>> good morning, everyone, the meeting will come to order. welcome to the first meeting of the year, the january 13th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. i'm supervisor ronan, and seated to my right is supervisor catherine stefani, and seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar. and we are joined by supervisor shamon walton. i would like to thank our clerk and those from s.f. gov. tv for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes, please silence all electronic devices. speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the january 28thf

supervisors' agenda. item number one is a hearing to considering appointing one member term ending 2023, to the oversight committee. one seat, one applicant. >> chairwoman: hi. is atori laou here? a beautiful name, did i pronounce it correctly? >> yes. >> chairwoman: is good. come on up. do you have any presentation or thoughts you want to share with us. >> i would like to introduce myself and share with you why i would like to join the committee, if that is okay with you. >> chairwoman: that would be fantastic. >> i've been living in san francisco for 21 years, and i work both for software and investment management companies. and i'm very fa familiar with expenditure ough aud dids auditd oversights. i attended the meeting of

the ashbox since last september, and i visited the re reservoir in december, and the southeast water treatment in november. and in august, i visited the hedgegy water system. and i'm really impressed by the scale and magnitude of the public is structure that we own and operate in san francisco. and what is really important to me is to ensure we take good care of this infrastructure, and we maintain and up great it for future generations to come. it is a big budget, and i think it is important that san franciscsan franciscosan fra (indescernable). >> chairwoman: i just had a question for you. i've been working quite closely with the p.c. on attempting to acquire

pg&e's structur infrastructure r the transmission of energy of electricity to san francisco residents. have you been following that effort, and how do you feel about it? >> i've been following it in the news, and i think it is a big opportunity for san francisco. as you drive around the city, you can see poles that are not even straight, they're kind of crooked. it appears to me as a lay person there is quite a bit of deferred maintenance there. and certainly upkeep and upgrade, necessarily. i think there is an opportunity for san francisco, if it can be done right, in a way that makes sense for san franciscans. >> chairwoman: great. music to my ears. is there any other questions? supervisor stefani? >> i would just like to say i know atori, and i

know he would make an excellent addition to this committee. so i speak very highly of him, and we've known each other for a while now. >> chairwoman: do you want to do the honors of making a motion? oh, after we have public comment. thank you so much. i think that's all of the questions we have. thank you for your presentation. i'll know open up for public comment. if there is any member who wishes to speak, now is your time. seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor stefani. >> i would like to move that we appoint atori to the revenue bond oversight commit in seat one. >> chairwoman: without objection, that motion passes unanimously. thank you so much, mr. atori. mr. clerk, can you please read item number two. >> a hearing appointing one member ending december 3, 2e

oversight committee. there are two applicants, and one seat. >> chairwoman: okay. thank you. is sean richard or anna ray grabstein here to testify? i don't see either one of these. supervisor walton, would you like to speak before public comment or after? >> i will speak before. real briefly, if you will allow me. thank you, chair ronan. i want to say i had the privilege of, when i was on rules, of nominating sean richard to serve on the oversight committee. there were some technical aspects that weren't taken care of in his application, in terms of the start time for his retail operation that is up and running, so he is definitely a qualified applicant. he is someone who has worked in our community for decades here in san francisco, and started an organization to fight against violence, and now being someone who qualified as an equity applicant who has experience working in and with our communities is

just exciting, and my hope is that he can be nominated again. so he can actually serve on the committee. i just wanted to come in and speak on that. >> chairwoman: thank you very much, supervisor walton. supervisor stefani? >> i wanted to speak in favor of sean richard. we worked together in the movement, as he has "brothers against guns." we sat down and talked about this committee, and, of course, he is one of the first applicants to be granted a permit under the office of cannabis' equity program. he should continuing serving in this capacity. >> chairwoman: thank you. seeing no other comments from my colleagues, i want to open up this item to the public. is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on this item?

no worries. good morning. >> good morning, supervisors. i had no intention of speaking on any public comment for any item, but i just wanted to share that when i had heard that mr. richard had opened up a facility, honestly, it was so heart-warming to hear that. there is just a level of reassurance that comes over someone from the community, such as myself. when you hear that, it just -- that's the yes, what these programs are for. and when we see somebody who has come from us, who has worked so hard to make our community better, and to be a role model for others to emulate in this process, i want to let you know that is a wonderful thing. so for myself and my family, i want to communicate that we're really supportive of sean richard being on the

committee, and also so happy that he is our first, through the programming, opening up a facility. thank you very, very much. >> chairwoman: thank you so much. any other member of the public wish to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. i just wanted to remark i know both of these applicants as well, and i think they would both be phenomenal additions to this body and in fulfilling this seat. but i have to agree with both ms. moffet and my colleague, supervisors walton and stefani, sean richard is uniquely exciting to serve in this seat, being the first equity applicant to open a store. i can't imagine a more important perspective to have on this body. and i also, along with my

colleagues, i don't think it is an accident. i'm a big fan of his work, and that's because he just does extraordinary, tremendous violence prevention work in our community. so i, too, will be supporting mr. richard for seat 12 on this body. supervisor mar, do you have any comments? or supervisor stefani, would you like to do the honors again? >> sure. i would like to move this forward, appointing sean richard to the cannabis oversight committee in vacant seat 12, to the full board with positive recommendations. >> chairwoman: and without objection, that motion passes unanimously. thank you, supervisor walton, for joining us. we're going to miss you. [laughter] mr. clerk, can you read oit number three. >> a hearing appointing one member, term ending october 19, 2021, to the eastern neighborhood

committee, one seat, one applicant. >> chairwoman: this is my nomination. i am incredibly honored to nominate kemtry moffet, a long time district 9 resident, who has served in a number of capacities in our city, both as a school board-elected commissioner, and as an all around active community member in so many ways. it is such an honor to nominate you, and i wanted to know if you wanted to come up and share any thoughts with us. >> thank you so very, very much, chair ronan supervisors. good morning, and i wept tmeantto say happy new year when supervisor walton was here. i have been thinking about

being on this committee for a while. i just had to wait for things to clear off my plate. i had to graduate for my doctorate. but i've always been watching this committee because i not only have lived in district 9 for so long, since 2004, 2005, but also have lived in district 10, since the '90s, so this area and its growth and expansion, and the environmental issues, but also, you know, the transportation issues that have come across between district 10 and district 9 are on the forefront of my mind all of the time, as well as the area -- my area of expertise, which is education. and not just any type of education, but my doctoral degree is in education for speakers of other languages. and also adult learners. so what i hope to bring is really a deep sense around educational concerns, but also, you know, to remind

the folks at ucsf, of the promise that was made to the residents of district 10 and district 9, that while mission bay's growth, which has been expotential, was really quick, one of the things that was promised was they would do an adult education program for residents. i want to make sure i support and remind them of that promise to the community. i would be honored to sit here, but also bring my education app to the committee. and i'm so grateful for your nomination. >> chairwoman: and i'm so grateful for your willingness to serve. thank you. and now i want to -- >> any questions? >> chairwoman: sorry. any questions? no? is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i would love to make the

motion to forward applicant kemtry moffet with positive rome day recommendation, sitting in seat 6. without objection, that motion passes unanimously. congratulations. should i reopen item number two? okay. mr. richard, we just unanimously appointed you. [laughter] to the committee. but i wanted to give you the opportunity -- do you want us to make a motion to withdraw your nomination so that you can speak, or are you happy with just letting things move forward? i'm going to leave it up to you. >> let's do it again. >> chairwoman: yeah. let's do it again. you missed supervisor walton, who was here to speak on your behalf. but you might as well hear all of the wonderful things we had to say about

you. supervisor stefani, do you want to make a motion? >> yes. i move to rescind the vote on item 2 and move to reopen. >> chairwoman: without objection, that motion passes. mr. clerk, can you read item number two again. >> a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending december 3, 2020, to the cannabis oversight committee. >> chairwoman: i see we are joined by mr. sean richard, one of the applicants. would you like to come forward and make some remarks? ms. moffis also spoke on your behalf. >> well, thank you, supervisors. it's an honor. it has been a long time coming. i have been in this community and this city of san francisco for over 51 years. and i am proud to be a member of this oversight

committee that was nominated by you four lovely people. and thank you so much. it's an honor. and as you know, my store is now officially open. yes. and i'm really excited about ili'm moving forwardit.i'm moving forward. "brothers against guns" was started 25 years ago, behind the death of my two brothers, who was murdered. and i didn't imagine, by any chance of me standing before you, talking about overseeing -- sitting on a committee of legal marijuana, and i am thrilled about it. the fact that i will be able to not only employ folks, but at the same time take some of the profits of the money that we receive from our store and put it back into the community, and that was part of the oversight goal

of me joining forces with that type of brand, which is the cookies brand, make insuring that themaking sure thk to the community. 5% of our profits will go back into the city. it won't just be particular organizations, it will be many types of organizations. the only difference is i know how stressful it is to put together a proposal to get some money. i'm not going to do all of that. i know all of the organizations out there doing the work that needs the money, all the way from sunset to chinatown to the bay view, to the western addition. they will automatically be blessed with some of that money. i want to just say thank you, guys, for appointing me to the oversight committee. i really appreciate it. >> chairwoman: thank you so much. we really appreciate you. you can go back -- i don't know if we're going to spend a lot of time repeating everything we said, but if you go back and watch the video on s.f. gov. tv, you will see how much you are

appreciated and loved in this city by us. >> thank you so much. and the work is still going to continue with "brothers against guns, guns," so i just wanted to put that out there as well. >> chairwoman: thank you. we wouldn't accept anything less. thank you so much. i'll now reopen this item for public comment. if any member of the public wishes to speak -- anybody? no? oh, you're not allowed by the rules. you can only comment ones. but -- so i will ask my colleague, supervisor stefani, to make her motion again. >> thank you. i want to reiterate how amazing sean richard is. and he is going to be amazing on this oversight committee. thank you so much for all of the work you do, "brothers against guns," and we've worked together for a long time, and

you're an amazing advocate not only for gun violence, but for equity on cannabis issues. i would like to move to appoint sean richard, and forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> chairwoman: without objection, that motion passes anonymously. mr. clerk, can you please read item number 4. >> it is a hearing appointing two members in indefinite terms to the college oversight committee. there are two seats and three applicants. >> chairwoman: thank you. if we can call the applicants up in order. win monki, good morning. how are you? >> good morning. so i can speak orally because i don't have a presentation. good morning, everybody. i want to introduce myself.

