we anticipate coming back at the october meeting with the resolution. the improvements to that area of the plaza, if approved, would not be affected by the decision as to how it is used. it would probably be difficult to come back with an answer to get the community input back as to the importance of that. we could come back with estimates from the revenue, but also need to question how valuable it is to the community if we change this as a purely public space. >> president brandon: and i want to know the total impact, it could be -- >> it could be 20 spaces. we could come back with a look

at that. >> and i would suggest that we need to talk to the merchants. and i want to be sure that we have discussion that includes public outreach. >> commissioner makras: how often is the flow in the parking. 180 versus 200. how many times a day are they packed? are they using every spot and multiply it out so we can understand. if they use it every day maximizing, it tilts people for revenue, but if it's only capacity two days a week for one hour, then the impact could be gauged appropriately. >> and we do have a lot of information on the lot and we could generate that.

we would like to bring the community's input on this issue before the commission as well. and that may take a little longer than just generating the options for the numbers. >> in october, if this is okay with you, dan, we would like you to move forward on your consideration of the project, so s.f. public works can move along on the schedule. if they have a flexible design in the small area of the parking lot that can be plaza or parking, we would like to take time to study that more, work with merchants and make a proposal for how to use that space. we'll have an opportunity to make some decisions down the road. but we want ample time to not have that answer for you in october. i don't think it will be enough time to do the analysis required and it will be a changing environment as we will be eliminating the street parking.

so the lot may be used differently. we will study it and work with our tenants on it. >> it might be helpful at the october meeting to tell us why the work was done. even though i know it's flexible and don't need to make a decision to move the project forward, i would like to have a deeper understanding because i'm sure it was not d.p.w. staff and our staff that wanted this plaza/parking. so i would be interested to understand the background and how it came about. >> commissioner makras: do they do any valet parking in any way? is it pay on your own? go up to the box? every time i've been there, that's what it's been. or do they split it and

sometimes they will valet? >> they do some tandem parking. we can address both points in greater detail when we come back in october. >> president brandon: thank you. >> clerk: 14a, request authorizization to award construction contract 2797r, pier 29 utility upgrade and beltline building sewer, rerouting rebid project to cf contracting inc. for amount of $944,250 and authorize a contract contingency fund of 10% for a total of $1,038,675. >> good afternoon. i'm the senior engineer for the port to seek your approval for

the award of the contract to 2797r upgrade to cf contracting incorporat incorporated. i will do part of the presentation. pier 29 and the beltline building, the proposal of the project is to improve flexibility for pier 29 and the belt line buildings. the project at pier 29 is to expand sewer and water beyond the bulkhead area.

this will make the space more valuable and easily marketable. the connectivity can be added without interrupting the tenants. the belt line building includes recruiting of the sewer line to the city sewer on the embarcadero roadway. the existing sewer line is connected to the pump station inside of pier 29 bulkhead. it will eliminate the need for the pump station inside pier 29.

as you may recall, on march 27, 2018, we presented this project before you and received your approval for add advertising this project for competitive bid. on june 19, 2018, the port received two bids. both bids exceed the budget by 40%. the bid was rejected and decided to modify the project packaging so a project could be bid and constructed.

for the outreach effort, i request tiffany tatum to provide a quick summary. >> good afternoon, president brandon and commissioners. i'm tiffany tatum, outreach coordinator for the engineering division and i will be highlighting our outreach efforts for this project. in early july, the port entered into contract for the purpose of outreach on several projects including 2797r. over 100 emails and follow-up phone calls were made to district 10 businesses to inform of the upcoming opportunity and invite them to our town hall meeting. on august 8, engineering staff hosted a meeting to give contractors a chance to meet with the project managers and have discussions about the work.

we strongly encouraged all attendees to bid. on the original due date, this contract received two bids. five bids were received, redoubling our efforts. i will turn it back over and will be available at the end of the presentation. thank you. >> thank you, tiffany. good job. on december 4, 2018, the port received five bids as shown. because of the budget, they showed the ranking of the bidders.

the bids were within 6% of each other. the bid from cf contracting was the lowest responsive and responsible bid. it shows the sub contractors for cf contracting incorporating, with the 24% l.b.e. goal. the to ttal contract duration would be 11 months. the final completion will be in october, 2019.

