previous matter. >> chair mandelman: thank you, supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: and i will say, the reason these come to us is because these are areas that are saturated. this corner of the city has the most on-sale and off-sale liquor licenses in any part of the city. they're all in high-crime census tracts. it just doesn't seem to make sense to me. >> chair mandelman: thank you. vice chair ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yeah. i have a lot of respect for your opinion especially since it's in your districts, but i'm wondering if we can continue this item so the museum of ice cream can meet with your office and discuss. as a parent, i've been trying to get tickets to this museum. it is sold out on a regular basis. you know, i would say that i would love sometimes to grab a glass of wine when i'm at a museum with my kid. i just want to chill out, so i

would actually think that it would be kind of lovely to combine both the adult experience with the rare opportunity where there's a -- an opportunity for kids to really tactile-y get excited about a museum. i see it differently, but this is supervisor peskin's district, and i do feel like he deserves the respect to have that discussion with him and discuss the concerns and perhaps change the hours? and so i was wondering if he'd be open to continuing. >> supervisor peskin: so here would be my question of the clerk, which is we have a limited time to act in these matters or they are, i believe, deemed to be approved. so the question is, what is our drop-dead date. >> clerk: the board has 90 days in which to respond to the applicant's request for public convenience for necessity. the 90th day is january 24 of 2019, being tomorrow.

after that time expires, i believe that the state agency has the privilege to decide themselves based on a did i determination. the city attorney may have something to say about that. >> supervisor ronen: so are we able to -- i agree that 9:00 a.m. probably doesn't make sense. is there a way to change the hours, the conditions on the -- on the license? >> mr. givner: deputy city attorney jon givner. the board doesn't have the authority to place conditions on the permit. the state does, and so, the board could, if you were going to find public convenience and necessity here, the board could urge the state to adopt conditions of different hours. >> chair mandelman: looks like

my colleagues do not object. >> thank you. i just wanted to say, my apologies for not consulting your office prior? i don't handle a lot of p.c.n. hearings, and i didn't realize that was the protocol. and i would have. i meant no disrespect by it. i appreciate any ability to work with us on this because it is a successful business model, but they're an innovative company, and they've taken a huge expense to operate out of 1 grant avenue. the intent is not to have a bustling bar up there all day. it's a separate area of the mezzanine. i'm not sure if diagrams were included in your packet. it's more of an additional experience to the piece, to your point. it's not going to replace what the current attraction of the

museum is. so we're certainly willing to discuss hours. i would appreciate any wiggle room here on not denying it. >> chair mandelman: all right. well, if i could put myself into the queue, just so i understand procedurally what's going on, we're making a recommendation to the full board. when would this be heard by the full board? >> clerk: 29. >> chair mandelman: 29. so assuming this committee is inclined to do -- will it be heard on the 29th? [inaudible] >> chair mandelman: okay. so assuming this committee is inclined to do what supervisor peskin is suggesting, there's ample time between now and that board meeting to be further conversations with supervisor peskin's office, and if he's persuaded that there's something that would work, you can come to us and urge us to change that recommendation, right?

>> supervisor peskin: thank you, chair mandelman for those comments. don't worry about the protocol. i'm happy to meet with you folks in the interim, but let me just clarify something with the clerk. we just -- this is kind of a recommendation any way because tomorrow is the last day for the full board to have acted. so -- is that correct? >> clerk: this is correct. >> supervisor peskin: so the weird thing is this is kind of like sending a.b.c. a letter that they may or may not adhere to. >> clerk: at every point through the proceedings while we're receiving recommendations from the planning department and the police department, when i'm distributing those recommendations, i'm keeping the state agency in the loop to know that we're continuing to care for and preen for this request for p.c.n. the state agency knows that we're having this hearing today, and knows that we will

hear it on the 29th. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for that. let me just say a couple of other things. i believe, if my memory serves me correctly, and if i'm not, shut me up. that the city of san francisco gave a grant to the museum of ice cream business attraction grant i believe came out of the office of economic and workforce development to help get the business off the ground. that may or may not be relevant to the p.c.n., but it does say there's a relationship between the city and this business, which -- and i'm not pointing fingers at you, but there are other people involved in the museum. there was a little kerfuffle in the beginning, with plastic items entering the landfill between the business and my staff. i believe -- not you, but

there's another person involved who knows my office well, miss berg, and there's been no outreach. i'm happy to meet with you in the intervening five days, is to send out a resolution recommending denial. if we can get something done between now and tuesday, keep your fingers crossed. >> chair mandelman: great, and i'm taking that as a motion, and i'm not seeing any objections, so we'll take that without objection. [gavel]. >> chair mandelman: mr. clerk, can you call the next item. >> clerk: agenda item number three is a hearing to consider the issuance of a type 20 off-sale beer and wine liquor license to porky's palace, l.l.c., doing business as tank18, will do the business of serving the city and county. >> hello, supervisors. you have before you an application for tank18.

