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or radios around you. item 1. roll call. president upon feinstein. >> vice president nakajo. >> present. >> commissioner morgan. >> present. american frazier. >> present. >> and chief nicholson. >> present. >> item 2. the president will read aloud the land acknowledgment. san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the unseated home land of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhab tanlts of the san francisco pep anyone sla. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and accordance with

traditions the ramaytush ohlone have never seated, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the care takers of this place. as well as for people who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional home land. we wish to pay respects acknowledging the ancestors, elders and irrelevant tifs of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. thank you. will itemly. public comment. members may address the commission up to 3 minutes in the jurisdiction that is not on the agenda of speakers address to the commission as a whole and not individuals or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter in debate or discussion.

the lack of a response does not necessarily institute agreement with or support am statements made during public comment. . anybody wish to make public comment. >> caller would you like to comment? >> coalition for san francisco neighborhoods speaking on my behalf. regarding the emergency firefighter water system. in 1984 then the mayor feinstein expanding the dedicated high pressure high volume emergency firefighting water system this is the same that was brought in service on the east side in 1913. was maintained by the

firefighter with engine ooerg by dpw. those lines changeod may 10, 2010. as a mech simple to billions the budget during a recession then mayor transferred to the puc. this transfer has has been framed by the puc as a move to the puc because of the engineering skills. this is a misstatement. puc is now upon unlegaling to dedicate but is promoting potable water this is a mechanism to replace water mains even though this is inconsistent with prop 218. there is now community advocacy to transfer from the puc to the city add administrator as dpw also reports to the city add administrator. the board of spierzs rules

committee the add administrator. puc commission and the city attorney are all aware of this advocacy. thank you. >> thank you that is it for public comment. >> public comment shall be closed. >> next item. >> item 4. presentation from the san francisco fire department, fire auxiliary reserves. s president feinstein and vice president nakajo and chief, commissioners. i'm buck low the commander of the san francisco awkilary fireplace lefshs this is department pennia an administrative commander in the fire reserves we came here to familiarize yourself with our

operations and regards to the fire department. i gave all of you guys a booklet we made up for the anniversary to just a quick history of the fire reserves we are established in 1941. during world war ii to supplement the fire department. and as a model after what was going on in europe with the blitz and so we would offer support to the fire department. through world war ii, it was at this time there was about 10,000 members. and 10 battalions portable -- water systems that would go out and they would drill -- once a week in the battalions and after world war ii, it was disbanded somewhat. it came back in full force

during the cold war. and it was reestablished then in the 50th and 60s. and after that, died down a bit. we were kiejd of -- where we are today as a supplemental support unit for the department. as 2 -- help out in greater alarms natural disasters. and things of that nature. that's when we have been doing since. we train every thursday night for 2 hours now we have been training at treasure i lands. we go back and fourth with treasure island and folsom street. there are currently 16 senior members and 2 on leave. we hired 24 new members that started the academy last week. they will go through a 20 week academy trained on the different

equipment that the fire department uses. ladders, hoses. fittings. uba's and then after they graduate they will be able to respond to greater alarms and -- that's it. if you want we can have them stands up and introduce themselves. if that is appropriate or not. if you need to ask any questions i'm happy to answer questions. these are drafts we have as far as what our training hours hour. how many greater alarms in the past year. volunteer hours. we do a lot of community volunteering with the department and other organizations. you know see a lot of people come and ask us if we help out with different events they hold throughout the city. not just with the fire department. there is -- commissioner helped out with a couple things with

the cherry blossom festival and american heart association done things for them with cpr and different organizations throughout the city. habitat for humanity. a few things with them and we actually -- been sort of a feeder system for the department. a lot of members go on to join the fire department there is a list of the members that have been hire in the 2 years. we sent members to -- al med a san fastiel, seattle. vallejo. we have members in l.a., members in -- there was a reservist who went and working in austin, texas now. one in fair banks, alaska we are all over the place. like my presentation. >> [laughter]. >> thank you very, very much.

i just want to exercise my prerogative here to say that i really appreciated receiving your fag magazine and i read it cover to cover. tell taught me a lot about the history of the department. upon and the really significant contributions. reserves. i think you are being humble in neglecting to mention that all the reserves are volunteers. and -- they put in tremendous hours doing tremendous work and -- and -- do receive the training that hopefully allows them to qualify for the san francisco fire academy. it was touching and also very educational to read this. and i thank you for providing it

to us. and also for take the time to come and make your presentation to us. because -- were sometimes we are not as appreciative as i think we want to be. and -- every person that's sitting behind you as well as yourself, needs to know that you are a tremendous asset to the city of san francisco and to the san francisco fire department. so i hope you accept our thanks. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> we have a hor video if you like to see it about the training the previous class went through in their academy. it is 7 minutes. under 7 minutes. >> that's fine.

this was put together by department pennia. >> she is good. i think was there first day. this was in the height of covid.

that was a great video that was air great video unless my fellow commissioners have questions or comments i think it would be

lovely to have the reserves behind you stands up and introduce themselves so we know their names and that would be great. you are doing magnificent work were wonderful. >> thank you. >> vice president nakajo. thank you very much. madam president. tonight is special because joining us live is the president of the commission. with our brand-new commissioner frazier. upon commissioner morgan, myself and chief department of department in command. i'm the one that called for the reserves to give an update i wanted to share the information and it present now we have a new commissioner as limp i also have general questions and i like to

hear a comment in i bit but your coordination of 20 weeks is that the training time? commander? buckley? >> yes. we break it down to the first -- 4 weeks is booked learning it is so now we will go over we are going over ics next week is -- water supply? ics, water supply and building construction and fire behavior and then the field work where they learn about the tool and apparatus with the fire department. >> i saw a slide of graduation. at the concollusion of the course well is a customerification or graduation in the fire reserves? >> correct. >> how dot members know when there is i thirds alarm

>> we get texts. once they graduate they will be put in the system phone numbers and their providers put in the system and every time a third alarm or we get texted on second alarms and respond on third alarms. >> in terms of the numbers throughout the senior members the 16, those 16 can responded to a third alarm or greater. >> correct. how do you know who they are? coordination of them or do they just report on the scene and then the command level there the chief will point at you. but i'm curious as to how do they fit in there i know they get in i want to know. >> we are instructed meet up at the mobile air. mobile air will respond on a second alarm. and we usually will meet up

there and the senior member will go to the command and find out what if there is anything that needs to be done immediately or you know if there is a priority on what to do. usually we start out by changing out bottle as firefighters come out of the buildings. get the bottles changed and back in to service as the as far as going in the building. helping out the person that mobile air filling the bottles and distribute them and as things progress, we will set up like -- will rehab stations. bring water to different locations when they come out they get water and take a breather and -- then it dependses what is going on with the fire. as to what our duties will be. >> okay. >> we have done everything from move clothes around on the pier

fire deployed the 5 inch portable water hose. we move ladders and hose and gassed up vehicles. they have been out there for i long time. done overhaul. what needs to be done. >> i appreciate that the commissioners but -- it it is -- it is very important for us to hear had they do out there. of and the cordination of that. chief, if you wanted to comment on that or whatever but for me we have to commission a trog prerogative to go to the alarms as a point of experience we try not to get in the way we look for the command force in helmets and coats and see that is going on there and get an idea it is a

coordinated through. >> thank you. chief. society fire reserve plays a huge role i seen them instrumental with large fires. i remember a lot of fires south of market where things were growing at a great rate and trying to transfer from offensive to defensive attacks and get water supplies. and a lot of times we deal with long leads. great for getting likes and valveos high pressure and get hem reed. helping to get water supplies for ladder and those types of things. what happens we deploy the crews approximate an engine shoes up and you have a driver outside and 3 firefighters upon engaged

and we need to get things done and you don't have the firefighters. when the reserves show up they are super helpful in the outside portion of getting water supplies. throwing ladders. assisting request moving hose lines to get different apparatus in place and then obviously, you know as the intanses -- progress on. changing bottles for people coming out of the building. and you know we have seen pictures looks like miles of pagety and the firefighterers beat up after hours of this and they are super helpful with us and bleeding out hose and getting the rigs back in service that is the day it day and the routine but when they will be valuable is when an earthquake happens or a large sdaft and we

stripped the resource of the city and have a pool of people here and familiar with operations or equipment and step up and assist us -- with the immediate needs we get additional people coming become to august wham we have. they are an integral part. >> i appreciate that. i appreciate the information that comesace well. over the years i went through a high rise and wonder how did than i get up well and the most important part when is they say they resealed the bottles how the members breathe. these are all things we learn. thank you very much. >> you mentioned high rise. we may have a fire on the 35th floor of the building president hazzard is in that fire area. we can't have 100 firefighters you knowingum and down 35 flights of stairs.

