are funding and on policy and performance all under one cover. if done right, they can make clear the connection between major policies such as the transit first policy, the service equity strategy, vision zero and the way those policies are reflected in the action's actions. as such, it's helping to hold the agency com pot able and act as a resource. and by the way, i should just note while this is a short range transit plan, as we are a multi motellal agency rsrtp includes information on agency finances as well as brief summaries of non transit programs. i wanted to call to your attention a future notable

changes this includes updated financial and today you are being asked to adopt the srtp. following that, we will satisfied our obligation and we'll turn our attention to the next cycle. we are actually pretty excited about this. as this was the first srtp produced by the transit division. i know it's odd. the srtp was produced by the planning group of insustainability streets but as i said, this is relatively minor for the last one and we're hoping however to introduce fairly major changes in the next one and information on some of

the subjects you see here. one of which the public transportation agency safety plan update is coming to you soon and they are here to talk about that. >> good afternoon. members of the board. my name is mike and i'm one of the managers in the safety division and this is my colleague robin courtney. for the past three years, we've been we've been pass with the public transportation safety. this is a project that's been longstanding going back years and it's the largest and major change in safety regulations over the past 25 years. it falls under federal

regulation title 49 go to fed regulations part 673. it documents our safety management system. or s.m.s. this replaces the document we've been using since 1996, which is our systems safety program plan and in this case, it adopted -- it was adopted only for rail but this new document applies to all our remotes, both our rail systems, our trolley bus systems and our diesel bus systems. unlike the previous system safety program plan, it must be approved by you, the board of directors and it will be signed by the director of

transportation. and when we have the package done, it will be effective next july 20th for a system safety plan and the former regulation having said that, let me turn this over to robin and give you an update. >> i wanted to walk through the timeline for completing both the public transportation agency safety plan. as of november 1st, we did complete the draft ptas which is this document here. we have submitted copies to our

city attorney and also the divisions from their reviews. michael and i have been having a series of one-on-one meetings with all of the subject matter experts to get their feedback and we expect all of the comments to be returned to us by december 10th. we will then accumulate those comments, incorporate them into an updated draft and have a completed second draft available december 31st. to have a draft of the puc and and we have and we have been communicating with them through the process about our ptasp. we'll give them time to review

and get back to us. we will expect to have a copy to the board of directors by apri april 2020. it will be signed off by our director of transportation, both of which are requirements and they'll be some time after that is certified by july of 2020. there's no requirement to send this document to the fta although it's their regulation mandate it and we will submit it for the rail but we do not currently have an oversight agency for the bus to be sending it to. >> any questions? >> directors, any questions? >> thank you for your time. we're going to open to public comment. any members of the public would would like to comment on this item?

>> mr. wiener. >> good afternoon, david pillpel, i happened to be down here for the memorial service and it's very nice. >> mr. wiener is nice. apologies. >> thank you. i was saying that i was here for the buck delvin memorial. it was a very nice service. i heard two things of interest. one, the updated srtp which has not had a chance to review by read document like 40 years ago and it's just been evolving since then. i think it's important to look at the facilities portion, not just the potrero rebuild but the other facility needs of the agency. particularly as it relates to the fleet needs in the future and ultimately it goes back to the service plan if ridership is flat, and in some cases

decreasing, and other cases increasing, i really question whether the fleet needs to be expanded overtime and whether the facilities need to be increased or simply renovated or remodeled. it's a large question to think about. as relates to the safety piece that was just presented, i didn't see anything in the slide about public outreach whether the citizens advisory council is being consulted and what other public outreach is being done relative to safety. it's important clearly to review internally with staff but the public has great concerns about safety on vehicles at stations, et cetera, and that needs to be addressed just as an example, over the weekend, the lights were out at westportal station for three days straight. it took that long to get the electrical work addressed. those are the kind of day-to-day safety concerns the passengers

