it's not possible to police

>> the hot team can refer people to the navigation center, those stays are limited to 30-days. the majority of people staying there end up on the street after 30-days. when we look at the people going to the navigation center, the numbers are not significant. we look at the numbers coming out. the persistence of homelessness is a problem of political will

until the public understands the city needs to invest in housing, this problem is going to continue. i think we need the police department to educate constituents about this instead of saying police can get people into services or perpetuating the idea the members of the public have that polices is the solution, it is crucial to be honest with the public. >> president turman: is the police department perpetuating that idea? are we telling the people that policing the homeless is what we are here for, we can get you into these services? that is not us. that is another department. as much as i agree with what you are saying, i am glad to do our part.

what you are talking about is beyond our control. all we can do -- effect the orders given to us. you can change the order system. we are glad to do that. >> that needs to be said. >> president turman: you need to go to the mayor's office or dpa. we are at the bottom of the chain. we can't change that. >> i think that, you know, to address that point briefly before getting back to my last light and turning it over to the director of the coalition. many of us have seen a lot of neighbor meetings where people are trying to placate the neighbors who want to call 911. the reason we want to show what is happening with this type of polices is that it is pervasi pervasive. whether or not people, officers want to do it, it is happening

and it is having a harmful effect on homeless people. regardless of what people are calling 911 want people to think. so i think there are things we can discuss further. briefly, what happened to our survey respondent'ses when they got the citations? the majority couldn't pay them. 62% ignored the citation. at the time of the survey it went to warrants. city data show in 2014, 132 homeless people we're jailed for quality of life. the citations added up. they were incarcerated for being in public space. no one in this room obviously wants this.

that is why the da has as of 2015 stopped issuing the warrants on the quality of life citations. i will turn it over to jenny to continue with what the coalition is asking of the commission. thank you. >> hi. we are going to get to the recommendations and the stuff that you were mentioning, but i wanted to talk about quickly the impacts of the citation in terms of the big change that happened to make sure you all were clear on it. in 2015, previous to 2015, the courts were issuing warrants and civil assessments for unpaid fines. about 120 then, of course, when people don't show up for court

those warrants as well. they were doing both. we did put pressure on the courts and this other stuff was happening. they changeid it, which was the right thing to do. it is illegal to punish people. they moved to the civil assessments. so now whereas before you would get $300 assessment the fine goes to collections agency, the arrest warrants are issued. you could potentially be arrested in you have a number of warrants. that ended in 2015. now it is the $300 civil assessment. that still does have a significant impact. the professor covered the impacts. i want to point out one piece of

the impact the vulnerability and force displacement creates a barrier to services in terms of working without reach workers. when people are moved around and are on the cass of getting housing and they lose contact with the outreach worker. property confiscation is huge. you think it is dpw. that is not true. we have a truck in the tenderloin and witnessed the sfpd involved in property confiscation. you lose medicine, from the mental health perspective other kinds of things people are losing survival gear sets folks back. that is something that sfpd can certainly address and follow the property policy that is implemented by the aclu and

lawyers' committee not followed by sfpd. the context professor covered really well, but i want to move on. >> president turman: what are you asking of us? >> sorry. the recommendations we have a number of them for you all and commander is going to be talking more about what is going on with this. we want to look at dispatch protocol, exam that. if it is not a police issue, meaning a safety issue or something outside of the context of sleeping or resting or being homeless and present we would like to shift that up. if i am the public and calling to say there is a homeless person. now the city is going to send a

police officer, and we want to look at that. that is not appropriate use of resources. >> president turman: your recommendation is we don't respond or shift it? >> it should go to the appropriate responder, psychiatric crisis without violence, go the homeless outreach team. >> the commission there is the infrastructure is not there 24 hours a day seven days a week for that to be done. >> president turman: currently we don't have the infrastructure. at some point during the day that is possible. it is about building around that, is that correct? >> it is building. some of that is being done with the three one one. those are routed to the proettesiate city again -- appropriate city agency.