there is a huge need and that is where they will play a huge role. we have a -- source of labor there that can help us get that equipment the supplies so the firefighters can focus on the interior on the environment. they are a big part. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i know i will just do more i want to take advantageful i'm okay with you, chief. i wanted to tell the chief and commander penia if there is something you would like to reiterate. i'm anxious to heart cadets behind you. within this course of the auxiliary, they are volunteers. when you say greater alarm response when there is a greater alarm or response. so the members of the auxiliary respond on their own if they wish to? commander?

>> yes. i encourage it. as chief said tr are miles of hose and there has been occasion when is there has been one or two of us out there and it is like calling people because we are not getting this done by ourselves. usually we will get goods turn outs average 6 to 8 people at a fire. will the more people that show up the faster things get done and the easier it is for everyone. >> flags reflect that in the greater alarms with the turn out. the san francisco fire reserves with the helmet difference. i appreciate it and thank you very much. >> thank you. >> vice president nakajo. and perhaps if each of the reserves would like to introduce themselves and tell us where

they are from. >> [inaudible] [inaudible]. [no mic] [cannot hear speaker] >> thank you. [no mic] [cannot hear speaker]

>> thank you. born in san francisco. reserves for a year and a half. been to 2 of the 4, 3 alarm fires and i would not exchange any of this experience for anything. being able to seat city in a different way not a lot of public people will ever see. and -- i don't mind it at all because of the amount of experience. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm alex born and raised in san francisco. i have been volunteering with organizations for most of my life and i have become a member of the san front fire reserves. i'm grateful of the opportunity of volunteering and serving. thank you. >> thank you. sfgov.org can't hear the members is there a way they can come up

to the speaker? you can lineup. >> good afternoon am i'm kristin, a new reservist. i'm from santa clara. have been in san front for 10 year. i work in stan ford in athletics. this it is a great group and good operation, thank you. >> good afternoon i'm eric westerman born and raised in south san francisco. went to the university of oregon with a business degree in the corporate world and transitioned to ems work as an emt in san francisco and excited to help the city out as much as i can. >> hello. good evening i'm john strickland

from hawaii. living in beautiful san francisco for 14 years and graduated from city college and i'm excited volunteer with the reserves. >> good afternoon i'm bradley henderson. born and raised here in san francisco. grew up in noe valley district. i finished internship at station 11. it was amazing experience and after watching that video it so inspiring and very appreciative to be here and help out every way i can. >> thank you. >> hello i'm pierce kavanaugh, thank you, i was born in san francisco in the panhandle and i'm excited to be starting with the fire reserves and helping out. >> thank you.

>> i'm paul [inaudible] i'm a software engineer living in san francisco for sick years this is a great opportunity for mow to give back to the city and i'm glad that i have it, so i hope to help out soon. >> thank you. >> hello. good afternoon i'm joshua. from san francisco. i'm a social worker for san francisco county during the day and as a reservist, thank you for having me. >> hello i'm marty smith born in san francisco. now moved back to marin. by day i do software sales and have been in reserves over a year and a half. a wonderful experience and appreciate you letting us share

more about us. >> thank you. . >> hello will i'm francis adams live in potrero hill. been with mart and he josh as long as they have. good afternoon i'm skyler gusman in active reserves for 5 years since 2017. my rank is cap able an awe some opportunity to learn and teach the ways and materials of the san francisco fire department uses. >> thank you. >> good afternoon i'm brandon from southern california. and i lived in the mission in the city for the last 6 years and completing internship at station 39 in the paramedic program and i love the opportunity to learn and give back. >> thank you.

>> hello i'm fazil sa dick born in general hospital grew up in eccellsior district. i like to thank everyone in front of me and everybody behind me this is a serious and important opportunity that we have to sum element the san francisco fire department. and i think that thank you very much organization that we have is important for us to be successful we need to be organized, on time and hold each other accountable and meet the standards that -- the department has. exit like to thank department buck low and deputy commander for pick the people that we have on the team of we only have been here for 3 weeks but all of my team members have high

integrity. great character. which makes this whole thing fun and easy to go through. thank you. >> i must comment this gentlemen was sitting out on the bench because he arrived an hour early. which is great fire department promptness. i want to give you a slight shout out for that. and being patient with us. thank you. >> i appreciate that. >> hello, everyone i'm louie sanchez i'm from san jose moved here sick years ago to study sociology and transitioned to fire science. i drive a school bus in the city. i look forward to this new academy for the 22 reserve and

get familiar with the appliances and wooden ladders and -- happy to be here and have this opportunity to give back to the community that has been great to me. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm edward hughes i grew up in san francisco castro district. city college graduate and work as an emt in the city and excited for this opportunity and can't wait to learn and give back to the city. thank you. >> thank you. i robbery with the reserves for a year. along with the others. i love today and made friends. learned a lot. grateful to put my hands on the equipment and know the specialized equipment of san francisco. myself along with others have in

this group they probably didn't mention they gone through academies already they know than i want to be helping. i was a teacher emt and now the department of public health. and thank you. >> thank you. this is an inspirational way to start our meeting and i really have so much respect and for each one of you. that you know living your day life and then giving of your time to the department and the city is just really very, very inspiring, so, know that the heart that the thanks are heart felt and i know i speak for everybody here both in terms of the commissioners and members of the department the command staff. thank you for your service.

best of luck to all of you. >> hand raise lead is a caller on the public comment line. they don't have their hand raised and i can't unmute them. there is no public comment. go to the next. why yes. >> all right. public comment is closed on this matter. thank you. >> item 5. >> chief of department's report. from chief of department nicholson on current issues, activities and events in the department since the meeting on

may 11, 2022 including budget, academies, special events. communications and out reach to government agencies and the public. and report from administration chief oshg connor on fleet and facility updates. finance other support services and home land security.connor o facility updates. finance other support services and home land security.connor o facility updates. finance other support services and home land security.oconnor facility updates. finance other support services and home land security.'connor facility updates. finance other support services and home land security. greetings i like to give thanks to the fire reserves as well. for each and every one of you. i appreciate you. and i know the department does as well and thank you for taking time out of your life tonight as well to -- come say hello to us. and thanks to commander buck low and penia for your diligent work. this does not happen without

you. thank you very much. >> i would like to give a warm welcome to our new commissioner phasier, welcome to the team we are here to support you. and look forward to working with you. thank you. now on to my report from our last meeting. had an up tick in covid. 38 members are out with corid and 7 out on longer term leave. you know unofficial, there is anup tick the good nows is we have not seen the members upon hospitalized. this go around. so -- that's the good news in terms of the vaccines working. last week, we had an h3 level one, emt -- graduation. 25 members. they started in the field this

weekend. so -- really good news. i know that00 autotraining division and ems is working hard to get the people through the academies. and -- so strong work, everyone. and in addition it was ems week. last week and there were awards given out and yesterday00 autoboard of supervisors acknowledged several members. jennifer for the salem and matt ferris for the different things they have done on and off duty. and it was just really nice for them to be acknowledged by the board of soops. now some more good news. since or last of meeting the city is now the proud owner of

the 4 and a half 80 are site on carol avenue. for to be part of our training center. we closed our deal with the private company, last week. and now for the other peeves property that is adjacent to it that will also be part of the training facility, that bill -- in the assembly passed this week or last. passed unanimously and went to the senate. so -- i am -- grateful for that -- progress and -- i think we have a good chance of getting it signed off by the governor by september. and upon -- and -- you know that would pretty much put us getting the property the end of the year. work to do but unanimously voted out of the assembly and gone to

the senate. that is great news for us. and thanks to everyone that is working hard on getting that done. . it has been truly a team effort in the department. and a critical piece of infrastructure for us. last week -- chief tang community paramedic and fire marshall attended a public meeting the request of supervisor ronnin to address issues in the mission area of the city. he is the supervisor there. it was well attendd and the chief and fire marshall represented us well in terms of -- you know questions that were asked. on -- on our behalf. thank you for that. in addition i traveled to sacramento last week. i was on a panel at a women's

leadership difference. the team was mental health and -- and i was on the opinion with several psychologist and also a lobbyist. that was interesting and it was really nice to interact with so many women lead ands talk about mental health it is huge for us in the fire and em circumstance service. and final low we continue to work with the mayor's budget office. sxf hopeful low the next meeting we should know what the details of the budget be and will be able to report that out. and -- that completes my report approximate happy to take questions. >> thank you, thank you very much, chief. any public comment?