i am born and raised in san francisco, grew up in filmore, mission, and sunsitsunset, and have attended ucsf as a student since 2011. and i've participated since its initiative, and have contributed to the discussions in the free city coalition, with community groups, students, union folks, and other community members. and so, yeah -- yeah, throughout the application for free city, on the ground from door-knocking, from speaking, i had aimed to really keep the students in mind, right? because at that period, i was part of the solidarity committee, which was already fighting against anti-student policies, that was predominantly pushing predominantly students of color out of an educationtha tha education ty

deserved. from there to participating in the free city coalition, it has been exciting advocating for this visionary program, and looking at it from line by line, from looking at what are the conditions that we want to consider? and keep in mind that students are facing issues, and keep their needs in the free city initiative. my aims and goals while being an active member, hopefully, on the free city oversight committee, is to contribute to the transparency and democracy that has transpired. this program has changed the conditions of my peers, including myself. me and my brother also qualified for free city, and so seeing how it really has grown and been implemented from its inception until now, and have been really, really exciting, and so i hope to

further deepen my commitment through this committee and challenge my peers alongside in the committee to also be vocal, critical, and vigilant in this time, and to also seek any timely opportunities that can be voiced, any opportunities that can also expand, potentially, you know, and advance the program as well. so if we really believe the principles that education is a human right, i really hope to serve on the committee and work alongside with others based on this principle. so thank you. >> chairwoman: thank you so much. are there any questions? great presentation. any questions? no? thank you so much. thanks for your willingness to serve. and i see connie ford. would you like to come up and present? thank you, chair ronan and

supervisors. my name is connie ford. the first thing i want to say is i highly recommend win mah. she is exemlary in exemptlary. in the bierpg o beginning of the 20th century, this country made a good decision to decide to include education, k-12 for every citizen in the country. that was really a wonderful thing. during a lot of that time, if you got a high school degree, you had access to the path into middle class, working class jobs so you can thrive. in the last couple of decades, things have changed. and now that is not adequate. you get a high school

degree and it doesn't mean much. you need to go on. and so the -- so that's really what started the whole discussion of free city. and president obama started it during his term in 2015, saying that he thought everybody should have access to a free community college. and then a few states took that up. tennessee, portland, oregon, and minnesota, i think, and it was at that time that we at san francisco started studying it. and then with jane kim's leadership, and the leadership of the faculty at city college and then labor and community, you know, we were able to win that fight. and we won it and then we were able to fund it. and that was in '17, and so '17 and '18 was the first year. and then there was an oversight committee on that, and i served on the oversight committee as the community representative.

on that, there was a subcommittee that tasked us to make an annual report. and we did. and it took a long time. and it was dcyf, the controller's office, 2121, and myself. and we worked tirelessly for a year and produced this report. and it is now up on the website, in november of '19, where the mayor approved it, the controller's office approved it, and everybody did. and it was a tremendous success. it was took away people's fears. it raised the population of going, and it stabilized those who were already getting scholarships by giving them an extra stipen, so that they could do their books and their transportation and all of that. it did have five recommendations for improvement, because we all know city college had some ups and downs now.

it is those five, and this is really the reason i would like to serve on the commission again, so that as a community member, we can keep clear on the definition of free city, expand it, if possible, but at least make these five recommendations real and clean it up a little bit. so that's why i'm running, and i appreciate being here and working with all of you. >> chairwoman: supervisor mar? >> thank you so much. i don't really have any questions for you, connie. >> thank you. >> chairwoman: do you want to wait until we hear from the last applicant? okay. kevin fraser? >> i believe that mr. fraser communicated with your office, and i believe there is an e-mail on your desk. >> chairwoman: oh, i'm sorry. thank you. thank you very much. do you want to speak before public comment? okay. supervisor mar. >> thank you, rocan. i wanted to briefly

acknowledge and thank win manki and connie forward. i've had the great pleasure of working with both of you very closely on these issues. before my role at jobs of justice, and now on the board of supervisors over the past year. i think the two of you are the most qualified people that i can think of to fill this seat, the student seat, and the sort of general public seat on the oversight committee. the two of you really are among the most -- have demonstrated the most deep commitment to city college, and just capability in really organizing around the complicated issues to strengthen and support city college here, from the campaign to originally create the free city program in 2016, to over the past year in the

complicated, but ultimately, very successful work we all did to ensure the full funding for city college for the next decade. and city college, as we awe know, continues to face challenges. i think this oversight committee for free city college is cite clee importanis criticallyimportant r issues. as a board of supervisors representative, i look forward to working with you. thank you. >> chairwoman: thank you so much, and thank you for your leadership, supervisor mar, on this very important program. i really appreciate your voice on this. we'll now open up this item to public comment. any member of the public who wishes to speak, please come forward now. >> sorry. >> chairwoman: don't be sorry. we love hearing from you. >> good morning again. i had no intention of speaking, but i just want to support the two members of the community, and the

student member, because this committee does need their voices. working for a little bit with city college myself, i know that some of the challenges that were met the first few years of free city, and just the bumps of something new and so large coming forward, in terms of rolling out something like this that has such public goodness, but also has such bureaucratic -- i don't know what to call that -- poop. it is what it is. with the help of a really strong oversight committee and these two members here, win and connie, i just want to support them going on the committee. i really have a lot of trust in their work already, that i've seen, and i'm really confident that they'll be helping with smoothing out some of the rough edges there. thank you for their consideration. >> chairwoman: thank you so much.

any other member of the public wish to speak? seeing none, public comoancomment is closed. i just wanted to say i read mr. fraser's e-mail, which was very compelling, and i just want to appreciate his interest in willingness to serve. but today i'm going sto be supporting connie ford for seat 14, and win manki for seat 4 -- i'm sorry if i'm mispronouncing your name. how do you pronounce it? i believe it is very important to have the continuity of ms. ford on this body so that she can continue her excellent work on this program that is so important to our city. you've been there since day one, and i think having that continuity is extremely important. so i just wanted to appreciate mr. fraser so

much for being willing to serve and for sending this very compelling e-mail to us. it is very appreciated. but today i'm going to be supporting connie ford. and i would like to ask supervisor march h mar. if he would be willing to make a motion. >> i recommend win manki to seat 4, and connie ford to vacant seat 14. without objection. >> chairwoman: and without objection, that motion passes unanimously. mr. clerk, can you read item number 5. >> item 5 is a hearing appointing one member to the park open space advisory committee. one seat, one applicant. >> chairwoman: wonderful. this is a district 6

nominee. mr. roddy, are you hear? good morning. >> good morning. >> chairwoman: thank you for being willing to serve. >> no worries. i'm patrick roddy, and i've been working in the city since 2011, and working in the tenderloin since 2013. i did a lot of work around the alcohol prevention coalition, the store frontage work, and i'm working with that, and helping youth around the abc argument around certain stores should sell alcohol as well. but i recently -- now its been going on three years -- been working at boddecker park for boys and girls of san francisco. in that time, it has been eye opening to see what is going on and what is happening, and the advocacy, and the former person who had this seat, anna g., i worked closely

with around the parks network and how we connect as parks. really what it comes down to is that in the tenderloin, if you give everybody in the neighborhood a piece of open space, you get half a yoga mat, which really isn't acceptable. when you look at the equity of some of the parks and how safe those parks are, it becomes a concern. especially with working in that network trying to get more parks activated, and more park safety activated. and how do we partner to make the best of the situation that we have? >> chairwoman: thank you so much. i appreciate your willingness to serve. any member of the public wish to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. anybody wish to make a motion? >> sure. i'll do it. i move that we recommend

appointment to the parks recreation and open space advisory committee, patrick roddy to seat 17. >> just note, a waiver is required for this applicant if you do want to make a recommendation. >> with a residency waiver. >> chairwoman: without objection, that motion passes unanimously. congratulations. mr. clerk, is there any other business before us? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> chairwoman: thank you so much. the meeting is adjourned.

>> once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. i just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didn't have to ask twice. you can always find me on the court. [♪] >> we have been able to participate in 12 athletics wheelchairs. they provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are

one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a national paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. >> it is great to have this opportunity here in san francisco. we are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. now that that is happening, you know, i i'm looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs -- that these people are here for everyone. i think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as able-bodied, to be able to see and to try different sports, and to appreciate trying different things. >> people can come and check out this chairs and use them. but then also friday evening, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.,

it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. >> we offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. [♪] >> right before the game starts, if i'm still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because

it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds holds is very, very exciting. it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays

know, andfridays -- fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that altogetl r together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers.

i just organize it from top to bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. we did that as a team. i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our

corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful

learning >> we have private and public gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for a day. so we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens,

private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. it's a variety -- all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. >> i have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. in the early 1800s the portola was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. in the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as

the garden district. one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a win-win-win situation all around. >> the scholarship program is important because it helps

people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. >> i was not sure how i would stay in san francisco. it is so expensive here. i prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in san francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i don't know where else i would have gone to finish. >> the scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [♪] [♪] >> you come into someone's home and it's they're private and personal space. it's all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their outdoor living room. >> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer

here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day. you walk around and look at gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the websitit. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop & dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so we're will you shop & dine in the 49 chinatown has to be one the best

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eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday

they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the

experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and

burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the

food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and

their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of

psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future

>> good morning, everybody. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the january 9th, 2020 regular meeting of the public safety and neighborhood committee. i'm raphael mamdelman. supervisor walson is not able to be here as he's attending a joint powers' board meeting and to my left, supervisor hainey stepped. i want to thank sfg tv for staffing the meeting. >> please ensure you've silenced cell phones.

