residents. and as the city proceeds with these other decarbonization measures that the benefits that allow more people to live here will only be enhanced for the climate. most of the city's existing buildings are older and they lack air conditioning which recent studies have shown are much more expensive to electrify, so new construction is an opportunity particularly there. and we'd like to applaud the -- the focused report on more sustainable transportation modes that san francisco can support. and just want to finally say that, of course, equity and affordability should be, you know, connected to all of these goals. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is josh clip, an attorney and a san francisco resident and a forest advocate. i want to thank you for calling

out the importance of planting trees. san francisco has one of the smallest urban canopies of any major city in the united states. and we know this, we have an urban forest plan that called for the planning of trees of 2,500 trees per year. since we rolled that out, we have failed every year and last year we added a total of one tree to our urban canopy. and part of the problem is the lack of budget. even in this year's fiscal budget, next year's budget for this city, we barely have enough money to keep up with the rate of removals, let alone growing our urban canopy. and the only reason that money was put in because of the good work of the board of supervisors and the public outrage when it was discovered that wouldn't be in there. and the department of the environment, it would be wonderful if they would add an f.t.e. who is actually dedicated to urban forestry. to the san francisco public utilities commission, in the last 10 years you have removed 475 trees and planted 39. and to the san francisco rec and

park, we say that your rules, and the law that governs how you are in the city has no accountability for your tree removal and planting. furthermore, rec park doesn't keep any records of tree plantings and removal. and to buildings and planning, i would point out that we don't have the luxury anymore of taking out trees when they don't fit our aesthetic design. building and planning needs to be doing everything they can to preserve the trees that we already have. trees eat this polluting carbon that we're struggling with and they clean our air from the wildfires and they support the ecology that we need so desperately to -- in our circle of life. we don't need fancy tech to solve this problem when mother nature has gifted us the perfect climate change ally and warrior which is our urban forests, thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, next speaker. >> i am miel weatherall and i represent generational climate, a youth organization whose goal

is to combine environmental action to protect our future. the climate emergency in san francisco is only going to get worse. all homes built on the landfill will be inundated with sea water. and greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to the city and, thus, the city of san francisco must mitigate climate change by reducing the emissions of the city and endorsing the green new deal. (please stand by).

>> supervisor mandelman: i'm going to call some more names, so additional people with lineup. robin cooper, daniel hara. rachel sullivan, rocky chow, leslie goldberg, michael goldberg, raul aldape, laurie green, martin mackerel, martha harward. >> clerk: i just want to remind the public that applause is not allowed in the chamber. you may use spirit fingers or the thumb up thing. >> supervisor mandelman: go ahead.

>> i've been in san francisco four years. i'm proud to be in a city that leads in climate change. i'm here because san francisco's climate action plan needs to address the full scope of the climate emergency. currently, it does not address emissions resulting from the food we eat. it's not enough for us to strive for net zero emissions here if a substantial amount of what we import comes from outside the city. we also know that animal agriculture extremely sickens

animals, the climate emergency demands radical change from us. we have under 12 years to keep from warming 1.3° celsius. for the past decade, the u.n. has urged us to reduce emissions to keep within safe environmental limits. germany banned meat in meals served at official government functions. new york city this year passed their green new deal which banned meets and slashed beef in meals in industrial and city run facilities. if new york city can do it, san francisco can do more. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> hello. my name is christopher

peterson, resident of district 7. there really is one astonishing admission, which is land use. san francisco by its climate, walkability, that work is one of the most beneficial places, so for san francisco to perpetuate the exclusionary low density code that's much of the city really is a climate irresponsibility. it effectively forces people to locate in places that have more extreme climate, that are more automobile dependent, so you're effectively driving people in

places such as -- you're doing no favors to the client by driving people places such as fairfield and fresno. so i encourage the city to significantly increase the amounts of housing, especially affordable housing that is provided in the lower density areas of the city that none e nonetheless do have good transit. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> first of all, i want to thank the department of the environment and the supervisors for your resolve about this, and i'll speak to you, supervisor mandelman, because they all left, and tell you

what to tell them. we're giving you a tall order here. i want to assure you here that you're not alone. you see a room full of everybody's constituents. you would see more of us here if the meeting were not during working hours, hint, hint. we will be back and we will not listening with great interest as you continue with this process. which means you've got help with this. you've got every citizen that you can mobilize to help in every step of the development. you've got cities around the bay working on solutions to this problem. you've got departments full of experts that can be tapped and united to work on this together. i know sometimes that takes

