so there were a couple things that i think came up through this. i mean, this issue of kind of maximizing neighborhood preference for every dollar, it seems like we're doing that with the fees. and i mean i think it would be good to add to the board of supervisors that, you know, we try to prioritize as much as possible. i know there's other neighborhoods that have priorities, too, but neighborhoods that are facing increased gentrification pressures, that they get priority for housing dollars, and small sites acquisition program which i think is happening, but i don't think it -- it can't hurt to state it again here and make sure we do that. there was a question about public -- publicly owned sites and prioritizing those for housing. are there many publicly-owned sites here in the central soma area. >> there's basically south park, a fire station and bessie

carmichael school. in addition to the freeway right-of-way, we're putting navigation centers, for example. we're making best use of the land, but there is not a highly public land area. so that's basically why we've been asking the large sites that have been privately held. they've been great working with us to carve off affordable housing sites. we almost know that land is going to be almost more of a challenge here than the money. so that's why the tennis club side and fourth and harrison side for example are all large sites that have proposed to dedicate part of their land to affordable housing to us. >> president hillis: that came up a couple times here, housing proposals. >> right now, in eastern neighborhoods only in the urban mixed district parcel is there

other dedicated used. it's one of the many tools we can have. you can pay the housing and linkage fee, and how, you can have land dedication as well. >> president hillis: it's worked in places and we've encouraged people to do it. but the plan is sort of agnostic, whether you do that or fee out -- skbl that's right but we have created incentives to fee out the land. we know that some of the bulk controls, etcetera, while ner ae really valuable, a slight amendment to a bulk control can free up a piece of land that i feel is a priority for affordable housing versus a minor set back or some angle. we've been very cognizant of that in all these designs to make sure we can create as many affordable housing sites as possible, and those are the projects that would come before you, and the key sites would be

for you to weigh the pros and cons, is this affordable housing site worth set backs in the alley and stuff. >> president hillis: and questions came up on the c.a.c. i know you made the recommendation to split the current c.a.c. are you recommending kind of how that's -- how members are selected for that c.a.c. or who are kind of -- >> i'm not. the notion of having two c.a.c.'s. i think it's a good idea. it's always been an unwieldy stick. it's twice as big as market and octavia. that being said, one of the most challenging things is to determine the appointments and then what seats individually are filled by that. so it's not ra-ely my place to say in that negotiation, so i'd rather we propose there be a c.a.c. and if legislation is written as part of this plan, it's worked out at the board and mayoral level where that

back and forth has to happen. it can certainly be a trailing piece of legislation as well. even though the money isn't coming in -- the c.a.c. is going to work with money that's not going to come in until the project kicks in. >> president hillis: okay. and then, i think -- i appreciate that the recommendations on kind of, again, back to land dedication and acquiring city owned parcels which i think go beyond central soma. my own neighborhood, i couldn't buy in now, and i don't think my kids -- i fear they probably can't, either, unless they become -- own their own companies or something. i get that, and it's a big issue, and it's a big issue for us citywide. i think to some extent we make the mistake of addressing it on a project by project basis in

some cases or a plan by plan basis. i don't know why we're not seeing -- we're creating more people in the city, more condominiums, more housing units. i don't know why we're not advancing a parcel tax or something that's a regular source of income that we can bond off and provide much more affordable housing that we can kind of tinkering around the one-time edges. i think we're doing the most we can in this plan clue -- inclusionary, but i think you can get something around a tax in this city that people will keep paying and keep generating for more affordable housing. when you were talking about how we can acquire more and there's limited resources for small sites programs, with the values that are being paid for housing around the city and how they keep increasing, i mean, i

think things like a parcel tax should be looked aat and can d much more than these impact fees that we have, although we should do them also. i'm supportive of the housing and sustainability district. i think the period of extension should be kind of on a yearly basis, and it would be good to have the director kind of notify the commission, whether it's during -- you know, notify the commission during director's report or at a hearing about projects that are getting this approval. i like the notion of having kind of entitlements lapse but i'm worried that we'll hit a down area, no housing is built and we'll not terminating everybody's entitlement, which is the wrong thing to do, but if there's a mechanism for review by the department every year, i think that's appropriate. commissioner richards?

