>> you would -- you would -- you could trace it to a specific container and then know where that container has been. >> oh, right. right. >> and so with the -- with the e. coli outbreak with romaine, so certain heads of the romaine had e. coli, you could see which containers that they were in and then see where those containers came from, and that's the source. >> and it's because -- >> and then, you throw out all the associated -- >> the packaging that's around that individual head of lettuce

has an individual rfin. >> no, the large crate, the boxes. >> i'm not still distinguishing how that one -- >> yeah. generally, you wouldn't distinguish the individual head of lettuce. it's more the batch it's associated with. for a high value item, an item where the price is a lot higher, and you want to individually scan it, that makes more sense, but for cheap produce that's in batches, it would be inefficient even on a supply chain level to scan the individual heads individually. and you do have to trust -- you're right, when the heads of lettuce get taken from the farms, they get put in this cargo, you have to trust that's done well and this original farm is organic. and you have to know when it goes from the farm to the box to

get shipped out that there hasn't been any counterfeiting at that point; that those are the real lettuc that came fre t that box. you need to trust the origin point in some other way. >> so can i follow up on debbie's question because the other thing i don't understand really at all -- i don't even understand the multiexample, but i heard it, and i think i know what they're doing is how you meld the needs of centralization, which is the regulation, whether it's initial offering or the -- what is the division of -- definition of organic and who makes the crate so it can't be compromised, how you meld that kind of system,

which i'll call the sort of command and control system, with the decentralization that's the hallmark of this whole process. you can't have a million different definitions of organic on these little -- not little, i didn't mean it that way. on individual blockchains even if they have, you know, 100,000 people on each one of them. or i -- i mean, we wouldn't want

that. organic has to mean the same thing for everybody on all of the blockc >> i think the -- the trick is not to think about decentralizing everything.

lettuce may not have a tracking model, when that arrives at different points along the way, it is certified as having reached those points and not having been tampered with with this specifically model. and when the lettuce is taken out of the container, it started getting tag, right? it has a unique number. so in the case of e. coli outbreaks, can not only look at

and say where is the tag that that was sold at, you can tie that back to what was the batch it came in, what was the container came in, that container came in a larger shipping container, and you track back to all of the affected places that we have to withdraw this lettuce from and whether or not it was tampered along the way. so it's not simple but it's not that it hasn't been thought of, either. >> any other questions? fascinating and so many questions and so much to learn and so much potential at the same time, and also want to ask if there's any public comment on this item? good evening. >> hello. it's been a long time. eric brooks.

i am not speaking for any of the organizations that i work for this evening because this is very speculative territory and i don't want to step over that line, but i will say that i learned about and started studying bitcoin and investing them in 2011 and started dealing in them in 2015. so you should bring me into this space. a, i love bitcoin and cryptocurrenciys. they're going to revolutionize the world. bitcoin is not going to be creating nearly as much greenhouse gases in the future as it does now because of things like the side chains and the lightning network, and i did explain that in more detail if people want to ask me questions because i'm going to get to my three minutes. and i'm also invested in power ledger and i'm invested in a lot of other -- and in supply chain

tokens and things like that. and i want to start there. the conversation you just had shows that cryptocurrencies and supply chain and certification is not going to help you. you still to have have a certifying body when you put the lettuce in the box. that's not going to help. that applies in spayeds to carbon credits which are already bad and cryptocurrencies and blockchain is not going to help in carbon credits because you need a certifiers there, and we've got certifiers there, and it's not working, so i would recommend against that type of thing. so you're asking for use cases -- well, another thing that needs to be said is we've got to be really careful to hopefully make this so you're

not just hiring a middleman like uber to be a token man for you in this purpose. most of the people in the i.p.o. is a middleman for the blockchains themselves. i would like to see the sf program create its own coin. you've got a bunch of business and homeowners in san francisco. some of them will put solar up and battery storage in their facilities. some of them won't, and cleanpowersf could create a nonprofit noncorporate city cleanpowersf coin for people that have solar panels in their roof to exchange their energy with people that don't. and -- and private -- on private exchange. the only time cryptocurrency makes sense is when there's a private exchange of value.

all the other tracking and value stuff, all that can be done with databases in a much more efficient manner without using the blockchain at all. i hate to be a downer on that, but that's the reality. and i'm open for questions if people want to dig deeper into what i know. >> thank you. any other public comment? ashley, i mean, thank you so much for that -- for your presentations, for being with us today. anthony, next item. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>clerk: the next item is item 8, director's report. updates on the department of the environment, administrative and programmatic operations. the speaker's debra felder. the presentation is the director's report and the operation is discussion. >> i just want to say thank you so much. >> put it on a blockchain.