files should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the january 28, 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> before we go to the first item, i'll make a motion we excuse supervisor walton. mr. clerk, please call our first item. >> number 1 is an ordinance amending the health code by amending the sugar sweetened beverage to update the findings and purpose, revise the definition of advertiser, reduce the warning size, move modifiede warning text, remove exemptions for certain types of sugar advertisements. >> natalie g., welcome. >> good morning. so a little bit of background information. the city's sugar sweet and beverage ordinance was

introduced by supervisor scott weiner and unanimously passed by the board in 2015. but because of a subsequent lawsuit and a ruling against the city at the ninth circuit court it prevented the ordinance going into effect. we introduced the revised revision last september to incorporate more feedback on this legislation. we know that there's been countless studies connecting these beverages to weight again, obesity and type ii diabetes and there's been numerous studies showing that these large beverage companies specifically target their advertising to communities of colour creating more health despairties. there's been studies proving that labels are an effective way to provide the community information for them to make their own healthy choices. in fact, ucsf has done numerous focus groups in the bayview, mission and tenderloin to ask what the community wanted from a public health perspective and the top request was to have information on warning labels about the health risks so that

people can make their own informed choices. this reading introduced versions incorporating the following seven changes with input from the committee. number one it updates the ordinance's statements of findings and purposes with more recent information about weight gain, increasing the risk of obesity and type ii diabetes and these finds are about health literacy and helping the public to make informed choices. it defines the definition of an advertiser of those selling sugar sheetenned organizers and excuse people in the business of placing, installing or providing space where the displays such as business owners of a small mom and pop shops and it reduces the total number of advertisement and number four, it modifies the text to the required warning to

say san francisco government warning, drinking beverages with added sugars can cause weight gain and increases the risk of obesity and type ii diabetes. number five, it adds a language access component as part of the equity lense, requiring official translations of the warning labels in the top san francisco languages such as chinese and it limits certain types of sugar beverages. we had a provision about any ads about december 31, 1985 were exempt and we took that out. and we are excepting ads that have been in place 50 areas or more. the coca-cola billboard sign off of the i-80 freeway and lastly, this revises the ordinance enforcement allowing dph to administer ordinances to pursue

civil enforcement. we have medical professionals such as sf medical society, health organizations and expect groups all on board with this legislation. the youth commission just voted unanimously to also support this. so happy to answer any questions and hope you all can join on a positive recommendation. thank you. >> thank you. i don't see any comments or questions from my colleagues so we'll go to public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item? if so, come on up and line up on your right, our left. speakers will have two minutes. we ask you state your first and last name clearly and speak to the microphone. if you have prepared written statements, leave them with the clerk for ad admission file. in the interest of time, speakers are advised to avoid repetition of previous statements. come on up.

>> when it comes to sugary beverages, the possibility of substitutes are greater now than ever. the beverage market is all steadily saturated with flavoured, unsweetened products, the majority of which are sold in recyclable aluminum cans rather than the plastic containers and they're increasingly gaining shelf space. so trends suggest consumer taste and beverages have been shifting in a halty direction and culturally obesity is less popular today than a mere decade ago so gym memberships have risen significantly over the intervals. however, attempts to compel marketers or emergency engaged in specific language regarding sugary beverages may be an uphill battle and are you looking at all beverages, sugary beverages or specific sugary

beverages? >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item before public comment is closed? seeing none, public comment -- actually, we'll invite you back up miss gee, seeing no comment from members of the public, comment is closed. miss gee, come on back. >> earlier i said the mom and pop shops so the provision exempts installers of the signs, not the owners of the business. so i just wanted to clarify that. >> ok, thank you. if there are no comments or questions, i will move that we forward this to the full board with positive recommendation. we can take that without objection. congracongratulations, miss ge. mr. clerk, the next item. >> number two is a hearing on the city and county policies as it relates to trash cans and

pick-ups in addressing litter. >> supervisor hainey, this is your hearing, take it away. >> thank you, chair and thank you supervisor, stephanie, for having this hearing at the committee. i want to also recognise and thank all of the folks here in the room who do this work everyday. i think it's, obviously, a very challenging and often thankless job to be out there making sure our streets are clean, that litter and trash is taken care of and, especially, at a time, i think, where this issue is often in the media, and getting attention, i'm sure it puts a lot of attention on you all and the folks out there. so i want to extend my appreciation to the folks here and also to the employees that are out there right now. i saw them on the way here and

just do tremendous, very difficult jobs and we appreciate them. so today, we're going to talk some trash. i'm sure in this room, that's not a joke you haven't heard before, but i just want to take my shot at it. you know, you thin i think for e reason for this hearing is pretty obvious and clear. we have a huge problem with trash and litter on our streets. that's true all over our city. it's especially true in the district that i represent, downtown south of market and the tenderloin, particularly. this is something that comes up from residents, workers, businesses and as i mentioned, the national, international press and here in san francisco in a city that is among, if not the most innovative place when it comes to technology and

progress, it continues to me to be deeply concerning and in some ways mind boggling that we haven't been able to solve this problem. it seems to me there are practical, common-sense solutions, proactive loose solus that caif we work together. this specifically will be about trash cans, both the public cans and the private cans, dumpsters and to shed light what the cities and partners have been doing to address trash and litter on our streets and to get an update on a new policies and strategies to address this ongoing problem. for me, and what i've seen and what i've heard and experienced in the last year and before that, this comes up all the time and a couple of things i want to highlight before we jump into the conversation. one is, there are parts of my

district, at least, where we can walk block after block and not see a city can. and that's something that i hear about from my constituents and deeply concerning and confusing to me as to why that's a reality that continues to exist. on top of that, we often see, in my district, both city cans and private cans either being broken or busted open or trash and litter that was clearly previously in a city can or a private can making up a lot of the litter on our streets and sidewalks. this ithese are conditions thate unacceptable for people to live and work in. it seems deeply unfair to the employees themselves who are having to pick up after, basically, broken infrastructure and having to respond in a reactive way as opposed to having trash stay where i think it belongs, which is in the trash can to begin with. i did a fix-it walk along the

embarcadaro with a number of the departments and neighbors and we came across, first of all, not enough city cans, but the city cans that we came across were actually more likely to be broken than functional. they were, in many cases the gate was swung open or the trash was pulled out. that creates problems for people who live and work in this area but also creates a lot of cynicism and a culture where people don't believe they're supposed to throw things in the trash because the trash cans themselves don't work. so this is a reality that, i think, is fixable, that there are solutions to. as a city, we started to fund and put out more sort of total containment bins with big belly style cans and i want to understand how that fits into our strategy to address this issue. so the three things, the guiding questions that i had for the

city departments and the folks who are here are what are thecies where we are placing city cans, the types of cans we're using and why. secondly, how can we prevent trash from being spilled on the street from city cans and dumpsters and how do we ensure buildings and businesses are signed up for and receiving adequate service? and this is something that the department of public health will speak to. i want to say at the outset, i don't want to just ask questions but offer solutions which i've tried to do and we've been working closely together doing my time as supervisor. i want to appreciate dpw and oewd for your partnership on that. there are a set of thank thingsm asking for. if this is not the right approach, i would love to hear why we are not doing these things and why we can't.

the first thing, there seems to be a need to have a trash can on every corner. in the tenderloin, south of market, downtown, it is astounding to me that with the attention and the realities of trash on the ground, that we wouldn't have an adequate a lot of trash cans. there's a mythology and i want to talk about this and i don't know how true this is, that the city has pulled away tons of cans over time and people bring that up a lot in the community. secondly, as i believe we need a new trash can design for our public cans. for these cans to be as likely to be broken open as functional is completely unacceptable and so i want to hear about what our plan is to either fix or replace the ones that are out there. third, i want to understand the standard for where public cans go and what sort of transparency there is around that. seems to me that there's not a formula for where the cans to and why they're there and when.

they can be pulled out or put away based on complaints. i don't feel that's the best way to do this. fourth, how we're going to secure dumpsters. there need to be much stronger locks on dumpsters. there are places where trash is pulled all over the street. fifth, how woul we'll roll out r bins and coordinate pick-up schedules which is beginning to happen in the tenderloin and i want to appreciate the work that recolocg is doing and how to extendeextend that across the cd a plan for how buildings have correct and adequate trash service. peoples are residential and the people who live there don't have adequate trash service and end up dumping their trash by the city cans. that seems to be a solvable problem and will take a plan to

address it. so those are my ideas and what i would like to see, but i would hope that we can talk about what your plans are and how we're going to really keep trash where it belongs in the can and make sure cans are available and ensure we have cleaner, healthier streets for all of our residents, not just those in district 6. so to address those issues and questions, we have representatives from san francisco public works, recology, department of public health and oewd and i think we're going to start with jeremy spitts from public works.

