place for it to go forward i thank you very much for your leadership. >> i thank you as well. >> please come on up. >> good afternoon, supervisors. >> thank you for linking to us gene from the north's west potrero hill where our northwest potrero hill is interested in 954 we were divided by and freeway so on freeway on both sides of sort in the middle of the neighborhood that freeway has open space on it since we're having more neighbors coming with additional buildings we have already started projects on freeway right-of-way and we have other maintenance to take care that that that's where why we're

interested in having the g b d helping us with the open space expansion in the neighborhood thank you. >> thank you for your leadership. >> next speaker. >> hello supervisors i'm tony i'm the thirds co-sponsor the steering committee i'm happy to be here this is an idea that i first ordinary from isabel badgering book whetherer that on the steering committee of the mayors tvkz /* tk task force and this is in 2011 for the neighborhood and then it really drives all the academics the spaces to bring to the support of supervisor cohen's and the advocates for citywide and so for the it great to see it here a couple of things to mess up

about the formations one is that petition process was really home it is more owners this is the most owners benefit district around 4 hundreds petitions that were turned in if you look at the number of parcels and owners and you subtract out the ones owned by government and the ones out of town this is the most we can do what you have in the petition to specific are more than half of the locally owned land in the district that's a pretty good consensus to move forward and i think an important between the districts it is affordable for most of the small business owners o small property owners the assessment but for the folks in the neighborhood that used the open spaces and maintain them that's affordable

we have a good tool and way to promote more investments creating more you'll support it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm mark dwight i'm the owner of rick a small manufacturing company in dog patch and residential property owner in dog patch i'm here to express my support for the green benefits i'm here to say my landlord supports it we worry about the taxes we pay would cover the improvements citywide he know this is not the day i support combrlg the property owners in our neighborhood to make investments in their sourntdz i believe this allows the locals to appraiser intents and equally important engages the citizens and strengthens our community as

a whole while expediting completion of improvements i thank supervisor cohen and for all of you supporting in it is truly arrest initiative undertaking and will serve for the rest the country i want to thank bruce and it's tome team and finally to thank you mohammed nuru for their support thank you very much. >> thank you are there any any other members of the public that want to speak on item 57 that being said. >> so colleagues this resolution is a result of a tremendous amateur of community organizing over the past 3 years by residents and property owners in those neighborhoods we have collectively put a significant

amount of hosting workshops and developing a math plan and securing thirty percent rated support required to get us to where we are today thank you for the opportunity to thank many of the members of the steering committee that worked to get so for the for this first come, first serve effort i'd like to thank bill public and the respective consultants with the details of the plan and the documents from the district and finally acknowledge the city staff including the office of economic workforce development and others who are staff on this early on, on this effort want to recognize city attorney robert bryan and competitively or /*

jonathan and others with dph and mohammed nuru thank you and i need to take a moment to list the special folks that came to talk about the impacts of the g b d the formation committee and the committee chairs thank you for your leadership and bruce and jean and tony we we couldn't have done it without you and also our statistical worth cheerleaders ron ma gill thank you and i also see quentin he will who is also been a comment and mark white thank you for your office space and retail space to hold any committee meetings i hope i'm not noted

overlooking anyone so given the tremendous supports i'm going to make a motion to send to forward to full board with a positive recommendation. >> second. >> if i could please i want to acknowledge the community for the hard work and the district i represent has several districts i know it is hard to get the widespread report it is hard to get the community around making our neighborhood stronger and they've been to do that and enhancing on top of the city services this is cit at the first green district i know you'll be a role model and we may be getting the same requests if the future that motion was made by supervisor kim and this motion passes newsom with a positive

recommendation moishgz. >> there's no further business. all right. this meeting is

>> good morning, everybody.