>> yeah. that was really interesting and lots of food for thought, so we will be back in touch. thank you. thank you for taking your time, yeah. [applause] >> oh, my gosh. okay. so you got a long director's report in your packets that gave you detailed items in terms of what we've been working on. as you can see, there's just a whole range of things from the way we're looking at environmental justice to the way we're working with affordable housing and our energy programs. zero waste is going very, very full bore ahead with the new system and helping especially complicated accounts like multifamily buildings and large commercial office spaces to figure out spaces as well as the small guys, so we've been very busy in that way. we have been working also on the

zero waste front on infrastructure and on policy. on the infrastructure today, recology celebrated the opening of what they all their west wing, which i keep thinking about the white house, but it has nothing to do with that. the west wing of recology's tunnel road facility was expanded for the compost because the amount of compost of organics that we collect on a daily basis is so massive compared to the original size of the collection area that it was being overwhelmed and we were having challenges of keeping getting it through throughput. we have this challenge where all the organics will be emptied and literally pushed off a cliff, off an edge onto a waiting truck below, and they can weigh it and

send it off to the composting facility. so we are really gearing up to handle the organics, and now it's a question of the outreach side of making sure we generate as much as we can. and we can -- if anybody would like a tour of that, just let me know, and we can think about -- it's not actually all that gorgeous. it's a big, concrete area, but it's interesting on the scale side to see that. also, we've been working on zero waste facilitator legislation. neha, our fearless city attorney, has been working very hard with all parties to draft amendments and make it a strong piece of legislation. i want to thank commissioner aun, who on his personal private side, came and talked about it. but it's been -- it's gone through a lot of evolutions. i think it's a really important tool for our zero waste program because if it gets adopted by the board of supervisors, it

will give the department a added tool to address large commercial accounts like large multifamily and large office buildings who want to essentially just pay their way out of zero waste by just paying the increased charges and fees and not really trying to improve their status at all. so it will give us a way to require the hiring of people whose job it is to think about zero waste in these businesses. so it's very exciting, it's been a long time coming, and i think, knock on wood, we're approaching the finish line on it. recology launched their better at the bin campaign. we had a wonderful -- they have a new truck that's really fun, so i think in the straw ordinance -- well, the plastic litter and reduction ordinance that you weighed in on had to be amended for the disability community because of the need for plastic straws as a tool, not a convenience, to use their words, so there's been a lot of

activity in the last couple months around zero waste from the legislative side, the infrastructure side, the ordinance side. i feel like we're getting our arms around the push and it's going to help the mayor talk about what we're doing to meet our commitments from the global climate action summit where we have new zero waste commitments from the city. for the future, i would just say that christmas is coming, the holidays are coming. if you aren't already aware, and we have some holiday traditions in the department of the environment. one is our green christmas tree program, which is literally buying a live tree -- or renting a live tree, i suppose is the way it is, because after you decorate your live tree, they be it goes back to friends of the urban forest, and they plant it. so we're putting a big plug for that. if you'd like more information, let me know. there's also our annual tree

chip event that you are welcome to come to that we are demonstrating on live t.v. how -- the idea that people should put their christmas trees out on the curb at certain points in time and they need to take all of the tinsel and everything off so they can be chipped, and we have a lot of fun putting christmas trees into the chipper. so if you'd like to join me in that event, let me know. it's kid friendly to watch. it's definitely not kid friendly to do. so i'd just advise you of that. the last two items are on december 5, at lunchtime, that's a wednesday, we are going to have a very special speaker in our lunch and learn, dr. elizabeth deaker, she's going to be talking about her research on gender and environment and

specifically using that bike study as a model. she's apparently a very distinguished scholar, and she will be coming to our department on wednesday, december 5, at noon. would love to have people there to listen if you're interested. and the next day, december 6, which is a thursday, in the evening, from 5:00 to 8:00, at the main library, the curet auditorium, we are going to show a movie, the devil you know, to show a movie about teflon and the chemicals in them. you may remember we banned the use of fluorinated chemicals in packaging, so we will be on a