work. you've got a region, you've got a state, all of which are declaring climate emergency, working on the climate emergency, and then, there's the money. it's going to cost big bucks. i'm thinking a bond issue, but that needs to be worked out. >> supervisor mandelman: i will say that not all of my colleagues are here in the room, that i guarantee you that this hearing is on in every single office. some supervisors are watching it, and certainly their aides are. i don't want you to feel like you are talking into the void. you're talking to me, hello, but you're not just talking to me, either. >> good afternoon. i'm an organizer with the democratic socialists of america as well as a clean tech advocate. first of all, i want to thank you, supervisor for declaring a climate emergency, putting out

this report. i'm glad you understand the severity of this issue. that said, i do have a couple of concerns with the way this played out. the language on equity in the report was nearly nonexistent. there was some of how the projects planned would be good from an equity lens, but there is no plan to implement these plans from an equity standard. there's communities that have borne and continue to bear the cost of climate change and they've not benefited, and they must be front and center in this process. i recognize this is an early document and some of this might come out, but this is critical

stuff. there must be an open and democratic process to suggest what the next steps are. but in any case, people of color, communities on the front line, labor, they all have to be involved from the beginning and at especially step in the process. my second concern, i don't know if this is under the purview of s.f. department of the environment, but this is a completely prevention oriented report, and there is no resiliency and impact. we need to put any climate plan resources towards resiliency -- >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for sticking around. this year, the u.n.s intergovernmental sign policy

platform on biodiversity and ecosystems warned this year, as least 1 million species are at risk of going extinct if we don't save them. it's mainly caused by habitat degradation which is worsened by human caused climate change. the current san francisco street tree inventory shows that less than 1% of the city's plantings are native -- or less than 1% of the city's plantings are native. that means there's about 174,000 nonnative tree here.

well, isn't a tree just a tree? well, no. unfortunately to wildlife, nonnative trees are unfortunately just a statue. our local caterpillars, for instance, cannot overcome the chemical defenses that a nonnative deco tree uses. due to dozens of years of inappropriate planting, san francisco is inadvertently starving wildlife. the good news is we can do something. the food web requires planting trees in the right places in san francisco. exotic trees are beautiful, but

as san francisco experiences climate change -- >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> my name is lynn butcher. i came here to san francisco with my ex-husband 60 years ago, and raised a couple of children over the years here. i now have grandchildren locally. i am in senior housing just at the edges of the tenderloin in public housing. there's no air conditioning in my building. none of the things like solar

panels that i advocated for for many, many years are on the roof. i'm going to go buy myself a fan tonight so that i can live a little bit more comfortably in this warming climate but that's what it is when i'm 80 years old. thank you so much. i just wish we had rushed into the electric vehicles that i advocated for over the years a little sooner. all the volunteering that i've done here for the sierra club and project open hand and all of those things, you know -- and then, they stole everything i own. i do not understand your reasoning, i truly do not. there should have been solar

panels on a four-year-old building, and i would like to see you take a more active role in instituting those things that would truly make san francisco an electric city. as it is, my pg&e bill says that i don't have electric heat, even though i turned off my heat, and in fact there's an electrical appliance in the room. it's illogical, it's -- [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: thank

you. [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name's ellen, and i'm here every wednesday morning to strike for the planet. you guys have gotten a lot of stuff from me so i'm not going to go into great detail. i strongly support. this is a nice start. drastic when compared to business as usual, but really itty bitty compared to what we need to do. we have ten years catastrophic climate crisis. talking is nice, but action is vital, and it's long overdue. everyone must act in every way possible now, there is no other option. thank you.

>> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> i'm here as a member of extinction rebellion. there's no mention in this report that it is pg&e that has fought and undermined sf clean power while they have gone for a power grab. now that they're a business known for 100 deaths and unfathomable loss of pets and homes. people need to know that we are the only city in the united states that is required by federal law to have public power. under this law called the raker act of 1913, the city of san francisco is required to use

all the water and power from hetch hetchy. if you are not aware that pg&e has stolen our rights for over 100 years, you are not alone. at any time, the feds have the right to take back hetch hetchy because pg&e continues to steal our power. there has been much talk in these halls to finally abide by the raker act -- it is up to us to lead the way. to secure clean energy, pg&e must go. we need to lead the way and make our entire power grid clean as soon as possible. the cpuc has always ruled in

