thank you for being up to your elbows every day unsure. >> either other comments from our colleagues? >> thank you so much. this recognition means a lot to us. and that day after the beach, no one would sit next to me on bart on the way home. but thank you so much for all of your comments. i want to do one less thing which means it means a lot to us to try and make as much impact as we can with the families of our students. so that what we are doing in the title i sfusd classrooms get supported in the community and at home. we do school date programming and we have weekend and after school programs for whole

families to come back and explore. we also do special events. i wanted to make a quick shout out. we have a haunted house coming up next week. so all families, students everyone is welcome to attend and this is natalie. she managed the event and she can tell you a little bit about it. >> we wanted to share a little bit about the haunted house coming up next week and especially i heard a lot of ui parents. it is a free event for the students that we serve along with their families. we try to keep all of our events as accessible to the population that we serve as much as possible. it will be on the night of halloween, october 31st from 5:50 pm until a pm at our location in mission high school. it is an opportunity for families who would normally be out trick-or-treating or staying at home to engage with the science activities that we have at the workshop. we are going to be doing some dissections, taking apart owl

pellet -- owl pellet and doing a tinkering project so kids can light up their costumes with leds and take them home. please stop by if you have any time and spread the word if you can pick. >> thank you, so much. [applause] >> i think we will take public comment on both resolutions. i wanted to know if adults are invited to come to that. it sounds really cool for halloween. so now we would invite members of the public to come forward if you would like to speak on either resolution. i thank you are the leader. [laughter] >> my name is anastasia. i speak purely for myself as a

private citizen. and congratulations to supervisor tang for the good work that she does. and the recognition she received i am sorry to put in some negative comments. basically about the resolution that supervisor tang happened to introduce. and -- question mark -- [indiscernible] >> all over the world. they are -- european unions finally banned this thing. however, san francisco, as i know continues to allow planting the trees with herbicides.

another thing which is happening , they decide that this is not the only thing which endangers of these, course. the herbicide, this study came out about the wait in which roundup kills species by damaging the bacteria and by reducing their neuron response and making them unable to collect food. i am sure that -- however -- [indiscernible]. >> i heard a problem on the news not too long ago about bees dying and now they are talking about pesticides and herbicides. somehow, be relation does not

make a difference on -- i know we cannot ban anything, but at least the city shouldn't plant those plants which are poisonous , at least for seven years and probably for all the life of then. second thing, the city is addicted to herbicides. high toxicity herbicides. that continue to use them. i personally am tired of talking about it in meetings. they are allowing it. at least in this be city, there should be amendments which the city is not allowed to plant vegetation with systemic pesticides. and herbicides should not be used. we cannot ban it for private citizens, but at least the city should not be -- thank you very much for listening. thank you. >> thank you.

do we have other public comment? >> good afternoon. i am the founder of the resource is a nonprofit to advance women possess careers in tech and engineering. i have also been an ambassador to the friends of the commission on the status of women. in that capacity, i had the opportunity to get involved with the deputy consulate of israel who told me she is very interested in meeting an elected person regarding sex trafficking i knew that supervisor tang was deeply involved in it and forgive me if i botch this, but my understanding is that you try to get ahead of massage establishments, especially in sunset throughout land throughout land use legislation and policy that correct? something to that effect. anyway, the big point here is that as an elected official, she

has been so open to the public and i am saying this as a member of the public. i was able to connect the deputy consulate of israel to supervisor tang. i'm not sure what happened later on. i think there were joint meetings between the san francisco coalition on the human trafficking, the israeli consul and your office but some wonderful things happened as a result of that. but it is because of her openness. what a great model she is to all elected officials that she makes herself available to all of us and no matter -- no issue is too small for her. thank you, so much for that, supervisor. thank you. >> thank you. >> it isn't just good, supervisors. i'm from the san francisco domestic violence consortium. as you mentioned, no issue is

