>> good evening. this is a meeting of the san francisco commission on the environment. the date is tuesday, march 22nd. the time is 5:04p.m. the ringing in use of cellphones, pagers and similar devices are prohibited. the chair may order the removal of anyone using a phone or similar device. the ringing of cell phone with happen virtually. turn your devices off. due to the covid-19 health

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if anyone else is speaking, i cannot hear you. >> dierdra, can you hear us? can you confirm if you can hear us, please. >> yes, we hear you now. >> ok. >> we can start with covid announcements, is that a good place to start? >> due to the covid-19 health emergency, and to protect commissioners, department staff and members of the public, commissioners and the department staff may participate in the meeting remotely. this is pursuant to the state wide stay-at-home order and all proceeding and proceeding local state and federal orders

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>> clerk: we have a quorum. >> thank you, kyle and next agenda item, please. >> clerk: the next agenda item is review and vote on whether to approve resolution files 2022-02-0ce resolution making findings to allow tell conference meetings under code section 54953e. the speaker is kyle wayneer commissioner affairs officer and the document is resolution file 2022-02-coe this item is for discussion and action. the commission will discuss and consider adoption of a resolution making findings that the government code section 54953e requires in order to allow the commission to hold meetings renotely as currently required under local law without complying with certain brown act requirements. >> thank you, kyle. commissioners, any discussion on this item?

do i hear a motion to a post resolution? >> so moved. >> a motion. is there a second. >> second. >> second from commissioner hunter and is there any discussion or changes beyond this motion? >> finance let's open this up for public comment, please. >> we will begin public comment here in the room. once in-person comments have concluded, we will proceed to remote public comment. are there any members of the public who are present in the room today who wish to speak? if so, please come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. are there any other members of the public wishing to speak? seeing none. we will proceed to remote public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment press star 3 to be added to the queue.

those already on hold in the queue, wait until it is your turn to speak. >> give me a moment as i check the economy. >> we have a caller in the queue. go ahead and start the timer. for three minutes. go ahead, caller. >> this is comment on this agenda item. >> yes.

>> caller, you are on mute. there are no callers in the queue. >> clerk: if there are no remaining caller in the queue and hearing no public comment on this discussion, call the roll. [roll call vote] >> motion passes. >> the next item is the president welcome and this item

is for discussion. >> thank you, kyle. and good evening, everyone. the commission on the environment first of all acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestorial homeland of the san francisco peninsula and we recognize that the they under the connectedness of all things and maintained harmony with nature for millennia and we honor the ramaytush oholone people as the indigenous protectors of the land and in accordance with the traditions the ramaytush oholone have never ceded as well as for all people who's reside in their traditional ter tier. we recognize that we benefit from living and work on their traditional homeland as you know invited guests we have their sovereign rights as first peoples and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush oholone community as

environmentals we must embrace indigenous knowledge and how we care for san francisco and all its people. thank you for your attention during this important acknowledgment and this is our first in-person commission meeting since january 2020. we are excited to be here, commissioners. department staff, and members of the public who could join us in city hall tonight, it is a pleasure to be with you. commissioner walt is participating motelly and we're happy to have her as well and the format will be different from both previous in-person and virtual meetings and this is the hybrid meeting as you are know with in-person and virtual components and the commission zoosing new technology and meeting format is new to us and i ask for your patients as we go through it together and we will come through the pandemic. thank you to everyone who a

special thank you to sfgovtv and city hall media services, and kyle and i also want to thank our city attorney sarah crawley joining us tonight for our return to in-person meetings. and as i just noted, joining us tonight is our new commission a areas office kyle winier and we're happy to have that on board and let's open up for this item. back to you, kyle. >> you will begin public comment here in the room. when in-person comment has concluded, we will proceed to remote public comment. are there any members who wish to speak f so speak clearly into the mic. any other members in the room today. seeing none. we will proceed to remote public

comment. members of the public should now dial into 415-655-0001 and the access code is 2458 107 1092. you should have expressed star 3 to be added to the queue. for those on hold wait until it's your turn to speak. do we have any callers in the queue?

thank you, dierdra. >> there are no callers in the queue. >> seeing that there is no public comment, i think we can then move onto the next item. >> the next agenda item is approval minutes of the februarn on the environment meeting. documents and are -- documents are february 7th, 2022 draft submitted this item is for discussion and action.

do i hear a motion to approve the minutes. >> i move to approve. >> there's a motion from commissioner sullivan. a second. >> second from vice president stevenson is there any discussion or changes? skill, let's hope it up for public comment again. >> we will begin with public comment in the room when we have concluded we had proceed to remote public comment. are there any members of the public who are present in the room today who wish to speak? if so, please come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. seeing none, we will proceed to remote public comment. members of the public who wish to make public comment on this item, should dial into 415-655-0001 and the access code is 2485 107 1902.

be sure to press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those already on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until it is your turn to speak. do we have any callers in the queue? >> we have a caller. >> it's david pillpal. i'm not sure that i have my public comment should be prior to the motion because public comment is taken prior to a vote on the same page item what

second line amend the 1932 residential rev not budget and there were some other things that i don't understand the reference on page 3 to joseph joe i believe we were for to joe as just joe and there was some reference on page 4 to public comment or 11 public comments and received if there were specific people that identified themselves by telephone than i think they need to have their names indicated and i believe i spoke on the budget three callers expressed support and it's important names of those

who gave public comment be included in the minutes i think that's about it if i find anything else again, i will communicate that to the new commission affairs officer or charles, if you for listening. >> thank you for your comment. are there any additional callers in the queue. >> please give me a moment to check the queue. >> there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> thank you, kyle. and seeing that there's no more public comment or discussion call the roll. [roll call]

>> excellent the motion passes and kyle next item, please. general public comment. members of the public may center the public on matters with the jurisdiction belbin with public comment here in the room. when in-person comment has concluded, we will proceed to remote public comment. are there any members of the public who are present in the room today who wish to speak? if so come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. seeing none, we will proceed to remote public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment on this

item, should dial in if they have not already 415-655-0001 and the access code is 2485 107 1902. be sure to press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those already on hold in the queue please continue to wait until it is your turn to speak. do we have any callers in the queue? >> give me a moment as i check the queue. >> there is no callers in the queue. >> there's no public comment then. there is one. >> can you hear me now. >> yes, we can. >> david pillpal. to follow-up from the last

meeting, i continued to be concerned about the ballot measure that was placed by the board of supervisors which will appear on the june ballot as proposition f which would substantially amend the 1932 residential collection and disposal cor dinnance and may impact the departments slice of the impound account funds and radically change how it's regulated and rates set in san francisco and i filed an opponent's argument to it which will appear in the voter information pamphlet and i believe the department cannot advocate for or against the measures since it is on the ballot some explanation from the department, some factual analysis and discussion of what it would or may mean i think

would be helpful for the public and you might ask the director to provide that today future meeting and i think it's incredibly important there would be a serious public discussion about this matter in the next two and a half months and i understand that there are already impacts to how our residential and commercial collection is not doing it much good and i'm not sure how the public is being served by that continued scrutiny. he will leave it at that on that issue,. >> thank you for your comment. do we have any other callers in

the queue? >> let me check the queue. >> >> there are no other callers in the queue. >> next item, please. >> clerk: presentation of the commission on the environment and environmental service awards to the san francisco public library accepting the award on behalf of the library and maureen individual ton chief operating officer. this item is for discussion. >> good evening, everyone, it's so good to see everyone here

tonight. it's a real pleasure to present this environmental service award to the san francisco public library and this recognizes those whose work had had an outstanding impact on the environment and the health of our community. we have been leading on environmental action for 20 years. san francisco public library has long practiced zero waste, green purchasing and the use of non toxic supplies as part of its sustainability efforts, the library has installed energy meeters, distributed tens of thousands of led light bulbs and established a seed-lending library. the library's green stacks partnership has also inspired

patrons about greener living for years and events book let's and sustainability resources. the san francisco library hosted 200 environmentally themed events each year and the library has continued to provide on-line programs throughout pandemic and i believe that we have one of our first ever joint meetings of the commission on the environment and the commission on the status of women that was a very historic event. 11 of its 12 branch libraries are lead rated and the historic mission and chinatown branches will be all electric and the new ocean view branch will also be a model of sustainability. these achievementses do not happen by accident. they are passion, commitment and leadership. we have three leaders representing the library tonight.

