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and action and consider the adoption making the finding for tied to allow the commission to hold meeting under the law without the brown act requirements. >> all right. motion from commissioner sullivan. do i have a second? >> second from the commissioner wald any further discussion? commissioners here we go communication and begin with the meeting room and once a comment is completed any members of the public who are present in the room wish to speak if so come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. >> seeing none, to remote public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make a comment is now

press star three to be added to the cue and those on hold please continue to wait until your turn to wait and pause for a quick moment for the access code is on the screen. >> and seeing none, public comment is close. >> please call the roll, please. >> president ahn, yes. >> vice president stephenson, yes. >> complaurnt, yes. >> commissioner hunter the

that motion carries. >> the next. >> 3. president's welcome. >> good evening, everyone the commission on the environment we occupy the homeland for the people that are the original habitants and recognize understand interconnectness and harmony from nature and honor the people for their commitment. and as such have indigenous protectors in response have never forgotten their responsibility and caregiver a all people that reside in their territory we benefit from working on the homeland and as uninvited guests should pay our report to the elder and others easy the velocity how we care

for san francisco and all the people thank you for your attendance and tonight meeting been outrageously in the news lastly comes at a time of challenge i mean over is last few years from seawalls to wildlife and decreasing amount of fog in san francisco it is sdrepg as much of our fog has been lost in 1951 and see now that climate change with those challenges hopefully great opportunity as well and we've seen the passage of the inflation $369 billion for climate and energy programs and can help us achieve the goals of san francisco climate action plan and the eir aa can help us

if pier prepared to be available to take advantage and my work as an advocate building decarbontion for looking forward to seeing how we serve our community throughout the city and have a substantive agenda and give the presentation from the reusable food ware on the policy for san francisco and mare finding from the iron for law and energy and the environment on long term funding for the climate action plan and we'll have a few housekeeping items thank you for your patience a vote on the environment retention policy and proposed revision to the process providing oversight now may seem insignificant but important we have a lot to get so let's get

started. >> with that, shall we take public comment? >> we'll begin with public comment in the meeting room and 2346r78 hsa has concluded any members of the public that wish to speak if so come forward speak clearly into the mic. >> seeing none, proceed to the 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 speaker cue and please others wait to continue to hold for your turn to speak.

>> and seeing none public comment is closed. >> great and no other discussion or from other commissioners move on to the commissioners move on to the next item, please. >> next item >> next item commission on the environment meeting. (explanatory document: september 27, 2022, meeting draft minutes) (discussion and action). >> any discussion? or changes to the minutes? [off mic.] >> motion from commissioner hunter second. >> second from commissioner wald a motion ready take public comment on this? >> we'll begin with public comment here in the room once it is concluded proceeded to other public comment any one in the

room please come forward and speak clearly into the mic. >> seeing none, proceeded to remote public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make a public comment should press star three to be added to the cue and those on holding please continue to wait until your turn to speak. >> serging public comment is closed. . please call the roll. >> president ahn, yes. >> vice president stephenson,

aye. >> commissioner bermejo excused mrablgd. >> mraublgdz are mraublgdz. >> a mrabtd and planted morgan. >> did >> did next item 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 begin public comment in the room ounce that is concluded proceed to the public comment if so come forward and speak clearly into the mic. >> seeing none, proceeded to remote public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment on this item press star three and already on cue wait until your turn to

speak. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> all right. thank you. >> next >> next item then. >> commission on the environment - environmental service award to shawn rosenmoss,senior environmental specialist. (discussion) >> and commissioner wald the floor is yours. >> to shawn was brought by kyle and debbie and me. this many of you, you know, i joined the commission many years ago

not very many people in the department has been there um, (coughing) longer commission on the environment - environmental service award to shawn rosenmoss,senior environmental specialist. (discussion) is one of those few and joined the department on september 2, 2002, and since then been a department star. shawn has a huge heart and wears it on the sleeve and you always know where shawn stands our things her enthusiasm is for the love of people and her commitment to solving problems is faithful has a presence that fills the room immediately. if you ever been in a meeting with shawn you know what i mean when i say she has presence during

the 20 years shawn has dedicated herself to the environment in everything and professional and personal from racial equity to community partnerships from compost to ease. no stone has been left unturned or credited thinking explored in shawn's quest to have a equitable and sustainable san francisco throughout her time shawn has built bridges and trusting partnership with respected allies many of the partnerships celebrate one of her admired qualities with her low threshold for taking action when they saw an opportunity for a partnerships between sf e and the arts or other community

often just jumps right in and didn't wait for permission threw herself in making connections bridging gaps and bringing people together. similarly when the pandemic hit san francisco shawn was the first to think of making masks from fabrics before the cd or local officers thought that was a good thing and many oat specific contributions i want to mention two i always or are with her year after year shawn thought that was critical to raise the fund to energy the department to have the cutting-edge from finding potential funding to writing or

editing proposals, shawn has been through for her colleagues to succeed i think of her in connection with the earth day breakfast with so many franciscans attended year after year shawn was one of the masterminds behind those events and made sure that the funds raised were used to create the most inclusive events as possible and while are showcased the work of the mayor and the department she made sure they were a lot of fun too many shawn is not only very funny herself but understand the importance of fun and laughter for those who work hard to make the city a green and equitable place to live and helped to make sure

