reach out to the green lighting institute, and we weren't able to coordinate for them to come to this meeting, but they would be happy to come if the commission decided to continue this item for further exploration, they would be happy to come and present on these recommendations at the next meeting in may, and we have a call scheduled for this week to explore also, have there been kind of updates to this report or their work around nonprofit community -- nonproperty hospital community developments. and the department of public health has also, you know, said that they would be willing to come and speak kind of more on the -- the health -- the needs assessment in particular. and the other option is the commission could also direct staff to reach out to nonprofit hospitals directly and ask them to come and present on community -- on their community benefit plans, which they may or may not decide to come, but it's another kind of -- if

there isn't actually regulatory power at a local level, there is some pressure that could be exerted, you know, in knowing that a body like lafco has on this issue. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. any questions for chelsea? yeah, commissioner pollock. >> commissioner pollock: thank you so much. it's exciting and also disappointing that you may have a little control over this. i would -- commissioner ronen was shaking her head, saying no, we wouldn't like them to come because i don't think the information they would provide would be helpful, it would just be a pr campaign. that's fine that they just send it in writing. i think it's something that i would like staff to look into. i see some -- i haven't read the green lighting report in

detail, but i could see some things where hospitals to really provide benefits, beds for homeless residents, safe injection sites, there are things that if they were really providing the types of, you know, hard hitting needs of the communities that surround these institutions, these hospitals, then we would see more than just some basic advertising and public health geared programs which might be helpful but are they really addressing community needs, so i think it would be interesting to see really where -- where those missed opportunities are, and the gaps in the types of plans that they think will benefit the community and what community groups and organizations say that they

really need, where there's a shortfall in terms of money from the city. a good job, so i thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i just want to say we had a hearing on homelessness at the committee, and something as simple as having a nurse at the shelter, it makes a big difference. so i would vote -- let's open this up first to public comment. thank you, chelsea. any speakers, from the public? >> hello, again, commissioners. eric brooks, san francisco green party and local grassroots organization our city. so over the years, to some extent, my organizations have been involved in the cpmc fight, especially around the new hospital on vanness in my neighborhood, being built at the expense of a hospital in the mission, st. luke's.

i mean, i just kind of want to reinforce commissioner ronen's head shaking. it's just -- these hospitals, especially cpmc, are just as voracious and evil as any corporation. their executives make millions of dollars in salaries. they are not going to help us, and that means that we need to take drastic action like literally having the board pass an ordinance that doesn't allow a hospital system like sutter or cpmc to build anything new anywhere in our community anymore until they start doing what we want. we also need to explore the idea of taxing these nonprofit hospitals if we can, and taxing and even if possible, taxing the executives that make millions of dollars running these quote unquote nonprofit hospitals, so that we can create our own health districts

in each neighborhood where there's not enough services and do something about the problems. and that just brings me to i think that one thing that this commission can do very specifically is to focus on the mission, where there's a crisis right now because of the st. luke's situation because cpmc is literally closing a critical facility for critical care and telling people that live in that community oh, it's okay. we're going to setup another facility somewhere else in the bay area, and you can just commute there to see your family. so -- >> supervisor fewer: thank you, mr. brooks. anymore public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. so colleagues, i understand that there's some interest to continue this item, direct staff to do some more research, perhaps have a speaker come from green lighting institute

to share some of the findings? am i hearing that? what do you think? >> supervisor ronen: honestly, i don't know that that would be the best use of our time -- limited time, again, having explored this pretty in depth. what i think might be useful, and especially when we have staff is directing that staff to maybe do that comparison report 'cause i think the only power we have is showing that, you know compared to one another and compared to their tax benefit, their, you know, charity care or you know, the amount of public benefits that they provide pales in comparison to each other or the amount of savings that they have. i have not found, studying this extensively anything else that we can do at the local level. we have a health care master -- health care services master plan already that talks about