charles coleman, maureen singleton, chief operating officer, michelle jeffers, chief of community programs and partnerships. the commission is delighted to be able to recognize your leadership. we would not be able to reach the people that we need to reach if it were not with us on this journey. at this point, i'd like to turn this over to director rafael. >> thank you, it feels so good to be here in-person and to see you three here in person in full body not just from the neck up. so, it just feels really good and i want to -- commissioner said everything that you have accomplished and there's an

ethos in the library of trying things out and not being so afraid of failure i don't know if it's because of the books and youth that come through your door that you are just more adventurous than many other departments but that sense of can-do and why not, is so infectious and so gratifying for me has been for all these years and i also just want to say that doesn't stop the library is

saying how can we help and make sure that everyone is part of climate action month so you are our partners and i am so just stepful and that's my colleague so i'm go to ask you the three of you if you would just stand up and receive sean's comments. come closer to sean. >> i'm the manager of development community partnerships and the san francisco i lead the sf environment portion of this col an race and i can't tell you how this one is my favorite parts of my job and i know when they do a lot of it i shouldn't say it but

seriously the sfpl staff or the most creative city staff without a doubt and i should whisper that and they're also really gracious and do you give that in school? maybe it's the result of answering random and obscure questions all day. the most gracious people they're open to anything and yes there's standard stuff we do. let's show a film and have a ban he will and let's give out 150,000led light bulbs and it

would be the san francisco and so the only thing i want to say bays think it got miss translated there are 28 branches now plus the main. >> 27 plus the main. >> 27 plus the main plus book mobile and plus one of the book mobiles and biking around with books how cool is that. every neighborhood in san francisco, most of the languages in san francisco, and who it's

in reimagination is limitless and for their ability to come through and i am honored to be here with my colleagues charles and michelle and you did an amazing job, commissioner and summing up our relationship and our partnership and we're grateful for the continued opportunity to work with the department of environment and take on all the great goose and it's just been a great opportunity to work with you to try things out and it really started with a lot of great work around the green stacks program which also was an opportunity to

partner with our friends at the san francisco public library and to help share the knowledge and the information about greener living and all the opportunities through great programming, look let's and everything that the commissioners said. i just want to take this moment to really not just thank you for this award but for being our partners and continuing to challenge us and call on us to take on different options and opportunities to help take care of our environment. so with that i want to overtime opportunity to charles who is one of your best champions on green cleaning and zero waste at the library and michelle to speak as well. >> thank you, marine. commissioners, thank you so very much. for this expression of your action knowledgement i appreciate this recognition. it could not have been achieved

if not for the support of my senior management, ma maureen, michelle and the team and the awesome support from the office of environment. our montra is that we expect to enjoy our environment and each one do their part, however small it may be for it adds to the bigger picture for all of us. thank you again with your continuing support we will continue pressing forward towards the mark. thank you so very much. >> i feel like everything has yesterday but i'm michelle jeffers and i want to say thank you, leaning in and we're so proud to lean in with you and you reel push us to be.

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san francisco public like. a learning picture.

>> do we need public comment for this item. >> let's go ahead and take public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to speak? if so please come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. are there any other members of the public present today who wish to speak? seeing none. we will proceed to remote public

comment. is members the public should press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those already on hold in the queue, continue to wait until the it's your turn to speak. do we have any callers in the queue? >> give me a moment as i check the queue. we have a caller in the queue. >> i'm assuming you can hear me ok, it's david pillpal i moved from the phone to the computer and i'm juggling two different meetings so i'll have to leave and come back and i want to speak in support of the award recipients as the library several of you indicated has been a long time supporters of the environment and i was going to say it goes back to when the library but i think it actually pre dates louis it really is the

library and all the they do in in everything and across the street from the old apartment office and a little late now but not that far at all the and big supporters and couldn't be more pleased with the three recipients on behalf of the thousand or so staff and the library and main branch. that's all. >> thank you for your comments. do we have any other callers in the queue? >> give me a moment. there nor other callers in the

queue. >> thank you, president. i just want to say that there's one person who isn't here tonight who i really wish was and that's michael lambert. he is at a conference so he is busy but he is such a phenomenal leaders, such a big champion of the environment and of the library when we launched our climate action plan he was there helping us along with all of you so i want to do a shout out to an amazing head of the library. thank you. >> any other discussion? >> seeing none. next item, please. and thank you again to the public library for your service? >> review and vote whether to

approve resolution pile number 2022-03-coe mayor breed electricvehicle and the sponsord debra rafael and debra is sarah owens environmental policy adviser for san francisco london breed and erin star, and energy and clean transportation program manager and the documents are ordinance board of supervisors file number 220036 legislative digest 1 and dropped resolution file number 2022-03-coe this item is for discussion and action. >> can you introduce this item. >> thank you, president ahn.

san francisco is a dense urban environment and 70% of our residents live in multi-family dwellings. we also know that our residents very much prefer to charge at home and we have a conundrum because we have got large number of people who live in multi family units and they don't have access to charging in their garages even if they have a garage and if we're going to decarbonize transportation we have to solve this publicly accessible charging station shortage. it's much easier to build a gas station than a ev charging station in san francisco and the solution is right in front of us in our planning code and so the mayor is sponsoring very wonderful common-sense legislation and i'm thrilled that today we have the mayor's environmental adviser sarah owens, who is absolutely a key partner to our department and

all things leadership and environment and she will present on the mayor's plan along with others who are here. >> hello, good evening, commissioners. thank you director rafael and to members of the public as well. and my name is sarah owens and i am mayor breed's vinal policy adviser and i'm here today as director mentioned to provide an overview of the mayor's proposed legislation to update the san francisco planning code to accelerate permitting of public electric vehicles charging and so next slide, please. it's responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions which are primarily from private vehicles running on fossil fuel and a key strategy is to switch from being car dependent to using sustainable modes of transportation and however, to rapedly reduce eye missions, those car that do remain not ot

road should be zero emission and the conversion is already happening and nearly all major able manufacturers committing to an all electric lineup by 2030 and over the next few years, and when be new and used car markets. for those with access to charging, at home or their workplace, not many of them have no access to home or workplace chargeing and they park their vehicles on the streets. so to convert from fossil fuel to electricity they must have access to convenience and affordable and safe public charging network. next slide, please. so thankfully we already have a really good idea of what that public network needs to look

like and and san francisco needs by 2030 and the green shades if indicate projected ev stock and the sip codes with the darker shades will have higher electric vehicle stocks and vice versa. the number of public level 2 and fast chargers are shown respectively 350dc chargers by 2030 and we have chargers of which 104 of them are fast chargers to clarify on this slide, these numbers in the blue and red circles that we need

another they must and access and particularly for areas that have a lot of multi unit dwellings and next slide. they are experiencing delays and this is because the san planning code and its current form does not allow for these projects. ev charging projects are required to comply with regulations written for gas stations and our planning code does not provide an explicit

category for ev charging locations and these applications require project legallers in the planning department to workout a permitting pathway off and on case by case basis and using planning code provisions designed for gas stations. next slide, please. they are an imperfect fit for ev chargeing and they have limitations more appropriate for dirty fools facility and therefore mayor breed's legislation modernizes san francisco's planning code to expedite the creation of a more robust ev charging network for san francisco residents and businesses and visitors. they have the land from by creating clear zoning pathways and existing ought motive uses

such as gas stations or parking lots and to convert to an ev charging location. specifically, the legislation allows existing auto uses in certain zoning districts to convert to ev charging by right and a by right approval also known as of right approval, can the gold standard of zoning permitting processes and it granted when the development proposal confirms to the zoning and building codes and qualifies for construction.

>> the legislation my public ev charging location and up to one-third of that ev charging location could be dedicated to fleet charging. fleet charging have know retail electric vehicle charging stations that are open to the general public could only be permitted by right and certain pdr with conditional use authorization in downtown commissioner districts and

eastern neighborhoods mixed use districts. throughout the rest of the city, fleet charging as a use would not be permitted. next slide, please. it's going in front of the commission and it will be scheduled by the board of supervisors land use committee and go to the full board of supervisors and if approved the legislation is written to take effect 30 days after the mayor science the ordinance and ev charging providers and other mar, melgar and haney for supporting this ordinance. next slide, please. so in closing we know that evs

are coming and san francisco needs more charging in order to increase adoption and drive downemissions to get ready for 0 charging demand and the billions of dollars from the state and federal government san francisco needs to update our planning codes to accommodate public vehicle charging and we believe this legislation cuts the red tape by defining the location allowing auto by right and informs project developers where to fight them and identifies clear pathways to permitting. passage of this legislation will extend san francisco's public charging network and help us reach our 2040 net-zero emissions goals. last slide, please. thank you for your time and i am joined here this evening by my colleagues erin star at planning and and we would be happy to

take any questions that we may have. >> thank you, there other staff presentations as well. >> no, just available for questions. >> any discussion sorry questions from commissioners? we'll begin there? >> yes. >> we would see the amount of ev charging stations we need to build happen as a result of this change? >> yes, so this change we think will help us get to where we need to go by 2030 but by itself it's not enough to get us to our 2030 goals which is why the department of environment has been working on concurrent

