and really exotic subject matter. it's like, what do you say? don't litter. but what the mayor wants, the mayor gets. so i worked with my colleagues at public works and started to learn about what litter really is all about, and it's very interesting. we were able to create a very interesting assembly that we still have today, talking about the impact is has on wildlife in our area, and the impact is has on our pets. it became an interesting outreach, interesting assembly. mayor newsom stopped at our first assembly we gave at betsy carmichael elementary. he was sitting in the back and came up at the end. in his answers, he was repeating some of the things he'd learned in the assembly, but i w which i was glad to see.

certainly a great moment there. and also, mayor newsom was a fan of our composting efforts in school. when we had our 100th food to flowers school, he showed up. that was at leonard flynn elementary, and he was helping the students talk about what goes where in which bin. the late mayor lee loved working with children, and in 2015, for the mayor's birthday, that was debbie's first birthday, he requested the kids get involved. so we all sat around the table, wondering how we were going to get the kids involved. so we decided to hold a tree planting, and let the kids show up for the tree planting. and it was a great time, and the mayor had a good time. the next year, we did sort of that reprize theme. we had an earth day breakfast at city hall. and we put the kids in the

05100 t-shirts, and we taught them a song. and they sung a song to honor the work that mayor lee did, and mayor newsom. it turned out he loved that song so much, that when his birthday came around, his staff played him, instead of happy birthday, that song. lesson five, reputation is powerful. a good reputation leads the way. i kind of say our reputation is all we have. san francisco as we know has a powerful reputation. so does the department of the environment, and because san francisco was the first city to put the green bins in the san francisco, so did the school education team. so we got lots of phone calls

from different municipalities across this nation, more than 20, contacting us over the years and wanting to know how we did it, trying to pilot their own composting program or zero waste program. so we gave them the best information we had, our best practices, our materials. we even shared the food to flowers name and said they could use it. cambridge, massachusetts uses the food to flowers name. they couldn't use phoebe the mascot. we had to draw the line somewhere, but the food to flowers program took off. we also helped not just cities but also other countries around the world, as well. and we were delighted one day when we got a -- reached out from mcmillan mcgrau hilw hill

a readers supplement. they featured our program, and that was a nice thing to see. lesson number six is to give appreciation. recognition is a wonderful thing. i certainly feel that today, and it's something that we try and give in the work we do in the community. specifically, when we have poster contests, it's not that just there's a winner, we have awards ceremonies that we put on so we can honor the students and the teachers and the school, and it's a nice thing to do. also, every year, we have our annual school awards ceremony. if you haven't been, i urge you to attend. it's an uplifting, beautiful event at city hall that isn't just a great thing for the students and the schools that are invited to attend and be honored, but it's also a powerful event for school education team because it reminds us why we do the work we do. what does it mean to honor the

schools that have done an excellent job with zero waste, and it's such an uplifting event. we've also been awarded ourselves on the school education team, the zero waste achievement award from the california waste and recovery association, and also one, recently, the govern i don't recognize environmental and economic leadership award, and that was a real honor. lesson seven, the last lesson, is the future matters, and our actions shape the future. mayor breed has called for all city departments to offer paid internships to high school youth, and this opportunity is a wonderful opportunity, and i know that the school ed team after i leave is going to be taking steps to help make this happen at our department. to that end, the future -- again, i'm heading out. we all know that, but the schoolwork will continue.

there's a lot of space and opportunity to expand or work into the middle schools and high schools. we've definitely done that, but there's a lot more work to be done. it's a more challenging age group to work with, it's a more challenging school environment to work with, so there's a lot of work that can be done, and i'm excited about the potential to deepen our connection in the middle schools and high schools, and also widen our community connections. we do work with the community, but there's always room to do more and leverage the work that we do in ways that really create a strong community connection. so i'm looking forward to that happening after i leave and -- in whatever way it'll -- form it'll take, i don't know, but there's the potential for that. and you know, the school education program was built to last. it's super solid, it's in place. and i, again, am very excited to see what will happen in school education 2.0 after i

