your first point. what we have laid out are the work plans and the scheduled meetings themselves, so any member who wishes to put or suggest an item on the agenda, they are -- they are perfectly free to send an e-mail to the chair, vice chair, and ben as the controller, as to any additional items -- agenda you would like to put on the meeting agenda, but it is the purview of the chair and the vice chair in conjunction with the controller to finalize that agenda. so you know the meeting, so if you have any specific ideas or suggestions, you are free to send them to us. >> also, may i just note, i need to be included in that 'cause i do draft agendas. and the -- if you're adding things to the agenda, it can't be added the week the packet is going out.

we need to have that additional item in sync with when the chair and vice chair do their premeeting. it's a good ten days ahead of the meeting just as a general courtesy. >> that underscores my point of advance notice. >> well, you haven't agenda -- you have a date, the next five -- this is the first of our six meetings, so you have five meeting dates. so if you have an idea, you have a suggestion, you are free at any point prior to those dates to address it to the chair and vice chair and to ben as controller because he staffs us as to which to be included. >> we had to go through several iterations to make sure we were having this meeting this time. >> the only reason we had this

meeting, it was scheduled, buzz we couldn't get d -- but we couldn't get availability. this meeting was established in the last fiscal year, however, it was delayed due to people's availability, so... >> you understand my point. >> so do you have more comment? >> so do we need a motion to approve the 18-19 work plan as may be amended to coordinate with the controller's planned expenditure audits? i so move. >> second. >> all in favor? [voting] >> good. any other public comment relating to any matters? seeing none, meeting is adjourned.

>> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level

to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment.

>> welcome, everyone. i'd like to call this meeting to order. anthony, will you do the roll call. >> clerk: good afternoon. this is a meeting of the san francisco commission on the environment. the date is tuesday, july 24, 2018, and the time is 5:05 p.m. a reminder that the ringing and use of cell phones shall pagers, and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the

chair my order the recovery room value from the meeting room anyone with the use of a cell phone, pager or sound producing device. there will be public comment on every item on the agenda as well as public comment for items that are not on the agenda, and that's item number five. we ask that you complete a card at the sign-in table. hand it to me, and i'll hand it to the chair. we'll call folks in the order we receive them, and you'll have an opportunity to speak anonymously after we receive the cards. now, roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: there's a quorum. the next item is item 2, president's welcome. this item is for discussion. >> good afternoon and welcome all of you, and thank you very

much for coming out on this beautiful day to our commission meeting. we have a very interesting meeting in store for you today. we are continuing with our tradition to having meeting that take a deep dive into one of san francisco's climate action goals. the city's climate action goals include zero waste, 80% sustainable transcripts, 100% renewable energy, and the root goal of renewing our environment through forests and the environment. today, we'll focus on the sustainable trips goal. what is a sustainable trip? it's anyone but one resident in one car. it's an effort to get residents to taking walking, biking, or public transit or a combination of all of those. this year at the community

public breakfast mayor mark farrell made the announcement that in just five years, san francisco had reached its goal of 50% sustainable trips. the mayor went onto announce that the city's new goal would be 80% sustainable trips. today, we will hear presentations from the department and our sister agencies from citywide and regional efforts to achieve a transportation system that creates less pollution and helps solve our climate crisis. thank you all at the department staff and to our sister agencies for making it out today. the country transportation authority is represented by executive director killy chan and san francisco transportation agency is represented by senior planner tim doherty. i want to say up front how much we appreciate your hard work and collaboration. let's do this, and if there's any public comment on this item, please let us know and

come forward. hearing no public comment, anthony, next item. >> clerk: the next item is item three, approval of the march 24, 2018 minutes. >> do i hear a second? >> second. >> seconded by vice president johanna wald. any discussion? >> president berhume, we had a motion and a second. >> clerk: do you second? there you go. >> i'll second. >> clerk: okay. >> sorry about that. >> clerk: all right. seeing no further discussion, although, is there any public

comment? >> okay. we'll call for the vote. all those in favor, signify -- any absentia? the motion carries. >> clerk: item four is the approval of the minutes of the may 10, 2018 special meeting. this item is for discussion and action. >> it's been moved by commissioner wan. any discussion? >> clerk: we'll take a vote. >> public comment. >> public comment. is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none -- >> okay. seeing none, all those in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? motion carries.

