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>> there are speaker cards in the front of the room and you can fill them out and pass them to me and i will call them in the order that i receive them. with that, i will go on to item number one, which is roll call.

>>[ roll call] >>we have a quorum. we will move one to item number two which is approval of minutes of the september 27, 2016 commission on the environment regular meeting. (explanatory documents: september 27, 2016 draft minutes) (discussion and action.all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. >> [chorus of ayes] >> so approval of the minutes has been passed.

clerk, please read item number three. >>item number three ispublic comment: members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. seeing no speaker cards we will move on to item number four.. item number four is4. review and approval of resolution file 2016-12-coe commending tom owen, retiring deputy city attorney, for service to the department and commission on the environment. (explanatory document: draft resolution 2016-12-coe) sponsor and speakers: commissioner johanna wald and deborah raphael, director (discussion and action) >>thank you for commissioners and thank you pres. omotalade. as i was reflecting on tom's tenure here, i was thinking of the

important role of the city attorney. san francisco perhaps now more than ever has both the obligation to make sure that we are healing the planet and taking that bold with that becomes the responsibility to be legally indefensible. at the end of the day we could make the most incredibly bold suggestions, resolutions, and they can be bold but they have to be followed through on. tom's role is vital in this. what tom did

was say, let's get to the bottom of what you are trying to do. let me remind you of things like the interstate commerce club and the opportunity that locals have but also the boundaries in that. and his cool head and strategic mind allowed us to do amazing things. and so tom, as you reflect on your career i hope you realize the difference you have made and it is because of you that we on this commission and we in the city have been the environmental leaders that we are. and, i hope you understand that. because, there are many hours of big bruises on tom's forehead

because he triemake sense of all of this for all of us and that he has already stood up that test of time with the threats of lawsuits because of tom's wisdom and strategy and commitment to the environment. so thank you tom. >>[applause] >> commissioner wald. >>thank you. thank you. before i speak about tom may i ask you anthony to please read the resolution.

>>[reading resolution]

>> thank you anthony.

debbie spoke about some of tom's contribution to the department so i just want to take a few minutes and talk about tom's contribution to the commission. so the rules that we operate under are very complex and very daunting. i know that in the beginning, i sort of shivered when i sat up here at the thought that i might violate one of them or that somebody else might lower me into violating one or maybe even more of them.but as i got to know tom, i realized what a huge asset he was to our work because there is no chance-- there was no chance that we would have not violated all of those rules without tom here are with us. it gave us such a

sense of security and comfort to know that we could do our work without worrying about transgressing one of those very, very complicated rules. and, i will say that tom was not the only city attorney that i worked with in my tenure here and he is non-problem in my experiences and it is been a huge honor to share the space with you tom and i think you for all that you've done for all of us. does anyone else want to make any remarks? >> i remember a very very late night when we were trying to choose our next director for the department

and i remember walking back with tom and he had been doing this for a very , very long time and i thought how is it possible that you could have been doing this for so long. and the thing about tom is that i just know it that we took comfort in the fact that he crossed his teeth and doubted his eyes and did great work for the city and i think you for your great work. >> i just want to echo the same sentiment that there is a lot of thought, and to make sure that we all have

the best interest of the public and our community and i thank you for that. >>i just want to echo my fellow commissioners and say thank you for these things and thank you for helping us to stay on point and that we were able to set out the fulfillment of the goals that we need to accomplish. >> i am am sorry i did not get to know you better but i do want to say thank you very very much for all that

you helped us to accomplish. >>any other commissioner comments? >> i would just like to say on the resolution on page 2 if we could just change tom to thomas? >> okay do we have a motion to approve the resolution? >>i motion. >>do we have a second? >>we have a motion and a second. all those in favor say, aye. >> [chorus of ayes] >> any opposed? seeing none, the motion passes.