experience and should be incorporated into this? i did hear the staff say at end just now, although the state puc overseas with regaroversees, tht oversees them on bus. it's the chp that does safety inspections on bus and perhaps that could be incorporated. >> it's safety and increasing our funding relate today our facilities facility in the tunnels so we just approved an item that will address that issue substantially and then again, generally safety will be brought up both in the transit working group and also in our workshop. >> any additional comments? >> all in favor. aye. the item moved and approved. director, next item. approving a contract approval delegation and requirements policy which delegates to the director of transportation the authority to approve and execute

an expenditure and revenue contracts amendments and other agreements within certain limits. and since i am presenting, i'm going to go over to the podium. >> if it's on speaker card. >> directors, i will keep this brief. the mta board has approved about four different contract delegations approval policies in the last 20 or so years. what we are doing today is we are consolidating them no one document. the last time the board adopted revisions to contracting policy was nine years ago. contracting costs have increased since then. and staff has recognized the agency enters into a lot of different kinds of contracts. some are relatively low value

that are not within the directors erup' current delegatd approved authority. today we want to do is ask for your approval for our consolidated delegation and requirement policy. the biggest change in this policy is that we are increasing the directs or of transportation approval contracts from $500,000 to a million dollars. again, in the past years, contracts have increased and taking the time to bring relatively small amount documents contracts to the board results in delays in approval and it can stop construction contracts, construction from moving forward. so, we are trying to re-assign the approval authority so the director can sign documents that

will keep projects moving forward. also, the document also allows the director of transportation to redelegate to certain establishmented individuals and within the organization and all of this is under the scrutiny of the board, as you would continue as you have for the past 20 years, gotten a quarterly report on contracts. also, it is under the scrutiny of auditors and the controllers and a lot of checks and balances. right now, his delegation authority of $500,000 is under what other city departments have and so we're just looking to make an adjustment because we don't expect to bring a revision back to you for a number of years. so, we don't want this change to

make them have to change their path at the last minute. so, we're con if dent that by having an effective date of january 15th, 2020, this will allow those contracts to complete their process. with that, i think i will pause for questions. >> directors. >> these all look reasonable to me. the person to whom we'll delegate these authorities will change in a couple of weeks. >> yes. >> and has he been consulted? >> yes, he has. and he supports the documents. the policy.

>> any other additional questions from director? my only question is, you mentioned the 500k increase to a million, it's also a section on redelegation authority. which grants to several division officers authority to approval contracts and amendments up to 10 million. so i just wonder if you can speak to that update? >> up to 10 million. >> there's a whole list of not exceeding 10 million of different authority granted to different division managers. >> ok, do you know where that is? >> ok, good. >> ok. >> rob stone, city attorney worked on the drafting of this document and knows the contracting process of the mta inside and out. great, thank you. >> you set a high bar. rob stone, deputy city attorney.

the 10 million-dollar element is for the purpose of general goods, things like uniforms, fuel, tires, things that are generally consumable and some non professional service contracts, they're not construction contracts, they're not engineering contracts, they're the general day-to-day purchases of the city. the current practice of the agency, although it's not been captured in a board policy, is to follow the city purchasers' requirements and that's what is memorialized in this policy and made formal that the director and the directors' delegates, which are the director of purchasing for the sfmta will have the same power as the city purchaser but are required to follow the city purchaser's

regulations and procedures will are generally advertising competitive bidding using the city's contract forms. amended as is appropriate for a particular contract but basically following those general procedures. >> is there any language in there around -- just in terms of accountability purposes with consistency with the existing adopting budgets or anything like that? any language that con strains that authority? >> the city's contracting process would not allow a contract to be served by it if the funds were not already budgeted. i don't know how deeply you want to get into the weeds on that. the processes is that when a contract is certified, the city controller, first through the m.t.a.'s own budget process but

the city's >> mr. wiener.