>> good morning. thank you, supervisor hainey for giving us the opportunity to discuss the city's public garbage cancer. cans. and also, i we had the same joke. [ laughter ] >> i knew somebody would use that. >> there's only so many. [ laughter ] >> so we were asked to provide just a basic overview of what's out there on the streets. public works maintains almost 3500 cans, about 1,000 are the old-style concrete cans with the rest being the renaissance cans which is, i believe, just the vendor's name. they were first installed in 1977 and i found a mayor of, then, george masconey installing one and i thought that was fun. since they're reaching the end of their useful life, we're

phasing them out and we've been phasing them out, actually, over the last ten years and almost done phasing them out and we should have all gone and replaced within this fiscal year. we're currently replacing about 40 a week with the vendor that installs and replacing them with the renaissance cans. in addition, there's two kinds, mainly two kinds on the street of these solar smart cans. the first that everyone is familiar with is the big bellies and there's about 150 or so big bellies out there. they are not maintained by the city. they are maintained by cbds or neighborhood groups or private organizations because they require a higher level of maintenance than the city is really able to offer. the other one, since there is so much interest in these kinds of cans, the city has piloted an alternative to big bellies that we thought might be a little bit cheaper and easier to maintain called the pel or pell solar

smart can which is similar and there's about 30 of those in the city at the moment. and you had asked about our procedures for can placement. so we do have a procedure. it's procedure 16-5-1 and i can read it. it's not very exciting, but as most of our procedures aren't exciting. liberal receptors should be located near schools, business districts, bus stops and platforms. requests from the public to add or remove receptacles are investigated by street environmental supervisors before any action is taken. placement includes dog parts, community stairs, navigation centres and other locations requested but the public and elected officials. so it's not a hard science. we get a lot of requests from difficuldifferent people to putn different places. i think that's a lot of my job as the government affair's manager and for the department

to shuffle garbage cans around. there's a request to install them and the next week from a different constituent, i get a request to remove that can, so it's all over the place. problems. so as you eluded to, there are some problems. >> my photos? >> one of them might be, yeah. [ laughter ] i think that one might be so challenges. so there's three main categories of challenges. the first one is overflowing cans, and the second one would be illegal dumping of household garbage or bad behaviour and people just using the cans as a suspecspot to dump because theyw someone will comeby to pick them up and then there's vandalism, breaking in to get to the garbage recyclables inside or just because they like breaking things. we've provided kind of a snapshot of the service requests

for the city cans over the last year. so we get two main categories of service requests for city cans through 311. the first one is for overflowing cans and the second one is for damaged cans. so this is a snapshot of both requests in the last year. so they're where you would expect them to be. so here is broken out by district and we get the most in district 9 and district 3 and we, in total, over the last year got about 13,000 requests for overflowing cans and about 1,000 requests for broken cans. for the city's 3500 or so cans. it's important to note that the system, the 311, doesn't distinguish between overflowing cans and illegal dumping. so this is representative of both. so if somebody on streets sees a bunch of trash around the

streets and takes a picture and sends it to 311, it's somebody who has dumped trash around the can. >> can i ask a question if. >> absolutely. >> is the response the same to overflowing and illegal dumping. >> yes, response is the same. i think those requests go, actually, to our part of ecology and they are out there within, i believe, two hours. so we get to those pretty quick. so this is not a new problem. we have some photos. i was flipping through old annual reports and these are from 1968. since the city is so quick in picking up trash, people have kind of back to accept it. there's almost a perception that it's maid service for the city. so people dump their trash out there, it's gone within a few hours and people just doing it. so this has been a problem in

the city for a long time, both with dumping of cans, dumping in industrial areas and dumping of used appliances and there's many initiatives that the city has done to try to provide outreach and enforcement. the city has passed mandatory garbage and recycling and composts since they were taken and we do all sorts of outreach and the problem definitely persists. so what is the city doing to combat litter in general? so it's not just about garbage cans. we have our own cleaning crews that go out. we've created different types of cleaning crews, up and above the cleaning crews. an important one is our corridor ambassadors, sweeping up and keeping an eye on garbage caps and topping them off when they get too full. we have an outreach enforcement team that does outreach to merchants and they can write tickets for people's bins being

overfilled. we have antilitter campaigns. we have strong partnerships with nonprofits like the cbds and also very strong partnership with ecology. we are embracing new technology and i'll get more into that a little bit later and we have a new anti-legal dumping campaign that we'll be launching on saturday at our community queen team in chinatown, which our 20th anniversary so everybody should come to that. it will be a great event. we also work closely with our partner of ecology who you will hear after us and encourage them to do everything that they can to help keep the city clean. one initiative specific to public trash cans that we're excited about is a fairly recent grant programmgrant program. so the community center, they have staff and they actually

steam-clean every public garbage can in the city at least once a month with the kind of higher density areas and more commercial areas getting their cans cleaned biweekly and some more than that. the sso i passed one of their ts on the way in thissing morning and they're out there all the time cleaning cans. one low-tech solution we've seen success with is you mentioned supervisor, that the cans are often broken and so, this type of can, the renaissance can, we've been ruling that out for ten years. the vandalism has increased and we've been working with the vendor to make the hinges stronger and our metal shop repair crews have been going out and doing spot repairs, preparing hundreds of cans that are less likely to be broken into. that's kind of a low-tech solution. as far as higher tech solutions, we have a pilot program that we

are currently in the midst of expanding for installing sensors in the city's cans. so the sensors collects data every 15 minutes and they also can detect tip-overs, door issues and missing liners. it's sent to alert and they can service it before the can overflows and then alerts from damaged cans are sent to public works to go out there and repair them proactively before they're reported to members of the public. and this was a pilot project that we entered into with the mayor's office of civic innovation in 2018. so we started off with 48 cans, kind of distributed it throughout the city to test them out and see how it would work on street. we're in the midst of expansion to 700 cans in the city, so a good percentage of the cans will

have sensors in them. we have the sensors installed in 700 cans and we're working with the department of technology to build the system that will allow us to manage it. so that should be coming online within the next couple of months and we're excited about that. the overall goals of the project are to reduce the number of service requests related to city cans, to be proactive rather than reactive, jobs to advise placement of the city cans to get good data on where they're being used and where they're not used. to remove all processes of the city cans, because they all have gps and to develop more optimized routes with recology for route pick-up. finally, we're working on the next generation of the city's trash can. so we have engaged with our local, industrial designer through an rfp process and we're

in the process of a new schematic design and we're getting feedback from recology and or own street-cleaning team. the new design will address following issues as kind of guiding principles. right now it's difficult for ecology drivers to pick up the trash can liner and the new line will have a rolling toter, much like the residential cans. to address overflowing trash, the new designs will all incorporate the sensors that i spoke to earlier so that the city or recology will get a notification when they're 75% full. it will continue to have a recycling top to try to discourage scavaging in the interior of the can. it will be more durable, capable of handling street abuse and needs to be graffiti abuse and

much stronger locks and hinges then we have now. there are kiosks and bar canopies on pacific plaza. the next step for this process is that the designers are working on honing in three strong design options. we will prototype the three, making several of each, placing them around the city in strategic locations and we will seek community input on the new designs and track data from 311 and we will take the three designs to the design review where we will be able to have a public discussion about the merits of the designs and we hope to reach that early this summer in 2020. so that's all i have. i'm available for any questions. i'm also joined by peter lau who

oversees all of the city's trash cans supervisions. >> i appreciate this. i have a few questions. so the first is that it's great the concrete ones will be replaced by the end of this fiscal year. so there's still a thousand out there right now and those will all be replaced. >> we're doing currently 40 a week, yeah. >> i see more problems with those. >> right. and we are working with the vendor for the renaissance cans, so they should be stronger going forward. the new ones that are getting installed and replacing the concrete cans should be hopefully more tamper resistant. >> in terms of where trash cans go, the general order, the order that you laid out, it seems to be to be incredibly vague and

general and inadequate for clarity of where these cans should go and it also seems to be to be, actually -- i'm not telling you how to spend your time but the idea of you as a government affair's collector of work, you're spending so much of your time on responding to pulling away trash cans and putting them out there, that it doesn't seem to be to me to be the best way, in a clear way based on need or based on certain distances. i mean, i've brought up in the designing that our city is not the same as every other cities but in many other cities, there's one on every corner in dense areas. the tenderloin and south of market in some cases don't have anything close to that. there are some areas, partly because maybe somebody complained about one, but it has to be within context that may leave an area with only one more

two blocks. in these areas where there's a high need, there needs to be x amount of feet or yards. why don't we do it that way. >> so i work with supervisors all the time who have specific locations they want to install cans and we can definitely install them. >> i want one on every corner. [ laughter ] >> if it's that easy. >> it shouldn't be that difficult. i'll look for a noncomputer. noncompeter. >> just as a general thing, that's problem not the best way for this to be done. >> we see problems with city cans and there is dumping, especially in more dense areas. so chinatown and the mission and

the tenderloin, like if people don't have sufficient garbage service, people see a city can and use this as a dump spot. so we have corner stores and residents who come to us and be like, as soon as the city can came here, i had to sweep up my sidewalk many more times and we're sensitive to that and we don't want to -- the city cans aren't always the answer. we can install them wherever you want them but that's not always the answer in making the neighborhood cleaner. >> and it seems to me we should havemetrics of where they should be generally and under some certain situations, you might take them out but there should be a sort of more objective policy where they go. if it's totally subjective, their ripple effects and consequences when you don't have them in certain areas and it's jusunpredictable for the

neighborhood. >> i think if we had it our way, we would have them at bus stops in your schools, the areas that are listed. we would have a trash can at every bus stop, a trash can at every school. in dense commercial areas, we could discuss having them more frequently, such as on every corner if that's what's required. but we get a lot of requests for trash cans to be installed and removed and we have to be responsive to that. so that's kind of why it's become a little bit of a jumble of a policy over the last many years. >> just as a general thing, i don't think we should make this policy based on complaints and for a variety of reasons somebody might not want something where they are and that's their opinion. but for the neighborhood and people walking by and for the best practises for clean streets and sidewalks, that seems to be how we should be making the decisions. it's very concerning to me

that's not the way it's done. one other thing and i'll pass to supervisor stephanie, the renaissance cans, to me, they seem to have a lot of problems with also being regularly broken and i'm saying broken but sometimes they're not actually broken but opened up. and i think when you walk around the neighborhoods and you see that all of the time, it adds to a sense of kind of cynicism and just a feeling that your neighborhood is just, you know, not taken care of. so you said there's a way to kind of really fortify those cans. >> yeah. >> how can we do a lot more of that, where it's most needed and be confident that those aren't, in the interim, until we have a new design that won't be the reality of all of our neighborhoods? >> i think it's tough to completely design our way around this problem, which is why in

our department, we would like to see some focus on behaviour, as welwe're doing a lot of work and we've done a lot of work already. we've spot-welded, i think, hundreds of cans is the number i've been given. the new ones from the vendor are stronger, as well. that's something we're definitely focused on. >> another request i would have, if there are stronger ones, they should be put in places where we're having these issues. they should be put in these neighborhoods where we're seeing them broken open all of the time. from what i've seen walking here today, that's not the case. those ones in those areas are