community health needs and then, you know, if there's any hospital that seeks to expand or build in the future, they have to show that they're meeting the community needs in order to get the land use permits. so i feel like we've really kind of pushed the boundaries over our local control on this issue. but what we haven't done, as far as i know is this comparison study in one very clear way and place and that we could utilize and that advocates can utilize in order to highlight the savings that these hospitals are getting and what they're giving in turn and then compared to one another. so that would be my suggestion for moving forward. >> supervisor fewer: commissioner pollock, did you want to speak? >> commissioner pollock: thank you. and i appreciate commissioner ronen's experience on the issue and just sort of what's tied to it. thinking also of what miss

stricker said in terms of what's tide -- tied to the state regulatory agencies versus the local agencies is something i would be interested in. sort of opening it up to other places in the state and who has been able to push the boundaries on that. and i get that we don't have a lot of power over these areas, but i think that one power that we have on lafco is transparency, and it seems like this is an issue that they can just sort of sweep under the rug and no one is opening it up for public comment. and so i would zbree thagree t would love to see the report that you mentioned, and let staff -- maybe just a deep dive into the issue, i'd like to wait until our executive officer comes board, and so i

wouldn't ask chelsea to do more work on this as she's already sort of created a preliminary framework that we could choose items to deeper dive. i don't know if we'll have any information available for the may meeting, so perhaps we could take this, direct staff, and then staff could bring it to us when there's more meat to it, and maybe that's just an update at the may meeting and know that things are going forward. >> supervisor fewer: commissioner singh? >> commissioner singh: i agree with commissioner ronen about you're the expert with the idea of a comparative study fill in the gaps. looking at this green lighting institute report, it's clear that some hospital systems are reported not just much at all, so the idea to get some sort of assessment of what they have been sending through the study to makeup for those gaps?

>> yeah. i mean, my idea -- so there's a state law that requires these reports for hospitals with nonprofit status, but the state regulatory agencies are not incredibly robust in terms of how they sort of analyze and measure the success of this law. so what -- the basis of comparison that we have at the local level is really one hospital to another? and, you know, i -- i happen to know that many nonprofit hospitals provide a lot more community benefits than others, that they're a lot easier to work with for the department of public health when there's a citywide need like emergency psych beds or the snf beds or the sub acute beds, all of these cry sees thises than oth.

and i've never seen numbers in how much these hospitals are saving because of their nonprofit status. they might exist, but i've just never seen them, so just having that as one clear study and document, it could be very powerful. >> one quick thing that is still relevant to this conversation that i didn't mention, in my conversation with ojpod, they did say they collect hospital financial data, but that has not been released publicly historically, but they are making plans and in the process of being able to upload that data, but it is able to be released to the public. so at the point we don't know how much hospitals are sachbing sachbing -- saving or spending, but that'll be available in the next month. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. so i'm hearing there's some

interesting in doing a study, but that perhaps we should start this after hiring the new executive, so my staff -- >> yes. through the chair, angela calvillo, interim administrative officer. while the bulk can be done by the new executive officer once that individual is hired by the commission, i can begin some preliminary work in terms of collecting the information of each hospital, finding who the right person is. i can also contact the hospital council to determine if they've done an unless of any kind since the last time you did that, commissioner ronen, so i'm happy to start that. >> supervisor fewer: okay. so should we make a motion to continue this to the call of the chair? >> moved. >> supervisor fewer: oh, great. >> a friendly amendment, if i

could say not only continue to the call of the chair but to direct staff to begin that work. >> supervisor fewer: yes. great. so i've made the motion, made by commissioner fewer or was that by commissioner ronen? >> clerk: you made the motion and commissioner ronen seconded it. >> supervisor fewer: yes. great, and we can take that. thank you very much. now, madam clerk, can you please call item number six. [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer, members of the commission, angela calvillo, interim administrative officer. at the request of the commission i am here today just to present a brief update on the status of the lafco budget,

the expenditure status as of march 31, 2018. slide two, i have approximately -- well, i have four slides. slide two shows lafco's work order expenditure and balance with the public utilities commission and its related work. the current balance is 220,000. this work order is available to lafco through june 30, 2019, given the extension of the mou between our departments. slide three is the general fund balance. the appropriation expenditures and the year end balance for this carry forward, this slide now shows, the set aside for the reserve that's approximately 45,000 that is established through lafco policy, and the current available balance of this carry forward is 98,000. i will go over the detail of the fiscal year 2017 through