panel, along with other people who made the movie and other environmentalists. i can't say that it's a heart warming movie. so the part that becomes heart warming is that you, the commission on the environment, the board of supervisors, and the department of the environment are doing something about it, and that is what gives me hope. so with that, i would like to see if there are any new staff in the room. i see one, two, if you would come up and -- three, i see -- there are three new -- please come up and say your name, your program you're working in, what your role is, and where you came from, if you can remember the three things. >> my name is sierra. i work for -- with -- on the team of toxics residential reduction, and i'm -- what do -- i'm going to do? >> what do you do now, and what

did you do with the program. >> so before i came from cal state northridge, and i graduated in may. i worked at t.j. maxx. i studied environmental health and occupational health and safety at northridge. and my position now as a toxics residential associate, i do right now battery site visits at retail walgreens stores, and i do healthy home presentations. i'm getting ready to do that, too. there's also helping residents when they call, they ask me questions about where to safely dispose of their household hazardous wastes, so yeah. thank you. >> welcome. >> hello. my name's elizabeth felter, and i'm joining the climate team.

i'm a hazards and climate resilience analyst, and as my title makes obvious, i'll be working on the hazards and climate resilience plan, which is across several different departments here in the city. before that, i was with the bay conservation development commission, working on their sea level rise adaptation planning program? and before that, i work with the national oceanic and administration digital coast partnership, so done several years of sea level rise specific work and really excite today broaden the scope of the climate change and resilience topics that i'm working on. i'm really proud to be a part of this great staff. thank you. >> thanks, elizabeth. >> thank you. >> my name is bitan chin, and -- >> into the mic. >> testing? okay. hi. my name is bitan chin, and i

finish my master's this summer in u.c. santa barbara, and my degree was in environmental science and management. and now -- so i joined the energy team a month ago, and specifically, i work with barry and ammon on green buildings. so now, i mainly work on the operations side of the existing commercial building ordinance, yeah. so before i came here, i interned with the national center of ecological initiatives. it was a lot of interesting data stuff. happy to be here. thanks. >> thanks. >> welcome. >> okay. that's it. >> any questions for director rafael, commissioners?

>> just one. the two events, do we -- if people are interested, commissioners are interested, when should we -- is the deadline to let anthony know or -- >> for both of those, i -- you know what? i don't know about the movie, if there's a limited number of spaces. certainly, for the lunch and learn, you can just let anthony know on the day of so he makes sure you're in the system and can get into the building. and anthony will let you know if there is any deadline or preregistration for the movie because i actually don't know the answer to that. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item, the director's report? >> good evening again, commissioners, eric brooks. this time, i will put my organizational hats on, so i'm here with san francisco green party and our city san francisco and californiians for energy

choice. first i want to bring to your attention something that i e-mailed a little while back and make sure that you see it about why -- i mean, director rafael brought up in previous reports -- excuse me -- renewable -- quote, unquote renewable diesel, and i said something very cautionary about that, that it's not any better than the body that we use now which is largely made out of soybeans and creates irreversibility land use change. so take a look at -- irreversible land use change. take a look at that. you can e-mail me if you have my e-mail address. i also want to bring up the fact that lately, the clean energy -- san francisco clean energy advocates in san francisco that have been working so long and hard on community choice and cleanpowersf have started meeting with the mayor's office

about bringing the sort of model that sydney, australia has for a complete county renewable master plan to san francisco. and that shows promise. we've only just begun to talk to them about it, but it would be great to have the department of the environment get involved and the commission get involved in that, as well. and some of those talks are with director of workforce development arce who you're familiar with, commissioner wan, and if you could get actively involved because of that connection, that would be awesome. another thing i would say is really crucial that this commission work on, and i think you've got the charter ability to do it, i -- since the latest wildfire, there are a lot of very angry consumers, angry people that got burned out of their houses and watched their friends get burned out of their

houses, angry environmentalists that are already -- we are going to have, in 2019, probably the biggest grassroots coalition that we've ever had to fight for community choice, to fight for localizing energy so we can start getting rid of transmission lines, and the number one fight, the beginning fight, will be -- will be to say to pg&e and the other utilities, you are not going to pass your wildfire liability costs to the consumers. that's not going to happen. we're already beginning a no campaign, and we're going to get strong on that. and it would be great to have the mayor's office, the board of supervisors, and most importantly, the commission on the environment and the department be involved in saying that loud and clear with us. thanks. >> thank you. any other public comment?