thank you. >> clerk: the next item is item five. members of the public may address the commission on items not on today's agenda. >> seeing no discussion, next item. >> clerk: all right. the next item is item six, presentation of the commission on the environment environmental service award to gwynn maccan he kellen. this item is for discussion. >> thank you. welcome. >> this item will be presented

by commissioner wald. >> thank you. thank you, president bermejo. this evening, i must say i'm honored to present the commission on the environment environmental service award to gwy gwynn mckellen. it was created two years to aword to individuals who help the commission on the environment achieve its sustainable environment awards. over the past ten years, gwynn has led numerous community campaigns for the department all as a volunteer. she has logged more than 500 hours as an intern and over 1,000 hours as a volunteer.

the department of the environment sends teams to street fairs and community events to educate the public about our latest campaigns and time and again, gwynn has been there at so many events to be the bright human face of the department. at times, she's even worn a costume. in addition to representing the department at public events, gwynn led a zero-waste audit at city hall, assisted with mandatory composting and advocated for the plastic bag ban. her volunteerism doesn't end with this department. she was the lead organizer at the sierra club in passing cleanpower cleanpowersf legislation, led community cleanups in the kpegs i don't remember with sf public works, volunteered with walk sf for over four years, and

secured a new signalized crosswalk on geneva. she is a youth monitor and celebrates her birthdays with events that include planting trees, cleaning up the beach and working on urban farms. the commission and the department work every day to change behavior to address our growing climate crisis, and there you are, gwynn, every day on the front lines being the change. we need more people like you in our departments, volunteer, and internships program, as well as in the world at large. i understand you are moving to portland for grad school. it's our loss, but we are happy to see you seeking this higher education. as a small token of

appreciation from the department and the commission on the environment, we are very excited and thrilled to present you with the san francisco commission on the environment environmental service award for your partnership and your commitment to sustainability and environmental protection in san francisco. would you like to say a few words? [applause] >> thank you so much, commissioners, and director, for the honor. i really appreciate it. i just wanted to say the reason i volunteered at the department for so many years has to do with the people at the department. you have a really, really great staff that are dedicated and enthusiastic and fun to work with, and so they're the reason people like me keep coming back. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you -- oh, don't go away yet.

i want to ask if the commissioners have anything to add. yes, director raphael? >> so gwynn, the numbers that are associated with you are pretty darn staggering and impressive. when i think about where our world is right now, and i think about the challenge we have of eco anxiety where it's just overwhelming, and people tend to shut it out and get apathetic and curl into a bowl, the antiaction is action, and it's bigger than us, and this is something that each of us can take our small step for the bigger good. when i think about that, i think about how you take that and you embody that because you couldn't do anything else. it's just who you are, so i

know when you go to portland, you're bringing all of that energy, that can-do, that willingness to put yourself on the line and yourself out there for the greater good, and i'm -- as commissioner wald said, i'm so grateful that people like you are here because i inspire me and you -- because you inspire me and you inspire everyone around you, so thank you so much for being who you are. [applause] >> and stay up there. >> yes. for public comment, if threw any comments credit commissioners? sfl there's -- >> there's a couple of us that want to say -- is this the time? >> yes. >> so i'm glad we're here, celebrating you. it's been ten years. you know, i consider myself the lucky one because you've done a lot of projects for the city of san francisco. not only the department but i'm

really the lucky one because i've spent the most time with gwynn and have really become dear friends. she was one of the first people to see my new daughter born seven years ago. i celebrate her birthdays with her. we've travelled, we've camped together, so you're going to be missed. and i just want to point out your versatility. it was mentioned a minute ago, but i just want to show how willing and able you were to get the job done. if we can show it. so here's a shot -- am i doing it? -- with mayor ed lee. if you recall, this was the community clean team in chinatown. we were kicking off the season, oh, my god, calling gwynn really late. can you be sleeping? she's like sure, but don't tag me on facebook. but now that you're leaving, i'm going to tell everyone, where was you?