what she is asking not 24 hour, seven day an week availability for that dispatch. >> president turman: we could work with the homeless and city agencies to talk about building this protocol so it is an ongoing concern, we can do that, right? >> correct. >> we want community education on costs and limits on policing homelessness. we hear positive a lot from the community meetings that we can't ticket our way out of homelessness, but we hear the opposite message as well which, you know, which isn't helpful. >> president turman: the opposite message? >> encouraging residents to call the police when homeless people are present and they will remove them. >> president turman: who is

doing that? >> i mean there is. >> president turman: not from the department? >> yes, from the department. >> president turman: our community engagement people within form the community when they do the community meetings about the appropriate channel to address these issues, is that correct? >> yes and also to dispatch. >> president turman: go ahead, chief. >> i think part of that is education on 311 and 911 calls period. >> president turman: let's educate. that is up community's alley. >> encouragement of discretion. admonishments rather than citations whenever possible. >> president turman: that is in our control. is that something we can work

was the coalition on? >> yes, we can work on that. i think the coalition is aware of this. a lot of these issues in the infrastructure go beyond what the police department can control. i am not saying these are good or bad ideas. we will work with you on those issues. >> president turman: there needs to be another partner in there? >> yes, we are working on that. >> president turman: find a partner and work on it. >> supporting alternatives like increased services and decriminalization and denouncing the antihomelessness issues. if the commission weighed in on you are one voice. >> president turman: what do you want us to weigh in on it with? >> you can pass resolutions and

make proclamations. the commission is a very respected element of the community having them fighting for more services for homeless people would be helpful. i am turning it over. >> president turman: commissionr marshall, let me go back to the one about who you call. this has happened several times. i run around the property. i have kids around, women on my staff, i have a preschool right next -- daycare next to my building, and for me when i go back to them and they are concerned, who can i tell them to call? the first person they called in the past is the police. it works. who shall i tell them to call?

>> first to be clear from our position. the very presence of someone who is destitute is not illegal. it is just another member of our community. if someone is in need of help, we should call the appropriate person for help. if there is an actual criminal activity it should enter the police department realm. that is our position. i have kids, i have them with me all the time around homeless people all the time. i raised my children in my office surrounded by homeless people. you know, just the very presence of homeless people. >> homeless is not a crime. next. >> what is missing and i know you did a great job and thank you. when people call the police, they call the police and this is every neighborhood throughout the city. the chief and i had a meeting that shocked me with their concerns about homelessness in their neighborhood.

it is those under the influence, those that are in psychiatric crisis that pose a threat and danger to people with children, to the elderly and the businesses that is the other half of the equation. the truth of the matter is. it is such a drain on the san francisco police department resources to deal with this. it would be unanimous our officers don't respond. however, what do we do with the situation where -- i walk the entire city. walking out of my parking garage. tomorrow morning there will be at least 10 to 12 people under the influence because of opioid or methamphetamine, breaking into cars, hanging around the garage. the officers are talking to them. get up, get moving. they are there. it is not fair to them they are in that situation. there are needles all over the

place, children going to school walking through the neighborhood. there are two sides to this equation. at some point the police have to become involved because social services are not doing their job. we are not getting these people off the street. the police have to get involved. we are society. that requires rules and laws to protect everybody. you are missing that part of the equation. being homeless is not a crime and should never be. everywhere we go, merchants are complaining. it is not just san francisco, it is everywhere. it is affecting the city, tourism, most of the homeless i have seen. most of the people on the street that i see in the morning are addicted to drugs or in psychiatric crisis. we have to help them. sometimes it is the police. you are not addressing that side of the equation. the citations is dismissed by