too small but i will also say no issue is too large. we had just with working with survivors, we realized families who are experiencing domestic violence are being asked to leave homeless shelters. we try to get everyone into a domestic violence shelter if we can but there are, you know, a lack of shelter spaces and people end up in domestic violence shelters our entire families ends up in a homeless shelter sometimes. we found out that there was a policy called the imminent danger policy and we wanted to find a real champion for this to make sure that families were not discriminated against or penalized when a member of their family chose to use violence. i have to say, katie tank, supervisor tang stepped right up and started a long process with us. it took a while to get the homeless shelter community and

the domestic violence community to work together to figure out how we could change this policy but also how could we train staff? how can we keep people safe? it ended up being multilayered and supervisor tang was there every step of the way along with her staff. we cannot thank you enough. your leadership has been invaluable and you have been such a gift to the community. thank you. >> thank you. are there any members of the public? ok. seeing none, public comment is closed. members of the commission on the status of women, we need to approve the resolution. do i hear a motion to approve the two resolutions? >> i moved to approve the two regulations. do i have a second? >> thank you so much. please call the next item. >> next item is a presentation on a collaboration between the

san francisco department on the status of women and the san francisco department of the environment to address worker safety and human trafficking through the san francisco healthy nail salon program. >> we have a technical issue. >> without objection, can we return to the previous item to complete the vote? thank you. >> the commission member does not need to vote because we do certificates but president, i think that deputy city attorney is asking for a vote of your commission. >> on the resolution? >> on the resolution. >> we took it. >> we took it without objection. >> do you want me to redo it and say without objection? i am happy to do that. thank you.

commissioners, do i have a motion to approve the resolutions? >> yes. >> thank you. do i have a second? >> second. >> do i have any objections? ok. seeing none, both items are so moved. ok. >> ok. once more, we are about to have a presentation on a collaboration between the san francisco department on the status of women in the san francisco department of the environment to address worker safety and human trafficking through the san francisco healthy nail salon program. should i introduce the people? >> sure. >> ok. >> could you please introduce this item? thank you. >> thank you. our next presentation will highlight a collaborative effort between our two departments and

community partners to protect the health and safety of nail salon workers in san francisco. the majority of whom happened to be women. since 2012, the healthy -- that san francisco healthy nail salon program has recognized the loans that are creating healthier working environments for their employees and clients. over the course of the last year , are agencies in community-based organization agent law caucus have partnered to deliver information to nail salon workers about other issues that are critically important to their health and well-being. particularly there rights at work. the science of human trafficking and healthcare access. we are very excited to learn more about this collaborative collaborative effort through our next three speakers. meghan of the san francisco department of the environment, diminish of the department of status of women and in victoria from the asian law caucus. asian-americans advancing

justice. >> thank you for being here. please go ahead. >> good evening. thank you so much for that introduction. my name is meghan. i work at san francisco department of the environment. we are one of the programs that i helped coordinate as a san francisco healthy nail salon program. a quick overview of why we started the program and how we implement it and how -- let's start with a wide. we have several reasons. technicians that work at nail salons in san francisco are primarily women of colour coming from immigrant communities and are of childbearing age. does approximately 250 nail salons in san francisco. and the number of salons in the u.s. has tripled. in 2017, they were more than 430,000 technicians and more than 56,000 nail salons in the u.s. while these technicians are working long hours in the salon, they can be exposed to many chemicals. from a lot of different products

if you think about it, polishes, in the cart you can see acetone, removers, thinners, artificial nail builder and more. many of these products can contain phthalates, solvents, acrylates, plasticizers. we identify the toxic trio or the worst of the waste of these chemicals which is formaldehyde and others. which brings me to help. nail salon workers have higher incidence of asthma, dermatitis, memory loss, cancer and reproductive impacts such as miscarriages. they are exposed to many industrial chemicals without proper ventilation in the salon and proper personal protection. this epidemic of public health and reproductive justice issue is overlooked prompted several set plunk dutch nonprofits to form this cooperative. in san francisco, back in 2012, we partnered with the healthy

nail salon cooperative to create a first program. in order to become a recognized healthy nail salon, the salons must need the judge must meet the following criteria that falls into two buckets. the first one is project. we look at all the products in the nail salon and make sure they are free of the toxic trio, formaldehyde, toluene and dibutyl phthalate, as well as methyl acetone which is a harmful chemical and showing up in more products in salons. and the next bucket is practices retrain all the technicians about how to use protective equipment, wearing gloves when doing services, wearing proper masks, having better ventilation in the salon and also having designated areas for artificial nail services to form acrylic and help increase the ventilation in the salon. and another key element of the program is the main salon training that we do.

