california and always emphasized being out here just on our feet on the ground, barefoot, feeling the earth is important so remember this when you go back home to the city. i'm going to let the kids take over for a minute and say the end. thank you. they're better speakers. >> yeah, just thank you everyone for being here in memory of our dad. i wanted to say what a great privilege it has been to grow up with the ethics instilled in me by my dad and to be sprouurroun by this particular community. it's given the a wonderful framework for viewing the world that reminds me and says to me what's the impact of what you're doing and who does it affect today and who will it affect down the line and in my opinion does a great job of marrying the ideas of personal action and responsibility. being in this unique environment as my mom was saying has given

me a little bit of a skewed view of the world. in particular i remember pool noodles as a kid. those long foam tubes you use as floatation devices when you go to the public pool or river or something and walk around my house it was so funny, so classic dad he used pool need noodle to insulate the pipes and in high school i realized i had been using pipe insulation my whole life, it was the other way around. that was normal in our macgyver hodgepodge home and he made sure the pipes were insulate and it was the attention to detail and maximization of mentality i'm grateful for and it seemed a lot to people outside our circles

but it was belief and optimism that the small daily work we do in our homes and jobs and opportunities was important and take us to where we need to go. and he was always so happy and so grateful to have that sentiment reflected in and magnified by this whole community here. so thank you so much. [applause] >> yeah, i'm resonating with everything, of course, but i'm thinking right now about how i knew at a very early age how much he loved his work. i think i'm remembering one time i think i was telling about my first day of second grade and we talked about my day a lot and okay, dad, that's my day, how was your day at work today and he said, well, let me explain to you something we call the duck curve.

another time i think i was about 10 after the b.p. oil spill and he came up to me, all right, sarah, imagine you're in the elevator with the v.p., what do you say? go. he had a wonderful way of talking about the world and his work and you all and explaining eco systems and we past by sfo and we would say oh, climate change let me explain about sea level rise. anyway, he had a lot of stories about people and backpacking and going on adventures and most were to make us laugh but also to teach us about working together and work environments and a lot of them had to do with empathy and i think he had -- he

kind of saw there was a lack of empathy in the world sometimes and how important it is to be understanding and appreciative of all the things that we're lucky enough to have. and that's how he was with us. a really wonderful, understanding teacher and good listener and so loving and caring. and i think raising a family and building community and his work was all just one thing to him. and i think that's why he loved working with you guys so much. i think everyone here just kind of understands that and love that about this community. so thank you and i think you want to say the last thing. [applause] >> i'm going to close this out because of course we're all very sad and trying to hold it together but in the end, he's

hopeful. he's hopeful now. he really celebrated as the department grew. every time he was in the hiring process and going through hundreds of am -- applications he felt the momentum in the world of so many people in the especially young people. they want to learn and go out and keep the work going. someone told us recently that encouraging our children and the next generation of climate and sustainably conscious people is the best way of gracing our planet with values, all of our values. so that was comforting. and on behalf of both of our families, we really appreciate this acknowledgement. and we also want to announce and invite you and everyone here to a memorial we're having at the

first universalist church and we'll get the news out through debbie 1:00 on june 1st. it's a large venue, so 400 people and everyone's welcomes. there are lots of stories and it won't be a religious service so people can talk. thank you very much. we're very honored. [please stand by]

cal was behind the idea of local governments working together and the regional energy network. he cared about local governments

working together and each jurisdiction to build internal capacity so local governments could do the work to better the environment for their constituents. as many of you have said, he was a trailblazer in the energy world and i love traveling across the state with cal in the rolling portfolio energy efficiency proceeding listening to his stories and watching him walk in with his big, brown rimmed leather hat that he so often would wear. on a personal level, cal was the most genuine person i've known. he saw the good in people and did what he could to mentor and help staff within the department and other local government agencies. he had a great sense of humor and would love to share stories about his family who he was so proud of. among my greatest sorrows when i think of cal's passing, he never had that wild retirement party at ocean beach he talked about for so often.