>>. >> commissioner richards: just a point of clarification. i support the recommended modification but that's for the employer in the building, not the construction of the building, correct? >> that's specific to the permitance employers -- the permit jobs in place. >> commissioner richards: okay. the question is for residential buildings, couldn't we extend that to the people that actually support the residential building that work there, the doorman, the -- >> yeah. so this -- this was one of the challenges that we had in the conversations with labor i'm having for the last week is we're concerned. on one hand we're saying faster housing, etcetera, on the other hand we're saying we have to have some kind of hearing on the good, you know, of the permit workers inside. the relative number of workers in a housing development is so much less than jobs, and with ab 73, you're getting the workers that matter which are the construction workers.

and so it's just kind of a bit of a trade off around the value, and that was why labor, talking out to the good jobs for all folks, agreed to the proposal we put forward which was to not include residential and to just do it for the businesses, knowing that we're solving for labor for the most part with ab 73. >> commissioner richards: okay. one other point that's kind of dawned on me. as the plan gets approved and rolled out and things start happening, we have a really good way of collecting live data in terms of all the things we're trying to report. you did the math on 5-m. we're going to be doing a housing survey or whatever. should prop s pass, we would have a rich trove of information on people who are getting evicted and have no idea where they're going to live. i think it's going to be good to have a plan in real-time. here's what happened.

let devote some big time data to it. and finally, i know we've been talking about this forever and members of the public said this. we talk about geary street or else. let's get geary street going, like a many geary plan area, so we can -- mini geary plan area, so we can follow through for many years what we've been talking about. >> president hillis: commissioner koppel? >> well, steve, i think it's about time. i'm going to move to approve all seven items. >> commissioner richards: second. >> president hillis: so we can do them all? >> clerk: commissioners, we strongly recommend you take the certification of the environmental impact report separately. i think there were several amendments that were included by staff if you so choose, so maybe we take the eir first. can you make that motion? >> commissioner koppel: yeah.

i'd like to make a motion to approve the final certification of the eir. >> second. >> commissioner koppel: with the amendment made by staff. >> clerk: very good. on that motion to certify the environmental impact report with the errata sheet submitted by staff, on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously. now we can take up the other matters. >> commissioner koppel: move to approve items two through seven. >> second. >> clerk: and there were amendments to those, too, steve. >> commissioner koppel: yeah. move that the recommendations to at least the planning code and i'd ask for procedural advice on this but whether you have a separate resolution regarding the good jobs, the commission policy for good jobs, that's in your packet. >> president hillis: that's in your recommendations or what was separate from your recommendations? >> commissioner koppel: it's a

recommendations --- >> it's -- it's recommendations -- somehow it's better to have it a separate recommendation. >> clerk: it can be called all together. >> president hillis: so we can do it as part of the plan. >> clerk: you can, and if there's individual amendments to any of the pieces of the puzzle, this would be the time. >> president hillis: i think you have the good housing -- if the good jobs policy, i think we can add that as a policy under the implementation program. where do you think it best fits? >> well, as a commission -- i don't know. it's commission policy, so it's kind of its own stand-alone thing. certainly, we can -- we would add it to the implementation matrix, i guess, at that point, but it sounds like it should be its own resolution.

>> also, there's our amendments to the hsd ordinance, as well. >> president hillis: ann marie? >> thank you. ann marie rogers. could you guys maybe clarify for the commissioners, all your recommendations that you would like them to make on each of the actions already included in the draft resolution or do they need to make motions to add things to the draft resolutions that are before them? >> you need to make motions to add. i have a list in front of you, and i spoke today, so there is a complete list that jonas is waving around that would be all the recommendations. i think there's 30 in your packet, and there's another four or so in front of you. >> and is that list of recommendations for one ordinance. >> they're all for the planning code and administrative ordinance except for the last one which is a code policy, and that would not be amendment. cht it's the only thing.