next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 9, committee reports, highlights of the october 17, 2018 operations committee meeting and the october 22, 2018 and the november 12, 2018 policy committee meetings. this item is for discussion. >> i will try to be brief, given the lateness of the hour. at the october 22, 2018 meeting, the policy committee did a very deep dive on the commitments that the city signed onto during the global climate action summit with a focus on the zero waste and green bond commissions. robert haley came to our committee to talk about the department's part of those

commitments, and we had a great presentation by mike brown, who manages the environmental finance programs at the p.u.c. about how he does his work in that program on green bonds. and then, we received a very full and fascinating presentation on all of the department's recent state and local legislative initiatives. we heard in particular from jenn jackson who talked about the toxic legislation that we have been involved in, including debbie mentioned the furniture one, right. and then, finally, charles sheehan, the chief policy and

public affairs officer, discussed all the things that were before the board of supervisors this year that implicated the department's work including the plastic and litter reduction ordinance and a number of others. it was a very interesting meeting. and then, our most -- what would have been our most recent meeting, the one in november , was cancelled. >> commissioner stevenson? >> for -- on october 17, we had a meeting of the operations committee along with our finance and administration program manager, he gave us an update on the budget. there was a slight change between the budget that was presented to the commission in january and the budget that the mayor approved? we went over that, and then, kara gurney, who's a senior engagement specialist at the department gave us a presentation on all the outreach

efforts that happened for the new bins in certain neighborhoods, so we still got to learn about that. and finally, the outreach program manager, she gave us an update on the bin top or battery recycling program. multifamily residences have an orange bucket where they can put their batteries to recycle, and single-families can put their batteries on top of their black bin in a plastic bag. so a lot of people didn't know about that, and they did more outreach on how to recycle the batteries. >> commissioners, any further comment on the public report? any public comment on this item? >> yeah, eric brooks just as a

public citizen. my building doesn't have a battery bin, so what do i do to make sure that it gets one? >> good question. director rafael? >> with the permission of the chair, i will answer the question? so that is a great question, and for anyone who's listening, if you are in an apartment building that does not have a battery bin, you can call recology and let them know, and they will deliver one to your property manager? if for some reason that is not successful, though it really somebody, call our department, and the receptionist will get you to the right person in the zero waste program, but recology is the deliverer of orange buckets, and they would be happy to make sure your property manager has one. >> thank you. next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 10, announcements. this item is for discussion.

>> is there any announcements, commissioners? no announcements? any public comment on this item? hearing none, next item, please. >>clerk: the next item is new business, future agenda items, charles sheehan, chief policy and public affairs officer. the explanatory document is the 2019 commission on the environment meeting schedule. this item is for discussion and possible action. >> and anthony will do the report in the -- in charles's absence. >> thank you. good afternoon -- good evening, commissioners. in your packet is the list of meetings for the commission and the committees in 2019, so please mark your calendars for those dates. the next commission meeting is tuesday, january 22nd, at 5:00 p.m. here in room 416. the commission will be hearing the recommendation from the operations committee about the department budget.

the commission will also be reviewing its annual report. just one note on that, as i work with the department to develop the annual report, all of you had gone to 18 events during the global climate action summit, and i wish we could have been at all of them to take pictures, but if you have any photos from gcas, if you can actually send them to me so we can add them to the annual report or any other photographs of you at work for the department. the other item for the commission meeting is officer elections will happen in january , and we are still developing other presentations, as well. the december policy committee meeting is cancelled -- oh, that's not true. the december policy committee meeting is absolutely happening. it will be -- i don't have the date, but it will be the second

monday. >> it's like the 10th. >> the 10th. there it is, of december. the next operations committee meeting is wednesday, january 16. >> okay. thank you for that clarification. any comments on anthony's report for charles? any public comment? please come forward. >> one last time at the mic. eric brooks, san francisco green party, and local grassroots effort, our city. couple of things. you may have noticed that not many of the opponents of most pesticide use came to your final hearing on that and that's because up to that hearing, we had not been reached out to by staff to engage in a dialogue, so we gave up, and we didn't come. so i hope in the next year, we

make much more progress on the pesticide issue so that that side of the issue is being heard and we're coming up with some compromises at least on pesticide use. and the other thing just that i would say, once again, taking off my organizational hat is just to repeat -- well no, i'll just put on the one for clean energy, californians for clean energy choice, it would be good if you couldie agendaize the ise that's going to be in sacramento around energy and the wildfires so that there can be recommendations hopefully coming from this commission. that i think is really important because this is -- 2019 is going to be a war of the people against these big corporations that are causing these problems, and it would be great to get you all involved in it. and then, now taking off the organizational hat, just to get back to bitcoin and