in the salon and train all the employees. owners, managers, receptionist, technicians on safer products, safety practices and better ventilation and how to use personal protective equipment to prevent exposure from harmful chemicals that they are exposed to a hours of the day. the trainings are given in the language that they are most comfortable with and in their workplace so it is more convenient. once the salon has gone through all of the criteria, we recognize them in many different ways. you can see here we give them window stickers to people in the community can see that they are recognized, we give them plaques to put up so the customers can see, wait list them and our webpage and promote them through different channels. we listen on our map. we also do a consumer awareness campaign. you can see here, we put a bus shelter advertisements throughout the city in different languages. we promote healthy nail salons through facebook promoted posts,

instagram, different social media channels. we really want customers to visit the salons and support local businesses who are going above and beyond to protect the worker health. as far as numbers, we have over 50 salons in san francisco that are recognized as healthy nail salons. since 2012 since a program started, over 500 technicians have been trained in the program i am also happy to say that almost 200 salons in the state of california i recognized healthy nail salons. recently, legislation passed at the state level to help other jurisdictions implement these programs and cities and counties where they might not have a health -- healthy nail salon program yet. that just goes to show that nationwide, this movement is working. local governments are becoming more aware of this issue and they they're doing something about it. the right to work in a healthy environment is something that touches on many different issues

women's writes, reproductive rights, immigrant's rights, worker rights and the intersection of these issues is why we began to work with the san francisco department on the status of women and asian law caucus. we wanted to ensure that we could deliver information in our trainings about labor rights, trafficking, access to healthcare, to edge a pop -- to a population of out -- at risk workers that is hard to reach. i would like to now introduce my partner who talked about how we expanded our training to cover these issues that our agencies work on and collaborate on. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, again. >> good afternoon, commissioners i am the women's policy director at the department on the status of women and i have had the pleasure of working with meghan for the past few years. i work on violence against women policy for our department and one of the areas we focus on is human trafficking. and a lot of people think that human trafficking is a problem

that happens primarily in developing countries and not here in the united states or here in san francisco. but sadly, the san francisco bay area has the distinction of being on a top ten list that we don't want to be on. i'm not talking about the cost of housing. that is a different list we don't want to be on. but one of the ten worst regions in the country for child sex trafficking according to the f.b.i. in order to get us off that list , in 2013, mayor lee formed a task the task force on antihuman trafficking which are department staffs. the purpose of the task force is to improve the response to human trafficking and look at where we need to have different protocols and policies in place and identify gaps in services and we have a really broad range of stakeholders at the table including department of environment. is probably safe to say we are only the task -- the only task force in the country that works with the department of environment and sex worker rights. we spanned the gamut. one of the things he wanted to

do when we started the task force was figure out how great the extent of human trafficking is happening in san francisco. sadly, five years later, i still can't tell you how much trafficking is happening but i can tell you how much trafficking is coming to the attention of agencies that work with trafficking survivors. what we have done for the past few years as put out a report on human trafficking where we gather data from a number of different agencies and collate it. we don't offend our colleagues at the department of environment i do not have hard copies for you. it is electronically on our website. you can look it up if you are a data geek. in our last report, which came out earlier this year and covers data from 2016, we had agencies identifying 529 cases of human trafficking in san francisco. there is a big *-asterisk because our data is duplicated, meaning the police department is quite likely reporting on some of the same cases as huckleberry youth programs or child protective services because we

get aggregate numbers and we don't have a way of de- duplicating them. we know that there are a lot of cases that are never even coming to the surface. this just gives you a sense. i don't have time to get into a lot of the details sound demographics, but the really sad statistic is that survivors under 25 makeup three quarters of the identified individuals of human trafficking in san francisco and then the problem is also gender to. sixty-six% of the survivors who are identified are girls or women and then also people of colour, particularly african-american and latino people are disproportionately represented among the survivors being identified in san francisco. for the first few years, we focused on the issue of child sex trafficking that had got us started. as we progressed we wanted to make sure we were looking at trafficking in other industries. as we began to collect data from the task force members, these are some of the industries that

