metropolitan area, which means that three counties are grouped together by the feds. that includes marin and san mateo, so i'll stop there. >> good morning. my name's john melicar, and i'm with chip. chip is a branch within the population health division that is primarily responsible for h.i.v. presentation funds -- prevention funds. we've received funds for this for about 30 years. these funds are only offered to help departments through funding opportunity 181802. it comes in two different components. the first component is one that is in a grant form, and that we were -- we did not have to apply for, we just had to explain our services. it's changed in two ways from previously.

the c.d.c. has made this an integrated epi and prevention grant which means that we plan and report to the c.d.c. on both of those activities. operationally for us, it doesn't make a lot of difference because we've always worked very closely with epi to get the information to do our planning. the other changes for component a is that it represents about a 22% decrease from the previous funding cycles, which c.d.c. has been decreasing over time. we'd like to thank the board of supervisors, the department, and the mayor for their ongoing backfills of this. component b is a competitive part of the grant, and san francisco was one of the two jurisdictions in the country that received this. because the health outcomes and h.i.v. rates for the homeless

and injection drug uses have plateaued or decreased, we are pledging outreach to street medicine or other linkage efforts. >> president cohen: thank you. i actually have a couple questions. annually, the ryan white funding is always cut or we don't receive as much as we anticipate. and we certainly have -- certainly i've been on the board eight years, so to the best of my knowledge, we are always asked through the best of our budget process, to do a backfill. can you explain to me the reason why this happens all the time? >> sure. you know, ryan white act actually has expired. they don't work to reauthorize it because of the danger that it wouldn't actually pass. so at the federal level, they continue to fund it, but what they fund it as at flat funding, and as time goes by, funding is

determined by incidents of or prevalence of h.i. vichv. or ai a given area. cases are expanding most recently in the southeast united states, most recently, southwest, so there's different areas competing for the same pot of funding. >> sounds like there's no relief until congressional seats change and there's a little bit more progressive minded folks occupying in the white house. >> correct. >> okay. so we should -- during our budget process should just plan to set aside -- what exactly would be a fair amount? >> you know, it's fluctuated. we had a really, really big cut about seven years ago, i want to say, when pelosi was unable to secure additional stop loss. i can go back and provide you an exact number, but i think if you

annuali annualize it, it 's been about 1.5 to 3% cut each year. >> president cohen: thank you. i'm just looking forward in anticipation. we've always been fortunate to have the resources, whether on reserve -- well, they come from the reserve, is that correct and i'm looking to the budget director. perhaps she can opine a little bit about these particular cuts. i'm grateful we always have the resources to backfill them, but i'm fearful if there's ever a day that comes to us that we won't due to a severe economic downturn. i'm going to pivot back to the budget office director, kelly kirk patrick to answer. >> thank you, director cohen. yes, we work closely with d.p.h. staff in the spring to understand anticipated potential cuts to both ryan white and c.d.c. related funding.

and we've been fortunate enough, as you stated, to backfill almost all of those over the last five, six, seven years. and so we work very closely with the department. we will keep the board apprised as the information comes through, but it is always top of mind as we work with the department on the budget in the spring. >> president cohen: can you give me a range as to what -- >> we have an analysis. i don't know offhand, but we can get that to you. in coordination with d.p.h., we work with them on that. >> president cohen: okay. one more question related to the ryan white funding. what's the level of grant funding that we've received from each of the two grants that we're talking about today? what's that level of funding, and how does it compare to what we're approving today? is it less? are you noticing a trend where it's decreasing, are you noticing a trend where it's increasing? >> these are great questions, and actually, we are -- we sit in two different branchs, and we work very closely together, and

so we are -- we are kind of one, but we're also a little bit separate, different application processes. so in terms of the ryan white part a, you should know there's ryan white part b, c, d, e, and f, so this is a piece of the pie. but i think the question that you're asking, is that this amount represents the bulk of the federal fund we get, and it's slightly less than half of the total amount we get. the rest is general fund. have i answered your question? >> president cohen: yes. okay. that's all i have. i appreciate your time. colleagues, do you have any questions? all right. the b.l.a. has no report. all right. we will go to public comment on items five and six. seeing none, public comment is closed. all right. i'll make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation. thank you.

