spoken at home in a way to move the needle back to zero waste this item about clean

paper is somehow ended up in the green bin and should be in the blue bin we can track through the department of the environment and the director through ecology and track that through realtime and taking advantage of working with sf and the environment but it was great you did great at this our director did phenomenal in awarding those wards to the green businesses it was great to there are it was about the workers impact of workers who otherwise have to end up with products that are not green and health hazards colleagues you any other questions before we look at public comment on director's report and i know

it's been a long day, however. >> you're a taxpayer we work for you. >> ankle. >> so the floor is yours. >> i guess the president misspoke when we he was praising san francisco for the forest alliance they've going a good job of trying to reserve the trees i'm not speak on behalf of the forest alliance but a private sense it is helpful to invite forest alliance to do a presentation for this commission i hope you'll do it like climate change is important preserving the trees is important reducing

the use of toxic products is i've pointed out is very important and this same natural areas problem is using very harmful herbicides and their using more and more of them and using them all the time they using 3 times as much of those as the rest of the rtd combined if you eliminate that you'll limit the use of most toxic and more toxic herbicides by 50 percent in the urban d i was i have not my glasses i mean, i have a different one i'll read about some of the herbicides from the time i have

like also called stocker and by the way, i put here the chart it starts with this aid i know i was complaining about the herbicides around market street davidson when 0 we had a head of the san francisco environment this chart is accurate done from the resource materials and only commissioner mar herbicides and rtd one the herbicides it is pier two more toxic they called the stock it is permits in souls for 17 months and it is doing damaged

lands at the concentrations and t it is water soluble not binding the soil so it can travel through the soil in ground water and enters the surface bored and highly month boil and a braked of the toxics since 2007 and been that way since 2001 and san francisco should be band here thank you very much. (clapping.) >> any other public comments seeing none, public comment is closed thank you very much director reaping he will and monique can we hear item 10 minutes. >> (inaudible) meeting the

commissioner (inaudible) adapting other (inaudible) future performance. >> a motion to approve commissioners. >> i wasn't sure there was needed some context for this. >> what you have monique was nice to do this as we think about what the best use of monique's time as well as the importance for transparent for people to understand what happens here monique gives us two different versions of minutes there's a condensed and a full version so she was hoping you'd take a look at those and if comfortable you might approve the use of condensed version we have not had a lot of discussion around that. >> director raphael part of the

thinking thanks to sfgovtv sfgov we have archives of everything to get the play-by-play we could sf gov. tv.org. >> yes. commissioner wald. >> because our meetings are now televised i am more sympathetic to the notion of having the condensed minutes then i was a couple of years ago when we last decided feel i want to make sure that doing the condensed minutes that less time consuming than doing the longer than ones when or in my own experience it's hard to make it short and concise than to make something

longer with more words i mean, that's the reality of writing so but if monique says the shorter ones are faster or easier for her to produce and give we have you know this wonderful television archive now i would support using the short form. >> shorter is (inaudible) shawn i think (inaudible). >> but does it save time for i when you produce it or do you have to spend the same time amount of time if not more to produce a shortly or longer. >> listening to the audit it

takes time i think it is still a better way to go now. >> i prefer the condensed can we get a motion to approve the condenses wait. >> commissioner king that's fine i don't particle have a problem but would like a memo about the criteria from which she's pulling because if 0 monique decides to retire next year we'll have being used to get those notes in a certain way so just you know from a criteria or a would you seen or deem to be important when viewing when listening to minutes i want that memorialized in a memo to us just foyer protocol later on

down the line. >> that's it that makes sense. >> i think that's an excellent idea make a friendly amendment showing she will have to do that before she leafs as opposed to when we vote on it. >> i'm not asking her before she leaves but tonight i'd like her to do that you know hopefully in the next month or so it's not a rush but just her thinking about taking minutes from a condensed in a condensed way. >> i was thinking that it would improve the topics of the discussion and any recommendations for a resolution comments, of course, and any action taken (inaudible). >> however, you see it i'd like

it to be memorialized in a memo that explains the criteria when you listen to the minutes on tape for the days you're pulling out why. >> that makes investigated sense you want to have a guidance document. >> another idea especially we'll see the minutes a month and a half after the meeting if you're able to copy and paste the link from sfgovtv so it's right there if someone wants to click on it because i believe our minutes are clickable so that, if i have the link you know video existing at whatever granting cuss.com slash the documents of the ero and someone

can click. >> the link. >> oh, the link to the specific hearing ex-wife. >> the overall archive. >> i can even show you there's a pretty easy way to you pull the url website to copy it and paste it somewhere i think it's initiative. >> if you go to page 10 on july it says an audio recording wwwdesigners.org and commission slash audit. >> yeah. i think what so he can look at having a generic one one specific for that date.

