>> commissioner: we have a soft tree and it's one of my favorite things so i thank you for going through four hours to tell us about your projects. it's amazing. >> commissioner: any public comment? hearing none a motion to approve the funding for the san francisco carbon fund grant. >> i move. >> commissioner: moved by commissioner wald and seconded by commissioner stephenson. all in favor. opposed? abstentions? motion carries. congratulations. now we'll take a short break. [meeting in recess]

>> commissioner: we'll be back in 15 minutes at 9:17. thank you. thank you.

>> all right. >> we are on item 11 directors report. anthony. >> we are resumeing from recess, the time is 9:17. the next item on the agenda is item 11 directors report. updates on the department of environmental administrative and operations relating to budget planning, strategic planning, clean air transportation, climate, energy, public outreach

and environmental justice and habitat restoration and zero waste and urban forestry. the speaker the plan explanatory this items for instruction. >> thank you, thank you. so i think that the packet -- excuse my brain. i need to wake it up. i think the material in your market are -- packet are self plan tory. there are wonder wonderful things to notice in there. i want to call your attention to two dates. one is this friday january 26th, where you are invited to join a briefing on how we are trying to accelerate and support the adoption of hydrogen fuel cells. you've got that in your e-mail. it's in the director's report. if you have further questions about that and would like to attend, let anthony know and he can get you more details. in february 7th, i want to call your attention to that in the evening. that is the green business

awards ceremony. it's going to be at calla -- academy. highly recommend you come. if you want to bring a child because you don't have daycare, bringing a child say great thing although it's an evening event, so it depends on energetic your kids are. i would say it's going to be a particularly special evening, because we very much expanded the green business program to try and bring in businesses who can't go all the way to full certification, but are interested in going part of the way. so we have a tiered system. this is the first year we will acknowledge. it's very, very exciting. john foley the director will be greeting us and telling us a little bit about what is going on at calla academy. they are a recipient of a special innovate era ward this year so they're proud of their accomplishments. and i will end my director's report with a little gift to the commission. which are our new bags that we

got that are made here in san francisco from recycled fabric. they are being given out as part of our zero waste outreach for the new bin designations and they're in multiple colors. so before you leave tonight, i would like to invite you to chose from one of the vibrant colors that have been selected. thank you. >> thank you, director. any questions commissioners? public comments. >> public comments. >> hearing none. we move on to the next item. >> the next item is item 12 on the press and vice president this is for discussion and action. >> ok. so, commissioners, the way that it works is we have control with the city attorney and so the way

it works is that we take nominations for commissioners to nominate other commissioners and nominate themselves for the office and then the person can say a few words. the nominee accepts or declines the nomination and then there's a discussion amongst the commission, public comment and a vote. we have to -- the commissioner has to vote on each individual nomination and we start with the office of the president. so we go in the order of where the positions are in the bylaws. so we start with the office of the president and move on to the office of vice president. >> commissioner walls. >> thank you. i would like -- i would like to

nominate commissioner for another term as the president of this commission. i do that for any number of reasons but they include her un failing good humor. particularly at very long meetings. her commitment to the department , herren enthusiasm learning everything a department does. all of the challenges that it faces and her willingness to get in there and try to solve or to advance ordeal with those challenges all the while maintaining her wonderful sense of humor. and because i think this is a job that takes well more than a year to master. i've been really impressed by

the degree to which she has mastered the jobs and the inns and outs of the department and the commission and the confidence she shows now in running meetings with lots of people in the room, compared to when she did it in the beginning i think that she's earned another year in this position. i think she deserves another year in in this commission. i think we will all benefit from having her as our president again. >> i am so humbled. >> we need a second. >> commissioner. >> do you accept the nomination? >> i do, yes. thank you. [laughter] gladly. >> i was surprised. thank you.