>> one of my concerns about this proposal is the concentration of power in the executive authority where there should be checks and balances. includes a boards of supervisors, it includes this board, it includes advocacy groups. and, i am unsure right now about this proposal. it seems harmless. it seems like conducting the routine day-to-day affairs but it could be expanded. it could be widened. it could be a loophole that you could drive a truck through. so, i would be very cautious in evaluating this proposal. i think that we've seen, right now, i see a centralization of power because this board routinely a proves everything that is proposed. i've never seen -- very rarely do i see a proposal denied by

this board. basically this board has to be a watchdog with teeth. right now, it's a fury pet that cuddles up to the executive director. i feel that we should have checks and balances and that is why i question the proposal. thank you. >> thank you. i do want to say that we have a policy in governance committee that addresses or discusses a lot of these topics. traditionally that's why a lot of things aren't voted down because the board is not supportive, staff doesn't present it to us for us to vote it down. it doesn't mean that there are things that staff proposes that we support everything that staff does it means that staff doesn't waste our time entertaining items that we're not going to support. >> madam chair, in anticipation of a question so much of that, we did take a look back at the

last 18 months, actually the last three years to see how many contracts that this change in delegation would apply and for the last 18 months, it was zero and for the prior 18 months it was two contracts. so, it does not have big effect. really the big issue here is the authority of the director of transportation to delegate a contract authority to his direct report so he doesn't -- the former direct are of transportation commented he adds no value but signing hundreds of poll license agreements for antennas so this is really to streamline the work that staff does. >> the fact that people can't spend unallocated money and the controller's office and so many other people are involved provides the necessary check and balances. so unless director have any further questions or comments -- i will entertain a motion. >> a motion to amend the --

>> to january 15th, 2020. >> i'll move the amendment. >> second. >> all in favor. aye. as we voted for the amendment and now the original motion. >> i'll move that. >> i'll second it. >> all in favor, aye. >> madam chair, that concludes the business before you today. >> wonderful. happy holidays and we'll see everyone -- i guess the workshop the first meeting. january 7th. we'll see you all january 7th. the meeting is adjourned.

. >> we call this meeting to order. and i apologize for my voice. please call the roll. >> good afternoon. this is the meeting of the san francisco commission on the environment. the date is monday, november 25, 2019 and it a special meeting. the date is november 25, 2019, and the time is 5:05 p.m. a note to the public that the ringing of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting so please turn your devices off. there's also going to be public comment on every item as well as an opportunity for general public comment for items that aren't on the agenda. and general public comment is item number 4.

we ask that you fill out a speaker card at the table there and hand them to me, and i'll hand them to the president and the president will call folks in the order we receive them. you have the right to speak anonymously, so we'll call up folks after we have received the speaker cards if you would like to speak anonymously. item 1, call to order and roll call. [roll call] commissioner ahn is excused. there's a quorum. the next item is item 2, presid. this item is for discussion. >> good evening, everybody, andn francisco commission on the env. we have two presentations today, performance evaluation of direc. the first presentation is a resd collaboration.

to help our city get up to 100 . before we officially get starten manager anthony valdez for his e commission and to the commissioe environment. i just cannot say enough about d how he helps us get through theg together. he is leaving us for bakersfield. the office of the city manager, they pretty much do everything. he's going to be a key member of

the team as they retry write bakers field's master plan. thank you for everything you have done, for your professionalisalism, your friendship. our loss is bakerfield's gain, and you are going to be doing amazing things there. i wanted to offer the opportunity to any of the commissioners to add anything to my comments about anthony. >> it's hard to imagine how we are going to get along without anthony. really, you've done such a splendid job, not only with the commission but being the face of the commission and to a certain extent, the department, in the community. i absolutely second everything our president said about your professionalism to what she has said already, i would say your

calmness, your confidence, your knowledge of the rules and the laws that we operate under has made doing the business of the commission so much easier, because you're there, you have our back in everything that we do. you've done a splendid, truly wonderful job. and i kind of feel bad for the person who is going to replace you. [laughter] because they are going to have very big shoes and a very big job to feel. i wish you the greatest success in bakersfield. i don't think i'll be coming to visit you there, but i hope you have a great start to what is really, i know, going to be a wonderful career in public service. and i just wish there were more people like you who are interested and committed to it and as you believe as you are.