'18 expenditures in the next slide. slide four shows this general funds side of the ledger. lafco spent approximately 123,000 to date this year. at the last meeting, i reported the executive director's salary and benefits included for his separation payout was approximately 18,000. the last coclerk afco clerk an of the board administration staff, total cost is 31,000. total staff cost is 39,000. service costs to the department such as sfgov sv total 18,000. on the cca work order side, the only cost charged as of march 31st is approximately 2,000 for executive director salary and benefits prior to his separation and the marin clean energy refund for 2,000 for the incomplete portion of that study in 2015-16. so you can see the line items

that you are needing to create an estimate for for fiscal year -- the remaining 17-18 and 18-19. the estimated remaining balance at the year end for june 30, 2018 is going to be approximately $31,750, and this estimate assumes the cost of the contractor for the executive officer services for the month of may and june working 40 hours per week. for the 2018-19 budget, assuming the contractor works 40 hours per week throughout the year, approximately 136, 0 156,000. the other costs being the same this year, the office estimated that the lafco's total expenditures would be 273,000 for the next fiscal year. as i've mentioned to you previously in february , we

requested the statutory amount requested for lafco of 297,342 submitted as a place holder. now lafco would just need to determine if that assumed budget makes sense for them, and then, we -- we are pretty set on the board of supervisors budget to go through that budget process in june, and after i take direction from the commission today. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> sure. >> supervisor fewer: any questions at all? comments? i think commissioner pollock has a question, miss calvillo? >> commissioner pollock: miss calvillo, could i just have you represent again the estimated amount? you said 270,000? >> we are estimating if all costs remain the same, are

estimating 273,000 would be the total lafco expenditures for the next fiscal year if all costs remain the same. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. thank you very much. >> sure. >> supervisor fewer: so i presented commissioners with a -- copies of the current year budget that we approved last year. i believe that in june of 2017, we approved a budget of 297,242, and while reserving the right in future years to the full set amount, we held onto 192,000 for the current fiscal year, and rereturned the remaining amount to the city council. colleagues, is there a proposal on how to proceed? anyone? yes. commissioner pollock? >> commissioner pollock: thank you so much. i think in light of our administrative officer's report on a proposed -- or not a proposed, but rather the

estimated amount for fiscal year 2017 and 2018, i would move that we accept the -- accept our statutory limit of $297,342 with the estimate that we would be returning the balance of what is the mass is between 297,342 and 273,000 while reserving the right to the full amount in this fiscal year and in years to come. if that sounds good, and there are no amendments to that, i would move that to this commission. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. let's open it up to public comment first. are there any members of the public wishing to comment on this? seeing none, public comment is closed. so there's a motion on the

table. seconded by commissioner row know -- ronen, to take that without objection. madam clerk, can you please call item number seven. [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer, members of the commission, angela calvillo, interim administrative officer. i want to just make one comment, and that is while commissioner singh was being on boarded, i was able to reach out to former commissioner lindo just to touch base with him to let him know that he was no longer a commissioner and he has since filed the appropriate paperwork with the ethics commission. so that concludes my report. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. thank you very much. okay. are there any -- any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. no action needs to be taken by the commission on this matter.

madam clerk, can you please call item number eight. [agenda item read]. >> supervisor fewer: so at our last meeting and through our strategic planning process, we identified several issues that we'd like to work on. those include nonprofit hospital community benefits, cleanpowersf 2.0, affordable financing through a public municipal bank and an update on the mayor's broad band plan. the first we began to explore earlier today and will continue to work on. cleanpowersf 2.0 sounded like we may need a study to flush out what next steps to figure out what clean power may look like in san francisco. there is currently a public bank faesiblity task force meeting monthly to answer many questions through july of this year. i've reached out to my office and with regard to the board

band discussion, we plan to put that on the agenda for the may meeting. what are the priorities for directing staff once we have finished the hiring process, and colleagues, would you like to weigh in on the order of the priority of these items? >> we can open this up for public comment right now, and so we would like to hear from the public. >> good afternoon again, commissioners, eric brooks, san francisco green party, our city sf, and californians for energy choice. so there's a lot to go through in two minutes on this, but on broad band, when mayor farrell was commissioner or was supervisor farrell, there was a major public process and public outreach, and we were interacting collaboratively with that office, many of us,