they have applied to add a type 20 license, and if that is approved, that will allow them to sell offline beer and liquor only. they are zero letters of protest and zero letters of support. southern station has no opposition. l.u. is approved with the following conditions. full and complete meals must be offered and made available at all times at the premises exercising the privileges of this alcohol beverage license with the exception of a half hour before closing each day. two. sales of alcoholic beverages shall be permitted between the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. daily. number three, petitioners shall actively monitor the area under

their control to prevent loitering of persons on any adjacent premise as depicted on the most recent certified abc 253. number four, no noise should be audible at any outside points. the petitioner shall be responsible for maintaining the area free of litter over the area which they have control as depicted on most recent certified abc 257 and 253. any graffiti within control of the license o'shall be removed within 72 hours of being applied. it should be noted that the applicant has agreed with all the above recommended conditions. >> chair mandelman: i don't see

any speakers, so we'll hear from the applicant -- i don't see the applicant, so are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? mr. nolte. >> first, oh, you want to give me the overhead? yes. i want to point out that these are already existing conditions with their existing licenses they have, and so you not providing any new conditions on their license, if they get what they're requesting today, which is -- i'm not sure if it is type 20, the same problem. it says here type 21, when it is actually a type 20. i'm sorry, this is kind of

funny, so that's wrong again. and what i handed in is a -- i don't understand this either. they, on page four, and i've outlined it. they -- if they have the current conditions, how can they have off-sale beer and wine going out the door or wine going out the door, having people fill up the bottles of wine, and it does this on the 19th? so they are not -- not -- not adhering to the conditions that are on their license currently. so how can you recommend them to -- in other words, they're being bad. i don't know a word to use. so you can't reward them for doing something that they've already done wrong. again, going back to the conditions that you can pull

off on a.b.c. that currently exist. so this is off their website, and you can download it. that's why i gave you all copies it. this shows, on the 19th of january , they were having people come in with -- [inaudible] >> chair mandelman: thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item before public comment is closed? then public comment is now closed. and supervisor ronen -- vice chair ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yeah. i really appreciate you, mr. nolte, bringing this to our attention. we're having a very strange day with liquor licenses. but the fact that the sponsor is not here, and that it does appear that they've already been serving wine and beer

without a license, i'm not inclined to support that. >> chair mandelman: maybe the a -- well, i'll let you finish, and then, we'll have the a.l.u. come up. >> that's the first we knew to our knowledge. they are a distillery, but they don't have the off-sale component with that type 75. on the conditions, i had to add number two because they don't have the off-sale component, so that's why i said sale of alcohol beverages, so that was a new condition that was added to that license, but we had no knowledge on january 19 that they were selling. >> supervisor ronen: well, i guess i'm a little confused. it says on the website, it says, the basics. and they have pictures of a bottle carrier, which would

indicate that they are selling the wine for off-sale purposes. >> i would need to read it. >> supervisor ronen: but the problem is we can't ask these questions because the owner isn't here. so given that, i would make a motion that we -- or after hearing from my colleagues, i would make a motion that we sign that this doesn't meet the convenience and necessity. >> supervisor peskin: i was just going to ask, have you heard from district six supervisor? >> chair mandelman: we -- i do not believe we've heard any objection to it, and we usually do a check around to make sure people are okay. >> supervisor peskin: it does say, whether you're looking for a glass, bottle, or raucous good time, bring a friend, so that does seem to indicate -- >> supervisor ronen: on-site. it's just so odd that the

person isn't here so we can ask these questions. and i'm assuming we're under the exact same conditions. >> clerk: it's january 24, tomorrow. >> supervisor ronen: i would appreciate we hear these items where we actually have some time to consider them and continue them and ask -- reach out, you know, to the owner. because i -- generally, i'm very positive -- you know, i -- i believe that, you know, under the right circumstances, we should grant these licenses, and we shouldn't deal with delay, but now, we're stuck between a rock and a hard place because the owner didn't come. mr. nolte brought some really inviting evidence to hear that they're already violating their contract. so given all the circumstances, i don't like to do that, but there's enough questions that i have that i also don't feel comfortable moving this forward

