from fossil fuel screens specifically. again, in my personal opinion i'd re-it -- reiterate if you look at the body of evidence it reaches the same conclusion.itee body of evidence it reaches the same conclusion. >> jed holtzman, 350 bay area. >> thank you very much. president bermejo and commissioners. my name is jed holtzman. i'm a senior policy analyst for 350 bay area working on several projects in the nine county bay area to try to keep greenhouse gases in the ground. i'd like to thank commissioner ahn and hoyos for this measure. debbie, the commission, putting this in front of you all and

victor makras with whom we'd be nowhere. when the board of supervisors passed this fossil free sf was born. and it was born as me going alone to the retirement board and getting glared at. luckily things changed shortly thereafter and it's only continued to grow and grow and grow. as you've heard the retirement board has been recalcitrant to say the least. so i want to thank you supervisor avalos and peskin and the staff of the offices for getting us to this point. i don't really have anything to say besides this is an exceptionally common sense measure. we need to put the city's money where its mouth is and i guess

to lee hepner's point in terms of specifying the motion i want to provide an example of the retirement board and the commitments they make and the follow through. so one of the milestones was to divest from coal as a good first step. they have been forced to do that by the legislature. so they took a vote, i believe december 2015 to divest from coal. staff would come back with an implementation plan and at the time the recommendation was to divest from less from 1% of their coal hold. not 1% of the total fossil fuel but the think they said they'd divest, less than 1% is what

eventually put in front of the board and passed and i don't think the divestments have been booked by the managers so we give them time in a way that it won't negatively impact the funds beneficiaries. this is par for the course. and your input and voice is appreciated. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you. >> commissioner: mr. holtzman, a quick question, actually, and thank you for your long-standing advocacy on the issue it's been noticed and appreciated in the bay area. i was hoping you'd be able to -- and if you don't know the answer, that's fine but in the most recent board of supervisors resolution, do you know if that

specifies full divestment in an x amount of years or number of years. i'm hoping to get at the question by mr. helpner. >> the original motion in 2013 gave the five-year time line which was kind of the judicious and conservative time frame that was being used by divestment campaigns and five years was adopted by the new york city and state fund which dwarfed san francisco's holding. the most recent measure harkens back to the original measure. basically calls forth that these things have not taken place and that in fact these worsening circumstances have been added to the where-ass and focuses them

on reporting where they are on the original effort and to provide progress reports with respect to the engagement on fossil fuels and the votes they have taken. but the most recent measure does not provide a time certain by which they must divest i think with the full understanding that their first measure did not have that effect. >> commissioner: thank you. >> maggie thomas, next gen america. >> good evening. thank you very much for having all of us here today. my name is maggie thomas. i'm here today on behalf of next gen america. a national political

organization dedicated addressing climate change. i'm here to speak in support of the resolution you have in front of you. this week the san francisco pension board has an important opportunity to lead and uphold its fiduciary responsibility to san franciscans by committing to divest from fossil fuels. last week new york city made the decision to divest its pension. if they can do it, we can too. divestment is not only the moral thing to do but the right financial decision. next gen founder was an investor and wrote, quote, divestment is the only fiscally responsible decision > > tying the future to the dirty industry that will wreak destruction on our shores. it would cost san francisco employees a lot of money in the long run.

climate change is already here. the sea level is expect to the rise by several feet submerging sections of our city. no amount of financial skepticism could justify putting neighbors at risk and fossil fuel investments is a bad bet. coal, oil and natural gas are shrink because their products are being rendered obsolete. with wind and solar the trend will continue. climate change is the greatest challenge of our life time but also one of our greatest economic opportunities. in 2015 investigators who dumped fuel stocks earned more. today 830 public and private institutions have divested. it's time for the san francisco pension fund to add its name to

the list. i urge the commission to support this resolution. thank you. >> commissioner: next. >> i just moved back from new york city so i'm hoping to bring some of that good divestment energy here with me. and being back in california, where i grew up, i'm reminded to me this is the most beautiful place on earth and threatened by climate change and that got personal to me because i was born in the sonoma valley and never expected wildfires to take place but we know san francisco has been a leader on the issue. the commission here i'm honored to be with tonight but the bar has been raised by mayor bill de blasio. i'm proud to be speak inning

