tough to endorse against someone that you are sitting with. they were there from the very beginning and i'm so proud to have supported sandy fewer and hillary ronin in their campaigns, they have been such extraordinary supervisors. if they would be willing to come up and sort of keep me company as i get sworn in. and then the other person i would like to invite to stand with me is the former supervisor for district 8. [applause] devin has been a prince over the last year. he has been so helpful with so much good advice. it has been sometimes rough

road, this campaign, but he has been wonderful and calling me almost on a daily basis since the election with more helpful advice. thank you. i wanted to have city attorney herrera swear me in today because he is a an an exemplary public servant. i spent my life working with and for local governments and the last three years was the deputy city attorney in oakland. i have so much admiration for the work that the folks in our city attorney's office do. whether it is defending tenants against the worse of the worse landlords doing terrible things to standing up to trump, to

ensuring that we enforce sensible regulations of new industries to all the other things that dennis herrera and his fine office do. last but not least in anyway, oh, by the way, saving city college. [applause] so, i wanted to have dennis swear me in today. he knows how to do this a lot better than i do. i'll just put this up here. >> just make sure everybody can hear. >> all right. >> everybody here? all right. here we go. raise your right hand and repeat after me. >> all right. >> i, rafael mandelman. >> i rafael mandelman. >> do sol emily swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. and the constitution of the state of the california.

>> against all enemies foreign and domestic. and i will be bear true faith and allegiance. to the constitution of the united states. >> to the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of the state of the california. >> and the constitution of the state of the cost. >> i take this obligation freely. >> without any reservation or purpose of ovation. >> and that i will well and healthful' discharge. >> the duties which i am about to enter. >> during such time. >> and during such time. >> as i hold the office. >> of member of board of supervisors. >> and san francisco transportation authority. of the city and county of san francisco. >> of the city and county of san francisco. >> congratulations. [applause]

thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. a few brief remarks. they will be brief, i promise. very brief. one thing i want to make sure i do is acknowledge some of the extraordinary public service talents we have in this room. my incredibly able staff to be as given me a list. i want to start by acknowledging gina masconi who is here with us. thank you so much for being here. [applause] for your wonderful children and for all that you represent for san francisco.

thank you for doing me the honor of being here for this and thank you tom horn for bringing your good friend here this afternoon with us. we also have with us assembly member phil tang. [applause] assembly member david chu. [applause] >> supervisor fewer, who you just saw. [applause] supervisor peskin. [applause] supervisor jane kim. [applause] i left out katy tang and i left out katy tang. [laughter] [applause] and catherine stephanie. hillary ronin we just saw.

and i do want to thank president cohen for opening her office for us for refreshments afterwards. for allowing us to use this room. i want to thank our sheriff, vickey hennessey. [applause] and a day like today is a major challenge, i know for all, for the sheriff and the deputy sheriff and i want to thank you for all that you've done with us today. our treasure jose. [applause] >> our district attorney george gascone. [applause] our public defender jeff adache. [applause] we have -- our bar director, of

course. [applause] we have our chancellor from city college mark roacha. [applause] and our board president -- >> right here! [laughter] >> brigitte, not to be unacknowledged. [applause] our vice president alex randolf. [applause] past president sia sellby. john rizzo. carmen chu, i didn't acknowledge carmen chu. thank you for being here. do we have school board in the house? matt haney is here, thank you for being here. [applause] our former mayor art agnus.

[applause] i think they like you, art. and i think that is it. have i gotten the former city college christie timwolfbridge. our first gay city college trustee tim, who paved the way and our constitute trustee simmons is here as well. there are some folks who worked on this campaign without whom i would not be here. they are led by my campaign manager, kyle she'lly who is going tsmealie.mckenzie ewuing d director. brendon shucard who did great

work for us. and our fantastic interns i hope many of you will be coming into city hall with us. i know some of you are. scott carlson, john tell, jackie, jock steinberger. amelia -- i can't say her last name. and then i also want to acknowledge mark leno's campaign manager who will be coming in as another legislative aid in our office, aaron mundy. [applause] and last but not least wrapping up his business as a small business owner, bar owner, tom te mprano could not be here but starts next week, he will be my third legislative aid. [applause] i am not even going to try to

acknowledge ever single neighborhood, leader, c.b.d. head, labor leader, so many folks, the leaders of alice and milk and there are so many fantastic folks in this room, i'm going to stop there. but thank you all for being here to share this special, special day with me. i also have another cheat sheet i have to check. we are so lucky to have an amazing city clerk, angela calvillo. [applause] and her staff, not only the sheriff, deputy sheriff but a clerk office. a day like this is a lot of work and you have been so accommodating to us so thank you all for that. so i wouldn't be here without a couple of folks who are sitting

out here. i just gott got emotion a two pe who took me in when i was a kid and i did not have a place to live. that is bernie and elinor burke. [applause] >> they're pretty great. i'm very lucky to have you in my life. to have you two in my life. but i do get easily re. i would like to acknowledge and talk a little bit about two women who are not here today, but who have influenced my life in profound ways. my mother was a very important character in this campaign.