leave. i won't be going far. i don't know where i'll be, actually, but i'm always a phone call away and e-mail away, and at any point, if anybody ever needs to call me for any reason, i'm always going to be available for that because i always love the work we do, and i'm always going to be a part of the city family even if i'm in some far-flung place in the world. i'm not leaving my heart in san francisco, i'm taking it with me. so thank you. it's been a great 16 years, and i just really again thank you for this moment. [applause] >> commissioners, questions or comments on the presentation? commissioner wan? >> commissioner wan: just want

to commend your presentation. i see your presentation in two schools. it's been fantastic. it's really something, and perhaps the best of our programming, i would say, at the department. >> is there any public comment? i know we're going to miss you terribly, but we'll know where to find you -- i know we're going to miss you, and after the presentation, i'm going to go, oh, my god, we are going to really miss her. >> it's real. >> it's real, yeah. you made it very real. and director raphael? >> yeah. i just want to say one thing that tamar ended with that i think is really true. she said the program is built to last. it's solid. it's a great foundation. the people who are in this room that will be here next week when you aren't know exactly what they need to do.

they know how to do it. they do it with confidence, and what a gift that is that you have created something that is going on in your absence, in your memory, with your inspiration and is very solid and will -- there's no -- i'm not worried that the school ed program is going to disappear when tamar goes onto her next chapter. you've done such a wonderful job of training people and inspiring others. so this is a program built to last, and i can't wait to see what happens next. >> good luck in your next adventure. next item. [applause] >> the next item is item eight, review and vote on whether to approve the department of the environment's fiscal year 2019-20 and 20-21 budget. the sponsor is debra fell, director. the explanatory document is the

draft department of the environment fiscal year 2019-2020 and 20-21 budget. this item is for action. >> director raphael? >> yeah, i'll just set a context, but then, commissioner -- actually -- commissioner, good. i pass. >> so as we do every year, the operations committee took a look at the budget in a much deeper aw deeper way last week at our meeting? joe is going to walk us through the top line of the budget today? and i -- just know that we at the operations committee got to know sort of point by point, area by area how the budget looks both from a revenue and from an expenses perspective? and if you guys have any questions, joe is here to answer them, and we are also happy to answer any of the discussion around the

conversation we had last week, as well. joe, thanks. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is joe sane, and i'm the fiscal planner of the department. and this year, i'll be doing a quick presentation of the 2019 and 2020 draft budget. a couple of quick things. this is a draft budget, and as such, we expect there will a be a lot of changes between now and the time we submit the budget to the mayor's office on february 22. the second thing is we're not going to be reviewing the fiscal year 20-21 budget in this presentation. while we're mandated to submit a two-year budget, it's impossible to know what our grant situation will look like that far out at this point in time, so we don't feel like we can give you an accurate assessment of the fiscal year 20-21 at this time.

so the city's currently projecting $107 million deficit for fiscal year 2020 and additional $103 million different set for 2021. as a result, the mayor is ordering all departments to cut expenditures by 2% for 2020 and 2% for 2021. the mayor's office is also requiring all general fund departments to submit a contingency reduction plan of an additional 1% in each fiscal year that will be implemented if the city's fiscal position warrants it. while the department of the environment doesn't receive any general fund support, we do face some impact as nongeneral fund departments are expected to absorb any increases in our budgets, in our costs for the

fiscal year, without requesting any additional funds via work orders with other city departments. lastly, the mayor has mandated that there be no new positions added to the departmental budget submissions. that won't affect our departments at all because we don't anticipate adding any positions in the next fiscal year. for fiscal 2019-2020, our total operating budget currently stands at approximately $27.2 million. this operating budget includes both funds being requested through the annual appropriation ordnance or a.a.o. process, as well as funds that have been previously approved that will be utilized in the next fiscal year. this is the midyear approval requests called system expend processes.