because this legislation is just make it possible but by itself it doesn't, that's a fairly spur the type of adoption that we really need so that's why the state and federal funding allows us to support the creation of additional ev charging locations that's really going to be key for helping us get where we need to go. >> if this passes and changes the code, when will it go into effect? >> they'll sign it and go into effect 30 days after her significant? and then that gives the ev service providers that assurance when they go to the planning commission, and planning department submit their permits they will be treated under the new code. >> yes, commissioner hunter. >> just a quick question about

slide 7 or a series of questions. what percentage of the city is actually zoned for production distribution repair and pdr? >> yes, thank you for the question. i will have my colleague aaron star answer that. >> it's about 5% of the city is pdr. it's small. >> so, we need over 700 charging stations it sounds like. so i'm curious, why did we just chose to limit it to 5% of the city by right when we should be building charging stations throughout the city? >> well, we actually are allowing us throughout city by right if you take an existing garage, our parking lot, gas station or automobile service stations and all of those auto uses can be converted to ev charging without and all i have to do is submit a change of use

and automobile repair. >> i'm going to phrase this question poorly so entertain me here. generally speaking, based off of those dots throughout city could you go over the counter approval for, would there be enough space for us to put 100 charging stations? >> yes, there's a lot of space for it, yes. >> fantastic. thank you. >> you made a great point. and i have additional information to add that ev stations like individual plugs can also be installed as they are right now as an accessory use to a lot of other primary uses so, this when we talk about

ev charging locations here we're really talking about the gas station equivalent for ev charging and this by in means gets in the way of what already exists of a parking lot adding in a few ev charging stations. [applause] [please stand by]

class we asked if this goes through and it passes and becomes law 30 days after the mayor signs, do we expect that there is pent-up demand for this? will organizations actually the asking to put these ez systems in and if so, who is likely to

do that? you must have some sense of talking to stakeholders . is it ev companies, i sort of doubt it's the chevron station that will help so who do we expectwill be the first adopters here ? >> we have heard from a few ev service providers that are watching this legislation because they really do want this change to make it more streamlined, simpler. to be able to look through the process so they are closely tracking it to be able to put in their application once this legislation goes into effect and i wonder if, i don't know if he would have any additional information to add about who we think is taking advantage of it the most and whose been the closest contact with but it really is a lot of the major ev service providers including

folks like ev go. i will turn it over for more detailed . >> i think to add to seras answer i think in addition to charging providers some of the parking garage operators would potentially take advantage of this because as they've seen not their profits but the number of vehicles going to a parking garage decline because of.people working from home more they are looking for ways to supplement this business model so there's ev charging andamenities in addition to ev charging providers,parking garageoperators also stand to benefit . >> thank you . other questions or comments ?

and i also want to actually recognize commissioner wall perhaps. without teams or zoom it'shard because we're not in title format anymore and i don't have the screen up anywhere near me but i'll be happy to see commissioner wall raising her hand . did you have a question commissioner wall? >> i just had a brief comment, thank you president on the comment briefly that i believe this is really an elegant and practical solution to one part of the problem that the city is facing in terms of spurring ev adoption and i am really hopeful that the board of supervisors will pass this and that we will have this kind of regulation on the books, enabling us to move forward to achieve our ambitious goal of spending.

>> any other discussion, comments? i think this is an action item i'll need a motion to move this forward. is there a motion ? >> i move. >> perhaps we can have a motion from commissioner walls and second by vice president stevenson and discussions or changes . if not kyle let's open it up to public comment on this motion. >> we will begin with public comment in the room. once in person, and has concluded we will receive proceed to remote public comment. any members in the roowho wish to speak ?if so please come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic . seeing none we will proceed to remote public comment.

members who wish to make a publiccomment on this item should pressá3 to be added to the queue . for those already on holdplease continue to wait until it is your turn to speak . do we have anycolors in the queue ? >> let me check the queue. there are no colorsin the queue . >> if no other colors in the queue the final comment i would make is i enjoyed the last slide sarah about the child steps contemplating how long of a journeythis will be . you know, and hopefully it's not that many steps. it looked like there was 50 of them but essentially i do see

this as an important first step and i hope commissioners will join me in the vote ahead so please call the role. >>. [roll call vote] >> motion passes, thank you again for your work. goodseeing you . next item please. >> the next item is presentation on measures expected to appear november 8, 2022 general election ballot that would institute six state regulations toreduce plastic waste, tax producers of single-use plastics and fund recycling and environmental programs . this fosters the speakeralexa chavez, policy associate at californians against waste . this item is for discussion .

>> i believe this is for director rafael to introduce this item. >> i am excitedabout this agenda item because i don't know a lot about it myself . so i'm very excited to learn. this is really, truly an educational itemand i'm going to come back to why that's important that i emphasize that . we all know we have serious pollution problems.that's not news to us. a study shows the average person in just a credit card worth of plastic each week. it's horrifying. the numbers that we hear about how much plastic is in the ocean versus sea life and we know that that's plasticis coming from manufactured plastic . it's coming from the use of plastic goods and it's coming from the fact that we just keep generating more and more plastic and that plastic doesn't have anywhere to go.

so while san francisco is a leader on zero waste initiatives including plastics reduction we know that leadership can't stop at our borders . we need statewide solutions. and this november's general election ballot will include a measure that's called the california recycling and plastic pollution reduction ac . and it's thatact we're going to hear about today . going to hear from alexa chavez who is with californiansagainst waste . it's a wonderful nonprofit based in san francisco. we work with them on zero waste initiatives but before alexa begins and explains what's going to be on the ballot i just need toremind the commission about a couple of rules related to presentations on ballot initiatives. this commission like any other city commission cannot take a position on ballot initiatives . therefore tonight we're going to hear a factual presentation.

it's to inform us from alexa about whatthe ballot measure would do . it's aimed at, what the impacts would be but our response needs to be factual in terms of questioning and observation, not anything our opinion on the quality of the initiative. so i'm just going to caution us to make sure we are not advocating to express our position of support or opposition. this is a way topublicly educate ourselves and our listeners about this initiative so with that i'll turnit over to alexa . >> thank you . >> we can hear you. >> should i present onmy own screen ? >> we can now see your slide. >> hello, thank you for that greatintroduction . my name is alexa suarez.

and i will be breaking down explaining to you all california recycling and pollution reduction act. next slide. and just a little bit of intro. we're california safe space, environmental nonprofit and our mission is to protect communities by better elimination of pollution extraction and disposal of naturalresources and we believe in preventing waste and holding producers responsible we've done so much work educating about this ballot measure and we think it's great for california so next slide . and so this ballot measure was certified in the summer of 2021 and will appear in the november 2022 ballot eight months from now. next slide. and this again was a great

introduction on the plastics issue. it's something we cannot keep up with them and this ballot measuretries to adjust that . in fact they're kind of an encompassing the plastics issue in california and training teamsreferred to global analysis . and we feel that if present trends continue by 2050 there will be 12 billion metric tons of plastic in landfills and that amount is 35,000 times the empire state building. in addition to that according to account risk cycle every day californiansdiscard enough plastic to fill more than 200 olympic size swimming pools and that's over 12,000 tons . a report from beyond plastics revealed if plastic were a country it would produce the six most in the world falling

behind china and the united states, india and russia so plastics are something that cannot really be avoided in the future unless we address that now and this ballot measure again aims to do that. next slide. so with the issue of plastics we have a choice. we can do better than plastics. we can discuss stronger regulation among plastics and shift the market away from petrochemicals to make materials that arecompostable and this is a choice that addresses the issue of plastic pollution on all levels . a report produced on behalf of the natural resources defense council by associate back as 2013 revealed california cities towns and taxpayers are shouldering around $428 million per year in costs to stop letter from becoming pollution. that's on environment tourism and economic activity so this is a choice that would hold

producers accountable towards the cost of mitigating plastic pollution. and in asufficient way so next slide . and in summary what the ballot measure does is it would reduce the amount of single-use plastics in california, ensure they are making truly recyclable and compostable and helping fund the state recyclingand construction . next slide. and it does this in two main ways. the first is through regulations and these types of regulations are things that local governments across the state have adopted and are not very hard to achieve and this to accept these regulations would put california on and

even fast-forward with plastic solutions. for example the ban on stone is something that's been passed by local governments, the first one back in 1998 and it does things like standardized labeling and marketing and eventual reuse and improving consumer access to recycling programs and requires transition to reusable recyclablecompostable packaging . and footwear by 2023 and requires to reduce more use packaging by 25 percent . so these regulations are aimed at really letting solid staffing so that our recycling infrastructure in california can keep up with plastics and actually take in the plastics use. next slide. the second big thing about this

ballot measure is that it would be targeting producers up to one point per item or component of packaging based on the net costs for cycling. a good example is capri sunday it has a plastics sleeveon a plastic straw and is attached to a plastic . that would be three cents charge for producing one capri sunday this type of fee is estimated to produce about or bring in about 110 $2 billion annually. the ballot measure is broken into three differentfundings which would be 30 percent for natural resources and that would go towards restoration and protection of the states waterways . and funding in part 50 percent of that, it would go towards investing and recycling, composting and reuse

infrastructure as well as funding for regenerative funding processes and food waste prevention and 20 percent would be going to local government and that would be towards protecting local drinking water, preventing toxic pollution and improving local recycling and composting programs and providing education and outreach and this is great because it holds producers responsible for those costs of plastic pollution and it gives these efforts continual annual funding. a lot of times in thebudget it's kind of short in california. but it's often times the first to get cut off . and we constantly have to be funding infrastructure in california as well as 33 recently have gone into effect so this funding could go towards funding those efforts across california which pays for itself. next slide.

