similar in the process and we wanted to hear from the public where we need to go and where we may need to improve but we also would like to hear from the commission on where they would like to see us go in this process. we started out with the department as a whole and so we started out with debbie who is our director and we took a strong hard look at this. so we could work through this as a strategic plan or we could break this down to gether and see how

the community it will see this manifested ina strategic plan. we asked our colleagues internally what does that look like to you, and we actually asked everybody to put their thoughts on post-it notes and think about what they think the goal of the department was and what they think they would see in the next coming years and we got everything from doodles to long thoughts written very intelligently and we went through all of these and

first we looked at our global footprint. so we brought in experts in the global market to see how we were doing in our department and what was being done globally. we looked at what we wanted to do and what we needed to do and what was our goals for the department. we put goals down and concepts we could achieve and we wrote these down and we put them in the order of importance for when the funds were available. and not only did we write

these down but these were also something we could use to point a pathway for achieving goals. also i want to point out that we realize that it would be pretty bold of us to make a statement about what would happen in 2020 and 2016 and the best example that i can give you for that would be that in 2013 at our last strategic plan we had a goal of 27% bio use of renewable. the saw in these plans and also what we looked at new plans that we could be prepared for in this project.wwe said let's set up a plan to be a, bold

and b, agile and with that we contacted the meister and i will bring julie up to talk about what the meister's plan was as far as our effort. >> thank you donnie. hi good afternoon thank you. i am delighted to be here today. iwork with , as danny said, meister consulting group to develop a strategic plan. today i

am just going to talk about this plan a little bit. first i will go over who meister consulting group is and hopefully that will help you to see the direction we will be heading with this. first we bring deep content expertise in urban sustainability, climate

planning, and clean energy. second we design tailored processes for strategic planning with facilitated internal engagement. and third, we bring an outside perspective as we bring these things along. w understand this process we have narrowed this down into a three stage developing process. first we have a sourcing stage and then we have a selection stage and then a synthesis stage. first we have the sourcing plan and that will allow for benchmarking and for engagement in these plans with these ideas and second would be that selection and the feasibility of these and this would include impact and influence and mission and thirdly we have

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the practices ithin this sustainability practice and we put this in our database to help perform strategic plan as well. beginning with our ideas we had a workshop process. we had a workshop process to celebrate successes and brainstorm new activities. we discussed successes and challenges and new innovations and second we had set a long-term vision visioning exercise and goals and brainstorming on these. and third we built out a new

idea impacting our strategies and our successes that they have already accomplished over he last five years and that allowed them to brainstorm new activities they could do next and also staff was allowing them to have a vision outside of the box of what else they could do and they took some new ideas and broke them down into goals over the next five years for their program areas and their department and they worked on short-term goals for these actual steps and tried to develop strategies of what this would look like if we took this pathway. so we took all of this information from the

workshops and the discovery process and the benchmark and the interviews and we would discover and encode it and we would use our goals and objectives nd what is a direction that the department would want to take. and as you can see up on the screen at that we were dad look at what the goals and these abilities would be and the technical difficulties we may face and what is our mission statement and what things could influence this feasibility and the impact this feasibility will have on this. so donnie and the team it took these different strategies and put them into place and i will turn this over to donnie now but these are the sick leave five pathways that were cross

cutting and i won't read these to you right now because you can see them up on the board but i will turn this back over to donnie. >>thank you. the first pathway that we came to in achieving these pathways through this synthesis would first be promoting healthy communities and ecosystems, secondly would be achieving a carbon free future, , strengthening community resilience of eliminating waste and amplifying community action and not just what can the community

do but work in the community do for amplifying these goals. as julie just mentioned we did a lot of internal work to get to this point but simultaneously we waited we are sort of pulling back the veil on our work and i will introduce-- from fm three to discuss what we will be doing for the survey. >>thank you. i always have to turn down these microphones. as donnie

mentioned we conducted research methodology and fm3 first we asked the policy leaders in the community words policy leaders ms. frequently connected to the san

francisco department of environment would use and we didn't really expect every single word to be a positive one but every single one was a positive one. so we asked the policy leaders that most frequently described sfe as a description and how many times chosen this would apply. and thethree that we heard the most of were innovative, and national leader, and collaborative and as well as forward thinking. there are a lot of things that emerge from this conversation and also what was distinct in this

project were the consistency and also in talking to people throughout the city the perceptions were really well aligned. as far as the strength the interviewers pointed that the strength of the staff was that it was deeply committed and really engaged in really collaborative and trying to help to do the best job they can and this really helped to identify that perception. they also noted that sfe were seen as a very effective outreach in the community to ensure their communications were culturally competent. and lastly, they also viewed us as a natural leader and at the cutting edge of innovation and technology . in terms of weaknesses