public comment will be closed. my fellow commissioners. questions for the chief? hi. chief. i want to apologize last time i checked in with you i didn't realize i did have a question for you that later i realized i did. and going through the materials may be we can talk about it off line again but -- the topic that the -- um -- chief peoples brought up about the document? the diversity, equity competence inclusion document. is there such a document or talk

about that. i'm happy to speak to it. yes. absolutely. so -- yea. he was incorrect in stating the racial equity action plan had not been submitted. it had been submitted and it is an actual document that we are required to submit. and we did that to the office of racial equity while he was out of the office, we took that over and -- completed that -- for him. yes, it has been completed and submitted. >> now is it tied in the budget as well? >> so -- all of my assistant chiefs and the chiefs from the field will submit send documentation my way in terms of budget asks. and you know in the perfect world we get everything we want. but -- you know there are

certainly challenges with the budget this year and while the department has a lot of need, you know we need to prioritize -- our front line operation s and just getting the daily work done. not everybody gets when they want in that budget. that's unfortunate but the reality of you know working for the city. so -- yes, i did receive the budget from him and as i did from all my other departments and assistant deputies we prioritize and speak with the mayor's budget office. >> great. >> thank you for your answer. >> absolutely. >> happy to do so. >> no otheren questions -- from the commissioners.

i wanted to clarify, when you were talking about the parcel for the fire training center, and i -- am familiar with the parcel and the issues associated with acquiring it in its entirety. when you are referring to the nonprolodgeis piece is that the piece that is owned by the port? >> yes. that is owned by the port. a pol joes and that's why that legislation has to go through. on the state level. because the state over access the port property. >> thank you. i wanted to be clear that the diagram i have seen before and have in my head that was the piece you were referring to. congratulations. . that's a big win. >> yes. temperature is a good start and you know -- we will keep pushing

on the port property and on the legislation and hopeful low we will have over 7 acres the end of the year. and the same vote in the state senate as in the assembly. >> thank you that is my only question. >> good evening. chief of department i'm tom oshg connor the chief of administration this my report for april 2022. assistant deputy chief conducted our home land security control drill where we emulate an earthquake or sdaft and have our battalion control system go in where we divide the fire department to different

battalion and each acts as itself own fire department. work with the incident management team and volunteers. we had our san francisco fire department exercise in santa rosa. i state office of emergency services drill conducting search and rescue around the state. emergency sponse time participated. we see pictures of them for disaster response and turning off a gas main and a neighborhood assessment this is part of the battalion control drill we sends members in the community to see where the danger is in case communications are down we do a street survey and emergencies that may be arc rising. >> under our health, safety and wellness natasha parks.

coffee with the clinician. our team offers an off campus approach where we have a certified clinician meet and we get the members off and nonduty come in and talk about concerns. engage with the professional in an off campus setting today we it in cafe gecko in north beach attended well by battalion 1. and health and safety chief in the wellness fair by the united service women and the san francisco health service system where we had i don't go it. sleep health and chair massages and a smoothy bicycle where you exercise and blends a smoothy simultaneously. >> underoir physician's office the doctor and registered nurse we had 50 candidates cleared for

the fire academy the h-2's. 35 cleared for our level one and 2 academy emt and paramedics. and we had 12 promotion in probation exams under covid the chief said we have 38 members not 28. it has gone up a bit out with covid but no one required hospitalizations. and in the process of scanning our medical records to digital to make more room in the office we have years of paper files. under our investigative service [inaudible] we had a [inaudible] performed the result was negative. 3 members tested all were negative. 3 post accident alcohol approximate drug tests and all

negative. 5 of our have been sent for recertification. this has been the delay with the return of them from the manufacturer. captain ato monitors the member's driver's license and updating track software and refresher class and conducting the background investigations for our new h-2 firefighter candidates. under support service the chief ramone we had 146 service requests submitted. 17 were [inaudible] and 95 of the service orderings were completed. graffiti removed by the painter and the completion certificate for station 35 from the ambulance deployment. the contractors addressing 15 items. the parking garage, cam rap replacement and under ground

irrigation like. best news the mobile air and 5 new engines distributed to the field. we have one more going out tomorrow. our host build continuous we look for an early fall deliver etch our turn out bid awarded all star fire equipment for our personal protection equipment. waiting for that bid we conducted a piggyback contact with los angeles we use their manufacturer to have our standards and measurement manslaughter to out fit the 129 and 130th academy class with the turn outs. chief and our station engineer they did a remodel of our former station froin. that will be the new headquarter for paramedicine. i will show you next mont it looks terrific and proud mule home. under our feel good section of

the report. the city and county chancellor's industry forum lieutenant anderson participated with the chancellor's foreup and requested he help us improving recruitment efforts and training and education programs. the team and truck 48 the spring fling wellness fair and members at the book shop in westportal. captain and her team and captain mike day foek poke about [inaudible] code joshua is a new program we started by -- joshua wanted a program to educate first responders how to deal with someone with awe simple disorder. we are a nightmare we are about light come noise and commotion and scare those on the spectrum.

it is a program that educates us how to respond to those who are autism we have a video clip from the interview. haa family registry simples families with register with first responders under code joshua deciding what information they want to include a picture and behaviors. for our his is the slapping of hands. or loud vocalization or plug his ears or might run away. >> not follow commands. because he does not understand this j. if code joshua is put in motion the process will kick in observe the crews leave the station dispatch send the

information to their computers. 911 emergency what are you reporting? >> my son republican, way from home and he is awe cystic and nonverbal. is he registered with code joshua. >> san francisco fireplace is interested in exploring code joshua. imagine they are in a fire building and we are trying to take them out of the building. >> they are on censory over load. when we responded it calls we come in with lights, sirens and wearing gloves that is overwhelming for those folks. education is everything. >> that was a small clip. we look to create a training for members to show them thou how to respond and get this in the computer assisted dispatch system so we know where we're

going and how to handle the patient most appropriate ly. we had the h3 level one academy. congratulations to our 25 new emt's. and we had our mission high fire and ems seniors and juniors progressed fire and ems for their senior year. went to i presentation where they did a demonstration of fire safety, preeng venz and ems techniques i can't see enough. it was eye open to see enthusiastic all the kids were and look forward to seeing them in the future as san francisco firefighters, paramedics and emt's. >> and honor eaches by the board of sprieshzs aa ip month for work and community out reach and her career and chief nicholson spoke the award ceremony 4 of our members [inaudible].

were honored for tireless work made during and throughout our covid-19 response. that is my report for professional 2022. if you have questions i will be happy to answer. >> thank you. any public comment? >> nobody on the public comment line and i don't see beganeding up to make comment. why public comment will be closed. i will turn to my fellow commissioners. all right. i have one. of course. am may sound petty but it just concerns me a bit. i believe you indicated that checking people's driver's licenses hu3 members who had suspended and worn had a revoked license.