she also had the name before she wore this costume, green gwynn. i can't imagine the san francisco action network without you. i guess i'll have to get used to it. but when we started the action network, we started the grassroots arm of the department, green gwynn was a lead organizer. she was the first one to knock on the doors in the sunset to promote composting. i couldn't have done my job without her consistent volunteer time. so i just want to recognize you today and so happy that you're moving onto -- to something that you've been wanting to achieve for a long time, and i have a reason to go to portland now. >> so sunshine, can you identify yourself? >> oh, sunshine. >> and your role? >> the community relations coordinator for the department. >> thank you. >> good afternoon.

i'm kevin duram, the residential zero waste coordinator, and i had a pleasure of working with gwynn in those early days, particularly -- it was before environment now. in some respects, gwynn fore hawed owed and -- fore shadowed and showed the kind of work we could do when we get on the street. it goes to the credibility of the work that sunshine and gwynn built to take the leap to go to environment now, which was the time. there's more to it than just the voluntary hours. there's really a lot of tief trust and constituency in the department and in the community that gwynn has been a part of. thank you. >> thank you. anyone else? [applause] >> and before we go to our next award, i just want to say that at the end of the second presentation, we'll have a photo of the awardees.

and with that, i'll turn it over to our wonderful new commissioner, commissioner sullivan. >> thank you, president bermejo. once anthony gives me the go ahead. so this evening, i'm pleased to present our second annual commission on the environment environmental service award to the tender loyloin district. today as we talk about the city's goal of sustain ability organization, it's fitting to recognize an organization that's working on the ground in the tennerloin neighborhood to keep our kids walking to school while building community. safe passage is a partner in the department's safe routes to school efforts. we will hear more about the safe routes to school later in the meeting, but basically, it

supports an encourages kids and their families to choose sustainable modes of transportation such as biking, walking transit, and carpooling to school instead of driving alone or their parents driving alone, i guess. but how do we encourage thousands of school aged children in the tenderloin to walk to school when the streets may not always feel safe? a group of mothers had the answer and developed the program through the tenderloin community benefits district. volunteers are assigned to street corners and are trained to respond to emergencies including rerouting the children to avoid unsafe situations. not only is this an opportunity to keep the students safe and physically active, the program also provides street captains the opportunities for growth, leadership, and development. it's hard to express in words what a phenomenal program this is, so we have a short video that we want to show.

sfgtv -- oh, there you go. you've got it. [video playin

>> we can clap now. [applause] >> yes, very moving. and greg, would you like to

come forward and say a few words? >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you so much for the invitation to come and accept this award. on behalf of everyone at the tlcbd and safe passage, we are both excited and honored to be recognized for the important work we do. who would have thought that ten years ago when a group of moms got together to express concern about the safety of their kids, that in ten years, we'd be looking at -- at what has resulted? a classic example of grassroots organizing in effect. we've grown to the point now where we have not only our safe passage work in the afternoon that we're helping kids be safe, but seniors be safe in the morning. we've got work going on at one

of our neighborhood parks with rec and park department. and then, last year, last september, we began working with sf environment and our other partner agencies on safe routes to school. i've got our two bayview and soma coordinators who have been leading the charge in trying to begin safe passage-like efforts in those neighborhoods. with me here, two women who have done amazing work in just the short ten months that we've been building this effort, and we look forward to more. in fact, tatiana has successfully recruited and has three corner captains on the ground in soma. they started in may, and are continuing through the summer and will continue into the fall, so i invite you, if you're around bessie

carmichael, to go looking for us. we'll be there, but we look forward to continuing on with this work, and again, thank you so much for the honor. >> commissioners, thank you so much. >> and we actually have a physical award, so i'll be down there in a second. but let me read it. the san francisco commission on the environment recognizes the tenderloin community benefit district safe passage program for contributing to the environmental well-being of the city and county of san francisco. it doesn't say this, but i would just go onto say, in the classic san francisco way of combining efforts with community, what a great way to do it. >> well said. any other comments, commissioners? commissioner wald? >> thank you. where is the thing? all of our award winners -- [applause] >> -- are so terrific and so wonderful and -- and so

