>> good afternoon everyone. the meeting will come to order. welcome to january 26, 2017 regular meeting the rules committee. i'm asha safai our clerk and derek evans and like to thank gym smith and jesa larsson at sfgtv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, do you have announcements? >> thank you, mr. chair. silence electronic devices, eating and drinking is not permitted. complete speaker cards and copies of

documents submit today the clerk. items will appear on the february 7, 2017 board of supervisor uzgenda unless stated. >> item 1 is considering appointing member thofz board of supervisor tooz two year terms to association of bay area government executive board. >> great. supervisor yee would you like to make a statement on this first item? it is your appointment. >> i think i need to be recused. >> you do but if you want to make a statement. i will make a motion to excuse supervisor norman yee. can i get a second? >> >> yes. >> motion is approved. just wait a minute for supervisor yee.

would anyone like to make public comment on the first item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. so, i think what we'll do is just seeing no names on the roster and so colleagues can we make a motion to approve the appointment of supervisor yee to the association of bay area government? >> absolutely. >> alright, great. seeing that is motioned and approved, the item is approved. is that right? thank you. congratulations, supervisor yee. [laughter] mr. clerk call the second item, >> hearing to answer appointing member thofz board of supervisors for 4 year term tooz bay area air quality management board of

directors. >> any members of the public wish to otestify. anyone from the sfr visors office or a statement? colleagues i will make a motion to approve the item. seconded. okay. so approved. passes mr. clerk and supervisor hill row roanen is aopponent today the bay area quality management district. >> excuse me. is this a point of clarification, when they make the appointments do we announce the names 1st rather than after we vote? it seems we should announce the names first. >> yes, supervisor is there is in the board packet two memoes from the clerks office with poll of all the supervisors where the supervisors were acknowledged. >> we should read it into

record. >> wealer we'll do that. through the chair, mr. gibbener. >> deputy city attorney john gibbener, just for clarification, when the committee votes on these items the vote will forward the items to full board of supervisors for another vote two tuesdays from new so you will do this dance again where different supervisors have to leave the room and be recused but these will be the recommendation thofz rules commitee the full board will vote on. >> great. i guess with the next ones when we introduce the item we'll say the name. can you do that when you read the item? >> yes, mr. chair. >> thank. mr. clerk would call the third item. >> item 3 is hearing to answer appointing members the board of supervisor frz 4 year terms to the local agency formation

commission. we have supervise r hillary roanen would like to be recommend frd the seat. mr. chair, we also have staff from the local agency formation commission here , jason freed for any questions. >> seeing there is someone here from lafco mr. freed would you like to make a comment? any questions from my colleague snz any members the public that wish to testify on the item? seeing none- >> make a motion to forward the names to the full board with positive recommendation. >> second. >> great. so moved. that item is approved. alright. mr. clerk would you call the 4 item, and hearing to answer aopponenting member ofz the board of supervisors for two year terms

for golden gate bridge highway and transportation district bourd of directors. we have heard back from several supervisor jz thatd is supervisor breed, peskin and yee and shehi. >> make a motion to >> make a motion to move those-i reuse you. >> make a motion to rekoos supervisor yee. so moved. any public comment on this item? yes, okay so--please approach-speakers have two minutes state your first and last name and speak into the micro phone. anyone with a prepared statement is encouraged to leave a copy with the clerk to include a official file so please begin. h >> as a current appointee of

the golden gate bridge district and like to welcome the supervisors appointed. we only have 3 and need 4 and look forward to your appointment. >> would you state your name? >> burt hill. >> thank you. >> i'll see you in a few weeks or a few days. thank you. >> wonderful, thank you. anyone else like to testify before pub luck comment is closed? seeing none, we will close public comment. wait for supervisor yee to return. i don't think we need to. make a motion to approve. >> second. >> thank you. seeing it is unanimous, so approved. thanks, come on in. congratulations, you

are getting appointed all over today. >> more work, great. >> thank you, mr. clerk please call the item number 5. >> item 5 ishering to answer appointing one member for 4 year term to metropolitan transportation commission. we heard from supervisor kim's office she expressed interest in the appointment. >> is there any departments or anyone in the public want to testify? anyone like to make public comment on the item? seeing none public comment is closed. i entertain a motion cht >> motion to pass this recommendation with positive recommendation to full board. >> second. >> great. so that is approved. mr. clerk item number 6. >> item number 6 is hearing to consider aponting one member of board of supervisors for two

year term to reentry council. we have heard from supervisor-vice chair fewers office she would be interested in this appointment. >> make a motion to excuse supervisor sandy fewer. >> i like to make a motion to excuse supervisor fewer. >> great. before you like to make a comment? >> thank you very much. the reentry council is a council that can have great impact on the lives of our most marginalized residents, those incarcerated. as a former board of education members, i was shocked upon visits charter school and the county facility in san buno, the mens facility and learn 60 percent of the inmates attended san francisco public schools. this is a issue i'm deeply concerned about and very interested in. there is something terrible wrong when our educational system fails this

amount of people and so many of them. i think that as a city we must work across departments and eeben with the school district to provide young people the opportunity and to end the school to prison pipeline. the reentry council can work to insure those who are already incarcerated are provided are economic and skill building opportunities upon their exist from prison or jail. i would be honored to serve on the committee and would be honored to have your support. thank you. >> thank you, vise chair. >> i like to make a comment as she is walking out. i think supervisor fewer would be a great great aopponentment for this council. there is a lot of good council members in there. >> thank you, supervisor yee. can we take this motion without objection-excuse me, anyone

from the public like to comment on the item? seeing none, public comments closed. any department or staff like to say anything about this item? seeing none- >> make a motion to pass this item out with positive recommendation to full board. >> great. so mr. clerk the motion passes. congratulations supervisor fewer. >> thank you. >> quee bow you bring a lot of experience and perspective to this important body so we appreciate you putting your name forward. >> thank you, supervisor. >> mr. clerk call item number 7. >> item 7 is hearing to consider appointing one member of two year term to park recreation and open space advisory committee. there is one seat and one applicant, seat 19, which must be nominated by the district 5 supervisor.