good luck, anthony. >> commissioner stephenson. >> i'm so excited for you. i'm proud that you are going off to do this great work, and i'm excited to see what happens in your career, because we'll be following you even from far away. i want to thank you for all of your efforts. you taught me a ton. i was already on the commission when you came on board, but i feel like the work you did here taught me so much about the smooth running of the commission and certainly the way that you helped me run the operations committee meetings was just completely invaluable. and during the moments when i would have to step in, you were called off to do big things some place else, i never freaked out even though i tend to get a little nervous around public speaking because i knew that you had my back, and i knew that you, with all of us, made sure we had every bit of information we could ever need to do this job and serve the city in this

way. so i thank you so much for your efforts and i'm excited to watch you in your career. >> commissioner sullivan. >> i want to second everything that came before me. but i would also just say that as we've worked together not only here but also in the urban forestry council, these volunteer boards often, it's the staff that has a longer tenure than the members of the commissions and councils. and we roll on and roll off and don't often know what we are doing and we might violate the brown act or forget public comment, and it's really the folks in your seat that are so important in these councils and commissions. and having seen a few people that sit in your seat, you are right at the top in terms of professionalism, and i totally agree, it's bakersfield's gain. and maybe you'll be back with us down the road at some point. i sure hope so. >> director raphael. >> i want to say, as i think

about you, anthony, and i've shared some of these things with you and staff and i would like to say it in this public arena too, that we find ourselves in a time where public service is denigrated, and where democracy feels like it's only there if it's convenient, and that these rules, whether they are the brown act or any of the other rules of engagement, of transparency and ethics feel like they are under siege in our country right now. and that is no one who takes those rules and that role more to heart than you do. and i am -- i think the world needs more people like you who see that as a higher calling, that being the defender of democracy, being the person to make sure that the public has access to information in a timely manner, that commissioners don't -- i mean

you heard over and over again, you have our back. what that means is there's good intention to do the right thing but it's not always clear what the right thing and the right way is, and we need someone who we can trust and depend onto hold that vessel for us so that we can be the purveyors of democracy. and you are a person who not only is making us more professional but showing through your own actions what professionalism looks like. so bakersfield, i do want to visit you there. i want to go and see your beautiful new offices. i want to watch you in action, because i'm going to be there with you, anthony, all the way, to see what is next and to be cheering you on from near and from far. so thank you for your service. and thank you for showing us what's possible. >> commissioner wan >> just very brief, i have to say thank you so much. you saved my life so many times.

one meeting entrance, what side off the stage and always ahead of time. so i really want to thank you. thank you, anthony. >> commissioner chu. >> i'm the newest commissioner to i've had the most recent pleasure of being welcomed by you to the commission. thank you, anthony, for making me feel like part of the family and for me being excited to serve on this commission for many more years to come. thank you. >> what they said, anthony, valdez, defender of democracy, had a nice ring to it. [laughter] with that, let's get started. is there any public comment on the president's welcome? [off mic] yes, i can do that. i was forgetting.

on behalf of all the commissioners, we want to give you this little token. i want to see it on your wall in bakers field. it says exceptional service for the commission, presenting this on the 26th of november, in honor and appreciation of exceptional service for the people and the environment of the city and county of san francisco. thank you so much. [applause] okay, great. and no public comment. okay, next item. >> the next item is item 3, approval of the minutes of the september 24, 2019 commission on the environment meeting. the explanatory document is the september 24, 2019 draft minutes. this item is for discussion and action. >> great. a motion to approve the draft minutes? >> so moved

>> moved by commissioner sullivan. do i have a second? >> second >> second by commissioner wan. we have a motion seconded. is there any discussion or changes, commissioners? any public comment? seeing none, no public comment or discussion, all those in favor of approving the minutes signified by saying aye. >> aye. >> any opposed? motion carries. thank you. >> the next item is item 4, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. >> okay. no public comment on this item? item 4. the next item. >> the next item is item 5, presentation of a commission on the environment environmental

service award to outside lands. this item is for discussion. >> commission wan will be introducing our awardey today. >> thank you. it's a great honor for me to present the commission on the environment's environmental service award to outside lands. i actually nominated outside lands after reading a detailed article in the san francisco chronicle which extolled the lengths to which the organizers of this huge event have made, have taken to make the event sustainable, including further reduction of waste. at the global climate action summit last year, right? >> yep >> the mayor signed a pledge to reduce solid waste generation here in san francisco by 15 percent by 2030, reducing what goes to recycling,

composting and trash. outside lands has been a major partner in that effort. they have greatly reduced the amount of disposables at their event, even as they have increased the number of people who are attending it, thereby generating less waste on material. one way they did this was by selling nearly 11,000 of the new innovative reusable cups. outside lands installed 150 water monsters around the site of the event to make it possible to refill these cups, other cups and bottles that people brought. joining us today to receive the award on behalf of outside lands is anny farman.