those events were fun for the real heros heros for the small businesses and functional organizations across this nation that work hard on behalf of the city and shawn truly envisions the departments equity and collaboration and impacts notification and helped us chart the vision where we need to go and brought on understanding of the finer details we need. shawn has had a tremendous impact on the work of the department and the commission and she's touched all our lives and the lives of so many franciscans not aware of what she's done we are all very sad so see her go and miss her

terribly i know she'll continue to work with us to make the world a healthy and more sustainable place and honored to present shawn with the environmental service award (clapping.) thank you. >> i'm going to try to hold 2 together. so, yes we have accomplished so much when i think about that it has been streamlined those last years and truly have accomplished so much i'm a grateful person don't begin to describe my feelings having to be able to be part of this and may not- an engineer; right? an engineer and all over the and educator everyday i get to bring that stuff to the

office; right? and obviously more often not a happy face who gets to do this and they pay me (laughter) so- i get to work for the funnyist and creative people in the world but say that pubically and didn't mean to stay her 20 years but a word that is shared; right? an activity so i just have days like meant to be paul simon said it we'll be walking down the street at the same time with a poem called redeems by excuse the bible references but you'll get it. the u.s. rallies

people were thinking about as the water rose that their legs we continue to walk here now. one for the at a time when the better days forward around i can't reach the far shore without drowning somehow the person on the right hold me up we stepped forward we're welcoming scott we hold each other up and raise each other up and sometimes have to drag people along but not let no one not come with us, we know because the sea is vast and he did challenges we're going to have to keep on doing that have to keep on holding each other up. we've all we've got in any

20 years in the department, you know, the number of people coming through that department the number guest admin staff and managers and associates and fellows and teenagers from the mayor's program on my right on my right on her respect this is a chain of individuals and brilliant people a has grown so vastly and i'm part of that and always get to be a link in this monumental change of human beings under stress i just wish that for everyone in the world monies we have to talk to more people and holding them up. and so if i have not said that enough i probably haven't thank

you for allowing me to be part of this commissioners and debbie and tie and this has been amazing and, yes i'm not going anywhere i'm going to be here because it is way too much way too unify of a joyful experience we must have that that situation a grim but to the hopeless i dare any climate to try to break through our red recovery chain so, thank you. >> (clapping.) any commissioners want to chime in. >> yes vice president.

>> i - i don't want it is a too much you feel was spoken but thank you i especially sitting on the commission to bring the revenue and things got done because of you. >> in in addition i appreciate how you distributed across the community and the equity a near and dear to my heart to my heart that's it to staff and add thank you, shawn and i don't want to repeat anything but over the past few months enjoyed working with you and had conversations like, you know, what is the future hold for this position? and i can see the worry in our face and all our faces who will replace shawn and the fact is

you're not replaceable so much you have done for the department and love for the work and has shown not only in the work been in this place for 20 years 20 years how many can say we stood in one place and working for 20 years that shows the character of our commitment to the people to the department to the city to the planning and everything you touched thank you. congratulations (coughing) >> any other takers to speak right now? >> if not, i building oh, there is someone standing up please come on up. >> good evening, commissioners

and members of the public and fellow colleagues, i'm the manager shawn good job from on the environment service award and express our gratitude for the love you've shown through the years we worked on many interesting roads from the ritual to the sewer water captured system and especially called the poop machine. >> shawn exemplified our value and always focused on invocation and your work and legacy that the protection and is the quality of life for all franciscans which is all our mission statement thank you,

shawn. >> (clapping.) anyone remotely want to speak oh, i believe commissioner one moment. >> hello alex you're unmuted. >> please speak. >> thanks kyle. um, my name is- a senior controlled and i'm home sick i didn't want to miss the opportunity to share a few remarks about shawn i had the pleasure of working with smaun over two decades and shawna one of the people public school

knowledgeable about so many things sleighs the go to person what i love most about shawn is that she cares deeply about people and vacation dwelling the relationships with the community members and coming from the nonprofit segment shawn has shifted the department away from the traditional government way of doing engagement where we typically are trying to extract information from folks without on approach we support the combobs and shawn knows a community leader yes, so and so is a dear francisco and she knows everyone and know to built the relationship on a person level i i don't think there is a

circumstantial job description can capture shawn's goal in the department but hopefully that we can at least take what we learned from shawn and do better so thank you, shawn and happy retirement to a dear friend of mine. >> anyone else in the queue? >> i'd like to say a few words coordinator for the department of environment and said to share with everyone and it is touched on but shawn huge impact compliments the department over the last 20 years and i don't know but she's raised literally like tens of millions of dollars and may be $100 million. grant funding amazing work and in the

last less than 5 years to get only for the recovery program through cal and a genius of taking the technical numbers and putting it into fund that is appreciable to receive funding from the state and agencies around criminal justice and the climate change grateful for all the long hours and late nights getting to proposal out and i mean the impact probably thousands and thousands of times greenhouse gas equipment thank you for your impact. and wanted to thank you for your humor and levity and you're such a joy and such a dear friend thank you,

part of our energy is what kept me in the department so- thank you. for all you do and hope you don't go far. >> (clapping.) um, if that's that's it open up formal public comment in the meeting room once it as concluded precede to the remote and anyone wish to speak if so come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. >> seeing none, we'll proceed to the remote public comment. and members of the public wish to hack a public comment dial star three to be added to the

speaker cue and those on the cue please wait until your turn to speak. >> seeing none, in the cue public comment is closed. this might be my favorite part a port trait we'll go up against the wall. does that sound good?

>> (taking picture).