sometimes sfe's perceived weaknesses revolved around a sense that they are unfocused and have a bit of an identity crisis. secondly they noted that it wasn't always perceived as peripheral to the goals and work in the city and they needed to be integrated better with that work. that they would need to be pulled better into that central core. one of the roles that i've read as i was reviewing the interviews this morning

that we looked at back and may is that we needed to be more political and peripheral. so goals that were suggested for sfe by the policy leaders were that potential goals for sfe volunteered by participants included expanding public-private partnerships focusing on becoming more central to the city's work

so in conclusion something that really stood out was that the department was seen and should be seen as a driver of change in an innovator and a vanguard. thank you so much. >> thank you. all right, so that was happening in the late spring and early summer and we had a true wealth of innovation and we had stakeholders across the city that we had a great deal of information so we sat down to produce content and the first place that we started was with our mission

statement. i just want to reiterate that this value was seen externally and internally. so that mission statement is the department of environment provides solutions that advance climate protection and enhance quality solutions. i will show you what this use to be. so first we like to point out that we provide solutions whether they be innovative orimplemented as

we are always striving to provide options. the second would be climate protection. this is important because for research throughout the country the term climate change has been lost. this is a political term and researchers are showing us around the country that this is a more accessible way to provide climate protection. this may mean different things for different people. it might be zero waste or producer responsibility of protecting habitat for urban forest there is many ways you can protect that habitat will at the environmental

department. the third thing that we wanted to look at was the quality of life. and everyone that lives in san francisco will have a different idea of what the definition of quality of life means and what we're looking to is what does quality of life mean to us and what are we doing it to implement that definition. and thirdly what can we do to and include everyone withinthis plan. the first thing i want to point out about the strategic plan as we

highlighted five goals and seven key strategies and first we mentioned at the beginning this is dynamic and living and we do not expect this to be comprehensive up front in terms of engagement and moving forward with these. first i like to show you what this would look like if we had done everything. this would be broken down and it would be important data for the department to work off our but it would not have the same accessibility. these are key performance indicators that we use that we sent to the controller's office and that

the community engagement process throughout the next stage of the services. is this one on too? they don't have this on their screen? can you see this on your screen too? all right. okay i just want to highlight these values and the direct response that we got from the department and what fm3 provided for us and the first would be

credibility ,ii innovation, collaboration ,and the [inaudible] the first would be promoting healthy communities and ecosystems and achieving a carbon free future strengthening community resilience eliminating waste and amplifying community action is what the department wants to be focused on.

each goal has a subheading of what we are trying to achieve. for promoting healthy communities and ecosystems our goal is to foster healthy and sustainable communities through science with an emphasis on supporting our most vulnerable populations and connecting with individuals in our community every day. next would be our key strategies. i pull this up specifically to say this is not with our communities1.

adopt a user-centric program design approach that incorporates user input and emphasizes engagement 2. increase public-private partnerships that accelerate local innovation and engagement 3. develop long-term relationships with community leaders and organizations by establishing community councils, innovation pilots, and community engagement initiatives 4. ensure messaging in all content is consistent and relevant to its intended audiences 5. inspire children and young adults to take action at school and in their communities 6. collaborate across program areas and with partner agencies on engagement timing and messaging 7. invest in existing neighborhood actions that amplify community cohesion and climate protection. the three would be the lead certified space in san francisco and the number of people participating in the ipm program. again we have many forms of this within our department but they are certainly within our plan. so our first goal would be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2025. so we set the city on a path to achieve 80% reductions by

2050. these goals are very long-term. again, we have the key strategies and there are seven of these. these goals in particular focus on the procurements and the decarbonization of vehicles and getting people out of seven passenger vehicles. again, this particular goal has a strategy that we've

decided to dive in deeper with some of our colleagues rub the city to allow some opportunities in these challenging obstacles to meeting these goals. first we need to support economically resilient communities and increase san francisco's resilience to climate change impacts. in this particular goal you will find strategies that range from expertise in climate facilities to

aggressively changing these goals that they can stay within san francisco. we thought it was important to leverage our existing programs to support small businesses. and then again to our signature program perhaps in resulting in surveying of eliminating waste we are promoting responsible consumption by san francisco residences and businesses. here we have a goal of how we will tackle consumption this is always a challenge that we put front and center. we will reduce the consumption of single use items and also better policies in these products principles. and next is amplifying

community action. and these are to build a shared culture of environmental stewardship across san francisco and to provide residence and institutions with resources and opportunities to help protect our city and planet. and again, these goals were created in-house. in this particular strategy we have developed the goal of really meeting people where they're at and strengthening and that partnership leadership and also introducing people to these plans rather than jamming them down people's throats and also at the

invest in existing neighborhood actions that amplify community cohesion and climate protection.there are things that are happening in these communities that will help us to achieve the goal of this plan to help to protect our community and our planet. we have a wealth of internal operations and strategies in key indicators that we would like to introduce but we would start that conversation by saying how do we do this and we will start this by increasing our internal operations and communications were working