important to this -- to the city and the communities that reside here. i'm just wondering, and i should know the answer, but do we have a little place on our website where people can press a button and find out about these wonderful people and the people that we've honored in the past just as a way to make everybody who goes to our website who needs a little boost, who needs to be reminded, you know, how committed and able and talented and effective members of the frisk community really are? and i would just love to see that -- san francisco community really are? and i would just love to see that everybody that we've benefited, but i it would be a

great -- it would be a great way to see who we owe our thanks and benefit to. >> commissioner, that's an outstanding idea, and i will work with sarah and others on the outreach team to see about putting profiles up. i think that is a great idea. greg, i understand you have a nickname in the tenderloin. i think my team has told me, much to mayor breed's chagrin, when you walk around, people call you mr. mayor because you personally have so much connection to the tender linlo so i thank you for that. this commission meeting is dedicated to getting people out of their cars, and while that may seem simple, it's -- understanding what the barriers

are is so critical, and if a barrier is safety, i don't feel safe sending my child outside of my car, then, we have to address that. and what you have done in the tenderloin and now in the bayview and in soma is say we can address that, and we can do that with the community as our champions. we don't need government to figure this out, we can figure this out by tapping into our own strengths. so it's incredibly inspiring what you have done, and i just want to express my deep gratitude and appreciation for the work. >> thank you. is there any public comment? >> hi there. margaret mccarthy, senior transportation specialist, department of the environment. i just wanted to add a few words of praise. you've already seen how

fantastic their work is, and we are so glad that they are a part of the safe routes to school partnership as is sf environment, as director raphael was just saying, part of what safe passage offers is not just a safe walk to school for children but a joyful walk to school, and i think having that goal of what if every child could have not just a safe, but a joyful and enjoyable walk to school, a walk that's forming memories and friendships, is really part of what transforms their effort, and you see how even though it's just a brief passage through the streets, they make it a different neighborhood for the time that they're there. it's very special work that they do, and we're so glad to have them as a partner. >> thank you. any other comments? in that case, it's time for a photo. okay.

so come forward.

[inaudible] >> so many reasons to be proud to be san franciscans, and when you hear about the great work in the community, and especially the memory that these children are getting because they feel safe about going to school. it also is a positive thing about staying in school, so thank you for all the work that you do. and with that, anthony, next item. >> clerk: the next item is item 8, discussion of frisk's climate action strategy on sustainable transportation. the commission on the environment conducts public

education and outreach to the community on san francisco's sustainable -- [inaudible] >> and so this item, we're going to hold our question out of the respect for our visiting presenters, but feel free to ask any clarifying questions during the presentations, but let's have the longer ones for after the third presentation. also, a note to the public that we will take public comment at the end of this item, after the third presentation so we're not forgetting about anyone. okay? drof raphael? >> thank you, president bermejo. so again, we're going to be discussing the city's goal from

sing of transportation, single occupancy vehicles, that's one person percar to more sustainable modes, like public transit, walking, biking. that is what we heard in the president's opening remarks. the wonky word for that, getting people out of cars into these other modes is called mode shift, so you will probably hear that word a lot tonight? mode shift, so that's the transportation planner's way of saying getting people out of their cars. and while sustainable transportation has been woven into many of the commission meetings that we've had, it's actually been two years since we had a meeting on this, and so i'm just looking at that, and i don't know if the next slide is -- no, it's not. okay. so what's interesting about this slide is it's out of date. so this slide is our old climate action strategy which

is 5-50-100 routes. -- 0-50-100 routes. as she said, this slide is out of date because we've surpassed 50. the m.t.a., the municipal transportation agency needed to up that number, and they upped it to 80. so now our strategy is 0-80-100 routes, and we're going to be hearing about how we did that and celebrating in that success. so what's interesting is if you look at our greenhouse gas he mission -- so here's my wonk slide. so this is looking at the transportation sector, so transportation alone is 46% of our emissions, and so that's a