next slide. >> next slideplease . just one moment, thank you for yourpatience . just having a minortechnical issue, thank you for your patience . >> this is a list of examples of what these funds will support. it can help keep our parks and openspaces healthy and the climate change .

it can go towards healthy communities that have been disproportionatelyimpacted by toxics to cover economies making it possible for farmers to grow more nutrition . without more cost to consumers. so this again holds producers accountable and puts these funds towards those issues of plastic pollution that asof right now falls on california taxpayers . next slide. >> just waiting for the next slide toload . >> i guess that's my breakdown of the ballot measure. if you'd like to email me or call mei'm willing to take any

more questions . to the best of my ability. >> thank you alexa. any clarifying questions from other commissioners on the ballot measure ? >> thank you foryour presentation. i wanted to ask how did the ballot initiative get on the ballot ? >> so back in the logistical question is back in 2020 the legislature had just failed to pass the legislation which now currently is known as b 54 which tackles these same issues and a lot of that was because of opposing it. that barrier got a lot of public attention and environmental groups wanted to run with that public attention and bring it to the public to be able to pass this legislation but covid hit and the ballot measure was granted

anextension to the 2022 ballot which is why we are here now . the reason we're bringing this to the people again is because we realize the public is beyond the legislature with these issues and it's become popular and people behind the ballot want to make sure we go through it even after covid in californiawhere a big state . it takes paid petition gatherers to get somethinglike this on the ballot. who were the major supporters ? >> the major supporters, i was not around when they were signature gathering. i can't say for myself but i'm pretty sure itwas environmental groups that wanted to see this on the ballot measure >> thank you and last question . is this ballot initiative needs

to be changed in the future how doesthat work ? do we have to go back to the voters or is there a way that legislature or others could amend ? >> i would say granting ability to start regulations allows this ballot measure to be flexible. and that the ballot measure gives them this kind of list of things that need to be done and calgary cycle as of the ready to hash down what regulations to put in place that will make those things happen. and in terms of thefunding , the awarding is broad to allow the major conservancy is one of the big profits that arehelping us pass this ballot measure . as an actual resource, i have to say calgary cycle for example that funding is up to

them and it allows flexibility for them to continue to adjust issues as they change as well as the local government one. that's kind of a list of things that need to beaddressed but i doesn't hold it to such a specific way where it might not work in the future . that kind offunding is continual. there's no need to change with plastic pollution they're able to kind of adapt to that . >> thanks very much. other commissioner comments, questions ? yes, director. >> thank you so much alexa. that was really interesting and you have the one slide that has that whole long list of things that calgary cycle is going to have the authority to now regulate. one of the things i've heard people say when they talk about

this and i'm not sure which one of those boxes would accomplish this is that it would enable us as a state to get ridof materials that are truly recyclable . so that's really the challenge that we have here in san francisco is that film plastic isvery hard to recycle and there are other kinds of plastics . number six or seven that aren't reallyrecyclable because there are no markets for them .

. >> this is a chart from the conservationcooler. it was purchased with money from recycle and they have wrapped it with our logo and putting their employees in it . and going to sites around the city which, nextslide.

this is what the bottlenecks look like, these are barcoded at the bottom . this is a mixed blessing once again here we are talking about plastic bags . if you look at any recycling center in california to the first cycling center. this is something as a culture we got to rethink and i think they're rethinking is about reuse and goingback to returnable bottles which is what i was using . next slide i canshow you how the bottle back works . there's a simple registration process, you can do it from your phone. and sign up there, it takes a few minutes. you don't have to have requirementson where you live . these containers are entitled to gettheir money back . it's not a citizenshipquestion,

it's a symbol you want it,you deserve it back . it's easy for you to sign up ,, you get the bags, and they're free. . we're distributing themto folks and then you fill them with your containers . bring it back to one of the trucks at the site and there's a little barcode on the bottom of the bag the staff cans in and it is credited to your account. then you can access that fund through ... you can link it to your bank account, venmo or paypal or go to the recycler i mentioned and get cash there. we're working hard to get more cash options which is what they have in otherstates . there's only about three states that have this system and in

those other states, maine and oregon the grocers provide the cash dispensaryor cash disbursement . what's nice is that it's an account but there's cost involved inmastercard . and you can get your cash back. next slide. this is a picture of this mark out ai which is a electronic counting system that the state oforegon has developed in their model that program . it takes pictures as you can see onthat screen . this is the picture in the center of photographing the center of this picture is photographic image of what's inside, underneath the camera there and it counts the

pictures. it counts thecontainers and you can see the picture . if there's anydispute you can call off the picture . this is an advanced technology that oregon has had our system was not to invent this again but to take the best existing technology, break it down here anduse that to assure folks we can give them the accurate count . if there's any dispute you can call this customer center from oregonthat's already set up and they can contest it . they can call and take a look at your account and go over it together. the customer isalways right in the system. that's how we'll do it here because we want to build trust with the consumer. next slide . this isthe conservation corps staff helping us at the sites . the been just an excellent contributor and really

collaborator fromthe very first stage as i said with their trucks ,with their staff with their offices, their warehouse . they have been the father of the whole program and they see it as a way to equity play. they can make a difference in neighborhoods. the point of the pilot is not just to get bottles and cans but see how much it costs to do it well. one of the problems with with the old system and it's true around the world is a race to thebottom. how canyou do it cheapest which is not good for the environment or the people who do the work and it's not really good for , is not good for the material because he gets treated sloppy . this way the conservation corps statewide islooking at taking our model and using it in the other 11 or stick so state conservation cores that exist around california . next slide .

and here's just a list of the different partners.our recycler is the certified recycler by thestate of california . the conservation corps, i've worked with them over 25 years in the city and this is one of the best objects we've done in all that time and their super excited about the kind of level of skills and things that we're teaching the young folks and the young folks are rising to it as well because they see it as a mix of the hard work part of it and cool work part of it by using electronic systems and telling theirfriends about it . getting on tiktok. how recycle is the agency that oversees and they been extremely excited about the program as well. next slide . >> this is the project timeline. i think the first day she got on the job which i think was in 2015 if i'm not mistaken was a

bottle dale question and we've been at it ever since. it's taken a lot of time but we had to build this from the ground up. we had to get regulations put in place. then we had to work through with cal recycle to get the thing up and running. there's been criticism on our speed but as i said we wanted to build this is a partnership with people who have experience, who are experts at this so that we're not inventing ourselves. we can build trust that way. as you see here we actually got certified back in august 2019 after the bill passed in 2017. it took another two years from august 20 19th to june 2021, just six months ago for cal recycle to formally adopt our program as approved pilot and six months later is when we got our first sites open which were

january of this year . and i think this is the highlight of how we've been doing. so far we've been opened 65 days with 1000 peoplethat have signed up, 742 people have turned different accounts and brought a bag in . we've redeemed 90,000 containers over almost $5000 we've returned to folks . this is the modest growth of a very new program that is not elon musk or apple or facebook. we're doing it on our feet with our hands and legs. it has been really gratifying. folks have been working on it really like it andthe folks that use it find it to be convenient . next slide. and here's the sites that we're using right now. we havefive sites and we've used two of the moment because they were seen to be the most

convenient . one was stone town and the other was on 15th street that helped serve the downtown area. we have some space down south of market that we are adding those sites in the next month to increase the number of places where people can go. we also have soda, you can't see it on the map doesthe subtitles but it's up in the center of the city obviously . we're working with the principal there as well as the principal of john o'connell high school in mission to have a special event kind of a one-off pop-up event where people can organize the kids, students and parents to bring their containersdown for one particular day we're trying to learn how to build an audience essentially . this is new for us and we have to feed back to who we are. they have tofind us and use us to get that positive feedback . next slide . this is actually believe it or

not we're really on our first outreach year we've not done a lot of outreach because we want to because it's about how we started and we didn't know we could do the job . it's where we've got overwhelmed. on the left-handside is where the qr code is socialmedia. that's a sandwich board and it's going to be out in front of our sites on the street . we didn't have that before this . we're going to have that long teardrop thing that stands up in front of used car dealerships. it's one of the things i always wanted to be is a used car dealer no, it's ways of people noticing who we are and where we are. thus far it's been mostly electronic and have been effective but now we need to get out there and compete on the ground with the regular retail folks . the other part of the outreach has been a major play with