with our colleagues to help increase this with efficiency. secondly would be community engagement. when working with the community on strategic planning we can go out with an open canvas and we have a lot of great ideas but the idea is that a lot of these plans were outside of the community's jurisdiction. with the strategic plan we now feel like we can go to the community and have conversations that will be aligned with the funding and opportunities of the department. and that gets me to a request, if you will, of this commission. i would like to propose an idea that we support community engagement of the commission with the success of the event held by

commissionerwan, we ask that you support this and we ask that we could have a much more robust conversation later to make this much more robust and have new ideas implemented. and so, i will leave it at that for right now. i did want to have it julie , up and talk about this idea to give you a very candid response to let you know where the sits during

our benchmarking phase. >>i will just take you through what to expect from our plan over the next five years. the first thing to expect from the planned over the next five years is that it delivers a mix of strategies and programs and new innovations. an example is that the strategic plan continues to do the departments work and efficiencies in residence but how do we get out of these fossil fuels and the department already leads in this area but how do we plan

and how do we implement and how do we meet these goals. it is a dual mission of the department to serve both people and the planet and donnie has worked hard to make sure that we serve both. next, we build upon sf environment collaboration with other city agencies and departments and we bring sf environment among the leading us cities making equitya priority in their work and lastly it prioritizes citizen participation and involvement and how this measures up.

innovation within the plans pathways there are certain departments within this plan but please know that they are a goal within all of these themselves. first, it moves away from natural gas/fossil fuels for heating and transportationin our city's. there are very few cities in the united states that are thinking about trying to ddeal with this with our heating

systems. their stirring do this in europe but not so much here in our country. secondly it focuses on "roots" aand impacting climate change by leading applied research into compost application for carbon sequestration. thirdly it continues international leadership on waste and looks at upstream producer side interventions. lastly it solidifies the commitment to the cautionary principle to accelerate best practices with this plan and also identifies resilience as a strategic priority and uses a holistic approach to

most plans are not taking this approach in the us. i think it is really important for people. and also it reaches people with appropriate messages, tailored outreach, programming, and resources that are very important. so a few implementation considerations. this plan is designed to provide a clear and flexible pathway forward it is meant to be flexible and it is meant to be a living document and to be implemented as we move forward. secondly as an opportunity to it spanned the plan and iterate with

community output and will create stronger implementationby ends the implementation will

result in further collaboration opportunities within the city's department and agencies. consumption continues to be an area for deeper work. finally equity focuses aspirational implementation steps need to be in our pathway and i think you for hearing about our plan today. >> that concludes our content i thank you for your patience we tried to do this as concise as possible. the commission's interest and willingness to participate in 2017 in the roadshow and watching commissioner wan's impact was really phenomenal and i would like to implement that in other areas in the city both implementation and and innovation-based workshops. >>thank you donnie and thank you julie. thank you both very much. commissioners,

do you have any questions? >> donnie, you mentioned the roadshow next week and i would just like to know if you could talk a little more about locationbased and city based? >> yes, you can do this by a cross cutting locations and do this in different districts and secondly how the city congregates and we thought it would be appropriate to do both. we felt it would be appropriate to have approximately six -eight different workshops.

we can break these down into cities or families or millennial tech industries that want to engage. we can take communities like outer sunset or mission and focus on people who like to ride bikes or fly kites. and actually, i am interested in hearing if any particular commissioner would like to dive in and lead. we are very open to how we do that. the idea here is that many people like to dive in and engage and how we do this as a group is as important as we do this as a commission. >> commissioner wan.

>> thank you. is this on? okay, first i would like to say that as a city this needs to be a collaborative opportunity from everybody to bring these strategies together. i would like to encourage everybody to take this as an opportunity plus your work is they professionalto take this on. i was very glad to have been able to work on this there and i was very happy with the response. >>commissioner >> i think it is amazing and it is clear and it is

amazing how clear it is to connect the dots. i like the synchrony of the language. i like that it's cross cutting the community down into silos and i think that it is a great job including the work on consumption. is a huge, new issue for that-- for the department and for all of us. i very much look forward to see how you all will see these goals met and how the goals will be met going forward. like i said, i have a

couple of concerns. like i said, i am mystified by this organization. it starts with a community and then it's noncommunity and then it's community and so,i would be interested in knowing how you decided the order in which you would do this. the second and i think you recognize enjoy does too, what the department is, and what they do and what other departments do. i think it is common for us to remember that when we think

not just of the plan but of the work of the department. and then third this is maybe the most-- at least i think it is, maybe the most meaningful potential uses in the city. when i did strategic plans before i retired, they were used to make research allocations decisions, they were used to make funding decisions, they were really used even though all of them said they wanted to be flexible, to sort of guide the work that was going on. and, if that was in this document or in the