we found where trafficking was cropping up in san francisco. in domestic work. and commercial sex like escort services and outdoor solicitation. in construction. there was a marriott hotel that had construction work being done on it in downtown san francisco and they turned out to be a number of people who were one of the contractors who were being held against their will in a warehouse in the east bay and trafficked over to san francisco to work on that site. it happens in hotels, hospitality, restaurants and agriculture and animal husbandry including fishing. there's a well-publicized case of some fishermen from indonesia who were trafficked in the open sea and moved from one fishing ship to another and then where being held against their will on a boat that was docked outside. thirty-nine and they were able to escape and then some of our organizations were able to help them with various remedies. one of the industries that came to the fore a couple of years ago was the nail salon industry.

the times time city big exposé on exploitation of workers that was happening in nail salons in new york. we read about that and thought if it is happening in new york, it could be happening here. so we looked around and saw what we could do about it. it there was already a wonderful program that the department of environment had doing education to people who work in nail salons about getting not exposed to toxins and using proper techniques and may be we could incorporate again some information on labor rights and trafficking into that already great curriculum. i have to say, sometimes when you approach a department that you are not working with closely you might get a little pushback. we were welcomed with open arms. thank you. there was absolutely no need to convince and why this would be a good idea. we work together and brought them partner his the community to help with the content on what should be in the curriculum. victoria will talk about that a bit. i want to point out that in addition to looking at

trafficking in services, we are looking at trafficking in supply chains and what the city can do as a purchaser. so we have partnered with another organization called the good food purchasing program which works with public entities that purchase food to make sure that they are incorporating five values into the purchasing of food. one of them is sustainable. that works really well with the goals of the department of environment. local, nutritious, animals are treated well and people are treated well. there is a valued workforce in the production processing or transportation of food. so we worked with our public health department that gets food to the hospitals and the shared 's department that gets food to the jail. they have come on board and supervise if you are passed a resolution earlier this year that codifies that. we are the only jail in the country that is adopting this policy. there have been school districts that have signed on. where the only one to start

expanding and look at other of the purchasers of foods. we are happy to be part of that. next up is victoria who go through some of the new contents [applause] >> thank you for the introduction. good afternoon, members of the commission of the public. my name is victoria and i'm the worker process rights community advocate and advancing justice asian law caucus. the asian law caucus was founded in 1972. we employ a three-pronged approach in our work. first prong is direct legal services when you represent members of the community if they are being evicted or old wages or a deportation removal proceedings. we also have an impact work or reengage and impact litigation and to doing class actions where we are able to help focus on a

broader and much more massive scale. we also have strategic communications and community empowerment where we reach into the community and do outreach to folks to inform them about their rights. we have seven different programs we have a criminal justice reform program, and national security and civil rights program, voting rights program which is an undocumented youth group. housing housing rates, immigrant rights and worker process rights which i will get into shortly. our workers' rights program, we have a long history of fighting on behalf of low-wage immigrant workers through legal counselling, policy advocacy, direct services, on a wide range of employment issues including wage and hour retaliation, workplace safety and discrimination unemployment insurance benefits appeal hearings and retaliation as well

we regularly partner with worker centres to support workplace organizing and worker led campaigns and the development of immigrant worker leaders in the community. we also have a semi monthly clinic where folks can come to our office and receive free and a language consultations about the rights network and we also have notable cases. one case we did in the past is a very popular nail salon chain and the san mateo county where workers were misclassified. it allows you to help them get their wages back. we also had a case against -- i'm not sure if folks are aware of the very high scale and very expensive restaurant in the san francisco who helps workers get back over $4 million. so thank you to meghan. a.l.c. was able to participate in creating the labor content for this program.