support of your resolution and the vote tomorrow. and this is truly a global phenomenon. i was glad to hear david mention the $5 trillion number but we're actually over $6 trillion at this point. political winds are make more difficult to visualize a long-term future for coal, oil and gas. the fourth largest pension system in the u.s. has done their due diligence and found divestment is the prudent and responsible thing to do and richmond and los angeles suing oil and gas for climate impacts the investment risk of the companies continues to compound. i understand one of the strongest arguments being made is an argument about engagement rather than divestment and we're familiar with this argument so i want to address that directly. let me be clear, you cannot engage over a protracted period of time and protect workers'

pensions. it is not in the spirit of a fiduciary or ethical obligation. it's the worst performing sector over the last five years. abysmally so at the level of treasuries. this is not going to come back because of everything we heard tonight about the inef -- inevitability of sector. trump's administration may be doing everything in its power to dismantle health and safety resolutions among other things but there's on opposite reaction at play and that's the role of local government which will be highlighted here in san francisco this september with the global climate action summit. it's a perfect opportunity to show the level of leadership and

end by saying san francisco, technology capital of the world and there's a letter i want to present in support of the vote. >> commissioner: reverend bringham. from the episcopal diocese of california. >> i've been in those seats and know how long the meetings can go and i'll be very brief. i'm the founder of california interfaith power and light. we have 700 congregations in california and you know all the reasons we need to divest whether it's focussing on climate change or air pollution or the poor people suffer the

most. those reasons are all quite evident and you all already know them. but what you may not know is the episcopal diocese of california has divested as well. we have 400 clergy in the diocese of california and it was a struggle because the retiring clergy depend on their pension. they haven't made a lot of money over these years of being clergy and it wasn't an easy thing to get that resolution passed but we were able -- because we brought in a the woman's name is nancy found from double bottom line and was able to show how it's physically possible and beneficial to divest and get into green technologies and renewable energy. and we have the ability of

clergy to talk about the moral and right thing do and that message needs to get to the board to get the resolution passed and get california on the right track. thank you. >> commissioner: is there any other public comment? >> good evening. my name is dale ratford and i'm a law student at uc hastings i have a memo where the board will violate its fiduciary duties as professors whose law school

affiliations are for identification purpose only. investment firm avoids the risk of financial loss when they become stranded assets. as a large asset holder, the international investment bank, barclays, projects the oil industry is poised to lose more than $22 million in revenue. the coal industry to lose $5.8 trillion and the gas industry to lose $5.5 trillion over the next 20 years. additionally, studies have shown screening fossil feed portfolios is financially feasible and a number of organizations have divest from fossil fuels and performed above the market average. therefore the financially responsible action is to divest now. second, divesting will not reach a fiduciary duty. it requires each member act with care, skill and caution a board

member would exercise. divesting is the financially sound decision to make and the principles for responsible investing, this board approved in 2017 supported divesting it. requires the board members consider the detrimental impact fossil fuels will have on climate change which is already impacting our environment. therefore, a prudent board members would consider the environmental, social and financial harms associated with fossil fuels and support the investment. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you. if there is no other public comment is there a motion to approve the resolution urging the san francisco retirement board to divest from fossil fuel companies? >> >> commissioner: colleagues i do want to take a moment and consider the language proposed

by supervisor peskin's office? >> we'll have a motion, a second and then discussion. we need a motion -- are you making the motion. >> i'm moving. >> second. >> commissioner: seconded by commissioner hoyos. discussion. >> i would like to consider the amendment language in two parts. the first part being beginning and i can circulate another copy here beginning with immediate divestment of assets that have issued negative returns for -- >> commissioner, if you can say the page and line number. >> yes. that would be page 5, line 12. so i believe the insertion point would be from fossil fuel companies and full divestment from fossil fuel companies and the inversion point goes in after that to try to define what full and expeditious is. so in two parts to consider,

beginning with immediate divestment of assets with negative returns five or more years and full divestment in x amount of years which was not provided but i'm hoping we can have a discussion and figure out whether to include that language or not. >> so did you want to consider them as two separate amendments or consider it as one? >> i'd consider it as two spr d spratd -- separate amendments. beginning with immediate divestment of assets with negative returns for five or more years and full divestment in x years. sorry, that's the second. we're starting discussion on the first one.