cryptocurrencies, i know that i can help. so those of you that want to move forward with that, and you do, please do contact me, and i don't mind giving this out, even if this is broadcast, it's my last name and my first initials, brookse brookse@igc.org, i can help you decide what to use bitcoin and cryptocurrency for, and i can do it for free, to please do contact me. thanks. >> thank you. next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 12, public comment on all matters pertaining to the subsequent closed session on public employee performance plan and appraisal report. >> before we vote to move into

closed session to review director rafael, we will take public comment on all matters related to closed session. is there any public comment on this item? hearing none, okay. so then, i think the next item, anthony, is we need to vote, correct? so we need to vote on whether to hold closed session to evaluate the performance of the executive director, deborah rafael. do i hear a motion to move into closed session to evaluate the performance of the director. commissioner wan? >> i move. >> and that was commissioner aun? thank you. okay. any discussion? okay. i guess any

>> we are back in open session, and we need a motion to not disclose any of the discussion held in closed session. do i have a motion? so moved by commissioner oyos, commissioner stephenson seconded. is there any discussion? any public comment? all those in favor, signify by saying aye. [voting] >> any opposed? motion carries. okay, and then, the next item. >>clerk: the next item is item 15, vote on whether to make a recommendation to the department of human resources to increase the compensation of the executive director fell, this is

a discussion item and action. >> this is a new item where the commission can make a recommendation to the department of human resources on the compensation of director rafael. i'll need a motion to start the discussion. that motion -- that motion that we would vote on is to recommend to the department of human resources to increase the compensation of director rafael. may i have a motion? >> i move. >> second. >> been moved by commissioner wald, seconded by commissioner oyos. any discussion? any questions? all those in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? and then, we can -- >> we should say based on the conversation that we had during the full -- the full and complete conversation that we had during the closed session, i move that we -- i recommend that

she get a raise. >> just maybe at a high level, you can state what your reasoning is that isn't about the closed session. >> okay. for extraordinary performance in the last year. >> second. >> it's been moved by commissioner wald and seconded by commissioner sullivan. >> and just acknowledge that there's no public in the room. >> and there's no public currently present. all those in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? motion carries. >>clerk: all right. the next item is item 16, adjournment. the time is 9:03 p.m. >> we are adjourned. good night. better.

san francisco department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. we know that we don't have all the answers. we need to support our local champions, our local community to find creative solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. >> zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration,

using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. the grant program is a grant program specifically for nonprofits in san francisco to divert material from landfill. it's important to find the san francisco produce market because there's a lot of edible food that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. >> san francisco produce market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. i think it's a basic human right to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. it's a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs,

and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, we've donated over 1 million pounds of produce to our community partners, and that's resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which we're very proud of. >> carolyn at the san francisco produce market texts with old produce that's available. the produce is always excellent. we get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and it's important to me to feel good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. it's helping people. that's what it's really about,

and i really enjoy that. >> the work at the produce market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the people, nothing gets better than . >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that said okay, 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and we're going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester

greenhouse gas emission. the grants that we're giving, they're anywhere from 15,000 to, say, $80,000 for a two year grant. i'm shawn rosenmoss. i'm the development of community partnerships and carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. i'm a school education team. my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it to remove

carbon in the public right-of-way on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. >> if it's a greening grant, 75% of the grant has to go for greening. it has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. >> the dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. it was the seed funding for this whole project. the whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. >> we usually issue a greening rft every other year, and that's for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school

garden. >> we were awarded $43,000 for this project. the produce that's grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. in this garden we're growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce, and artichokes. we'll be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. >> the first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. the reason for that is a lot of people in san francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to berkeley. we kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference

between diesel and biodiesel. one of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. >> pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. my name is david, and i'm the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. we were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in san francisco san francisco. we also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after school programs for children with special needs that serves the public school system. the sf carbon fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. we received about $15,000.

the money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. we have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. we actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. this is where our participants, they come to learn about gardening. they learn about our work in the greenhouse. we have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. we have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. one is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do

a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. >> the thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything, and so when we start looking at how we're going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. this is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the sf carbon fund at the department of environment. >> san francisco carbon grant to -- for us, opened the door to a new -- a new world that we didn't really have before; that the result is this beautiful garden. >> when you look at the community gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people

now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. that's a huge impact, and we're just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that

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