without objection. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: please, item seven. >>clerk: item seven, resolution proofing an afmta contract with all top for vendor management transportation to manage parts for the fleet for a total term of three years to commence upon approval by the board of supervisors. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. we've got this legislation before us is sponsored by supervisor tang and it's got mr. john haley from m.t.a. to speak to us on this. >> good morning, chair cohen, supervisors. some seven or eight years ago, we came to this body with a proposal to overhaul the rail and the bus fleets for the sfmta, and with your support, we have made tremendous strides in improving our maintenance and the reliability of our fleets. the action in front of you today is a request to make permanent a

contract that results from a very successful five-year pilot program which i renewed twice, and which we appreciate that has led to a tremendous improvement not only in our day-to-day reliability of our old cars, which many are older than 20 years, but also our historic vehicles. so just briefly to highlight the importance of this program -- go ahead -- one more, please. okay. thank you. i just want to point out that prior to the introduction of a vendor managed inventory, which fills a key void in the city classification and personnel systems because there's -- what this contract does is give us an individual that manages the inventory on a day-to-day basis. as a result of that, when you go back to the times before this

contract, what you had most importantly was not only sometimes inspections and repairs being done and not having any parts, cars being on hold for parts, but most importantly, we have virtually eliminated at this point a practice where we took parts off of one train to put them on another, referred to as canniballizing parts, and that needs to not happen. we've moved beyond that in this contract. i think this allows us to better plan and forecast. this is a major business improvement for us. it's also increased our reliability of our fleet. the biggest customer complaint we have remains crowding. this contract has been a vital management tool to help us improve maintenance on our older fleets while we introduce a brand-new fleet to deal with our growth and expansion.

some of the results, just specifically, we've got our car availability. that means we're putting cars on the street 20% greater. another one i would point out is the parts consumption over a five year period. that's one of the best indicators that we're doing our maintenance on schedule, we're replacing the parts that the manufacturers say we should replace. that's a commitment we made to this body several years ago and we'll continue to honor that. and having this management tool has been a key element in our fulfilling that commitment. i'd just point out here again, this is an improved business practice. it allows us to better plan and operator inventory, reduce our inventory. here's a shot of a nearby warehouse where we have access to parts and get them down once we're there.

or -- our ask today is that you approve this contract. we appreciate the work that the budget analyst has done. the contract would be for three years with two two-year options for an amount not to exceed $64.5 million. it's been a key element in helping us improve the reliability of the fleet, and we intend to use it even more aggressively going forward. so with that, i appreciate your time, and certainly available to answer any questions you might have. >> president cohen: supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: did we discuss how long this contract is for? oh, i see that -- did we -- this is from 2018 to 2037, is that

correct, the contract? >> it's a three-year with two two-year options, so starting right now, in 2019. >> supervisor fewer: in 2019. okay. thank you very much. >> president cohen: thank you. we'll hear from the budget legislative analyst at this time. >> yes. this contract was selected through competitive process. it was the highest ranked proposer, and as mr. haley said, it's a three year contract with two two-year extensions for a total of seven years. our budget is on page three of the report. it shows a total budget of 64.5 million. we recommend approval. >> president cohen: thank you for the recommendation. we will go to public comment on item seven. any member of the public please come. all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, i see no names on the roster, so i'm assuming

there are no questions. i make a motion to approve and send this to the full board with a positive recommendation, and we can take that without objection. thank you. [ gavel ] cope co [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: madam clerk, is there any further business before us? >>clerk: no, there's no further business. >> president cohen: thank you. we are adjourned. coseen