the judge in sauc saucilito. he did not care. we want to be compassionate. it is not working. >> i appreciate that. i don't see the two sides. i see it as moving towards solutions that work. that is really our framework. often times what happened with the police with the time they get there the person is not there. what a waste of time and energy the entire endeavor is. what works. you mentioned a number of different things. a lot of the things that work are outside of the police department realm. i don't want to go too deeply into them. there was a newspaper article about a woman half naked screamed at a kid. those are the situation also. when that happens you have

someone in crisis. there should be a number of steps taking place. we have lost a lot of mental health system and seeing the results on the streets. it takes a lot of work. from our perspective it is not two-sided. it is what are the solutions. that is how to move forward. we know and the department of justice knows and it is recognized the citation route is not working. we need to try something different. that is, you know, this is part of the puzzle. >> president turman: i agree. thank you for your hard work. we have a question. >> so i want to thank you and your team and the commander and the police defendant. we are asking to reform the dispatch protocol when they call to say someone is on my stairs, i want that person gone they can refer it to homeless outreach other than sending a police

officer. that is a great idea. community education. when our policera there they can educate how much it costs to do this. maybe not in the same breath say call the police. we can do that. use discretion is most important. trying to reduce citations and utilizing admonishments, not criminal acts, community possessing. if they have discretion and can do that, that would be great. these are things to work with. you are educating me and the people watching us and the commission. i think it is great. it is clear. we are not talking about criminal activity, we are talking about the things we can do to reduce the police response to homelessness. >> commander is going to talk about the advisory board on homelessness. we are working on all of these things. >> i am going to forego my 11

page 2 hour presentation on homelessness and get to the. it is available for the public if they would like to see. president turman you hit the nail on the head. the support of housing and public health. they are on the front lines interacting with those that need help and getting them to the services they need. we as a police department are compassionates. you see the statistics less enforcement and more referring. as police officers we are gaining rapport with people referring folks to outreach. vice president you covered the other half of the presentation to say the san francisco police department gets 5,000 calls for service every month that are homeless related. 1,000

additional calls we initiate when we interacts with the homeless. our plan is to get the individuals the help they need. we see arresting and citations. we are police officers and enforce the law. when we see them in case management and stabilization and support of housing, that is the win. that is what the police officers are doing right now. to the last point we have been working closely with the coalition on homelessness and partnered on one of the advisory boards to look at this issue. our primary goal is to work to train our dispatchers so when the police dispatchers receive what the public things is police related call they can educate about who should be involved and what our strategy is. we are excited about the work we

are doing on that. i will take your questions. >> that would be good work. let's start getting people directed to services, directed to the people who can help. you know, to say the appropriate person is probably a long list in there. we need to sort of make this list concrete so our dispatchers understand so we can start educating out. when this type of issue, when you see this issue with a person who is homeless this is who you call, no the the police department. we also need to on the enforcement. we need to talk to the dpa and find out what they can do to solve the issues without involving the police enforcements. commissioner marshall had something. >> i know you are in a hurry, sir. since i have a chance to be educated. i want to know what should i do?

i really do. that is why i am bringing it up. it is not a crime. i know it is not a crime. there is an issue, little kids coming in and out. it is a point where they have to say you go do something. what should i do with my staff, how should we handle that? that comes up with a whole bunch of folks. that is what i was looking for guidance here. >> 7500 homeless in san francisco. people are concerned about it. we broad brush homelessness. we have criminal activity, mental illness, substance abuse. in an emergency dial 911. to vice president's point they are taking the clothes off in the street, in some sort of mental crisis or committed violence that is a police response, get the ambulance and

get that person to the hospital. in those emergency situations we see it. for the other situation where this person needs help, they are homeless, there is an encampments that is three one one the one stop shop phone number in san francisco. download the app and take a photograph and send it to 311. i want everyone to know that if it goes to 311 and it is an encampment it goes right to public works and they address it. if a person needs a well-being check it comes to the nonemergency to be dispatched for the police. that is something in the future we can address that is currently the system is 311. the answer is 311. >> to be present and homeless exhibiting none of these two extremes, you do nothing. the person can be there.