social media. all the partner organizations you see have their own social media platforms . thelibrary who we just saw is going to have a blurb in each of their newsletters and branch libraries and many other steps like that areones that we are taking right now. next slide . i think that's about it. i'd love to answer any questions you might have . >> i want to thank you so much kevin for the greatsummary and i want to say this kevin o'connell model, the high school . what they're going to do is have a day event so they're asking all the students of the high schoolbring your bottles and cans and then the monies go to the fundraiser to the school . so it's just such an easier way to use this, these deposits to raise money and what we want to do is show this toeveryone else. show it to the boys and girls club, showing to the church . you just take the bags andmaybe if you contract with the conservation corps,they will be

there on that day . they will take the bags from you . it's not messy, if notnoisy and they go away and you get money in the account of the school . so it's a really well policed system and we think it's going to expand the opportunities and benefits of this redemption throughout the city. very very exciting. >> vice president stevenson. >> thatwas an awesome presentation and i want to give a big shout out towhoever did the design . itfantastic, it looks amazing . a lot of times when you talk about recycling or rolling out equity programs it feels like design is an afterthought and i think that making this beautiful and like something thatyou're proud to take part in is amazing so kudos for that . and my other question was going to be collaboration with

schools. do we think that this overtime is going to increase recycling or is it going to simply bea vehicle to make sure people are getting this money back ? >> we hope it will do both. one of the thing about the build is against materialback separate . it's clean streamsof aluminum, plastic, glass and when their cleaned they have higher value in the marketplace . something that was kind of not mentioned but i mentioned our member here has been offering legislation that drives the marketplace towards these better materials at a higher value and then you're going to create jobs in california as well . he's making the requirements of recycled content incontainers in the future. you need to have clean materials to do that so it's kind of under thebuilding block of a better economy . we , but our goal here is we've seen a huge decline in the amount of containers that are redeemed in san francisco over the past couple of decades as

you see by the reduction of sites . our goal is to bring back million containers, one percent of our container consumption in san francisco so we want to go after a one after another. our goal is to get about 10, that will be 80 million containers but that's going to take 3 to 4 years. that would get us back towards an 80 percent redemption rate which is where we were once upon a time. we're down in 60 to 50 percent and every one of those percentage points of non-redemption even though it may end up in curbside does not go into thepockets of the people who pay for that . each one percent is , actually i know this. once it's like a half $1 million. it's a significant amount of money that is being left on the table if we're going back to cal recycle and not going into the pockets of schools or low income people who need itor

anybody who wants to get the money back and there's a thing about this . oregon raised their redemption numbersfrom five cents a bottle to $.10 a bottle and that got the attention of people. people pay attention to the containers again . we've all just become thoughtless about it. it's too hard to do. i let somebody else get it. it's that race to the bottom kind of thing. there's a real respect that you have for the environment when you take care of any particular material and we've lost that connection . they discovered that in oregon in this last two years ago and their numbers are up over 90 percent so it's funny how we seem to have ceded the caring for containers to someone else whether it's a homeless person or a neighborhood. we're just not paying attention and i think that'sa mistake from a philosophical or emotionally for us to not feel that way . >> what happens tothe money that isn't recouped ?

>> that's a big issue with cal recycle, it's sitting in a recycled fund. they've got a $600 million surplus there, it's a bit of an embarrassment but ithink it's a resource . we need to find a way to make good use of it so it's building backa renewable regenerative economy is one of those things . where the pilot is is supposed to establish the cost of the seven pie-in-the-sky dreams but i don't think that pie in the sky tastes goodto everybody . i think there is a value to that and that's part ofwhat i like to come back and report on on a continuing basis . >> follow-up back to that, that is what i was most worried about was the scale of this problem is so astonishing that the state level there's policy being pushed forward to address it and hundreds of millions of

dollars and right now we're working with thousands of dollars in sanfrancisco but i guess given all that what do yousee as the mosteffective way to try to increase . is it about increasing the number of locations or is it about increasing our marketing efforts ?what do we need to push on more heavily ? >> this is the experimentation that we're going for right now and we will see howthis advertising works . i think raising the price will get everybody's attention and you'll see people start to care. the trick is now we have inflation going on and that's going to be harder push to get that nickel up to adime. the single best thing we can do is try to be everywhere and eventually be , our goal is to have 30 sites which is approximately three per supervisors district by the end of next year, bythe end of 2023 but i don't see anyreason why

we couldn't have ifthe pop-ups work like debbie was talking about , it's like foodtrucks. you didn't know you needed food trucks but now they're everywhere . that's , why can't it be like that ? there is no reason why it can't. you can get up a rito delivered in that direction so why can't you get your bottles and cans picked up?oregon is amazing. i think more than 50 percent of all households in oregon are members of the bottle drop system and they've grown way faster than they ever thought they were going to grow and it's so convenient that's the other thingabout that is their big enough they're starting to drive the plastics market . their bags and our bags are made out of recycledcontent . you can only get to 50 percent recycledcontent in a plastic bag before it starts to degrade . that's a technology thing but there collecting them alland then sending them back to the same manufacturer and saying make our bags into new backs . i have enough power but enough of the same product coming to

their singular producer in a contractedfashion that they can drive the marketplace. california is 10 times bigger than oregon so we can drive a much biggermarketplace . >> are there questions or comments? commissioner . >>i want to ask about the statistic you gave . you said 60 percent of the beverage containers are going to the system which is down from80 . >> in san francisco is around 50 to 60 percent. >> i assume mostof the recycling of aluminum cans happens by people throwing their cans in the blue bin and not getting them back at all . >> yes, it counts towards the 60 percent. the ecology debts and all service parts of the state can

access the funds from the value of the material because they count it separately. they sell glassseparately and they know the code mangled percentage . it's not 100 percent crv but it's 70 or 80 percent so they get like four cents acontainer as opposed to five cents. recall a g does get that money. it's all part of the process and it's calculated . so i think you are driving a specific question in their area like, how much the consumers are getting or how much is the splitbetween the crv versus their curbside . >> i started out with skepticism that anywhere near that percentage would be achieved by people bringing their cans because just like you are number when i was 10 years old i would scavenge the downtown area in upstate new yorkto find those balls because it was five cents and that was a lot in 1971 . and like you said, it's not five cents is not what used to be. it makes a lot more sense that

the blue bin recycling is counted towards that. >> that's very common perception but we have this reinforced recently statewide about 80 percent of redemption value comes from the recycling centersand 20 percent comes from curbside. curbside is still relatively rare and in san francisco where there's one recycling center is the busiest recycling center in the state of california on bayshore . that's our partner in this project , to hungary and brothers who've been doing an amazing job working hard and serving our people that san francisco is proud to have a part of it. those are the folks i've known pretty much my whole career here who are working hard to

keep the city clean and make a living. and it's really the salt of the earth kind of thing that we mustremember as we get more flighty in our teslas and whatnot else. you can make a difference at this very basic level. i grew up in upstate new york and did the samething you did . i think that's what oregon found was being reinvented when the price went up a little bit . i think we can reignite that . >> mission or wan. >> i was really excited when you first presented theprogram a couple of years ago . i remember recently i see sometimes pulling their cart with cans all the way from downtown to third street. this is not an easy route so i'm glad to see that's more of the sites. i'm very interested in a follow-up with president ahn's comments. hopefully there will be more neighborhoods in the underserved communities. even though the income might

not be major it could be major for some of the residents in san francisco and i'm interested to see how you move forward with different marketing plans or communication plans to non-english-speaking communities so that they understand or even like so that people could could not be as savvy technology wise, how it could redeem the money or cash from the car. i think from educational or informational targets to them, togo step-by-step those would be crucial . >> that's why we had the conservation board at the site sit down and talk with people. we have folks with language skills there. everything is in three languages currently but we need more help cutting sites. it's hard for us to get these first up is sadly people remember the old-fashioned recycling centers which were like thunder dome compared to the ecology thing commissioner sullivan and i used to do as kids. to get your money back 10 years ago was aninteresting experience . so no one wanted to have one of

these trucks show up at their yard or their parking lot but it comes and goes. it's staffed by kids who look like they care what they're doing. we really need help finding more places to do this. i want to get into see cdc, i want to get intothe churches and neighborhoodsbecause they can use this as a fundraiser . we pay for the parking spaces, it's not free . as well as you being able to get the money from say your parishioners who come to drop off a bag in their church parking lot. i would , i reallyneed your help in that respect . in terms of marketing again, that's something we're learning as we go. where using a lotof electronic means . social media is everything these days but i know good old-fashioned sandwich board on the street will make a huge difference when you don't know where to go. i would like to work with you more and i apologize for that i haven't got more spaces but