to offer my thoughts on what we've seen as far as back as commissioner hochschild's presentation on the of the market, i'm comfortable with the first amendment but i welcome your thoughts. >> commissioner hoyos. >> i want to state my agreement with that position. >> commissioner: so i move then to accept this first amendment into the resolution. >> second. >> commissioner: moved by commissioner ahn to accept the amendment and seconded by commissioner hoyos. all officer favor? any opposition? abstention? the motion carries. >> and the second amendment is

full divestment in x years based on public comment i'm still not sure what the time line is. i expect part will be explained in full detail at the retirement board meeting tomorrow. as of now, i'm not quite sure if we can move this particular amendment forward without being able to define the number of years unless my colleagues think otherwise. >> i have a concern if we put this forward i think it was 20% of the fund there will be a sense of it left hanging out there that we ask for the immediacy on this part but the rest we're comfortable letting

it go forward. i don't know if that's how it'd go down and don't feel well enough informed but i wanted to put that out there. >> commissioner: commissioner, i thought i heard five years. was i mistaken. >> i believe it was the first board resolution. >> commissioner: could we discuss the viability from your perspective commissioner makras are we allowed to invite him to do that. >> commissioner: commissioner makras. >> sure, we can talk about it

again i'm here on my individual capacity. >> and we thank you. >> the last resolution asked for 180 days and i believe that's aggressive. but appropriate. 20% of the holdings have never given us return to $100 million is basically sitting there at a negative for five-years plus but if you were to approach it in a broader sense from what i hear there's lots of people that have comfort of three year term is something that many people have shared with me would give staff lots of latitude to prudently sell them over a three-year period. >> commissioner: commissioner wald.

>> again, i have zero minus negative in the expertise on the time period but i want to second commissioner stephenson's comment and note when supreme court issued a decision in brown vs. board of education they told the states to desegregate with deliberate speed. and i am at least old enough to understand that took an extraordinarily long and unnecessary long time period and indeed we haven't achieved it now. we would be well serve having a deadline. by having something in this resolution which i think is really a terrific resolution. i comment you both on it that said do it by now or else.

and the ore else is implied. >> keep in mind it's stocks. it's not something you're going out and lock for a buyer for. these are stocks. you plug it into a computer and say sell and no one knows who's selling it. we can look up each stock and see the volume of each symptom each -- each stock every day and when they say prudently sell off if the buy/sells are 10,000 you're not putting 10% up because it may change the needle and you choose what you're going to sell or buy not to tip off your hand. my best guest is i don't think the companies would move the needle in any significant way if

they were sold over a six-month period. >> i have heard three years and i've received clarification that five years was also mentioned by supervisor peskin's office. what does this commission feel comfortable with? >> commissioner hoyos. >> commissioner: i'm moved by the fact that commissioner makras said 180 days is viable as a person who's been working on this quite a while. i understand you put three years out there and i believe it

motioned to perhaps two to three years. i think -- i agree an ambitious time line is important. i'm curious, we can have dialogue. perhaps it's a question for debbie, if it's okay to seek your opinion here. i want to be on the 180 side of things and feel the advocates would be in support of that. i also know we had a sense of where acting mayor was this morning reed and -- do we know when the transition happens to the new acting mayor? i understood the acting mayor

was perhaps going to make a position public tomorrow. i'm wondering about the implications. if we're bold as commissioner hochschild urges to do and say 180 days my sense is this is a non-binding resolution. it could be the most aggressive desire expressed to the pension board. so is there a down side? >> commissioner: i'd say every decision you make is where your instinct and comfort zone is in terms of your level of knowledge and ambition. that's is up to you to weigh those two things together and make what you would say is the