the contract with cf contracting incorporated in the amount of $944,250. and authorizing a contract contingency fund of 10% for a total authorization of $1,038,675. this concludes my presentation. thank you, commissioners >> president brandon: thank you. >> vice-president adams: so moved. >> second. >> president brandon: any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> commissioner makras: i support. >> commissioner woo ho: i see there's a brief paragraph in the

staff report on cf contracting, who you recommend as a panel evaluation. and the sfdpw and so just how much of this work that we're asking them to do is the area that they've worked on before. >> this company used subcontractors more than themselves. as you can see, it's a system,

30.6% for the base bid there. they used -- you can see that they used -- >> the commissioner's question is what relative experience does this firm have in the job that was performed for winning the contract. >> i would like to ask my project manager to come up here. >> okay. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is david wu. i was the person for staff report for advertisement by the commissioner. so i'm a mechanical engineer at

the port and project engineer and manager of the project. when we received the documents from the contractors, we evaluated the requirements and experience, etc. ch for this particular contractor, they submit more than maybe 15 references and they've done some projects with the city, including airport of san francisco and --

>> in the area of this, i mean, was it the same type of work? that's what i was trying to understand. >> most of the projects they've done basically are on zero engineering like roads -- i mean, roadways and pavement and facilities. >> okay. so they're general contractors? >> yeah. and also some small amount of -- in the street. so the main thing is they basically supplied the plan to the subcontractor. >> do we evaluate the sub

contractors? >> this contractor was working with the port for one of my really big projects. do you remember, the one on taylor street for all those restaurants, down the pier, piping replacement for the whole pier, pier 49, along taylor street. that was my big project about in 2011-2012. >> and just to clarify, we evaluate the prime contractor. but they, of course, assemble the team that has the relative expertise. so there is a lot of sub contracting work here with experience with sewer repair and we collected them on the low bid and years of experience including a lot of city projects. >> i guess what my question was

-- because this is very specific work -- i'm trying to understand since it's a general contractor subbing out, which has -- and we're also very focused on our l.b.e., etc., but do we evaluate the subs, too, to know that they have the expertise we need? >> yes. >> that's what i wanted to be sure. >> to answer your question, this subcontractor's california-specific, yeah. they are one of the sub contractors working on the taylor street. >> okay. so you know them. okay. >> commissioner makras: does the subcontractor meet the qualifications as the contractor? >> yes. and it is -- >> commissioner makras: same

qualifications? >> yes. does that answer your question? >> president brandon: yes. thank you. >> commissioner gilman: all i want to say is to congratulate staff. i've only been on the commission for 5 months, but for every bid, the outreach, he just want to say nice job. >> vice-president adams: i'm good. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you for this presentation. i just wanted to clarify. in the staff report versus the summary, you have m.b.e. on the team. is there an m.b.e. on this team? and then it says for alternative

bids, will they be doing that or -- >> on the table, we show the l.b.e., which is 24%. this is for the base bid. we don't use them in the evaluation. we only evaluate 21.4%. >> but are they working on the project? will the m.b.e. firm work on the project? >> yes. will work on both projects, because we plan to award a-1 and a-3. >> so this is an issue of the base bid and bid alternate. >> yes. >> for the c.m.d. review, they just looked at the base bid to see if the contractor was complaint with the rules of the ordinance. because we're pulling the trigger on the alternate, we have additional l.b.e.

participati participation? >> correct. >> what will their participation be? >> i don't have that. i don't have the number here. at the time, we knew it would meet the code there, so the number, we did not put in the table, so i have to look at the report one more time. >> they're not in the staff report. that's the thing. >> we'll look at the a big documents. >> to make the bid work, we took out alternative two. is that something that we need to do in the future or will we just not do that anymore? >> we'll do that in the future. at this time the port

maintenance, to do that with our own labor, the budget that we've try to find from somewhere, but cheaper than using our own labor to do it. but it will be done. >> can we use our own labor to do the whole project? [laughter] >> good afternoon. i just wanted to point out the a-3 and a-1, both had up to $119,000 -- >> i show $113,000. >> $113,000. >> i want to thank you for the outreach and the bids you got in. thank you for the hard work. all in favor? resolution 1855 has been approved. >> clerk: item 15, new business.