constantly broken open and it affects quality of life and it affects trash on the street, but it leads to a lot of feelings that your city doesn't work. >> right. sometimes people become so used to seeing it, they don't report it and we don't know about it. so it's important that we encourage people to use the 311 app and report those things and we will go out there and make the cans stronger. but if the cans are broken everyday and people walk by it because they're used to it, we'll hear about it from cyc if they get to it every month but the more we know about it, the easier it is to track and address it. >> supervisor stephanie. >> thank you, supervisor hainey. thank you, jeremy, tor being fog here today. just how you said a trash can is taken out because of illegal dumping, to me it seems we're letting those engage who behave in bad behaviour dictate or

trash can policy. i'm wondering, what are the consequences of the illegal dumping is does anyone ever face them in the city? >> absolutely. both public works, recology have inspectors and when we get complaints around illegal dumping, they can do a garbage audit in the area and they often do. when we find somebody without garbage, i think that the remedy that is most often -- i don't think they get a fine, but dph can go ahead -- i think dph is here to speak to that in detail -- but they can start garbage service for them and pay a monthly bill and get cans delivered and get adequate service and recology will make sure they have enough service for the number of units in the building, things like that. but it's definitely a huge problem and it's very time intensive to go around, but the city and recology all are focused on it and it's something

we do a lot. >> of the pell trash cans, there are 30 and half are in my district. i believe in trash cans that people can't actually dive into our animals can't get into that are more difficult so that trash isn't everywhere. and i just don't understand why we don't have those type of trash cans all over the city. when i did a facebook post or social media post about them, so many people said, how can i get these in district 7 or how can i get these in my area? i don't understand why we don't have formty in trash cans and why we need a different prototype and why we can't just focus on one particular type of trash can that is particula is .

we'll always have the illegal dumping issue and can be taken care of but why can't we focus on one type of trash can? >> the two are rather expensive and we don't necessarily think they're needed everywhere. >> but how expensive is it to continue to go out to all of these calls? i mean, this trash is everywhere. >> right. >> everywhere in my district, everywhere i go in the city. so i mean, have we done a cost analysis. and i know it's an investment but if it's an investment that works. have we looked at the complaints that we receive after we install is pell trash can or different type of trash can? have they g gone down? is there spilling out of the trash cans?

are we looking at that. >> we are looking at that right now. i don't have an analysis right now. and i think maybe some of the cbds can speak to that, as well. another issue with them, they require a higher level of maintenance, as well. so if something does break on a pell or big belly, it's more involved. one of the pell trash cans we have piloting right now in the u.n. plaza have the solar plaza ripped out and that's different than replacing a lock on it and more involved. and other cities that have done city-wide roll-outs of smart cans and more complicated cans have seen, like, really bad issues with maintenance because the city is just not able to keep up with keeping them all in functional order. i think philadelphia is an example that we saw where the -- they had big bellies, not pell cans, that were just trashed for lack of a better word.

and so it has to be a balance, i think. >> so you mentioned philadelphia and supervisor hainey mentioned cities where there's many more trash cans and i was just in new york and i had the same experience and obviously i didn't count them. but how do we compare to other cities? have we looked at that? >> i haven't been able to find anything concrete. i know as supervisor haney eluded to, in 2008 or '09, the mayor removed a lot of the city's trash cans and there was an analysis that shows the city had two or three times more than comparable city expos cities. i think the effort was to get us more in line with comparable cities, but i haven't been able to find information as far as comparables yet but i can continue to look into that. i would also note that many of

the cities, world's' cleanest cities don't have any trash cans. tokyo, i think, from what i've seen removed all trash cans in the 1990s when there were threats of terrorist attacks because people take responsibility and take their trash home and don't throw it on the street. >> ok, thank you. >> i mean, my thoughts are, i think, somewhat similar to my colleagues but i want to delve into this. you don't want to say it because it's not your job to say it, but what i heard you say was that if it were up to the department, there would be a trash can at bus stops and schools. and that's because you're not convinced that additional trash

cans actually make the streets cleaner. >> right. it's got to be a balance. so they need to be in areas where there is foot traffic, where people maybe have to-go containers they're throwing away. they're not intended to be a catch-all for everybody's garbage. they're intended to be for newspapers and to-go cups and things like that. so that's why the city has public trash cans. for small items of litter to be collect. often when we have trash cans everywhere and when we have dense neighborhoods that don't have adequate garbage service, they become dumping grounds and make the neighborhood more dirty and that's what we've seen over the last years. >> we have an intention what the department believes is the backt practise and what the city has represented by elected officials think we want, which is more trash cans. and that leads to this incoherent put them in, take

them out, respond to officials demanding another one or responding to those taken out. >> i agree with supervisor hainye. that doesn't sound like a sensible way of managing a trash can policy. but i also think, you know, it's important to kind of delve best practises and is a trash can on every corner. intuitively, that would seamless trash on the sidewalk. you're saying -- i hear you saying there's a counterintuitive argument saying that doesn't lead to less trash on the sidewalks and seems the need to be hashed through. and the removal and was that driven by the new administration trying to remove trash from sidewalks? and did it have a positive impact on that? and what happens when a trash can goes in? does that make that area necessarily get worse?

so i would be interested in all of that. and then when you say big bellies -- supervisor hain earthquakes waey wassay it and e expensive are they? >> you pay monthly and if we did big belly for all of the cities, 3500 cans, it would be something like $7 million a year in rental fees. >> because we don't just buy them? >> well, the last time we looked into it, you did not have the option to buy them. you had to rent them, but that may no longer be true. i think oewd is here and they have more knowledge. since we don't deal with them directly, i don't have that information. >> is that the same with the pell. >> the pell cans you can buy which is one of the reasons we wanted to pilot those versus the big bellies and they are also much more expensive than the standard can. i think that they are something

like $6,300 to purchase. >> i would presume that the vandalism issues, you know, big bellies affect pells, so are we see them get ripped out? >> so far it's been pretty good. i think about a year that we'vee had them out. we had 15 and we installed 15 in supervisor stephanie's district. >> well, well, well. [ laughter ] >> she paid for it. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> so of the 15 we had, we had one act of severe vandalism and amounts of graffiti on them, as well. so it hasn't been too band. >> bad. also, we put them mostly in u.n.

plaza where we have staff constantly to keep an eye on them. so when they're in the wild, they might be less likely to have somebody keeping an eye on them. >> ok, thank you. >> i don't think we should be making this on where they are. there may be people using these and they're punished as a result of a handful of folks putting out by those city cans. i don't understand the logic of it, because is the logic of it that we didn't have that can there, that people wouldn't illegally dump? >> my sense from living in one of these neighborhoods, where there is a lot of trash sometimes put next to city cans

is people would put them on the sidewalk or they would put them next to somebody's recology bin or put them on the corner. so i don't think that having city cans is the cause of illegal dumping. and certainly, especially, when you don't have enough, the cans that are out there intend to look like they're part of the problem. but part of that is that they only have one and hardly any others and that ends up being the one place people are putting the things. but i don't think the cans themselves are causing the illegal dumping. i don't think that it stops it when you take them away, that this stuff is put somewhere else. and so, i do continue to think that, you know, we need some better metrics and standard practises here on where these should go and it doesn't make sense for them to be pulled away and put out based on complaints and things. that doesn't seem to me how we should organize a city policy.

and you might put one out one year and the next year, you take it away and then you put it back. based on who called you that month. i mean, that's completely unreasonable in my view. lastly on the new design, you said we'll have the civic part. what is the actual timeline and what would it look like to put out an entire new design? are we talking about -- you said it tooktin year took ten years e concrete ones. are we talking about we wouldn't have these new ones out based on the basic designs until 2030. >> we've been rolling out the renaissance cans for ten years and for a new can, we can start in an area, like your district that is seeing a bigger need. so we could be -- it would definitely take a number of areas. there's a lot of cans to

replace, depending how much funding we receive to do it. if we got a big push and big chunk of money, we could do it quickly. so it is definitely up in the air. but we could do it, potentially, in fewer than ten years. >> i do think it is interesting -- and there are a number of cb ds here -- they are choosing to put out the big-belly style regularly and they're experiencing positive feedback and a strong demand for that. and so they're doubling and tripling down on that. i think we have this growing -- >> we're supportive of that and we're supportive of the cbd having the big bellies because they are able to give them a level of service and maintenance. they have community ambassadors that are walking around and scrubbing off the graffiti, keeping them clean, making sure people don't jam stuff into the hopper so it gets stuck. but in areas that we have looked at for city-wide roll-outs, it's

been tough to keep up with that level of maintenance. so we're very supportive. we think it's good. it just seems that if we continue at this rate we've seen in the last couple of years and we have hundreds and hundreds in the next couple of years of the big bellies, that's oewd cbd thing but becoming a central part of how we deal with trash in the city and yet dbw is opts out of that. it seems to be, especially as it grows, to become a bigger problem i woul.

i would love to see a standard practise and the ones in areas where we have a lot of problems with them broken open, because they are pulling trash right out and those are spilled over and on top of that, you walk around the neighborhood and see these broken everywhere. that leads to a lot of cynicism and frustration with our ability as a city to deliver basic services. supervisor stephanie. >> what is the response time to a broken door, let's say, in a commercial district? >> i do have that. so overflowing cans two hours and damaged trash can is three days. we try to get to it faster but that's the average, yeah. >> thank you, jeremy. i appreciate. are you good?