we're still at it and we are growing smoothly and slowly and i appreciatethat we haven't been overrun by people which could happen . >> i saw the little thing on the bag that it can't be crushed because you keep the quality. >> so for instance, i've worked with folks who've walked from chinatown to bayshore, to the bayshore site and they crushed it and they're very efficient. super efficient and we don't want them to stop doing that. we'd like to help them figure out a way to do it better and by bringing the site closer to them that will be better but the problem is they can't rush them. i see it as people will still do what they currently do but augment that by doing dropping in containers remotely and having them electronically show up in their bank accounts and

then getting the other stuff to . i think my experience of working in this with redemption folks for 30 yearsis there incrediblycagey and they're just not, we're not thinking ahead of them . they're way ahead of us . >> one quick follow-up, you mentioned three languages, was cantonese levels languages ? that's good. i mean commissioner wan brings up memories of the old san francisco op-ed. nonprofit executive directors essentially around an anti-asian attack that happened in hunter!before thepandemic went down.if you remember there's infamous video coverage . to me if we can provide more access and more opportunity for particularly san francisco that would be really meaningful. any other comments or questions? correctioncommissionerbermejo . >> just a comment on the marketing and outreach . small businesses, bars and

restaurants would be helpful to that effort, especially those in a church. those are easy places for folks to get to so i think there's so many ways for us to work with you on that. >> once we get into penetration in more neighborhoods i think you will see those partnerships arise because right now people have forgotten about it because they didn't have an easier way to do it or there was nobody theyknew who would benefit . one of the biggest things in oregon is the donation system to nonprofits and people also the organ system allows it to copy to your college fund so you can put into yourkid's college fund and get a tax writeoff . avoid the tax cost . there's a lot of creative ways that i think you can use this that get us back to the place where commissionersullivan and i were 50 years ago .

>> commissioner hunter. >> i want to say thank you for delivering such a high quality presentation . i feel like you know your stuff or than anyone i've seen befor . being able to clearly articulate what you've accomplished today and the benchmarks you laid out for the future is something we as a commissioner have asked presenterspreviously and as you can tell you meet everyone appear excited about the bottle recycling program .thank you for all your hard work. >> commissioner wald, we will go to you as well. >> i too want to commend kevin on his terrific presentation and i want to commend my fellow commissioners because probably as a function of his knowledge for the subject matter i saw all of your comments were really terrific and it helped expand you know, our knowledge

of this program. first, i just have to say i really think it's a shame and kind of embarrassing. not kinda, really embarrassing what's happened to the redemption program in san francisco. so i'm personally very gratified tosee that we are making such a great effort to turn that around . i would like to think yes kevin that if you haven't already that you think about partnering with some of our most heavily used parks and other recreatio facilities . i don't know if the trust can fit in one parking space along the street i bet if you had that park near the loris park on the weekend, you find a lot of people who wanted to gather

bottles. and bring them. to the trucks. similarly i think the same thing would end up in that other venues like golden gate park, particularly when there's some kind of event there and that would enable ... i used to call it bottles but withmy children, that would be an outlet for lots of kids . as well as a host of other people who could benefit from this program. i would just suggest that we not limit it at all in terms of thinking about the kinds of places where having access to this program would make a big difference in terms of achieving its goals. thank you. >> wreck and park is one of the

places. we had a proposal with them two years ago and they said we don't think we want another recycling center and i think it's because theycouldn't imagine what it was going to be like they only had a bad taste from pastexperience . so i'm happy , i'mlooking forward togoing back to talk with them and see what we can do . again, we're paying rent . the parking lot is empty a lot and i don't want to go there when there's a lot ofpeople. i want to go where nobody is and use that space effectively because the recyclers will come . >> thankyou . >> mrs. stevenson. >> i know that you've got a grant,how does this get paid for going forward ? >> there's a variety of different funds.there's a i think we mentioned at the beginning we applied for a

grant cal recycle for their regularnonprofit or city jurisdiction grant . that was acompetitive grant . we got half $1 million which wespent on this . that's what's been spent to this point for getting the project off the ground. we also have every year, every city in the state gets a per capita allocation of unredeemed funds both city and county payment funds, we get about 200,000 from that fund every year. it can only be used for city activity which we didn't have any of . frankly you have to make this up to figure out how we spent that money and we spent three or so rounds of that $200,000 getting this program up and running. the next chunk of money is $1 million that goes from assembly member king provided funding for five pilots. there's only five pilots in states and we are one of them

and there's a $5 million fund $1million just started to spend that fund . and just last year the legislature extended the pilot and increased it to 10 more pilots and added another $5 million so we expect them to get another chunk . i'm spending money here, a lot of money on this project but i feel like it's important to learn how to do this so we can do it well in the future. that's what we're keeping track of all those costs and we're getting the participatio of the conservation corps who again is spending california redemption money . so it's really interesting to think about this is what gets you to think about producer responsibility and what is the cost to a producer of a beverage to get that beverage to the list of if a person wants to drink it and what is the right cost and what are the

right set of things that need to happen to have and itdoesn't turn out to be much. it might be a penny container, half a sense of container to pay for all these things i'm talking about . i don't have the answer yet but that's what we're intending to find out . >> commissioner stevenson, that's an important pointyou raise which is what does the long game? we're right now very involved in this pilot . the long game is not to have the city running this program. that is not the long game so kevin, why don't you talk about the long game? >> that's a good point. trying to help people understand how much it costs and realize if you spread the costs out it really isn't significant and if everybody's playing ball that becomes a lot easier for those of us who used too like safeties at all the sites and that was an unfair burden. whole foods, trader joe's didn't have anything so that's not right.

the long game is to help get like a plastics initiative that was discussed either there's different efforts out there to figure out how to develop funding. it's not a tax, more like ause . everybody pays and if you use it you don't have to. it's paying for a full range. real jobs, really good work out in the community with where there's a facility that does like a smelter or a plastics recycling . it's not a race to the bottom, it's a race to the top to get those paid for. what is really shared economic cost and shared social value, cultural value. it doesn't seem to be that hard of an equation and we're talking about the penny apenny . people say it's going to break the bank. it might make a tiny bit less money or budweiser or some of those folks because a lot of the excess costs are in addition to costs at that high

level. honestly we need to provide a model for how to kind of attack that in a positive way. everything we talked about here is pretty positive and i think that even the beverage folks understand that at some point would come along to help us make this system work. it's just absurd to me that we can have all the things we have fromthe internet to tesla and we don't think through aproblem like this to solve it . in what i think is actually a pretty straightforward way . so the long game is to get the stores, get the producers to get the brands and it really and the game. and they listen, theydon't want to have a one off in san francisco and a one off in los angeles . they want tohave the system . >> so what our goal is to show what's possible here and that will drive legislation to mandate it statewide so this is

a problem right now is the bottle really not working, there's which version of it needs to happen. they are talking about reforming it foryears, nothing happens so we're stuck in this any current of nothing going forward insan francisco we're saying okay, that's ridiculous . give us permission to do something different . give us funding to show you how it's done. let us figure it out anduse our experienceas a model for statewide legislation. that's the longgame . the long game is we showit's possible . the state adopted .they use it, they legislate it and we step . >> i also see mister wald as her hand up. >> thank you very much. we couldprobably go on all night on this . i am just wondering in terms of the long game, it's been really an intention here between getting this program, getting

an effective redemption program up and running across the state of california and the fundamental problem of people buying single use beverages and single use beverage containers. and surely the goal is to not have people dothat . while at the same time making sure that those people who do do that and the bottles they buy are disposed of properly but sometimes i would like to hear, probably not tonight but how we feel like the first half of that equation how do we minimize the production purchase and consumption of these kinds of products rather than just deal with them

efficiently once they have been produced? >> thank you commissioner wald. you're right about that part of the initiative that was discussed previously gets that putting costs onto those kinds of containers so that you push them out of the marketplace so they don't compete as effectively as some of the others and some of the other ideas there are that it's going back to reused bills. refillable are more efficient. it still is true and it's proven over and over againand europe does it and many other countries do it . those are ways to still allow us because we weren't doing what commissioner wald suggested. we were getting these ridiculous containers out there for kids. these flimsy things that throw

away in the tide and other laundry detergents in third world countries ,in these ridiculous packages because they get away with that . that just doesn't make sense. i think you're right on how to go after both prompts of the problem. there's the consumption and production piece . i'm inevitablygoing to work forever so i would just bring up the idea . >> if there's no other comments on deck we should goto public comment .>> i do want to note that commissioner wan had to leave the meeting but we still do have a quorum. we will begin public comment i the room. once in person, and has concluded we will risk proceed to remote publiccomment. any members in the room who

wish to speak ?if so please come forward one by one and speak into the mic . seeing none, we will proceed t remote public comment. members who wish to make a comment should pressá3 to be added to the queue . for those already onhold wait until it is your turn to speak . deirdre, do we have any colors in the queue ? >> can you? >> yes. >> david pilpel, slightly ahead of dhs butnot by much . i'd like to addmore to your great discussion . i know that debbie and kevin reached out to things exceedingly well to commissioner walton. yes reduce reuse recycle and rock also increase participation andreduce contamination .