knowing a bit about how license come to be in that status what action do you take to either get them licenses back. or -- determine that it is appropriate for them to remain on duty given the status of their licenses? i know some people there is a driver and our low always the driver. i assume that is not one of these people. but still, our members should have valid california driver's licenses you never know. >> correct. each were and every case is individual on itself. could be the variety of offense a missed court appearance by accident or a traffic infraction. each one is handled in an individual manner.

through our investigative process and a personnel matter come to your attention if i can speak about it delicately. if there is an investigation concerning each and deal appropriately. >> good, it gets addressed. >> yes. i understand how the path way for each case may be different. that is good to know. that was my one question . otherwise, a really good and entering presentation. thank you. >> all right. item sick. prove of the minutes the discussion and possible action to approve the meeting minutes from the special meeting on march 30th, april fifth, april sickth, april 25th. may fourth and the regular meeting on may 11th, 2022. >> do we have any public comment

on the 6 sets of minutes?commen? caller would you like to comment on item 6. no public comment. all right. there does not appear to be public comment in the room. any questions or discussions from any of the commissioners on this 6 sets of minutes. >> yes. vice president nakajo, please. >> a point of clarification are we adopting the minutes individualally by the date. >> no they can be adopted all together. >> yes. >> thank you. >> unless there is objections. do you have objection or comment about any of the particular sets

of minutes? >> not at this time. i needed clarity in terms of action. >> thank you. >> all right. i move. >> all right. is there a second? >> i'm sorry -- i'm sorry. >> point of order -- my assumption is i was not here i will not vote on anything. >> abstain or not vote. >> anybody know? >> i believe we will not call upon you to vote. we have a quorum the 3 of us and we were at the meeting. thank you. >> i note that you recused yourself. >> i will note you recused yourself so it reflects in the minutes. >> all right. is there a second to the motion to adopt the 6 meeting minutes. why a second. >> all right. >> thank you commissioner morgan. and president feinstein? adopt the minutes from each

those meetings. motion is unanimous. item 7. public comment on item 8. public comment on all matters pertaining to item 8 including public comment on whether or not to hold ab, c, g, efg in closed session. why and is there a motion to hold these -- >> thank you. >> public comment. caller would you like to make public comment on item 8? nope. there is no public comment. all right. and i don't see anybody in the room indicating they wish to make public comment on item 8. i'm going to move that we conduct items 8b, c, d, e, f and

g and closed session. is there a second? second. all right. commissioner morgan seconds. and vice president nakajo? i vote, yes. aye to adopt. >> the motion is unanimous we gallon in closed session at 6:09.

keep are back in open session the time is 6:upon 27. item 9 action taken in closed session. spes foiled in the california gentleman code section 54957. 1a and section 67.12b.

>> good evening. commissioners there is nothing for the commission to report under this item. >> thank you. >> item 10. vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion in closed session spes foil in the san francisco code section 67.12 arc. >> is there a motion. >> make a motion we keep it in closed session. >> or not disclose. >> thank you. >> i vet not to disclose the motion is unanimous. item 11 adjournment. >> i like to make a motion to adjourn. >> all right. and i vote to adjourn as well. this meeting is adjourned. >> and the time is 6:28. it.

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evening. i call this meeting to order. please take it away, kyle. >> good evening. this is the meeting of the san francisco commission on the environment. the date is tuesday, may 24th, the time is 5:05 p.m. the ringing of cell phones and pagers and similar devices are prohibited. the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of anyone using a phone or similar device. for remote participants, note the ringing of cell phones, pagers and similar devices can happen virtually and is still prohibited. please turn your devices off. due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect

commissioners, department staff, and members of the public, commissioners and department staff may participate in the meeting remotely. the exception is taken to the stay-at-home order and proceeding and preceding local state and federal orders, declarations and directive. commissioners may attend the meeting through video conference or telephone if the video fails and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item in agenda. comments on matters not in the agenda, there will be an opportunity for general public comment. participates who wish to comment in person will be asked to come forward and three minute to speak each. members of the public participating remotely may comment by calling into the meeting. opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available via phone by calling 415-655-0001

and entering access code 24947091641. when connected, dial star three to be added to the queue. sf gov is streaming the number at the top of the screen. best practices are to call from a quiet location and speak clearly and slowly and silence any other devices. alternatively, members of the public may submit public comment by e-mail to environment at sf gov dot org. comments submitted via e-mail will be forwarded to the commissioners and will be included as part of the official file. i will now call the roll. president ting >> here. stephenson is excused. commissioner bermejo is excused and commissioner hunter is excused, commissioner sullivan? >> here. >> commissioner walled. >> here.

>> commissioner wan >> here. commissioner, we have a quorum. >> thank you. next item. >> the next item is the president's welcome and this item is for discussion. >> good evening, everyone. the commission on the environment technologies that we occupy the unseated and homeland of the ramatish people who are the inhabitants peninsula. they understand the interconnectedness of all things and maintained harmony with nature for what linea. we honor them for their enduring commitment to mother earth as the indigenous protecters of this land and in accordance with their traditions, they have not seeded or loss or forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place and all people who reside in their traditional territory. we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland as guests, we affirm that sovereign rights as first peoples and wish to pay our respects to the

ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramashi community. as environmentalist, we recognize we must embrace indigenous nature of how we care for all their people. thank you for this important acknowledgement. very briefly for the president's welcome, i want to welcome everybody to seeing to the brief commission on the environment committee. we had another meeting two weeks ago about general matters before the commission and our public review. today our queue substantive item will be on a presentation on the commissions role in selecting a new department director by down kate howard, the managing director deputy at the department of human resources and if you have observed this process at other departments, other commissions, it is a very long process. it will take at least six months, if not longer. and during that time, i'll grateful for act

being director tyron jue's leadership and bringing us through a critical phase for the department as we continue to figure out our expanding budget in the next two months as well as our climate action plan as well, which of course, director jue will take about in his director's report but until then, stay tuned and we hope to have a robust discussion today on the future selection process for our new permanent director as well. so, with that, is there any discussion, commissioners on this item? seeing none, kyle, let's open it up for public comment on the item, then. >> we will begin with public comment in the room. once in-person comment has conclude, we'll go to virtual public comment and anyone in the room who wish to speak, come forward and speak into the microphone. seeing none, we'll proceed to remote public comment. members

of the public who wish to make a public comment on this item should press star three to be added to the queue. for those already on hold in the queue, wait until it's your turn to speak. we do have one caller in the queue. >> hello caller, you're unmuted. your three minutes begins now. >> david, i'm just testing to be sure i can be heard. >> we can hear you. >> charles, good, thank you. >> thank you. >> any further callers in the queue? seeing no further callers in the queue, public comment on this item has closed. >> thank you, kyle. next item,

please. >> the next item in the agenda is item 3, approval of minutes of the may 10, 2022, commission on the environment special meeting and explanatory document, may 10th and 2022, draft minutes and discussion and action. >> i'll move approve -- approval of minutes. >> motion by commissioner sullivan and any other discussion on this. if not, let's open it up for public comment. >> we will begin with public comment in the room. once in-person comment have concludes, we'll proceed to remote public comment. anyone in person that would like to speak for public comment. seeing none, we'll proceed to remote public comment. members public who wish to make a public comment should

press star three 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. we do have one caller in the queue. >> hello caller, you're unmuted. your three minutes begins now. >> david again much i have no objection to the draft minutes, to the substance, i have reviewed them briefly. once again, i suggest that it be cut in the middle of page 5. i think the additional boil plate for (indiscernible) is appropriate for the agenda but not to the minutes and other boards and commissions have recently indicated those board and commission member that's are participating remotely as to those participating physically in person, i think it's up to

the body if you want to satisfy that in the minutes or the record. i believe, commissioner, president on and commission walled participates two weeks ago. i'm basing it on if and when. as to the substance, have i no objection, thanks for listening. >> thank you for your comment. >> seeing no additional callers in the queue, public comment has closed. >> call roll, kyle. >> president oahn. >> aye. >> vice-president stephenson is excused. commissioner bermejo is excused. commissioner hunter is