i talked a lot about her. she died actually during the course of the campaign. my mother struggled with mental illness for most of her life. the reason i did not have a place to live as a teenager was her struggles with mental illness. many of you know this, you read the heath nights story or live in strict 8 and had her show up at your doorstep, she spent time in a homeless shelter. when i was older, i was able to intervene in her life and get her into a slightly better place. a much better place. the experience of having that person in my life and seeing the reality of the mental health challenges to folks struggle with has left me with a real certainty that there are people in this world who cannot take care of themselves and it is our

job to take care of them. [applause] housing is necessary but it is not sufficient. and so one of the first things i did after being elected as supervisor was to go up to sacramento, along with our mayor elect to testify and say we're 1045 which is a bill that will expand conserveto rships. it is a tool. it's controversial and complicated. my colleagues have different feelings about it and i look forward to engaging in conversations with them overtime. i do believe if we chose to implement this tool locally it will call our bluff. it's not enough, of course, to say we're going to do conservetorships. do you make the resources

available to ensure you provide care for the people who need it? we know and the folk folks who e concerned remember that when we institutionalize on a mass basis people who were different or unwell that is not a history we should be proud of. i think the san francisco in 2018 can do better. i think we can do better than we did in the 50s and we can do better than we're doing now. [applause] that is a strong commitment of mine. the other person who i think got short shipped in this campaign was my grandmother. my grandmother, esther, is the strongest person who i have ever known. she was a holocaust survivor. when the war broke out she was young. she had a child three months before the war broke out.

that child was my dad. somehow my grandmother kept herself and my dad alive through those six years of hell. at the end, her parents were dead, her husband, my grandfather was head and most of her brothers and sisters were dead. she lost her home, her farm, everything. she had lost basically her whole life except this one little kid who she loved very much, my dad. after six years in displaced persons camps in europe, they came to the united states and my grandmother had that typical american immigrant story where she worked and scraped and saved and built a new life for herself and her family and ultimately for me. i learned many things from my grandmother. i learned about and this corny but the promise of this country and what it's meant here in the united states and around the world to so many people.

i also learned she loved this country. she was also very aware of its challenges. she con understand as a county as wealthy as this country and a country she loved so much could have so many poor people. this was at a time when the gap between rich and poor in the united states was narrowing as opposed to now when it's expanding. those values have been passed on to me from my grandmother and they're very important to me. the most important lesson that i think was the experience of my grandmother's generation shows us is that the fabric of civilized life of decency and civility and human beings treating each other well is surprisingly tenuous. it requires people working really hard ever single day all of us to keep this thing together. now we know that there is a world around san francisco and around california that is getting stranger and stranger

and more and more chaotic and hostile and difficult. and i believe, we heard a lot from the mayor elect this morning about the need for san franciscans to come together to get beyond historic difference and to try and make a future based on the vast majority of the values we share and we do not share with some of the stuff going on out there. i really believe in that. and i take from my grandmother's life and her experience a real commitment to working every single day to try and take the values that we share and make them real and make sure city actually a shining example of what we want this whole country, this whole world to be. i think we can do it and i'm excited to do that work. and i'm looking forward to joining the folks up here in doing it. i have worked, as i said earlier, with a lot of elected officials in my lifetime over the last 20 years, folks around the bay area at city council and lots of places.

this body is well above average. [laughter] [applause] >> this is a very impressive set of folks. they don't get treated necessarily always so well. as people and their commitment and their intelligence and their passion, i've seen elected official who's don't share those great talents, so my pledge to all of you is to be someone who you can trust, who is reliable. and who is a good partner for you and the work we want to represent our diverse constituencies and the city we love. to our new mayor, i want to extend my great congratulations and enthusiasm for her mayoralty. how extraordinary this city is going to be led by an african american woman who grew up in the projects. [applause]