huge amount of co2 emissions coming out of the transportation sector. the red on this chart is vehicles. so while b.a.r.t. is about 5%, caltrain is about 2%, really what we're going to have to do is tackle cars and trucks. so in order to tackle the car part of cars and trucks, we need to get pea people out of their cars. and in fact, our department, the department of the environment works very hard on this issue. we are a small but mighty team in the commission on the environment. we support our agencies in another wonky term which is called transportation demand management, so transportation demand, we're managing the

demand for transportation and hoping to do mode shift. so you're going to hear tonight about how we do mode shift, how we get people out of their cars. as we heard in one of the awards, one way you get people out of their car social security to make them feel safe. so we're lucky to have wonderful partners. the department of the environment, this is a very small program, though we are very proud of it, and this is a very large, complicated body of agency who deal with transportation. we have two of them here tonight, the san francisco municipal transportation agency or affectionately known at m.t.a., and the san francisco county transportation authority, affectionately known at c.t.a., and they are the ones taking and moving the needing, and we are encouraging them, and lucky to brainstorm with them. i'm very impressed with the work those entities do, and i'm

proud to call them partners. so tonight you're going to hear three presentations to offer sort of a snapshot of this 80 goal. the first presentation, we'll be looking at what the department of the environment is doing, specifically our outreach efforts. then we'll hear from the m.t.a., what the city is doing in their own programs, and finally admitting that transportation is ultimately a regional challenge. we will hear from the county transportation authority, the c.t.a. so we believe that it's critical to start young. this is not an unusual strategy for the department of the environment. we have a very robust school education program, as you know, on zero waste, and simile, we think about transportation from that same lens. we need to encourage families to walk and bike, take transit and carpool, and we're working with our nonprofit partners and other city departments to do that. we are focusing on the broad

range of children so children with disabilities and also who i would call geographically challenged. as you know, in san francisco, it's very common for children not to go to school in their neighborhood schools, which means that walking and even biking to school is not really an option. they just live too far away. and so what we're understanding is one of the barriers to carpools is that physical match, that ability to be match makers and bring people together. it saves the money on their commutes, and it helps us reach our sustainability goals. so sarah peters from our outreach team has been one of the team members working on the range of programs that we're doing to get kids to school. so with that, i will let sarah take it away and talk about safe routes to school. thanks, sarah. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is sarah peters outreach assistant for department of environment and some of this beginning stuff

might sound like a broken record but it's just to give some contextual background and information on why we're talking about carpooling. so with that, i have your 80 updated slide here, 0-80-100 route. san francisco has goals of 0% waste, 80% trips, and 100% renewable energy. with that, a little bit deeper dive on that 80% of sustainable trips. so for that climate action goal as president bermejo already stated, sustainable trips are everything aside from pretty much a single occupancy trip so things like walking, biking, taking public transit or in our case for this presentation,

carpooling. so one of the ways that sf environment does this outreach is through our safe routes to school partnership. as you can see here, we definitely do not do this work alone. there are many partner organizations, community organizations as well as city agencies that are part of this coalition working to promote healthy and active ways to get to and from school and also after school programs. so department of public health, m.t.a., sfusd, walk sf, san francisco bike coalition, why bike, tenderloin safe passage, which we heard about all earlier, and m.t.a. all funded through the county transportation authority. so why do we want to talk about carpooling? in the past several years, the department of environment has

really taken an active role in promoting carpool as one of those ways to reach our sustainable transportation goals. and a recent study found that 48% of sfusd families do drive alone regularly when they're commuting to and from school. so they actually have a goal of 30% by 2030, so that's going to take a lot of work to get there. so one of the ways we are doing this is by promoting carpooling. as director raphael mentioned, while safe routes promotes all of those four fun ways as we call them of getting to school, many families and children don't live near their school so it can make biking and walking and taking public transportation quite a challenge. so one of the ways we want to do this is letting them know that there might be families who live nearby who are in their neighborhood who are also

attending the same public school or same school in general. so in january and february of 2018, we ran a carpool campaign, carpool to school, and this was targeted towards elementary and middle school aged children in san francisco for all across san francisco schools, public and private and charter. so we want to get those single-family -- we want to get those people to know and understand that there is another option and families like them are able to carpool to school. so we ran outdoor advertisements, digital advertisements, as well as social media advertisements and are continuing -- in our continuing grassroots outreach. for this presentation, i'm really going to focus on the advertising portion and not as much on the grassroots portion.