excused. commissioner sullivan? >> aye. >> commissioner warld. >> aye >> commissioner wan? >> aye. >> the item passes. next agenda item. >> next agenda item is number four. general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. we'll go to public comment in the room and then go to remote public comment. if there's anyone in the room who would like to speak for public comment and please come forward one-by-one and speak into the mic and seeing none, we'll proceed to remote public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment on this item should press star three to be aed to the queue. for those on hold in the queue, please continue to

wait until it is your turn to speak. and seeing no callers in the queue, public comment on this item has closed. >> all right. thanks, kyle. seeing no further callers, maybe we should move on to the next item. >> the next item is agenda item no. five, presentation on commission role in selecting new department director. and speaker is kate and director at the department of human resources and this item is for discussion. >> do we have you on the line? >> good afternoon, president ahn and members of the commission. i'm kate howard and i'm the managing deputy director in the city of human resources department. i appreciate the opportunity to be here with you

today to review the commissions role in selecting a new director for the department of the environment. and i have a brief presentation for you. kyle, can we have the slide today, thank you. can we do the next slide? so, i'm happy to answer questions as we go and i'm happy to answer them at the end. as is noted here, the charter authorizes the mayor to select a new department head from among three or more candidates that are no, ma'am kneed by the commission on the environment. through your role is really an essential role in this process in that your responsibility as a commission is to conducts a recruitment process which will identify candidates for the director position and interview and evaluate those candidates and then recommend the best candidate to the mayor for her

consideration. next slide, please. i have a high level slide here that provides an overview of the steps to get recruitment, d hr's role in the process is to support the commission in that recruitment. so the first step, we have a full five executive recruitment firms and we're pleased to conduct a request for proposals from those prequalified firms. once we request those on your behalf, the commission will review those proposals or review a summary of those proposals and make a selection. the third step is to begin the recruitment process. that process really begins once you've selected the

firm and they'll basically work with you to articulate the job description and define the candidate that you're looking for, the ideal candidate. they'll also work with you to gather input from a have right of sources as you would like -- variety of sources as you would like. the fourth step is to, once you have approved that candidate profile to begin the recruitment and outreach and so they'll begin to go, really, identify candidates for the job, proactively recruit them into the pool and then start to assess them, evaluate them and see what they can bring back to the commission in step five, a presentation of all of the individuals who applied. once you -- the commission typically reviews that, all the candidates

in step five and then, make the determination about which candidates you wish to interview. selected candidates would be invited to participate in one or more interviews with the commission and at that point, you would collectively make a decision about which candidates you wished to advance to the mayor. prior to advancing those candidates, the firm would conduct the candidates on your behalf and the candidates would be presented potentially transmitted from the commission to the mayor for her consideration. so what's the summary of the -- that's a summary of the process. let's go to the next slide, kyle. this process typically, as president ahn mentioned, the shortest that i have seen it take is four months and i have seen it take up to a year, so it really varies, depending on a number of

different factors. but a six-month timeline is a good standard to plan for. so, as i've mention, we have pre qualified executive recruitment firms that's available to support departments and commissions to the executive recruitment. our role in terms of next steps would be to work with you to, we would go ahead and request proposals for a recruitment firm that wanted to support the commission in your recruitment for a new department head. we could evaluate those proposals based on things like costs, timeline, their experience with recruiting and diverse candidate pool and their experience recruiting for similar positions. and then we would bring back to you a recommendation of one or more

firms for your consideration. at that point, you would let, you may know which one or ones you wanted to move forward with, select -- and then we would, we hold aup the contracts so we would issue a purchase order off that pro and the process could start. that's all of my slides. i'm happy to answer any questions you have. you can take down the slide. >> questions? thank you, commissioner sullivan. >> thank you for your presentation. one question i had, is any part of this process private or is it all done at noticed meetings to which the public attends? >> thank you for the question, commissioner. so, the, let's see. so, the process related to selecting an executive recruitment firm and discussing the qualities that the

commission is seeking in a perspective department head, those would be on your agenda and those would happen within the public meeting. at the point when candidates are being presented to the commission, those conversations and that information about those candidates is in provided in closed session. the same thing would hold true for the interview process. and as you know, the decision to go into a closed session is agendized on a commission meeting and there's deliberation and public comment on those matters. >> got it. that makes sense. there are really two decisions that i see here. one is for the commission. one is the selection

of the firm to assist and the second is the selection of the candidates to present to the mayor. i assume both of those would be done in public? >> um, so typically, when the commission ask dhr to move forward with a particular recruiter on your behalf, that would happen in the public. typically, the commission, when they are advancing names to the mayor, that would be done in a closed session. >> i see. >> however, the commission, upon the selection of the mayor, the commission is required to disclose their vote on the selected candidate. >> thank you. >> other questions? yes, commissioner wald.

>> i should back up and say i have participated in two processes for choosing the executive director in the past, but it might have been three. and in those instances, the commission operated through a sub committee. is that still possible? times have changed but we operated through a subcommittee and the subcommittee met, in one case i was in the subcommittee and we met at 8:00 in the morning in? city basement where we reviewed the files and interviewed the candidates in order to protect their identity. is that kind of

process still permitted and is it -- if it is permitted, then other commissions have relied on with good results? because it might be kind of hard for all of us to get together. it's very labor intention -- time inten, to go through all of the candidates submissions and to sort of prioritize them. >> thank you for the question, commissioner. yes, it is still permissible for commissions to identify members of subcommittee to conduct parts of the process on behalf of the full commission. the mta commission used this process, just the most recent one i recall, they had a

subcommittee. the department of public health had a sub, maybe had a subcommittee. and other commissions have chosen to retain the matter in front of the full commission for the whole process. it really is at the commission's discretion. >> can i ask a follow-up question? >> yes. >> thank you. can you suggest guidelines or criteria we should use in trying to decide whether to go in one direction or another? >> i think the, so the point that you raised regarding the amount of time that the process can take and the ability of commission members to dedicate that time to the process, i think is an important factor to consider. in particular, so, i

guess there's two -- there's one more thing, i guess i would say, when commissions meet weekly, it's easier to schedule the various topics and the discussion items in front of the commission. when the commission meets less frequently, it's challenging to keep the process moving along and so i think that's a factor, potentially, to consider but i think on the -- it's also -- it is an important decision and your recruiter will bring you -- will make an effort to help you narrow down the candidates that applied based on your criteria. >> thank you. that was helpful. >> any other questions? >> sorry.

>> one follow up which is, can closed session be done remotely? >> that may be a technology or, i think that might be a technology question, but i will -- i can advise you that most recently, the puc conducted their recruitment and that process was able to occur, closed session meetings were able to occur remotely. but i think it may be -- there may be technical issues that you want to work through with kyle and the department of technology and sfgov tv. >> that should mean the interviews can be conducted remotely which would be, make it easier than it has been in the past? in materials -- in terms

-- >> that's executive credit. the dbi commission conducted all of their interviews remotely. >> that's where i was going with my leading question. >> okay. and maybe this is the final question, but you know, the next point, decision point in this process, it sounds like we'll have a list of recruiting firms to choose from at our next commission meeting, do you think that's about right, director howard? >> thank you for the question. when is your next commission meeting? >> i believe july 26th, is it -- july 26th. >> i feel confident we can bring firms ready and prepared to work with the commission by the july meeting, yes. >> all right. >> do we select the firm or -- >> yes. >> we do. >> just to clarify, director how war, do you want then -- low

weissman-ward, do you want the entire commission to vote on -- to vote on the commission or is it given to a subcommittee? how would you prefer it? >> it really is the -- at your discretion, so i can, i've done this in different ways with different commission. some have asked me to work directly with the commission president to review the applications and then the commission president would either direct me to move forward or would work with the commission to move forward. it happened with a subcommittee and also with the full commission so it really is at your, it's really what the commission prefers, it's not what i prefer. >> with commissioner hunter and