>> great. and see someone from supervisor breeds office. can you state your name for the record. >> good morning- >> sorry-i know that the author of this is supervisor cohen and see her staff here. >> this is item number 7, not 8. you would probably do a better job then me. >> good morning supervisor and chair. it is great to see you and congratulations supervisor fewer. supervisor breed's appointee cat men del joenz is unable to attend so will read statement. i'm unable to attend because i'm at the california climate change symposium in sacramento which i attend as a public grants manager at the trust for public land. at the trust for public land i

seek public grants for creating parks and preserving open space throughout the bay-air eye and across california. i live in coal valley in district 5 with my husband, two young daurfts and a dog. our family spends time on suit row forest and playground in coal valley and golden gate park. i have ba frum duke and jdu c hasteings. i apologize she can't be her but on behalf of supervisor breed i ask for your support. >> thank you, mr. johnson. any members of the public that would like to comment? seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues, can we take this motion without objection? >> yes. >> great. seeing so mr. clerk this motion is passed. please call the next item, item aithd. >> item 8 is ord nrns amended the administrateb code to set structure function terms and administrative support for dignity fund oversight advisory

committee as required by the charter section 16.128-11 adopted as part of proposition at the november 8, 2016. >> i appreciate supervisor cohen for offering this item and see a member of her staff. >> good morning. i am you you chan legislative aid to malia cohen. as you know during the november 2016 election voters approve prop i which was a charter amendment offered by cohen yee and mar which created the dignity fund to fund programs for seniors and people can disability said. the ballot member created a 11 member oversight body commit tee a moniter and participate in the administration thf fund. aopinioning authorities and timing it also authorized the board to

draft a follow up implement ordinance to outline details regarding membership, structure and terms and this st. the ordinance before you today. we consulted closely with the dignity fund coalition and department of aging and adult servicess to develop the details in the ordinance and have one amendment we like you toanswer. i bleechb you have the language before you. if you dont i have copies here. it simp ly clarify that who sit on the advisory committee are current and act rfb member so they would automatically lose their seat if they are not. the appointing bodies are aging and adults services, the [inaudible] long term care council. happy to answer additional question squz have melissa mu gee the program manager for the dignity fund available for questions today. thank you for

supporting the amendment and item overall. >> great. thank you mrs. chan. any members of department staff who would like to speak oen behalf of the item? supervisor yee? >> i want to make a comment before we get into public comments. >> thank you, sir. >> first of all, this is really an important fund for us to implement moving forward. this is something that i'm glad supervisor cohen was involved with this and thatd i had a opportunity to work on it with supervisor mar at the time. as you-maybe not, the both of you are new so i have been working on these issues with seniors and popeal with disabilities for 4 years and made it a priority in particular in my district, which had very

few services for them. i had also authored a study to be done of existing senior services that is already completed and was waiting for a opportunity to work with the dignity fund folk tooz have a hearing on that so that everything would be lined and timed correctly. i already made a request for hearing from this, so looking forward working with people that are involved with the dignity fund and seeing how this could be helpful for the way we implement the programs. >> thank you supervisor yee. i just say that as somebody who libs in the city and work with aging population and know supervisor fewer has as well i like to thank supervisor cohens office for putting this forward and staff

ready to implement a important part of providing dignity and services to a aging population here in san francisco. any other comments from the public? or department staff? if not will call member thofz public who wish to testify. hold on one second. speakers have two minutes, please clearly state your first and last name and speak into the micro phone. if you have a written statement please submit to the clerk. thank you. >> my name is wade woods a member orphthe dignity fund coalition and i'm just here to ask for your support so we can make sure that we have a good advisory board and oversight committee to make sure the funding is distributed among the various aging populations in the city. thank you. i urge you to support this. >> thank you, mr. woods. any other members the public that wish to

testify? >> good afternoon supervisors. ann [inaudible] with meals and wheels san francisco and member of dignity fund coalition and work so hard to see this pass with supervisor yee and staff and sfr visor cohen and staff. we are in support of this of course excite frd the oversight and advisory committee. it will insure accountability and transparency with the community and will really push us all forward so we recommend certainly that you support this. thank you. >> thank you, very much. any other members of the mublic wish to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor yee. >> like to make a amendment as outlined by supervisor cohens aid, yoyo. to make a motion to make

a amendment. the oversight advisory committee member amust be a active and current member on the body from which they are appointed and representing. that is the language i got. was there anything else? >> the city attorney john gibbener drafted more formal language which i have if you like it but it is essentially says the same thing you just read on the record. >> are you submitted that? >> adjust for the language but that is the intonet. >> thank you. >> submitted. is there a second oen that motion? >> yes, second. >> so the motion is approved. excuse me, the motion to approve the amendment is approved. >> go ahead and make a motion to move the item forward with positive recommendation with

the amendments. >> okay. so the amendment is approved, now we make a motion to send it item with positive recommendation to full board. second. both motions pass and will send the item to full board. mr. clerk can you call item number 9. >> item 9 is resolution confirming the nomination of sergeant dorian j carr united states air force retires as county veterans services officer. >> wonderful. are there any members of-any department staff that would like to speak on this item? yes. >> good morning supervisors mpt serenemic spaden the department of aging adult services and the county veterans service office sits withinory department and this is really exciting for us because the county veteran service office

position has not sat within our department for a long time and think it makes a lot of sense to have the officer oversee the office, work within the office and we really look to join car to help us expand our services to veterans. help coordinate with veteran serve services and it is really a big priority area for us. the county veteran services office serves older adults and adults with disabilities and what they do is work to make sure people with-veterans can access their benefits because it is really hard for them to accessthem on their own through the veterans administration so thank you in advance ce for your support of sergeant car r. >> supervisor yee. >> sergeant carr here? >> he is here. >> would you like to say anything? would you hike to knh up and

say a few words? >> sure. >> you sound like a wonderful person >> good afternoon. my name is dorian carr. i appreciate my office and supporting me fl the nomination for county veteran service office. this is long time coming for me. i have been in the business doing county veteran services work for like 9 years. i moved over from contra costa county looking for this opportunity to become a county veteran service officer and so really looking forward to taking what i learned and how it is mentored in contra costa county and bringing it to the city so i appreciate any type of support. >> thank you, mr. carr. supervisor yee. >> thank you sergeant carr and thank you for your service. >> thank you very much.