>> clerk: if someone were to make a motion to recommend the individual motions including these submitted by staff that would cover it, including the commission policy. >> president hillis: correct. you asked the question about the good faith, to that extent, do you need us to opine on the 12, 24, and 36 months, because you had that as a question in the report, and i'm not sure it was called out. was your recommendation what period? >> i think it's -- you -- those specific ones are not in the resolution or drafted, so those would be i think recommendations that you as a commission would make to the board. >> and my sense of that what might be the most beneficial thing to do is since it gives the director that authority is for the director to issue what we call a director's bulletin that specifies what constitutes good faith efforts. and i -- and you can certainly ask me to do that before this

thing is implemented. >> president hillis: okay. >> commissioner moore: would you copy us on that? >> absolutely. >> commissioner koppel: let me try this. i'm going to move to approve items two through seven, including amendments to the planning code, including all recommendations on this sheet of paper and the amendments also to the housing sustainability district and then also the policy resolution recommendation or the good jobs for all. >> president hillis: second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. so commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to adopt the ceqa findings for the central soma man, the general plan amendments, planning code, and administrative code, and implementation program, and planning code and business tax regulation code amendments for

the central housing sustainability district with the modifications recommended by staff and submitted to you, in addition to the modifications independent of that to the housing sustainability district proposed by staff. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 7-0. >> president hillis: all right. thank you. and mr. wertheim, good luck in sacramento. it's been a pleasure, and a pleasure in seeing this plan move forward.

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bayview. >> a lot discussion how residents in san francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and there's not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the arts community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. >> nonprofits can't afford to operate here. >> my name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in housing insurance and migration in the

last two years we negotiated a lease that saw 0 rent more than doubled. >> my name is ross the executive directors of current pulls for the last 10 years at 9 and mission we were known for the projection of sfwrath with taking art and moving both a experiment art our lease expired our rent went from 5 thousand dollars to $10,000 a most. >> and chad of the arts project pursue. >> the evolution of the orientation the focus on art education between children and patrol officer artist we offer a full range of rhythms and dance and theatre music theatre about in the last few years it is more and more difficult to find space for the program that we run.

>> i'm the nonprofit manager for the mayor's office of economic workforce development one of the reasons why the mayor has invested in nonprofit displacement is because of the challenge and because nonprofits often commute technical assistance to understand the negotiate for a commercial lease. >> snooechlz is rob the executive director and co-founder of at the crossroads we want to reach the disconnected young people not streets of san francisco for young adults are kicked out of the services our building was sold no 2015 they let us know they'll not renew our lease the last year's the city with the nonprofit displacement litigation program held over 75 nonprofits financial sanction and technical assistance.

>> fortunate the city hesitate set aside funds for businesses facing increased rent we believable to get some relief in the form of a grant that helped us to cover the increase in rent our rent had been around $40,000 a year now $87,000 taylor's dollars a year we got a grant that covered 22 thousands of that but and came to the minnesota street project in two people that development in the better streets plan project they saved us space for a nonprofit organization national anthem and turned out the northern california fund they accepted us into the real estate program to see if we could withstand the stress and after the program was in full swinging skinning they

brought up the litigation fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching classed here. >> which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didn't know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits displacement mitigation program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is a $946,000 grant that is

provided through the mayor's office of economic workforce development and that's going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. >> the purpose of the organization trust to stabilize the arts in san francisco working with local agency i go like the northern california platoon fund that helped to establish documents of our long track record of stvent and working to find the right partner with the organization of our size and budget the opportunity with the purchase of property we're sitting in the former disposal house theatre that expired 5 to 10 years ago we get to operate under the old lease and not receive a rent increase for the next 5 to 7 years we'll renting $10,000 square feet for the next 5 to

seven years we pay off the balance of the purpose of this and the cost of the renovation. >> the loophole will that is unfortunate fortunate we have buy out a reserve our organization not reduce the services found a way to send some of the reserves to be able to continue the serves we know our clients need them we were able to get relief when was needed the most as we were fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been - we've had tremendous support from the mayor's office of economic workforce development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the sport support. >> our lease is for 5 years

with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as we're doing the work we've been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. >> the single most important thing we know that is that meaningful. >> it has been here 5 months and even better than that we could image. >> with the economic development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of economic workforce development oewd.com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit mitigation program and the sustainability initiative and find their information through

technical assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city through the >> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪

>> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day.

i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll

heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great. i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away.