so i hope those of us gathered here can meet one day at ocean beach and give cal the sendoff that he planned and so well deserved. thank you. [applause] we have henry hillken and also there are other folks who are going to speaking and remembering cal. if you would like to start lining up. we want to make sure we listen and hear from everyone. please, go ahead. >> madam chair, members of the commission and cal's family. i'm the planning director at managing direct. we have the pleasure and honor of working with cal for many, many years on our climate programs. at the air district, we started our climate program roughly 15 years ago and you know, today most public agencies in california have a climate program. back then, it was much less

common. we were looking for partners and san francisco is one of the few local governments that have already taken on climate work. we reached out to the department and cal so so much of our work on climate is working with cities and counties and how we can support them in their local climate programs and cal was absolutely vital in that. we just, so many times we have as part of that process we convene groups with subject matter experts and in the buildings and energy sector, cal was helpful on sort of helping us sort through the appropriate policy interventions? what's the best fit for working with cities?

technically what do the cities need and what's the best fit for us as regulators to support that? what stuck with me was his humanity and humor. this is not easy work. we feel like we have a backpack full of bricks. it's a human element and that sense of humor that really gets me to the office every morning. i value that in colleagues and it's something i valued in cal a great deal. so i just in conclusion, i want to on behalf of the air district express our great appreciation for cal's leadership. thank you. [applause] next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. mark palmer, retiree. i can't think of anyone more deserving than cal for this

award. when i was applying for my position at the department in 2001, it goes back a ways now, there were about nine people in the department. i was corresponding from a small town in colorado. moving to san francisco was a big deal for me. i first communicated by e-mail again with david and he referred me to cal broomhead. i wondered what i was getting into here, he seemed very strange. [laughter] >> it's been a fantastic experience and really capped off my career being able to work here, especially side by side with cal. it's been very difficult, obviously, to see cal go so early in his career and his life. he was always committed to the betterment of humanity and he always treated people with great amount of dignity and respect. i have to call cal a character,

i guess. unique isn't quite the right word. character is getting close. as jerred mentioned, he was a fountain of ideas all the time. some of them were outlandish and some of them were brilliant. many of them came to fruition. it's always very stimulating being around cal and hearing this fountain of ideas come out from him all the time. it's been both difficult to see cal's decline. on the same time it's been very heartwarming to see his family's unending love and support. you are truly angels. thank you, very much. [applause] >> next speaker. thank you. >> hell o hello, i'm simon.

i've worked with cal for a long time a long time ago. i'd like to acknowledge his family, whom i probably haven't seen in 25 years. cal and i were the founding members of the green ribbon panel which was a preliminary before the one that exists now. green business program here in san francisco. i really wanted to acknowledge and throw a lot of respect to the key role that he replied in the development of this commission and the department of the environment. before this commission was established, we had a sustainability planning program and process, community process here in san francisco of which he was the major play or for energy. this was back in a time when we didn't have the bue committee bl committee room like this or a meeting room of any kind. hearing his family speak

reminded me of a meeting we had at my house. we had these meetings at bars or houses or some place that we could find space. as happened in the shared flat i lived in, our power went out so cal wanted to know what the situation was with the power and i said oh it's a problem and so we went down in the basement and opened up the fuse box and he said well this is a mess. this cannot remain like this. you got to get this fixed. i said well you know, wore tenants here. he said who owns your building and he said i'll speak with them. and he did. and they fixed our wiring. [laughter] so he just was an extraordinary person and a fountain of ideas as everyone has mentioned. you can never have known him

without that being the first thing that comes to mind. he was just a lovely, lovely guy. a heard a couple of months ago, mag see johnson, who actually worked with us on that green ribbon panel so long ago and he had passed away and it was just a shock because it was so much before his time. i would like to join everyone else and saying what a magnificent addition to both san francisco environmental programs and the world. he was really an inspiration. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> my name is neil. i'm a colleague and a friend and some ways a classmate of cals. our kids went to the same school. they got married in high school. on stage that is.

cal, we're heard a lot about him. our lives were intertwined in so many ways it was erie. i think of cal like a better version of myself. more accurately, a role model that i should try and achieve or do what he has done. i mean, he was competent and passionate and audacious. a couple of stories about his competency. he got a call that he had a 10 million-dollar potential 10 million-dollar grant but he needed to get a scope of work together in a week. which is really ridiculous. helping small business. he called and said we got to do this. i said cal you are out of your mind. how are you going to do this? he got it and ran 2 and became one of the most successful programs in the department of the environment. helping small businesses reduce their lighting loads. it wouldn't have happened without cal's audaciousness and competence. and his passion. i did all this stuff because he believed in it.