>> any further discussion? >> it would be wonderful to have you serve another year. >> thank you. >> commissioners at this late hour speak into the mics. we move slowly back. so, is there no further discussion, is there public comment on this item? seeing none, all those in favor of the -- i'm going to do a roll call. on the nomination of the commissioner as president commissioner bermaho. >> aye. >> commission commissioner waltz >> aye. >> oyoys. >> stevenson. >> aye. >> stevenson aye. >> the nomination passes. [applause] i'm very proud. thank you so much.

>> did you hear what she said? she has i love this place. >> and now commissioner stevenson. we are on the next nomination, ok. >> so as she always does, commissioner waltz takes all the good words and makes them sound perfect. which is part of why i would like to nominate her to continue as our vice president of the commission. i think that her lifelong commitment and this category, her devotion to this commission for how many years now? >> um teen. >> a lot. [laughter] >> has just done nothing but benefit this city day in and day out. even though she will always steel the beautiful articulate way of saying things, i would like her to continue on as our vice president. >> thank you. >> i would like to accept. >> ok. is there any discussion? >> second. >> discussion or second. >> i'd like to second the motion

>> ok. >> is there any further discussion? >> seeing none. is there any public comment? >> seeing none. we will do roll call vote on the nomination of commissioner waltz for vice president. aye. >> waltz. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> commissioner stevenson. >> yes. >> commissioner juan is excused. nomination carries. [applause] congratulations. >> could i just say something. i want to thank you all. and i also just want to say that i know, this is a very unusual time. we're all in it together. and we'll see as we march forward with our new mayor and what will happen in six months, i think that the things that i know i want to focus on is the

future of the commission and making sure that everybody in san francisco knows the great work that we do here and how we reach out to so many communities and we don't leave anyone behind i think that's the best of san francisco. and i look forward to continuing with all of you. so thank you very much. [applause] >> i just want to say ditto for me. >> ok. >> thank you. i see no further discussion. we will now move onto the next item which is item 13. highlights of the january 17th, 2018 operations committee meeting and the december 11th, 2017 and january 8th, 2018 policy committee meetings. >> ok. so we had a meeting last week, most of which you got the highlights today. we did a big dive into the

budget and we got to talk about short falls, funding and we went through department area by area and saw how the funding was working there. we did our homework. i'm glad we passed everything today. we had a great presentation on help me remember the name of th. a presentation but the name of the -- >> the equity initiative is a cross departmental initiative in the city to make sure all of our communities are being considered with all of the different deficient we're making as a department. so what i loved was that they now every initiative we undertake as a department there are questions that we have to ask and the questions are things like who does it serve? what are we not thinking about? making sure that the equity lens over lays everything so we don't have environmental justice program that is mostly thinking about environmental justice but that everything we do as a

department has a justice lens over laid. the several of the staff have been trained in it and the training will be on going over the next year and it's actually happening across the city and all the departments, that was very exciting to see that. >> thank you. at our december 11th meeting the policy committee heard a presentation on the programs or the movement towards use of renewable fuels and by city agencies in addition to hearing from the department. we heard from the sustainability with the support of san francisco and san francisco international airport discussing their various contributions to december. we also had a presentation by the citizens climate lobby

regarding a proposed carbon feet and dividends, it's bipartisan support in congress this issue is going to come before the commission shortly. and then just earlier this month on january 8th, we received an update from chris giger and his colleagues regarding the department's december hearing on the implementation of the 2017 reduced risk pesticide list and we received the first version of the 2018 pesticide list. we reviewed a document that summarized the issues raised in public comments to date as well as the department's responses and we heard from chris that

there has been a 95% reduction in the use of the most hazardous herbicides within city limits. we also began a discussion of the new restrictions under the reduced risk pesticide list and those of you who had been here before, but not you, know that this will come before us as well but not until may, right. >> july. >> ok. >> we have some work to do. it will be a few months before we actually are finished with the recommendations for you to take action on. >> questions for the committee report? >> thank you for all the hard work. >> i had a question regarding when the c.c.l. carbon fee and