. >> thank you to all of you for being here. to the mayor's office for dreaming this project up with us in the first place, to supervisor kim for showing us how to do it, and to the mayor today for sharing the space with us. and especially to the community here in the tenderloin who have welcomed us over the last two years. we're here because we know the power of community owned businesses to create opportunities for asset generation in low-income communities and for everyone. my first informal meal in the bay area was at a small table in a one bedroom apartment at leavenworth and hyde. they took orders from myself and ten strangers, delivering some of the most delicious mexico city style food in the business. the tenderloin, like all communities that faced economic barriers has a really vibrant economy. we've worked with low-income and women entrepreneurs across the bay for 13 years.

although cocina has won numerous awards, their air of mothers that cook in s.r.o.'s that cook for each other. there are sidewalk barbecues nearly every day and the best bay areas that gauadalupe's goig to tell you about in a bit. this represents not just the soul of this city but the soul of other cities. this project aims to celebrate all. it's a public space fuelled by women entrepreneurs and focused on equitiable place making and

economic opportunity. i saw an interview with mayor breed the other day where she noted some of her favorite places toet were eddy's cafe and pancho villa. food businesses are obvious the first step a family can take towards economic freedom. their physical claiming of space in our neighborhoods and cities, and they're representations of the places that we live. when we run up against road blocks in the two years that we've been considering this project, we've wondered if we can't do this, and then, who would want to live in a place that doesn't make opportunities possible? this is the risk, the crisis that our cities are in. we believe that all cities can do what we are doing here. through public support, private

investment and community power, we plan to build the first all women led food hall in the country. those talented women will hire -- [applause] >> those talented women will hire and create pathways to wealth while serving the communities that raised them and creating a space where everyone is welcome. it's a place for families, workers, lunches, homework, and dreaming. we ask you today to imagine what that place could be while you're in this space, what this space could mean to a community. but also, have you to imagine what it might mean for places like that not to exist anymore. imagine a city without those dreamers, without those foods. we are so excited to show you how possible a better city is. thank you for believing in us and being here today. thank you to supervisor kim and a really special thank you to mayor breed, who joins us today.

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: good afternoon, everybody. i am so excited to be here today. i walked in the room, and it really smelled like my grandmother's house. ho now, my grandmother was a great cook, and people on the street that i grew up, on eddy and laguna, always knew they could come by at certain times of year to buy things. my grandmother made the best tamales, the best gumbo. and some of you may not know what hog's head cheese is, but hog's head cheese. she made them a lot of times with the free food we received from the government. she could make the best macaroni and cheese from the cheese that we received from the government. some of you know what i'm

talking about. part of our ability to survive had a lot to do with my grandmother being an entrepreneur in public housing where she offered up what she was able to do. what an incredible thing to do here today, to give so many amazing women, especially the support that this provides to minority women and women of our immigrant community who are looking for an opportunity to support their families with their talents, with their amazing food. and it means a lot that so many of you here today have worked to make something like this possible, to take a space that is going to be used for even more good when we are able to invest the necessary dollars for our much needed affordable housing here, to use it in this capacity, is going to make this an incredible space full of excitement, full of love, and yes, full of great food. so i just wanted to stop by and stay congratulations for your

efforts. thank you, caleb and supervisor kim for your leadership and having the foresight to see that you could make something like this possible. and also enthuse for being one of the few events that i'm able to attend where there is food, because food is, i think, something that brings so many people together. i was actually at glide yesterday, and someone who remembered me, she used to baby-sit me, and she said that my grandmother used to feed her as a way to pay her to baby-sit us when we were kids. i mean, i didn't remember her, but clearly, she knew my grandmother, my mama, priscilla. clearly, food is something that brings people together. it makes people happy, and what an incredible way to share your talents with the world and also make a lot of san franciscans happy. thank you all so much for being here, and please, support these

businesses when you see them out and about, get to know them, and use them for catering opportunities. what a great way to support businesses than here's a way to use them for ways in which they could actually benefit people throughout san francisco, and i'm looking forward to seeing this place come to life, so they are also, i know, looking for more donations. i know this was a partnership with the city, but we are definitely looking for more did he -- donations to make this dream for so many more women a reality. thank you for being here today. with that, i'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the supervisor for this district, supervisor jane kim. [applause] >> supervisor kim: thank you, mayor breed for joining us in the tenderloin neighborhood. i always like to call this your second district. it is so great to be here today.