collusion with pg&e. their meeting is this thursday in oakland to address the bailout. frankly it's appalling that the other members of this committee -- >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is michael goldberg. i'm an organizer with the grassroots organization compassionate bay, which is dedicated to the protection of the environment and animals. i am shocked that dealing with animals and water is absent from your climate plan, and i'm talking about meat products, turkeys, chicken, fish, and other meat products sold in san francisco. is it possible that no one creating the report today is aware that animal agriculture is a major contributor to climate change and to the major destruction of our environment? san francisco is not contained

in a bubble. when a san franciscan eats a hamburger that affects the area where that animal was raised. it is important that you understand that animal agriculture's global impact on the climate is more than the impact of global transportation according to several he nighted nations reports. the city of san francisco has pledged to deal with the climate emergency by doing what needs to be done to keep the temperature increases below 2° celsius. that cannot be done without dealing with animal agriculture. recently, the temperature in ind-i can india reached 120°, killing multiple people and animals. species are, like, being wiped out because of climate change. over 1 million californians don't have drinkable water

because of animal agriculture. this is in the central valley. this is a fact. people in the central valley are getting asthma because of the pollution from animal agriculture that goes into the air. i hope that san francisco will add animal agriculture to what it's going to -- [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: next speaker. >> amy sullivan rip, a, and i'd in san francisco for the past 43 years and served as a teacher for the past 26 years. i've heard a lot in the plan about carbon emissions but

nothing about animal agriculture. so according to the world economic forum, the beef and dairy industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the world's biggest oil companies. and then, also, i found that many people don't know that methane gas produced by cows is 26 times more damaging to the ozone layer than carbon emissions. meat and dairy industries also contribute significantly to land, water, and air pollution, so i think that's really a big piece that's missing from the whole plan. if we are to create a space in which a bold and necessary change can occur, we need to at least attempt educating the public of the extremely negative consequences of eating

beef and advocating for a plant-based diet. the question that comes to my mind are why are we continuing to subsidize industries that harm us. just in summation, i wanted to say reducing beef and dairy might be achieved through education, taxes, subsidies -- >> supervisor mandelman: thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello and good evening, everyone. my name is rocky, and i'm part

of compassionate bay. in april 2019, san francisco had passed an emergency climate prediction given the fact that we have less than a decade to mitigate our greenhouse gas emissions before affecting changing weather patterns, and especially here in san francisco where we are susceptible to sea level rising. we have taken steps to curb carbon emissions. one example is by cutting carbon emission from the transportation sector by 2040. although admirable and ambitious, we can do much more. animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of all greenhouse gases. that is more than the transportation sector, so take your cars, buses, planes, boats combined. despite this mind boggling

statistics, we are still not addressing animal agriculture in the same light that we are the electric industry. it is also an inherently cruel industry, and as well as subjugaiting people of color and mental health due to the nature of slaughter housework. we need to raise awareness of how much animal agriculture is tied to climate change and our collective well-being. i'm born and i see raed in san francisco and as a young person who will be around for a long time -- well at least i hope to be around for a long time, i would like to live in a world where we -- not only myself but future generations around the world can live without worrying about sea level rising among

other extremes. i want a world where san francisco -- [inaudible] [inaudibl >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. i'm going to call some more names. alexander taylor. tracey seeger. alana engel. eric matursh. josh lee. molly morabito, and eric with s.f. transit riders. >> my name is daniel tejara. over the past month it's become clear to me that we all know

what we have to do to reverse climate change. we need to cleanup the environment, we need to stop the expansion of natural gas infrastructure and replace natural gas appliances with natural ones. all of this costs money, which gives me hope. it's purely the amount of money we need to solve this problem is terrifyingly large. the amount of money we'll need is large, but none of it compares that we'll have to pay for our own inaction, so where should we start? first, if we have an effort that's going to be successful, we need to act at a city level.