originally, we are part of the san francisco task force on antihuman trafficking which the task force of community-based organizations and government agencies and other key stakeholders to combat human trafficking in san francisco. in 2016, a.l.c., along with the newcomers connect project, which is a program of the department of public health where approached by the department of environment content by providing worker's rights and healthcare options to the program possess presentation and outreach efforts. as meghan showed earlier, nail salon workers are exposed to him workplace health and safety issues including exposure to toxic chemicals and lack of financial -- ventilation systems that at work. assisting workers who work in nail salons, we often see workers who not only are exposed to workplace safety issues, but have also experienced or are experiencing labor violations as

well. our content and the training effort improves misclassification which is the difference between to the worker his classified employee and independent contractor. they do not have the basic rights that employees have including minimum wage, overtime , meal and rest breaks and the right to keep their own tips. we also added contact involving unemployment insurance and workers compensation which are two very helpful benefits that only employees have. we also had information -- there is a paid sick leave which is an awesome law. we also had an information on employment discrimination and rights that even undocumented workers have. we had information regarding human trafficking. and then also, the newcomer

process project added some information about receiving a low or free cost healthcare in san francisco. here at a.l.c., we are very excited to be part of this effort. as meghan noted, part of the innovation of the healthy nail salon program is harnessing consumer power to support high road employers and encourage others in the industry to follow that route as well. one of the most common questions we get from the public as where to go. which nail salon, which restaurants to go to where they don't violate workplace laws or abuse workers. what businesses treat their workers better? these are the nail salons that are part of the program who have made a commitment to do the right thing in terms of health and safety for their workers pick an industry where wage and hour violations are a huge problem, it is great to educate and empower workers and also encourage responsible employers to do the right thing in terms

of labor law compliance as well.

>> what is it you do and secondarily, if you've looked at the possibility of the licensing process at the state level to mandate the saloons not just in san francisco but throughout the

state have so many hours of training for their employees around health conditions. obviously through health conditions you get to working conditions. you get to all kinds of things. so, if not, can we think of a piece of legislation that we can sponsor? [applause] thank you so much for your two questions. to your first question, we have two salons that are recognized in that area. what we do is we have sent outpost cards to all nail salons in san francisco. we know there are new ones opening and closing and changi changing. by posting advertisements we hope consumers see this but maybe a nail saloon owner will

walk by and see it and get interested in it. to your second point, why can't we have this mandate in all of california. i personally wish that we could but the state of california has them taking steps to start this program in other jurisdictions. our program here in san francisco is a free and voluntary program. it's not required but it's the reason we require owners. we're not regulating them. we're just trying to help address well-being. whether it's exposure to toxic chemicals or proper workers' rights. and yeah, so just last year the state of california was tasked to produce guidelines to help spread this free and voluntary healthy nail salon program throughout the state of

california. it's department on toxic substances control who is organizing this. we have worked really closely with them and they've taken our criteria and our creating tool kits for other jurisdictions to create this program. thank you. >> there was a state bill that would have required training at all nail saloons that failed. it could be revived. >> i don't remember. >> thank you for the comprehensive presentation and i'm a proud alumna of advancing justice working on hate crimes projects. i got involved with them probably back in 2001-2002 when judy chu was still in the assembly. she tried to advance some bands on toxic substances, mostly related to baby's toys.

i said keep plugging away and our former supervisor and former is assembly woman was able to get that through. i think the education approach is really great. i've worked with asian law caucus, particularly len san who was vietnamese interpreter and we went out to the oakland salons. even the owners were on board and would actually educate their clientele as to alternatives to acrylic nails. they're the most toxic substances. i think we also need to have education in the early years. girls in elementary schools, the sexy names, well i don't know if i should say the name of the brand but they come up with sexy names of the nail polish and that attracts girls. a lot of people would be really surprised that many of these substances are banned in europe. and so i think this takes even a global approach, a u.n. approach.