>> thanks again shawn we'll be seeing you around. >> next item please carl. >> item 7.

>> 7. staff introductions. speaker: tyrone jue, acting director. (discussion) quickly quickly speak into the mic clearly. thank you. >> and as bittersweet we offer the fall welcomed a number of the new employees the next generation of environmental leader this is where we get to introduce them we have a whole host of our team members in-person and remote carl and few, start making your way up to the podium additional introduce yourself the water coordinator and rita with the clean transportation and joseph, our public relations and policy coordinator and nicolle a wait society and others climate

change for existing buildings and alisa our decorrelation. >> i'm tasked with the implement of enforcement of our coordinates and born and raised in santa cruz and grew up and been in san francisco that when they whole life love the city very much. thank you very much. >> good evening, commissioners noisome a anna and joined the department as a transportation coordinator on the emergency team and for the implementing and prior to this a policy manager and i oversaw the policies providing climate change looking forward to

working with you. >> good evening. i'm joseph the policy and public regulations coordinator and i've come to this position by way of chicago land area as a policy professional over 10 years and spent a lot of time in the gentle especially and for the government relations and thrilled to be in the bay area and work in the policy shop and looking forward to the climate action plan priority. thank you. >> hello, i'm nicolle the c and d and right now in charge of looking over the manager plan and make sure the compliance with our chapter 14 demolition ordinance and before that i was with the cd team been doing my work with the team and, yes

thank you for thank you for having me. >> thank you. >> um, good evening, commissioners non-complying a phil i'm the climate program assistant coordinator a tasked with the outreach for the 2021-2022 climate action plan and excited to work on that and prior to this worked in the sustainability office. >> good evening, commissioners non-complying a joyce. i am the assistant coordinator for the existing building happy to support the ordinance for benchmarking and energy climate. i come from the that i have segment the project manager for established openhouse we launched that and happy to be here and um, happy to work with

all of you hopefully. thank you. >> hi, i'm mfa complain joining the department as a organization associate and can working on a project but the next project is a inventory of all again, equipment and excited to join the team. >> already have one person who is remote who is our contracting grant coordinator. >> beyonca. >> hi- (unintelligible) um, i had my business owner for o with consumers and contract and program management of energy efficiency and working with the contracts and prose and everyone

has been positive (unintelligible) thank you and i'm glad to be meeting everyone. >> commissioners those are you're new hires and employees for the department so let's give them a round of applause. >> further discussion? >> commissioners? >> if not let's move to public comment on this item then. >> public comment we'll begin with public comment in the meeting room once 2346r78 examine is included precede with the remote any members of the public today wish to speak if so come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic seeing none, precede to the remote public comment. >> members of the public should now dial star three and for those on hold continue to

wait until your turn to speak. >> seeing none, in the queue public comment is closed. >> all right. thanks kyle and welcome to the staff hoping to see you at a future public disposable program manager, clean water action; eva holman, board member, plastic free restaurants; and miriam gordon, reuse consultant. (discussion). >> so my great pleasure to introduce the sf coalition centuries formation for reusable

informed ware and the ordinance that passed a coalition for good mothers for environmental health and disposable and plastic free future and plastic free restaurants and d c r club and california against wait and advocates and the use of reusable food aware helps to save restaurant money for onsite towards reusers safes and elimination 2200 pounds of weight the transition for the paper and bio plastic cups have a real impact and one find out the cash footprint of this is somewhere the one ten times

greater of ceramics and, of course, helps san francisco achieve the goal under the climate action plan including a 40 percent reduction by 2030 and by 2050 and on a closing note a long overdue discussion that unfortunately, was postponed because of the pandemic and hopefully to continue to move forward and very much thank the coalition for presenting this item and with that, hand things off. >> thank you for that warm and wonderful introduction and been a pleasure working with you on this throughout the years and i'm eva and the facilitator and

presenting today is miriam and others will be stepping in for grace and she used this plan and with- disposable and gary with the county administration and coalition has mentioned use this is for concerned citizens to reduce and safeguard the health of franciscans since 2018 and here this evening so you to champion a food policy in fy23. and i'm going to turn it over to miriam now. >> oh, i'm sorry whoops (laughter). >> should be a second with mike plastics so in you heard about that in 2019 and many challenges to face 2019 study

but sf found san francisco bay is polluted more than any other body of water and came up with two solutions to reduce the mike plastics and the leading solution to implement the policies to reduce the single use plastics that was mentioned a little bit earlier that mandates this onsite and not just ocean pollution concern reasonable access clean up collected 200 and 18 items in a one block radius and 20018 one hundred and 91 were food and beverage packaging is on the top 10 months common items found and effects and combhaukz community

and now introduce miriam. >> those couches products we use in a matter of minutes in a form of con soupgs can't make sure a good quality of life for 8 billion people on the planets and groelg with that one way model. dispotential prominence harm the climate from the depletion of natural resources to the pollution of our air quality and climate change and all the waits that we are now swimming in. the economy is a system in which 15 percent of harvested and 22 percent of aluminum and 40 percent of plastic produced and 50 percent

of glass goes into those manufacturer of single use packaging. this system treats our planets resources and dispolicies. next slide, please. and also often treats people as disposable as well because the impacts of disposable disproportionately burdens the chief executive officer and low income communities. and who live on the fence line of the polluting and health harming extraction and manufacturing industries indeed that's why that is important to stop making the single use stuff from a policy perspective it is time to stop prioritizing how we manage the wait once it is created and begin to prioritize preventing it from good evening created in the first place we need to focus