>> it was everyone out there this morning could feel a pride in this city and a pride in what we're going to represent in this era that unfortunately will be known as the trump era. but i am so excited. i know we are excited to work together to solve homelessness and build more affordable housing and give san francisco the 21st septembe century transm we deserve. to the voters of district 8, i want to give them my extraordinary thanks for being willing to take a second look. [applause] >> and taking me at my word when i said i wanted to try to get beyond the petty differences that seem to have divided our city politics for too long. my pledge to them is to everything i can to make good on that promise from the campaign

and keep true to that. that's what i'm going to do. thank you all so much for coming and being part of this and i know there are people who i forgot to acknowledge and i shouldn't and i apologize. i hope you will join us over in president cohen's office for some beverages and some fine foods. thank you, everybody. [applause]

>> this job, it's really not an i job. i wouldn't be able to do this job without other people. i make sure that all the regulatory and nonregulatory samples get to access in a timely manner. we have groundwater samples, you name it, we have to sample it every day. i have ten technicians, very good team. we work together to attain this sampling. >> a sample is only as good as when you collect properly. if sample is not collect properly according to not the

proper protocol, the sample could be biased, could be false positive or could be false negative. so all this to have good so you can manage the sample collectors, as well as the schedule, and she is pretty good, and she is very thorough. and so far, i think that she is performing a very good job. >> this job is really not an i job. i wouldn't be able to do this job without my team. you can assign them any job, they can handle it, and again, without them, i wouldn't be here. i take pride, you know, for what i do. we are providing a very good water department. my name is roselle, and i have been working with the water departme

watching. >> ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the people making them happy what happened next sf oh, san francisco known for it's looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty

unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile

and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. >> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known store has been making great strides. >> we grateful to give the items to goodwill it comes from us selling those items in our

stores with you that process helps to divert things it from local landfills if the san francisco area. >> and the textile box will take it one step further helping 1230 get to zero waste. >> it brings the donation opportunity to the donor making that as convenient as possible it is one of the solutions to make sure we're capturing all the value in the textiles. >> with the help of good will and other businesses san francisco will eliminate 39 millions tons of landfill next year and 70 is confident our acts can and will make a great difference. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of

the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us

>> supervisor tang: good afternoon, everybody. welcome it our land use committee meeting monday, july 16, 2018. i'm katy tang, chair of this committee. we're joined by supervisor kim and supervisor safai. our clerk is erica major. madam clerk, any announcements? >> clerk: yes. make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the july 24 board of supervisors meeting unless otherwise stated. >> supervisor tang: thank you. please call item one. >> clerk: ordinance to amend the

environment code with single-use food plastics and the appropriate findings. >> supervisor tang: we were just at a press conference outside about this ordinance. really excited to be bringing this to land use committee today. as you all know, we have -- there's been a lot of talk around the world about the issue with plastics and especially with single-use plastics of how it's so pervasive in every part of our lives. i think this legislation is trying to address one aspect of it, namely around plastic straws. however, it's to highlight a bigger issue that we have in our world. it's estimated that by the year 2050, we'll have more plastic in our ocean than fish. and every day of our lives, we use single-use plastics and we don't think twice about it. this legislation today would, first of all, ban the sale and usage of plastic straws in san francisco. it would also require that many

drink accessories be plastic-free, including stirrers, toothpicks, and cocktail sticks. it would require that single-use accessories upon customer request or self-service station. it would require that food ware is compostable. and after july, 2020, no longer allowed to have chemicals, which is harmful even to our health. and so i know that this issue has really gained a lot of attention around the world. seattle, vancouver, taiwan, u.k., alameda, davis, berkeley and more are taking a stand against single-use plastics. in fact, there are different companies that are adopting changes on their own, such as starbucks with the strawless lids. alaska airlines deciding they will go plastic-free with their food ware. so this is really, i think,

taken the world by storm, theish y you -- the issue of single-use plastics. we want to thank the department of environment and many associations starting the work with restaurants and bars, such as the lonely whale, last plastic straw, and so many others. want to thank our co-sponsors, supervisor safai, mayor breed, safai sheehy, peskin, yee, ronen and fewer. i'm sure that more will join us as well. so i think that a lot has been said around this issue, but i will turn it over to supervisor safai and then department of the environment for a presentation on this. >> supervisor safai: thank you, supervisor tang, chair tang. want to thank the department of environment and everyone involved in this effort. it's a pretty exciting thing for