so much so that you know he was arrested, right? but that was way back when diablo canyon, he had a lot of nerve, right. he stood up for what he believed in and he paid the consequences. he is an inspiration. he is an inspiration. and he also is, as you know, a visionary. he had a vision for electricification before it was a hot issue and way before the san bruno fires or alyseo canyon in l.a. he envisions whole neighborhoods of san francisco without gas lines, just converting over to electricity-only and being clean and safe. if that's one thing i can leave with you guys, like, how can we achieve that vision? that would be a great thing to really honor cal. the other thought is, cal often said, you know, i see him sometimes and he was haggered and he said, i need to be in

nature. the other thing i leave all of us is next time we're in nature and we should do this soon, we should think and slow down and we should really appreciate it because that's one of the reasons he was so good at what he did because he truly believed it. so thank you. [applause] thank you. >> good evening. jerry lar. citizen of the bay area. until recently, i was the energy programs manager. i was there for a while, almost 19 years, and i knew cal for almost all of that. met him at some early time when i was there at some work event. it's difficult to say much more than already has been said. i have to smile at a lot of things that neil said that i can really relate to and cal's

audaciousness and that makes me smile. i guess one point that i did want to make is that, i mean, from the very beginning, you know, cal was a friend and a colleague. he really worked with me with the programs. i mean he was passionate about the city and county of san francisco but it's been alluded to it was more than that. it was city, county, state wide, nationally. i was working on a regional basis and i know our regional programs would not have been what they were without san francisco but without cal personally, they would have not been what they were. some of them wouldn't have been without cal. so i have a lot of respect for cal and certainly all he did for us. one of my final memories of cal

was just riding a train back from sacramento from some event. having a beer with cal and talking about energy types of things. cal bought me that beer and i have never been able to repay him for that beer. i'm looking forward to getting together at some event and having that beer for cal. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> hi, my name is annette robero. i am a teacher of the san francisco school of the arts and i'm cal's sister-in-law. i have so many funny memories of him. more importantly, my students in the costuming department are in charge of the environmental program at our school. i get to see his work in action

everyday. that's not just in their talking and going to getting out of class. it's them doing their surveys and bringing garbage cans in and taking every piece of paper out and counting everything we're using at that school. now i'm going to be like cal. how important that is, especially because you know, we all grew up in the generation of ecology now. you had to have that e. where it was almost a joke and it's taken so many years for the next generation to actually live this and i can't tell you how much we talk about the things we could do on a daily basis is what they do and one of the things that would be very great is tech style recycling. there's a program through ecology but it's only for residences, we have these big garbage bags full of bolts of fabrics.

unless i have each kid drag a bag home with them. from cal to you through me that would be something that would be awesome. that we start being able to take care of those text styles that i kid you not, we're probably putting out, i don't know, a thousand pounds a week and i'm not kidding. if you would please think of something like that in honor of cal, that would be totally awesome. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, commissioners and director. i'm karen pierce. i'm a resident. i'm native san francisco i am on the hunters point community advocates. it's threw there i first met cal. i went on a tour to learn about solar panels and cal made sure he took us out to the sunset so that we can see even on a foggy day the meeters were going

backwards. i have lots of other stories but there's a very big piece of cal that i didn't think was going to be acknowledged today and i came up here to do that. in all of his work, cal really understood what is now a buzz word, equity. cal could look at programs and see their unintended consequences as it applied to equity and he was not afraid to step up, point it out, and push until the agencies that were involved were committed to recognizing what those consequences are. i agree he was awesome and i think that awesomeness was most importantly exhibited in his work on equity. thank you. [applause]

>> any other public comment? >> hi, all. eric brooks. i'm a grassroots organizer and environmental organizer in san francisco and that is how i first met cal at very beginning of the process of my work a long time ago, i guess about 15 years ago now. fighting to get clean power sf off the ground in our community choice program. i have to admit, when i first met cal at the beginning of the process and he was skeptical about clean power sf. i knew my stuff and i sat down with him and explained it to him.