make it accessible and in people, in communities, in language, it's about nickels and dimes. ultimately it'sabout banking the unbacked . yes, we need to fix prp statewide and the cal recycle but we have to pilot what works and demonstrate that we can do this in san francisco with all its complications and we can do it herethat we can scale it up, scale it down . againcanadian language,whatever . it works here and workin fresno . it can work in arcata . so we're trying tofigure it out . kevin is absolutely the sort with all the craziness around us and you can be sure it is absolutely 1million moving parts at all times . and lots of people trying to do the right thing and sorting through that requires akevin

kind of attention . and at the same time, unfortunately you've got somebody in the media and somebody in an advocacy group in southern california that is making this into some kind of issue that they can use for their own purposes and i believe that is getting in the way of a successful program implementation and fine tuning so i would hope that we will do what we have to do to comply with what they make that keep our eye on the ball here and fine tune it and have a successful pilot and continue as this process moves through tomake it work. i'm certainly doing my part . i hope those thoughts are helpful. thanks again to debbie, kevin

and the rest of the folks at conservation corps . >> thank you for your comment. do we have any other callers i the queue ? >> just a moment, i will check thequeue . ... there are no other callers in thequeue . >> thanks again kevin for your longtime work on this. next item please. >> next item is directors report. speaker is deborah rochelle. debra explanatorydocument is the directors report, this item is for discussion . >> so every commission meeting you get a very detailed directors report from the department of all the work we've been doing and it's really a fun opportunity for me

to reflect back on our work on the last two months and i just want to say that our department continues to evolve so we close down programs, first new programs, we mature programs are essential worker arrival program which we created during the pandemic that essential workers could get a taxi ride home covered when transit wasn't available to that. that program is not sunsetting so we started it up and now it's sunsetting in february we had almost 382 out of 400 applications approved over 6000 taxi rides. a lot of essential workers benefited from this program i want to thank my staff, alex bogden and 13 for all the work they did in the cdafor being such a great partner . at the same time we sunset that we create a number of other programs. as of january 1 of this year we

launched our cmd ordinance construction and demolition ordinance enforcement program where we are permitting our transporters and already we have permitted 41 of these transporters.we're starting to collect seed moneyworking with the sheriff's office . with the public works department and figuring out what this enforcement means for our department. you're going to hear a lot more of that in the next year as we figure out how we transition from the apartment of carrots to more sticks. we've done a lot of work asking people to do the right thing because it's the right thing now we need to level the playing field and go after the people who not enough for them. the need formore encouragement , to put it mildly.and that's unusual for us and we will be thinking very strategically and hard about what it means to end up enforcement in our department.

to commissioner wall! about going at the source and not just getting better and better at recycling we've been focusing a lot of attentionon reusable's is the focus of our outreach program . our department now program reached up to 75 food and restaurant businesses on behalf of their rethink disposables program so environment now, rethink disposables as a contractor where all working together to help restaurants with reusable's the green business program you haven't heard about them in a while but theycontinue to certified new businesses , really focusing on by pot owned businesses. i don't know how many of you heard commissioner bermejo and i were at the state of the city speech. shetalked a lot about the environment . she talked about what her frame was this is whatclimate action

looks like . building housing,that's climat action . supporting transit, that's climate action . so she really have that wonderful refrain of helping people understand for this mayor what climate action looks like. i just want to give a couple of heads up in terms of climate action month. so april climate action month. there's going to be a number of events, to that i want to put on your radar on saturdays. one is saturday, april 23 so the day after birthday going to a family-friendly bike ride. will start in golden gate park and then to the beach it's all very safe family-friendly. will be stopping at various sites along the way with kid friendly adults interesting speakers andactivities . so more information on back but it's 10:30 start time on saturday april 23, i hope you'll join me there on the next weekend saturday, april 30

there's the first ever climate action youth service day. we will be doing in language use programming for sites around the city in partnership with bracken park and children in nature. doing stamp activities, science activities at these locations as well as restoration activities so that's going to befun . and then there's the whole website full of activities that are going on throughout the city in april. and i just want to give a huge shout out to our outreach program fordeciding their beautiful website and kyle will send all this information . you'll get all of this including the link to the website so you can take a look at it because it's beautiful and if any of your organizations you're involved with activities or things that arehappening , please let us know. letkyle know so we can get them up on the website .

so with that now one of my favorite parts of every meeting that is to introduce you to the newest members of ourdepartment . and not everyone could be here tonight. but we've got several members of our environment now team. so if you the four of you who are in the room could come up to the dais and introduce yourself, tell us your name. tell uswhere you were beforehand . and what you're excitedabout doing in your new role . >> hello everyone, my name is alexandra and she's her pronouns.i am in the environment now team doing outreach . of the programs and projects we're working on getting already mentioned, one of them for sure is rethinkdisposables. clean water action fund .this encompassesgrassroots outreach

, hopefully our team members and i are going outinto the city in different districts . we are visiting a small business and offering them the transition from plastic and paperfood where items to reusable ones . completely free . they're just click on this complete shock and i've spoken to different business owners who are just completely grateful for what we are offering them. i've spoken with is this owners who are on the verge of shutting down their businesses because they can't afford it so the fact that the city is providing such a wonderful opportunity for them to the money as well as send less waste to the landfill to improve their dining experience is so grateful for so very rewarding. definitely by far one of my favorite projects. on top of that energy access sf is where we offer different

energy programs to different communities around here in san francisco . and we have offered different things for low income residents as well as residents and families from all types of backgrounds . and we just provide different opportunities to save energy, to save costs, things of that sort. and last but not least as many have heard we are doing outreach on that bottle program as well. currently we are reaching out to different community-based organizations in san francisco to partner with them and reach their different audiences they work with and table them and provide information in different languages. we are trying to do outreach to people of all different backgrounds whether they have access totechnology, whether they don't . inspanishcommunities, all of that info . those are things we are looking forward to .

as kevin mentions this is a pilot so we are just beginning but so far we're very excited to move forward with that. i have been here in the apartment for justa year , completely the highlights of my post graduation. i was hired just a year after graduating and i graduated at the time where covid had just started so so many hiring freezes. i was excited to take off and apply everything i have in college to the real world but unfortunately things did not turn out that way so it was a pessimistic time for me but working alongside so many people who are equally as driven to help the environment and community spirit is just amazing and amazing to work for a city that's so progressive as san francisco and forward thinkingand all the time they put intohelping communities and doing equitablework .

i want tothank you for your hard work , especially you, debbie . thank you so much . >> my name is eileen wong and i am pronounced she /her and working in the environment team. i joined the team a month ago and amlooking at the environmental outreach . before this i worked in anothe hotel district for 4 years . so the environment is a very new for me, a brand-new concept for me. i'm very excited to learn more about the different programs and the team. and now i'm working with my colleague here i'll hundred two different programs.it's a program to help businesses. the other one is the bottleneck program.

i'm very happy to reach out to different organizations and the residents to help them learn more about that program. to get them involved and to have more people participate in the program. and now we're going to have the presentation in cantonese to one of the senior centers in the city next week. i'm so excited for that. . >> my name ispatrice. i do like she her . i joined with my colleague eileen about a month ago . i'm on the environment now team and we've been doing work as you have heard in a couple times on the recent disposables. i'm focusing on that and crv, not too much but still a great program. and i'm just really excited to be here . i just graduated or just finish up my last classes atuc davis.

literally last week . so i'm just like really excited to be right on out of college working on such agreat team doing such great work. and yes . >> my name is tonya ramirez. and i joined the environment now team about a monthago . currently working on all the great outreach programs. alhambra spoke to and i'm most excited to be out in communities being grassroots work. on the outreach programs especially able to engage with the spanish-speakingcommunities in san francisco . that's the most exciting part of this tradition and yes, i'm just looking forward to all that is to come. thank you. >> thank you so much

at least, welcome. you're also superstars and thank you for that wonderful explanation of what you're working on and we had one person remotely . johnny, are you there? >> hi everybody, i'm in the virtual stage right now. good to seeeverybody. i'mjohnny , i've been with the department for also a year now. and like everybody's mentioned , i think what i'm specifically looking forward to is the rethink program. i feel like as a san francisco native of giving back to the community especially by my half led restaurants is really meaningful work. and again, very happy to be on the team because everybody's so

collaborative and supportive and before working for the department of the environment, i worked for the sf parks in golden gate park. but yes, thank you for having me. >> thanks johnny and welcomed. our last new employee is actually sitting right up here with you. mister kyle whether what you just say hello. >> director my name is paul kyle letter, new commission of their policy director. previously i work for a group called homebase, sensor for common concerns. nonprofit focusedon developing solutions to homelessness . and it really is a pleasure to be with you and i look forward to getting to know you and helping you in any way i can and supporting your work in the department's work over the course of the next year and if