on reducing single use and transitioning to recyclables. >> next slide the policy we're proposing for our support make it is so when you sit down at a food restaurant you are served with real plats and cups and u tens like mcdonald's like we currently do at mccafes cross europe and in 2021 i was the policy director at upstream the focus is on reuse and looked at it a report that locked the current life cycle analysis the food service packaging comparing to reobviously and life cycle works from cradle to grave the best form of environmental impact we have in the primary

conclusion of those analyze or that report is that we have environmental measures indeed and preliminarily better for the climate and i think eddy touched on that um, the um, cups for example, disposable paper and plastic and bio cups have a three to ten times his own greenhouse gas emissions footprint than reusable ceramics and glass cuts. next slide, please. and also from a later consumption 5 hundred paper cups consumed three hundred and 70 gallons of water and use that ceramic cup will consume 5 three

gallons of water. next slide, please. so we look at a widow array of environmental impacts but not how intoxication chemicals impact human health with disposable informed packaging um, over 12 thousand chemicals are used in the packaging and informed contact materials and many have bone showed to migrate into the the first order of business we eat and consume can cause cancer and chronic illness and sadly, a poor way a quarter of them have been tested for safe human being exposure and no transparency about what is it the packaging um, due to trade secrets but a consensus that

packaging is toxic and reoushlz are safer now i'm going to turn it over to maria will talk about the impacts of dispolicies and use on the business economy. >> first of all, thank you for the luxury as an incouncilmember benson person i felt a great deal of due diligence and so we think dispolicies have worked with several restaurants in the green area to switch from disposals to recyclables and some kwlauks expertise in economic and wait benefits to businesses. many people feel that switching to reusable curve the hardship in fact, ma of the

business participants felt the same way they found that by switching to recyclables save money and invite other participant to dedicate those savings and change their wages for the paid workers, some switching to recyclables to eliminate with 16 hundred to 2200 the ups and downs wait each year as well as eliminate the needs to buy store and dispose of um, all the packaging items. um. next slide, please. to dive deeper we come to chinatown customers are eating off the single disposable cups

and plastics. i'm collaborating with them and learning the needs and through prosperity able to identify recyclables and purchase the counter parts using funds and for anyone that is listening in this is equal to single use disposable items and on the right-hand side each of those food and forbes are served in reusable cups with silver ware and shop o chopsticks and many from collaboration and the budget the house vested $429 and from the 4 hundred and 29 investment is a one time for one

hundred and $29 development by passing 7.2 tons ever wait it is equal to the wastes of a san francisco capable car. next slide, please. and switching the house was by passing 7.2 tons of dispotentials every year and the equitable of a san francisco capable car and with that, kelly. >> many businesses moved to the dispolicies and last october was upstream for the golden gate had a campaign. we hosted a live

stream with panelist and with local resources to talk about the safety of reusable and the benefits to the food service destroy and additionally expanded the partnerships with the disposhz and the outreach to transition to recyclables and the environment outreach team has been conducting door to door recruitment for multi lingual three to 6 hundred worth of grants and helping businesses purchase we and through the program transitioned 80 businesses away from it's potentials of those the majority were maul mom and pop and 80 percent as lgbtq plus owned and last year, we spent one hundred

and fifty on this project. next slide, please. this year budget over one point k to provide funding to small businesses community and in addition we're currently working to recruit two large institutions as well. and part of this years project included severing the 80 businesses and served 43 of those businesses and received really positive finding and 90 percent of businesses are utilizing the purpose recyclables and plan to use those in the future and some of the reasoning for sticking with reuse reduction of waste and cost saves and customer satisfaction and for the worried about has to purchase in the >> . next slide, please. (laughter) outcome additionally from the

survey over tlaerdz with support onsite do everything i can reusable and overall the commercial program is a huge success and impacts businesses positively and business owners are already seeing the benefit for the recyclables for a lower monthly bill and moving forward sf environment will continue to devote staff hours and see the reuse as a future and solution and san francisco has been a leader of groundbreaking poles over the last 15 years and in order to meet the zero wait of solid waste 15 percent and reducing disposable we need to reduce this and a policies supports the consumption

outlined in the 2021-2022 climate action plan that states reduce the use of non-you usually informed ware by promoting the reusers for onsite dining in fy23. >> all right. thank you everyone that is wonderful and um, i will close with the last slide and thank you. thank you very much for all the time for the just today to many of you been on ongoing project a your support is amazing to have and close by asking you to consider drafting a proclamation for the board of supervisors to have a food ordinance in fy23 and we certainly not be the first city there are 14 jurisdictions have adopted those policies and san francisco will not be the last and looking forward to working

on that in the new year and thank you and look forward to your questions. >> thank you. are there questions right now? >> commissioner hunter. >> great. presentation. but one of my favorite projects by the department i'm excited to have to continue the discussion personally i have two questions for the in fact, rather for the other commissioners, i them strongly we should put forward a resolution encouraging the board of supervisors and or mayor to draft on ordinance that would mandate onsite reusers in the past previously to take up drafting that and prior to making that motion interesting to hear discussion on how other commissioners them about a resolution around onsite

recyclables and suggest we precede. >> chang housing of public affairs no action item listed for this particular agenda item so what i will recommend have a discussion talk about what you might want to do a a further can't vote on that but the chairs prerogative so if there a desire to see a resolution the chair can schedule that but not vote on it to make that happen but has that flexibility with hysteria romantic for