101 hyde has always been a special place for our residents because so many residents live in single room occupancy hotels where they don't have access to mail. this was the space where people could get their checks, be connected to the world, and when the post office shut this site down with federal budget cuts, it was a huge loss for our community. and when we learned that it was sold to built market race housing, i think that was one of the more depressing news and updates in this neighborhood. but for whatever reason when the owner wasn't able to build, and we were negotiating, market street for the masses, they said

you know what? we really need affordable housing that our residents can afford, and they often can't afford the inclusionary housing in the market rate buildings. through that negotiation with many people that were here in the room, over the course of those weeks, we negotiated a deal where shore sea agreed to buy this property so we could donate it for 100% affordable housing. [applause] >> supervisor kim: however, we know that building housing takes time and randy shaw had the f e forsy foresight to know that that it may take ten years to build it for the community. over the last two years, we have

seen an up tick in activities with the closure of this site. so we want to make sure that the block was activated. randy suggested that we bring in a marketplace similar to the hall on market street where we could showcase our residents and develop a meeting that could be -- a site that would be a community hub, a place to eat, and of course a place where we can showcase our immigrant entrepreneurs. a little over 30 years ago, my mom was able to bring together loans from different family members and friends to open a small business, and through that small business, she was able to grow an income for my family and eventually buy a home. being able to incubate a small business for so many of our immigrant women, it's what allows our families to grow in our city, to contribute to our economy, but also raise our families here in the city. la cocina has been that incubator site, and i'm so happy they were able to come in. this was not easy to do. it took a lot of advocacy, a lot

of fund raising, and also city support. and i want to recognize mayor breed and the office for committing additional funds to make sure that we could deliver this site in an affordable manner, and delivering in an affordable manner means that we can reduce the prices on the menus so that residents can afford to eat here, as well, and that's -- [applause] jane jac>> supervisor kim: tha commitment that la cocina and the city has made so that all of the residents can enjoy food her every single day. so i want to thank all of the partners that were involved. i'm so excited to come here and try the food of many prir entrepreneurs. i think many of us would not be able to standup to the chefs

that this neighborhood has, and we're all excited for its opening. thank you to everyone involved. [applause] >> hello. i am operations manager at la cocina. i would like to introduce you to guadalupe morena. she is owner of la cocina, and she will share her story. [speaking spanish]

[applause] >> i am now going to be translating that for guadalupe. hello. my name is guadalupe morena, and i want to welcome you to my neighborhood. i live here with my husband and three kids. when we arrived in mexico, we picked this neighborhood because the rents were reasonable and because the rest of my family lived here. we came to this area because my husba husband's sister, veronica salazar, also lives here. now i'm starting my own business at la cocina, it's called m mi morena. i love sharing my mexican culture with people. i cook for you like i cook for my family. we sell at the mission community market on thursdays, and i'm

really excited to think that next year in this old post office we could share our food to our neighborhood. i think it's going to be something wonderful for this area to have a space we can come to with our families, eat lunch and dinner and just relax and enjoy. we don't really have anyplaces like this, so the marketplace is going to be very important for my family. thank you for this opportunity that la cocina and the city of san francisco has given us. for me as a local resident, entrepreneur and immigrant woman, i really appreciate your support. thank you. [applause] >> and i'm now going to introduce karina mora. [speaking spanish]