>> with that said, being said i move to approve the condensed minutes. >> a second arrest from commissioner wald any further discussion before we go to. okay public comment on the minutes art seeing none, public comment is closed i looked claude december and gave me a reminder to talk about a little bit slower thank you yourself doing such a good job all right. colleagues landlord/tenant all all in favor, say i. of approving the condensed minutes >> i. >> all right. i's have it all right. thank y all right. thank you commissioner gravanis has to leave us we still have quorum and deputy city attorney.

>> i just want to say hi. >> monique next item. >> for the report for the office (inaudible). >> okay. so anyway that was a good meeting i am of want to apologize to staff i was incredibly late i ran into traffic with that said, i want to thank them for their dedication it was a very good meeting we i wrote some notes can't read them planning we did the planning for this meeting it went well, we had a bunch of notes internal goals to hit in terms of grantees being here and other groups we collaborate with

in the year we hit a lot of those goals person trying to do we had a staffing update a lot of staff transition and high priorities vacancies some permanent exempt civil services clarifications that are being cleaned up now and so we reviewed a list even if open positions including deputy city attorney that our executive director is working to fill and there's some transitioning of staff from one position to another as those temp and permanent temp exempt classifications go out and one of our favorite items we talked about the bucket is unfund

mandate it seems we've resolved a number of inresolved mandate we have a version problem we're not a city budget city oh, general fund department we're not a general fund depended the majority of our funds come from grants we're finding a large challenge because so many of the grants only want to fund directly or direct program dollars not including the billable hours we need to do is as a city agency under the chapter including their benefits we're finding more and more grantee state and federal and on that are starting this practice so we suggested that round table

with other requirement to have those challenges and start talking about the potential solutions as well even maybe raising a question with you to make sure we put out a letter to the city and other folks about this descriptioncy we're not a fund agency our employees are city employees and entitled to all the things the city employees are and to that end maybe the city needs to look at that situation as a whole as it politics not only to us but all the departments that have the issue of becoming a larger issue is stitch in time saves 9 we need to make sure we it is good

it's a top down request so the city is aware of it and as the departments are impacted start to get together go and in collaboration with the top and that was the meeting. >> thank you commissioner king. >> i got a quick question for commissioner king and maybe for our director is this the year where we look to once again become a general fund department and to receive general funds the way we once did 10 years ago you know quite frankly i'm not the one to answer that you i think what we need definitely need to see if this trend continues with the criteria for granting money than we're going

to start facing larger and larger gaps that will impact our service delivery so we can't be the only department facing this so the solution is not the department of environment solution it must be a city solution for the departments having this challenge. >> thank you for your question i'll say this is the year to quantify not being a general fund and 0 forecasting that out for what commissioner king is saying what's the impact and what are we not going to be able to do and make the case. >> if we did this around the post office idea we work together around sf investment and environment commission and have excuse me. a coordinated

approach what if it's quantified we could work on the impact with some suggested ideas maybe and send a letter kind of laying out the impact to the mayor and president chiu and supervisor farrell chair the budget committee to get the conversation going and use that as a vehicle to start the conversation. >> that's a very interesting idea i know that commissioner king's opinion it's not our department it's part of a larger trend it's a competition where should general fund money go we need it make a case and first part of that is to truly understand not having that. >> it so you would a great plan on the operation committees

chair report any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed monique can we hear item 11. >> the committee report september 18th. >> thank you at our august 11th meeting we had a presentation on the vision zero program and we worked on the resolution that the policy committee approved and the commission approved as a whole this evening we also had a discussion on or presentation on the department of the environment school education program by mr. horton witnesses who directs that program an september 18th by them the who highlights the two most

interesting items on the agenda on in depth discussion on material in the black bin and what it should be and was it really is and the problem of putting the wrong things in that bin. >> what it does to the rest of the program we have a visit from gold thereby the environmental literacy specialist with the school district who told us about the district eco literacy program at our next meeting of the policy committee that will be on october 8th the big-ticket items we'll be discussing are one, the

mta's transit effectiveness program and we expect to have a resolution we'll work on at that meeting with potential of bringing it to the fill commission at the next program we're going to i have an update on the green business program and we're going to begin our work on come milestone i piling our part the commissions part of the departments unanimous report. >> great, thank you commissioner. >> welcome public. >> questions or comments. >> you can come because now we regularly oh, i don't know if it's such a problem when we're did you observe one person but when