so we use three messages to demonstrate the benefit of carpooling centered around the carpooling allows you to get a sneak peek into your child's life that you might not have otherwise. so when you're driving your kid to school one-on-one, it's usually a quiet ride. but if you're driving and there's a friend in the car with them, they're probably chatting, interacting, and this is your time to see that. so we wanted to promote that way of benefiting from a carpool. so we had -- it's a little bit hard to read here, but it says carpool to school and share in finding a bestie, share the joy of a third grade crush, a little bit risky on that one, and share in an 8:00 a.m. karaoke session. so we took those three messages, and we used them on outdoor advertisements as well as digital media.

so because we wanted to reach drivers, we had to find where they were at. so this meant we couldn't use the traditional bus shelter ad because we don't want people who are already riding the bus to jump in their car. we had to use other modes. so this advertisement, we had 75 different buses throughout the city with those three messages driving around. so if you were in a car stuck in traffic at a stop light, you were going to see this message. we also put them on junior bill boards, which are the bill boards a little bit more integrated in neighborhoods. not the one that you would see on a freeway sign but the one that's above a local convenience store or something. that's one on fulton and masonic, right above the sta starbucks.

we wanted to reach parents at our target schools who had high drive alone rates, so we focused the bill boards specifically around 12 target schools that had those high drive alone rates. so there was 25 bill boards spread closer to those 12 target schools. we also had a pandora radio ad that we created for this, using the same messages. so we took that carpool karaoke message and turned into a fun pop message that would play on the pandora radio, and we target it had to stations that were more like pop music, not things like metal or rock or things that parent would likely not be playing on their community to school or work or whatnot. and then, again, we took that same messages to keep that cohesive message all across platforms, and we promoted it on our social media account.

so we used the sf media brand and took the three messages and promoted them as advertisements directly to a targeted audience of parents with school aged children in san francisco. so they might have seen it out of home, heard it on the radio or seen it on-line through social media. and the last one was facebook. here it is again on instagram, all linking back to the safe routes to school carpool page. one of the unique things we did with this campaign is we wanted to have a secondary message that was coming directly from parents themselves. so we reached out and worked with five parents who had a child in a san francisco school, and we had them share a -- a short paragraph on their own social media accounts to share with their friends and followers what carpooling meant and the importance of it. and we had them take their own photo of their own carpool group. so here, this one, from rowena,

when i get the opportunity to eavesdrop on their shenanigans on the way to school, i can't help but smile. carpooling is that time where you actually get to spend with their child and see them interacting with friends. here's another one from heidi. it's the small window of time with my kids and their friends that i cherish and learn a tidbit more about them each day. we took an opportunity to display them by using the sf environmental social media account. this was a different parent influencer used on our twitter account. and overall these had a really high success rate of engagement on social media by using that parent influencer approach. and again, we cannot do this work alone. our on-line and out of home advertisements can only work if

we're doing on the ground outreach. so as part of the entire school year and every school year, we have ongoing grassroots outreach by utilizing the department's environment now team along with the safe routes to school outreach ateam, we're able to have face-to-face conversations and specifically talk to them about carpooling. so for this campaign, we were able to talk to them at p.t.a. meetings while they're driving to and from school, so we're actually talking to them in the car where we're at and trying to -- hallie is not here tonight because she was sick, is she was talking to a car driving in car a, and someone behind her was telling her they're in the same neighborhood. so they're doing match up on the spot. this outreach was multilingual, so it was in spanish and c