to help move public broad band forward. that public process has come to a screeching halt, so i would encourage you to put the broad band on your agenda, because we've been promised we were going to be involved in the rfp process to start-up what company or companies is going to be contracted for this, and all of a sudden we're getting nowhere when we're requesting to meet and to have the public engaged. so that's pretty important. on the cleanpowersf, i mean, the mayor's office on this one, 2050 is far to along. we need to have a transition in san francisco to have a real transition. transportation is clearly outside of the purview of the puc, so we do need lafco to

work on a comprehensive transportation and energy plan for the city that includes where and how we're going to build battery storage, and all that jazz, and something else that tetratech was caught falsifying almost 100% of the radiation tests in the bayview-hunters point. they did similar tests on treasure island and yerba buena island, and my guess is that the upcoming hearing won't be comprehensive enough and it would be good for lafco to put this on its radar. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> and commissioners, jed holtzman for 350 bay area. i just wanted to put in a plug for the bay items, because this

has been trucking along for a couple of years. also wanted to mention that cca 3.0 is now a thing, which basically comprises advanced business models and community action between joint agencies. it's probably too late for any of the commissioners to attend, but i did want to let you know that there's community choice energy summit from the 24th to the 26th in la jolla. just to say that this is -- i can forward you this message so that you can see kind of what they're going to be covering, these are the kinds of things that we would love to increase

the capacity level of here, and i guess what i would point out by mentioning this summit is that it's -- it's no longer a super avant-garde thing that sf lafco would be pioneering. you're seeing southern california cca's using, so i really want to make sure that catch up and are ready so that when sfpuc rolls it full speed in the city, we are ready to go forward in terms of distributing energy instead of just starting it. thanks. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. so colleagues, would you like to have a discussion on this? commissioner pollock? >> commissioner pollock: thank you so much, and i'm so glad that mr. holtzman mentioned the community choice energy

summit. i know that the work that i do in terms of the public seat, that that along with the business of local energy simil symposium were two things i could do. i did speak with barbara hale of the puc, and she did mention she would be at the energy choice summit. hopefully she can communicate to us in the next meeting that we have some best practices that she gleaned from that panel. she said that she would be attending, so hopefully, she can. and then, its advocates that are attending could till in the gaps for us, that would be great for us to understand as we sort of look forward. in terms of our strategic plan, i feel uncomfortable choosing an order without having staff create a work plan and just -- and to make -- to advise the

commission on what our -- what our -- what's the possibility, how that we make sure that we're not duplicating work from other legislative bodies within the city, and then, just sort of put through a plan that goes through the fiscal year rather than a quick maybe we should work on this first quick look, and so i would just ask that we continue this item and, you know, not have it come up until -- maybe to the call of the chair when there is some work done on the item. but in the meantime, direct staff. >> supervisor fewer: so we don't need to take an action, actually, on this item, and so this was just for discussion. okay. thank you very much. thank you very much. so madam clerk, will you please call item number nine. [agenda item read]. >> supervisor fewer: i believe we have an update from mr.

wilson ing who's been staffing this records and project manager services. >> hi, commissioners. wilson ing. as you know an rfq was issued in december of 2017 to solicit executive officer services for lafco. this established a prequalification list of respondents which we issued in february and received no bid protests. on that list there were three respondents. this list was issued to all respondents and also publicly available on the office of contract administration's bid website -- bids and contracts website, and lafco may use this list at its discretion for selection and contract negotiation with any of the respondents. so last month at the direction of the chair, our office conducted panel interviews with all the prequalified respondents. from the interviews, the panel recommended the selection of mr. brian gobel based on his knowledge, skills and blt as in