introductory letter, hen i missed it, and, if it is in the introductory letter, i think that is important that is part of that. i think not just the commission but the people you are going to talk to about that. because, they need to have a clear understanding of what your expectations are with this item and how they can make move forward with this. again, this is a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous peace and this is so focused and i

think it can be a fabulous addition to your work. >> may i comment on this? >>sure. >> i will let donnie address this if we make any changes with this but the fact that but say for instance, pesticide use, we don't really have any ontrol over this, but, these are the challenges that we face as were moving on. and secondly, i would just like to mention you had

touched on at the end of your comment that we had never used a plan like this in the past and this is a thoughtful and rigorous-- and thank you i like your word-- strategic plan that we have ever used. and what donnie and julie and myself will be doing is going deep into what we need to prioritize and what are the funding gaps in how we allocate our limited resources and so, those issues are going to be front and center and the dance is that we need to be concrete with the plan that is meant to be fluid. and so, i

think that is the real tension of leadership and management and how you do that fine line of a walk. and i will be eager to find out how we can do this with you and i think these are really, really good points. >>commissioner stephenson. >> thank you. i would like to say that the organizational geek in me just loves this because i

just love organization and i would like to know do you have other strategies that you will be using to implement this? >> first i would just say that we have many strategies that the department will look at. and, we had names refunds and things that were mandated but we could not name all of these. but there are things that were perfectly valid that we included today but we couldn't include all of them. and, the reason is we wouldn't have time to share all of them today but we wanted to show you what we were doing moving forward and give you a look at what

the department does. the objectives are more strategic. and i just want to highlight this. thanks to meister and their organization they provide us with everything from a budget to what our objective strategies need to be built out further and going forward we will look at that with our director debbie and with julie for meister and i do hope that we are able to do that. and these strategies will be sought after and with the tool and the use of the document, with controllers department and the wwd we are also

reporting on the strategic plan.and then we will look at what the reusable was then and what the reusable is now and we can add those. and the department will set near-term goals for everything from ed's, and solar and the consumption based on zero waste and will make them more affordable and will track them ourselves. and again, we would like to come back every year and kind of give you an update on where we stand, what's been modified, and what we've seen and our strategy changes and also what the department is doing is a hole. >> commissioner bermejo.

>> i just want to say thank you for what you have done today and this is really just an amazing and please add me to your support. because this plan will affect the community in ways where it can impact us. so count me in for the roadshow. >>thank you. >>also, count me in for the roadshow as well. >>commissioner hoyos. >>thank you and i would also

like to say as far as the roadshow, you can count me in. and when i look at this leadership strategic plan it is a lot and i think to myself how can me as a commissioner or us as a commission move forward with this, maybe it's a policy committee maybe it is in an operations committee or something like that to have some sort of a spreadsheet. so green light could mean that we got a yellow light means that we struggle little bit and red light could mean we might need to do away with this. so we could use these different colors just to say what are the things that we could do

to push a little harder to meet our desired outcome. and then, in regard to the roadshow i think that will give us an opportunity with the community to do that. and to me it seemed like donnie that you were thing that would be a little harder? >> reduction of single use items. >> to me, if i was doing a roadshow i would think how can we pull together the constituencies to really advance those goals and how can we find the champions who are really interested and which coffee shops or vendors are interested and what people are leading the way and also which civil society groups will push these to what they are

interested in. then i want to talk about a healthier ecosystem and i see the three under key strategies and i note that under the key strategies that we want to reduce these pesticides and to me, do we know that were reducing these pesticides and this is an issue for the board and i think that we have seen a lot in public comment with participation and with other committees and i would like to see that some more.

commissioner wan >> i would just like to know if we have a list of the key challenges as well as the key goals. >>that is a good question. our challenge is how we will meet our goals with our budget and as we move forward both internally and externally what is appropriate and what are key partners willing to do to help us to make this

achievable. so i think that's a good question commissioner wan. and then also we want to look at our achievement strategies and we have a long list of how we want to do that i am like our heating goals for example and that might be of different than the red light /greenlight metaphor but you are absolutely right, this is important. >>i understand this is a five-year plan and this is like a blueprint for the environment department and i think that it is important to have this type of plan and have it lead up for each year and what were doing and why were doing it and who it is laid out for. >>thank you. i would like to open this up for public

comment. >> thank you. i think the process in the strategic plan is very exciting and very focused.pertaining to the roadshow, i would really like to urge that everybody participate in that because given the circumstances that we are in currently more than eve i think the citizens will greatly, greatly benefit from more engagement with their city and the governor and the commissioners and heads of agencies and the more the citizens can engage with each other at this time, the better will be for all of us. thank you. >> thank you. >> hi i am-- i came to came

to you with the [indecipherable] resolution with the [indecipherable] plan. you can't control what you use if you can't control what you use you can't control the pesticides in san francisco.as far as the [indecipherable] you can't change what she used then it is useful to us.

the next one is [indecipherable ]to the community. this has been thrown down our throats for years.the last was in 2012.[ indecipherable] and then there is is resolved the mayor and the general manager of san francisco [ indecipherable and in particular [indecipherable]

to maintain control and achieve the necessities in this area in the department. for the resolve, [ indecipherable] commission are heated to ensure public safety and i put here these san francisco residents will be negatively affected by this area. thank you very much.