because he is such an expert, he got it quickly and because of that, i believe that because of cal's influence, san francisco's environment department and the city of san francisco became the first city to say we cannot, in california, to say we can't meet our climate objectives without clean power sf. so that is just -- i'm sure you've already heard many stories about how cal got things done and that was just one of the things that he got done. he made sure the clean power sf got off the ground and the city took a stand to show how important it was. to me, you know, in this time of crisis, the people that matter are the people that get stuff done. they move the ball forward. cal was one of those people. good on him. >> thank you. [applause]

commissioners, is there anyone that would like to add anything about cal and his work? some of the wonderful words to describe him why fountain of ideas, role model. audacious, visionary and equity. he will be really missed. >> hi. if my member ro memory service,l in the streets of san francisco opposing either military intervention in central america or maybe also the gulf war. probably both. and there was a no blood for oil message frame around the first gulf war. so, then i got to know him in this next iteration at the

department. i guess i want to underscore what i think is so beautiful in a person, which is the intersection of 'em path tee and fierce knowledge. it was fun bumping into him again. it was like wait, don't we know each other from fighting wars but we both arrived at the space together with most of the people in this room around the need to fight for climate justice and equity and scale. scale these solutions of the it's really fun to hear from you guys, the family, about how he lived that in his life everyday and the pool things and the stories about second grade were really moving. i think my role as a parent really seriously in terms of helping raise consciousness and it's nice and moving and touching to hear all he did with you and for you.

and for all of us. cal, how do we do it in the solidarity movement you know this so cal broomhead. thank you, guys so much. [applause] just real briefly, cal was actually my first point of contact as far as i can remember for the department before i even knew what the department was environment did. like a lot of speakers, when i looked at him i was trying to figure him out. i had no idea who this guy was and what he wanted from me. i spoke to instinct in policy makeing and politics that too often we give into sinicism and suspecting people's motivations. he truly was an incredible human being. i remember the last phone call i had with him he seemed to be in such good spirits and it was as

if he would be back to work the next week. i miss him a lot and i think of him frequently and i just want to say thank you to his family for sharing him with us. [applause] >> at this time, before we let you go, kathleen, we'd like to have a photo. we have the award and we are going to step on that side and take a quick photo. thank you.

>> it's a little hard to get to business after that, and yet it feels so perfect, the timing is perfect. so the agent before you tonight, commissioners, is a resolution supporting supervisor mandelman charge at resolution at the board of supervisors to declare a claimant emergency. clearly the science is before us the science is telling us that we need to reduce our emissions well before 2030, that's 11 years from now. we have no time to spare. we need to approach our work with tremendous intensity and intention. the resolution that you will be voting on was developed by staff and also with you. the policy committee had a very

robust discussion about this item, and amendments were made to make the resolution more specific and more focused on the importance of front-line communities, communities of color and low income, communities as well as the idea of just transition and jobs for all. i want to thank supervisor mandelman, i also want to acknowledge and thank kyle it's merely. he has been phenomenal, and in the realm of no good deed goes unpunished, he was inundated with all people who wanted to be part of this resolution. it started with community, joni and others, who came and said, this is what we must do, and then city departments wanted in and many, many more people wanted in, and he was an amazing arbiter and collaborator. so tonight, before the resolution goes to the full

board, you will have a chance to vote on our own resolution in support. we will hear tonight from kyle, and then we will also here from wendy good friend on our climate team who will talk about how this resolution specifically impacts the work of the department of the environment and what are the next steps we intend to take as part of this resolution journey. with that, kyle? >> thank you, commissioners and thank you for the kind words. a supervisor mandelman and our office is proud to be leading this effort at the forward to declare a claimant emergency in san francisco. and i wanted to take the opportunity to provide context as to the resolution and ask for your support. the effort is the product of committed climate justice advocates who visited our office late last year, explaining explaining that bay area cities like berkeley, hayward, richmond , oakland had already

taken a step of declaring a state of climate emergency and that san francisco, is a local climate leader, should join them using the resolution as passed in other cities as a model, our office tailored an emergency declaration for san francisco, and then worked with the department of the environment, as well as the mayor's office to refined that proposal. supervisor mandelman introduced the resolution in february, and then we have been working with the city department and advocacy groups on amendments that i believe have greatly improved the resolution. and briefly introduce language to expand the scope of the hearing called for by the resolution in order to include partner city agencies and provide citywide collaboration. we also clarified the tactical nature of the report that will be produced by the department of the environment, and we reiterated the importance of addressing wealth inequality and workers rights and calling out the control of the of a transition to an economy. the resolution as amended was approved unanimously at the land