second, we should move our simplest lever and cleanup our city so the city is powered by clean electricity by 2025. and third, i'd like to ask the board to establish the funding measures to pay for the requirements called for in the report. we all know what we have to do. it's time we put our money where our mouth is. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is robin cooper. i'm a psychiatrist here in san francisco, and i represent climate psychiatry alliance and citizen climate san francisco and i'm a member of the coalition before you today. i bring the often unheard voice

of the mental health community to this discussion, one of the most vulnerable populations that are and will bear the extreme adverse effects of climate change. we in the mental health and addiction world know that the first step is admitting you have a problem. these represent coming out of denial and facing the gruesome truths and challenges ahead of us. yet these are just the beginning. taking the lofty declarations is hard work, and we must balance not losing our side of our commitment to social justice and care for the underserved. although focus 2030 focuses on the much needed mitigation

goals, it does not address the equally necessary adaptation strategies so essential to building resiliency protecting our communities from the already abnormal health impacts. we must have coordinated, collaborative efforts, all -- much due respect to the experts here, but they must work in collaboration. we cannot tolerate departments working in silos, and the price, we must face the true cost. massive funding beyond what we are currently imagining. this cannot be done and musting public fund -- must be public funding. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> i'm with the sunrise project and you have the joint letter

we signed on to in your hearing packet. i want to join on with the people that spoke about food and climate impact, and i think working on wetlands and sinks is a good opportunity, and i think they should be happening in tandem. i appeal to all city departments to cooperate, combine expertise and resources and search for economies of scale among climate solutions. greenhouse gas emissions do not respect city limits, to coordination and strategy sharing regionally and locally are responsible. engagement with residents and

local businesses is nonnegotiatable. neither we nor the planet can afford the exploiting of responsibilities outside of city limits. our future relies on making sure that all people can access and afford 100% clean electricity, buildings, and transportation and on regenerating our open spaces and agriculture. we must respond as a team. i also want to say that i was really happy that the speaker from m.p.a. mentioned the real need for getting people out of their cars and there's no reason able bodied people shouldn't take transit or bicycle, and i hope that all staff does that --

>> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is raul. i live in district 5, and i've been a constituent of this city for five years, and i just want to thank you all for being present? i want to echo the sentiments of my colleagues and friends for compassionate bay. in 2010, former board member sophie maxwell passed the first law regarding food. two years ago, the n.g.o. partnered with oakland unified

school district to partner in how a reduction in meat and cheese would help reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. it was simply a 30% decrease. within two years, they saved 42 million gallons of water annually and the savings was then used to increase purchase of healthy fruits, vegetables, and legumes. this study proves that it is possible for children to eat healthy, help the environment, all while saving money. in 2017, new york city announced that 15 brooklyn schools would participate in meatless mondays. less than two years later it has expanded to include all of public schools and this year would be the first year that schools would do this. i want to echo the staff from the department of environment highlighting the racial equality of this. many students do not digest --

including african american students, asian american students do not digest dairy very well. this is a product that was broad over by ---brought over by -- >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i'm leslie goldberg, and i, too, am a member of compassionate bay. i'm a former reporter for the san francisco examiner. hamburgers, bacon, ice cream, these are the foods we're used to. these are the foods we give our children. how could something that is such a part of our daily lives be doing so much environmental damage? the fact is they are. animal agriculture is not only responsible for a very significant portion of water and air pollution throughout the state and the country and indeed the world, it is

responsible for a significant portion of greenhouse gas. according to the united nations most recent report, animal ag is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas, and that is nitrous oxide, methane, and co2. so how did this happen? these gases come from animal digestion, from manure, and animal respiration. it also comes from deforestation. i'm really glad to hear this discussion about how important trees are to our own survival. trees -- so these trees, particularly in the amazon rain forest have been cut down to create pasture land. they've been cut down to grow animal feed, soybeans. and so these are the methods that animal agriculture is

devastating our climate. and most recently, and lest you think we're just part of the lunatic fringe here, corey booker says the tragic reality is -- cannot -- [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> as we've already heard from others today, we cannot ignore the part animal ag plays in the global emergency. my name is laurie green and i'm a researcher in ucsf's microbiology lab. i'm also a california native and have lived in san francisco

for 15 years. for this reason, i would like to see s.f. ban meat in all of its city funded hospitals. meat today is the new asbestos, more deadly than tobacco. i would like to mention some of the other automatic benefits of such a policy. it takes 50,000 liters of drinking water to produce one kiloof beef. one billion people go hungry on this planet and 20 million will die from mal knnutrition. eliminating meat altogether could end starvation forever. and finally, my specialty, animal ag has externalized the cost of antibiotic resistance and has put the entire population of this planet at risk. factory farms are hot beds for bacterial and viral evolution, and we have them to thank for