>> thank you. any other members of the department or staff that would like to comment on the item? seeing none. any members of the public that wish to testify? seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues can we take this motion without objection? >> yes. >> thank you. mr. clerk this motion passes. >> mr. chair just for clarification that is motion to send to full board- >> motion to send to full board with positive recommendation. >> thank you. >> thank you. mr. clerk can you please call-no-that's it. okay. seeing no other items before us today, can i have a motion to adjourn? we are adjourned. thank you. [meeting adjourned]

>> my name is andrea, i work as a coordinator for the city attorney's office in san francisco. a lot of it is working with the public and trying to address their public records request and trying to get the information for their office. i double majored in political

science and always tried to combine both of those majors. i ended up doing a combination of doing a lot of communication for government. i thought it would connect both of my studies and what was i was interested in and show case some of the work that government is doing. >> i work for the transportation agency known as muni and i'm a senior work supervisor. >> i first started as a non-profit and came to san francisco and started to work and i realized i needed to work with people. this opportunity came up by way of an executive fellowship. they had a program at mta to work in workforce development type project and i definitely jumped on that. i didn't know this was something that i wanted to do. all i knew is that i wanted to

help people and i wanted to empower others. >> the environment that i grew up that a lot of women were just stay-at-home moms. it wasn't that they didn't have work, but it was cheaper to stay home and watch the kids instead of paying pricey day care centers. >> my mom came from el salvador during the civil war. she worked very hard. when she came here and limited in english, she had to do a service job. when i was born and she had other kids, it was difficult for her to work because it was more expensive for her to be able to continue to work in a job that didn't pay well instead of staying at home and being able to take care of us. >> there isn't much support or

advocacy for black women to come in and help them do their jobs. there also aren't very many role models and it can be very intimidating and sometimes you feel uncomfortable and unsure of yourself and those are the reasons exactly why you need to do it. when i first had the opportunity, i thought that's not for me. my previous role was a project manager for a biotech start up. i thought how do i go from technology to working in government. thinking i didn't know about my skills, how am i going to fit in and doing that kind of work. thinking you have to know everything is not what people expect have you, but they expect you to ask questions when you don't know and that's important. >> my mom was diagnosed with cancer. that was really difficult. she encouraged me to go to

school because in case anything happened i would be able to protect myself. i wanted to be in oncology. i thought going to school it would set me for the trajectory and prepare me for my life. >> we need the hardships to some of the things that are going to ultimately be your strength in the future. there is no way to map that out and no way to tell those things. you have to do things on your own and you have to experience and figure out life. >> you don't have to know what you are going to do for the rest of your life when you are in college or high school because there are so many things to do. i would encourage you to try to do everything that you are remotely interested. it's the best time to do it. being a young woman with so many opportunities, just go for it and try

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>>there was detailed information about the budget before the committee and i'm trying to take the time to take it in and make useful comments to you and i want to put on the record that i filed a complaint with the sunshine task force and here is a month later and

we ask for information and we still didn't get it. this is one of the things that you do every year and it is due tonight and i'm trying to take that information and and i can't make a meaningful comment on that without bringing the packet in. i talked to joe and he has been helpful but i am really unhappy with anthony. i have made that clear and i want something done about that and i will speak to you one other items. >>thank you. >>anthonynext item? >>the next item is public comment >>seeing none. public comment is closed. anthony, next item please. >>the next item is item 3 the approval of the minutes of the november 15, 2016 commission on the environment meeting and this item is for discussion and action. >>commissioners do i have a motion to approve the november 14, 2016 draft minutes?do i have a second? there has been

a motion by commissioner a >>is there any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed.

anthony, can we have some of those corrections incorporated in our minutes? >>yes. >>thank you very much. all of those in favor of approving those corrections to our minutes? all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. >> >> [chorus of ayes] >> the motion passes. item number four please. >>item 4 is public comment for all of those items not included one our agenda. and we have two public comment cards.

>> anthony? >>good evening commissioners eddie young with the united defense and we are here to speak of two things and the first is oursummits report and on the third page there are a list of stakeholders and there are over 300 issues at our sustainability summit and of course, commissioner wald was

there and of course there were many attendees and of course director was there herself and that was significant and from the air district to the ntc to the california air commission as well which leads me to the second point which is then major policy campaign which is an entirely concluded but has made significant progress over the last year and this was to identify disadvantaged communities for cap and trade funds and for workforce communities and when the original draft of the tool came out it did not include baby hunters point which was an environmental injustice in every sense of the world and again commissionerwan herself

and ned they were there are including[inaudible] they all wrote letters and this saw a decrease to just $.60which was very small compared to the rest of the state but again that most recently on january 9 we saw the most recent iteration of this tool from 86 to 165 and that this is thanks to the efforts of the community coalition and to the mayor's office so again i just like to bring this topic of the