use and transportation committee last weekend, and it will go before the board this coming tuesday, april 2nd. i see the resolution before the commission mirrors some of the changes that we have made to the board resolution, and i want to note our appreciation. san francisco has long been an environmental leader on issues and we are grateful for the tremendous the talented staff and leadership of our department of the environment, namely mr. sheahan and others. they have been instrumental in every step of this process, and in particular, the expert guidance to promote interdepartmental collaboration, which we know is critical to show our shared efforts. i would like to extend gratitude to the groups who pushed us from the beginning, including the climate mobilization, citizens climate lobby, bayview's hunter 's point advocates, mothers out front, san francisco tomorrow, and others. i would also like to thank the

labor community, jobs with justice, the labor council, the taxi workers alliance, and others for working with our office to ensure that we enter economic justice and workers rights when it comes to our climate future. i would also like to think in 20 very special people who are here tonight. my parents who flew in from the east coast, hi mom, hi dad, thank you very much. i am happy to answer any questions, and i appreciate your support. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners. i am the climate program manager at the san francisco department of the environment. i also want to start by saying thank you to supervisor mandelman for his leadership on this resolution. it is very exciting for us to be engaged with them and with the

stakeholders who brought this to their attention. we all know that urgent action is necessary, and we need to address the climate crisis head on. as an entire city, and we need to move faster and more boldly than before. tonight, this very brief -- very briefly, i will walk you through how this resolution sets up our department to work with the rest of the city to move forward and accelerate action. as you know, we have bold and aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. we have a target to reduce as much as missions as possible as we approach 2050, and then we are committed to sequestering those emissions that we cannot eliminate. this is important because if we stay the course, if we don't take any further action and let me be clear, we have taken amazing action in the city. we are a global climate leader. if we stopped today and rested

on our laurels, because the city is growing, the region is growing, the economy is growing, we will see our emissions go in the wrong direction if we do nothing further then the amazing actions we have already taken, we will see an increase in emissions over time as we head towards 2030. that is not acceptable to us, it's not acceptable to the globe where do the emissions come from in san francisco? it is pretty clear, emissions come from transportation sector, that is gas and diesel used for driving mostly private cars, but some other transportation uses, and then also from the building sector. in the building sector, there is a use of electricity, which is getting cleaner and cleaner every year, and the use of natural gas and fossil fuels that we would like to reduce and eventually eliminate. so it's fairly clear that we know what we need to do. we know what needs to happen in san francisco to get zero emissions. we need to reduce fossil fuel use, sometimes called the carbon

icing our buildings and the transportation sector. but we have ultimate flexibility , or some amount of flexibility in the how, and together we can set the path forward so we arrive at a prosperous, healthy, clean, low carbon, and resilient city of the future. how will we get there? the first step for us this year was the climate emergency resolution starting in january, and it is on the path to be approved by the board of supervisors next week, april 2 nd. that resolution calls for us to share with the city and the world a technical analysis of what are the actions that could be taken, what are the strategic priorities? it should not be some magic or mystery to us where we need to reduce our emissions or how. the technical report will set the stage for us to go to the board of supervisors and make the case for action, accelerated action towards 2030.

it also will require us, and we have known that we need to do this, it will set us up for a change to our environment chapter 9. that is the code that sets our standards, our goals, and our targets. it talks about climate action planning and asks the city to come together with our residents and stakeholders, private and public sector, to come together to take action. that policy needs to be updated, and that will be an exciting time for us because it will clearly articulate the goals and the commitments that we sat at the global climate action summit , and being sent by the city at the global -- as a global client action leader. following the policy basis, we will develop an action strategy. we are hoping to complete to that in the first part of 2020. and then through -- along the way on this trajectory towards the action strategy, we are working with partners to integrate the climate action or limitation of emissions through

mitigation and climate adaptation. we are working -- working with our city family and partners across the city to integrate and find synergies between those two because we know while we we have to illuminate emissions to avoid the worst case of climate change , we are also adapting to those impacts that are already set. so this is our path forward, and we are very excited to share with you today, and we have a very busy year ahead of us, and i am happy to answer any questions if you have them. >> thank you, and welcome. any questions, commissioners? any public comment? thank you. okay.

>> okay. , so our first person is cassandra jane. and cassandra will be followed by helena, welcome. >> hello. i am really here to support this resolution and to champion all the work that joni has been working on. i am new to this space, but i am really thrilled to see this resolution come into the conversation, and i really want to push this forward in whatever way possible and offer support from, you know, this is like a top concern for any generation that i talked to in san francisco and it's making us all reconsider our lives, and i'm really thankful for you guys to work through this.