i'm going to ask now if recology will come up? i believe john porter, the vice president and group manager of recology san francisco will be presenting. >> thank you. >> i had a power point. >> good morning, supervisors and thank you for opportunity to speak to you today about the topics that supervisor hainey had mentioned. we're covering city services, waste, city cans and so, just briefly, recology, we've been working in san francisco for nearly 100 years and we have over 150 customers in the city, including the city cans that we're collecting everyday and we

have operations running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. there are numerous cbds here today and this is just a subset of our many community partners that we work with every single day in keeping san francisco clean. we focus kind of on the tenderloin area since my colleague, operation supervisor karim saber will be talking about a pilot that we're running in supervisor hainey's district. city can collection, every city can is touched at least two times a day and the first pass is collected by our traditional trash collection routes which service residential and commercial customers throughout the city. second pass is performed by a dedicated city can collection route. and then, based on demand, city cans can be collected three or up to four times a day, depending on the situation. we also meet with the department of public works weekly to talk

about cans that have had overflow conditions nume numeros times in the past and discuss whether or not it makes sense to increase the frequency of the can or the timing of our collection, meaning if there's a high-traffic area because the school lets out at a certain time, it may make sense to make sure that cab i can is collected before the school lets out. we're awaiting that program that jeremy referenced, the sensors in the can and we're hopeful that nord sense technology will unable us to proactively manage our collection times and also potentially dynamically route our collections so that we can predict when a can can is overflowing and we can get that before that occurs. the picture here is frank hansen, recognised by the board of supervisors for the efforts in the city of san francisco. and in addition, we perform city can repairs on the concrete can,

the can on the left, which is referred to as the barney rubble can. so those doors are repaired within 24 hours on business da days. the concrete cans, we replace the liners which is that green garbage can you see inserted in the receptacle there. cart, recovery and replacement, we get around 47 missing carts a day in san francisco and we pick up around 22 missing -- sorry, abandoned carts per day in san francisco. this is, obviously, a very difficult task because when customers go out their recycling and trash or composting can, they don't have a place to put their material. needless to say, very anxious

about getting it back. so we do our best to get that can back to them within one collection week, before their next collection so they have an opportunity to get their service and we're proud of that service that we provide our customers and lastly, we know that in most cases, these missing or abandoned carts are not the responsibility of the customers and so this service is provided free of charge. i will talk about the clean-street cart. this is a san francisco specific cart that was designed by our vendor toter. this cart was, you know, created out of a necessity and we have a lot of people that will rummage through the cans, also. san francisco is a hilly place, a windy place and material can get on the street. so everything we can do to prevent them, we've been working on and the product that you'll see here today, the one on your

right is a traditional locking container. this locking container comes at a charge to our customers on a monthly basis. it also requires our customers to maintain a key, as well as our drivers which, you know, is an inconvenience. lastly, this particular master lock has become ubiquitous and sometimes they're able to gain access. i'll step away from the microphone momentarily to show you this particular lid. as you can see, that lid is not rigid and allow someone to reach in. in addition, the hinge on the back, when people want to tamper with this cart, they'll saw the hinge off and be able to gain access to the cart that way. whereas in the new revised cart, we have a more rigid lid.

in addition, this does not allow our drivers to maintain a key. once the driver locks it, the only way this car will open is when the cart is serviced, with an exception of someone making efforts to get inside. this is not a service since we don't need to maintain that key. it's more robust in terms of its design and its ability to prevent people from gaining access. now i'm going to anticipate you'll have several questions about this. before i take questions, i would love to give karim saber an opportunity to talk about the pilot program in the tenderloin.

i asked him to speak today because i thought it would be disingenuous for me to take credit for all of his hard work. so he is the expert working with the customers every single day. what i'll do now is turn it over to karim and come back to see to you have any questions for me. >> great, thank you. >> thank you. so john touched on these. we call them the clean-street's carts and work with a manufacturer to meet the specific needs of sanfrancisco residents. so just to go over a few of the points again. they're much more heavy-duty, steel enforced hinges so they can't be cut off. it has the built-in mechanism rather than the separate lock and sometimes customers forget to lock them on and so this is more secure. it's sealed all around and even if it's knocked over on to the street, the contents of the cart

won't spill out. and then just to talk about how it's withi been saving our custs money since our drivers don't need a key. in 40 or so customers, we've been able to save them over $4,000 a month. it's a substantial savings to them and saves drivers a lot of team to unlock it and relock it again. so far we've had a lot of success with these and we've been speaking with the customers to get feedback with them and these are the ones in the tenderloin and they do a good job of keeping the area clean. the number one question that i get when speaking with customers is, when will we roll these out to the black carts, as well. no issues with anyone getting into them. we haven't had any in the tenderloin lost. we've been doing well with them. this, in conjunction with our other project that we're doing, the time collection in the tenderloin, has been -- we've been seeing really positive

results. the streets have looked a lot cleaner. so what we've done is we have switched our tenderloin drivers from switching at night at 7:00 p.m. until morning collection time so the carts aren't out on the street all night. we've given customers a two-to three-hour window. we know when they'll be there and we would like them to come out at the beginning and then have the opportunity to bring them back inside once they are serviced. we started this on december 16th and i've been reaching out and working with customers to make sure they're aware of the time window but also that the window is working for them. we have had to make some adjustments. for example, the tenderloin housing clinic, the elk hotel on eddie street. they're janitors come in at 8:0. we sequenced the driver's routes to make sure they would arrive at that location at 8:30 so they don't have to have it out right at the beginning of the 7:30 window. i'm in the streets everyday

speaking with customers, collecting data, taking pictures. we're very hopeful and we've already seen a lot of impacts and cleanliness in the tenderloin and every week as we work with the customers and get them to be aware of the time windows and help tweak it so their carts are not on the streets all night, we think we'll see more positive results, as well. >> thanks, karim. >> so, first of all, thank you for being respond s.u.vive. i know this design and the concept around the pick-ups was reformed by what you're seeing out there and heard from folks out there doing the work but also from customers and i just really want to appreciate you all for being innovative, for really trying to solve this problem and i do think that what has been put forward in this

pilot program in the tenderloin has already had lots of great feedback, is really designed to address the issue and, so, i appreciate all of you and noel, who has been a great person on it. the main thing i have around it, what we're hearing, when do we get them to the other types of cans, the black cans, in partly particular and when will they be expanded. that's the main question and what will it take to get there, what's the timeline? because i just think they are really addressing one of the bug problem is them being broken or taken away. these are much harder to take away. >> this is a pilot and we like

doing these as a test. the reason is these are a capitol investment. these are more expensive than the locking container for the reasons we described. also, the pilot programs have been high touch. so in the hayes valley and tenderloin, supervisors have been going door to door, working with the customers, explaining to them how the locking mechanism works and how to lock the container, making sure the lids are entirely closed and ensuring that they know about their hours of collection. and that approach is a little different to scale, as you can imagine. we just don't have the number of supervisors to do that. but we do have a thousand additional containers. first pilot was 50. the second pilot was 100. now we have 1,000 additional containers to roll out into commercial corridors. and high traffic areas where traditionally you see more litter. and we're currently work on a

plan that, i think, makes the most sense. based on the current design of the can. so this particular can is actually a little too wide for most service entrances and so we need to find an area where it will fit. the mission district, in particular, they have narrow doors is this can may not work for that area and we're working with the area to make a more narrow version to work across sanfrancisco. so we're in the process of identifying the next area. i think we're leaning towards market, mid-market area, market street, mission street, that corridor, just because it may work best in that area at first. [ laughter ] >> i know you'll vote for that. your colleagues may disagree. but i can promise you we'll continue pushing this. so i hope by the end of february, all 1,000 cans will be delivered and then the vendor has promised us april delivery

on the revised version with a narrower base so that will work in most districts. >> that is just the blue ones? >> this is blue for now and maybe i'll talk about why blue. this is the area where we see the most tavernerring. tamperin. a lot of paper and that will fly away once the lid has been opened. whereas compost is heavier. also, people that are scavaging are looking for cash redemption value or crv, aluminum cans, plastic bottled, et cetera, and so by kind of containing that material, keeping that material in the cart, we prevent a lot of litter, as well. there is a plan, if this is successful, to expand it to the trash cart. i don't believe there will be a need for an organic composting cart but we'll reassess. we're trying to be flexible and work with the city on what makes

the most sense. >> i just would say that it does seem to be to be a need on the black ones. you know, as you said, often these are gone through because people are taking, for the recyclables, but as that suggests, they're taking the things, in many cases. as the black ones and things, if they're opened up and such, it's litter and trash. so i mean, i'm sure that's something we're seeing and thinking about and iterating on. supervisor stephanie. >> thank you. i just want to make sure i understand how the smart lock works. if recology doesn't have a key -- i don't understand how it works. >> the action of the truck listing the cart will unlock the lid. we like to keep our trash magic secret. [ laughter ] >> why wouldn't we do that on all of them, then?