that is not anyone's issue. the person can be there. if that person is not causing a disturbance, not taking off their clothes, not threatening themselves or other people, they are just there. you do nothing. you educate the staff, a person has a right to be there. if they are not doing anything, work around them. >> i would add the reason for the 311 call is to say the person is doing nothing, please send the homeless outreach team to see if they can help them. that is the calls they get as well. >> they will make that decision i guess. okay. any other questions for the commander? >> i would like to get an update in the future to see how it is going. >> we will call you back with an update. thank you very much.

>> president turman: i appreciate your comments, you were very helpful. everything you talked about, pay no attention to me because i am old and sick. everything you talked about is both achievable, laudable and we can get there. we just need to keep working together. thank you so much. what is next? >> public comment on item number 6. >> president turman: the public comment by the department and the coalition on homelessness. >> i have something for you. and i have been holding these for a couple years hiding them

to make sure you all got a copy of the fancy once. i will get those. i am a human rights organizer on the coalition on homelessness and was part of working on that report. one of the things that has been coming up a lot and does come up. i feel like i have spoken about it before is where, you know, i talk to officers on a regular basis. this morning i was talking to officers down in the encampments, and they get calls from 311 and they go down there and they are telling people to move along. the problem is there is nowhere to go. i was asking that question. they ge get tired of hearing it.

where can the people go? they have no answer. i know there is no answer to that. we currently have right now as of yesterday it was 1155 people on a single adult shelter wait list. that is just adults, that is not families and children. the average wait for a child to get into a shelter since january was 111 days. we need tobr to look at the larr pictures. people want this magic card. everyone wants the magic card to hand someone to help. i am asked constantly. there isn't one. there aren't the services to back that up. certain things that an example of different ways where the police could have come out. this last year the prop q with

the tent ban would have been a good opportunity. the police are like they are to be offering housing. there is no housing. right now people are asking officers, well, prop q went through, you are to give me a notice and an offer of services. that is not happening. there aren't any services to offer. yes, we need to look at the bigger picture and look for solutions. i have 30 seconds. we were looking with the library a while back, a couple years back, and we were advocating for social workers. within the first year incidents decreased 50 percent. that speaks a lot. when you are going with the right solutions. the citations bottom line they don't work, it doesn't work. thank you. >> president turman: thank you. any other public comment?

public comments is now closed. >> item 7 public comment on all matters pertaining item 9 below including whether to hold item 9 in closed session. >> we are about to go into closed session and consider personnel and other litigation related items. is there any comment about us going into closed session? okay. seeing none. public comment is closed. secretary kilshaw. >> administrative code action. >> president turman: we are to go into closed session to consider several items. i will entertain the appropriate motion. >> moved and seconded. all in favor. any opposed? members of the public we thank

you for joining us for the first part of the open session of the san francisco police commission meeting. we >> we are back on the record in open session. you still have a quorum. >> please call the next item. >> item 10 discussion on item 9 held in closed section. >> i move not to disclose. >> president turman: second. >> on the question aren't we prohibited from disclosing this no matter if we want to or not. >> we have to make this motion.

>> president turman: moved and seconded all in favor. any opposed? all right. next item. >> item 11 adjournment. >> president turman: members of this commission tonight we close the book on the commission in 2017. we are concluding our calendar for the year and we will be back on january 10th. it has been a challenging year, it has been a hard year. but we accomplished much and there is still a lot to do. let's work as productively together as we have been able to do in the past. i look forward to working with all of you in 2018.

2018 in one capacity or another. and i thank you for all of your time and attention to the commission and to the goal also of serving the people of the city and county of san francisco. >> i want to thank you and the commissioner for your leadership. it is a difficult year. we do what we have to do. i want to thank you for your hard work. and we hope you get well. >> thank the chief, too. all in favor of adjournment. aye. i will make a motion to adjourn. >> second. >> i vote no. i will go with the majority.