community up tothe community and others and thank you. >>thank you very much. next speaker please. >>tom borden. >>hi i am tom borden and i am with the fss alliance. number one is it with the sfs list and these are for illusory and they don't mean anything and we hope that you why it get them fixed and the first is all about the video that we showed you some months ago in the springs of glen canyon and the biggest

spraying occurred in glen canyon which was supposed to be spraying poison oak but instead ended up being the coyote plant and these are not only that but the lies that are contained in this document and it goes on to say that it is okay to spray at native plants if you do not like them and that is not necessary. i would really hope that you will look at the roles. i have marked them up some and i really cannot touch on everything with the time that i have available to me but i would really like to urge you to consider these things. like, what is a landscape renovation? is it necessary?i mean, anybody created include anything in a landscape renovation and they could be

praying tier 1 insecticides. so i also wanted to mention that the eir for the natural sin ramp that was just past and in it it claims that cutting down 865 mature trees like huge eucalyptus and cypress and monterey pine and replacing it with gases will benefit our greenhouse gas situation in california and in san francisco and meeting the local and state bills for greenhouse gases. i hope you know you can't go around the trucks and chainsaws and chip down the trees and let that decay with carbon dioxide and then plant trees and that can help with the carbon dioxide. >>[timer dings] >>thank you very much. next

speaker please. >>hello i am a member of the local grassroots organization our city and i just want to speak on some of the issues that the last two speakers talked about. i want to talk about pesticides and i want to talk about district hunters point primarily and the last time that i spoke to one your committees in some of the documentation that i was looking at it seems like there may be more pesticide use in davies park it seems like there is more of the pesticide used on that side of the city. and, we should examine whether that has anything to do with in, or economic status or race or anything like that. thank you very much. >>thank you very much. next speaker please. >>good evening. the pesticide

list is usually at the january meeting and i do not see this on the agenda so perhaps you could disclose what the status is of that list and of that process. thank you. >>thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none. public comment is now closed. anthony, please read item 5. >>item 5 isthe presentation of the commission on the environment environmental service award and the sponsor is heather stephenson and this is a discussion item. >>hello my name is heather stephenson and i am very pleased to present this award to the commission and this can be easily because of our 100

and zero, and 50. goal. and, for 13 years as the executive director of the environmental service committee leah spent years getting people to ride bicycles on the street. her advocacy and help the environment here in san

francisco. she has brought the number of traffic fatalities 20. when i heard about the environmental service award to honor the different organizations in san francisco to embody the work that we do the first person that came to my mind was leah. >>[timer dings] >>i guess my time is up? >>no, go ahead. >>it is my honor to present this award to yuliya. so, please come to the podium. >>[applause] >>thank you. >>thank you commissioner

stephenson thank you commissioners and i will be very brief it is such an honor to receive this award a word from you all and you have so many passionate engaged and committed people. it has always beena treat with my time in the coalition to work on the challenges with your team. thank you for the leadershipms.

raphael and thank you commissioners and now i will say in running these other groups i just think you for all of your hard work. i don't see this and all other cities. i mean, there are some but i guess i haven't been as creative or engaged as they are in the work that we do. the commission president laid it out well in the early part of this meeting but these are interesting times and special times and san francisco is always been a special city but i think we just have to double down in places that will keep

sparking the right ideas and keep pushing the envelope and i think that you will continue to do this in the world of transportation i think that you will. so, thank you for this honor. >>thank you. >>[applause] >> is there anything that my fellow commissioners would like to add? yes, my fearless leader. >>commissioner stephenson when i saw who we were honoring tonight i was so excited.my predecessor used to say that san francisco is not only filled with cbo's, and ceos and cbi's but it's full of individuals. i think that is our blessing and our challenge some time. and with activism, one thing for me that's always

impressive is effectiveness. how effective is that person that to bring people together to make long-lasting change and that is a pretty high bar to meet. and leah is one of the most effective activist that i have ever met. and she has this capacity of listening, of challenging, and then of doing. and that is a powerful, powerful combination. this commission has stepped into leah's world in many places and

at many times with transportation demand management, with bike lanes, with trying to support getting people out of cars and recently with vision zero. the commission signed a resolution agreeing with leah and the others that we are not going to reach their environmental goals if people are afraid to get in their cars or their afraid to walk or they're afraid to ride a bike. and there is nothing more important than the work of vision zero as an environmentalist and as a worker for the public health and i think they are glad to have you and i want to express my incredible gratitude for the work that you do. >>thank you. is there any public comment on this item? >> david and bilpalo, i would just like to very briefly say that ifshe was to receive the award and this was known before the agenda was printed it should have been listed on the agenda. this is a violation of the sunshine act.

>> good evening. i am brian a member of the bicycle coalition. i have admired leah and we've seen over the decades that this is been reduced 9% in the last year and we know this does not only affect the reduction of greenhouse gases but how we affect one another in the city and within our round and not only is she an excellent advocate but as a

member of the community and a member that is in transportation i want to remind everyone that leah rent around the room and she went in with strength and she walked into infrastructure and she walked into the room as a woman women that was in a room of people that didn't think that women should have an idea about the roads and what this should look like and she has such strength in this city and i'm proud to call her a colleague and i'm glad ever here tonight. >>thank you. is there any further public comment? >>good evening commissioners paul do ski with ecology. i

did not come here tonight to acknowledge layout but i am not going to pass it up because it is a great opportunity. we have literally hundreds of heavy vehicles on the road every day. and, there is always something going on and safety is always been a concern of us and when leah first approached me she said can we work together on a training program and have your drivers understand what it is like to ride a bicycle in the city. and, to come at it in that direction one with transportation and with the cooperation and i just would like to honor leah and say that i appreciate her as a friend. thank you. >>thank you. is there any other public comment? >> harry doing this evening commissioners? i am brian andy with the san francisco department on the environment. when i walked in i noticed leah from the commission of the environment and as an individual i am a member of the

bicycle coalition and before i drove in f1 50 a big gas guzzler and now i just bike and commute and it has been a great transition to not only put in my environmentalist bag but also to explore the city. i would like to say it is the most fun and it is an active way to enjoy the city it is also the quickest way to learn san francisco. i would also like to thank you for the great work you've been doing to keep us bicycle is safe and also to encourage us to meet people throughout thecity of san francisco. thank you. >>thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. i would like to say as well that when i mentioned this,

everyone i mentioned it to mention leah so thank you for impacting our world in a positive manner. it is definitely a well-deserved honor. anthony, next item please. >>[applause] >>the next item is item 6 presentation on the san francisco refuse rate process. sponsor: deborah raphael, director; speakers: julia dawson, deputy director of finance and administration, san francisco public works and josh gray, and san francisco ratepayer advocate. this is a discussion item.