>> thank you. any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. thank you. anthony, please read the next item. >>the next item is item 7;

director's report. updates on department of the environment administrative and programmatic operations relating to budget planning, strategic planning, clean air/transportation, climate, energy, public outreach and education, environmental justice, habitat restoration, green building, zero waste, toxics reduction, and urban forestry. (explanatory document: director's report and department awards and accolades) the speaker is the director deborah raphael, and this is an item for discussion. thank you very much on thursday director tang will be holding [inaudible] and so commissioner hoyos, in regard to your question

hasn't been updated? no, but those are the things we are doing there as well. in regard to the new materials that we will be using here this will be a result of our new blueprint structure so less will be going in the black been. we will have a great application drafted from ecology to come in and that is when the department of public works will take a look at what re-ecology is proposing to meet our goals.

we have a couple university programs coming up. of all of the ones that they have chosen they selected our healthy universe see the program and on the half of our city they will be going out to harvard as well as the collaborative of healthy nail services in the community and you heard when julie did her summary about what was to come in the strategic plan, her last point was the point about equity and while we have got a strong commitment, we do not necessarily have a lot of detail behind that. and, we have been talking about that as a department.

talking about, what does equity mean and what does it mean if you do this as a department behind an equity lens. and what this means is we need to take a good start at herself and look at our own biases our own implicit biases and explicit biases, and we took a good hard look at that and we will have our own biases training that will start at the end of this month. and so, we don't know what all the answers are but we know what equity biases have been, and we try to be as unbiased and and inclusively competent as possible.and i'm excited to usesee where

this is going. >>do we have any public comment? ? seeing none, i will close public comment. do we have any discussion? commissioner stephenson. >>thank you. we worked with donnie and are just like to say we had a really great response and we had what was

almost an ambassadors program where we had some influencers applaud the program and get the message out there in a very broad way and now they are going to expand this even more and focus on different communities and i'm really excited to see the good work they will be doing in 2017 and hear an update on that as well. >>thank you. public comment? seeing none, public comment will now be closed. anthony, please read the next item please. >>the next item is item 9 announcements. this is a discussion item. >>thank you. do we have any

public comment? >>seeing none. public comment is now closed. anthony, please read the next item. >>the next item is president's announcement. this is a discussion item. >>i would really like to see a peer advocate next month and how they are engaging in the process. i will now open this up for public comment. >> [indecipherable] and, it was mostly just clear plastic and it was mostly just bottles and napkins. and i don't know but i asked if they were deemed for public use and they were

there property and you are looking for people and you're putting notices in my neighborhood a long time ago and none of this is supposed to go to garbage. the second was the environmental calendar and you include some things for the citizens can follow to make the city better and i would strongly urge you to just think about the herbicides that you probably heard of quite a lot and if you go to home depot and you see the plants the trees are

pretreated and the seeds are pretreated and when they grow this is supposed to be nurturing these plants but instead it's killing them and i don't know how you would deal with this with the chemical companies but it's happening and it's not good. by the way, i just read a couple days ago that the fda tested the honey and every sample that they tested had [indecipherable in the honey. and in the european unit it is only allowed to have 50 and here there's no limit at all. thank you very much. >>thank you very much.

>> [timer dings] >> okay i'll go ahead and open public comment. seeing none i will close public comment. anthony can you read the next item please. >> next item is item 11 commission affairs manager written report. (explanatory document: commission affairs manager report) speaker: anthony valdez, commission affairs manager. this item is for discussion. >> do we have any discussion? seeing none, i will go ahead and open public come and and seeing none i will close public comment. anthony, please read the next item.

>>the next item is item 12 new business/future agenda items this is a discussion and possible action item. >> one item that i wanted to mention was a nomination for the environmental service award and we invite commissioners to submit recommendations for the environmental service award next year. >>thank you. public comment? >> thank you. this gives me a chance to yield the floor.

i just want to note that the policy committee was not asked to speak at this meeting. i would just like to say that usually we get to speak on this as well but ijust wondered do you take turns with that? >> the commission when they had their pass resolution asked for an update on responses from the public policy meetings and they will be receiving a report on this report--