these are american companies that were forced to remove the particular substances to those products marketed in europe. we know it can be done. there's also, i believe the website is still up. it's called skin deep. it offers alternatives for women. a lot of times if there are not alternatives, people will continue to buy the very toxic substances and for the moms out there, newborn babies are born with over 200 foreign chemicals in their body. that's what you've been exposed to and passing it on to children. if that's not alarming enough to get us going, i don't know what is. i think it is -- i'm a state attorney in the department of insurance. so state legislation and regulation, when a bill has passed then it would be the regulatory process with regulations and nail on salons are regulated by the consumer

services. it can be -- it's a little difficult but it can be in terms of education. there's always continuing education for licensees and we would of course want to make sure that we have in language education because nail salons are one of the licenses where i would dare to say there are more english as a second language license holders. thank you. >> thank you, commission sue. >> i wanted to add something that commissioner sue said about the language piece. assembly members helped write and there was a bill called ab2437 which passed in 2016. it mandated nail salon employers to post work-place rights postings at the job employment place so that workers and employers are supposed to know about these workplace rights

including minimum wage and tips. there are good laws to educate workers about their rights and also employers too. >> i would also address the licensing part on the continuing education. some of those things -- i don't know if they're always in language and we should probably make sure that when they take the license exams. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so one of the things, the big benefits we have at the department of environment that is fantastic in san francisco is we have this massive outreach team. we have environment now and we have all sorts of training programs throughout businesses and residents and we have this opportunity to really engage with people and talk to them. i think that this is such a fantastic example of how, looking at things with provide multiple layers of positive benefits for our community members. is there anything we learned through this process that we are

now applying or can apply to future efforts where we're doing outreach so that we're always trying to keep that intersectional lens in mind so we don't miss an opportunity to bring this collaboration together as we do all of our outreach? that might be more of a question for debbie than anybody else. >> it's a great question. what is interesting about this case is the opportunity didn't come from the opportunity of the department. it came from another department who was asking the question how we can most effectively get our needs met at our mission met and seeing that there was a potential to work with us. so to me, i would say that the lesson we take away from this is to look at the power of our fellow city agencies in not reinventing the wheel, not reinventing relationships when they exist. there's a lot of examples of

that in our work when we're looking at our work on transportation and safety, working with the department of public-health, working on vision zero. i think this is something that comes very natural to us. this particular example is so deep and powerful and you are responding to that because you see the layers of it. it's a wake-up call not only to these two departments but to the rest of the city to think about what we are missing when we keep our blinders on and think in our silo because the world doesn't operate that way. i don't know if that's a great answer except to say you raise a wonderful point. >> i just want to command the department staff because, for example, vietnamese-speaking technicians is a really hard group to reach. really hard group to reach. when we discover that you have this effective outreach program,

we were so excited because this is exactly the kind of hard-to-reach audience that we wanted to make sure have the legal rights information and identification of human trafficking. our department is seven people and so we must rely on our partnerships to project. >> this is such an important issue and i'm thinking as you speak about collaborations with other departments one of the things that i really grappled with over the years with the different commissions that i have sat on is the fact that many departments and we're not talking to each other often times. i mean, i look here at an opportunity for the health department to be involved. an opportunity for the police department to be involved.

all of the places, all of the departments in contact with the public that we should -- when we look at vision zero, for instance. the police department there is the health department is there so why can't we develop sort of like a task force that involves all of the department in the city to ensure that we're everywhere. >> thank you, commissioner. any other comments? the only thing i want to add to the conversation is that i think that the kinds of collaborations that you've heard about today, with the department of the environment, the commission on status women, talking about the healthy nail son collaborative and what's happened. is a collaboration that's taken place that we can build upon. i think we have proven it can be done, it doesn't have to be in sigh lows and we work across all communities. by doing that, we become those members in community wh.

it seems like we laid a good foundation to grow that collaboration. >> i was going to say. in terms of state legislation, it won't happen unless we can fulfill the inspectors and that's why often times there's a he is tennessee to pass new legislation. if we could replicate what san francisco does in other cities and get the state to deposit you tate and more education issues we would go a lot farther and advancing things. that would be sort of my collaborative approach because i've seen for years and years how one legislative comes and it always gets killed because they

say we don't have enough members to go out even on cosmotology so barbers and that could be my middle ground solution. >> thank you, other comments. >> yeah, just one more. two things, i used to work as a committee consultant and i do recall when we do a big win it's because what you were saying about getting the fox i can removed from the product to begin with so i don't know, it would be fun. we could do a meeting like this and have a couple of meetings to see if we can make strides in that direction. you have a routes and i think it would be fun throw down charge and do a happy hour after. the other thing is i went to the point of information by the manager and i know that mayor lee valued and obviously mayor.