bermejo, maybe we should kick this discussion to the next meeting but i'm open to it be a collaborative discussion. >> july, we'll have the list of the firms? right? >> yes. >> we can decide who will be in the committee or subcommittee? >> i think so. >> and if i could just suggest one potential resource for information on just how it has been done in past but the issues that came up and the reasons why things were done a certain way, is the former deputy of the department which is -- he oversaw all of the or almost all of the selection processes for the previous directors. he lives here in san francisco and i have

his e-mail address if the department doesn't and he could be a resource for zoom and for you in terms of how to think about this, how to frame the process, the pros and cons, so that you know, you could potentially have a series of recommendations for us at the next meeting to, so we can vote on it in terms of the process and how it should go forward. >> and do you happen to know if director or do you happen to know if this person would be applying for the rfp as well? >> oh, no. >> okay. it would be informal. >> he loves retirement. >> if that's the case, it sounds like useful advice. >> no, no, no conflict there. >> that's good. any other words

of wisdom for us, director howard? i think if there are no other -- >> do any department staff involved in this process at all? >> that's a good question. did you hear that, director howard? >> yes. thank you, commissioner wan. no, the only department staff that would be involved in the process would be kyle, as your commission secretary because he'll need to work with me to agendized certain items and with city attorney's office, that would be really the only person involved. >> thanks! >> in terms of other sort of recommendations or next steps, president ahn and members of the commission, what i'm hearing request is that we go forward to request from our group of

pre-qualify firms, which among them is interested in working with the commission on the director recruitment, so we'll proceed with that. and then in addition, it sounds like there's some interest in or further flushing out the options in terms of a subcommittee or not, and i'm happy to work with the commission president and city attorney's office to help you on that. >> that sounds good. >> uh-huh. >> do we have to have a motion on this? >> today is a discussion only item today and yeah, i think the process will move on as it normally has. >> good. >> we should hope to make a decision on the firm at the july meeting, is that our goal, to keep this moving forward? >> also decide whether we have a subcommittee or not?

>> yes. those are two items so again, to repeat, whether to have a subcommittee and then to make a decision on the recruitment firm at the july 6th meeting. any other items or points of discussion? >> if not, if not have a subcommittee and i don't have a position on this, i think it would be helpful to know, unless -- unless we are going to be working with the firm on determining what the actually process is, it would be helpful to me to have a sense of what the process, what the options are or meeting up at 8:00 in the morning or meet after a regular meeting and meet, you know, after all regular meetings. you know, i just don't -- i don't

know. and i can't quite figure out when we're going to know, how we're going to know. >> i'm hoping the july meeting, we'll focus that discussion. >> i know. >> okay. >> that's why i'm -- >> let me collect me memory, i was on committee last time. i think for the last round, we actually do have full commission to sit on the commission, is that right? >> do you remember that? >> the final two -- >> all the finalists. >> right. >> that's the full commission, right? >> yes. for the full commission but i don't think they did before. >> true. >> i think they were widowed out by a process that involved less than the complete commission.

>> right, right. correct. >> but that was not the process that i was involved in, so i don't actually know how. i don't remember how it went or who was involved. >> so, i have a follow-up question for director howard. if we are -- sort of following on that question, if we're required to present a minimum of three to the mayor, how many would you expect to come to the commission through the recruiting firm? i know it varies from time-to-time. would we be looking at six, at ten? >> typically, the commission would review probably between five and eight to narrow it down to three. >> thank you. >> it does depend as you said on

the overall candidate pool and you may end up with, you no, really, one or two out of that pool that really are the commission -- >> thank you. >> if there's no other commission discussion, maybe then we can move on to public comment at this point. kyle, let's open it up then. >> before we start public comment, just given the air conditioning, if the commissioners could speak a little closer to the microphone so we can pick up all audio from today's meeting. we'll begin with public comment in the room. once in-person comment has conclude, we'll proceed to remote public comment. are there members of 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 press star three to be added to the queue. for those already on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak. we do have a caller in the queue. hello caller, you're unmuted. your three minutes begins now. >> can you hear me okay? >> yes. >> great. david, so, several points here, i do not support retaining outside recruitment firm. i think it's a waste of funds. i believe there's plenty eve of candidates in -- plenty of candidates in the bay area, perhaps in the department and

certainly within the city, other public agencies, private firms, nonprofits. but candidates in the bay area, you have heard from commissioner wald that david ossman may be available and he could probably lead the search process, perhaps even a staff employee of the city, so if this is some kind of $50,000 task order for pre-selected recruitment firm, i think that's an absolute waste of funds, particularly, if it involves (indiscernible) paid for by the rate payers so no thank you on that. i would be very clear on what actions are required or allowed in open session verses closed session. i would keep the public informed, although i am not at all interested in the names of candidates that apply.

i'm very interested in the number of candidates that apply, so i would like to know at some point in the future as the process is moving along, for example, that 49 applications are received. it was whittled down to seven or eight. that the commission did a first round of interviews with, you know, either all seven or eight of those candidates or five of them and then brought back x number of can at that time -- candidates for a second round and recommend tree or four more candidates to the mayor. those numbers and the process steps, i think are important for the public to know. i would star with a clear timeline and specific steps in responsibilities internal and external to the department and to the city. next i would determine the desired quality in a director and i would do that soon and finalize the job description, i would not have a selection committee here, this commission has the time to have special meetings, i wouldn't

wait two months for the regular meeting and i would schedule a special meeting in a month to move on this quickly. remote meetings have legal and technical issues and not simple to organize and finally this is listed as a discussion item, future items related to the director search should be listed as discussion and possible action, so that you have maximum discretion as the how to proceed. i would very much suggest having a written plan even if managing director (indiscernible) and she has gotten direction from the commission. you should follow up at the next meeting to formalize the next steps in the process and approve recruitment and selection plan for this position. thanks for listening. >> thank you for your comment.

seeing no additional -- additional callers in the queue, public comment for this item has closed. >> all right. >> thanks everybody for your robust discussion and next item. >> the next item is item 6. director's report. tyron ju, acting director good this item is for discussion. >> thank you, commissioners, thank you, kyle. so, our first meeting we obviously had a very special topic to talk about on may 10th and today's update, it's to talk about all the amazing work i was saying was still going on in the background even in the mist of all that conversation, so i'm pleased to provide today's report on the activities of march and april mostly. the may update will be covered in our july meeting and there's a lot more detail than i'm going to go over. my

talking points can be found in the written report but i wanted to flag the highlights and one of the most important highlights is we know for successful implementation of our climate action plan, it does require row robust community engagement that's the anchor for achieving the goals we want to set out in our plan and i'm pleased to report we had a successful climate action month. thanks to the hard work of our many staff in the department. the fourth annual climate action month outreach campaign ran from march 25th to april 30th and i want to give the highlights of what was done. we created a landing page which cataloged all 130 activity that were taken place that month. and that page received 32,000 visitors. it's 15,000 more visitors than received the previous year so there was an especially crease in the act of activity we saw on that web page. in addition, we did goggle search ads, facebook ads to really promote all activities taking place and we had over $34,000 clicks for the

san francisco environment organize events. we also had five live and virtual events with over 300 registered participants and youth day of service and bike ride in golden gate park and focus event around ev and electrification. on the other hand, we have an amazing outreach team that does work with public schools and they were in hot demand during that period as well. schools are calling, like, hey, can we get someone out to talk to our kids, it was an amazing opportunity. we reached over 2500 kids from k to five where we talk about zero waste and all of our water programs in the sfpuc and did assembly for one hundred high schools so we reached the tougher crowd in the older age group through our the common future program. on the policy side, i do want to follow up on one policy item, which the policy committee heard on which was the antibiotic use in the

food animal ore narns. the deadline for reporting, for chicken and turkey and lamb was postponed to may 31st and i want the commission to be aware. talks are going well with the representatives from the california groceries association so we've been having good conversations with them and we believe we'll have plans to report back to the commission on beef and pork so we're making process thanks to the committee hearing so thank you commission for advancing that conversation. on the legislative front, we are moving forward with an edible food recovery legislation which is being sponsored by president walden. that's scheduled for committee this month and hopefully will be approved on the june 14th board of supervisors meeting. what that does is it codifies what's required under state law under sb1383. but predominantly provides the enforcement mechanism for us to enforce that through the department and so, what this is really aiming at is