bird flu, swine flu, dust from e. coli, and the spread of antibiotic resistance. by eliminating this from our hospital, san francisco can take a stance against the meat industry. get meat out of s.f. hospitals. it's a win-win, win-win. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you for your time. i'm going to call some more times. sheela, colette, joe, steven, whitney larson, kathy, anastasia, charles whitfield, and michelle pierce. >> thank you to the department of environment, thank you, thank you to the supervisors,

and thank you most of all to the public who's come today. we have a lot to do and we've got to do it fast. my name is martha hawthorne. i'm a member of seiu 1021, and we want to support you, we want to be a part of this, but we have to have a voice. we need to be clear that all these changes that have to be made cannot be made on the backs of city workers, cannot be made on the backs of working people, working families, and the marginalized communities that have done close to nothing to cause this problem. we need to recognize and to hear that the acknowledgement that our current reality is yes, there's a climate crisis, but we have a crisis in wage

d disparity, and a crisis in housing. we need to work together and work with your constituency to get this going, but we realize this is going to cost a mon lo money, and the billionaires are going to have to pay. we accomplished free city college. let's accomplish free muni. you want to get people out of cars? people can't afford the price of a make upuni ticket. we've got to look to bold solutions, and the people that come up with these bold solutions. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> i wanted to kind of look at this at a higher level, and i want to thank everybody that was involved in this work and in many ways, this is ambitious, but in many other ways this is actually wildly unambitious and does not match the scope of the challenges

faced. the report is -- i forget the name, but it's 2030, but then, there's all these references to 2050. everywhere you have 2050 in the report, let's replace that with 2030. l let's try to have that ambition. we should compress all of these time scales. there are other things -- for example, the report mentions well if we implement zero emissions in housing, we could do it in 2030, 2023 or 2020. berkeley just last week implemented those rules starting january 1, 2020, so let's do that. there's also a lot of other things in the report, we don't use the powers that we already have. for example, we should have no more permits for parking lots

or parking structures. there's no mention of the airport. san francisco has control of the airport. we need a detailed plan of managed decline of the airport. we also have -- we could talk about shutting down gas stations and also things like electrifying -- this is out of the scope of the city but also encouraging all of the delivery systems to electrify their delivery vehicles. we should encourage the public to do these things, and if not, we should be putting our bodies out there and not allowing them to do their jobs until they electrify. any way, thank you very much. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. eric brooks, san francisco spois and san francisco clean energy advocates.

thank you, supervisor mandelman for finally bringing this forward with the word emergency and making it a real discussion about that. what you've done is crucial, but just to echo what the previous speaker said, the report is nice and shiny and talks about bad things that are happening and maybe some disorganized steps to do something about them, but it's not to the level of what we need, and since 2009 when it was clear that cleanpowersf would start-up, our coalition has been strongly advocating for a citywide planned renewable energy and efficiency buildout for the entire city. if you look in your e-mail boxes and if your staff looks, i e-mailed all the members of the staff plus supervisor mandelman a copy of the sydney,

australia green energy plan. we've been peddling that around in order to get in front of supervisors what needs to be done next. that plan is amazing, and please help us get it off the ground in the next year. what we've found that's a barrier to us is because the san francisco public utilities commission is an enterprise energy they are pretty much mandated to be conservative and protect the rate payers, they are not going to take on a project with that boldness. it needs to be done by the board of supervisors. help lafco and help all of us as advocates to get this thing going. thanks. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> thanks for having me. my name's yvonne. i teach at u.c. berkeley and volunteer at compassionate bay? we need to prioritize animal

agriculture into the plan? every year, animal agriculture contributes 9% of co dl2 emissions? but that's nothing because methane emissions are 20 times more terrible than co2 emissions, and 30% of methane emissions are caused by animal ag. and 65% of no2 emissions are caused from animal ag. first steps that we can take are eliminating dairy, eggs, and meat from government, schools, and hospitals, as new york city has started to go towards that direction. you know, san francisco can, too, and we can be the kpamping for the world. thank you. -- example for the world. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank

you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is cecelia marquez and thank you for holding this public hearing today and for taking climate change so seriously. the food and agriculture organization of the u.n. has recognized that animal agriculture is a top contributor in environmental degradation and it's been putting out reports for more than a decade saying that the world needs to decrease its meat consumption. many places are addressing this problem. germany has banned meat in public facilities. i believe san francisco can take on these moves and go even further by reducing the subside eyes that the meat and dairy -- subbidize that the meat and dairy industry has.