>> the hon. london breed: equity and inclusion so everyone talks about smart goals as a way that we function and non profits in a government so they're called smart, where you add inclusion and equity into the goal. what i was so moved by your presentation was how you did that. when you talk about inclusion you have to think about language and we have to think about labor rights and that would just be another sort of on what you said. this is systematic approach and i don't know if we're allowed to add questions but it would be fun to see if a couple of folks can volunteer through our policy committee to see if there's any concrete taking this example and having it have reach around the state. >> one update, a bill was passed

and i don't remember the number or sponsor but one of the things we uncover when we worked in this field is while we knew which chemicals we wanted to ban, when you went into the store they're not on the labels of the products. it turns out that only consumer-facing products have to have ingredients and not professional products so it was a double-whammy for people working in the jail salons and they were stopped to even label to know whether they have the three chemicals we were trying to get rid of. so for the last couple years, because we had that data, we had those stories, we had real world examples. we were able to show that to the legislature and governor brown couple weeks ago just signed into a law requiring that professional products for the beauty industry now have to be labeled with their ingredients. to your point, there are so many

ways that what we do in san francisco doesn't stay in san francisco and can influence what is going on at the state level when we follow those threads and so to your question of what is the next thread how we get into continuing education and the conditioning and what is the next step and that is exactly the right decisions that we can look at together. >> if we look at the women's magazines, the girls targeted to preteens and teenage like "17 magazine" and maybe we do engage the celebrities. i will out the company it's called op and so beautiful advertisements, sexy names to them and so someone like christie yamaguchi is the face but i don't think she knows that they're so toxic and she has two young daughters. so part of it is also engaging some of our celebrities who have advertising contracts and ask them to get involved as well.

>> other volume keys and other comments from other colleagues. >> i just wanted to say, i wanted to echo president's comments about collaboration and the comments. it says a lot and comes from the approach of the staff and our leadership so he wanted to thank you for that and i would just challenge us in this room and on the commissions of taking it leadership on this as consumers and we can help that and it's one way we can talk with our network so i'll take accountability for that tonight and we'll make sure my network knows about that and if i get my nails done i would go to a nail salon. i would like to thank, looking at our community-based advocates and i appreciate your presentation and i would encourage us, as we think about the collaboration and all the good week we've seen on that

that we look to our community based advocates. so now we'd like to take public comment on this issue. do we have members of the public who would like to comment on this? >> i believe that public comment is closed. would you please read the next item. >> item 5 presentation on a study by c40. the san francisco department of the environment and the san francisco bicycle coalition. on gender differences in the experience of urban spaces and climate policies particularly the use of san francisco bike lanes and this item is for discussion. >> director rafael, would you like to introduce this item. >> i would be honored to do so. so while the healthy nail salon project came out of the understanding of the problem statement, what you are going to hear started from a question. and that question was given to

us by a non-profit called c40 cities which is a global network of cities looking at climate change and the president is the mayor of paris. she is a big believer in asking the questions how is our work impacting women so she said a challenge to the cities that were part of c40. can you ask the question about gender when you are trying to look at your climate change policy. it was embarrassing when we looked at our climate action strategy and it has questions and looking at grouping people and not gender. we took the challenge and said where do we like to start? we look at the aspect of our behavior and something important for reducing greenhouse gases

and chose that as our first putting our tow in the water on asking about gender. what we know from looking at other cities that are c-40 members is there's a big difference between leading cities on how women respond to bicycling. so the city of copenhagen, 55% of the bicycle riders are women. the city of seville started with well under 10% is now at 35% of bicyclists are women. 49% of our is e-mail but the percent that rides bicycles is 28% so wove got a gap in terms of gender when it comes to biking. we don't know why, we have ideas and we wanted to approach this in a very robust way to say what do we need to do differently as policymakers so that more women are riding bikes and does it