>> president brandon: is there any new business? >> i would like to ask -- i have a request and it's a future commission meeting. today we approved mission bay landing and we know the budget for that, i think $30 million, $40 million, whatever it is. big number. i think in line with the fact that we are looking to could more water transportation and we have a lot of projects that are hitting the waterfront going forward, i think it would be good for us to understand besides doing a full-fledged ferry landing like mission bay, what are the alternatives that we can for water taxis, what are the alternatives for a floating dock, so we know, how do you set up a network, transportation network, for water transportation throughout the port and what are the alter

attives natives? full-fledged ferry landings take time, money and effort. and we need to look at more or less better cost alternatives. so when we're approached, we know it may be a responsibility instead, other than doing it one by one, one by one. and it will take forever to build a network. this commission is in favor of having a network of transportation, but you have to facilitate that in the inf infrastructure somehow. we need to go into the infrastructure. the second one, i was struck by jefferson street today. and we approved many months ago selling fish off the boats. and it was a pilot. so i'm wondering if we can get an update, how has that pilot

fared in terms of selling fish off the boats. because that seemed to -- we had a lot of discussion on that item. in part, how to do it and if it was requesting to work. it would be interesting to know what the progress was made and what are the results. thanks. >> commissioner makras: and to follow up, if there is problems with the quality, health department complaints or anything that fell out of that. >> president brandon: any other new business? >> i had one. will we have an informational meeting on this ferry building and what is happening with it and the future and -- >> yes. >> and pier 70 would be a good one, too.

>> president brandon: any other new business? >> vice-president adams: i make a motion that we adjourn in the memory of sister veronica sanchez and may she rest in peace. >> second. >> president brandon: all in favor. meeting adjourned. 5:40. >> i personally love the mega

jobs. i think they're a lot of fun. i like being part of a build that is bigger than myself and outlast me and make a mark on a landscape or industry. ♪ we do a lot of the big sexy jobs, the stacked towers, transit center, a lot of the note worthy projects. i'm second generation construction. my dad was in it and for me it just felt right. i was about 16 when i first started drafting home plans for people and working my way through college. in college i became a project engineer on the job, replacing others who were there previously and took over for them. the transit center project is about a million square feet.

the entire floor is for commuter buses to come in and drop off, there will be five and a half acre city park accessible to everyone. it has an amputheater and water marsh that will filter it through to use it for landscaping. bay area council is big here in the area, and they have a gender equity group. i love going to the workshops. it's where i met jessica. >> we hit it off, we were both in the same field and the only two women in the same. >> through that friendship did we discover that our projects are interrelated. >> the projects provide the power from san jose to san francisco and end in the trans

bay terminal where amanda was in charge of construction. >> without her project basically i have a fancy bus stop. she has headed up the women's network and i do, too. we have exchanged a lot of ideas on how to get groups to work together. it's been a good partnership for us. >> women can play leadership role in this field. >> i tell him that the schedule is behind, his work is crappy. he starts dropping f-bombs and i say if you're going to talk to me like that, the meeting is over. so these are the challenges that we face over and over again. the reality, okay, but it is getting better i think. >> it has been great to bond

with other women in the field. we lack diversity and so we have to support each other and change the culture a bit so more women see it as a great field that they can succeed in. >> what drew me in, i could use more of my mind than my body to get the work done. >> it's important for women to network with each other, especially in construction. the percentage of women and men in construction is so different. it's hard to feel a part of something and you feel alone. >> it's fun to play a leadership role in an important project, this is important for the transportation of the entire peninsula. >> to have that person -- of women coming into construction, returning to construction from family leave and creating the network of women that can rely on each other. >> women are the main source of income in your household.

show of hands. >> people are very charmed with the idea of the reverse role, that there's a dad at home instead of a mom. you won't have gender equity in the office until it's at home. >> whatever you do, be the best you can be. don't say i can't do it, you can excel and do whatever you want. >> 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. we recapped our zero waste commitment and we announced our initiative to decarbonize our buildings and to make them net zero buildings and we announced the green bonds commitment and the new solar ray going up at the mosconi center that provided a nice back drop for our commitments. and the mayor announced that she had agreed to be a 100% renewable energy mayor's co-chair for the sierra club 100% renewable ca campaign. that was also a success. we started small and then we just kind of grew big with that press event as well.