me personally. i've had a pet peeve of straws for many, many years. it's interesting when you walk into a restaurant and you say, no straw, please, and your glass still comes with a straw to your table. so this is really about changing behavior. debbie's beaten into our head reduce, reuse, recycle. this is just not necessary to have a straw with a cup of water. there are people with a medical necessity for a straw and we fully respect that. we have other options, permanent, and that's wonderful because it's legislation like this that changes the indust live and people's behavior. we use hundreds of thousands, if not over one million straws a day just in san francisco. think about the tourist industry, think about all the people that come into the

backbone of our economy, our restaurants and our small businesses. if you talk to bartenders, if you talk to people in the industry, we're encouraged to use straws because people drink their drinks faster with a straw and will order another drink. that's true. we're not taking away the straw completely. we're taking away the option that is awful for the environment and that's the plastic straw. so so many other things in this legislation, but that's the one that has seemed to have caught everyone's attention. so i want to thank supervisor tang for her leadership on this. it's been a pleasure to work with her and everyone else that has worked on this. it boils down to the conversation about, you cannot even recycle these small bits of plastic, the straws, the stirrers. they fall through the cracks of

the machines. so it's also about having a product that you actually can recycle in general. and so thank you, supervisor tang, and thank you for all the advocates in the community that have worked with us on this to get this to this point. >> supervisor tang: thank you. i know it's been an issue since a news article came out this weekend, but want to reassure you that we thought about those with medical needs who do require straws. and so there is an exception in this ordinance that specifically addresses that concern. so i want to be sure that people are very much aware of that. with that, let's bring up our department of the environment. welcome, debbie rafael. >> thank you. thank you for the opportunity to address you on this issue today. i want to do a callout to ashley summers, who has been tenacious with her follow-up and

enthusiasm. i'm incredibly grateful for her work on this. i want to quickly set a context, walk you through the components. you have started to mention them. and look forward. how will this roll out over the next months? drowning in plastic. when i saw the cover of this national geographic magazine, it was incredibly timely and an indication that the whole world is very much focused on this issue of plastics in the marine environment. these incredibly scary statistics, like at the current rate, there will be more plastics than fish by weight by 2050. how can that be? what can we do to take action? we cannot wait for things to happen at the state or the federal and what can cities do? it turns out, there's a lot. how does that plastic get into our oceans? it gets there for the

manufacturing process and gets there by litter, that things end up on our streets, curbs, sidewalks, don't stay there, especially light plastics. the wind carries them through the storm drains, sewers, and out into the beaches. and anyone who has done a coastal cleanup day will know how much food ware they find and collect as they walk up and down the beaches. in fact, plastic straws themselves are always among the top 10 items of things collected in coastal cleanup days. and as supervisor safai said, while they're theoretically recyclable, they're not actually recyclable. these small, bill plastics, if you put them in your blue bin, they don't end up in the bales of plastic. they end up in the fines,

f-i-n-e-s, the things that cannot be recycled, and go to the landfills. in effect, it's not recyclables. the ordinance that you, supervisor tang, have authored, does several things. it eliminates sources of litter and makes the san francisco dining experience more environmentally friendly. at the end of the day, that's the vision we have for policies like this one and it does so in five different ways. the first way is by saying that no plastic accessories and not compostable plastic either -- stirrers, straws, plastic plugs, toothpicks. they cannot be plastic made from fossil fuels, but cannot be made from p.l.a. or compostable. and i want to point out the reason for that there are two important reasons that we don't want to substitute compostable plastics.

the first, they blow into the oceans just like other plastics do. once they get into that ocean, marine environment, they don't guy -- bio degrade. they have the same problems for the marine environment that traditional plastics do. the second problem with compostable plastic, in san francisco, we have people that are very careful about where they sort and they may take it and put it in the green bin. when you get to the compost facility, when you see that straw and you work at the facility, you don't know what kind of plastic it's made out of, so it's being taken out of the compost out of an abundance of caution. so there is no place for single-use plastic, whether from fossil fuel-based or compostible-based.

the second element, it's not only substitute, but it's really about reduce. we're trying to get people not to take these to begin with, so you have to have them on request. it's not that that -- that the plastic forks and knife packets that come automatically with your takeout or straw that comes with your drink and clearly as supervisor safai said, it will take training, a habit change in our restaurant business, but it's upon request only. thirdly, we talked about this element a lot. it's exciting and it's new. it's the idea that we don't want food ware lined with toxic chemicals, particularly the chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects that leach out into food and they're not necessary. there are alternatives out there that are nonflorinated.