if i can't get those questions answered. so i -- i stand by my motion, even though i don't like making those motions. >> supervisor peskin: no objection from this supervisor. >> chair mandelman: and it sounds like this is a situation where if this committee is operating under a misunderstanding of what's going on, the applicant can come to us between now and the board meeting and get one of us to change the recommendation. >> supervisor ronen: true point. >> chair mandelman: so the motion is to direct our clerk to prepare a resolution finding that the granting -- that granting of the license -- issuance of the license would not meet the public necessity and convenience for the city and county of san franciscos and forward that to the board of supervisors. we'll take that -- that's a motion from vice chair ronen, and we will take that without objection. mr. clerk, can you please call -- let's see what further adventures are ahead of us. can you please call the next

item. >> clerk: agenda item number four -- [inaudible] >> chair mandelman: all right. let's see if we can't get through one of these. >> they have applied for a type 21, if approved, it would allow them to sell off-sale beer, wine, and distilled spirits. they are in plot 310, which is considered low crime. they are in census tract 227.04, which is considered low saturation. bayview station has no opposition to this license, and a.l.u. approves with the following recommended conditions. that the petitioner shall actively monitor the area in the event to prevent any person

fromming on the premises, and number two, sales and consumption of alcoholic beverages shall be permitted between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 12 midnight. the applicant signed these conditions on january 13, 2019. >> chair mandelman: is the applicant here? >> yeah. >> chair mandelman: oh, very good. >> i didn't prepare anything because i've never been before you guys today. >> chair mandelman: very good you're here. >> we just sustained a pretty big rent increase in our last lease negotiation. we've had the business for 12 years with no problem. we're just trying to generate more income. we're only going to sell large bottles, not small containers.

it's also a deli, not a neighborhood pub. that's it. >> chair mandelman: okay. >> okay. thanks. >> chair mandelman: are there any members of the public who want to speak on this item? seeing none -- nope -- seeing none, mr. nolte. >> rarely do i see only two conditions for a type 21. you've got to have longer arms. okay. so normally just the standard conditions i usually ask for when i'm talking about a 21 is no little bottles, no malt liquor. see, what i'm having a problem with is when the -- when the owner wrote a request for a

p.c.n. hearing, she'd mentioned that no more than 15% of the store frontage would be f alcoholic beverages. the reason i bring this up, once i give somebody an alcohol license, and they sell the store, if you don't do these things at the very beginning, the community is stuck with something that could be out of hand. this is why with restaurants and everything else, we see turnover, and the license is the most valuable thing they have, whether it's the cigarette license or a liquor license. they all are part of the business. this one's been around a long time, but it doesn't mean -- so i'm neutral on this, but i just want to bring up some of these points, when you're looking at a license, there's got to be --

the -- the police are only recommending two conditions. the hours are just standard, and prevent loitering. well, that's it. that's not much of a condition for operating a type 21. there is no safety issues, there's no operating a camera, nothing more than that. >> chair mandelman: okay. thank you. are there any other members of the public that would like to speak on the item before the item is closed? seeing none, public comment is now closed, and the matter is before us. i actually would love to have the representative from the a.l.u. come back up and sort of explain a little bit about what conditions get applied when and how and why. >> sure. so we take a lot of things into consideration when applying certain conditions to the applicant that we would like to see on their liquor license.

this one in particular, they've been around, like she said, in business for a long time. we look up crime, calls to that area, crime in that particular area, police reports at that specific address. in this case, there was zero police reports, zero calls for service in that particular area, it's a nice community. they're an active member of the community, and we feel given their business model that we would need to impose a ton of conditions on this liquor license. and when he brings up the point of, you know, getting ahead of these things and putting a ton of conditions on because when someone else takes over the business, they have the same conditions, that there actually isn't -- there's some truth to that, but it actually opens the door any time a liquor license is transferred from a person-to-person sale, we go through this whole process again. we look at all the stats again, we take everything into consideration again, and then, at that point, decide, do we

need to impose any conditions at that point, so that's what goes into it on our end. >> chair mandelman: okay. thank you. are there any comments or discussion up here? seeing none -- although vice chair ronen would -- >> supervisor ronen: i'm just happy to make a motion to find this or make a motion that the application meets the publicness see. >> chair mandelman: forward that to the full board with a -- >> supervisor ronen: positive recommendation. >> chair mandelman: thank you. we'll do that without objection. thank you for giving us a winner this morning. mr. clerk, do we have any other items before us this morning? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> chair mandelman: all right. then we are adjourned. thank you.