matter not only that you are female but that you are of different racial backgrounds, financial backgrounds, we have a lot of questions and so we like to address questions with a holistic approach and i'm really excited to introduce you to two of my favorite colleagues. dr. wendy goodfriend and margaret mccarthy, who will be sharing with you where we are so far in this journey. as a way to invite you to help us take this farther. >> thank you director. we're really excited to present this study to you. it was -- you are the first to hear this study publicly so this will be wonderful. it was launched today by c-40. the women for climate program has started pushing this study out today and it was a press release and blog post you can visit so i just wanted to

briefly give you a background why we wanted to study women in biking and i not only are women under and the share of works riding bikes is far less than what we need to achieve our climate goals. this study is really critical in helping us understand how we'll achieve some of our ambitious goals and one of our recent goals that was set by last earth day is to achieve net zero emissions by 2015. that is a commitment trying to achieve the paris climate a cords of reducing maintaining and 1.5°. we have this ambitious climate goal and we have, as you heard earlier, this very ambitious mode share goal of 80% sustainable trips. we want 80% trips to be by bike,

walking and public transit. how are we going to do that if we have an under representation of folks riding bikes and the women are not riding bikes as much as men through the city. so we really wanted to understand our barriers that need to overcome and how can we improve biking in san francisco. so right now currently 3.9 fifth of all trips are by bike and to goat our 80% goal we need to get up to 10%. so, this study that margaret mccarthy, my colleague who was the former senior transportation marketing specialist of the department, will present to you. because she really helped is the first in san francisco to identify what some of those barriers are to biking and to come up with key recommendations to improve biking provide access to women and to women of color to our bike network. i'm going to allow margaret to

present this study in detail and wore available to answer questions after. >> hello and greetings to both commissions this evening. thank you so much for in inviting me back to talk about topic near or dear to my heart and one of vital importance to our city. which is how do we ensure that our transportation work is furthering our climate goals and how do we make sure that as we work on those goals, we're bringing everyone with us. >> so, as wendy said, we worked on this study. >> it came from c o 40 and we reached with a research team from uc berkley so if you are asking who was actually conducting the research it was a team of four led by a researcher professor meredith from uc

berkley. we were involved in coordinating the research and helping it all move forward and a variety of community groups and binging it to you today. so, we started out knowing from a variety of work knowing that any given time about a third of th people who are biking in san francisco are women. that is something we've known in san francisco for a number of years. what we've never had a sense of is why. we can say anecdotally. you might each right now have annan he can total sense of why that is and why you yourself do or do not bike or women you know do or do not bike in san francisco. the city had never done any kind of comprehensive work and any kind of data base approach of asking people and other people who bike in san francisco why that is. so as we set out to begin this survey the research team came up with a few key research questions. i believe wendy mentioned very briefly the survey had this

research project had two main components and we focused our on the ground research on the soma region of san francisco and that was building on another research project that the department had done with c40 about a year priv. in deed one of the questions that came up during that research project was about gender and demographics of people biking and the data wasn't available. we said we would do on the ground research and we did focus groups that will pull from every neighborhood in san francisco. as we started out this research we set our key questions include how many people are using the soma bike lanes. of those people what are their social yo economics and how do they compare with the city and district as a whole. another question we wanted to investigate were what model alternatives would be available to psych psyche lists? what would those implications be for traffic congestion, for

transit crowding and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. additionally, how important are the bike lanes themselves to the psyche list decision to bike rather than use another mode? everyone here has seen the variety of infrastructure that we have here in san francisco. the part of what we hoped to begin to discover in this research project was what kinds of bike lanes do people respond to and how do they respond to the different lanes that are available in san francisco. does this vary with race, age, gender, effect nice tee or other demographics. we wanted to no concerns travelers had about cycling and bike lanes and whether that varied. perhaps most importantly, once we discovered some of that information, what steps could be taken to encourage cycling, especially by people in under represented groups. those are the questions broadly that we hoped to discover as we embarked on this research project and the late spring of

this year.