[applause] >> okay. i have called the tenderloin my home for the last ten years, since i left yucatan, mexico. i am the mother of a six-year-old daughter, raquel,

who brings joy to my life. la voz is primarily a resource center but focuses on the economic and social development of our community. for this reason, i listened to the proposal of caleb and his team, and i'm happy to be part of the team in the tenderloin to make it a reality. on several occasions i have expressed my desire to make a radical change of this portion of market street. it's time for hyde street 101 to be known for its delicious and affordable food and not for the sale of drugs. i want to give you a welcome to la cocina. [applause] >> karen taylor from central

city collaboratives. >> hello, everyone. my name's karen. i'm very happy to be here. i have been a resident of the tenderloin neighborhood since 2005. this neighborhood is underserved. there are 11 stores within a three block radius of where i live where you can purchase cigarettes, liquor, cheap candy, and lottery tickets. there are no grocery stores. if you want a safeway or a target, you have to take a bus. if you would like the more economical options, foodco, food 4 less, you have to ride that bus even further. the addition of la cocina is filling a need in the tenderloin for fresh food at reasonable

prices. la cocina does bring additional benefits to this neighborhood in addition to the delicious food. i once derelict corner gets revitalized, becoming an oasis where people can gather and have a good time. the people who work hard to maybe this happen, neighborhood organizations, residents, entrepreneurs, get a victory, and well done, i might say. much needed advancement, another area where this neighborhood is underserved is broad here so that people who live in this neighborhood can have opportunities here where they improve their circumstances, where they serve this community and provide things that we need and where they build their futures right where they live. the quality of life in this neighborhood improves with the addition of the la cocina

marketplace. seniors, disabled people, young children, old people, all get benefits out of this. people that can't travel far can travel closer to home for healthy options with nutrition. people who struggle with illness now have a vital resource for staying healthy, good food. parents that work long and hard hours to keep their families housed in the t.l. will have closer options for feeding those families. this is a wonderful project, and it is a welcome addition to the tenderloin neighborhood. long live the market cocina. thank you. [applause] >> just another big thank you to karina, guadalupe, and carolina.

instead of a traditional ground breaking, la cocina has not done many traditional things. we thought we would be a little bit more metaphorical and invite mayor breed, supervisor kim, guadalupe, carolina up here for a ceremonial bread breaking. >> five, four, three, two -- [applause]

>> providing excellent customer service to each other so that we can succeed together. because we're a small division out here, and we're separated from the rest of the p.u.c., a lot of people wear a lot of different hats. everyone is really adept not just at their own job assigned to them, but really understanding how their job relates to the other functions, and then, how they can work together with other functions in the organization to solve

those problems and meet our core mission. >> we procure, track, and store materials and supplies for the project here. our real goal is to provide the best materials, services and supplies to the 250 people that work here at hetch hetchy, and turn, that supports everyone here in the city. i have a very small, but very efficient and effective team. we really focus hard on doing things right, and then focus on doing the right thing, that benefits everyone. >> the accounting team has several different functions. what happens is because we're so remote out here, we have small groups of people that have to do what the equivalent are of many people in the city. out here, our accounting team handles everything. they love it, they know it inside out, they cherish it, they do their best to make the system work at its most efficient. they work for ways to improve it all the time, and that's

really an amazing thing. this is really unique because it's everybody across the board. they're invested it, and they do their best for it. >> they're a pretty dynamic team, actually. the warehouse team guys, and the gals over in accounting work very well together. i'm typically in engineering, so i don't work with them all day on an every day basis. so when i do, they've included me in their team and treated me as part of the family. it's pretty amazing. >> this team really understanding the mission of the organization and our responsibilities to deliver water and power, and the team also understands that in order to do that, we have a commitment to each other, so we're all committed to the success of the organization, and that means providing excellent customer service to each other so that we can

>> good evening, everyone. i would like to call this meeting to order. anthony? >> clerk: good evening, this is a meeting of the san francisco commission on the environment, date is tuesday, september 25th, 2018. and the time is 5:01 p.m.. a reminder that the ringing and the use of cellphones and pagers and electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. be advised that the chair may order the removal of meeting room from any persons responsible for the ringing of the use of a cellphone or sound producing electronic devices. note to the public that there's public comment on every item as well as an opportunity for general public comment during item and for items not on the agenda. we ask that you fill out a speaker card and hand it to me