they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪ ♪ by the power ♪ of your name >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to

offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i

mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is

a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situation.. >> shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services we help san francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. >> my name is neil the general

manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if san francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming you don't want to - one of the

great things of san francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own- that's >> all right. so good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us today. you know, for the past four months, as mayor of the city of san francisco, i have from reside residents across our entire city up and down the ladder about the streets of san francisco. our streets are filled with trash and debris, and it is unacceptable, and i've said from day one the cleanliness of our streets is going to be one

of my biggest priorities as mayor of the city of san francisco. san francisco residents are fed up with the conditions, and i am the first to say that i feel their pain, and we are doing something about it. so last week, along with a number of people who are here behind me, we announced a comprehensive budget proposal that we're going to move forward with to aggressively cleanup our streets here in san francisco. we are no -- we know that our conditions on our streets exist across our city. it's not confined to one neighborhood. every single neighborhood is feeling this pain, including right here in the castro district. so this plan that we announced last week includes 44 new street cleaners throughout the city of san francisco, four in each supervisorial district that will have material impact in the conditions of our neighborhoods, in particular our commercial corridors. we're adding five new pit stops to address the feces and urination issues that we are seeing in many different

neighborhoods here in san francisco. and also talked about and announced a dedicated team to picking up syringes and needles across the entire city of san francisco. family members and individuals should not have to step over needles on the way to school, on the way to work. it simply doesn't need to be part of our landscape here in san francisco. and we are also growing our fix it team, sandra, who runs or fix it team, and does such an amazing job. how about a round of applause for her. [applause] >> the hon. mark farrell: we are expanding it to ten new districts in san francisco. because they do such an amazing job in san francisco. when there are areas to be picked up, when there is anything that needs to be done, they are there doing it, doing such an incredible job. but we need to do more. we need to put our foot on the gas pedal, and as mayor, until

i leave office, i am going to do it, and street cleanliness is something i am going to address. we have a big effort to cleanup our streets. san francisco residents do, as well, and now today we're going to have some bigbellys to help us with that effort. and sorry, i had to go there with that line. so today, we are announcing five new bigbelly trash receptacle here in the castro district and 15 others in different neighborhoods throughout san francisco. now these bigbelly trash cans, as you will see, there's going to be a demonstration at the end, are different than your normal trash cans. they have automatic compactors inside, allowing them to hold five times the amount of waste of any normal garbage can. they tick recycling, compost, and trash, and they're outfitted with wireless technology, real-time technology that alerts those when these are full to come pick them up and empty them. that means no more wasted trips

to pick up half full garbage cans. you know, we are the technology capital of the world. we should not be afraid, and you know i believe as mayor, we should embrace technology to benefit the daily lives of our residents, and we are doing that today. we are making this investment now in partnership with our small business leaders. our community benefits districts are the ones that really do the work on the ground. i want to thank andre who is here today for all of your work in the castro, and we are partnering with them to install these new bigbelly trash receptacles, but also to maintain them going forward. we are going to cleanup our city here in san francisco. we made a number of announcements last week.

today is just another step in that direction, and i want to make sure to reaffirm my commitment to the residents of san francisco that cleaning up our streets is going to be one of my biggest priorities, and we will not stop again until the day that i leave office. i look forward to seeing these trash cans across the city of san francisco. we are going to swallow up the trash with our bigbelly garbage cans, once again. so with that, i want to thank everyone for being here. we have a number of speakers, and i would like to introduce and bring up supervisor jeff sheehy, who's right behind me. and i want to make a quick comment about supervisor sheehy. there has been no one, since i have become mayor, who has been more forceful in his advocacy of cleaning up the streets of his district than jeff sheehy. you can clap. it's great. we have gone on neighborhood walks. we have walked this commercial corridor right here with our department of public works. there's no supervisor more focused on cleaning up the streets of his neighborhood than supervisor sheehy. and with that, i'd like to hear

from him. supervisor jeff sheehy. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you, mayor farrell. thank you for those kind words, and i really want to thank you deeply for your leadership on this issue. it's been a challenge, but the inno-nateti innovation that you're bringing to this, the resources, it's making a difference, and i know the people in my district, we're grateful. i also want to thank the department of public works because they have been so steadfast, so diligent in cleaning up this neighborhood, in cleaning up the district. it's a struggle because we know that this is an ongoing problem, and i think your new initial initiatives are going to help us turn the corner on this. we are moving forward on this. i want to thank the community benefits in the castro for their leadership. these things are great.

