make the same motion for a resolution as i did in the 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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supervisor shamann walton, and seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar. i'd like to thank the staff at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting, and our clerk, mr. victor young. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. [agenda item read]. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. can you please call item number one. >> clerk: item number one is a hearing to consider appointing three members, term ending january 1, 2020, and two members, term ending january 1, 2021 to the shelter monitoring committee. we have five seats, six applicants. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. and unless my colleagues have any initial questions or comments, then i would ask if we can hear from our first applicant today, gabriela

avalos. and i understand that miss avalos was unable to be here, and has asked gordhoward chin the shelter monitoring committee to read a statement. >> miss gabriela avalos asked me to tell you that she regrets she cannot be here, but she asked that i read this to you. hello. thank you for allowing me to express my interest in becoming part of the shelter monitoring committee through the tone and voice of another person. my name is gabriela avalos, and i would be proud to be part of the shelter monitoring committee and share work with the board of supervisors. my work is with clients who are housed by often clients share their experience about san francisco shelters while i am

processing intake or simply recomme reminiscing about days when they were homeless. shelters provide lots of resources but not because case workers or case managers may not always be available to support. shelters keep stability, even if it's 30 days, but sometimes not because waiting lists can be longer or the beds are on a first come, first serve basis. as a single mother of a ten-year-old daughter, it is very important to me that everyone in san francisco be housed, but if this is not the case, then a common environment should be provided. during the day, most of the individuals who are homeless get by. children are at schooled, adults are seeking employment

and housing. then the night comes, and what happens? this is the part that i want to be a part of. the community needs to be assured that children and adults are rested for the next day. if i was selected to a chair on the shelter monitoring committee, i would love to collaborate and work in partnership with the public to make san francisco shelters as they can be. a shelter is defined as a place which provides safety, protection and accommodation. i would be grateful to be part of the san francisco sheltering monitoring committee who understands and monitors these believes. thank you for your consideration. regards, gabriela avalos. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. next, i'd like to invite up the second applicant, denise feathers. okay. i do not have her. mr. chin, do you have any

information from miss feathers? >> no. we just don't see miss feathers here today. we did not receive any information from her prior to the meeting. >> supervisor ronen: okay. thank you so much. so i'd like to call up the third applicant, dean deanna almanza. >> clerk: i'd just like to remind the applicants to limit your statements to three minutes. >> good morning. my name is deanna almanza, and i am the director for mission creek health services here in san francisco. prior to that, i was the c.e.o. for the domestic violence and rape crisis center for 20 years, and before that, i became a franciscan worker where i served the homeless. in my current position, i still serve the homeless, and i would consider it a privilege to be a part of the solution.

>> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. any questions? thank you. and then, next, i would like to invite up the fourth applicant, vixen yvonne. good morning, miss yvonne. >> hi. i'm vixen yvonne. ten years ago, if somebody said to me, hey, in a few years, you're going to be homeless, i would have laughed and told them to go to bellevue. the homeless experience for me was -- on both sides. i see both sides. i have a political science degree, and so i saw the bureaucracy side of it. they're underfunded. it's a nightmare to work there, and it's a nightmare to live there. and i mean, both sides need a voice. i think i can bring that. i think i can bring an impartial voice to the committee. i -- i see a lot of changes

that need to have. i mean, the system's broken. i don't know if it was ever whole, so -- and there's just a positive way to do that. i mean, screaming at each other about all the bad things that happen really doesn't do anything, and there's some wonderful things that happen. there are wonderful people that work in the shelter system. there's wonderful people that live in the shelter system. i was one of them. but we don't talk about those people. we only talk about the bad things, and i think there's just some way to make it better, and i hope that i can be a part of making that better. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. any questions? no? thank you so much. next, is ron summers here? don't see him, so i will lastly invite up the sixth applicant,

traci watson. >> good morning, board of supervisors. my name is traci watson, and i'm here for reappointment for seat six on the shelter monitoring committee. i have been working for the homeless community for the past ten years. i also started also working in in the shelter -- three popular shelters here in san francisco, and i'm currently working with the city of san francisco with the department of public housing with the home ward bound program placing homeless individuals on the street and relocating them back to their friends and their family. what i learned a lot on the committee was the standards of care, which is very important and i really would like to be reappointed to continue working to help with the solution. so thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. any questions, ma'am?