for awareness, these previously approved funds will not be part of the annual submission to the mayor's office and will not be reflected in our final a.a.o. budget presentation to this committee in july. so on the right, you'll see we're showing a $166,901 shortfall. we do believe we can close this gap between now and february 21, and we expect to submit a balanced budget to the mayor. the pie chart on the left illustrates the department's revenue makeup. as you can see, our revenue makeup for next fiscal year is 44% impound, 46% grants, and 10% other city departments. we also do have a small amount of revenue from fees that are related to the safe medicine disposal program. around here is the grant revenue actually makes up a

larger percentage of the operating budget than the solid waste impound revenue. that's an anomaly, for reasons i'll discuss in the next slide here. so this slide shows the year-over-year changes in the budget from one year to the next fiscal year. 22.3 million to 27.1 million. this is almost entirely due to an increase in our bay run grant as well as a new grant from the california air resources board. the carb grant is to facilitate the procurement of 30 battery electric and hybrid trucks.

the vast majority of the funds are for project implementation and professional services and not any operational use. so while it looks like there's a big increase in funds to the department, almost all of these will be passed through to a third party. i just want to stress that it's highly unusual to have such a significant increase in grants in any given fiscal year, and i also want to again, you know -- if you understand the majority of these go towards project costs and not any operational cost of the department. i expect future years to be more reflective of historical norms. so you'll see also on here that, on the revenue side, there's a small increase to the fees budget which reflects an anticipated increase for the safe drug disposal stewardship

ordinance. these fees are directed at the pharmaceutical industry and thus not subject to limit the mayor's directive to fee increases. this reflects some new funding from the airport commission for projects related to electrical vehicle initiatives. on the expenditure side, we see a year over year increase. there's a 3% increase in personnel costs which reflected the anticipated wage and benefits increases for the next fiscal year. we of course see a very large increase in the nonpersonnel services and materials and supplies categories which reflect the outflow of the grant funds that we were discussing earlier. the grants category's also increasing, but it's reflective of a cost center change in the carbon funds.

so previously, the carbon fund had been budgeted in the materials and supplies category, while the actual expenditures had been disbursed via grants to nonprofits, so this simply corrects that discrepancy and it does not represent any increase to the operational spending in that category. so here, we see a list of the work orders with other city departments and our programming partnerships. as you can see -- excuse me, as you can see, we work closely with many other city departments. these work orders are a vital part of our department's funding, and we greatly value our interdepartmental relationships. our staff work hard to maintain positive relationships with and provide exceptional services to other city departments, and i'd like to recognize their role in making these work orders come to fruition because they make my job much, much easier.

so these are the key dates for the fiscal 19-2020 budget process. you'll see that the next big deadline is our submission of a balanced budget to the mayor's office on february 21. in may, we'll return to the operations committee to update commissioners on the balanced budget that was ultimately submitted to the mayor's office on that date. may will also mark the beginning of the board of supervisors budget hearings. hearings are held in may and june, with the department of the environment historically being heard in the may group. the fiscal 19-2020 budget will be adopted on july 31st, and by august 27, we along with every other city department will send a letter to the mayor's office certifying that the budget that was adopted is adequate and no

supplemental general funding will be required. that letter marks the end of the budget process. so this is where we stand as of today. overall, we have a stable budget with two areas, energy and biodiversity still in the process of identifying funding opportunities. as we discussed in detail with members of the operations committee, we are focusing on these areas, and we will continue to focus on them in the current weeks, and we are confident in our ability to close the current revenue gap in time to submit a proposed budget to the mayor's office on february 21. so that concludes my remarks and i'm happy to take any questions that you might have. >> thank you. questions, commissioners? commissioner wald? >> i can't find the part where

i -- oh, i have a question. >> hmm? >> it doesn't have to do with the budget per se but it has to do with the politics of the budget and the perception -- well, actually, the reality of proposing a budget increase at a time when other departments are going to be, you know, leading. >> sure. and this goes back to the difference between the draft budget and the annual appropriation budget. this reflects all of the department's anticipated operational spending in the next fiscal year. so it includes budgets that will not be reflective in the mayor's annual appropriation ordinance submission. for example, the two main increases here, the two grants,