this law will be the first in the nation to ban their use. it's incredibly exciting for me. b.p.i. certification as of 2020 will be florinated-free. >> supervisor tang: quick question from supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: so the b.p.i. is the lining that comes in for the food ware and the paper coffee cups and is there an alternative for that? >> b.p.i. is certification program and what it does is it certifies that certain compostability or packaging are meeting environment standards. the lining that you see on cups, that glossy lining on cups, that can be made of various chemical

constituen constituents. the problem we have is especially not in cups, but in the clam shells, we're seeing a good proportion of clam shells use as chemical choice fluorinated chemicals. it makes it so harmful for our bodies. >> supervisor safai: that's what i meant. b.p.i.-certified means non-fluorinetded. >> because of the ordinance and leadership of san francisco, b.p.i. is stepping up as an organization and saying as of 2020, nothing around the world will get b.p.i.-certified if it has fluorinated chemicals in it. >> supervisor safai: the coffee cups don't have that? >> correct. >> supervisor safai: do they go in the green bin? >> the blue bin.

that's a change we've made. if they have stickiness on them, we don't want them in the blue bin. >> supervisor safai: the lining on the cups is really what we're talking about. >> correct. in some clam shells, not all. because it's only in some, we know it's not necessary, so we're sending a message to industry, get it out. >> supervisor safai: i wanted to be clear on that. i appreciate that. thank you. >> sure. thank you for asking. it is new and, as you say, it gets a little bit overlooked in all the straw conversations. it's super important and exciting. also exciting and to get at reduce and reuse is looking at our events. san francisco loves its events. we have hundred of them throughout the year. they are a huge source of pride. unfortunately, they're also a source of litter. often what we see are disposable food ware items.

cups being among them. there is is a challenge to our events. to take a look at what options are available for them to reduce their use of disposable cups. the rule is, any event on city property that needs a permit that has more than 100 people participating, must provide a re-usable cup for at least 10% of their attendees. there are four ways one can meet this requirement. the first, you can promote to your attendees that they bring their own cups. the second, you can hire a rental cup service to provide cups. you can have a deposit system, or you can sell promotional cups. the image is of selling promotional cups, but it's not the only part of the way. we've designed it to have maximum flexibility so we can come into compliance. this is a forward-looking

element. we understand that part of recycling is creating markets for recycled terldz. -- materials. this is a fluid part of the industry right now. the way it's written is understanding that right now in 2018 may not be the moment to require recycled content, but it gives the department of the environment the ability through registration -- regulation require it to be done by 2020. there will be requirements made and opens up the potential to drive recycling markets through the use of recycling content. those are the five elements of this law. there's tremendous possibilities here looking forward for our small business community. we worry about costs. we've want to keep san francisco

affordable for our residents, our small businesses. what we find when we talk to small businesses is just doing on-demand straws reduces their need for straws. because that need is reduced, if there's a fractional cost increase to a paper straw turnover a plastic straw, on the whole, their costs are down. it saves labor, because we don't have to keep refilling the straws in the self-service area. and people are finding more and more the businesses themselves that their customers really appreciate this kind of environmentalism and this ethic. this issue of availability. can our businesses and our stores get alternatives to plastic and compostable plastic? as supervisor tang said, we are not alone. there are cities and states and countries around the world that are calling for alternatives to plastic. believe me, capitalism works and

the companies that supply the alternatives are ready and waiting to give alternatives, whether it's a stirrer, small straw, toothpicks, all of these items. starbucks is figuring it out. perhaps necessity is the mother of invention. we may see some underful alternatives coming out. certainly the other thing that businesses can be assured of is that they have a year before this goes into effect, july, 2019, so there's lots of time to send more signals to the marketplace that we're looking for morality earn -- more alternatives. the importance of people needing to consume beverages to their needs. there is a small carveout for

those that need the straws. hospitals and pharmacies will be able to offer plastic straws if they are needed for people with medical conditions. it's important to us that we're aware of unintended consequences and impacts and we've been working with the mayor's office of disability to ensure this is responsive to people's needs. so, once it's passed, which i'm hopeful and expecting it will be, the job comes to the department of the environment to make sure that everyone is aware of what they need to do, that our residents are aware not to expect straws, and our businesses are aware of what their responsibility is. just like we've done over and over again with the environmental laws that come through the department, we work with businesses very closely, whether it's mailing to them. we do everything in multiple languages. we will use the press and media