scheduling. >> i'm strongly for that. >> the commissioner is strongly for that. >> i'm surprised we're not a leader. >> what i suggest a matter of process i personally building in this as well when i know we're not taking a former vote on this item today but perhaps best tloshgd a committee policy committee what i'm thinking as a draft and then as i recall from two or three years that was considered too making sure there is collaboration amongst the staff and commissioner and, of course, reusable coalition and to note the small business commission has a point of contention i believe we have a lot of collaboration around their issue but, yes. >> i would like to note the

previous version included a charge on single use cups that's where the majority of the small business administration was concerned for. >> i think that will be valuable to work out in staff interactions a long time the commission on the environment as well as the committee and then, you know, i would anticipate that can move quickly at the end of the day, as well but are there other thoughts. >> a quick question. will that onsite dining policy including the charge on cups sustain? [off mic.] >> would that include cup charges and also container charges on this new policy? >> we have a head shake right now oh, yes. >> in our current policy noting no taken up the container

charges. >> commissioner hunter. >> enterprise love it when things work quickly and seeing "no vote" on this item oil defer to the policy. >> sound good. >> i will definitely watch but not too much on the subcommittee. >> no further discussion from the commissioners maybe we should move on that public comment on this item. >> thank you, we've move on begin with public comment and once that is concluded any members of the public in the room wish to speak if so come forward one by one and speak clearly and hello, i'm ben with the center for environmental health work with k through 12 and particularly worked with

schools berkley oakland and commitment to do so walling creek and get to get the school to move forward at the city level and san francisco unif i had has 50 thousand students half of them are eating school lunches that is 4.5 million single use if their using a single use stem at the school and like 4 to 5 items per lunch this is teaching students that is okay to use something once and throw that away after 20 minutes and really want to tangible this thing use plastic and teaching our students and youth better than what we're encouraging doing we are to get it policy on the books this will help sf u s d benefits a leading

environment but the values of students teaching them that the dispolicies is not a sustainable answer. thank you very much. >> a hello, again i'm speaking for myself. and without my affiliation and we've in to make sure we are weaving in lash and equity moving forward. i came to this role as the grandchild of a dish washer worked at disneyland and since surgery on this fingers has stole roads implanted and can't bend them to

ask us to consider those making recyclables potential being a dish washer and asking restaurant from 100 percent disposals the dishwashers will be the ones making that possible anticipate the impact of those i suggest working with the next or migrant work organizations to make sure self determination in the spaces how policy really maintain equity for the labor force. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> any additional commenters in the room? >> seeing none, proceeded to remote public comment.

>> a press star three to be added to the cue and other please continue to wait until others have spoken. >> we have seller callers in the could i. >> hello caller you're on mute your three minutes have begun. >> i'm susan i live in the

valley a member of the san francisco emergency coalition and thank you for giving me an opportunity to comment on a personal level i love to bring reusable drink aquarians to san francisco and i can avoid contributing to the how this global problems with plastic waits but more importantly i'd like to see the cities are is climate action plan goals and doing so by the target date in the plan in this case for the consumption the relevant section of plan for this matter success as quote reducing the food aware by sensitive or promoting recyclables for offsite unquote such a target of fy23 for doing so. and that is pretty soon to

help moot if target i urge you you all to move as soon as possible to schedule the necessary meetings and pass a resolution your honor, the policy for san francisco. thank you, very much. >> thank you for your comments. >> hello caller your 3 minutes begin now. >> hi, i am josh and wanted to say i support this policy for a lot of reasons but more than anything i love going around to the restaurants and spotting them in san francisco. great to see when that kind of restaurants have large

disposable items like coffee shops and disposable coffee cups and people are eating inside how the businesses have recyclables in the store and generally to support as much waste we can reduce in the city as potential and how much trash on the streets a lot of folks are doing that to prevent that helps a lot. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> couplings. >> hello caller your three

minutes begin few. >> now. >> hello caller you're unmuted your three minutes begin now. >> hello can you hear me? >> yes. >> hi this is melissa a bernal heights receipt i'm excited about that possibility and um, i think that when we go to restaurants and most like text forward area we want to see sustainability practiced throughout our area that is important to push this forward

and most people seem on board with that and like the other caller says the trash in the streets disproportionately affect the unhoused the more we do to push that initiative forward thank you for bringing this forward. >> thank you for your comments. >> we may have one additional caller in the queue. >> hello caller you're unmuted and your three minutes begin now. >> this may be a caller we already heard.

>> i believe caller we heard previously and no additional callers. >> seeing in the queue public comment is closed. and thank you, kyle. >> and again, thank you to the reusable coalition for presenting today, we look forward to working with you as we moved to the committee and having said that seeing no other discussion from the commissioners next item. >> comerford, climate program manager. (explanatory documents: funding san francisco climate action executive summary and report) (discussion). >> commissioner this meeting has been long overdue a lot of

work put into this and getting ready i'll introduce her and the work as a president mentioned in the opening remarks hear about the um, study that the environment department commission passed the study was opportunity through the board of supervisors and what it did what the study was intended to do look at, you know, climate action plan that was passed and adopted in 2021 and to look at the funding strategies and long term for how we fund that program. this is really notch and groundbreaking work month cities stop at the goal setting a carbon neutral goal and what we've done is take that one step further to engage a what are the funding needs in order to implement those goals. and so have cindy to go over the work