>> president turman: all in favor. any opposed. thank you. we will see you on january 10th.

good morning. this is a busy part of the block. we have lunch goers, construction so we will be efficient and as loud as we can so you can hear us. my name is debbie raffle the director of the department of environment. i want to thank you for coming out today to hear the announcement and share in the excitement about the next step towards a green and clean san francisco. three years ago i started as director of this department.

within the first few weeks, the issue of the closing every cycling centres came across my desk. i understood the importance of this issue as a priority for the city because i understood the value every cycling centres in meeting the city goals. the law that allowed us to have redemption, to have monetary value for the bottles and cans in our recycling stream was passed in 1989. we call it the bottle bill. if you were to look at any number of plastic containers today, you would see ca cash refund. california redemption refund value. that is because bottles and cans have a 5-cent or 1 10-cent

redemption value. they are worth something. there is a reason. it is important to have this redemption value even though san francisco has the best occur side collection in the nation. if we are doing such a good job of curb side why do we need recycling and redeems centres? the answer is two-fold. when you put a cash value on something that otherwise would be a waste stream, it is incentive for collection. all of a sudden there is a reason for people to look at the litter on the ground and say, what has value there? they will pick it up and collect it. having a cash value actually helps our litter problem. the second and more interesting goal and value of this kind of system is that the stream, the material that come into these redemption centres are very clean, they are high value.

the bottles and cans that come into the centres are helping the end use of the recycling market. we need to have high value clean materials to make the whole system function. it is good for collection and the recycling system as a whole. convenient, accessible places to bring bottles and cans are a key to have high value materials and keep our city green and clean. but if you look at what has happened over the last 30 years since the bottle bill passed, you see a startling statistic. san francisco is one of the lowest performers in the state when it comes to the number and convenience of these recycling and redemption centers.

the loss has been felt in neighborhoods and small businesses across our city. but the solution was not within our ability and our grasp. we have this 1989 law is so rigid and out-of-date that it is getting in the way of us finding solutions. for san francisco, we needed a legislative fix in order to fix the problem. it also turned out this legislative fix was no easy feat. it took someone within credible tenacity and determination and commitment to the issue to get this law passed over the finish line and signed by the governor. it took senator scott wiener who cares about this to see it over

the finish line. it took sb458 to give us the flexibility we need t get san francisco to solve the issue and create accessible and distributed opportunities for people to get rid of and redeem their recyclables. with that let us welcome and thank the leadership of senator scott. [applause.] >> thank you, debbie. i want to thank debbie for her incredible leadership at department of environment. she has done tremendous work. i am thrilled to take this step today to initiate the city's effort for a new innovative an prop to recycling redemption so people can bring in bottles and cans and get paid for the

bottles and cans, but we can do it in a way that doesn't just impact a few neighborhoods with large recycling centers and doesn't harm the small groceries that are harmed by accepting a large amount every cycling because of the closure of the centers. that is what sb458 is about. this is a statewide issue. land has become more valuable. it is harder and harder for the centers to make ends meet. the economics of change and we have seen a mass closing every cycling centers. 80% of the centers shut down in the last several decades. i learned from colleagues it is happening all over the state. i got involved four or five years ago when the recycling center on market street by church and market safe way

closed down. there were a lot of people happy it closed down because that center had created real challenges for the surrounding neighborhood, but there were a lot of people unhappy balls it was going -- because it was going to make it harder to find a place to bring in recycling if you are a low income senior, homeless person who is trying to get cash together to survive, people rely on the services. at the time i worked with the department of environment. we are going to start the mobile recycling program. we don't need an industrial recycling center we can travel around the city to take in recycling. we got down the path and realized it was a violation of state law. we needed to change the law to allow us to do it. i promised going to the state senate that i would pursue that