>> commissioner raphael weighted you like to introduce this item not? yes. thankyou. as you know what the views are in accordance with san francisco refuse rate process and as you know they fund many operations and they also fund our department and they from the public works department and many other aspects of our programs. the public works department managers are process and are part is actually a support function. we support this function in any way that they ask us to. we review documents, we answer questions, and we participate in the rate hearings. i want to thank in

particular julia dawson for being here tonight. i want to thank also her and her team for all of the work that they do. i also want to thank the work of the rate repair advocate and for all the work that you do. and with that i would like to introduce julie.julie. >>good evening commissioners my name is julie dawson. i will first discuss the refuse rate process and then i will discuss what it means to be at a ratepayer advocate and then i'll be happy to answer any questions that you might have in mind that. and, with that i would like to start with talking about ecology. ecology operates the transfer station .

the city through the department of environment contracts for the disposal of refuseat a re-ecology landfill. this defines the timeline for these refuse rates and the deputy director defines of weather or not these are acceptable. these rules are consistent with section 6 of the 1932 ordinance but they also set some timelines and processes that are not included in the ordinance that support staff review. for example

currently re-ecology a rate review with the department of public works as well as the process. so that saves them time. the department of public works also reviews this with the director and if they oppose this adjustment the rate adjustment will not go into effect. and so, here is a idea for what happens when we go intoa public refuse rate process. this will be issued to the public and then there will be some rate

hearings there will be four of them and both re-ecology and the city present on the application. the staff report outlines the finer recommendation and there are a final set of directors hearings where we discuss those recommendations and then we issue the directors report of recommended order of the rates. so the rate board only hears objections to the directors report in the recommended order so this can only be if there are objections filed to the final directors order and they hold their own series of public hearings and then they have the right to either approve or

amend the directors order on the specific items that they are again objecting to. in the 1932 ordinance, there is a prescribed 90 day period for the director to issue hearings in the recommended water. this kind of lays out here in a little informal calendar what we will exactly be looking at. we are now in the draft application review process. we expect this to be in by february. there will be a report back from the public on what the proposal is, there will be a directors hearing there will be more directors hearings and a prop 18 hearing and that takes us all the way from january into june and this will ideally allow us to have

this process included by july 1 so that these new rates can go into effect then. so we also at the request of policymakers, several cycles ago we started hiring someone to perform that duties of the ratepayer advocate and the idea is that we get out to the public to do outreach so that the public knows that we have done the rate request application and the ratepayer advocate also serves the public's interest at the directors hearings as well. we

have representatives here from the ratepayer advocates to introduce their selves and it's actually duane jones is here on behalf of the ratepayer advocate so i'll step aside and give him the microphone for a few minutes. >>great, thank you julia. good evening commissioners. as julia indicated i am duane jones i'm the president of the r a j enterprises and through a process i was selected to be the ratepayer advocate through a specific cycle. the ra or the ratepayer advocate has our office in the hunter's point and we have been working here for the last 20 years. primarily it what our job is to exhaust area engagement and the

committee once our application has been submitted to provide multiple mechanisms for them to provide input through this entire process. >>all right so, before you is just a general list of some of the ways and some of the things that we are going to be doing over the next few months in a very aggressivecontext. one is toassist the city at one a action plan and to provide the public and the city with the information that julie just had an to advocate the ratepayers concerns at all appropriate meetings and most importantly encouragge the community to attend forums and meetings and

voice their concerns. we coordinate with individuals that testify it with the hearings and provide a summary review of the draft and final application. so, this is not the first time that this is happen. i appreciate the degree that the department of the environment has gone to make sure that we have a running start and again as i indicated we are very happy to serve in this role. i will all go through all of the line items here in the next piece but again, as i indicated, the outreach efforts are exhausting. in a time where there are a flood of things in your inbox and your facebook pages we see these

things. and we go hand-in-hand with all the information is being generated in the communities and have a face-to-face conversation with the people of this community about this process and if you are interested in have any ideas of how we can spread the word, that would be incredibly helpful. there are three main ways to provide this input one is through our website and email-- again the ratepayer website is one way again we have email and

again, you can call we provide a mechanism to speak with someone and we try to get back to you within 24 hours with the information that we have available most importantly we make sure that the directors meetings are publicized and if you are not seeing them we hope you reach out through this mechanism and we can make sure that whatever medium you were using that we can access that one as well. i will turn it back over to julia. thank you. >>thank you. okay well , i don't know if anyone has any questions but i am happy to answer them if you do. >> commissioners, do you have any questions? okay well, i

just have a few. what type of materials do you have? >> if someone calls our office we already have interpretive services and we connect them with our services. the city does that as a matter of our foreign-language services is possible that we would not have a foreign language speaking person in there so we use a service for this. if you want to know more i believe the ratepayer advocate would know

more about that. if you want to address him about thatyou may want to. >>okay, thank you. >> we have staff that speak multiple languages and we also have use this and were working on some other methods to reach out to other communities. >> with a very diverse community. are there any that you hear from these other communities? >>absolutely. we have some of them here now. i've been doing this work for a very long time

and i'm really excited about this particular team and this is a team that definitely reflects the diversity of san francisco and all of its aspects. folks are very very comfortable including residents are very comfortable in whatever mechanism of language they are comfortable. >>thank you very much. commissioner stephenson. >>i know this is a process that just started but how many people do you expect to actually reach and how many people do you expect to see in terms of public comment? >> we hope to reach in terms of the context several thousand folks over the next few months. are reaches much greater obviously over a variety of mediums. the newspaper is a another medium that we use to reach a few more hundred as well.