that was done over the past several months been a lot of work and she'll cover that. >> good evening, commissioners again my name is cindy a climate program manager and happen to provide present an update on the long term funding study. so i'm going to skip the introduction go to the first slide to we were able to contract with uk berkley and i'm going to refer to them by their acronym this is cleat and had the climate action plan revenue implementation and equity so today my presentation will focus on the report the process for developing that and some of the key components highlights and the associated activities. next slide, please. so this slide shows the process for developing the funding study i want to note not to scale but

in subsequential order and it shows some of the mundane things that is important for this whole process about a 17 or 18 month processes started with the board of supervisors giving us us one million dollars in access money and a portion was alleviated to the long term funding study. >> issued to rfp for the technical analysis to cleat and the technical 19 he can helping us with the stakeholder compensated around the report so cleat started this project by conducting over 50 are stakeholders interviews with the following and combobs to get feedback on the mechanisms for

funding and implementing this task so within the draft report we've go over those, and, secondly, we contracted with civic markers and with civic markers formed a advisory group to get feedback on the recommendations we have an grouping with real estate and construction business and healthy eco system and conducted 6 meeting and this 100 percent the last round and have a report that is finished in january. so cleat issued their final report on november 16th and this as a silent process to guide the civic lowered as we implement the climate action plan (coughing) . next slide, please.

so first i'm going to review the fire hydrants within the cle report divided into multiple sections look at near term measures, medium term and also looked at implementations and equity recommendations (coughing) and before kind of jump into those recommendations the report also has background materials and within the preamble of the report is stated that the cost to implement our collaboration would be up to $21 billion and those estimate for purposes can be higher with public transportation that is the high cost advertised consistent with the work we need to do and what is necessarily to avoid the impacts from climate change so the near term measures i'm going to talk about are jump starting

the implementation of this task and focus on the priority segments so building the green space. and those early actions revenue measures focused on two things bond and taxes so i'm going to jump into the first one. square foot first mechanism is a general obligation bond recovered to as a general obligation bond so they're issued by municipalities that they'll be able to repay their debt through tax one paw u way for the government to borrow our money for taxation and within san francisco paid through pravshg bonds are typically used to finance or acquire or approve real property so usually see

general obligation bond for hospitals and public safety facilities and affordable housing and also educational facilities. and so the cle report takes a unique twist and recommend for kind of the housing segment for the building of decarbonization recommend three hundred to $500 million part going to retrofitting and housing in for the decategorization for the housing and focuses on listening to medium income housing and also have a focus on multiple i multi housing with the decarbonizing also has a component that as workforce development to make sure we can decarbonize the

housing authority and a green bank will be used to decarbonize to attract the investment and will incorporate some of the funding available through the inflation reduction act. the second recommendation around the general obligation bond more affordable housing. so in 2024 will be affordable housing bond so the recommendations is to add one hundred million dollars to that general obligation bond to increase affordable housing and then also add a component that will retrofit existing affordable housing and general obligationis bonds are the funding mechanism that the city has the most control over i'm spent a lot of time talking about had that process is for getting a go bond on the ballot.

next slide, please. so this slide illustrates san francisco general obligation bond program and so the city has a capital plan and so right now the city is in the process of updating that bond program within the capital plan and so there is a key agrees that come together and look at the theme and establish a primary bond program the last time this plan was updated was fall of 2020 and in the process of being updated now. and once this plan is updated goes to the capital planning committee for approval a set of key departments and plus board of supervisors sits on that committee and approvals that plan and that plan moves to the board of supervisors they approve the final bond schedule.

and the capita plan for the city and that is usually in spring allotment was in 2021 so the city has the bond program the next step is getting a bond on the ballot. next slide, please. so once the department bonds approved in the capital plan the department workers on drafting those bond the department scopes of bond and after that concludes the polling the goal of polling to see whether the residents or voters appetite and then the capital planning committee recommendations bond for the board of supervisors for their approval. the board of supervisors reviews this and able to make any modifications

and submit to the director of elections and can be put on the ballot and then any bond measures need to be approved by two-thirds of voter and long process and going to the next slow down. kind of see the types of general obligationis bonds have been used in san francisco. so typically around affordable housing safety and transportation and public health and this is kind of the location that the city used for the up and running bond schedule no dedicated climate bond i think there is also something to note a limit in the amount of debt the city can issue and bonds it can have per the city charter go three percent of debt of property tax and also the um, office of resovereigty and

capital planning as has an internal policy not to raise property tax above 1.2 percent and so you- right now without changes and an additional analysis this is the bond schedule i want to note i came from the board of supervisors they had a commission hearing and a supervisor mar trod a resolution for the capital planning committee too, so do recommendation will go to the capital planning committee. >> i'm going to move on to the next recommendations which is a parcel tax. and a parcel tax is a former of property tax

assessed on the characteristic of a parcel. so it can't be a single-family or square footage and three ways a parcel tax can get on the ballot the mayor has four signatures of the board of supervisors or a need to get 5 percent of voter from the last mayor election to get it on the palate and within the cle report a parcel tax assessed by square footage that funds parks and infrastructure and tree canopies will raise approximately 12 to $25 million. and the in his thing about the parcel takes for general obligation bond have somewhat limited to the capitol parcel taxes can be used for, however, you specify that take tax on the ballot and food to be