i hope the current s.f. climate action plan will take into account that the way that animal agriculture contributes to greenhouse gases and is a significant component to environmental degradation today. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i'm joshua largenesse from tri-valley. i want to propose research into understanding pre understanding people's attitudes towards not paying for or working towards climate reversal and ultimately drive up economic demand for environment perpetuating services. that environment includes you. secondly, i'm looking for people to crunch numbers for me for a long wave length energy

baysed transportation project to -- based transportation project to cool the earth directly. please meet with me afterwards to get my info. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is eric and i'm an organizer with s.f. transit riders. thank you for holding this space today. while the recent proposal to fully electrify transit, it seems like an after thought. we know that traffic is at a standstill, and adding e.v. charging stations to parking lots won't fix the city's parking lot streets, and it's not going to bring us closer to our vision zero goals. if san francisco is to meet its goal of having 80% of all trips

be sustainable by 2030, we need to have that prioritized. laws aren't implemented anywhere near fast enough to meet the 2030 timeline. we know that cars and trucks carry became number of people at peak periods. we're also aware that e.v.s are a part of the solution towards curbing climate change but prioritizing public transit and making it a system that is fast, efficient, reliable and accessible will generate benefits on all fronts. it is the most efficient way to move people in the city. it drastically reduces co2

emissions, and it is anywhere from 15 times to 30 times safer than riding in a private vehicle. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is alexander taylor. i've lived in san francisco for five years, and i live in matt haney's district. i appreciate that everybody knows that incremental changes aren't working and that we need to make big, innovative changes to catch up to the harm that we're doing our planet, but i was also surprised that it wasn't mentioned in the presentations that animal agriculture is doing a lot of damage. and i don't know if it's just not very well known, but i also think it's possible, a lot of people just think it's too hard

to, you know, eat less meat or give up meat or we can't do it, but i'm really worried what will happen to our planet if we think that way. we need to ask people to make some real personal sacrifices. i think a small way to do that is ask the government to change the purchases we make in city hall, hospitals, and schools. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is annemarie, and i'm a resident of district 7 and a professor at ucsf. i hope you recognize that this project i think needs its own time and not be number nine on an agenda with other things. i think it also needs

transparency and includes the voices of everybody in the city so that it gets the backing of all the people in the city which should turn into support for funding, so i think that's really an essential part, and it promotes creativity. i think that cooled wiperation other departments are eventual, and i think that the city needs to make sure that they work with all these other large employers to also make sure that there is not job loss. but i'm very grateful that mayor breed has increased the -- increased the number of bike lanes that are coming.

there are a lot of things that are going ahead that are very beneficial to everyone. the fingers that haven't been -- things that haven't been mentioned are ways to make this a car-free city or a much greater freedom for pedestrians or bicycles. that's going on all over the world. just take a look. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is tracey and i'm with jobs for justice in san francisco. this is truly a sobering reality check on how immediately and assertively we must ask. we can't choose between the strategic priorities here. we must do them all, and we must do them quickly. first, the work is to achieve a concrete policy set representing the policies in the strategic priority areas. so we want to have 80% of the trips being sustainable in the next 11 years?

great. let's talk about making transportation free and reining in companies like -- reigning in companies like uber and lyft just transition also means that the jobs created as we implement these policies are good jobs with living wages, benefits, and union contracts. there's so much work to be done. there are also so many people in this city who need good jobs, so let's implement the universal jobs guarantee. let's train people through city college and union apprenticeship programs. of course it's going to be expensive, but we can't afford

to not implement these programs and more. we must create new mechanisms like public banks to achieve this. when we do all this, san francisco can be a global leader, showing how cities can reduce greenhouse gas emissions alongside reducing wealth and racial inequality. all are necessary for survival. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is eric leyvas. we want to congratulate the vision and the urgency that have been brought to bear with the writing of this report. we want to thank supervisor mandelman's office and the activists who brought us to this point. we believe that the first step can only be achieved by not

doing more than -- [inaudible] >> we urge the department to write strong, definitive language to ensure that our response to the climate crisis uplifted traditionally marginalized communities. we have two suggestions, as well. first, the department should propose adequate funding streams. if the city pursues congestion reduction and eliminating natural gas from new buildings, if it those things are pursued through taxes and unfunded mandates, we're worried that the people who pay for it will be the most marginalized and poorest communities, and they will pay with the destruction of