>> and this is part of your timeline, correct? >>right now, we are just making people aware and i think julia indicated there will be a technical workshop that people can participate in and learn more and ask questions about that and participate as well. >>okay, thank you very much. is there any public comment? >>hello my name is-- this is the third time and i was not asked to participate in the selection of dwayne jones and

his team. i do know that he used to work for the city. did you run m ocd? >>yes. >>i know he hada great run in of engagement during that tenure of the city. i hope that during this process over the next 90 days to the extent that the department is doing outreach activities if we could have information on this process so that when donnie and his team could have that. it does not to be asked density of i just wonder if he can have a corridor a hand up. it does not have to be its own thing. i understand the rate increase is 15% overall but i know there are substantive changes that have not been prescribed tonight but i'm not sure that tonight the right firm that do so but there are some exciting changes that i'm looking forward to such as the routes

being changed from black and green to black and blue which will allow us to change our routing and change materials on the blue route including plastic bottles and corrugated changes and there are a lot of things that i am looking forward to an and these changes to get us closer to zero waste.hanks. >> any other further public comment? commissioners? hearing none, public comment

is now closed. where is thank you very much for coming this evening i'm excited to see where this will go. i know you're going to be very busy. next item please anthony. >>the next item is item 7. review and approval of the department of the environment's fiscal year 2017-18 and 2018-19 budget. sponsor: deborah raphael, director; speaker: joseph salem, program manager, finance and administration.this item is for discussion and action. >>thank you. director raphael. >>thank you. we are excited to present this and i will hand

this over to our speaker joseph salem he is the program manager for the finance and administration with that i'll hand it over to joseph so he can get started. >>good evening commissioners i am joseph salem program manager for the finance and administration department. >>as far as the approval of the budget for the department of environment's fiscal year we are not submitting this quite yet although we have to submit the 2018-19 budget we do not know what our grant funding is going to look like and we don't feel we can give an adequate assessment of the fiscal year. the city is currently

projecting a $283 million deficit over the next two fiscal years. and as a result, the mayor is requiring all general fund departments to reduce their ongoing spenders by 3% in the next fiscal year with the additional fiscal sent in 2018-19 with a reduction in ongoing spending. now, the department of environment does not receive any additional funds support but we are required to have any additional costs with any other workforce in the city and any other departments. so for the fiscal year of 2007-2018 our fiscal budget stands at $1.8 million. with a current shortfall of 13,008 and

with this process were doing far better than we have in several years and were very proud of that. the chart on the left ear indicates the departments revenue makeup andas you can see our revenue makeup is 44% and pound and 47% grants and a few percent that makes up the total budget. and this current year we had 44% and pound 45% grants and the rest made up the total departments. this slide shows the overall

year-to-year change from the current fiscal year to the next fiscal year. you will know that the current year's budget is approximately 21.8 million. and the fiscal year 2017-2018 will be 18 million and that this is due to the rate reduction process. and as you just heard from the refuse rate process presentation you see we're in the middle of this refuse rate process. this did allow for a little more per the they did not keep the cities fixed cost increase. this reflects the fixed cost from 2014 to 2018 where the new rate will be enforced.

when we budgeted for this year[inaudible] the reduction of the departmental recoveries that you see there is primarily at the departments reduction in add back over the last two

years. you also see this is largely due to the increase in grant funding in that category. are outgoing zero waste grants are also increasing and this is due to the two year grant cycle being implemented this last year. and lastly this is where the reflects reduction of the grant process. this slide shows the programs we are implementing. as you can see we partner with many city partners. the work orders are vital to the department-- excuse me the work orders are a vital part of the department's funding and we greatly value the departmental relationships

that we foster. staffing. so, this slide shows the current staffing by program area and you can see that our total numbers are level. in fact, you can see our total ftd count is going down because we do not intend to utilize these in the nextfiscal year. and what is important to recognize that although what these are the same they do vary year and year according to the program. and this is because although these changethis is with the addition and completion of grants. the next slide is key dates. you can see that one has already past. and then you can see that the next two are tonight. but, the next day that we have is february 21. that is when we are submitting

our balanced-budget to the mayor's office. after that, we will be coming back to the commission's operations committee to update them on the budget and update them on a change suite me between now and the time we submit. after that we have the commission on the environment hearing and then after that the commission on the environment will adopt the budget and then after that we will submit our budget letter which will reflect our budget for the year. federal funding impact is a new one that we did not have to address until recently. the department does receive a federal funds for our energy work. in addition, our work on brownfields and some environmental justice work orders have been funded by federal grants as well. the

budget before you does reflect federal funded projects. specifically 3e grants and one epa grant. in the federal grants that the department's received within this budget, we have these budget allocations that were previously approved by budget and by the congress.we received notice from the epa this morning that the recently reported funds on epa contracts only apply to new grants and contracts. however going forward, our directors and program managers are assessing if any new federal rfps will be available and we are working with the mayor's office in determining the future impact of reduced federal funding.