legislative fix. that is how sb45 came about. i introduced that and moved it through the legislator with unanimous strong support from democrats and republicans. we worked with environmental community and state offers and got it to governor brown and i want to sign governor brown for signing the bill into law. it is not easy to get changes to the bottle bill signed into law. there are so many different interests at stake and most bills die. we were thrilled to get it signed into law. i want to thank mayor lee for moving quickly to initiate the process to have mobile units to travel around the city on a fixed schedule so people have a calendar where they know where the mobile recycling unit is

going to be on a particular day and they can bring the recycling in so we can try out reverse vending machines where people insert recycling into the machine that pays them this redemption money. it will allow san francisco to do what we do best, which is innovate, try new forward looking approaches to old problems that is what this is about today. i want to thank everyone who made this a reality. thank you. [applause.] thanks. wonderful. yes, we are a city that innovates and it gets frustrating when the state says, no, use out-of-date technologies and ideas. i am thrilled to have this flexibility.

our next speaker truly understands the link between recycling and climate change. mayor lee has been advocating with us for three years on trying to get the state to allow san francisco to do what it does best, to find solutions that serve the environment, local business community, and our residents. it is his leadership and his advocacy that enables senator weaner to get to get sb458 signed. with that i would like to thank mayor lee and his staff and personally thank the mayor for his commitment and never giving up. mayor lee. [applause.] >> thank you everybody. i am here to ask senator weaner

to make nor promises. i know when he makes a promise it will get carried out. can i do that over christmas? >> sure >> i want to thank debbie and the department of environment. we have a department dedicated to something we care about that is the environment. not only in the city, but we are a waterfront city. our coastline, mountains, parks, we are trying to carryout this vision that i know governor jerry brown is articulating will be in a big way next september for the entire world. that is our commitment to our climate. the city is wonderful to work for, not only in the capacity of may or but alongside scott and the board of supervisors per visors that are 100% committed. we are the only city in the country with an 85% recycling done already with all of our

garbage. why not do better than that? why not be 100% recycling city? why can't we have a goal to set the standard for everyone. i am here with all of you today. every day hundreds of people wind up in front of this store because they want a great sandwich. they are patrons of ted's market. so am i. i am here like everybody else crowding the sidewalk to get one of the best sandwiches in the world. guess what? a great time is sent towards sorting plastics people are bringing in. they didn't want the $100 each day fine the state in 1989 thought was appropriate to innocent people to do the right thing. we need to do better than punish people or have their time doing recycling here when they could be making great sandwiches for all of us. we are here to also alleviate

stores liketed's and so many others struggling with the fact there are no longer these very large and sometimes nuisance-prone recycling centers. we haven't given up the commitment to recycle. we are not giving one inch. we are advancing the commitment by doing what the senator says, what we do. uses new ideas. don't let old laws constrain us, and this is why we work with the small business commission to make sure members know we are not ever giving up the environmental goals. we need better pathways, smart and innovative pathways. the idea of the mobility to pick up where people have traditionally spent time delivering the plastics is one thing. machines and technology help us

with a reverse machine to take it in and give you the cash that you need, particularly for those that are low income and on the margins, that is another great idea. i suspect there are at least several more ideas that pilot cities across this state will be able to have in order not to lessen the commitment, to increase the commitment. this is a city where i was the public works director and i had the silence of introducing the green and blue and black bin. i had a headache. look at today. we are reducing the black bin and increasing the blue bin in everybody's house and small businesses. to me, that is pretty exciting. i was in chicago last week at the invitation of may or raum manuel. 50 cities including the city of paris, the city of vancouver, the city of toronto, of

montreal, mexico city were all there joined by 50 other u.s. cities. why? because north america needs to do better on the climate change. we are coming together as city mayors to help each other. when i announced we were 85%, gosh, we got standing ovations among the other mayors. they want to do the same thing. they are committed to having a planet where all of us have these wonderful opportunities to be government leaders and the obligation to lead this planet and regions better than day one of representing them. all of these mayor and especially the mayor of paris because of paris accords are coming to san francisco next september when we host governor brown's climate summit for the entire world. we are going to create leadership right here atted's