[applause] >> we want to say thank you so much to the city for helping us, our friends of the department of environment and public health department and parks department, they really made it happen for us. and as a team effort was to come together and get it done. so thank you so much. >> thank you. commissioners, any questions for director raphael? >> i just want to add to what commissioner wald was saying. i think the most exciting thing for me about outside lands just doing this is it becomes a proof of cone september for other events. yes -- of concept for other events. you are work out the kinks so it doesn't just stay with outside lands but we look at how

reusable cups are going to be an environment for all of our events. a big part of us being able to pass that legislation is when entities like planet entertainment and your work as well, say we are going to figure this out because it's the right thing to do, not because somebody is making us do it. and look what we learned, you can do it too. so i think that frankly is what makes san francisco such a special place, because we have city agencies and we have our business community as well as our residents all working in the same direction for sustainability. so thank you for being courageous and figuring out how to do it, especially when you didn't have a lot of other models. so we can amplify and scale what you started. >> thank you so much. >> is there any public comment on this item? okay. next item. >> wait, aren't we going to do the presentation?

>> oh, yes, we are doing to do a photo presentation >> thank you. >> thank you. >> the next item is item 6, discussion of the 2019 united states department of energy national clean cities awards to the san francisco clean coalition. this item is for discussion. >> director raphael will introduce this item. >> yes. so i am going to introduce suzanne who is our staff member extraordinary who was there when the big awards happened for the department. and she will pass it along and explain to us the wonderful context for this award. so suzanne. >> hi, there. thanks for having us here. so a little bit about clean cities and the two awards that we won. i've been the clean cities coordinate for the last four years. and clean cities is a u.s. department of transportation

program that was established in 1993. and its goal is to place petroleum use. the initial goal we had was -- i'm sorry -- clean cities has been around for 25 years and in that 25 years we have 86 coalitions and have displaced over 8 billion-gallons of petroleum. so each coalition in each city works to form public/private partner chis to make displacement happen. you can see i got off my notes here. and what we do here is focus on electrifycation of low-carbon fuels. if you are in louisiana you are probably working on propane in school buses so it's all different in how we contribute. san francisco established its clean cities coalition in 1994. so the work we are doing here today and talking about today has a 25-year lineage within the city of san francisco. each year the coalitions gather for a peer exchange. we get together and talk about

best practices, what we are working on and the department of energy makes awards. and so this year we received two. one was for the greatest energy use impact for renewable diesel. and the second one is -- and i'll talk about them separately. so you know about renewable diesel. we've been using it since 2015. and that's our greatest energy use impact. we are one of the largest municipal users. we use 7 million-gallons a year. that'that saves 25,000-tons of greenhouse gas a here. that credit goes to tom fung who is in the back. they did a lot of the heavy lifting to make this happen in 2015. so tom, thank you very much. [applause] and tom is also on the board of

our sister coalition in the east bay. so he's been very involved in the coalition process for a long time. so the second award for us, it's an award for an 8101 educational program that three of us put together. my colleague sac thompson back here who is also a clean city coordinator until last friday when he left for another organization and elana from bay area. we developed a presentation. she approached us and said let's do something together. our unique approach is the material is delivered by city staff with policy knowledge and an advocate who uses a car and has practical information and experience about having that car and the dynamics of these two makes for a great presentation. we deliver this in 25 minutes, then we have a full hour to have q&a and that usually ends up in