accordance with lafco's required scope of services, and with your direction we'd like to move forward with the negotiation. as a reminder, this is a procurement of professional services and not a personnel appointment, and because we are still pending contract negotiations, specific details about the rfq interviews or deliberations are confidential until a contract has been awarded pursuant to chapter 67.24(a) of t 67.24 e of the administrative code. however we'll be glad to communicate with any of you commissioners offline so that you're apprised and engaged with the process. as for the next steps, with the direction of the chair in coordination with lafco legal counsel, we intend to proceed with contract negotiation, and once that is done, we can present a final draft contract to lafco for consideration and approval. hopefully by our next meeting or at the call of the chair. we anticipate the potential contract term to be about two years on an as needed basis with a not to exceed hourly

rate of $75 or budgetary purposes, the number of hours expended peryear will need to be determined during the negotiation process. our office is going to look forward to further direction by the chair and we're going to keep lafco apprised when we have the draft executive services contract in place, really for your further consideration. this concludes your update, and i'm available for any questions you may have. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any questions for mr. ing? seeing none, thank you very much. i first want to appreciate our work of our staff, counsel, and administration. thanks to all your work and patience. i would like to propose that we accept the recommendation of the panel considering the lengthy and thoughtful process that they have gone through with applicants.

mr. gobel as the top applicant appears to bring the skills and character necessary to bring lafco into the next phase. his experience with research analysis and policy and management of systems including budget management. i have confidence in his ability to move this body forward. now let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number nine? >> hello again, commissioners. eric brooxz, san francisco green party, our party san francisco and san francisco clean energy advocates. so sorry to throw a bit of a wrench in here, but the public, as you know, has not been able to see the bid documents, any of the communications that these applicants have had with you. i did look up the applicants, you know, on linked in, and

what i saw on the two applicants with a i a lot of pr and journalism experience but not much else. whereas the firm that applied, my understanding was we had the opportunity to carrie a lot of issues policy wise that we're going to be working on. to put it frankly, the public is in the dark about why mr. gobel has qualifications because it's not apparent from an internet saecearch, so if y can have staff -- can you guys layout for us in this hearing today, where's the experience and what's the reason for choosing this applicant just so that we know why. thanks. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> thanks again, commissioners. jed holtzman.

i guess i would just say that -- i mean i guess it's hard to make meaningful public comment about a closed process, obviously, but i did look up -- once the names of the folks were announced, i did, you know, use the powers of google, and i found surprisingly little about the person who you just choose. in fact, much, much less than the other two. and so it's particularly hard for me to judge this candidate because the only thing that i could find from a google search was involvement with sf bike coalition, and it seems like active engagement in polishes polishes -- policy issues would have resulted in media hits that i would have been able to find. so certainly we're strongly supportive of you moving forward and having an executive officer so that you can get going on this work.

i would just point out that in the past lafco was a willing participant and for lafco to continue to be able to press issues independently from the sfpuc rather than just following the sfpuc's lead, you are going to need independent expertise and kind of an independent style of action from your executive officer. so i would just express that i hope that those things will be sound in this individual and we look forward to working with him. thanks. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. seeing no other public comment, public comment is now closed. commissioners, do we have any comments among commissioners? seeing none. and in response to public comment, the -- the process and i think all the interview

results will be public after, is that correct, mr. ing. >> correct, it'll be available after contract award. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. so i'd like to make a motion to accept the panel's recommendation and direct the interim administrative officer to begin working on a contract. colleagues, is there a second? okay. commissioner pollock has seconded. moved by commissioner fewer, seconded by commissioner pollock, without objections that we accept the panel's recommendation and direct the interim administrative officer to begin working on the contract. thank you very much. madam clerk, please call item number ten. >> clerk: item number ten is public comment. >> supervisor fewer: any members of the public like to speak during this time? seeing none, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, please read item number 11. >> clerk: item number 11 is

future agenda items. >> supervisor fewer: this item is up for public comment. is there any public comment on this item? >> eric brooks again, san francisco green party and our party san francisco. just to amplify and reiterate because i had very little time to mention it, two things -- well, two things. one is that on sacramento lemgs lation, i would strongly ur lation, -- legislation, i would strongly urge you, chair fewer to have staff cue up for the next meeting an action item for potential legislation in sacramento so that by then -- by the beginning of next meeting, we will probably know what the problem bills are pretty clearly. we're already getting a sense of that, and we can send you e-mails before that and maybe hopefully staff at sfpuc and staff at other bodies will be able to contact you and say these are the problem bills,

calcca. and that way, you will be able to take action next month before this stuff really starts flying through committees. so i'd really urge you to do that. i'd just like to amplify on the tetratech thing, so tetratech is a company that works for the navy all over the country, has been caught falsifying date a toxic public cleanup. our organization went with an organization called clean action, i specifically asked them about treasure island and yerba buena island and said, well, tetratech also did the same kind of work out there. why aren't we also hearing that there's an investigation of that work? the response that we got from the epa was frankly a lie.

