(clapping.) >> all right. good morning, everyone how we are doing this morning >> good morning. >> all right. they say that the last mile is sometimes the most difficult mile but with today's announcements we're tagging a giant leap forward to making san francisco a zero waste a big applause i'm joshua proud to service ovrp on the commission of the program and our assistant is in route we'll hearer about zero waste and the creation of zero waste community council and we're going to hear from 9 community as well the policymakers that led us to this point without further ado, that is my great honor to introduce a leader a visionary when it comes

to zero waste someone that worked very, very hard to prompt recycling and come posting and conservatism and to do it in a community way that creates jobs ever since his days of department of public works so without further ado, please welcome mayor ed lee (clapping.) >> thank you, thank you for that introduction josh you should have been at the warriors game but anyway, i want to say thank you to commissioner president josh and the entire san francisco department of the environment that is working with our e cotton participates and others but most importantly to chinatown and north beach. district 3, and over supervisor because the community has been working with obvious to really

make sure that we pay attention to our city's climatic change and the challenges with our environment and chinatown has been one of the leading communities of which we are able to boost that we are now as a city at 80 percent diversity rate with our garbage but we're theory to say we want to get to 100 percent and we want to do it in a way in which we his own the foundational work your communities are participated in this not led and so we've come to chinatown to really start a community-based process to get to the other 20 percent we think that going to 100 percent percent waste krooerlg is achieve work or able in our lifetime and if we

concentrate to the blue and black benefits we know from what the department of the environment and ecology helped us attitude study we know the next 10 percent literally be people not placing things go the black benefit although it got land fortunately fill the data the intersections that work us with to concentrate people are throwing away the next 10 percent babe resulting in better education and cultural education and existence that there is that are dense and as court reporter active as chinatown so we're here to announce that but also to announce that this consultant based approach working with supervisor christensen and working with our department of

the environment we're create a community-based council, if you will, a community council where a number of members of the community and small businesses will give you direct input to the ideas the best ideas they have to continue our effort to reduce wastes and to make sure that if we have some good ideas how can we do that and implement those ideas in ways in which they will honor and support our small businesses and reciprocates who live in congested neighborhood in a way they'll be proud and not take anything wautd away from the quality of life but every improve that i suggest that all of our quality of life in this deserve city if fwe recycle 100 percent of our wave this is working divisible with you are

department of sdriement was the chinatown youth organizations as well as the senior organizations our family associations, our business communities we can lit 51ly have the opportunity next 10 percent and 90 percent of recycling in a short time with implementing those ideas with the leadership of communities based councils we're suggesting today, we want to recruit people that live here and involved in giving us their ideas and advise and want them to tell us what is going into those bins not ought to be going in and how to prevent that from happening the restaurants and stores in chinatown have been great participates when it comes to the compost efforts thank you for doing that that's why we're in chinatown making this announcement our time and climate challenges that serious

it should be serious to every city across the country was we felt the rain today but may feel the effects of the coming and we're prep residents for any diversity that may occur our climate challenges and climatic change goals are simply reflected in 3 numbers zero, 50 and one hundred and zero for the governmental zero waste and 50 represents the fact we want 50 pep percent of people's trips by public trams arrest alternative trespasses to their individual vehicles and 100 percent of our empower to be from renibble energy resources we are work with offense managers and our partners to getting to solar and wooden pour and take advantage

of our clean power initiative we'll be now and then with the zero and 50 and one hundred we'll lead did nation in modeling the efforts in world-class cities like san francisco thank you for participating we'll walk a good portions today so he can do our 50 percent as well >> (clapping.) >> now i'd like to have an opportunity to introduce a very effective supervisor who has been working hard open hss goals but on housing and supporting small businesses, helping to make sure that chinatown is clean working with partners lake the newcomers service center and other partners that is, of course, our district 3 supervisor julie christensen. >> we come out and into 9 neighborhood and do those statement to let people know

that something important is happening we want to highlighter the commission and department of the environment the zero waste to bring people's attention to it is one of the important goals the city has i was at a conference the public works had this morning and they were talking about the fact that san francisco is a.d. administrative code in so many places cities call to find out how our leaders are able to accomplish and certainly our waste program and krooerlg is a model for the country there is more we can do and this program and how we take that extra step you know in chinatown the space is at the premium we struggle to find places to live and businesses the stank is true where we send our trash and refuge we can't

produce more and more waste and have to cut down on the millennium of trash we put into our environment this program is a way we can all do our part to try to help to reduce the amount of material in our landfill to make santa fe san francisco a leader the other reason he like this before i was a periphery i was a neighborhood advocate i was used to work with my neighbors to try to make things better in my he district and city it incorporates the input from the business leaders and toiftsz in coming up with ways to work with the city and e dissolution colon to do a better job so i'll supportive of this project i was happy to partner with the mayor in providing the budget for this this year and graph that chinatown will an

pilot program and hoping for everyone's cooperation so we show we know how to do it i want to introduce the owner the business we're floocht of today to tell us about many project from the prospective of the business owner ms. marissa (clapping.) hi i know that you know chinatown needs a lot of recycle i know healthy cleaner environment i'm happy to say we're doing our deft of best and part in this program to g make a better environment in chinatown (clapping.) >> thank you and we know the mayor and supervisor christensen will agree that program the first of its kind we've seen will take a lot of partnerships

thankfully a lot of the patterns are participates at the greenest ecology and partners with the few weeks the department of public works and mohammed nuru and the men and women of our department the department 6 environment including the program now and i do everyday to make that successful to mr. rodriquez and others from supervisor christensen office as mayor ed lee said we'll walk it through the businesses to talk about greening chinatown in san francisco we have materials for the guests we question do we invite you all and in closing we want to is let's do this and let get to work and zero thank you, everyone

as a society we've basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address

the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my

home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief

driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special.

>> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan.

>> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i

having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick

yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in

the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for >> good morning, everybody. welcome to the budget & finance committee wednesday, october 28, 2015, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing i'm joined by supervisor katie tang want to thank jennifer lowe and krakz coroner's office this human resources madam clerk, any announcements? >> questions all electronic devices.