so how did we do overall? again, we did well, we did well. i'm going to kind of -- you can see -- maybe i won't quite run through this list fully. but we were able to kind of track the stories that we generated ourselves. what's missing here is the stories that were generated just by the fact that the conference was in the city. so there's too many of those to count. so that's another measure of success. and so i'll let you read the list but i want to point out a couple of the op-eds that the department, that peter, myself, debbie and a few other folks, had influence on. we were able to help facilitate an op-ed between the mayor of paris and our mayor. we had one from debbie, from "the san francisco examiner." as i was talking to the editorial page editor she decided if we're going to do this locally we need the state's

perspective so that's how our governor of california's op-ed came about. and "the chronicle" did their own editorial as well. if you were on streets you were seeing our advertisements and watching tv, and the global climate summit was omnipresent and that's definitely our goal. and i believe that is my last slide. so i do want to thank debbie and the commissioners for their support and i want to introduce my colleague luke, and i alluded to this and i'll touch upon it with a little more precision right now. when you can do all of this using the power of the press and then luke can take his advertising and outreach campaigns and bring what we're doing and the commitments to the people and then focus in on an advertisement and then it's on the tv news, that's when you achieve harmony between paid and earned media and maximize what you're trying to say. i think that we were able to achieve that harmony with the climate global summit and we have excellent partners in luke's team and wendy's team,

so, thank you, and i'll introduce luke. >> so how do you go about welcoming the world to san francisco? when it comes to a global audience coming to the city of san francisco to talk about sustainability and to talk about climate, where do we begin as a city and as san francisco and the department of the environment? to me it began with inspiration, we wanted to inspire others to learn, to share ideas and that was a foundation of the communications and outreaches that we developed for this particular -- well, for this summit. how did we go about doing that? and we shared ideas and one of the best ways to do that in advance of the conference or the summit, rather, was to develop a delegate kit. this would showcase all of the things that we as a city and a

county are proud of. when i use the word "city" and county, 13 other agencies joined our meetings to discuss this conference or this summit, sorry. we had sftsa, and the m.t.a. okay. we wanted to share the things that we were really proud of. this is one vehicle for us to be able to did that. that was something that was really important in advance of the conference. we wanted people to come here and to understand a glimpse, a taste, of sustainability coming to life in san francisco. in advance as i was mentioning before we wanted to put our best foot forward. so we joined d.p.w. with their "love our city" campaign. this is the saturday before we were out on the streets with thousands or hundreds of volunteers across the city and

picking up litter and making our city, loving our city. and importantly when delegates got off the plane they were welcomed to s.f.o. with messaging and welcomed and there were light poles across the city. but we as a department wanted to take more of a personal touch. so we spent time in advance of the summit creating partnerships with the hotels. and these are really important because we wanted to help them to share their sustainability and successes and highlights with these delegates when they came to each hotel. but beyond that we wanted to create partnerships because we wanted to do things that we were really proud of, like remove single-use water bottles from the rooms of delegates. and for the hotels that had the majority of delegates attending them we removed them and replaced them with reusable water bottles that are all in front of you. not just a welcome though, but a welcomer and a celebration and a

recognition and appreciation. but this wasn't just about the delegates. this wasn't just about the summit. this was about bringing the community to the conversation which is why we hosted a school education poster contest for elementary school, middle school and high school students. and this is a great opportunity for them to share things that they were really proud as it relates to the environment. in fact, there were 270 posters entered for both the middle school, high school and elementary as well. and when we talk about helping the city shine, we really wanted to coordinate our advertising efforts. we wanted to make sure that we are bringing our best foot forward in terms of 100% renewable energy and the commitments that we were making. which is why we created this campaign, 100% renewable energy. sorry... i will squat.

100% renewable energy. easier than finding a friend in delores park. and addressing 100% renewable energy and sharing things that people associate as barriers to participating in 100% renewables. and people think this is just for homeowners who would put solar panels on their roof. no, it's for renters, that it's easy to do, affordable to do. it's cheaper than garlic fries on gameday and cheaper than tacos on tuesday. this is a light hearted way to connect our programs to 100% renewable energy and to build excitement around the city, around our sustainability initiatives. as you may know on the wednesday of g-cast it was an important meeting going on at c-40, at city hall. we took this moment to launch our refuse, reuse campaign. and what i really appreciate about this campaign is that they were asking a simple action from people. we want them to refuse single-use items like a coffee

cup, cutlery, and also things like plastic bags and instead to bring their own reusable versions instead.

>> meantime, we had battery waste. i don't know if you seen it but it's loud. it's vibrant and it is exciting. this is a great way to capture people's attention and talk about something that they may not have entered their minds. which is what should i do with batteries when i'm done with them? we also had our multi lingual campaign supporting homeowners in san francisco. with rebates to improve the energy efficiency and comfort of their home. i keep saying, in the meantime, at the same time, we were doing these things one more to that. while all of this was going on, we had 19 tours across san francisco with art, our partners at sfmta at the airport with a hard hat as well. beyond the tours,