they told me that it wasn't a -- that treasure island was not a superfund site. that's not true. it's just not on an active investigation list, so that's the kind of thing we're dealing with. and what i've seen last tuesday what was introduced to the board of supervisors, is only specific parcels will be introduced for action and not comprehensively redoing -- [ inaudible ] >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, mr. brooks. seeing no further public comment, public comment is now closed. are there any future agenda items to note, commissioners? seeing none, i'd like to mention that our next meeting is scheduled for may 18th. madam clerk, is there any more business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much.

we are adjourned. >> good morning. oh, my god, what a day. what a day to be at the port, what a day to be outside. it's so beautiful chl the sun is out. happy earth month. i am debbie rafell. i am the director of the department of 1r50ir789, and this is the most fabulous and gorgeous place to be at this

moment in time. it's very fitting to be at the waterfront, of course, during earth month. who needs a reminder of the poshs of protecting our environment and the importance of protecting this planet. we're here today to announce another step forward in our environmental stewardship journey. our jurny towards taking bold climate actions, to preserve this planet for us and for future generations. clearly -- and there's the nice sound. clearly, to address our climate needs, we're going to have to tackle the transportation sector. in san francisco the transportation sector accounts for about 50% of our emissions, a huge part. this is a city that believes in leading by example, and our transit fleet is one of the cleanest in the nation, and part of that cleanliness, if you will, has to do with fuel switching, where we're getting

off of diesel, dirty diesel, and replacing it with renewable fuels. we are electrifying when we can, and we're using renewable fuels when the technology hasn't quite caught up with us yet to get off of dues will and nonrenewable fuels. this allows us to take action using existing equipment and existing technology. the san francisco department of environment, the mayor's office, the port and all of our community stakeholders with us today ahave been working hard o introduce renewable fuels into this new form of transportation. so i'm pleased to introduce to you today mayor mr. mark farrell who will be making the

announcement that we are all looking forward to listen to. so mayor farrell. >> thank you. debbie. it's good to be here, and love the interaction that we're seeing on our waterfront behind us. so thanks to the introduction, debbie, and i want to thank everyone for coming out today for this announcement. you know we're all here today because we care very deeply about our city of san francisco, and we care deeply about our environment in the city of san francisco, and i know we all have concerns about the federal leadership or lack of federal leadership on environmental issues right now coming out of washington, d.c. the head of our epa seems to be more concerned about flying first-class and the cole industry than pushing environmental policies forward that will have a positive impact if our communities. and while they continue to stick their heads in the sand in terms of climate change in washington, d.c., san francisco is once again stepping forward as a leader in our country for the environment. thanks to our innovatetive

practices here in our city, we are on our way to meeting our goal of 50% renewable power goal by 2020 and 100% by 2050. in san francisco, we are proving our dpost wropg every single day. we have reduced greenhouse gases by 20%. at the same time our population has grown by 19%, and our gdp has grown by 75% in the city of san francisco. we are proving washington, d.c., we are proving the skeptics wrong. i am here to say that as mayor of the city of san francisco that i am convinced that not only the san francisco but our korld with coexist by having strong environmental policies and a strong economy at the same time. they go together. this is called climate

leadership. this is what san francisco is all about, and today we are excited to announce the next step in that journey as the city of san francisco. so today we are announcing the transition of the san francisco bay area water fleet to 100% renewable diesel. we are taking this bold step, and when we do, we will become the first region in the entire country to achieve this goal. let me repeat that. once again in the city of san francisco, we will be the first in the country to lead on the environment. it will help reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by another 60% on the water and cutback on the diesel pollutants that affect our air. four of the bay areas ferry providers will be making the switch to diesel here in 2018 and 2019, including our fire department, which will make the transition this year in the city of san francisco. i do want to thank all the ferry providers for joining with the city of san francisco to make this happen. this does not happen alone.