>>that is not the point i was trying to make. normally you have a policy committee report as well as this and i'm wondering do you alternate these? >>i believe there was one back in october. >>i'm sorry commissioner i misunderstood your question but no, there was no policy committee meeting in november . >>the last was in october. >>thank you. >>i just want to point out that last month we had a joint policy meeting with the puc and i think that was a great idea. i think we should look into doing something like a joint parks and recreation committing

meeting. if we are looking at something like the rates on this it would be good to bring this forward in the commission. commissioner hoyos and anyone else that would like to speak because my screen is not working right now so i can see who would like to speak. >>i just want to mention just a very small point that this is just a random circumstance and was the time we will have two policy committee meetings in a commission meeting. >>any other comments? any comments from the public?

seeing none public comment is closed. where do and and anthony can you read the next item please. >>13. public comment on all matters pertaining to the subsequent closed session on public employee performance plan and appraisal report. >>is there any public comment on the public employee performance and appraisal report? seeing none, public comment is closed and anthony can you read the next item please. >>item 14vote on whether to hold closed session to evaluate the performance of the executive director, deborah raphael. >>commissioners, can i please have a motion to go into closed sessionto evaluate the performance of deborah rafael. >>i motion. >>second. >>all those in favor say,

aye. >> >> [chorus of ayes] >> thank you. anthony, pleaseread

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ability to tell stories on stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and it's different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of

the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something out there that's risky. you know, disliked by someone torn apart and that's the whole point of what we're drying to do >> you never take this for granted you make sure it is the

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in the 8 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops maybe more to see why people go to coffee shops >> we're searched the beans all over the world from east afghan and tokyo. >> when i wanted to do was get into aspect of the personal coffee and the processing and everything else there was multiple steps in making coffee and we did have a lighter roost because of the qualities of the keep once you roost it it home gisz the coffee. >> one thing about the coffee they were special blends and i spent seven years on one blend

so that's my pleasure. each bean they were all chosen and blended with each with different cultural and beans is like people and those people give me a reputation i can't buy. people love you my clients love me they take me to the moves movies. >> fell in love with coffee and went to the coffee shops the community aspect i really enjoyed. >> i think it's important to have a place for people to show up and talk to their neighbors and recorrect. your surrounded with all those behalf communicated i communities >> i love my city san francisco

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>> good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the tuesday, november 15, 2016, meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors mr. clerk call the roll. >> thank you madam president supervisor avalos supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor wiener not present supervisor yee, supervisor yee not present madam president we have quorum. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen, please join us

of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you, madam clerk any communications. >> yes. madam president we're in resident of two communications the first from supervisor wiener and supervisor yee dated november 1st and 14 con seismically both supervisors will be absent and requests the board excuse them from the meeting and okay. colleagues a motion to excuse supervisor wiener and supervisor yee move forward by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor farrell without objection, without objection supervisor yee and supervisor wiener are excused all right. colleagues, any changes to the october 4, 2016,

board meeting minutes seeing none, a motion moved by supervisor mar and seconded by supervisor peskin colleagues without objection without objection those meeting minutes pass after public comment. >> madam clerk call the first item the special ordinance the mayors appearance before the board the honorable mayor edwin lee no questions submitted from supervisors from the even districts any address the board up to 5 minutes. >> mr. mayor the floor is yours. >> good afternoon, supervisors and members of the public i want to say thank you all. participating at the unite gatherings now more than ever the people of san francisco wants to be united in a city that paves the way for better policy and outcomes the federal election clarified much we agree

on in to no more than ever needs to stand for citizens and our values to spare no questions this week i want to extend a couple priorities voter and residents are clear about homelessness and transportation a week ago san francisco folks went to the poll and want us to continue to work on the issues but within the clear escape of the city and county budget the loss of anticipated revenues from prop k has left the city's balanced budget impacted and the set aside so for homelessness and transportation a created by prop j which passed its by 66 percent of the vote will not take effect as you may know i sent a letter to supervisor president london breed and the corral eliminating those two set aside, however,

there is still have services for the neediest san franciscans that must continue you as much as shelter and navigation centers outreach and engagement services for people living on the streets and increased housing opportunity for the homeless we also patio need to look at street safety to make sure we are keeping the promises on vision zero despite the lack of prop k make sure that muni didn't get rolled back we keep on bicycle safety i hope to work with you to bring the budget by identifying additional revenue for the critical investments related to homelessness and transportation i know many people are shaej by the result of the federal election he understand those feels completely i'm worried about what might happy to the city and the

funding in the new year, however, this makes me even more important for us to come together to ma'am, policy decisions to lead our city those are issues we cannot afford to ignore and voters don't want us to ignore so supervisors i'm asking for all your help in this effort for your ideas your priorities as partnership to get it done and help to strengthen ourselves at the same time right now we can't afford competing interests and unhealthy discourse to issues that matter to san franciscans when there is potential difficult battles ahead san franciscans need us to push this city forward we have an opportunity to show the - that the difference strong cities what make but to do so we must