the carb grant and the bay rent grant will be added to our budget via the accept and expense ordinance. the annual appropriation ordinance will be very much more in line with our year over year annual appropriation ordinance request of previous years. >> okay. thank you for that answer because i actually did not, until this minute -- really understand how this was going to work. i thought when you took those out, it was going to look worse, but you are telling me it's going to look much better. >> it's going to -- it's going to look very similar to historical a.a.o. submissions of previous years. >> good. thanks. >> any other questions? commissioner stephenson? >> i don't have a question. i just want to say thank you for all the work you do on

this. i don't know how you magic it every year because we are such a strange department in the city. those grants come in midyear or midcalendar year or in three months. when the impound account is always such a stable thick and everything else is in motion, i think it's amazing that we can get through this process every year. i think it's important to remember we don't always get general fund money. just keep that in the backs of your mind, i just want to remind us all to think about that, and just in terms of the gap of the 160,000 or whatever, we close this every single year we see this, and every single year, we end up magicing it again somehow. when we actually saw this at the committee, we didn't vote to bring it forward to this committee, for no other fault than my own.

my vote would be we push it forward to the committee. i will push for that after we finish conversation. >> commissioner sullivan? >> yeah. when do our space needs and our lease begin to affect the department's budget? >> so our lease is up for renewal in march 2020 -- i'm sorry, no -- yeah, 2020. and we are in the process of working with real estate now to identify a path forward in our negotiations with our current lessor, as well as looking at other properties as the fiscal case may warrant. >> so if there was an increase at that time, would it affect this budget year? >> no. this current budget year, the increase -- the probable increase to the rent for that -- for the period between march and june 30 has been

factored in to the figures that you see here. >> okay. thank you. >> any other comments or questions, commissioner ms. if not, we'll move on d-- commissioners? if not, we'll move onto public comment on the budget. seeing no public comment, we'll have a motion to approve the budget. >> so moved. >> moved by commissioner stephenson. do i have a second? >> second. >> second by commissioner wan. any discussion? okay. so we have a motion that's been made by commissioner stephenson, seconded by commissioner wan. all in favor, signal by saying aye. [voting] >> any opposed? any absentia? motion carries. and the next item? >> the next item is item nine,

vote to whether to review the annual 2019 report. the speaker is choorlz sheehan, chief public policy officer. this item is for discussion and action. >> and i think commissioner wald will introduce the item. >> yes, thank you. with this budget as in past years, the draft report on the accomplishments and activities of the commission on the environment came before the committee and had a robust discussion. and i believe we did vote, didn't we? we did vote to recommend to the full commission that we approve

this document. charles, are you going to say that this is -- this report is mandated by law? >> yes, i can -- >> well, i can say it. i always find it very interesting that this report is mandated by law. we had -- we and every other commission in the city and county of san francisco is required to report on their activities on an annual basis, and this is our response to that report. >> thank you, commissioner. charles sheehan, chief policy and public affairs officer for the department of the environment. i'm going to walk you through the annual report here briefly. it's less of a presentation and more of a conversation, so feel free to interject if you see something that you like and want to call out. as commissioner wald noted,

it's necessary that we do this by law, but i think it's a good way of building on the foundation that we built in 2018 -- or the commission built in 2018 because there were many milestones. i do want to call out a few people for thanks. the first, and if we could actually have the cover page or the slide from sfgtv, i want to thank the artists that provided us this for our cover page. she's a social justice activist, a labor activist, and he's also a commissioner on the department of the environment, so thank you to commissioner ahn for his artwork. and i want to thank the author, our commission secretary, anthony valdez, for authoring this annual report, putting it together, being the project manager, and of course, working with mark nicholas, our graph

designer from asia's outreach team. thank you, everyone, for that. the first page is our mission statement. no real, real surprises there. the second page is the letter from our commission president, commissioner bermejo. if you read through the letter, you'll see kind of the list of highlights and milestones and a guide to the subsequent pages as we go through the notable events from 2018. some of our most notable events was filling out our roster of commissioners with the appointment of mike sullivan and the appointment of commissioner eddie ahn who added to the decades of experience that we have on the commission on the environment. commissioner ahn brought that nook between social justice and labor to our commission, and commissioner sullivan has deep