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flowing and safe. >> this is a big job and an honorable career. we appreciate your interest in joining our team. >> we hope you decide to join us here as the first first responders to the city and county of san francisco. for more information on the job and how to apply follow the >> supervisor yee: welcome to our rules committee for january 23rd, i am norman yee and i will chair this meeting. joining me today are supervisors catherine stephanie and hillary ronen who will substitute for

safai today. the committee would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv. sammy williams and jim smith who record each of our meetings and make the transcriptions to the public online. are there any announcements? >> >> clerk: silence all cellphones and electronic devices. documents to be included as part of the files should be submitted to the clerk. items will appear on the januarf supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> supervisor yee: before we start, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor safia from the meeting. with no objection, motion passes. mr. clerk, call item number 1. >> clerk: item number 1 is the ordinance authorizing the data and sheriff's to enter into a greet with the united states homeland security under which d.h.s. would agree to facilitate

parole entry for prosecution in san francisco. >> supervisor yee: right now, i believe we have representatives from the district attorney' office here to speak on this item. >> good afternoon. we have a piece of legislation in front of you today to allow us enter a narrow agreement for the extradition of an individual that's currently in canadian custody. we've been advised that that requires approval and support from the board of supervisors so we have lodged that request here. i have spoken to most members, but i'm happy to answer any questions you may have on the matter. if you'd like more detail. >> supervisor yee: ok. thank you for the brief presentation. is there any public comment for this item? do you want to --

>> yes, my name is mark nicco for the sheriff's department. i'm also here to answer questions you might have. i wanted to let you know that sheriff's hennessey supports our sanctuary city laws and the exceptions in those sanctuary city laws. and supports this amendment or this exception to sanctuary city for this extradition. i am here to answer any questions. >> supervisor yee: thank you, very much. now, is there any public comments for this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. right now, i believe supervisor ronen has amendments to this item. would you like to talk about that? >> sure. i just want to step back a moment and provide context to this situation we're finding

ourselves in. this particular case -- excuse me while i cough. this particular case, the district attorney has determined that there is probable cause and enough evidence to prosecute an individual who they believe raped an unconscious woman while she was in a uber-type vehicle. the city attorney, as they've done -- sorry. the district attorney, as he has done many times in the past, under a different administration, sought the help of the department of homeland security to seek extradition into the country of someone that fled, charges that were brought against him in order to prosecute the case and bring some possible justice to the victim. the trump administration, as we

have seen him do in several circumstances, underred guides of attacking the immigrant community, put up new barriers to the simple request to extradite the individual to prosecute them, in order for the district attorney to make that happen. just like he is seeking billions of dollars to build a wall on the border that will do nothing to protect our country but is a way to scapegoat and create a political crisis in order to pretend that he is doing something for safety in the country. this is something that is happening right here in this case. it's very frustrating and i wish that the president would get out of our way and let our district attorney keep us safe in this community and to bridge charges against individuals that need to be held accountable for their

actions in a court of law. so i'm very frustrated that once again, we are having to take unnecessary steps in order to keep our community safe here in san francisco. having said that, i want to make clear that i do not believe this is an exception to our sanctuary ordinance at all. i take issue with our council for the sheriff's department. this is a technical clarification that gives the sheriff's office and the district attorney the ability, in this single case, to communicate with d.h.s. under three limited circumstances that the trump administration is requiring in order to parole this individual into the country to be prosecuted. the amendments are making that crystal clear. we're not amending our sanctuary law. we stand by our sanctuary low.

it works. we know it has kept our community safe. as a matter of fact, we have record-low homicides in this city because we have such a strong sanctuary law and because the immigrant community feels comfortable coming forward and calling the police and cooperating with the district attorney's office. there are news report about how we are somehow weakening our amending our sanctuary ordinance but it's not true. what we are doing is signing a letter and giving the permission for the district attorney's office to sign a letter that says that if someone -- an individual is extradited into this country, under three circumstances, if that individual posts bail, if there's not probable cause to continue charges against the individual, or if the individual is acquitted, that the sheriff or the district attorney is allowed to contact us and give them that information.

it will be incumbent upon i.c.e. to find out when that individual is going to be released, find out where that individual is being held and to decide to pick up that individual if it choses to do so. so that is, i think, an important clarification and point to make here. with that i have passed out the amendments to the clerk and my colleagues. i basically wanted to make clear that we're not amending the sanctuary ordinance but instead, if you look at the long title, we're authorization the district attorney and sheriff's to notice if the defendant posts bail, acquitted or if no probable cause to determination is found. on page 2, we are making that same clarification on line 7, 8, 9 and we've added section c to make clear that we are not