>> thank you. helena? after her, joni. >> hi, i want to first say, i did not know -- i am so honored to be here with his energy and all of these people who have worked with him, learned from him, and expanded his vision. that was really touching. my statement is i a san francisco resident, i am an active member of the citizens climate lobby. i have been following the san francisco declaration of climate emergency. it is a beautiful document and it is well on its way to passing i'm hoping for a unanimous vote in the supervisor's vote. i am very pleased to see that justice inequities to front-line communities and underprivileged communities are at the forefront of this revolution. my concern is that the idea remains front and center and implementation. not only is this the right and

ethical thing to do, it is essential for the success of bringing down emissions. let me give you a personal example. i have never purchased a car because i don't want to be tempted into the trap of driving for convenience. i recently did the meth -- the math, and i realized i can do this because i am privileged, i am healthy, i have rent control, i don't have to work two full-time jobs to pay my bills. i have time and money at my disposal to make the public transit choices that can take more than twice as long, and cost more than twice as much as driving. just take b.r.t. to the airport. not everyone can do that. i'm reminded of a blog i read that reminded me that in our government activity, inclusion is not a privilege, it is a right. the government his four week, the people. i urge the department of the environment in the city of san francisco to continue working on the premise of what is needed holistically for us, rather compartmentalizing little favours for a.

the bus rapid transit -- if you want creativity, cut ten from the budget. if you want sustainability, cut 20 spare governments are notorious for liking fancy and shiny solutions. let's take learners advice and achieve sustainable options. for low income people, the majority of people in the world to make use of clean alternatives, they have to have access and it has to be affordable. you can't take the train to work if you can't buy the ticket. in order to use renewable energy , you have to have a home. driving back to caltrain, i then saw a homeless man late a fire field by rags and plastic bags. my first response was anger. more fire, pollution, my lungs, and then extreme sadness. that was his only option to get warm and dry after the rain. he potentially avoided more pollution.

ringing me to my next point. we can't give medical and other essential industry licensed to lag in cleaning up their act. we cannot turn a blind eye to the carbon footprint, or corporations -- i think that means i am done. thank you. thank you for doing this. >> thank you for being here. [applause] >> i will just be really brief. i am here for my grandchildren, and i was super moved by the children of the world striking for the climate a week ago, and also, i was also moved by the tributes to cal broomhead, "i did not have the privilege of knowing, and do it for him, do it for the kids, it's a climate emergency, the kids are trying to wake up the adults, let them do it, and you, the commission,

push the department. i'm super happy with what the department has been doing, but push them harder, faster and harder. thank you. >> thank you. >> judy irving. after judy, josh. >> hello. i am president of the telegraph hill dwellers, i'm also a documentary filmmaker, the parrots segue into the seam -- the theme of my comment, and that is trees. not only do birds need trees, human beings need trees. this city knees -- needs trees. our urban canopy is very low compared to most cities. in fact, it is only about 13%. as far as i know, there isn't anything in the climate action plan to plant more trees.

trees breathe in carbon dioxide, they breathed out oxygen, it is a very cheap way to address climate issues. i would like to be audacious like. years ago, i made a film called "dark circle" about the nuclear issue, and he filmed people getting arrested at the canyon. i've probably filmed to him even though i couldn't get to know him, i wish i had. let's be audacious. let's plant 50,000 trees next year. let's put trees into the climate action plan in a big way. they are necessary for our health, and for co2 mitigation. they are necessary for stage. they slow people down, they make people call him -- calm. they're all kinds of reasons why we should do this. it is mysterious to me why

planting trees and watering them are nowhere in the city budget right now. i was at an invitation-only district three budget priorities meeting last week with mayor breed, and there were about 25 people around the table. they were all talking about homeless issues, public safety, garbage, traffic, bad streets, et cetera, no one talked about the environment, no one talked about the environment, until i got up at the end, and i said, i would like to talk about the environment. i would like to ask for a budget to plant and water trees in the city, and that is my one minute, right? and i would like to ask you, mayor breed to, to sure that the department of environment has a staffer who is extremely

obsessed with and focused on the audacious goal of planting lots of trees, massive, aggressive, urban reforestation in the city. it will really help, and it is not that expensive. thank you. >> thank you. >> josh clip. after josh, patsy ferguson. >> good evening, commissioners. i would also like to request that any climate action plan include aggressive urban forest station. i come in here and i speak to a lot of different commissions