capturing all the, recovering as much food as possible from large generators and making sure the food goes in the hands of those who are in need. so bringing the foods to placing like the san francisco food bank and other locations where it can be redistributed out to people and through the pilot program we have done, we've had tremendous successful working with lafrm groceries and supermarket and 3,000 pounds of food were donated to those in need. it's tremendous opportunity and we're glad that president walden is leading that. it will allow the department to be eligible for a cal recycle grant. 1.1 millions. which is actually going to go towards the other part of the kind of circular economy model which is promoting composting activity. so the $1.1 million at cal recycle is offering to the city, it will be used to work with rec. and park and our community guard earns and schools to get compost back in

those areas and promote compost activity. another area of highlight is i wanted to focus the equity work accomplished over the last two months. our energy access sf program, which is a local partnership with pg&e and so they're focusing on providing access and the energy program is for lower income communities and for communities in need. they concluded their ten month of outreach in the bay views hunters point reaching 135 businesses and 200 residences and in april the program began outreach to the mission and neighborhoods reaching over 233 residents and 27 businesses in the first month so they're prioritizing those areas that have been disproportion alley impacted by pollution. we had the zero waste teamwork with our zero waste -- on recycling and compost rollout within the westbrook apartments we is a 200 affordable housing development

in district 11 so they work with the residents there on how to properly sort their waste and actually they're doing really well based on every report, so that direct education and work with the groups in the westbrook apartments is yielding tremendous result. finally, we have our green business program which over the fiscal year recognize 93 businesses so far. and this year they really made an emphasis working with cbo's to partner and receive higher participation rates in our underserved communities so that was a challenge so when they looked at the maps and saw where we were getting participation for our green business programs, they were hold within neighborhoods like the bay view and the mission excel yes, sir so the team did an outstanding job working with cbo's to conduct that outreach so they worked with a number of nonprofits and signed up nine new ones which are neighborhoods

of high pollution at vernon and 22 that are insign they're starting to make a difference and again, that direct outreach using trusted partners within the community to start turning the page there. as we discussed at our may 10th meeting, we're going to start reporting regularly on our ethnics so the three updates we have for this period, we did have all of you fill out your form 700 and myself and the -- designated staff in the department so we hit all deadlines and as a follow up to how discussion, we're working on identifying those additional individuals require to file a form 700 so we had a conversation in the department to talk about and who is covered under that requirement from the department. in addition, we did our invested payment legislation training that was conducted by the city attorney's office by senior staff and we had great

discussions around contracting grants and one of the follow ups there is we're having staff compile their question from all the different programs they have, so we can con so tate everything and kind of present everything to the city attorney's office. we can catalog everything and learn from what programs are doing and what they're allowed and not allowed to do and create that process within the department. and finally, we did, as the department received one gift of two shares for the eco center, it was a total of $510. lastly, i just want to announce the new staff and staff changes. we had several program staff leave the department, so i do want to thank all of them for their service. in particular, we had asia who was our outreach manager. justin who was our press and policy coordinator, suzanne who is our clean transportation program coordinator, and jesse and choy who is our municipal toxic

reduction coordinator. we've had several new staff join the department this spring. and we'll check on their availability to bring them back out when they can introduce themselves back to the commission but i believe we have three staff that are available virtually that wanted to introduce them -- themselves and what they do. we have austina and anna wong and stephanie lee. at the want to bring up each one of them to talk a little bit more what they're going to do. >> can you hear us, augustina? >> yes, can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> okay, can you see me? >> we cannot see you so far.

>> okay. how about there? >> there we go. >> okay. hi, everyone. nice to meet y'all. and thank you for having me at this commission meeting this afternoon. my name is austina and i apologize, i'm in the car coming back from the field. i was working for one of our projects but i'm an environmental outreach aid for the department and i started last year and it has been a year and a few months now and i really enjoy all work i'm doing. my background is in environmental science. i went to cal poly and i graduated last year as well, so this is my first job right out of college and i'm enjoying it so much. one of the projects that i'm working on right now in the department of environment in the environment outreach team is the reaching disposals program which

we work with various areas throughout the whole city and (indiscernible) for our disposal program which we encourage them to reduce waste by switching to reusables and disposals, so -- [audio difficulties] in district four and district one, and the rest of the team is doing the whole city in all and districts and we're hoping to finish that next month. another project i'm working on is energy access sf. we started last year with our hopes on the bay view in all of district ten and now we have moved in -- in the beginning of 2022, to work on district 11 and it's beneficial to have in-person work back because we're able to switch our outreach strategies to be more than just phone calls and be able to do tabling,

presentations in person and i have support in virtual presentations, so that has been going really well and we're hoping to finish this batch of working in district 11 and the energy access sf in the next month, so it has been going really well and i'm hopeful for the next few projects that we got going on, thank you. >> thank you -- thank you, augustina. >> next, we have ann wong with us. >> can you folks hear and see

me? >> we can see and hear you, ann. >> okay, great. good evening, commissioners. i apologize for not being able too attend in person. my name is annie wong and i'm the new city government fair waste assistant coordinator under the fair waste team. a little about myself, i was born and raised here in this city and i attended the university of california santa cruz and majored in sociology which let me to working in nonprofit in the city surveying asian-pacific islander youth. i joined the department in 2018 under the education team and i became the environmental justice associate working with affordable housing properties with zero waste and integrated waste management program so reporting our department these equity initiative. in my new role, i will work with the city departments employees to develop and implement their zero waste programs and i'll be managing

the virtual warehouse. thank you. >> great. thank you, annie. welcome back, annie. good to see you again. >> we also have stephanie lee with us. stephanie, can you hear us >> yes, i can hear you. one second while i start my video. okay. can you see me? >> we can see you, stephanie, yes. >> awesome, thank you everyone.

hi. my name is stephanie and i recently started in april as the new climate program assistant coordinator. prior to this, i studied innen veneering and urban planning at u.c. san diego and i grew up in city like annie and really was inspired by all the sustainability and environmental education i had growing up here from things like learning how to compost and environmental education, authorization, so really excited to be here with the city and contribute to the programs that inspired and motivated me to pursue environmental engineering so i worked in veerlal consultant prior to this doing investigation work managing construction oversight, regulatory compliance and reporting and also assisted with

sustainability metric reporting for the company i work for. and my new role here as the climate program assistant coordinator, i'll be supporting the greenhouse gas emission inventory and supporting sustainability reporting disclosure and also helping with climate action plan metrics tracking and implementation and i look forward to working with you all. thank you. >> >> thank you, stephanie. and with that, that concludes my report and happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. any commissioner questions? yes, commissioner wald. >> you did not mention the budget director. >> yes. i don't have any new update outside of what i reported on in may 10th, that's

why i didn't have new information to share. so, i think we're waiting with data to see what mayor's budget looks like in middle of june when it's released. >> if there's nothing else, maybe we can move on to public comment, kyle. >> we will begin with public comment here in the room. once in-person comment has conclude, we'll proceed to remote public comment. any members of the public present in the room who wish to speak today. if so, please come forward one-by-one and speak clear -- clearly into the mic. seeing none, we'll proceed to remote public comment. members of public who wish to speak a public comment on this item should press star three to be put in the queue. if already in the queue, please wait for your turn to speak. we

do have a caller in queue. >> hello caller, you're unmuted and your three minutes begins now. >> can you hear me okay? >> yes. >> great. david, hopefully the last time tonight. so, in the director's report, there's? new content more specifics about contracts and grants. it suggest having more controls and oversight at the commission level contracts and grants, rfp's, there's specific dates here and there's a few dates missing. i'll take some of that off mine. on the staff changes, i did not know jesse and troy left the department, she was always fun and i will certainly miss that. i think at least one

other staff person who i referred to previously has also left the department and has not reported, perhaps it didn't finalize during this period but there were others who were referred to including asia and joseph, so there may be more of a recap in next written report. it seems to me the department personnel changes are occurring more quickly and in my view, that will likely continue as staff transitions occur. i hope that people are briefing each other and there's? training -- there's training occurring so programs can occur as seamlessly as possible as well as given new and greater emphasis to ethics training and who is involved in decision-making. i'm wondering about the status of board of supervisors file 220199, back on