remain strong and must also remind ourselves of the echo we heard no >> yes. respond when we work together we can accomplish much more thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. mayor and madam clerk read do consent. >> items 20 through 21 are. >> seeing no other names on the roster, madam clerk please call the roll. >> on the consent calendar supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell there are 9 i's. >> those items are finally

passes on the first reading and douptsd unanimously next item, please. >> item 2 it through 26 items 2 it through 26 are the resolutions of intention to establish infrastructure financing district one and the project areas financing instruction acquisition on treasure island and yerba buena gardens to provide nose and call for a public hearing added 3:00 p.m. on the be formation of the project areas. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you supervisor president london breed we're back to discussing the treasure island infrastructure financing district i also want to recognize that the treasure island development authority director is - in the audience i believe and i also see our public

finance officer and see kate hartley maybe in the audience oh, yes, sir. kate hartley from mohcd to do a presentation a few weeks ago we were concerned about some of the gaps in the affordable housing funding and market-rate funding that we've seen given your commitment to the building 27 and a half percent affordable housing on the island he it being a big piece of why question had move forward unanimously with this development project on the island several things have not workout in the last couple of years with the increasing of construction costs as well as the stated overturning our redevelopment we use as we were depending upon using it more affordable housing and many questions came up from the board of supervisors rightly so how we plan to build the commitments we've made to the

public with the first two affordable housing parcels calendar to be available for development in 2018 we want to make sure those projects move forward as soon as those paralyze are available and have the funding sources in order to put that together. i nevertheless to say, since you're here come up first i'll not be the only one to ask questions and rebecca is here >> good afternoon, supervisors nadia the officer of public finance yesterday we calculated a memorandum to 9 last questions when this item was heard and what had we're trying to do it respond to the affordable housing gap i think we're trying to clarify this agreement or d da was adopted no 2011 and what

is before you is obligation of the city to finance those districts more specifically the infrastructure financing and revitalization district is one of the community facilities to deliver on the improvements on the island the development which will include 9 thousand units and 5 thousand plus commercial real estate and three hundred open space up to nine hundred hotels in other for the development to occur and to develop on housing committed which results in 27 point percent of the units we required to fund this district - and to deliver on the improvements what we also have the item before you the former of the first set of several legislated actions that

allows us to put in place a spell assessment on the very well parcels for the infrastructure expenses as well as an infrastructure financing district that will fund infrastructure on the island the cd and tida is required to deliver on affordable housing and the gaps we have been able to identify is $382 million to construct the one thousand 8 hundred and 64 unit what we should clarify is that the gap is a result of additional units of one and 84 housing units and ass also a as a result of increased costs and loss in federal and state funding the supervisor clarified the largest allocation 25.3 percent of one percent is no longer

available so what we're asking that the board approve that what the documents in front of you a allows for a delivery of up to one thousand plus units and including inclusionary units on the island that gets us to 65 percent of the housing units we we've tried to identify the potential funding up to one thousand and 9 hundred plus units but what that we need to clarify those need for the - it requires state action to reinstate it as well as some local funding resources and in addition by moving this forward you able to secure parcels up to 20 that will allow the city to deliver the one thousand 8 hundred and 64 units

as required to but in addition allows for capacity to do more on the remaining parcels i want to emphasize the plan before you a 15 to 20 development the gap is identifying that but what it does is what we've been trying to do from a prudent stand point to close the gap between 15 and 20 units beyond the potential to generate more enough revenues to deliver on the housing we've been trying to focus on the first 10 to 20 years more specifically the mayor's office of housing that also proposing to commit through 2026 of units and if you tooth the share and potential extension of

the district the district plan that was the item before you you see a 40 year term if we're able to increase this by an additional 5 years we think that is an easy request to make to the state because they have two other competing ifd laws with 45 years in addition i wanted to clarify this is an obligation of the city and this allows us to set the first of many steps we'll be in front of the board of supervisors for the next step of documents introduced to form the district and the voted of public hearings at a future date and all the debts will come before this board and more specifically made clarifications in the infrastructure financing plan that also allows for in the

event the city will sure additional revenues meaning the state share only be available and applied to housing and what that means is that by board action it would be a value dated without going back to the resident doing everything we can to make that document as pursuant as possible hoping that today, we can get the approval from the board of supervisors and with a commitment to come back and brief you as we make progress on the financing solutions i want to note that the erupt share it takes time so that will be something we'll have to do over a year or so but likely to indulge staff to continue to work on this and for them as we

make progress and some of the general fund on table 3 of the memo require continued interaction with the board and mayor in terms of revenues available for housing i also want to note that there is also a fiscal year analysis in the infrastructure financing plan that identifies all the revenues and expenditures on the island and based on what we've been able to projection it is revenue positive to the general fund so once the development is done after the 20th most of those revenues will flow to the general fund and the city can apply those i should remind folks we're going to to deliver the 2000 plus unit on the - and revenues on the island will be

made available over a longer than period of time but not 20th so what we're passing before you and taking into account the potential sources gives us 90 percent of the revenue. >> to clarify on some of the points and supervisor peskin is on the roster we have a net funding gap of roughly one and $8 million of which of 40 million the mayor's office of economic workforce development has today made a commitment we'll make that amendment towards that gap the remaining amount is $38 million is could come through extending the five for 5 years and through the board action today we can clarify the remaining funds be used more affordable housing did i hear you correctly. >> it's at committee tomorrow. >> to the committee tomorrow.