dividend issue will come before the full commission. do you know when? >> i think in march. >> march should be the earlyest. this commission meeting had been full and the february meeting was full so march would be the earliest. >> ok. >> i can't make a comment about it can be? >> why not? >> i just think it's interesting i think we need like it's a policy committee meeting it was one of those passive presentations where you hear what they have to say. i just do know that car been feet and dividend is taking the carbon revenues giving them to the general public like done in alaska around fossil fuels. there's other groups out there including the 350s of the world and a lot of groups that don't think it's the best use of the money. i am a little reluctant to -- we can have that discussion that's

the protocol but i love the opportunity to engage it more before we have to take a vote. i don't know what the process or path pathway is. i don't feel like we got asked at the policy committee meeting or did we have a chance to invite other people who feel differently. they're smart, committed, aggressive, they got on our agenda. plus it already passed here a while ago, which is also interesting. >> sure. in this conversation it would be kind of a recaping of the conversation that was had in the committee meeting. the conversation of the merits of whether or not the action item should come before the commission would be a conversation for new business. >> which is later. >> which is next. >> rafael. >> i agree with you commissioner at the end of the policy committee meeting the policy committee did not affirmly act. he was hoping you would but you did not.

i feel like there's room here to talk about whether a resolution would come forward and what it would say. we have not started crafting anything. so if we would like to, we could revisit perhaps at the next policy committee meeting. to have a discussion. >> i'd like to do that. there's a lot of ways to invest carbon revenues and lots of wayt interrogate the other ways and a lot of those ways are ways environmental justice allies prefer. which is investment into low income communities and those kinds of things. >> and there are other environmental groups have other ideas. >> new energy. >> i'm going to interrupt the conversation. this has to be just a recap of the conversation that had happened in the committee meeting. again, if we want to have a discussion about the merits of whether or not this discussion should continue at the commission that would be for new

business. >> which is next. >> which is next. >> any public comments. or any other comments? or next item. >> seeing no public comments seeing no further discussion, we'll move onto the next item. the next item is announcements. this item is for discussion. >> all right. >> meeting tomorrow. we'll meet tomorrow and what is the address? the retirement. >> market. >> into the microphone. >> ok, yes. >> let me pull out my calender.

>> i believe it's 1145 market street on the sixth floor. >> ok. thank you. >> seeing no further discussion an announcements, seeing no public comments. we move onto the next item, item 15 new business agenda items. the speaker is anthony val december this is for discussion and possible action. excuse me. commissioners, the next meeting of the commission will be a special meeting on wednesday february 21st at 2:00 p.m. and we are having it at the port of san francisco offices bay side conference room peer pier 1 we've had a flurry of meeting here at city hall so the department has decided the offer the opportunity to take the meeting out into the community into one of the city facilities there at the beautiful offices there at the port of san

francisco. so at the commission's request the department is doing a deeper dive into the information that was received at the community meetings. so, the outreach team will present more of the data received during the community meetings. the commission will also be considering the annual report, the commission on the environment annual report, followed by a discussion with the city attorney also at the commissioners about meeting laws so if there are any -- i'm sorry >> meeting laws. the brown act and sunshine act rules surrounding meetings. so if any of you have any questions, please submit them to me so the city attorney can prepare. you may also ask questions at the meeting but just in case there's any particular issues that you would like covered, please let us know.