most informed vote you can and not worry about the other. >> then i'd be inclined i don't know if i can move or how it goes but if it's protocol-wise appropriate to make a motion, i certainly feel comfortable in light of commissioner makras' expertise aligning our time line with the time line he's proposed. let's have more discussion, i think. >> commissioner: so the choice is 180 days, three years and five years? >> if there's an outer limit you should already use the outer limit. >> commissioner: speak into the mic, please. >> commissioner: i think if

there's an outer limit you should use the outer limit. we are trying to define the phrase in resolution that says as expeditiously as possible or something like that. i don't think we shut say two to three. i think we should say it personally. i don't know how i feel about 180 days though. >> do we have more questions about 180 days given we have a commissioner here who's been working on this several years? if there's still discomfort among us are there keeper questions you might pose? >> commissioner: the only question is how do you think you're colleagues would feel if the environment commission came in and said we think you should do 180 days.

>> that's the flip side. >> and once again i'm here on my own time. >> i understand that. >> urgings from the board of supervisors has gone to deaf ears. >> i do believe any resolution with a defined date say better resolution. >> >> if commissioner hoyos makes that motion i'll second it. >> commissioner: please make the motion. >> i believe the motion do you want to let go of your motion? thank you.

>> commissioner: so for the second portion of the originally proposed language is from the immediate assets of issued and negative returns of five or more years -- so we already voted on that and then and full divestment within 180 days. i move we amend the current resolution to add the following language "in full divestment within 180 days." >> so moved and seconded by commissioner wald. all in favor. any opposed? any abstention? motion carries. [applause] >> commissioner: how to the resolution. -- now the resolution. >> i just want to commend all the people working so hard on

this issue and the activists in the community doing their very best and they're out every year to get it to the point it is now. >> amen. i second that too. >> commissioner: i move to approve the resolution with amended language in full. >> commissioner: moved by commissioner ahn. all in favor as amended. any opposed? motion carries. thank you very much. [applause] . there's a gentlemen from the energy commission said be bold. we'll continue to be bold. in that spirit. okay, now we move on to the next agenda item.

we go back to item 7. no, we're done. great. item 9. >> the clerk: the next item is item review and approval of the department of environment's fiscal year 2017-18 and 2018-19 budget with sponsors raphael and joseph sail em and the document ste draft department of environmental fiscal year 2018-19 and 2019-20 budget and for discussion and action. >> good evening, commissioners. >> sorry, me first. >> commissioners, this item has -- where's the pizza? >> on its way. >> commissioner: it's not here yet. >> commissioner: the most anticipated presentation.

president bermejo -- >> yes. take it. >> director raphael. >> thank you. as the operations committee knows they got a deep dive briefing on the budget and i want to thank the commissioners on the operations committee who put in the time -- the extra time as specially commissioner stephenson to understand where the budget is and where it needs to go. so tonight joe salem will be giving you the high level and explain where we are in the budget process which is at earl stages but it's an action item for you tonight. we all have to stay awake and alert and appreciate joe -- >> and still being thorough as possible. >> i'm joe salem. i'm the fiscal manager for the department of the environment. and tonight i'll be giving a

brief presentation on the fiscal 2018-2019 draft budget. a couple quick things before we get started here. first is this is a draft budget. as such it's going to change between now and the time we submit a balanced budget to the mayor's office february 21. the second thing is we're not going to be reviewing the physical 2019-2020 budget in this prepping. while we're mandated to submit a two-year budget it's difficult if not impossible to know at this point in the process what our grant funding will be for that outlying year. so we don't feel we can give an accurate assessment at this time. city's currently projecting $173 million deficit over the next two years.

as a result, the mayor's office is requiring general fund departments to reduce ongoing expenditures by 2.5% in fiscal year 2018-2019 with an addition amount for a total reduction of 5% over the next two fiscal years. while the department of the environment does not receive general fund support, we do face some potential impact as funds from departments are expected to see additional costs without additional funds in the way of work orders. for fiscal year 2018-19 the bucket is -- the budget is at $22.4 million. we're showing a revenue shortfall which is almost entirely relate to changes in