a robust conversation among the participants. and they are really fun and often sold out. i think 12 different libraries in san francisco. and we have recently taken it across the bay. and now the city of berkeley is replicating this program. and we are starting to work with other cities to give them the tools so they can also do the program. so i think that's it. so would you come up and say a few words? >> good afternoon. thank you for -- the commission is very helpful. thank you for the partnership between the city families to make this happen. congratulations. >> thank you, tom. >> yeah, i just got to put in a plug for san francisco

environment staff. you guys got incredible staff. so working together with them, it really worked out well, because you got an advocate, somebody to drive and you've got staff. and there's a lot of sense that we know that we are doing when we are talking to people, and people trust us. and we have to get the word out. we have to -- we got to go to it as soon as we can. it's great to have legislation that makes it happen, but talking to the community helps. all of a sudden you see the light goes on in people's eyes and they're like, yeah, maybe i can do this. so it's a great thing we do. and my colleagues here have been fabulous. so you got great staff. >> thank you. thank you all. and i would just say that tom is very modest. so tom is in charge of our fleet. and it was under his leadership

and determination to substitute out renewable diesel for traditional diesel in everything from sudans -- they're not really diesel but trucks and fire equipment. he has a lot of skeptical people when he says i would like to try something new. the mechanics and drivers are skeptical. so tom is careful when he is asking people in the city to make changes. and we were the first. so this was a brave thing that tom did. and had huge impact because, in fact, mayor lee, when he went to the vatican he told the pope about what tom has been doing. so even the pope knows about tom, which is pretty cool. and i would say to elaina and the work between the city and

advocates and nonprofits, no one can do it alone, and this award that department of energy gave to us, whether the secretary of energy wants to admit it or not, there is great power when san francisco partners with its nonprofit sector to change behavior. and these awards that we are giving tonight are really an acknowledgement of public service, whether it's from inside the city or partnerships from without. it's really important. so thank you. >> are there any questions, commissioners? any public comment on this item? we are going to take a photo. that includes anthony.

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>> congratulations.

>> all right. the next item is item 7, discussion of the mayor's electric vehicle working group's proposed electric vehicle road map for san francisco. the sponsor is deborah raphael, speaker is lowe chu, interim energy program manager. the explanatory document is electric vehicle road map for san francisco. this item is for discussion. >> director raphael, you may introduce this item. >> thank you. it's fitting we are having this agenda just after we thanked suzanne and zach and elani for their work. the electric vehicle working group came out of a desire from moi lee to figure out what do we need to do to accelerate the adoption of evs. we realized there were two big buckets when you are talking about e.v.s, there's the city's fleet and the public sector

which is far bigger. we understood the department of the environment had essentially no authority on this, we just had mostly convening power. and so along with the city administrator and many other departments, we embarked on a journey to figure out what would it take to accelerate and scale adoption of electric vehicles. we created a working group, a working group of city agencies, of external partners, and we ended up with a road map of where we need to go. and of course like all road maps, there are many people who own a piece of it, not just the department. and so we continue through leadership to figure out how we engage and how we bring people along to make sure that everyone is excited and committed as we are for getting off of diesel and gasoline in the transportation sector. so i just want to say that

lowell is a phenomenal leader in our department. he has been -- you are used to seeing lowell talk about energy efficiency and other energy issues. he stepped into the role of leading the electric vehicle group, because we needed him to. and lowell is a person who says yes, i will do my best. this is what lowell says, i will do my best. and when lowell says that, i know we are going to get phenomenal things, because his best is pretty amazing. so i'm sure tonight he will acknowledge others. i just want to say thank you, lowell, thank you for your leadership, thank you for your belief in your team and in the relationships that you have fostered across city agencies. it's been a real treat to watch you in action. >> thank you, director raphael. and good evening, commissioners. good evening director raphael, good evening deputy attorney. i'm really excited about this presentation. and this road map, like director raphael mentioned, has been

three years in the making. so the first thought on the road map is going to be a commercial parking garage in washington, dc. so the picture on the left-hand corner are three direct current chargers. and when you have direct current, you have three globes that are glowing. those are the mercury vapor rectifiers, smoothing out the alternating current coming from the grid into direct current going into a nickel led battery of the 1909 baker electric car. the baker electric car is a phenomenal car. it had a top speed of 20 miles per hour. it's not fast now. but when your baseline was horse and buggy, the ride was extremely exhilarating. it can go up to 100 miles on a single charge. it is a much safer vehicle to operate than the gasoline equivalent because at the time gasoline vehicles had to be cranked over by hand. so you had to overcome the