knowledge of our city's trees, and so that definitely expanded the deep knowledge base that we already had here at the department of the environment. and we needed that deep knowledge base because of events like the global climate action summit, and the commissioners definitely helped extend the reach of the department, of our city's elected officials, of the city's capacity to host visiting nations, visiting cities, del gats from all around the world who are convening in san francisco to talk about the environment, and to learn from us on what we did here on climate action, and the commissioners represented us at events, at talks, at workshops on kind of 0, 80, 100 groups, the paradigm that governs or climate action, and it definitely made sure that we were a gracious environment, but more so, an informed host on the environment. and the commissioner definitely

helped the department, the city, and the mayor's global climate action summit here a success. but beyond that, there were other highlights, as well. i know that seems to be the main highlight, but there were a number of special meetings and events that the commission undertook in order to its regular business. one was the historic meeting between the historic environment and the joint commission on the status of women, and then special reports back on the commission workshops, and then, of course, the actual meeting with the community to show what the final end result was. and then, moving on, other highlights include the department's racial equity initiative, which i'm going to get to on another page. the racial equity initiative is used to work on how the department's programs, policies, and services my

intentionally or unintentionally benefit some more than others. the picture you see there is our rally and protest of the trump's decision to repeal obama's clean power plan, and the commissioners, particularly commissioner hoyos and commissioner ahn, who was one of the emcees for the event, helped make a powerful statement that was instrumental in reducing emissions and was going to be more instrumental in reducing emissions for the future. it was important for san francisco to kind of unite bay area communities, bay area activists, and we did that through the leadership, and we received lots of attention. i know that commissioner bermejo and wan were watching it from mexico, the strong

stance against the trump administration. the operation committee setting up various initiatives and approvals throughout the year. and then of course what we saw today, but what we also did thousand 2018 was recognize the individuals that help empower the commission, that helped us be successful in the environment because as you saw on tomorrow's presentation, it's about collaboration with others, it's about working with others. no matter who it was, we made sure to call out those that helped us succeed on the environment this year, or in previous years, as well. and finally, our legislative summary. the commission has been invaluable at times, championing issues for the city, making sure we're looking at the right issues, pushing

legislation kind of overthe finish line if we need to and getting the city on the record like taking a stand on the repeal of the clean power plan or passing a resolution supporting the department's equity initiative by not only helped focus how the department looks at its work to make sure we're looking at it through the equity angle but was also a model for other city agencies and how they look at their own programs through an equity issue. and in fact our work with the commission on equity was used as a template for the commitment at the global climate action summit. so some of our legislative accomplishments are more than just resolutions. they find themselves being signed onto by other cities or they find themselves being used by other city departments, and so i just wanted to call that out, as well. and that, i believe, is the very comprehensive annual report. >> great report. comments or questions,

commissioners? commissioner wan? >> i'm getting really to make a motion when you're ready to ask. >> i just wanted to say thank you to commissioner eddy ahn for the great artwork. he's done a great job of buttefying the district where i live. they unfailed tveiled the util boxes. thank you for that. it's a great way to highlight artwork. i was looking at the drawings, you even have the raccoons in here. you so often see them in the neighborhood. so thank you for that. and any -- commissioner ahn. >> i love with what mark did with bits and pieces of the art, separating out the bird with the heart above its head. really good work by the department as always in terms

of making sure we get the message out there. one small thing that's a substantive edit to include under the clean power plan rally. i think it's mentioning the san francisco public utilities commission. as a department, they were represented by general manager harl harlan kelly and commissioner viator, so recognizing them for the good work they've done is important, as well >> okay. we can take that and add that in there. that need to be a formal amendment? [inaudible] >> okay. public comment? no? hearing none, we'll have a motion to approve the 2018 annual report. >> as amended. >> as amended. commissioner wald? >> thank you. i think that we have had an

extraordinary year. as you said when you began this meeting, and i think this report captures the extraordinary nature of the year very, very well and therefore i move that we approve this draft as amended for presentation to the mayor in accordance with our applicable law. >> so moved. do we have a second? >> second. >> by commissioner sarah wan. moved and seconded to accept the annual 2018 report as amended. do i -- all in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? a any -- motion passes.