grants for electric vehicle initiatives and work orders for biodiversity. you can see here the revenue makeup for the next fiscal year is 51% impound, 38% grants and 10% other city departments. we also have a small amount of revenue from fees relate to the safe medicine disposal program. this slide shows the year over year changes in the budget from the current fiscal year to the next fiscal year. the budget is $23.9 billion and fiscal 2018-19 million is approximately $22.8 million. it constitutes a decrease of 4.6%. it is relate to anticipated completion of certain grants and the completion of a one-time energy program funding source. if we're looking at the revenue,

we can see here the grants category is decreasing significantly. again, this is due to some large electric vehicle grants that are completed and a one-time funding source from the current fiscal year that does not carry into fiscal '18-'19. we also see a significant increase to the services of other departments categories which is work orders from other city agency. this reflects new funding for projects mostly related to the electric vehicle initiatives. the increase in non-personnel service related to the fund from pg&e that drops in the next fiscal year. we also see an increase in materials and supplies which reflects an increase in carbon fund -- in anticipated carbon

fund revenue for direct carbon mitigation revenue in san francisco. lastly, we see the completion of a one-time pilot program we were working on the current fiscal year. so here's a list of the work orders we have with other city departments. the work orders are vital to the department funding and value the interdepartmental relationships we have through the years. apologize for not having the new airport work order ton this that was finalized after we submitted the document.

this shows staffing by program area. the total number is almost exactly level though they vary year after year from program to program. this is because staff allocations will change with the addition and completion of grants and changes in department work orders we have throughout the year. these are key dates for the budget process. the next upcoming date is the commission of the balanced budget to the mayor's office februa february 21. in may we'll update the commissioners on the balanced budget that was submit to the mayor's office. may will also mark the beginning of the board of supervisor's

budget hearings. historically the environment budget has been heard in the may group. it will be adopted may 31 and by august 27, we along with other city departments will submit a letter to the mayor's office submit a letter no supplemental funds are required that end the budget profs -- process for the year. we're still in the process of identifying revenue opportunities. as we discussed in detail with members of the operations committee, we'll be focussing on the areas and are confident to close the current gap by the time we submit the budget to the mayor's office on february 21.

and that actually concludes my presentation. i'm happy to take any questions you might have. >> commissioners, any questions before you go to public comment? commission stephenson? >> i don't have a question i'd just like to reiterate i've seen this budget process for a number of years now and there are shortfalls so the $460 million may see daunting but we've seen it before and there's a high degree of confidence we'll meet the shortfall though it may look scary on paper. >> thank you. >> commissioner: do we have public comment? >> may i have a motion to approve the fiscal 2017-2018

budget. moved by commissioner stephenson and second bid -- seconded by commissioner wald. all in favor. any opposed? any abstention? motion carries. item 10. >> the clerk: recess. >> no, i'm sorry. seriously you can't. i'm going to fall down. >> the clerk: we'll go to recess. >> commissioner: can we wait a few minutes. let's just do item 10 and we should get people some warning. we'll do item 10, anthony and then take a short break. >> the clerk: is the next item

is item 10, approval of resolution file 2018-02-coe approving funding for the san francisco carbon fund grants. documents resolution filed 2018-02-coe carbon fund grants and the speaker shawn rosenmoss the item is for discussion and action. >> commissioner: commissioner raphael. >> commissioner: thank you so much and thank you for sitting here a few more minutes. this is a very exciting moment for me to have the chance to share with you about our carbon fund and where some of the funding is going to in the future and to get your approval of it. so i will let sehaun take it frm here. >> commissioner: in 2009 the board of supervisors patched --

passed an ordinance that directed the san francisco committee on the environment to invest in projects funding using a 13% free on city air travel. furthermore, we can expand the fund and go out and get other companies and convention to invest in the carbon fund which is what we do. and so currently it's about $180,000 a year we're averaging in the carbon fund to invest in project mitigate and sequester carbon. the first project s are

community green projects over the years. i'm going to go over it quickly so you can see our tiny carbon fund site. the gas tank or biofuel tank. we added about 60 more sites and then more sites and here we are today with -- we've given out 717,000 projects -- $717,000, 19 project sites and used about 2,000 volunteers to implement those sites way more volunteers to maintain the sites and are still involved in the sites so i'm thinking just look at the reporting we're up to 10,000 volunteers that have come through and worked the various sites for the carbon fund. it's not a huge amount of money when you look at the city's budget and look at our budget but when you look at all these