and i'll hand it to the chair and the chair will call folks in the order they receive them. and we will call folks up if they want to speak anonymously after we run through all of the speaker cards. with that, call to order and roll call. president bermejo, here. >> commissioner ahn is not present. commissioner hoyos. >> here. >> clerk: and commissioners mike sullivan. >> here. >> clerk: missioner stephenson is here. there is a quorum. the next item is the president's welcome, this is for discussion. >> president bermejo: thank you, everybody, for being here for the commission meeting today where we have several exciting items and we just want to make sure that i really thank everybody from the commission staff for all of the work they did during the global climate summit here in san francisco. a lot of work went into that and

i know that long hours so thank you on behalf of all of us commissioners. we'll discuss in the first regular item today the san francisco played host to the global climate action summit two weeks ago. it seems so like yesterday. the department worked closely with governor brown's office, the c-40 team and others to help with every aspect of the international summit. and i'm excited to hear all about the results and everything that happened because there was just so much going on. thanks to the department once again for engaging the commissioners. and the seven of us represented the department at 18 events across the city with various stakeholders. this evening we'll also perform our responsibility of reviewing the reduced risk pesticide list and consider the policy committee's recommendation. two very important presentations, indeed. so let's get to work. is there any public comment on

the president's welcome this evening? okay, hearing none, anthony. >> clerk: the next item is the approval of the meetings of the july 24th, 2018 environment special meeting and the document of july 24, 2018 draft minutes and this item is up for discussion and action. >> president bermejo: okay. may i have a motion to approve the draft minutes? commissioner? >> i so move. >> it's been moved by commissioner wald and seconded by commissioner hoyos to accept the draft minutes. all in favor? oh, just one second -- >> clerk: any discussion? >> president bermejo: any discuss? >> clerk: none. public comment? >> president bermejo: any public comment on the minutes? hearing none, all in favor? >> aye. >> president bermejo: any opposed? any abstentions in the motion

the motion passes to carry the minutes. next item. >> clerk: item 4, the general public comment. the members of the public may address the commission on items that are not on today's agenda. >> president bermejo: anybody that would like public comment on items that are not on the agenda today? okay. hearing none, we'll move on to the next item. anthony? >> clerk: approval of the concept agenda, an action item. item 5-a to accept the draft 2017 annual bi-green report. and the explanatory director is the draft 2017 annual buy green report. >> president bermejo: so this item was discussed in our policy committee and the committee recommended our approval.

this item is also a consent, so there's no discussion. any members that would like to pull this item from consent to have a discussion before our vote? either way we will be taking public comment. okay. i guess that we can move forward. there's -- so no public comment. then we'll vote on this item. all those in favor of approving the consent agenda signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> president bermejo: any opposed? any abstentions? motion carries. next item. >> clerk: a participation in the global climate action summit of 2018. this sponsor is deborah ravel director, and the wendy goodfriend, a program manager and charles sheahan with public affairs officer. this item is up for discussion. >> president bermejo: director raphael.

>> director raphael: thank you. president bermej bermejo, what h it has been. i have to say that i think that most of us, in fact, everyone that i have talked to felt that the global climate action summit exceeded any of our expectations. the mayor shone, the city shone, the world saw what we're capable of. i want to set a bit of context to why this was such an important moment. governor brown announced the summit because there wasn't a good place in the united nations process, in their conference of the parties, when they negotiate the paris agreement for what they call "sub-national actors." those are cities, states and regions. and being the governor of a very active state it was frustrating to him to go to paris and find that there was no place for a state leader at that

negotiations. when president trump made the decision to pull out of the paris accords, governor brown was motivated even more to tell the world what is possible at the local level. and it was no accident that when governor brown made the decision to hold this climate summit in california that he chose san francisco. i think that this commission is a testament to that. we have a commission on the environment, most counties, cities, do not have a commission on the environment, let alone a department of the environment. this is clearly a city with tremendous commitment to climate justice and to climate action. when i look back on what excited me the most about this experience, it was two things. the first was the people i met. everywhere i went there was somebody interesting from another jurisdiction, another country, business, a city, a non-profit, someone who decided