next item. >> so in the last couple months, since my last director real estate 's report feels like ages ago. >> it was last year. >> you heard a couple of things. you heard the award that the school education got from the governor's office. that was wonderful. that was matt rodriguez, the pat of past secretary of -- the past second of cal ed giving us the award. we had a wonderful event, our tree -- tree tipping event, holiday event, it's always amazing how many cameras come out for that. and then, of course, martin luther king day on monday was phenomenal to see the presence of the department of the environment at the celebration.

and in terms of what our -- in the last month, we've been working most on as a department is pacific gas and electric, pg&e, is requiring that our energy efficiency program compete with the private sector for our energy efficiency funds summing through the public goods charges. so that's a huge change for us, and we had to submit a request for abstract, an r.f.a.? so that got put in just a few days ago, and the energy efficiency team was working very, very hard to put that forward, and our assumption is because this is public good charged money that regardless of the bankruptcy, this program and these funds will move forward, but of course, there are questions about that. in the near future, we will be launching the electric vehicle road map for the private sector? we will be convening the electric vehicle working group,

which our city departments who either procure vehicles or have something to do with installing infrainstruct t infrastructure, so we've lead a multistakeholder road map, how do we electrify vehicles. the state of the city address is umm canning up at the end of the month. we hope to have some environmental messages in there. just to put on your calendar, for march, march 13 at 6:30, please, please come join us at cal academy for the green business awards. it's such a wonderful celebration. i would say two of my favorite things that we do to celebrate environmental leadership is one, the green business awards where we're celebrating small business, and the second is the school education awards where

we celebrate the students and their teachers and custodians. so those are just super heart warming events to participate in. one is in march, one is in april. so we'll let you know when the school education is, but one march, 6:30 in the evening at the cal academy will be the green business awards. i am also pleased to say we have been focusing a good deal in the department what does accountability mean, what does 100% accountability mean? where do we work in ways where we work more effectively as teams and can earn the trust and keep the trust of our colleagues. and one of the things that we've been investigating right now is the set of values that we identified when we did the strategic plan a couple of years ago. and pulling those out again and revisiting them, and i'm hoping

that perhaps at a commission retreat we can talk about how we bring those things more explicitly into the department. credibility, collaboration, impact, innovation, and equity. and i'm challenging my senior staff, and i'm challenging everyone in the department to think about how we bring those five values front and center and think about how we overlay them in everything we do, and i would like the commission to join me in that, and what does it mean when we bring those values more explicitly to our work otheas a commission? so that is the -- my thoughts for the coming year for 2019.

accountability, effectiveness and our values front and center. and we have a lot of work to get done this year, a lot of important plans that are going to be put forward in the coming year to put us on our path towards our -- those bold goals for greenhouse gas reduction that were made at the end of last calendar year. we need to get serious, we need to make sure that we're not setting ourselves up for failure. how do we set ourselves up for success. and so with that, do we have any new staff members who are here that want to come up? i don't know that we do. so i think any new staff members, either there are none or they're just not here, but at any rate, that ends my director's report. >> questions, commissioners?

any public comment? okay. hearing no public comment, next item, anthony. >> the next item is item 11, nomination and election of commission on the environment president and vice president. this item is for discussion and action. >> so i believe that the first -- the president first and then the vice president? >> yes. and we take one nomination at a time, and then, we'll -- the commission will vote each nomination -- vote on each nomination one at a time. yeah, and individuals can also nominate themselves or people who are absent. >> commissioner wald? >> i would like to nominate president bermejo to continue as our president. thank you.