with the smallest of businesses. we represent that all to the rest of the city because it is a city that still knows how. we are a city where leaders make promises and carry them all the way out even if they go to sacramento and we reunite everybody in doing it. i love this about the city. i will continue to pick up the trash knowing everybody else will do the same but we have smarter ways to recycle everything we touch. let us continue to make the commitment we have made to the next generation. we will lead this city and this planet in better condition than when we first became obligated to serve it. thank you. [applause.] wow. yes, indeed. that is our challenge to leave this planet and this city in a

better shape. that is open of our responsibilities. it takes political leadership to make things happen. it takes advocacy from the community. mayor lee and our department have been working for three years with a large supermarket to have them come together to troubleshoot and find a solution to move forward, and i am so pleased to say that with sb458 and the pilot program those supermarkets are still at the table and we are going to work together to find the innovative solutions to create joint accountability of the large markets working together to find solutions. the department is working very hard with the smaller businesses, with the small beverage dealers, grocers, "ted's" delis impacted by this

out-of-date law. as the mayor said, the way the law was designed in 1989, small businesses have two choices. if there is no supermarket around them taking back the beverage containers, then they have the choice of either taking back the beverage containers and giving people money or paying $100 each day to the state of california. that is $36,000 each year thatted's deli would have to give to the state to not collect the beverage containers and give out that money. i would predict that $36,000 would put a huge dent in the profit margin of any small business in san francisco. frankly, it is a silly way for them to spend money and resources and time. we must find a comprehensive solution that addresses the

quality of life issues, that addresses the needs of small businesses and addresses the needs of people who depend on this revenue they get from collecting litter, from collecting and redeeming these materials. we are lucky to have such strong advocates in our small business world. i want to call out regina from the office of small business. thank you for your leadership. she is a tire less advocate. the city's small business commission and council of district merchants. they are at the table with the mayor and at the table with the department trying to find solutions every day. i want to welcome our time speaker which is the commissioner who is on our small business commission. she has worked tirelessly on this issue for days, months,

years leading up to sb-458. i know she is going to continue to work with us until we get our pilot in place and make sure that we have a solution that serves her constituents and all of san francisco. [applause.] >> hello. thank you. i am miriam. i am third generation and the american grocery association represents 400 businesses in the city and on the small business commission. i would like to say the corner store is facing extension. redone dent means which we pay for public health and environmental codes are rarely assessed. we must start asking if the laws

are applied to big line resourcers. how do immigrant owned businesses not scapegoated for the larger picture changes. i would also like to say a thank you to senator weaner. we hope this alleviates a huge burdep. the next state is to hold the state accountable forgiving the giant invoices the stores are receiving and working to collect and on a local level coming up with work force programming that can alleviate these burdens we pay for not just collection of cans and bottles but other types of public health and environmental collection fees. there is a lot of opportunity for work force building as opposed to more responsibilities to small businesses. i look forward to work on that.

thank you. [applause.] >> in closing i want to thank senator weaner, mayor lee, my staff at the department of environment, kevin drew. i want to thank the commissioner and "ted"s deli and itch vityou all to get a sandwich. i want to call tom wright who is helping us work with the supermarkets. let us all thank the construction workers for their patience in allowing us to have this event while they are waiting to get back to work. with that, thank you all for coming. i look forward to seeing what is possible and what we can do in san francisco. thank you. [applause.]

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>> we are now back in open session. the time is 12:11. item 12, report on any action taken in closed session as specified? california government code section 54957.1(a) and san francisco administrative code section 12.1 b. >> well, in consultation with our city attorney, the commission has accepted the recommendation to settle on the existing litigation of duckett versus city and county of san francisco. it was a unanimous decision. >>