gas powered landscaping equipment, that was last at the budget committee a couple of weeks ago and continued to the call of the chair. i assume the discussions are ongoing, perhaps, we could hear a sentence or two on that. finally, michael with the puc announced last week he's retiring in a month at the end of the fiscal year, acting director jue and i and charles have all worked with michael at puc. i believe he's been a big supporter of the environmental department and its programs and had a partnership between environment and puc. his knowledge of the (indiscernible) operations and his interest in the environment is going to be hard to replace but i hope we continue to have a good

relationship with the puc going forward. i'm not sure that the commission needs to take any action to appreciate his work over there but perhaps if there is a good away event that the department would be represented and conveyed thoughts about michael and thanks for listening. >> thank you for your comment. seeing no first caller in the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> next item, kyle. >> next item is item 7, committee reports. this item is for discussion. >> commissioner sullivan, you're up to talk about the policy committee. >> sure. so, the policy committee met april 11th. the committee heard an update on the

antibiotic ordinance including presentations by general jackson and tim from the california grocer association and james thompson, iowa state university, dr. timothy. the next meeting will take place on monday june 13th at 5:00 p.m. thank you. >> commissioner sullivan. commissioner wong, a report on the operations commitsy. >> here, the operations committee last met on april 20th and we had three presentations including zero waste career pathways pilot program. healthy homes program and essential worker ride home program. our next meeting will be on wednesday, july 20th at 5:00. >> any other discussion, commissioners? seeing none. let's go to public comment, kyle. >> we will begin with public comment here in the room. once in-person comment has concluded, we'll proceed to remote public comment. are there members of the public present in the room 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 press star three to be added to the queue. for those on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak. seeing no calls in the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> thank you, kyle. next item, please. >> the next item is item 8. new business, future agenda items. the speaker is charles sheehan, chief policy and public affairs office. -- officer. this item is for discussion. >> thank you, charles, chief policy and public affairs. the next meeting is june 13th and next operations meeting is

july 20th and next operations meeting is july 26th. for the upcoming commission meeting, we're looking at a couple of agenda items much one, the annual green purchasing report approval that you see every year. secondly, potentially a presentation from our director on his vision for the department that might also come at a further, at a later meeting. planning would like to give us an update on the safety and resilience element and update to the san francisco general plan. we're still working and looking at record retention. we'll bring that at some point, i do promise. and of course, we do want to per i cannily check in with you on how our engagement with the implementation of our climate action plan is going so probably too many agenda items for the next meeting but there's always a lot to talk about on the environment so i'll take any questions you may have. >> thank you, charles. any other discussion from commissioners? seeing none, let's go to public

comment again, kyle. >> we will begin with public comment here in the room. once in-person comment has conclude, we'll proceed to remote public comment. any members of the public present in the room who wish to speak and if so, come forward one-by-one and speak clearly into the mic. seeing none, we'll proceed to remote public comment. members of public who wish to make a public comment on this item should press star three to be added to the queue. for those on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak. seeing no callers in the queue, we can close public comment on this item. >> thank you. next item then, please. >> the next item is item no. nine, adjournment. the meeting is adjourned. the time is 60 the

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>> my name is angela wilson and i'm an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isn't that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if san francisco that have only been

one thing. >> i'm all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of we're in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay $25 for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started affordable housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a women's field in most of world just here in united states it is that pay a man's job i'm an encountered woman and raise a

son and teach i am who respect woman i consider all women's who work here to be impoverished and strong in san francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and that's a challenge in the town so many people chasing money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion. >> i'm the - i've been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up

i'm definitely the only female here i fell in love i love setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and that's how i got here today something special to have a female here a male dominated field so i think that it is very special to have women and especially like it is going at it you know i'm a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. >> the sad thing the building is sold i'm renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us

to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business it is a constant struggle to maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something i'm proud of if you want to get a job at affordable housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer ferry terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to learn

>> i moved into my wonderful, beautiful, affordable housing march 7th. i have lived in san francisco since i was two-years-old. i've lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now. my name is vlady.

i use titus and i am the resident commissioner for the san francisco housing facility. from the very beginning, this whole transition of public housing and affordable housing was a good idea. but many, many residents didn't think it would ever actually happen. it's been a life changing experience. and i'm truly grateful for the whole initiative and all those that work on the whole sf initiative. they've done a wonderful job accommodating the residents, who for many years have lived in delap tated housing. now they have quality housing. i was on a street where the living room and the kitchen and stairs. it wasn't large enough to accommodate. the children are grown.

i had the accomplish of having a dishwasher in my home. i really like that. [laughter] i really like not having to wash dishes by hand. we still do it from time to time. the mayor's office has been a real friend to us, a partner. we know that our city supports us. i love san francisco. just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been a real joy. it's been a real joy. >> hi, i'm lawrence corn field. welcome to building san francisco. we have a special series, stay

safe. we're looking at earthquake issues. and today we're going to be talking with a residential building owner about what residential building owners and tenants can and should do before earthquakes and after earthquakes. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> we're here at this wonderful spur exhibit on mission street in san francisco and i have with me today my good friend george. thanks for joining me, george. and george has for a long time owned residential property here in san francisco. and we want to talk about apartment buildings and what the owner's responsibilities might be and what they expect their tenants to do. and let's start by talking a little bit about what owners can do before an earthquake and

then maybe after an earthquake. >> well, the first thing, lawrence, would be to get together with your tenants and see if they have earthquake insurance or any renters insurance in place because that's going to be key to protecting them in the event of a quake. >> and renters insurance, there are two kinds of insurance. renters insurance coffers damage to goods and content and so forth. earthquake insurance is a separate policy you get after you get renters insurance through the california earthquake authority, very inexpensive. and it helps owners and it helps tenants because it gives relocation costs and it pays their rent. this is a huge impact on building owners. >> it's huge, it really is. you know, a lot of owners don't realize that, you know, when there is an earthquake, their money flow is going to stop. how are they going to pay their mortgages, how are they going to pay their other bills, how are they going to live? >> what else can property owners do in residential rental housing before an earthquake? >> well, the first thing you

want to do is get your property assessed. find out what the geology is at your site. get an expert in to look at structural and nonstructural losses. the structural losses, a lot of times, aren't going to be that bad if you prepare. an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. get in there and get your property assessed and figure it out. >> so, what is a nonstructural issue that might cause losses? >> well, you know, pipes, for instance. pipes will whip around during an earthquake. and if they're anchored in more numerous locations, that whipping won't cause a breakage that will cause a flood. >> i've heard water damage is a major, major problem after earthquakes actually. >> it is. that's one of the big things. a lot of things falling over, ceilings collapsing. but all of this can be prevented by an expert coming in and assessing where those problem areas and often the fixes are really, really cheap. >> who do you call when you

want to have that kind of assessment or evaluation done? >> the structural engineering community is great. we have the structural engineers association of northern california right here in san francisco. they're a wealth of information and resources. >> what kinds of things might you encourage tenants to do besides simply get tenants renters insurance and earthquake insurance, what else do you think tenants should do? >> i think it's really important to know if they happen to be in the building where is the safest place for them to go when the shaking starts. if they're out of the building, whats' their continuity plan for connecting with family? they should give their emergency contact information to their resident manager so that the resident manager knows how to get in touch. and have emergency supplies on hand. the tenants should be responsible to have their extra water and flashlights and bandages and know how to use a

toilet when there's no sewage and water flows down. and the owners of the building should be proactive in that regard as well. >> so, george, thank you so much for joining us. that was really great. and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for joining us

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come to order. this is the may 25, 2022 budget and finance committee meeting. i'm hillary ronen, chair of the finance and budget committee. i'm joined by gordon mar and vice chair safai will be here shortly. our clerk is brent jalipa and i would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements? >> with our return to the chamber, just a friendly reminder to make s