with that, i think you for your time and i'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> commissioners, any questions? is there any public comment? >> david pilpoa. i have some quick questions just from reviewing this for an hour and talking to david forjust a couple at times. first of all article 9 of the charter and chapter 3 of the administrative code so although joe said that they do not have a lot of information on fiscal 19, the city now has a two-year rolling budget cycle so what you're

really adopting tonight is fiscal 2018 and 2019. so whatever assumptions you have at this time whether it's 2% on expenses or 3% one revenues there are ways to make that happen but this really is a two-year budget and you should note that since this is a public hearing. i am not sure if i understand in the change from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2018 why the salary line goes up by 6%. that seemed odd to me. i'm also concerned with the amount of impact on the account funds. this is the first time that i recall that the impound account would exceed $10 million in funding to the department. that is a lot of money out of the rates that people pay for their garbage bills to fund these grants for the program and i think it's important that we can more

cost-effectively discuss the funds provided by re-ecology that were not necessarily done and that includes the department zero waste program. there was a memo that was updated a year and a half ago from that commission that came a year and a half ago that specified the maximum percentage is out of the account and i do not have any information about what this budget proposes from each program and some of the details that were provided this afternoon were also helpful. there is also the administration program and that is about 15 f pen and i were dead to start on that as well

and also it is important to understand that what level the staff is in each program. particularly as this grant money becomes a little bit more uncertain and some of the federal restrictions around them. >>[timer dings] >>i am happy to follow up with joe. >>thank you. >>any other public comment? joe, would you like to respond? >>yes, thank you. i appreciate the fellows comments and we'd be happy to meet with him in the future and discuss his concerns. >>okay, thank you very much. commissioners? commissioner stephenson? >>okay, this is probably the

[inaudible] specifically with our grant funding thatwe are in the position that we are in right now. the presentation of

the committee meeting was at a much, much, deeper level than the presentation that you got here. we started doing that years ago so we didn't sort of replicate the same meeting over and over again and we allow the operations committee to dive more deeply and everything. i know that one of the questions that i have for you all sometime in the last couple of weeks was specific to that two-year cycle versus one-year cycle situation because i know last year we were told we were proving a budget forthe two-year budget so can you please explain that process? >>yes. we are on what is called a rolling two-year budget. there is a fixed year budget and a rolling budget. and the fixed year budget only goes through this process every two years and less there is a significant change in the budget. in a rolling two-year budget we do have to submit a two-year budget but every year we have to go back every year to redo that budget for the next fiscal year. and, the department of the environment with, you know, significant

amounts of grant funding that cycles through in time frames that cannot really accommodate a two-year cycle, it is very, very difficult for us to give a budget that outlines a two-year or a second your outlier with any degree of accuracy. very difficult for us to do that. and secondly, we are guessing when we attempt to do that. that is the only way that we, you know, can do that. >> and, while this is one our minds can you just let everybody know what percentage of this we are talking about when we talk about federal funding? >>so federal funding. our current federal funding is-- let me put my glasses back on. so our current federal funding that we have right now is $1.3 million. so we get four different grants. three from the doe and one from the epa. >>okay thank you. >>i want to thank you for all

of the hard work that you've done and i have looked at that and i aapprove the budget. and >>so we have a motion and a second. we have already done public comment? yes, we've a redone public comment. all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. >> >> [chorus of ayes] >>the motion passes. next item anthony. >>the next item is item 8 the review and approval of the commission on the environments 2016 draft annual report. the

sponsor issponsor: deborah raphael, director; speaker: guillermo rodriguez, policy and communications director. this item is coming to you as an explanatory document for discussion and action. >>good evening my name is guillermo rodriguez. ed i am the policy and communications director. we have before you is an explanatory document of the draft commission on the environment 2016 and will report. as the policy committee and the draft

committee has heard particularly on the commission on the environment is the way that we collect data on the process. we already have had a presentation to the budget and these are fiscally driven the way we collect data from we will provide an annual report for the mayor and the supervisors. so what you have before you is really a truncated version of what you have seen before. if we could have the powerpoint. again, this is just a truncated version of what

the committee is and there is a letter from our president and there is an overall discussion of the work that this commission did diving into zero, 50, 100 rootsin your meeting and kind of highlighting the achievements that the committee did in 2016 and looking over the facilities that the city engaged in and looking over the meetings that this commission had specifically around some of these issues. quickly, just a summary of the issues that the operations committee took and also introducing what started last year and carried on until today is thecommission of the

environments environmental reward and we have a list on that we also have a list of all the resolutions of the commission took issue one and the end result with respect to legislative action before the board of supervisors or other pending issues and we chronicle the sets of the commissions encouragement to the board of supervisors to pass important legislation that the commission went out and publicly supported. we have also indicated some awards and accommodations that the department and the commission had received. and very briefly, this just chronicles the items and we

will transfer this electronically before the board and the board of supervisors and we are happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> thank you guillermo. . that was amazing. actually, that was exhausting to me because it's just so amazing how much work the department is doing. so hard to capture that in an annual report but it's pretty impressive and it's hard to follow all the work that you are doing. >> so, i do not necessarily have a question for it. that is amazing. i'm blown away. fellow commissioners, does anyone else have a question before i open up to public

comment? >>actually, i do actually have one thing to say. i just want to commend the team because they bring these gorgeous reports of forward and it is just like it was last year and i just love these gorgeous reports and are put together they are and how to think they are. >>is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, do we have a motion to approve the 2016 commission on the environment strapped in report? so we have a motion and a second by commissioner wan. okay , all those in favor say,

aye. opposed, nay >> >> [chorus of ayes] >> the motion passes. anthony, next item please. >>next item is item number nine. directors report on the updates on the department of the environment and ministry have andprogrammatic 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. speaker: deborah raphael, director. this item isfor discussion. >> good evening commissioners. i've just been so excited that this item was coming up and i try to put this in an organizational formatthat make sense to me. so what i want to