i think she's done a fabulous job. her enthusiasm, her energy, her commitment to the department and to the commission have all made -- contributed significantly to this wonderful year that we have just finished talking about, and i'm confident that under her leadership we'll have another great year if she is elected. >> i hope i can count on your vote then. i -- i think i have to say i accept. i humbly accept, and i think this is just a -- the great work of this commission and everything that we do with our director because i think we're like a beautiful orchestra, and we all do really well when we are in sync, and debbie has such a wonderful way of leading

us to make us enthusiastic for the work that we do. >> is a second needed on that? >> no, but you can second that. >> i wholeheartedly second that nomination. president bermejo has been terrific in the last year. in addition for all the work she does for the commission, she's a great spokesperson for the commission. she makes sure that necessary lejs are represented as important measure -- lemgs lation are represent -- legislation are represented as important measures. >> thank you. i just wanted to say that i did the ordinances --

[inaudible] >> -- embellish or try to edit in creative ways, so thank you for that. >> is there any further discussion on this nomination? >> i'll chime in. i think one of the things that president bermejo does, and i can tell that even in my short time on the commission, she's a great connector. and her positive energy is just obvious, and she made this very new commissioner feel very welcome and very connected, so i'm happy -- i didn't move quick enough so second, so i'm happy to provide a second second. >> okay. thank you, commissioner sullivan. thank you. i appreciate that. >> all right. >> just real quick, if i could, if i could do the third second. i really thank you for your leadership. i really represent the

department, especially for the climate conference, and you did a great job, fabulous. i think we have a great team. >> great team. and i'm missing commissioner hoyos today, but i'm sure we'll channel her in some way. >> okay. is there any public comment on this? seeing none, we'll move onto voting for the nomination of elmy bermejo for president. [roll call] >> the nomination passes. congratulations. [applause] >> all right. >> then our next nomination is for the office of vice president of the commission. commissioner wald? >> thank you again.

i would like to nominate commissioner stephenson for this position. i have enjoyed my time as the vice president, but i think that this position is one in particular that should be circulated on a sort of semi recognize basis through the commission so -- semi regular basis through the commission so that we can all get a closer look at what it means to actually be the head of the commission. and so rather than run again and seek one of you to nominate me, i would like to nominate commissioner stephenson. i think she will work incredibly well with president bermejo. i think she has demonstrated her commitment to the department and the commission over the years. she's learned so much in the

years since she's been on the commission. it's been, for me, very gran orien orien orien oriente -- gratifying to see you get the pleasure out of the work. so it would give me great pleasure if you would accept. >> i accept. i'll never be able to fill your shoes, but i would be happy to be president bermejo's right hand man. >> can i second? i look forward to working with her closer. >> i couldn't agree more. i'm excited to work with

commissioner stephenson because i think she brings a different lens in her work in her business. i just think it's an opportunity for us to work closer, and also, i could learn so much from you. >> all right. seeing no further discussion, is there any public comment on the nomination? seeing none, on the nomination of heather stephenson for vice president on the commission of the environment -- [roll call] >> the nomination passes. congratulations. [applause] >> did anybody besides me notice that the men said aye? >> yeah, i was thinking that, actually.

[inaudible] >> i don't either. >> aye, i noticed. >> thank you. i think that we're going to work very hard. we always do, on behalf of san franciscans and the commission, and thank you, debbie, for being our leader on this body. so -- and with that, next item. >> the next item is item 12, committee reports. this item is for discussion. >> and commissioner wald? we're going to have a report on policy -- policy committee. >> thank you. i'm going to report on our last two meetings one was last year, on december 10. the other one was just last week, i think on january 14. at the december 10 policy committee meeting, we had a presentation from climate program manager wendy goodfriend on the draft san francisco net zero emissions pathway which included a really interesting discussion of our

climate goals, the performance of the various sectors and the pathway to net zero, the challenging pathway, i would say, to net zero in san francisco. and we had a presentation by the climate and sustainability pac on the san francisco progress report on climate and sustainability. we discussed the progress, some of which was extraordinary, of san francisco's various agencies in meeting their climate action goals, and the assistance that is being provided to them by the department. at our most recent meeting in january , we discussed the only report that we approved just a little earlier. we heard from the toxic program manager, jen jackson, and the senior build coordinator, eden