>> well, because we just thought of it not too long ago. [ laughter ] because i would say a lock like this has been out for awhile. really gotten the pressure from the city, seeing the need of this really inspired us to make it work for san francisco. so need, necessity creates innovation and that's how we got to where we are. >> thank you. >> dumpsters, we have a lot of issues with dumpsters, as well. they're obviously already fortified but for some reason some of them are regularly opened up and stuff taken all out and in certain areas, i know market and south of market area, southbeach, it can be a huge issue when you have dumpsters there that are constantly pulled

every which way and how will we find a similarly, innovative smart solution to stop that from happening? >> we're working on -- >> karim? [ laughter ] >> it's too early to talk about details, but i think a combination of time collection that maybe a mechanism like this would be something we can work on. >> supervisor stephanie. >> another question i have is about the cardboard that is left out. i did merchant walks in september with our hot team and with sfpd just to take a look at how my commercial corridors looked in the morning executive i know a lot of the businesses put out cardboard from unpacked boxes alongside their trash cans and in the morning, they seemed to be strewn about. i'm wondering if you could talk about the methodology about the

cardboard refuse and if you see we can better that in any way. i know that a lot of times, individuals use some of that as bedding, which is sad in its own rite, but at the same time, it seems to be all over the place in the merchant corridors. >> this is another complex topic but over the last year and a half, china closed its doors to most recyclables, including curbside cardboard. previously that commodity had a value and we would buy it back from independent hollers. the nick-name is like a mosquito fleet. people would come by and collect it out of a commercial corridor and bars and restaurants leave it in front. that commodity went from $140 a ton down to, i think, $30 a ton.

and so now the value of that material no longer exists and these independent hollers are no longer picking under the up the. it came to a head three to six months ago. at that time, we suspended what we call our extra cardboard charge. typically it's around $15 for a container sized load of that cardboard to cover our costs to collect that material. and now in january, we brought it up to $5 and we'll assess how that works. but we realized that we have to work with all of our customers. so we're this the process and i've already contacted roughly 500 customers. we're calling each one, letting them know that over the last three months, university had excess cardboard. if you continue to have excess cardboard or if this is a regular behaviour of your business, it's far more economic caeconomical to subscribe to the

service. because we provide customers a discount for the recycling volume. if you have a one-off extra, there is to discount for your recyclables in that scenario. so we're in the process of contacting everyone across the city that does experience more cardboard so we can get that containerized and so it won't pile up or fall over like you kind of described. >> great. well, thank you again for this and for bringing an en it in anr your staff and partnership and especially to karim. i had the opportunity to go out with them and other folks and i learned a lot in terms of both some of the things that can be done, but also just the extraordinary work that you all do and the tough work. as i mentioned, i know that dpw workers, as well, so thank you again and please extend our gratitude for your hard work and

their hard work but for these great ideas, as well. >> we appreciate it. >> i'm looking forward to the dumpster thing. all right, so i think the last two presenters should be a bit quicker. we have folks from the department. public health, veronica slatingren. >> i'm veronica from the department of public health and i oversee one of the programs i oversee is the solid waste program and i'm here to provide you with some of the overview and also here to answer some of your questions. so we play different roles under this program and one of roles is we are the local enforcement agency certified by the state to enforce state regulations and

that authorizes us to regulate solid waste facilities like the transfer stations in san francisco, as well as the refuse vehicles by recology. so we license the collectors. and also, what we do is we also enforce the local health code in the ordinances, specifically the health code article 6 and what that does is we are authorized to mandate refuse service in residential properties, as well as commercial properties throughout san francisco and if they do not have services, we can initiate service, as well as woralso doenforcement actions te services for places with inadequate services. so that program specifically is called the mandatory refuse service program and we call that mrs.

so for us, a monthly basis, we have a systematic workflow that we work with recology and they refer cases of the mrs cases and mostly, we prioritize places with no refuse service. and a lot of these cases are no services. and roughly around a monthly basis, we get about 60 mrs cases a month. i was asked to provide data. also what happens, outside of the recology referrals, we get complaints directly from the public or 311 and also referrals from the dpw and also our internal agency, the program, the healthy housing program that enforces the nuisance code which is article 11. what they do is they inspect

apartments and hotels and within their article, they also ensure they have adequate services and no nuisance related to garbage. one had to do with illegal turn dumping and when we did our investigation, we couldn't find any evidence so that was abate. when we're saying complaints that we deal with, we're dealing not only about inadequate

services but that this includes mispick-ups, no service, inadequate service, no service to the bins and inadequate dumping. based on the data we have, we didn't really get a trend that there is an inadequate service issue throughout the city, but we have been approached by different sources including the districts, as well as dpw, that this is a problem in the city. around may of 2013, we met specifically about chinatown with dpw and recology and i think they're having similar issues in the tenderloin where this is a mixed-use building with the commercial and residential property and they're not getting the adequate service and we've been approached by supervisor's office in district 11 in july of 2019. what we had decided to do is we needed to get together all of the stakeholders that are

involved in the refuse of service in the city and we form lated a work group in october of 2019, which includes our agency as well as dpw and department of the environment and recology to figure out a long-term solution to this problem. so that's kind of the high-level summary of where we're at and i'm happy to answer any questions you have. >> thank you for the presentation. definitely when i've talked to folks about this -- and it sounds like they've communicated this to you -- that there is a sense of buildings that have mixed use, commercial on the ground floor but has residential above and that are basically registering as a commercial service and so getting inadequate service for the people who lou there and as a ly

may be engaging if illegal dumping because they don't have anywhere to put their trash. >> right. >> so you said there's sort of a growing understanding of that and there might be an opportunity for a longer-term solution or a way to address that. how are we planning to go about doing that, specifically. >> and that's what we're kind of looking at right now. so i think one of the loopholes of this system that we have in place right now, when we say -- when be mandate services with no services, we default them to describe to a minimal level of service and minimal level of service for a residential properties, which are strictly single-family homes or multifamily dwellings, which is apartment, such as apartments, there is a specific minimum requirement that's set by the rate hearing which is set by the department of public works, i

believe, through their rate hearing process. and we default to that. for commercial properties, there is a set minimum, but all they need to do is meet that minimum requirement and if it's not a requirement from the city. in the cases of mixed-use building, we realize that when you have a mixed-use building, a commercial property and on top of that, they have either apartment complexes and then they would not -- recology would allow them to link accounts with the commercial and residential and they will be subject to a commercial rate.

i think that's one of the things we have to look into because i personally don't know the history of how that happened. and i think that seems to be the case. and so, we were trying to figure out a short-term solution, whether or not we have ways to mandate these properties with residential buildings to subscribe to the level of service that normally -- what they would normally be required for the residential apartment complexes. i think we wanted to make sure that we are taking evidence-based approach. so we're collecting a lot of data. so when we were approached for the fortunate issue, we are looking at all of the addresses

that are allegedly having these issues and looking at case by case to see wha what the proper level of service would be. i'm imagining this would be the case in the tenderloin and not having data for tenderloin, i can't speak to it specifically, but let's say that we come up with some formula to say, oh, you have four units and you need to increase your service to that level. but a lot of these places don't have the -- they're not structurally equipped to hold these -- increase their bins and we've realized that there is a program with the department of environment where if they have been waived to have no compost

bins or recycling bins and a lot of these cases were, i think, approved because they didn't have space issues. so we needed to kind of look deeper into that. so through our work group, that's something that we're heavily looking into. and so i think that's all i have for you at this point. >> and the sro buildings, i know, have been a particular issue what sort of service is required there. >> yeah, that's another thing with the sro. sro is considered a commercial building and not a residential. so what would make, i think, our job a lot easier is if there was a policy, set policy standard, you know, through the rate-hearing process. if we redefine sros and they are required to have a certain level

of garbage service, then it will make our job easier to mandate. but because that's not set in place, what we have to do is we have to work with these cases, case-by-case individually and we'll have to have our investigator go out there and correct the assessment and work with recology and see what will be the adequate service level based on their history and then we will also have to look at space issues and see whether they can accommodate it. we can't have a solution if it's not practical for them. >> thank you, appreciate it. so our last presenter, we have jorge rebus from oawd.

>> i have a short power point. good morning, supervisors. i'm with the office of economic and workforce development and i'm here to talk briefly about our pilot program. this pilot program is administered in partnership with the fix-it team. we have received funding for the past two fiscal years. we normally solicit proposals to a former rfp process which our community base will respond to that rfp and make those awards. the mayor's fix-it team coordinates closely with the cbo that receive that award and the smart trash can company, most cases have been big valley and recology and related departments. they administer between the city

and cbo. so the first time we received funding was in 1819. as you can see, we highlighted that it was an investment of a little over $160,000 which allowed us to pay for the installment and first year lease of 49 cans. four will be installed this year. you can see the list that were awarded with those resources. and in 1920, we received more resources. they added back 460. the 410 will allow us to install 56 cans and pay for the second-year lease of the previously funded trash cans. and with the add-back, we'll be able to pay for the installment of the first year of 52 new cans. we recently made awards for those resources and below are

listed the cbos that were awarded. most of the time, the awardees have been cbds, but we are working with them closely with two merchant associations and actually, the north beach citizens in north beach to help install these big valley trash cans. here are some preliminary findings. the data sources, 311 information, working closely with our fix-it team, as you can see, the locations where these cans have been installed, we've seen a reduction in calls for overflowing of trash cans or the elimination of calls completely for service at those sites. some things to highlight in the tenderloin cbd, big bellies, over the past 17 months, close to 20,000 gallons of water have been -- sorry, trash has been collected and the average volume is about 231 gallons a month.

and the highest performing is turk and jones. and just quickly, some observations, highlights, we are noticing we need a strong community-based partner. in this particular model, it has the capacity to operate and work very closely with the big valley company to maintain those trash cans. and the other lesson, we need ongoing funding to continue this pilot. the funding right now allows for the installation in one or two-year lease. leasely normally go one or two years and we've invited some of the cbds to share their underground experiences and ongoing maintenance and i they e here if you have particular questions. that's it for me today and i'm available for questions, as

well. >> so let's open up this up for public comment. i will remind people that public comment is two minutes. if you have written remarks, leave them with the clerk and we ask people try to avoid repetition to previous statements and you should not applaud or boo for things that you like or don't like. >> good morning, and thank you for calling this hearing. thank you supervisor for acknowledging the work that all of the workers do everyday to keep our districts clean. it's tough to see in the media, you know, all of the criticism and they work hard so thank you for that acknowledgement. i was asked to come and talk about the big bellies in particular. quick history, back in 2013,

some of our staff did research into best practises on how to keep our districts cleaner, particularly around trash management and garbage receptacles. big belly rised to the top. so we did a pilot in 2016 with five cans. and we received incredible feedback, positive feedback from our businesses.

the locks, we had to change them bicycle locks and they're stealing our cigarette containers for some reason, the cigarettes and containers and we chained those down and that's helped. >> so you get a 30-second warning, but we ask that you use that time to wrap up so that when the final buzzer goes, you're ready. >> thanks for the opportunity to speak.