approved by the voter of two-thirds and one is not equitable because everyone has to pay the same no dedefamation bike lanes income. next slide, please. the last term that works where the tax so the grocery tax an gross sales without conducting the experiences in 2018 the city did away with the payroll tax as hesitate increased for certain um, programs such as homelessness and so the recommendation to have a gross tax between 25 to $50 million and to direct and work on

implementation of a climate plan and workforce development so i want to note that supervisor chang transferred this in july of this year to have a tax on companies that explodes $25 million in revenue and to that on the ballot in november of fy23 so typically when we been discussing ors those measures with stakeholders the general obligation bond and the parcel tax have most favorable tend to be a little bit more neutral to the economy. um, and from stakeholders perspective will not impact the economic recovery works with the state tax during a worksession has not been seen favorably so. next slide, please. so those are the near term measures 24i9 what we're focused

on right now bit report does medium term measures funding mechanisms we could implement over 4 to seven years i'm not going to much detail but let you know that is a transportation general obligation bond um, between three hundred a $500 million and parking pricing can generator to 4 hundred to live more million dollars and the city embarked on a study takes years to complete that study and get changes at the state legislature for the city to implement that and the last one is a carbon mission taxes if from $2800 million depending on the place of carbon this diversion mix is important and it is important a message to leader we need to a lot account all the revenue sources to implement the climate action plan and then also need to be

looking at them from an equity perspective and the ability to pay we or reducing burdens on low income franciscans. so i'm going to go to the last two parts of the report so the report also gave recommendations on implementing actions for the plan and equity action so the implementing action were to increase the city staff for implementation. and were to design or implement a formal cost department committee of the city employees to more fund going to nonprofit for implementation of climate action plan and then also to establishment a fund for corporate and fill tropic so.

next slide, please. the recommendation on equity to create an equity independent counsel to maybe the- go to scale projects and making sure that all projects are funding to deliver the project that will be work workforce development and staffing making sure that (coughing) working closely with environmental justice communities and also the last one to make sure on any investment strategy that we require a racial equity so just why this report is important. so as tyrone said in the building about climate action plan not seen as a core multiple services in the bond program i think that

report and a lot of other actions are beginning to change that why the city uses those financing privileges coughing for infrastructure and other operations never used them for climate action plan so that's what the recommendation about. and additionally, you know, having this report has been an opportunity to break down the barriers traditionally we had conversations with the board of supervisors and um, also members of the office of reassignments and the office of the controller and take the fund we need to implement the plan successfully the other last aspect of this report that is important is that this map helps us with the inflation reduction about

$368 billion where the climate action plan activities and having kind of this compensate revenue is really important to showing you alignment. so our next steps as i said is finish up the 0 advisory group to getting feedback and we're going to electric this information and report back to the board of supervisors in january. that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> questions? >> discussion? >> commissioner sullivan where did the a.d. funding come from the supervisor thing is that right particular supervisors we should thank. >> we have the department has received two rounds of the first

one was in 2020 and then 2021 and so the first come, first serve was mary and haney is no longer here looked at $1 million to the department and last year saw supervisor medically cable car and r joined the other supervisors that is $2006 million we received this year we can talk about what the allocation looked like for this $26 million. >> thank you. >> um, the question i had was supervisor mar proposed going a general obligation bond for climate action plan? >> did he since the way those bonds work this is this capital we can't increase property tax that means you know what, something off the list pushing back in terms of wanting to make

a proposal as to what it comes at the expense of. >> supervisor mar is leaving office up to the other members of the board of supervisors that carry that forward but three questions. one is increasing property taxes. you know, we could definitely an internal policy go to the voters saying we're to increase property taxes for this measure and another one talked about the three percent cap we're way above that cap has helped the city be streamlining financially pursuant and a bond rating but an analysis getting closer to the three percent cap the last one is an existing bond. >> you mentioned affordable housing coming up is that a possibility and affordable housing bond is relating recent

or a report to support that. >> the affordable housing bond the opportunity to look at it is great an option. by the way, what the resolution that was transferred by supervisor mar bond for the affordable housing bond and the transportation bond which was in the medium term measure and said we can do one bond and that's also the cle report came out of comptroller's office. >> thank you. >> yes. >> yeah, thanks for the presentation i appreciate that and thinking about we have public comment in the last item for someone about how we have this, you know, near term goal in fy23 we need to get working towards making sure we are past the reusable people eating

inside or eating in restaurant and thinking about the climate action plan plan and the deadlines against the plan this funding plan get us moving fast enough to do do things we need to do in the cap. >> i apologize my ipad is hooked up to my phone and my son is calling i'm super sorry (laughter.) >> yeah, this goal of the report is making sure that we implement the climate action plan so didn't look at every single detail but looks the biggest transportation and building making sure we can tackle those areas i can't say 100 percent but 90 percent of actions we cover in the timeframe we want to cover them. >> okay. >> and i'll feet that this is

kind of again, the beginning steps like the of we pass is general obligation bond with (2) 000-0000 will come from a visitor of different sources climate that needs to be passed along to the building owner and will be a hodgepodge of funding resources we know what we have not normally enough to get started so this gives us a fighting chance to get the best way to frame it and who knows what had happen in 5 or 10 years but definitely not gelling getting there. so we have to.