it takes strong partnerships. i want to thank our fire department in particular, chief hayes-white and all the leaders that are here today on this issue. i want to thank debbie with the department of the environment, elaine forbes, and her staff at the port. i want to give great thampgz to our former mayor, ed lee, who started this conversation years ago. tyrone chiu, who i know he's been at the forefront of this issue for a long time. we're going to be the first in the nation to make this change, but we will not be the last. this is just the beginning, and san francisco once again is stepping forward as a leader in the country on the environment, and that's something we all should be very, very proud of it. our city deserves it, our country deserves it, and our world deserves it. thanks, everyone. >> wow, thank you, mayor

farrell. our country deserves it, our city deserves it, our planet deserves it, our world deserves it, indeed. so transitioning a water fleet demonstrates what's possible when public and private sectors work together. and as the mayor said, this did not happen overnight or by accident. this transition happened because we put our heads together and collectively we problem solved, and we brainstormed, and we figured out what was the missing information, what do we need to have happen to make this change? because no one had done it before. we couldn't even look to europe as a model because we were the first. and i would like to recognize some of those leaders, those partners who made this possible from our regulatory agencies, the environmental protection agency, the california resources board, and the water

emergency transportation authority, our local ferry and water transit operators, red-white fleet, blue and gold fleet, golden gate ferry, horn blower and alcatraz tours, to the marine manufacturers and mtu. they had to figure out, would this renewable product work in their ferries. and so our own san francisco fire department, which has a fireboat fleet, and one of them is behind us, and hopefully we will be enjoying a demonstration of their prowess today. i'd also like to thank the leadership and cooperation of our commission on the environment. commissioner eddie ong is here with us today to encourage us on and to ensure that san francisco continues in a leadership moment. and of course, the real leader in all this, the mother of the leaders is our port director, elaine forbes. i get to say that as a woman. she leads with courage, she's a

role model for all of us, and she's a resource for cities and ports all around the world. under her leadership, the port is an environmental champion, from shoreside power to 100% greenhouse gas energy procurement, to solarizing buildings, elaine is fearless and determined, and this could not happen without her support, so let's welcome elaine forbes, port director. >> thank you so much, debbie, for that absolutely amazing introduction. i'm quite shy now about that, and thank you so much mayor farrell for your commitment to climate change and to our city's waterfront. hello, everyone and thank you for coming to our world renouned waterfront. this is a spectacular resource. the san francisco bay is so pristine and so defining for our city. and our ferry operator tenants, along with the city and the port are at the forefront of

environmental stewardship. i'm very proud to say that. i'm speaking today on behalf of port staff and port commission. we have port commissioner lessee ka lessee -- leslie katz here. thank you for your leadership. since 2001, we have removed 300,000 square feet of dilapidated peers, improving the bay quality. we've cleaned up contaminated properties, and in every location, we have plans to open up the properties to san francisco and the region, further connecting people to the bay. we have wonderful new buildings that are lead certified and we have a building at herron's head park. we've cut emissions by more than half. we privacy row emissions hydropower to our cruise ship at pier 27 and to our large

government and commercial ship at pier 70. and with this announcement today, we are a making our air and water healthier for everyone. and i want to talk about how this initiative started. mayor farrell mentioned our y late mayor lee. back in july 2016, we toured our mayor for the late mission bay ferry landing. on that boat ride, mayor lee made the connection, hmm, if city owned industrial equipment and our fleet can transfer to renewable diesel, could the ferries, too? he had a big vision for this waterfront and for growth in our water transportation and linked this vision to environmental stewardship. his point person, tyrone viewed got on the job, teamed up with my key person, rich furman, and teamed up with important staff from the department.

and ferry operators stepped up and agreed to make this change. so now with their partnership, we will have cleaner air for everyone in san francisco. and we are becoming alternative fuels leaders for ferries in san francisco at the exact time that we're expanding our ridership. it's such a great partnership to see more people on the bay and more people in ferries and knowing that's true ae going to be cleaner. we are so graceful to our late mayor for his call to action and for city staff and ferry operators who saw his vision through. and it will not stop here. we will be advancing other environmental initiatives, and we will be rebuilding this harbor to keep it safe, environmentally secure and keep it great for future generations. this is a beautiful waterfront, and we aim to keep it that way. thank you all for coming.