about the environmental benefits i thank you know this better than anyone, but i'm here asking it on behalf of one of my heroes , charlie starbuck. he was one of the phrase planning leaders with friends of the urban forest and for 40 years, he did not miss a single saturday morning meeting -- planting. is only last year that he missed a few. as soon as he got out, he came back. i met charlie when i started volunteering in 2010. one day, and i know he was such a rock star, i convinced him to sit down with me and let me interview him, and we did for about an hour and a half. he told me all kinds of stories. by the end of it, i was so humbled, and i decided, when i grow up, i want to be like charlie starbuck. a couple years ago, we were at a tree planting waiting for things to get started, and i was chatting with him. i said we have been going down to city hall. i have been going to hearings like this and i have been saying we need to make trees more of a priority. his response was to shake his

head and say don't bother. things aren't going to change. and that was a knife through my heart because he has dedicated his life and thousands and thousands of hours to making this city a better place by planting trees. if anyone has not given up hope on our canopy, it is him. it is no hope when it is giving up hope for our city. on arbor day in 2011, he was honored by mayor ed lee and an oak was planted in his honor between 31st in 30 seconds streets. but within the next couple of years, every single streets tree , every tree on the median was cut down to make way for a bus lane, including his tree. i really hope he does not hear about that because i think it will only affirm his sense of hopelessness. if we can't keep history, let's at least honor his lifetouch at work and commit to making trees a part of our fight against

climate change. we can't say we are fighting climate change but leave out the only known mechanism that cleans our air, sequesters pollution, and provides habitat for a refried joke -- fragile economy and makes sidewalks and streets more walk and bike friendly. he still comes to every planting he is too frail to lead teams on his own, but i always invite him to join my team because i want all of my volunteers to learn from him. all i ask of you is the next time i see charlie out at the saturday morning planting, i can say to him this time, this city changed, and maybe we could do it in his name. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you. [applause]. >> patsy ferguson. after patsy, christopher kirby. >> hello. i am also here to talk about trees. i very much supports the

resolution that you will pass today, but i hope you will at the additional instruction that trees be included in part of the plan, and i also thank you need to consider funding. i am concerned that we spend a lot of time and money developing the urban forest plan that was approved in 2015, but then didn't find the recommendations of that plan which included that we plant 50,000 trees over the next 20 years, which would be 2500 trees a year, last year, our canopy was increased by one tree, and instead of increasing our canopy, we are cutting them down everywhere. there's tree removal removals planned, including 19 at the library, 29 in hayes valley, 76 in the mission, 82 in the bayview, 25 in the fillmore, and

7,005 kids are all in the crosshairs because we don't like ficus now 50 years later when they are all huge and leafy and mature and doing a lot of work sequestering carbon dioxide, and doing all the other things for us that we enjoy about trees, so yes, please pass the resolution, but please also ask the department to include trees in the plan, and start to think about how you are going to fund these recommendations that they come up with. thank you. >> thank you. christopher kirby and sarah greenwald. >> commissioners, i am

christopher kirby. i'm here also to speak about the resolution itself. let me introduce myself. i have been a resident in san francisco since 1986. i have also been a constituent of district eight since 1986 as well, and most recently, have been a consistent, i guess kyle has left, but a constituent -- i'm sorry, a constituent of supervisor mandelman and his team as well. during the past number of weeks and months since supervisor mandelman has gotten involved has been, unfortunately, we have been quite successful, but unfortunately, we have been dealing with a lot of tree removals in san francisco, a some of the other speakers have talked about, there's currently no budget for maintenance of trees, nor is there any budget, as i'm sure you know, there is no budget whatsoever for planting of trees. other people, including judy irvine, josh clip, and others

whose names that i don't know about specifically have highlighted the very important nature of trees as part of the climate change efforts that we are undergoing here. before i continue, i would like to say, i would like to add to the resolution packet, i haven't exactly been involved in the resolution as it has gone forward, but through my research , i have come up with three documents, which i would ask that this particular committee, as well as the board of supervisors, as well as the public, there is the climate action strategy of 2013. the second is a san francisco urban forest plan of 2014, and the third, i guess is the 2017 greenhouse gas reduction strategy update. i would ask that each of these be, if possible