i may, thank you very much for your patience and grace with our technological issues tonight, especially commissioner waldso thank you very much . >> that concludes my report. >> again, welcome to the new employees and you're doing a great job so far with this meeting .any commissioner comments or questions . >> i guess i just have one, on page 4. you are elected to the board of directors of the northerncalifornia recycling ? >> not me, i don't know who wa elected to that or if i was, maybe not graduation . >> it might be nice to hear about which staff member it wa . >> i will get back to you on that. i do not know how who got elected but i'm glad it wasn't me .>> if there are no other commissioner comments or

questions. >> we will begin with public comment in the room. once inperson, and is concluded we will proceed to remote public comment . any members of the public who wish to speak, so come forward oneby one and speak into the mic . seeing none we will proceed to remote public comment. members of the public who wish to make a remote comment pressá3 to be added to the queue. forthose already on hold wait until it is your turn tospeak . deirdre, do we have any colors in the queue ? >> david pilpel, canyou hear me now ? so i to read the directors

report. as usual very comprehensive . it's a way out of all that's going on. i too was concerned about who was elected to the board in the bottom of page 4, thank you for catching that. i just checked their website and it looks like is currently on the staff and environment. i apologize for that but al and freddie coronado appeared to be on there so it's juliet may not bewith the department . i apologize, i can't remember. but that may look against her next question. again, i don't want to get much i had a good director but i do understand that after this report closed and is at least one other member of staff has

left the apartment that will probably get reported in the next directors report and i'm very glad that you are about that person leaving who i think was a great and contributor to the part of that. perhaps more on that in the futurebut again , great work on all of the various and sundry programs and parts of the department and i'm glad the letterof that group was elected to meet that . i like to spend some time on the background of the connection between the apartment and that organization and its continued relevance to the work. okay,thanks for listening . >> we have anyother colors in the queue ? >> can you on respect the queu

? >> if there are colorsin the queue . there's a board member who just joined. it's betty coronado. who just joined the california recycling association on their board and i just want to make sure it's there. >> thank you. kyle, next item. >> excited ascommittee reports this item is for discussion . >> commissioner sullivan give us a report on the polity committee. >> policy committee met on march mark 14. we heard two presentations including one onthe san francisco surplus building

product reduction and redistribution study . that's a mouthful. we heardfrom brockman, james slattery and kevin reese . we also heard a presentation on a very exciting electric vehicle community grant the department got. $2 million plus to augment the department. that's efforts over a two-year period we reviewed and voted to recommend to the commission that approved the dv ordinance we voted on tonight. the mayors electric vehicle charging slot ordinance. our next meeting is monday april 11. the policy committee like both of ourcommittees is meeting virtually .and that ends our report. >> thank you commissioner sullivan. i believe we move on to operations now. >> the committee has not met since january so there's nothing to currently report.

our next meeting is monday, april 20 at 5 pm being held virtually. >> anydiscussion on those commissioners ? if not let's go to public comment. >> we will begin with public commentin the room. once in person comment has concluded we were was perceived to remote public comment. any members who are present in the room today who wish to speak . if soplease come forward and speak clearly into the month. and seeing none we will proceed toremote public comment . members of the public who wish to make acomment should pressáthree to be added to the queue . for those on hold please continue to wait until it is your turn to speak . deirdre do we have any colors in the queue. >> give me a minute to check the queue. there are no other colors in the queue.

>> next item then please. >> next item is announcements items fordiscussion . are there any announcements. >> if not let's open this up for public comment. >> we begin with public comment in the room. once in person comment has concluded we will proceed to remote comment . any members of thepublic present in the room today who wish to speak . if so please come forward one by one and speak clearly. and seeing none we will proceed to remote public comment. membersof the public who wish to make a public comment on this item should now press far 3 to be added to the queue . for those already on holdleast continue to wait until it is your turn to speak.deirdre, do you have any colors in the queue ? >> let me check with you.

there are no colors in the queue? >> we're getting closeto the end of our agenda which is item 13 . >> next item is new business, speakers charles she had, teeth policy and public affairs. this item is for discussion. >> i'll be brief. next policy meeting is april 1 . next commission meeting is may 24. for that next commission meeting and potentially for future commission meetings we're bringing you an update on how our public engagement is goingfor our climate action plan limitation and future implementation .

we may also be bringing to you acomprehensive look at the entire av program . you've heard about our grants, you've heard aboutordinances . there's a lot going on obviously. transportation sector is 40 percent of our mission so our ed is something we're working on and ofcourse we're still trying to bring record retention to you as well hopefully at the next meeting . i'll take any questions . >> seeing none public comment please. >> we will begin with public comment in the room. we will proceed to remote public comments, are there members who are present in the room who wish to speak? if so pleasecome forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic . seeing none we will proceed to remote public comment. members who wish to make a public comment on thisitem should pressá3 to be added to the queue . for those already in whole

continue to wait until it is your turn to speak . and do we have anycolors in the queue ? >> let me check the queue. there are no colors in the queue. >> thank you charles for that item now that brings us to the final item, adjournment. >> the meeting isadjourned, time is7:30 9 pm . thank you for joining us .

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history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe, clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin

is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in san francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is great. the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there. >> look at that beautiful jellyfish. the way to speak to students and motivate them to take action, to save the planet, they do, they care and my job is to speak to them in a way that they can understand that touches their

heart and makes them feel powerful with simple actions to take every day. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ >> i was born and raised in the desert of palm springs, california. my dad was the rabbi in the community there. what i got from watching my father on stage talking to the community was learning how to be in the public. and learning how to do public speaking and i remember the first time i got up to give my first school assembly, i felt my dad over my shoulder saying pause for drama, deliver your words. when i was a kid, i wanted to be a teacher. and then when i got into high

school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. by the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. but as i did more work, i realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. i only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. i found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. i went, volunteered and my life changed. suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. i eventually moved up to san francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through los angeles county and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about

rainforest. one of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, i'm teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. it was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. the san francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message

that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do,

especially on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. i try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. you can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. trust if you want to do good in

♪ >> it is unclenate's creativity time. welcome to uncle nate. we are are going to draw bubble letters. you need supplies. you need a pencil, markers, something to color with and a few pieces of paper. gather up supplies and meet me back right here. all right. let's go. got all supplies out. draw your name lightly in the center of your page. give yourself room. give each letter a little room. all right. now, i want you to draw around each letter like you are driving a car around each letter.

next, let's erase the center. take away the original outline and then we will be left just with the bubble letter. make sure you get the center part out of there. okay. we will touch it up. time for color. i chose yellow, orange, and red. yellow at the top, then the orange in the center, and i am making a stripe right through the center all the way across. last, my red, which makes a cool fade. time for the outline. unclenate's creative time. figure it out. now we are going to do a drop shadow. a shadow underneath each letter

and to the side. it is really going to give it a 3-d look. wow! great job. i bet you didn't think you could draw that. now you can draw bubble letters you can use it to draw things for your friends, cards. it is really useful. i hope you had a good time. i will see you next time on uncle nate's creativity time. ♪ >> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we

made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well.

so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the

sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would

start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians.

when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into

a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents,

if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. >> by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. i came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [♪♪♪] >> hello, friends. i'm the deputy superintendent of instruction at san francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. what you see over the next hour has been created and planned by

our san francisco teachers for our students. >> our premise came about for san francisco families that didn't have access to technology, and that's primarily children preschool to second grade. >> when we started doing this distance learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and it's like how were they still processing the information? how were they supposed to keep learning? >> i thought about reaching the student who didn't have internet, who didn't have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t.v. and at least get some connection with my kids that way. >> thank you, friends. see you next time. >> hi, friend. >> today's tuesday, april 28,

2020. it's me, teacher sharon, and i'm back again. >> i got an e-mail saying that i had an opportunity to be on a show. i'm, like, what? >> i actually got an e-mail from the early education department, saying they were saying of doing a t.v. show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. i was scared, nervous. i don't like public speaking and all the above. but it worked out. >> talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, it's so very weird. i'm used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where they're all

moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them? let's listen. >> hi guys. >> i kind of have stage flight when i'm on t.v. because i'm normally quiet? >> she's never quiet. >> no, i'm not quiet. >> my sister was, like, i saw you on t.v. my teacher was, i saw you on youtube. it was exciting, how the community started watching. >> it was a lot of fun. it also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun.

>> i want to end today with a thank you. thank you for spending time with us. it was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. >> i'm so happy to see you today. today is the last day of the school year, yea! >> it really helped me in my teaching. i'm excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. >> we received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. >> when we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai, especially during the filipino episodes, like, wow, like, i'm proud to be a filipino. >> being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. and as a mom, i can tell you that's so important.

the social confidence development of our early learners. [♪♪♪]

>> president lopez: you may sign up forpublic comment until that item is called not during or after the discussion of the item. good evening everyone. the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified district for march 22, 2022 is now called to order. roll call please. [ roll call ]