bruckman about the collaborations between the department to bring revisions to the green carpet code and the work that's going to go forward involving paint and other products. have a terrific impact on purchases by the city. and we heard a presentation from building and energy analyst ammon regan and barry hooper about the implementation and upcoming revisions to the san francisco building ordinance, and we learned about the -- not surprisingly, the importance of data and tracking improvements and moving the needle on energy efficiency in the commercial sector. two really good meetings, i think -- especially good.

>> going to move onto the operations, and then, we'll have questions and then public comment. commissioner stephenson. >> yep. we had an operations committee meeting last week, on january 16, and the bulk of our discussion centered around the budget that we just approved. we also heard a great presentation by becca raven about an outreach campaign. it was absolutely fantastic. you probably saw it. it was a campaign about the supergreen program, 100% renewable energy through the cleanpowersf program. you may have seen the ads on buses or bus shelters or across social media. what pi personally, as a media and marketing person loved about this how they took data and insight from a couple of years ago that they realized through surveys and feedback that renters didn't realize that they had access to this campaign or this 100% renewable

energy, and just some misconceptions that it was a lot more expensive, when it was only about $5 a month. so they took steps to address things that kept people from signing up. the thing that i loved was they carefully tracked the data. the result was a 36% increase in enrollment in the campaign. so it's so nice to see the data being used, and then, the out comes being so positive, so -- >> questions for the -- >> you answered the question i was going to ask, which was, did it move the needle, and i'm so glad it did. >> yeah. >> did we fund that or did the p.u.c. fund that? >> we did. >> actually, we funded it with -- i don't know if you recall, but we won an award from pg&e 1.5 years ago for our

step up and power down, but we were competing against san jose. so we won an award, and they gave us prize money, and so we used part of that money to support that campaign. no, p.u.c. did not pay for it. we're good team members. >> yes, indeed. >> any other comments or questions? if not, we'll onto public comment on this item. okay. hearing none, next item, anthony. >> the next item is item 13, announcements. this item is for discussion. >> no announcements? any public comment on this item? okay. hearing none, next item, please. >> the next item is item 14, new business and future agenda items. the speaker is charles sheehan,

chief policy and public information officer. this item is discussion and possible action. >> thank you, officers. the next policy meeting is february 11. the next commission meeting is march 26, and then, we have an operations committee meeting in may. we're still working out that day. but for our next commission meeting, we're looking at bringing to you a presentation on the energy efficiency coordinating committee. they've wrapped up their report and we're looking at bringing that presentation to you. going further into the future, it looks like energy presentation, the energy efficiency topic will be reoccurring probably a couple other times throughout the year. >> commissioner stephenson? >> yeah. i just had a couple of things i thought that maybe we could potentially agendaize for future meetings, whether that's at the operations committee or at the full commission. one is it's been a long time since we talked about green

purchasing? i think it would be really interesting to see how that needle has moved across the city and across the city departments? i think that might be ops -- like, appropriate for operations? and the other think just thinking about the five values and the equity lens? i know we had a presentation years ago on product diversity, and i thought that would maybe not an interesting thing for us to cover, as well. >> thank you, commissioner. we are -- have taken note of that. i believe for the green purchasing item, i believe we might be bringing that forward in the may operations meeting, so stay tuned on that. >> okay. commissioner wald. >> and i was wondering whether or not it would be appropriate at some point in time for us to hear a presentation on pg&e bankruptcy and options and what the department is doing with

the p.u.c. to examine those options and make recommendations, if any, to the city as to how we should respond. >> thank you, commissioner. >> it's a little tricky, i understand. >> yeah. we'll have to take that back and obviously talk to our p.u.c. colleagues. >> but i would be interested in hearing about it. i've already been told a member of the public, it's been explained to me the difference between -- which i've obviously forgotten -- clean power and community choice -- no, public power and community -- >> yes. >>