[applause]. >> thank you, elaine and thank you inform poto port commissio port staff who have been such champions of this. so as elaine said, we can't do this alone. we might have an idea, we might see a possibility, a window of opportunity, but we need the ferry operators to step up. and the person behind me was incredible. he said yes, we will try this, yes, we will do this, and i will make sure it happens. we are incredibly lucky to have such forward thinking, committed operators here in san francisco. the water fleet exemplifies that can do of why not? why not here?

whatever they can do to push the envelope to make ferry ridership part of the equation to heal the planet. so let us well come our champion, tom escher, to talk for a moment. [applause]. >> thank you very much. i'm not sure who you were talking about. one of the things i don't believe in is fake news, so mr. mayor, i have to say that the fleet has been using renewable fuel since last year, and there's been no operational problems. this is another step for the red-white fleet, there is another one to our zero pollution. and the next step is for us in august of this year, we will have the anhydra, which is an electric ferry boat coming here. she will be here in august. and in 2019, she's going to be

completely electric, no pollution on the boat, completely electric. in 2020, we're going to have a -- a hydrogen fuel cell boat, which is here. zero pollution. now all these things i'm talking about, you can buy on-line at amazon, so all we're doing is putting the pieces together, and because we believe in zero pollution. our board has said we have to be zero pollution by 2025 for all of our boats, and we will make that, if not sooner. why are we doing this, you're going to ask. all of this is proven technology. there's nothing new here. we're like a chef, we're making a stew. all of this is going to give us a reasonable business return. and the last most important, nobody in the audience is going to be affected here.

this is your children, your grandchildren. this is what we're looking for. we can't kick the can down the road anymore when you can buy all this stuff on-line at amazon. it is insanity. so from a point of view, i'd like to thank the mayor, mayor lee started this. we have a new mayor now. he's continuing it. the department of environment, the port of san francisco, elaine forbes, mike martin, rich bierman, and all sorts of other people who i haven't mentioned. nesti is the provider of the renewable fuel who's great, and also aaron peskin, our supervisor. one last comment i'd like to make is our vessel the xalaphus is there, and yif you don't knw what that is, you should look it up. thank you very much. >> i have no idea what xalaphus means, so that's my homework. wow. thank you, tom, and i think

what you heard there is that pioneering spirit, that why not. that's why you keep things in notebooks. all right. so tom talked about the long version, getting to zero emissions boats and ferries. just with this one action of moving towards renewable decembering, from traditional diesel from dinosaur bones, we're going to be able to reduce 22,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases. this is a significant action that can be today. i would like to encourage everyone, the next time you are going to oakland or alameda or coming into the city, ride in one of our wonderful ferries. you'll get the best view of the bay, the best view of our city, and you'll be doing it knowing that you're healing the planet

at the same time. i want to close by sharing one of my favorite talking points, which is that i believe that the world is one by those who show up, and that every person out there today is showing up to heal the planet and showing up to make a difference, and this is done when government works with the private sector in close partnership. my team, suzanne lucen and zach thompson, as well as rich berman and tyrone chiu who lead with their hearts as well as their mind dos. it's because of all of you that we're all able to do this together. so with that, i am hopeful that behind me will be something spectacular and worth looking at besides -- what is it?

xaluphus. >> it's called the xaluphus, and if you look at the spelling, you can google it and then tell me what it means. >> that's my homework, the xaluphus. oh, there we go, soon to be operated on renewable diesel, the fireboat. it's right now -- excuse me. we don't want fake news. right now, at this moment, the fire department has adopted renewable diesel, and that boat is leading the world right now in environmental stewardship. thank you, fire department. [applause].

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