that san francisco was truly the most important place for them to be at that moment in time. why? because they shared our commitment to climate action. the second most wonderful part of this was to watch what staff and the commission did. there were so many people on our team at the department of the environment who got the opportunity to discover what they're capable of. they were given an opportunity to lead and many of them grabbed it and they discovered the challenges and the excitement of being in a leadership role and it was truly heartwarming for me to see those people excel. i'm not going to be able to list all of the people who did that but i just want to acknowledge that. first and foremost, of course, it was your participation and your willingness to represent the city and everything that we

stand for. i have here a thank you note for commissioner wan, you commissionererwan, went to a workshop called "civics is sexy," who knew? but thank you for being there and the organizers of it have sent you a thank you note that we'll pass down to you. on a more formal side, it doesn't sound nearly as fun but commissioner ahn and commissioner bermejo both went to the u.n. -- the united nations association of the u.s. and they got certificates of honor that said "in recognition of the professional contributions to the cause of climate justice." so there's one to commissioner ahn and there's one to president bermejo. so clearly they were incredibly honored that you came and spoke. and all of you participated and represented the city in so many different ways. i want to give a couple specific

call outs tonight for the record. i want to call out the deputy director of the department of the environment jennifer cast who took this on above and beyond her normal everyday craziness. she was the city's point person with the governor's office, with c-40, with anybody who had questions about the summit. she often is behind the scenes and she is truly the foundation of our success. i want to give a particular -- [applause] i want to say thank you to our policy and public affairs and press team, the charles sheahan and peter golada, amazing team. i don't see peter here but they worked hours and hours and hours to bring this -- to make the most of this event. wendy goodfriend and her climate

team who worked so hard on the commitments and navigating all of the different networks, c-40, and cnca, and usdm, and the acronym list goes on and on and wendy was the convener of them all. on the outreach side we have luke easdale and cara and the outreach team and, of course, sarah peters who did all of our social media. and i want to call out shawn rosenmoss on her own -- you will hear from her as well -- but the amount of collaborating, corralling and coordinating, the three cs, that shawn did looking at what i would call the unusual suspects. not the typical partners, but in the arts and the non-profit world and in the religious world, shawn was phenomenal and running around like a chicken with her head off as well trying

to get three places at once. and i want to thank in particular anthony. anthony put on the most phenomenal reception in our department that many of you were at. those of you who came, you saw our office transformed. it wasn't only transformed physically but transformed m metaphorically and emotionally as well, because the world was welcomed and we had amazing people from environmental justice advocates to the united nations, environment program leadership, to other cities from around the world. so, anthony, thank you. you went above and beyond. and, finally, i don't know if i see her, anya, who is the center of all things in the department, she kept her head, never lost her cool. and she was certainly the eye of the storm, the calm in the storm and i'm so grateful for everything that she did. so those are my thank you and i could go on in detail but i hope

that you were able to get a sense of the power of that week. what we want to do tonight is to step back and to celebrate a little bit about how did the city and the departments fare. so there's all of the big commitments and there's all of the wonderful things of bringing the world together, but what about selfishly, you know, how did we all fare? so i've asked four of my team to come and to share with you their reflections and their successes and their hopes for what is coming out of this. so you will hear from wendy about our commitments. you will hear from charles about press engagement. and you'll hear from luke about the outreach and the welcoming and activations. and you will hear from shawn about the arts and the culture and the affiliated events. so hopefully by the end of this presentation you'll think, shoot, i didn't get to

everything that i wanted to but i have a great appreciation for what happened. so, wendy? >> thank you very much. director raphael and the commission. i will lead us off with a summary about the summit. so the global climate action summit really brought together the actors from all places, states, regions and cities and companies and investors and civil society. and the theory behind the summit was that we all need to take ambition to the next level. this was a very ambitious summit. it had over 4,000 delegates, 25 sessions, 325 affiliated events and about 500 major commitments. within those major commitments we also made commitments as a city. these are going to guide and lead us on our climate policy moving forward. they really are commitments that we are just accelerating or amplifying. they are our current goals and