welcome to beautiful delores park. this is a long time coming. back in 2008, voters approved a clean and safe neighborhood parks bond which allocated about $14 million to improve this incredible park. our goal together we are going to build the new dolores park that is going to be built to last. it is going to retain all of it's important features, all of it's historic qualities, all of it's essential beauty. but yet be built with the idea that this is whenever people come. >> we are going to be renovating all six tennis court's, replacing the basketball court with operations underneath so the staff has the ability to maintain the park. we are

completely renovating the irrigation system and in addition to the operations we are building two new restroom buildings. this fund was part of the park renovation fund. we knew community was very supportive of a renovation fund. we engaged in a community process which we began with the park to do a detailed assessment of the condition of the park and very details conversation about what we can do in the park and utilize what we can. >> parks are where people can gather and where to relax and a lot of people in the city don't have back yards and this is where we come to be with our community. >> 1, 2, 3. [ applause ]

[ cheers and applause ] >> the work begins. o >> this is the meeting of the commission on the environment, today is tuesday may 26th. it is 5:03:00 p.m., roll call.

commissioner arce here. commissioner bermejo here commissioner stephenson here. commissioner wald. here commissioner wan here. >> we had a couple of meetingses, where we had vacancies, we still have a couple vacancies, we have one less vacancy. what i think we have done over the past year, when we have new members join is we do a nice little welcome, say hello, and have our colleagues have a chance to get to know them and a little bit about them. about and this is one of those times, i'm booeming because i'm exseethed about our newest commissioner, we will learn about here in a moment.

everybody in the meeting, please the newest member of the commission on environment elmy bermejo. [applause]. >> first of all, i'm sorry, i have laryngitis, i'm starting to get my voice back but i want b to say, i'm very proud to be a member of this commission. [laughter] sorry, i will push this closer how is that? i said i'm very proud to be a member of this commission and i thank mar ra lee, for appointing me, for anyone that is probably not known in our community, but making sure we are making a better world i have grew up in san francisco. my family has owned and operating tommy's mexican restaurant in the outer richmond it will be 50 years in september. so i grew up peeling poi tea

toes cleaning tables, and the values of hard works, responsibility not complaining, but seeking solutions to problems that is my dad. he would tell me what the solution is this problem. and making sure we always gave back so i went to local schools like st. monica's, where my sister is on the board for the school, we always made sure, when there was a festival my parents, would send enchiladas, or gave back to the community in one way or the other. i am lucky to work for the government if not all of my life to be a permanent employee of tommies when you are in a family business, you are always in the business. i had the pleasure of the last five years i'm an appointee of the obama administration, director of the intergovernmental affairs for

4-and-a-half years, and was appointed to be the regional exceptive representative in that capacity, it's interacting with our stakeholderses and issues of the department including minimum wage talking about paid leave, we're lucky in a place like san francisco. california those issues are like, not should we raise the minimum wage but by how much. and other places i have worked with stakeholders in other parts of this county it's not that easy to have those conversations, i look forward to working with my fellow commissioners, debbie and guiermo, and everybody here. we have this saying at tommies, on the board f you live in san francisco, don't forget how lucky you are to live here. i told me colleagues when i

first got to washington, they said how long are you staying here, i said i'm leaving soon they said my god, you shouldn't be saying that, but for me san francisco is like the center of the universe it's great to be a part of it with all of you, thank you. [applause] >> welcome aboard. public comment on item two? seeing none, public comment is closed welcome. can we have item three, monica? >> approval of minutes of the january 21, 2015, special commission operations commission meeting draft minutes and march 24, 2015, commission on the environment regular meeting, packet, this is a disdiscussion and action. >> this is kind of a bittersweet moment because folks may not realize this is the last time

we're going to be reading the minutes prepared by the amazing monica fish. and i don't want to -- i know it's not agendized, as we do this and monica has done this work for so long, she has bb the hardworking for all of these years, so we're going to be thinking about throughout the meeting, even though she told us just get through the meeting, [laughter]. comments? can i get a motion to approve the minutes? >> i am. >> sorry, commissioner wald >> i move to approve the minutes, as a condition i just want to say something about monica. if i may. >> please >> i would say heshe's like the heart of this commission, she has kept us on the straight and narrow for so many years

preventing us from ignoring or violating any number i'm sure, of city and other rules. she gets the agendas, out on time she gets the agendas together. she does these fabulous minutes, and it is hard to believe, that we can do the work that we do. without her. although. i suppose, we will have to try. i just want to say, i hope monica you have a fabulous time in the next stage of your life and i thank you more than words can say for all you have done for this chicagosommission, and i do move we approve these various minutes, >> all right is there a second? commissioner stephenson? second. public comment on the minutes? seeing none public comment