>> the final chunk the greatest concern 200 and $6 million i know there is a hope that we may from - through the state be permitted to call back the e ratify share we were unsuccessful serve years ago in sacramento we tried then through legislation there with i believe america's cup to grab a portion of e rap share wisp unsuccessful in getting treasure island included that legislation so the hope is that things will change in sacramento with the governor and that there's a hope that new leadership will allow us to call that back and up think that is a little bit tenuous we've seen in sacramento i have concerns about that hope so my question and

maybe not a question to you ms. faye i see that mr. beck is in the room could you please explain the trigger throughout the d da what will occur if we're not able to fill the gap on affordable housing would it pause certain elements the development what reassurance does the board have if we going forward with approving ifd. >> we can go to director beck. >> the d da didn't include any provisions that cause the developers activity to be paused from the city were unable to keep pace with development of

the affordable housing and it is a bit of a chicken and egg scenario we have a portion of the revenues for the affordable housing development come from the property tax derived from the development that does benefit the program for the larger development to keep to continue a pace as we contain fund to close the gap i just wanted to highlight that the figures in table 3 don't currently include fund from the grant programs affordable housing in several communities or no place like home other sources we will pursue to help close the gap also t b d in the table is in any surplus revenues at the back end will accrue to the

affordable housing construction after tida has been reimbursed for the construction costs there we don't currently have an estimate how much that might be but another potential fund to help us for the reimbursement of the city to continue the affordable housing development and how much is that estimated at. >> we don't have a hard number but can be up to one hundred million dollars. >> and what are the largest state grant you've seen more affordable housing given here in san francisco. >> to the month recent in 2016 cycle of the affordable housing and sustainable grant program issued a total of 200 and $85 million in award over 25 projects the average award was

in excess of $11.80 percent of all the funds awarded were more affordable housing component of those programs. >> uh-huh. >> we the have one award here to san francisco i apologize i don't know the exact number of the award that came to san francisco. >> uh-huh. >> unfortunately, because we were not close enough to developing our affordable housing we were not able to include the affordable housing in the 2016 application but as we move forward we'll be able to pursue that in the 2017 cycle. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. >> so i think of that the one million dollar it the most pro tem on the back end remaining ifd funds the gap is large i worried about us depending on the state granted that average

one million dollars over the next 4 years we're not i hope i'm wrong seeing any federal grant toward affordable housing i hope i'm wrong about that i know that some of us assume the prospects with diagram with the new administration since there are triggers in the development that will be paused if we don't meet our each other obligation what geese in the worse case scenarios we're not able to backfill the 200 and $6 million gap we'll be able to fulfill our affordable housing obligation to the city. >> i think director alluded to the fact that the project as a whole is going to be generate significant positive contributions to the general fund through the ifd we're

obtaining golden state warriors the increment but a positive. >> i guess that continues to answer my first question how you believe we've funded the affordable housing go up a fates the best case scenario i'm saying in all things go wrong sacramento new leadership in place is not amenable to san francisco call back as the current governor we're not able to fulfill the 200 and $6 million gap we're in pieces maybe a one and $50 million gap what guarantee does the board have we'll complete our affordable housing any penalties? any you know - what will happen from the city didn't fulfill the obligation >> the city secures through the development agreements with the land and the entitlement rights to the 21 hundred plus

unit and the land on which to develop that and in fact, we can develop those units 17 of the 20 parcels dedicated to us we're securing the development opportunity and the rights and through the immediately oiftsd resources we can fund two-thirds of that development the gap has been presented didn't include any mohcd support any h f c support. >> i'm sorry i'm not trying to interrupt i know you're trying to paint how we'll fulfill the gap what if we don't fill the gap and all the market-rate housing get built and the affordable parcels that are deed to us they lie vacant we fulfill some of that but the market-rate get built we don't fulfill the

affordable housing obligation we promised to the community and city in passing in development unanimously in 2011 what then happens. >> the city residences the opportunity and right to developing develop it not a question whether or not those will be developed but. >> i have questions about whether or not we'll develop it i'll not be here in 20 or 40 years not sure what the next step of leadership will decide as their priorities i want more of a guarantee than the land is deed to us typically fulfill our affordable housing obligation. >> and i'm just wondering what else can we put in to guarantee the - >> because i'm how much as you are director beck we'll get much of the funding resources but feel it is our responsible and certainly as someone