i'll take you on a quick spin of some of the commitments that we have made. the first is that we re-committed or reaffirmed to the developing an inclusive climate action plan that will help us to align with the paris agreements to limit the warming and to adapt to the full impacts of a changing climate. we also challenged the cities around the world to join us in a bold new commitment to advancing zero waste. we asked ourselves and others to pledge to a world where we reduce waste, and generation 15% by 2030. that means reducing to recycling and composting and disposal in a generation. and we're asking ourselves to reduce incineration 50% by 2030. and so in san francisco that means really reducing what goes in the black bins and reducing anything that goes off-site that doesn't get recycled or composted or reused. we also made a new commitment to

amplify our existing commitment to a clean climate future. climate healthy future. we are joining a set of about 20 different cities and pledging to have net zero carbon building by 2030 on new buildings by 2030 would be net zero emissions and by 2060 we'll have all of our buildings net zero emissions. we strongly reaffirmed a pledge to renewable energy and the goal to get to 100% renewable energy. and then we also really started talking about our green -- the green bonds that we issue currently and committed to using green bonds whenever and wherever possible for infrastructure in particular to guard against the worst impacts of a changing climate. that was my last slide. so the commitments that we made are really taking our current ambition, accelerating it to the next level. you will hear about those commitments and how you as a

commission and how us as staff are going to unroll them and to continue to carry them on through policy and through outreach and education as the year unfolds. so what you're going to hear about tonight next is how we use those commitments to align our press engagement to activate our citizenship and the residents of san francisco around the summit. and how we use those to really champion and to talk about the city as a whole and our great climate change action planning that we have been doing for so many years. so the next speaker is charles and he'll be talking to you about the press. >> good evening, commissioners, charles sheahan, policy affairs manager. i wanted to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about the press that we generated for the commitments, for the city, for the department, and for everything that we do good here in san

francisco. we try to cover the full gamut. i do want to thank my colleague, wendy. policy very much does drive the press and so when we have such a sophisticated team that hands you like these really bold, ambitious well-thought out policy commitments it makes my job a lot easier to tell the press about them. so i do want to thank her and her team. but before i do that, i do want to talk a little bit about what i kind of just referenced about the need to be prepared and to be coordinated. when you're dealing with members of the media, you want to hand them a story, you want to hand them a bold policy announcement and have kind of all of your ts crossed and your is dotted. so for the past several months leading up to the global climate summit we have been working with our city partners, we have been holding meetings with the other public information officers throughout the city to make sure that they are on board with our policy commitments and they understood the press implications for those policy

commitments. and we wanted to help them to capture the limelight because we have excellent city partners that are proud of their own environmental record and we want to help them to showcase their bold action on the environment as well. so we had been working with other city departments and other pios and other building officials from public works. you know, anyone that we could kind of pull into meetings on the environment and the global climate summit, we pulled them in. in addition to that we also put together a press kit for the visiting press delegations from the various countries around the world. so, again, we are giving them a pathway, we are making it easy for them to spotlight san francisco's work. and, you know, the easier you make it, the more likely you'll wind up in the press. so there's a bit of -- there's definitely some coordination and work before we get to the press conference and the press event. so let's talk about that. so after all of that preparation and after all of that coordination, kind of our big --

our first major initiative is leading with our zero waste and leading with our zero waste commitment. so we worked with the mayor's office on a mayoral press release. we talked to curtis alexander from "the chronicle" and after he listened to debby and he listened to robbie haley and talked to us about our commitment, we wound up with i think a front-page story in "the chronicle" and that was our first kind of splash about the global climate summit and some of the policy commitments that the staff had put together. so we called that a success. so that was our first controlled, civilized splash. and the sequel to that was our action-packed, like blockbuster sequel, i should say. that was our press event at the mosconi center that i know some of you were at and i know that commissioner hoyos was there and commissioner ahn was there and commissioner bermejo was there as well. and at that press event, there were so many things announced that i have to read it off.