closed. favor >> aye. >> minutes are approved. moving to next item monica. >> public comments: members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's aagenda >> seeing no public comment, comment is closed next monica? >> why you should visit a healthy nail salon in san francisco this is an informational presentation and discussion item. >> maybe before our director sets it up, i just wanted to say for our newest commissioner bermejo, what we have is a tradition that was started by a commissioner who is not with us today. anjelo, king, this is the first meeting we have had without him on the commission, he had the

idea once we went to sf gov and started putting the hearings out to the public, we should do at the top of the agendas, is have a community outreach presentation a presentation from staff about any number of the amazing different program at the department, so the folks viewing at home when this runs again on repeat or online can see at the beginning of the hearings, just a really great incite into wa we do at the department, and always been amazing presentations, it's a real joy to kick off the meetings in this way. >> director? >> okay, there we go. i'm go toing talk about the nail salon program in the director's report when we try and find what is new and hot going on in our department when we present to you on the commission it was

easy to pick nail salons, it's in the news and in the know can't wait to hear what anya has to share with us. anya? >> all right. the format is pretty simple. you are all members of the public, don't ask me why the presentation is running, after that, i will be here [laughter]. i'm going to talk to you about this one topic, if you get your nails done get it done at a healthy nail salon. we all like to look our best especially painted, healthy looking nails are always in style. did you think of all ot f chemicals you are exposed to when you get your nails done? there are thinners polishes hardeners, removers, and acrylic liquid to name a few these are powerful allergens and carcinogens, what does this mean? it can cause asthma

reproductive problems in men and women, and also cancer. if these chemicals are so bad, imagine how bad they must be for the nail salon technician, working eight hours a day, in the salon environment, working closely with these smelly, harmful chemicals, that stinks, pretty shouldn't causaler gees or asthma, and make it harder to have children and pretty should not give you cancer. we in the department of environment, believe pretty should be healthy, now you can do something about it. when you look for nail polish look for them without these chemicals, furmaldihide talbulin and [inaudible]. look for toxic free polishes now there say healthier option

too, the healthy nail salon recognized by the department of the environment, these use tommic free trio polishes they don't stop there we have safety products prakts, and ventilation. safer practices, include, wearing gloves when handling chemicals, proper ventilation, having a portable ventilation for doing artificial nails -- on the poor health of nail salon technicians, the price of beauty should not be paid by your man curist. have been trained on the health effects of these chemicals and how to keep their clients away from excessive chemical exposure they have been supplied with gloves masks protective eye goes ls and

disposing and buying chemicals they received free ventilation units to use when performing services, they all have certificates of collusion, and recognized by the city by being pioneers pioneers, in caring for their customers customers, they have provided window decals to promote themselves and there are bus ads, to check out the healthy nail salon, if you see a bus ad, look around a healthy nail salon may be closer than you think. look for a salon, at sf environment.org/healthy nails. if you don't see your salon on the list ask them to join and feel good that your pretty nails are not coming at the cost of your health. thank you. [applause]

>> great presentation. i really like how you link with a recent. up ed in the director, and the examiners, we will hear about in the director's are you port thank you anya. questions or discussion? commissionerer stephen son >> that was great thank you. couple of questions, how many salons are in the city, and how many are in the process to become healthy salons? >> we have 250 in the city out of the 25 are healthy nail salons, we have 5-10 in the pipeline >> that is great. how long does it take for them to get through the process? >> six months >> if i wanted to go to a salon that doesn't have a decal etc. to encourage them to do the that i can send them to do anything else

>> we have a vietnamese trainer i don't know if you know this 95% of our nail technicians are vietnamese, they're comfortable if someone speaks to them in viet nah neez we have a trainer that calls them back, relays all their fears, and we give them the marketing splat, and they register immediately >> do you have the hot line number off the top of your head >> i do not. >> it's probably on the website >> yes it is on the website. >> thanks. >> all right. questionses? comments? all right. members of the public, thank you anya. public comment on item five? mr. david pilpel. >> on this i asked that the last operations committee meeting, if the