thank you so much. with that, i wanted to open this up to public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: colleagues, and mr. young, tell me if i'm doing this correctly. seats two, four, five, and six -- there's only one applicant for each seat, should i make a motion first, and then consider an applicant for seat three? >> clerk: you can take these one at a time. you wou you -- would you like to make a motion regarding seat six? recommendation of traci watson for seat six? >> supervisor ronen: without objection we recommend tracey watkins -- watson for seat six of the shelter monitoring. committee. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: thank you,

miss watson. thank you so much for your service. and then, for seat five, can i entertain a motion to appoint ron summers -- or is there any concern because mr. summers isn't -- >> clerk: there's two applicants for seat five. it's vixen yvonne and ron summers. and i believe ron summers also applied for seat two. >> supervisor ronen: oh, i see. sorry. given that, maybe -- if we couldn't -- i would like to entertain a motion, then, to appoint vixen summers to seat five. sorry. this is my first time as rules chair. please, please bear with me here. i'm so sorry. vixen yvonne. excuse me, miss yvonne. i'm so sorry about that. without objection, then, we

will recommend the appointment of vixen yvonne to seat number five. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: thanks so much, miss yvonne, for your service. okay. got it. moving onto seat number two, then, i wanted to ask my colleagues, given that mr. summers wasn't here and didn't inform us, do you still feel comfortable moving him forward to seat number two? [inaudible] >> supervisor ronen: sure, that would be great. mr. chin? >> i think at this time we should -- because mr. summers did not previously inform us that he would not be able to attend this meeting today and also had previously notified myself that he would be here, i think we should hold off until we get some more information on finding out what happened to

mr. summers here will be formally appointed him to the committee. >> supervisor ronen: okay. can we continue this to the next meeting? >> clerk: there's no need to take action. if we don't appoint someone to seat two, it remains open, and we can take it up at a future time. >> supervisor ronen: okay. and then last but not least, i wants to see if -- i wanted to see if my colleagues had any questions about seat number two. i note that we have the same situation with miss feathers. maybe we can ask mr. chin if she was in contact with you prior to today's meeting? >> unfortunately we didn't receive any communication from miss feathers prior to this meeting as to whether she would or would not be able to attend?

>> supervisor ronen: okay. thank you. i would note that we did receive one letter of support from the deputy director of l.s.s. for california representing gabriela avalos. do either of my colleagues have any comments or want to make a motion regarding seat number three? [inaudible] >> supervisor ronen: without objection, this committee will recommend gabriela avalos appointment to seat three with a positive recommendation to the full board. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: and then lastly, can i recommend deanna almanza to seat four?

>> clerk: just to recommend, we have gabriela avalos to seat three, deanna almanza to seat four, and vixen yvonne to seat six. >> supervisor ronen: yes. thank you very much. can you call item number two? [agenda item read]. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. any comments from my colleagues? seeing none, i'll open this item up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: you want to make a motion? without objection, this committee recommends the appointment of supervisor kathrin stefani to the bay

conservation development commissi commission. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: can you please read item three. >> clerk: item three is a motion appointing shamann walton, term ending january 31, 2021 to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors. >> supervisor ronen: i'm assuming that we need to excuse supervisor walton? >> clerk: yes. we need a motion. >> supervisor ronen: i'd like to make a motion to excuse supervisor walton from this item. >> clerk: do we have a second? >> supervisor mar: second. [gavel]. >> clerk: the motion to excuse passes. >> supervisor ronen: would you like to make a motion? >> clerk: public comment first. >> supervisor ronen: oh, i'd like to open this item up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. [inaudible] >> supervisor ronen: without

objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: can you please read item number four. >> clerk: item number four is a motion appointing matt haney, term ending june 30, 2020, to the association of bay area government executive board. >> supervisor ronen: like to open this item up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] [inaudible] >> supervisor ronen: without objection, this item passes. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: can you please call item number five. >> clerk: yes. i just had a reminder from our friends down at sfgtv to please pull your microphones close. they're having a little trouble hearing you. item number five is a motion appointing supervisor matt haney to an indefinite term to the transbay joint powers authority. >> supervisor walton: motion to

move supervisor haney's name forward. >> supervisor ronen: i'd like to open this up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor walton: i'd like to make a motion to move supervisor haney's name forward. >> supervisor ronen: seeing no objection, this motion passes. [gavel] [agenda item read]. >> supervisor mar: make a motion to appoint supervisor haney to the location agency formation commission. >> supervisor ronen: seeing no objection, item passes. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: please call the next item.

[agenda item read]. >> supervisor ronen: i'd like to make a motion to excuse supervisor mar. without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: i'd like to open this up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor walton: i'd like to make a motion to appoint supervisor mar. >> supervisor ronen: without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> clerk: with that, supervisors, there are no further items on the agenda

. >> 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 administrative items like reviewing and approving the