look at is what we done in the past six months and what we will do in the next six months to come. and, the things that we have seen and what is happeningin our government in our world and president omotalade,i think that we are thinking distinctly about what the department needs to do in the months to come. i want to put this through a lens of things that have happened particularly in november and december. every single member in our department

which is over 100 people went through an equity lens training. this is how we can see ourselves and challenge ourselves to identify our blind spots. we have created a staff led equity committee and some people in this room are on that committee and they have been guiding myself and jennifercast onand another thing that we have done is staff training on this equity on staff training

we selected to staff that are middle management staff that will give them some upper-level training and a happy to bring this back to you and let you know what they are learning. in terms of our energy achievements. we won the prize and that will be $1 million over three years and we will use that to further bring our energy programs and our climate programs into low income communities who aren't participating right now. one thing that we will do right now would be through the mayors department of housing and

community development and we understand for homeowners to put solar we had to have the assumption that the roof could handle the solar and that excluded our low income homeowners that did not have a roof that could handle the solar. and so what we did was we found alternatives and found six rooms that would get new grooves roofs as well as the solar. surprisingly, we did some we never did before and we did this last weekend. we did a workshop in the chinese language. i mean, it's amazing to me that we hadn't done that yet i mean, that it hadn't been

done. but we focused on 45 families to come and all of them could qualify and they are all now signing up for solar. in terms of our nail salon program we have 39 nail salons that are recognized and it's now up to 50. that was recognized by the universityit is that inner section of bringing environmental benefit and social benefit over and over again.the first thing that happened in the state of california is that we had a

state insecticide program and this was offered in spanish how amazing that this was not done in spanish that allowed 35 businesses to be part of this business program. this also allow these small businesses that can't afford the $1000 $2000 co-pay to apply for the program so we launched a program in a westside neighborhood for the eight we

can provide. as you know, there will be community meetings that you can host to deepen our discussion around the strategic plan. you may have heard of the volkswagen settlement. to let you know, let's wagon is part of their settlement and they have to use that in california and $2 million in the next 30 months. we submitted a proposal and the department of the environment coordinated all of the city departments to put together a proposal that was turned in to have san francisco, san jose, and this focus will be a green city so we made the pitch that we are rate take that money and protect good use and mostly it's a real and to add a electric

vehicles. we are diving deep into adaptation and around the city we are taking a leadership role in crafting messages that will integrate adaptation and mitigation and we will bring that process back to you as we progress. we have a whole list of policies that we are working on with the mayor to launch. many of them you have heard about and we will come before the board of supervisors with them in the next 2 to 3 months. as you heard, there is a rate process going on in the next six months. that will take a lot of our time. we will make a big push on the outreach for

zero waste because that is looming and looming. and finally, we have to implement this program we started last year which was the pharmaceutical program starting up and we have the better use ordinance that are all programs we put in place and need to be implemented. i want to put two dates on your calendar. make sure that you know that february 9 is coming up. this is the annual green business award we will recognize 71 green businesses. we will all be at a facility on market street. we will give you more details on that but we would love you to come. it will be from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm. there are so many great people to meet and exhibits to look at and i highly recommend coming at 5:30 pm where you can enjoy the donated wine, beer, and hors d'oeuvres. and as you know on january 29 is our earth day celebration and i think

something that will be very exciting for you and our theme is the 20th year of our retrospective commission and we want to highlight the current commissioners and past commissioners and think about what the commission is done and what it wants to do and what the shape of the commission is going forward. it will be a nice opportunity for us to think collectively on that. i want to end up with a recognition of staff that are here and it turns out they are both part of our green business program. marcos latin who is a spokesperson for us before and marlin is with us to so if you could come up and tell us where you are at and where you were before and anything that your plan for us. >>hello, my name is margo i am the specifics fellow and the

specific spark fellowship is a fellowship program and this is to provide sustainability of the environment and ice for your commission am happy to be here before you. >> hello, i started with the fellowship in november and before that i met chew well with the environment commission happy to be back. >>okay, do you any questions from commissioners. >> to echo what you just said

it is very impressive and comprehensive and, i mean, i guess from a 30,000 footview because there are a lot of a tangible, concrete, discrete grant stuff and you think of 2017 in light of the challenges that we outlined if there are sort of two or three priorities that really rise to the top for you and they perhaps have some federal implications in showcasing who we know ourselves to be which is ambitious and sort of a leader? >> >>well, i think that some of the-- well let me say it is an incredible opportunity for me

to work with the city at a level like this-- well let me just say that it is possible for what the city can do within that federal level and this year i say the bubble within the bubble the bubble being california and the bubble inside the bubble would be the bay area. and what's important to us in san francisco and to reach out to the red states and help them to achieve the goals they want to do. and like it is been set the city of san francisco changes the future and the city thrives and is environmental and in 2017 we have some really big goals to

tackle in how we will address our greenhouse emissions, specifically it with some fuels and getting off of diesel and gasoline. that is an area where we have to say what has not been done that people have not figured out a solution for. we have a lot coming in the pipeline for new construction but for me, what are we doing or what is the outcome and what is the solution. i don't know the solution but i know the challenges both on the fuels and on the existing buildings and to think about how we engage the community up front with possibly some pretty difficult decisions in front of us if we are truly serious about tackling those issues. >>okay, and i have one other question about the focus at the

nail salon. who were the staff people? were they here? i just want to know who they were. >>well jen went. >>and i also wanted to note that on the discussion of human trafficking within the commission of the status of women i wonder if you could outline that a little bit and i know that a lot of us have read the article in the new york times about how human trafficking is happening more than ever now. >> so for us the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and for us we read this article and we thought, we know what how we engage in these things and take care toxins and waste but what about engaging

with the laborers and the department on labor at the opposite end we needed to go out to the nail salons and there were so many that if there was going to have this then you had to be green certified as well as your right to appropriate ventilation as well as the right to a human wage and we are trying to get rid of that. >>so