modifying or altering sections of the administrative code 12h or 12i which is where our law is embedded in our administrative code. once again, we clarify what the permission we are giving to the d.a. and to the sheriff's department. with that, i would make a motion to ask my colleagues to accept these amendments. >> supervisor yee: before we do that, supervisor ronen, i want to be clear. did you say that the president was in the way of justice? he is putting up barriers where we could possibly put a criminal in jail and he is putting up barriers for local government? >> absolutely. you know, this doesn't happen very often. it doesn't happen very often that the d.a. needs to seek extradition of an individual to

prosecute. but in the past, when the d.a. had to go to these length under the obama administration, for example, the federal was always extremely willing to work with our local prosecutors' office to bring an individual into the country for prosecution, under the idea it's important for the individual to seek consequences, especially for violent crimes. so that victims have a chance to get justice. that has never been a problem in the past. low and behold, when the district attorney went through the same process that they've always gone through, because they have good evidence and probable cause to bring a case, for the first time ever, the president is putting up barriers and blockades for our d.a. to be able to seek justice and in doing so, has delayed prosecution of this case significantly. this is requiring months of work and time in order to do what the d.a. wants to do, which is bring

charges against this individual. >> supervisor yee: thank you for the clarification. it's really important for the public to understand that we're doing this mainly because we have a president that doesn't believe in law and order. and creates barriers to law and order. again, i never saw this as an amendment to our sanctuary city ordinance. i just saw it as a clarification of what we can and cannot do. supervisors stephan. >> supervisor stefani: yes, i'm supportive of the amendments and agree this is not an exception but a narrow agreement. this is something that is very narrow for this one individual. with that, i have two questions. is there another path to bring this person back into the u.s. to face trial for the acts he is accused of committing? >> supervisor stefani, because the individual is now in canada, we're required to work through

our federal and the federal of canada to execute the extradition and as supervisor ronen indicated, this requirement was placed on that process. there are not other vehicles as a local prosecutor that we can use to bring the individual back. we did explore other alternatives that might be available to us. we consulted with the city attorney's office but we were not able to identify another pathway. >> also, i'm very interesting in seeing justice realized and i know the victim wants that as well. i just want to be clear if we don't bring this person back and he gets to go back to tunisia, there's a chance he possibly will never be held accountable of the alleged acts. more violence could be -- he could engage in more acts of violence against women. i think that needs to be clear. if he is not brought back, he

will never have to face charges whatsoever. is that correct? >> right. if he is not allowed entry into the country to face charges, we're not able to proceed with the prosecution. we have a victim that would like her case persuade. pursued. he has a right to confront his accusers and work with his defense attorney, part of our constitution. attached to everybody. and in order to have a full, fair trial, he needs to be present. >> i'm very comfortable with bringing this person back to face justice and i agree it's not an exception but a narrow agreementment we're put in this situation because of president trump and i want to thank supervisor ronen to make it clear what we're doing today. >> supervisor yee: we have a motion to accept these amendments. with no objection, the amendments are passed. can we have a motion to send this item out of committee with

positive recommendations as amended. >> does it go as a committee report? or send it as a committee report? >> a committee report is not needed. >> yes. >> supervisor yee: no objection. the motion passes. ok. mr. clerk. would you please call item number 2. >> clerk: item number 2 is a motion reappointing supervisor sandra lee fewer january 31st, 2021 to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors. >> supervisor yee: i don't believe we have any presenters on this item. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public item is now closed. can we have a motion to move this item to the full board with recommendations. >> so moved. >> supervisor yee: well, any

objection? motion passes. >> clerk: a motion appointing gordon mar for a term to the city college financial assistant fund oversight committee. >> supervisor yee: i don't believe we have any presenters on this item today. is there any public comment on this item? thank you. there are none. so public comment is now closed. colleagues, can we have a motion to move this item to the full board with recommendations. >> so moved. >> supervisor yee: with no objection. >> yes. >> supervisor yee: motion passes. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 4. >> clerk: a hearing considering appointing one member of term ending march 31st, 2020 to the commission on aging advisory council. we have one applicant, one seat, and this is a nominee of the district 8 supervisor. >> supervisor yee: ok.

if morning star is here, would you like to come up to the microphone. he is not present. are there any questions? seeing none. is there any public comment for this item? seeing none. public comment is now closed. colleagues, can we have a motion to move this item to the full board with recommendations? >> so moved. >> supervisor yee: with no objection, this item passes. >> just to clarify, this is a recommendation that morningstar will be appointed to seat 7. 7. >> supervisor yee: correct. >> clerk: that completes the agenda today. >> supervisor yee: the meeting is adjourned, thank you, very much.

. >> 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 bett. 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 . good evening, everyone. thank you for being here tonight for our very first commission meeting of the year. it's usually the beginning of the year in our january meeting, to do more