and the commission is also planning on having its regular meeting in march. right now the date is march 27th , 2018. but we are in the process of polling commissioners to find a date because there's a conflict with that date. so just a heads-up we will look to change that date as well. thank you. >> so this is new business. so to pick up where i left off. i think i just want to be clear that i feel like we need to investigate, interrogate if you will, examine, other carbon

investment pathways before inviting one where there's just a very active and engage organization pushing for it. city resolutions and commission resolutions are part of the strategy so they sought us out. i don't think that's a valid reason to invite them to present it here without looking at other investment pathway through revenue and considering the constituency. i am not saying i oppose it but groups and other environmental groups have other investment ideas about how to use carbon revenues. in the state of california has been a leader in an equity based investment strategy and it's distinct from what citizens lobby is proposing. having said that, they do really good work around around the bipartisan solution caucus and other exciting things but i didn't feel like we can leap frog from the policy committee

meeting from this meeting without a broader examination of other policies. or whether we want to take action on that. i think it's just something we have to realize that they were pushing an agenda and we have to discuss what our vision is. >> comments? >> new business. >> can i have a clarification question. i understand just, i thought that they said that the supervisors several years ago, had supported a resolution in support of the end dividend. is that correct? in which case, it might already be on the books and i don't know why we would need to renew that commitment. >> that is my recollection too. i do agree the chair of the committee can decide whether or not to calender this item at all for discussion or to go deeper and that will be something that

we can discuss at the policy committee under new business as well. >> ok. >> think about it so that you have a view. >> my view is that i definitely would want to invite other groups up to the plate. >> i understand that. i just meant whether or not you have a view on whether or not we should do this. because it doesn't make any sense why think. to begin this process if at the end, you are going to feel that it isn't worth it for us to do it. >> i don't think it's a high priority. especially if we can get the question answered about whether there's already action on the books a few years ago in which case it doesn't seem like the best use of our time, i feel like we can discuss this at the policy committee meeting but there's a lot of other things where we are moving the ball or where are we on the waste questions we've come up with or

just a lot of things. >> so could we ask you director rafael to at least find out the answer to that. >> certainly. >> and would it be possible for you to e-mail me and lisa and maybe we will not write that. >> i will let anthony know and he will figure out how the best way to get the information out. >> with the answer to that question. has the city already gone on record on that matter. >> yes, we will find that out. >> thank you. >> any other items under new business? future agenda items? any public comment? >> all right. >> ok. >> i know we're late. i guess one question i have is about -- i guess in the state of play around where we are in zero

waste, not for something that has to come up right away, i know it's an issue that comes up with the policy committee first. it's an issue that continues to be vexing and there's been technological upgrades and good things that are happening and at the same time, there's still issues and so i'd love an update there. at some point in some venue that makes sense. >> our plan is to actually do a fairly deeper dive on the zero waste plan and what kind of metrics makes sense and get the commission guidance on that. we haven't determined how best to do that yet. is it the policy committee first and the full commission or is it some separate meeting we're trying to workout right now with the best way is to first frame the questions and the problem statement and figure out how to engage the commission. but you are absolutely right. it's time this year in 2018 is the time to really look into

zero waste policy. >> it would be good to take up our climate summit, how we are going to engage around that. i know that jennifer was dealing with the mayor's office on it. but it might be nice to take that up in mayor something so it's a few months out. >> i've asked you about that before. and there was still a lot of things that were up in the air but maybe by may. >> i wasn't trying to -- >> no, no, no. >> why think that maybe not the next one or the one after that i don't know the right time but i'd love an update on green purchasing now that we have the new technology system in place and we're supposed to be able to track that appropriately now. so i'd love to know how that's going.

>> see no further discussion. and seeing no public comments. we will now move on to item 16, adjournment, the time is 9:46p. m. thank you, everyone.

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low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they don't feel well-supported at work. >> we started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. but this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. >> with the newcome -- accommodations, moms should have those to return back to work. >> what are legislation? >> we wanted to make it applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. >> do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. >> i would love to. let's go. >> this is such an inviting

space. what makes this a lactation room? >> as legislation requires it has the minimum standards, a seat, a surface to place your breast on, a clean space that doesn't have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. and we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. the things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. and the sink is in the room. our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but it's all right in here. you can wash your pump and put your milk away and you don't have to put it in a fridge that you share with co-workers. >> the new standards will be applied to all businesses and places of employment in san francisco. but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city? >> i think small businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway

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>> good afternoon, everybody.