compacts, signals when the trash is full. and i do want to note that recology is here. recology is doing a great job. this is allow them to be enormously more efficient, so as the mayor said you're not emptiying half empty trash cans, you empty them when they're full. we've seen the problem. we have the open trash cans, people rummage in them. they overflow, and sometimes that creates a mess. so andre, thank you for your partnership with recology, with the mayor. i'm going to address you, but sandra zuniga, i can't say enough about you. she comes in, she solves problems, she works so closely with the community to identify problem areas and find solutions. she was telling me, for instance at glen park park, we

have a little flower stall that was graffitied up. and you know, she just went and painted it herself. that's the type of attitude she brings towards san francisco. that's how much she cares about this city, so i am honored to introduce sandra zuniga, who's director of the mayor's fix it team. >> good morning, everybody. thank you for that introduction and thank you to both mayor farrell and supervisor sheehy for their leadership in this city. special thank you to mayor farrell for giving me this assignment. being able to work on these bigbellys has been fun. so fix it, i run the fix it team, and what we do z we work closely with communities, talking to residents, listening to residents to find out what concerns they have, and we want to act quickly and effectively to help address those. in the castro, we've been working here about two years, and we've seen improvements, a

lot of great improvements to the castro. one of things that's a great concern is litter and the amount of litter we see around our city, especially trash cans, when they've been rummaged through or overflow especially when the wind blows and blows them away. so we're happy today to show you not just an efficient can but a very pretty tran ca-- trh can in the castro that we hope will bring new life, new energy to people who are shopping here, passing through here to use the handing, throw their cigarette butt or bottle away in the right place. today's announcement is part of a larger strategy that fix it has to make improvements in neighborhoods based on what we hear about from residents, so we plan to implement new strategies in neighborhoods across the city, and find out

what works and when something works, we can replicate it in other neighborhoods with confidence. i really would like to thank all of the community benefit districts who are working with me on this project. of course f andre aiello with the community benefit district, and several others who will see their bigbellys this summer, and a special shout out of course to public works, recology, economic and workforce development and kevin from bigbelly, who will give you all a demonstration soon. so with that, i would just like to introduce a wonderful partner in this who has been tremendously hard working and really fast at turning around a lot of giving us, you know, ideas, information, feedback, andre aiello, for getting

the -- from the castro c.i.d. for getting the first big belly on the ground. >> thank you for that. the castro community benefit district is so excited to be the first neighborhood that will be getting these bigbellys in a special program that has been sponsored by mayor farrell, and i want to thank the mayor so much for his dedication to keeping the neighborhoods clean, not only just downtown but the neighborhoods. and we are -- we'll be working with the city to develop metrics on how do we evaluate and measure these to make sure they're effective. and as everyone has been describing, the bigbellys work because once you put the trash in, you can't take the trash out, and that includes limiting and preventing overflowing trash cans, which i think we've

all seen all over the city. the wind is blowing, and the wind takes the paper or the cup out of the trash can, and there's a mess all the way down the sidewalk, and it blows it all the way down the sidewalk. so we're really excited that this is going to help keep the benefit district really clean. the castro neighborhood benefit district works tirelessly to keep the neighborhood clean, keep it vibrant. we have a lot of different strategies around cleanliness, around safety, economic vitality, greening. we have live performances in the jane warner plaza? the summer every weekend. everything fits together in a puzzle to encourage more people and more pedestrian traffic in the neighborhoods and in an urban environment. cleanliness is probably the first thing because nobody wants to walk around a neighborhood where there's trash and other things, and worse than just trash in a neighborhood. it's community benefit

districts working collaboratively with public works who has been absolutely fantastic as a partner and recology all working together to pitch in and keep san francisco clean -- or cleaner, and a great city. so i want to thank everybody and thampg the city family. they have vust been absolutely great. we've pushed through this contract in like a month, so that's unheard of. so thank everybody. i want to thank the mayor for hez creativity and initiative on this. and now, i think we're going to have kevin give a demonstration on how these wonderful things work. take care. >> one, two, three, go! [inaudible]

>> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the

national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be

the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great.

i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out.

that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪ ♪ by the power ♪ of your name >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is

important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed

every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part

is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situation.

sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability

is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. are you excited? it's budget time. yes. okay.