people who are coming through now and working on carbon fund sites and getting a little bit of an understanding about climate and carbon sequestration because most the people -- particularly for the greening projects, they don't come in and say, wow, i want to sequester carbon i they say we want to plant a row of trees to deal with the particulate matter the freeway. it's a great story about intersectionality and when you address climate you can address other issues. so with this round of funding, we have five grants we will be giving out. the other thing you should know about the carbon fund, particularly the greening projects, the bulk of the funding has to go for capital. right so it has to go for trees or pavement removal or plants so a lot of the projects rely on volunteers. very small grassroots

organizations. hopefully they'll be able to talk with the projects but i want it give a hand to all the people who did the marathon meeting with us tonight. anyway, citizen field will be working on vernal heights and planting trees in the vernal cuts of vernal heights. friends of the urban forest will do sidewalk planting and literacy for environmental justice will row move -- remove pavement at candle stick point and $30,000 to renovate a garden site in bay view hunters point and the stairs near buena vista park and green stairs from the top of vernal heights down to the bus stop and alemany farmer's market and a part that needs to be grind and have

plants. if any of our potential grantees want to say something i hope you'll say something about your project. >> commissioner: potential grantees, come on up. >> i'm doug weldman with friends of the urban forest. thank you for proposing our project. 2,000 square feet of de paving and replanting and we have a partnership with the pomeroy center and adults mentally and physically challenged help us do tree care. it's the same concept with able gardeners and we're looking forward to having them participate in the project.

>> can i say we funded them three years ago and these able gardeners have been using our project to learn how to garden and now they'll be working with us. >> commissioner: thank you. >> i'm sophie constantino and thank you for having us. though it's long, you're my people. it's very cool. we've been work for three and four years on the vernal cut that has a dpw land and has been pretty much abandoned. it's kind of a dumping site. over the last four years through parks alliance we were able to receive our first 20 trees. so the carbon fund two years ago funded that and it's now expanding and we're such an excited group of volunteers who

live in the neighborhood and through the grant we'll be able to tell the story and plant more trees and keep the action going so thank you. >> i'm with the thomkins street beautification project near vernal we're there in the middle of the freeways. it's lovely. we don't have a lot of green open space. we're just above the alemany farmer's market. the it's become a blight on our neighborhood. it is a dumping ground for car thieves and package thieves. it's had homeless encampments and human waste and it's a nice

beautiful piece of property and we put flyers under people's doors and got to know each other and come together and developed a plan to build a beautiful garden there to tile the stairs in a pattern inspired by the stairs of peace in syria and we're really excite to give this lower-income, very diverse part of vernal heights a piece of beautiful green safe oasis. thank you to, shaun, for your support. we're quadrupling the amount of plants and hopefully we're contributing to carbon reduction. >> commissioner: thank you. >> i'm amber hasselgreen and what a delightful meeting to sit

through. what a pleasure. the project is ada stairway in buena vista park and there's a stairway on dpw land and on caltrans land. we'll be planting over 1,000 carbon sequestering plants in the sites and work with neighborhoods and enhancing biodiversity and excite to welcome the neighborhood into their park via community access pathway. so partially fund community challenge grant so super excite. thank you so much. >> commissioner: thank you, shawn and the folks that came to talk about their wonderful projects tonight. commissioners, any comment before we go to public comment? commissioner hoyos? >> i have a question for friends of the urban forest. when i look at the picture and

slides of this depaving, i've seen beautiful beautiful ones on harris on 23rd. one side looks like the photo -- >> it's up to the property owners. part of the proposal is those addresses in the 5 hurricane and -- 500 and 600 blocks but they have to agree. -- >> commissioner: could any group of neighbors -- >> we don't have funding except your fund. we have funding for different neighborhoods but nothing in the area. it's up to the private property and they maintain it so they need to sign a waiver saying

they'll care for it so that's key. >> commissioner: thank you. >> i want to say when you're in a neighborhood your view shifts when you see something that beautiful so thank you for your leadership. >> commissioner: commissioner stephenson. >> 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. congratulations. >> 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