commisssioner would you like to present tom with this award? >>yes, i would. >> thank you for all of the terrific work you have done for us over the years. thank you. >>[applause] >> tom, would you like to say a few words? >> thank you. i just would like to say that is truly been an honor to work with the commission because you are truly on the side of the angels and i cannot wait to see what you would do in the future. the department has been great to serve and i

promise to provide the department with that same level of service. >>thank you. thank you very much. >>[applause] >>anthony, can you please read the next item on the agenda? >>the next item is item number five review and

approval of resolution file 2016-11-coe amending the commission on the environment's bylaws to change the operations committee regular meeting schedule. (explanatory documents: draft resolution 2016-11-coe) the speakers are: anthony valdez, commission affairs manager. this itemis a discussion and action. >> good afternoon, i would like to say that the operations committee meets in january. we would like to see the operations committee meetimgs to be more in line with our regular committee. the operations committee's meeting times are typical also that the public can know when the committee will meet but it is also to hold

that staff accountable for that meeting times by my commission secretary. we also wanted you to know that the operations committee last week recommended approval of this item. >> thank you very much. we will move to making a motion and then discussion and then public comment. commissioners can i have a motion to move our review and approval of the commission on environment's bylaws to change the operations committee to the regular meeting schedule.

do i have a motion? >>i motion. >>do i have a second? >>second. >>i have a motion and a second. all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay>> >> [chorus of ayes] >> any opposed? seeing none the motion passes and anthony can you please read the next item? >> item number six review of

the proposed 2016-2020 department of the environment strategic plan. sponsor: deborah raphael, director; speakers: donnie oliveira, program manager, outreach (explanatory document: proposed 2016-2020 department of the environment strategic plan) (discussion). >>director did you want to start? >>yes thank you very much. good afternoon commissioners and pres. omotalade thank you for having me. i would like

to start by saying that we need to look at the "why" that we do with this work and before i had my meeting on this i had all of the department watch a ted talk on the "why" these things were happening. and when we examined that our "why" had stayed the same at but we needed to better understand what the new role was and what our new value added was in this new context. and so, our strategic plan and this will be a metaphor that you here in the next hour is that we have to create a

path. when you think about articulating a path, a path has both direction and boundaries. clearly, this must have both. clearly we must say no to some things and we have to emphasize others. but, to move this metaphor even deeper, the strategic plan has opportunity to create the nature of the plan itself. how does it feel to be on this path? what does the surface of this plan look like? what does it look like on this plan? what is the difference between plan a and plan b. who is it that

it will affect. and so to implement this plan this is the roadmap to what were going to do. it must meet specific criteria. every member of our department has to see themselves in this plan. this plan needs to be reflected and influenced by the influencers of our department. the city department, the mayor, the mayor's office, the commissioners and the community leaders and the community members that work with us. and this plan must reflect the challenging work that we do. and with all of

that this plan has become a labor of love and this has become a very complicated interesting journey and on one level it is a single mission statement. on another level it is a compilation of pictures with seven objectives and goals but when we look underneath that it is pages and pages of goals and our interactions and our strength. today we are going to interact with this at a medium level. it's

important for you to know that there are these layers and steps. i want to acknowledge in this labor of love some of the people that have put their hearts into this. clearly donnie oliveira, who is the program manager and anthony valdez

which is back commission affairs manager and we need to look at this document this in a sense is a beginning and a launch to something more. and so with that, i will turn this over to donnie add to start the presentation. >> thank you katie. and think you commissioners for allowing us to walk through this record with you. i will begin with discussing the outlooks that were trying to achieve. we will begin with the strategic plan which will run from 2016 to 2020. but first, we

have to ask ourselves what is our plan and what is our mission? this is our mission statement. i am not going to read this right now but i encourage you to look over this and read this. clearly this is our mission statement and it is something that i am very fond of this mission plan and it reflects our department and what we are

involved in. and then this logo right here does not work very well on a mobile device. but we noticed that these were very 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