compression of the engine, and when the engine catches you had to get your hand out of the way. on the right, it is significant, because that is a page out of the 1913 electric vehicle manufacturer's association book of standards for a direct current fast charger. it's rated 150-amp hour. an amp hour is a measure of energy per time. so for comparison, a modern-day 50-kilo watt charger is rated for only 125-amp hour. this is faster than that. so despite the elegance and the safety and the beauty of the electric vehicle, the electric vehicle didn't make the cut in terms of fuel selection. that's because a couple reasons. the first reason being infrastructure.

so at the time, electricity was a new resource and was most confined to cities. so it didn't really happen until 1936 and it took president roosevelt to mandate rural electrifycation. the detroit electric, they all had a range of 80 to 100 miles so the operator didn't want to go 100 miles and turn around, especially when america was connecting cities together. those two reasons are the primary factors that played into henry ford's decision to use gasoline engine in his model t, the car that changed america. but ironically, his wife owns and drives a baker electric vehicle. so for the next 50 years, electric vehicle development layed dormant. in the 1970s we had our oil crisis and the automobile manufacturers woke up. in fact, exxonmobil actually

partnered with chrysler and toyota to develop the first battery hybrid drive train. four chryslers and four years later, three toyotas were built as prototypes. but unfortunately exxonmobil decided to go back to business as usual. but toyota never lost sight of its vision and in 1996 it developed the priuss. it was a great year for reck l electric vehicles. no conversation about them is complete about the general motors ez1. it's remarkable for many reasons. the top two reasons are, one, it is the very first mass-produced purposed built electric vehicle from a major manufacturer. the ford ev1 it was me going down to the bookstore and getting instructions on how to retrofit my folks wagon. it allows general motors a real

life test of a battery technology. before that, manufacturers focused on just the vehicle. they built the vehicle around the batteries they had. with the ev1 they focused on the battery. there were two series. the first series used conventional battery you find in golf carts. the series 2 used nicole he will batteries which doubled the range. what i'm trying to say is that this kicked off -- it started off the momentum of which battery started iterating and becoming more and more important to development of this vehicle, which eventually led to the adoption of lithium ion batteries in cell phones and laptops to electric cars. and we recognized electric vehicles are going to get to a tipping point and had emissions free vision. he convened the electric vehicle

working group and charged them with two objectives. one, lead by example and electrify the new fleet and two, accelerate the market transformation of private sector transportation. and in 2017, the vehicle working group produced two ordinances. the first ordinance was to electrify the light-duty municipal fleet by 202. and the second ordinance was to make sure that electric vehicle charging infrastructure in all new construction renovation. and moving forward under mayor breed, the work of the working group is even more important. last year in april, we committed to a net zero emissions by 2050. reducing emissions first and foremost transit first.

encouraging walking, biking, it's always been a priority. transit first is a policy since 1970, and we continue to prioritize our investments reflect that. more over -- excuse me. i'm sorry. i think i missed a slide. no, i didn't. it's not here here. but had i had a slide, there was a chart, there was a pie chart that shows the emissions by sector. and it shows that 45 percent of emissions are coming from buildings, residential and commercial and nearly 45 percent are coming from transportation. the good news around building is that we have initiatives on the way to address that. we have increasingly stricter

codes and standards. we have a natural -- we have a move to eventually get off natural gas. we have cleaner and cleaner grid, thanks to renewable energy coming online. and we have initiatives. it's more difficult to tackle with transportation. so i'm back on track with my script with the transit first policy. we got to get people out of single occupancy vehicles and into public transportation, into bikes, walking to sustain. we had a goal of all 50 percent of the trips in san francisco are done sustainbly. we'll reach that two years in advance. so we have increased that goal to 80 percent by 2040. so going down deeper into the transportation sector, you can see why the work of the e.v. working group is so important. cars a