>> we where picking up trash from city cans and we were looking at solutions for that. we also noticed that a lot of folks are pul pilfering out of y cans. so in 2017, we decided after some research to go ahead and invest in big belly cans so we did a pilot of nine cans at that particular time and we received very positive feedback from the community. the units are contained. what we like, they are pilfer proof as well as leak proof. we had a problem of staining around city cans. what eve learne we've learned, l dig and there will be coffee cups or soda cups and they'll empty them out. in the big bellies, we noticed they're cleaner because there's to leakage or opportunity to do

that. they're smart. we've talked about that, about picking them up when they're full or becoming full. and because we've had some good positive feedback, we expanded the number of cans in the neighborhood to 22. we installed 13 more as a result of the grants and in apri in ap. we had one taken out by a car and it was destroyed by a driver. we have had some challenges with maintenance issues. vandalism such as graffiti which is not a big deal because we have teams to take care of it. we've had breaking locks and we replaced the locks. we had one of the solar panels stolen. so they're not maintenance free but we've been able to handle that and we appreciate the city's efforts in looking at this. we think this is a good model. >> thank you, next speaker.

>> good afternoon. i'm the executive director of the community benefit district. as my colleagues have spoken, the benefits of the big bellies in japan town has been great and we've been working closely with dpw, recology. i hope to continue that from here on out. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i'm garrett mitchell and i run the clean and say program. i first want to say thank you to supervisor hainey and to

recology for being good partners to get this implemented, as well as the fix-it team. i just want to show my support for these cans. i think the two most important issues that we faced was overflow. there's a presentation by public works that provided some service staff on calls to 311. one of the things not on this is the amount of overflow stats that cbds collect. our data does not go into the 311 system. we end up topping trash cans everyday and that doesn't go to the city data. so these big bellies allow us to be able to have a secure receptacle that's not being able to be broken into. one of the other things, i know the supervisor mentioned dumpster locks and i tweeted out a picture yesterday of someone who broke into a dumpster and littered the sidewalk with trash. one of the issues is recolgoy

comes and can't collect the crash. it would be great for a requirement for commercial buildings to have locks on dumpsters. there's not enough staff to perform that enforcement. we can provide that information to the customer, but without an enforcement mechanism, there's not any way to make them change. that's all. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. good morning, supervisors. i'm tracy everwine, on behalf of thive vic cbd. i wanted to say on the matter of cans, the big bellies have been the most transformative thing

for our district. we need cans that do not leak, that are much let's easy to break into and we really appreciate the curb appeal of the big bellies we admire union square cbd's program to secure sponsorships on the cans. so we hope to do more of that to afford more cans going forward, but right now, they have our logo emblazenned on them and helps to enhance the look of the district overall. we have less than 20 cans both in midmarket and civic center. we have the mayor's fix-it team and the community challenge team. so thank you very much and we hope you will continue your support so we can have more in the future years and we are also taking on much of the maintenance of the cans and budgeting for that annually. with regard to large debris, we need exces access to faster picp

and drop-off points. it's important to get mattresses off our streets and thick thingd as weapons or things to break into cars or homes. thank you for your support. >> thank you. next speaker. >> there's someone named frank picking up city cans and we appreciate our city partners and we especially applaud the efforts of recology for the efforts. thank you for the new toters. we're excited to hear the public works is working on a new city can but we would urge public works to make it a design requirement to prevent trash

being pulled out of the cans. we spent a lot of the resources picking up trash two times or three times as people pull the trash out of the cans and spread it around. that's one of the things people like the most is they're fully enclosed and tamper proofed. they have been respected under incredibly difficult circumstances with minimal vandalism so far and i would note that although it is true the lease terms on the initial few cans were $200 a month, in negotiations about rolling out a larger quantity, we're discussing numbers closer to half that amount and i think there is space as we lease more cans to get a much better deal. we look forward to working with recology to think about tools to integrate our big bellies with their systems.

>> there are related garbage

collection fees and the garbage men were happy they didn't have to leave the curb site to withdraw with the nearly empty trash cans and the billing office wasn't particularly upset either. they were flexible. however, eight months later, it was adopted city-wide with the practise on the peninsula and the garbage bill returned to the normal rate, unfortunately. i wanted to comment that there are tons of mailboxes that can translate into trash receptacles with intrusion and should i carry advertisement. they needn't look so dumpy. they have that in vienna, for example. i've already expressed my views regarding public access to something i've requested, the periodic placement of debris boxes and neighborhoods on a rotating bases, free of charge for public use to the

neighborhoods. because when people place household items such as sofas in front of their property, the cushions often end up in the underpasses, for example, going into the individual household. also, is it for the state to shift deposit returns on recyclables such as bottles away from consumers and towards recyclables to subsidize the costs since the bottles have little recyclable value. so it would serve as an added inu incentive. added incentive. >> any other people like to speak? seeing none, public item is closed. >> thank you, chair and supervisor and thank you to all of the departments who are here and presented and for your hard work and to recology, as well. i want to acknowledge all of the cbds who are here for your

incredible work and for sharing what you're seeing on the ground. you're seeing firsthand. there were potential issues that there have been concerns related to them and i think they should take them in terms of how we make policy in making sure we are continuing to extend those in areas where there's a high need. i want to reiterate a couple things in closing. i want to thank honey m mahogany in pulling this together. i believe we need a clear plan of action and more standardized policies when it comes to city cans. it does not make sense to me that we take away public trash

cans and pull them out based on requests and in some cases, pulling them and pulling out and back and forth multiple times over the course of a few years. this is unpredictable for residentingresidents and busine. these are public goods and we need to make sure people have the opportunity to do the right thing and throw their items away in trash in high traffic areas where there's people walking around in my district and i'm sure in parts of district eight, we should have many more public cans in my area. i would like to see them closer to every corner. we need trash cans that work and both the cement cans and metal renaissance cans are working and overflowing and we have access to technology that will help, but also in high-need's areas, we need entirely different can. we either need to fortify them strongly or we need big belly

style containment cans or we need this new design and need it sooner than ten years from now. we also need to expand the recology bins to areas where we have the needs and i appreciate the commitment for the thousand and that will be very much welcomed by folks. i hope we can extend that to the black bins, as well. i'm looking forward to more solutions for dumpsters, because, obviously, what is happening out there right now is not working. and then lastly, a way to collect and create clear policies around regulation and enforcement of adequate trash pick-up requirements for buildings similar to how we're being proactive about the type of cans out there is we should be proactive around illegal dumping, making sure people have adequate service and making sure when there is regular, illegal dumping, we're following up, doing enforcement and tracking who's doing that and appreciating the folks from public folks sharing they have a particular attention to this issue of mixed-use buildings

with commercial and residential. with that, trash has been a problem for -- not a problem, but a reality for a long time and i think -- i hope we can continue to be innovative, to iterate, to be smarter because i can speak to the realities in the district that i represent. this is a huge issue and a huge concern and affects people's quality of life and you all know that because you live this everyday and so whatever we can do to be preventative, to be proactive and to work together to address these challenges, i hope we can do that. so thank you all for being a part of this hearing and thank you to the committee for hosting it. anything else. >> thank you, supervisor, for calling this hearing. it's very needed and very important and, you know, obviously, it's clear to this committee, i believe, that this big belly trash can's work and i want to thank everybody for coming out and letting us know

how they're working in your cbd. i want to say that i don't think we should be investing in trash cans going in the city that don't work. that we don't take a look at making sure we are investing in either the pell cans or the big belly cans. we've heard the evidence that they work. and it's one of the reasons why half the pellcans in the city are in my district because i know they work and i don't want cans that can be easily pilfered where we have trash strewn about our streets. if there's evidence out there that works, that's what we should invest in. thank you for calling the hearing and thank you everyone who came to testify. i think we learned a lot and hopefully the investments we make going forward reflect what we heard today. >> thank you, vice chair. is it your desire we continue this or file it?

>> have it heard and filed? >> yes. >> i move that we do that and take that without objection. mr. clerk, do we have any more items before us today? >> no further business. >> well, then we are adjourned. >> thank you. is -- >> our united states constitution requires every ten

years that america counts every human being in the united states, which is incredibly important for many reasons. it's important for preliminary representation because if -- political representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. it's important for san francisco because if we don't have all of the people in our city, if we don't have all of the folks in california, california and san francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. >> it's really important to the city of san francisco that the federal government gets the count right, so we've created count sf to motivate all -- sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census.

>> for the immigrant community, a lot of people aren't sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u.s. citizens or whether it's something for anybody who's in the yunited states, and it is something for everybody. census counts the entire population. >> we've given out $2 million to over 30 community-based organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. we've also partnered with the public libraries here in the city and also the public schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and we've

initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. because of the language issues that many chinese community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. >> so it's really important that communities like bayview-hunters point participate because in the past, they've been under counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it wasn't enough. >> we're going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the

tenderloin. you know, any one of our given blocks, there's 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u.n. of san francisco. so it's -- our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. >> you go on-line and do the census. it's available in 13 languages, and you don't need anything. it's based on household. you put in your address and answer nine simple questions. how many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. your name, your age, your race, your gender. >> everybody is $2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and medical care. >> all of the residents in the city and county of san francisco need to be counted in census 2020. if you're not counted, then your community is underrepresented and will be

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>> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and transportation committee for today, monday, january 13th, 2020. our first land use committee meeting of the new year. i am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by my right vice-chair supervisor safai and for his first meeting of the land use committee, our nuecesesnewestmember, dean pres. also another first, our new deputy city attorney to the board of supervisors anne pearson is joining us for her

first sole solo meeting. our kirk is erika major. do you have any announcements? >> silence all cellphones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards ex copies of any documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. they will appear on the january 28th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. could you please read the first item? >> item number 1 is the health code to authorizes the director of department of public-health to allow an existing medical cannabis dispensary to operate under that permit at a new location provided the permit'. >> thank you, this ordinance is sponsored by our former committee member, matt haney, and on supervisor haney's

behalf, if you want to speak to that that would be great. if if we have any quiz for them. the floor yours. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. i'm speaking on behalf of the supervisor haney. our office introduced this ordinance to amend the health code allowing for some limited for cannabis dispensaries under the article 33 permit. the main reason our office is taken this on we saw an opportunity to support smile business and what we continue to see in san francisco is that cannabis businesses are