cantonese as well as english. so how did our campaign do, i should say? we had over 1200 face-to-face conversations throughout the year with parents and caregivers. 21 million impressions, which an impression is basically any time someone may have seen your campaign orthopaedic heard your campaign. so if they saw it as a digital ad on-line or a social ad or out of home, those all count as impressions. 2700 reactions, which is on social media alone, a pool of likes, comments, shares, a general engagement factor. and lastly, we had 11,000 page views during that campaign window in january and february to the newly redesigned safe routes to school website. so last year we actually redesigned the website and made

it a better user experience, mobile friendly and were able to kind of simplify the resources based on what mode someone might be looking for. so we were directing folks directly to that carpool landing page on the website which ended up being 68% of all website visits during that campaign window. so it shows that our outreach and advertising really did work and drives people to that website for resources and engagement. so with that, thank you for listening. >> the next item is item 8-b, presentation on san francisco reaching the milestone of 50% of trips made by sustainability form of transportation. the presenter is tim doherty, senior planner, san francisco

municipal transportation agency. >> president, can i introduce? >> director raphael? >> thanks. so in 2013, san francisco laid out its climate action strategy and set this goal of 50% trips sustainable modes. the goal felt very ambitious at that moment in time but we believed it was achievable. and as you've heard, we surpassed it, and the mayor announced the new goal of 80. and i just want to do a shoutout. at earth day breakfast, as tim, who's here, knows we did a reveal of the 80, and all of the outreach team had to change every piece of branded material we had from 0-50 to 0-80-100 rebranded routes, so thank you very much team for doing that. so tonight tim bother has graciously said he would join us, which i truly appreciate.

tim is a huge champion of sustainability within a very large organization, and he finds himself very frequently in our office as he finds himself in his because there's a vie tight and productive partnership between him and his colleagues and the colleagues that he has in the department of the environment. and in fact last year, in october, tim came to the policy committee to talk about the climate action strategy for m.t.a. so with that, i just want to say that we are incredibly grateful that you took the time, tonight, tim, to be here, and excited to hear, how did you get to 50? >> great. thank you very much for the introduction and thank you very much for inviting me to speak, and good evening, commissioners and director raphael and staff and public. while the bulk of my presentation is going to be sharing some findings have a 2017 travel decision survey. what i'm hoping i leave you

with is a better appreciation for the relationship between cities and how they manage their public right-of-way and our mobility choices and how that shapes our environment. i think there's a very strong correlation between all of that, and so it's an honor to be here with you this evening. so the title of my presentation is transit first in action, achieving the 2017 mode share goal and setting our sights on 2030. i'm going to spend a couple moments just providing a little bit of context on the transportation sector and greenhouse gas emissions, and i know some of these slides mighting slightly are you done dan. -- might be slightly redundant. i want to mention the department of the environment that have developed a really amazing climate dashboard, and some of the data that i'm

pulling tonight comes from that. all of this information is available on the web if you want a little bit more information. but i think there's two real take aways from the slide here. you can see here, these are the city's greenhouse gas emissions from 1990, which is our baseline year, to 2016, which is the last year that an inventory was conducted. i think a really great message here and something the city should celebrate is the significant rubbings the city has realized since 1990, almost a 30% reduction while the city has seen tremendous economic growth and has increased in population. i think the other thing to take away from this slide when we look at the transportation sector, which is the blue area on the top of every chart, while this has decreased about 9% over that same time period, it has been particularly stubborn, in large part, because of the sector's reliance upon carbon intensive fossil fuels. when we look at the 2016

numbers, they mirrored some of the earlier slides, you can see some of those opportunities and challenges. and i think one important story that we need to tell within san francisco is the role of public transit as a strong climate tool. and you can see why i -- i am an -- i'm going to argue for that position. when you think about the million or so people that move throughout san francisco on public transit, which is safe, affordable, reliable, helps us build a more equitiable city, and you realize only about 9% of the sector's emissions calm from that form of mobility, you realize the alignment of public health, environment, economics, all coming together. and i think we're going to see that 8%, which is generally from caltrain, b.a.r.t., and ferries, shrink even