>> clearly those things will not hit- >> economic development we're proposing for this coming year in the last budget cycle and adding the foundation necessary for the positions adding the key position will be for the long term presentation that is hopefully we're able to get the funding have poise in place for the completion of the work. >> just a few quick questions on some of the timing. when didn't general obligation bond go on the ballot? when will those funds become available? >> so that's a great question. so sometimes in my exercise experience with working with the comptroller's office a year and a couple of years lag if it goes on is ballot in november not

january 1st of this year but january 1st of following year. >> and then um, another clarifying question because we passed this to the election will the fy23 election still happen or putting things on the ballot for 24. >> i believe so i don't know the answer to that. >> i think that is in certain elections it didn't mean the election will take place my understanding. >> so i know that moves the mayor wral election will you have opportunities to vote on that. >> lyon certain officials and didn't change or eliminate the elections in the fall of fy23. >> one more question on the

green thing initiative at the know the city because of supervisor is looking at a public bank what a the coordination between that? you a so last code that is a local government formation has a working group been working with the consultant to develop um, a public bank and there are priorities for the public bank are building department organization and climate issues and affordable housing and small businesses but lions nicely with our climate plan and tywone and i are meeting with the consultant that week or next week to discuss a path forward and the funding for green bank and the public bank is identified in the reduction act getting started seeing is we can harness that caliber and a lot

of funding like earmarked like the details how it will be voted out and comment long with our partners what that might work best for san francisco we're trying to get ourselves in the position. and i'll finally say that was a bomb effort and watching those come to fruition you should be proud of the work this is a great level of detail and i'm very excited to see the coming year where this goes. >> yes. >> thank you for the presentation a couple of questions i am a wearingy person this is a budgetary timeline how will we kickoff or i know you outnumbered $24 billion it is

conservation to achieve at the end of the day; right? when you a budgetary goal with the implementation plan. >> that's a great question. so within the climate action plan have very rough 345gdz of each strategy to move towards did implementation it is difficult to scope that out and have been working with the city departments to see if we can get an adequate depiction of the costs it is challenging exert wise especially, when love actions are conceptual so i do agree with you $21 million is conservative bow something we need to continue to work on to go ahead more adequate cost efforts. >> as a voter good to know what is the goal so they know what they're voting on the second part of question a

private- >> absolutely. so we talked about the federal budget. the state budget has $54 billion for climate related programs there is a big portion of that around building prioritization with other programs between the state and federal and then people who are able to afford decarboning will be approve. >> you'll hear the proposal for the deputy director and in parted the focus for in position you'll hear about later as far as the report for passing to get through, you know, what we need with the short term and determine the staffing

operational side, etc. um, and we're not quite they're going for a bond hoe we need $25 million we're going to need to be able to sell that where the $25 million will go and exactly the timeline and other resources are needed to make sure we achieve the goals and that was out in the bond. >> general thought i really like the idea of affordable housing go bond. for several reasons the scale of that money a large pot of the money and the way my mind jumps to ways for over riding diversifies around climate action plan i climate change we need to be strategically thoughtful of and raising more money people want to automaticly ask why what will

it benefit me. >> just to be clear, general obligation bond given the taxation rate not enough capacity to meet the current depended on the city has a capital plan replaces it freed up from the elimination of a project there is a long list of projects that climate action plan for a second continues to slide that is proclaimed out we don't have enough resources to meet the capital need for the city so really the question that we're proposing and in dialogue need to have the city partners whether or not this is the right time to lift that cap because of all the needs you're thinking one project is not completely

funded around the bonds railroad important to a master plan goal all those things are coming to a head but everyone is recognizing wasn't we have if position if we want to hit the goals but all the goals have the city across the departments.

>> - also have stakeholders ranged from cobras we'll have to be- when the work begins. thank you. >> thank you. >> was there any kind of plan b in the report? >> so- >> no plan building inspector (laughter) if you can't get public consensus where we can't figure

out how to get this bond passed then let's it's not there for the subject. >> on that note maybe public comment. >> begin with public comment in the room when the room public comment is concluded we'll go to the remote and if so speak clearly into the mic seeing none, precede to the remote public comment. >> and no public wishes to make a comment but if you are press three or if you're not cue wait until it is time for you to

speak. >> serging public comment is closed. to be tanenberg, public affairs assistant coordinator. (explanatory document: record retention policy and schedule) (discussion and possible action). >> figure commissioners i'm the policy for the public affairs my pleasure after behind the scenes and behind the cameras and come before you to present an update on the departments retention policy. so in pursuing charter which requires the department to

update their record retention. last year, i took on the task to complete the process and updates retention record as advised by the comptroller's office i want to thank kyle and charles and sarah and mike brown for their guidance and helping me move forward with that process. next slide, please. so right now in 2012 it was updated, however, the schedule didn't include the retention guidelines for the grants until 2018 the current policy also didn't address fema and storage of electronic records and other items i'll mention shortly. next slide, please. and in front of you

commissioners two key components the policy and the schedule for record retention. now there are a few items that i mentioned and hopefully you have the time to review them. next slide, please. a key section in the policy i role include is records for the clarification clarification and relating to payroll and other significance indeed i'll ask the comptroller's office to make sure we're consistent with the language and for mats submitted to the department. >> we have the item this new language in the policy and schedule that includes schedule that cover the disaster and cost

recovery as required by the comptroller's office and next item we have e-mail. the e master for the record retention application in any case to satisfy the retention negotiations or the staff must match and store the existence e-mail system that is- and last the department is the first to create and policy thank for the paper reduction and they advised us to 19 all record can be stored digitally and new records can't stored with the u s b unless undercarriage one with a permanent reduction. next slide, please.

so we are in the process right now of collecting signatures from the comptroller's office for the records pertaining to financial the city attorney for the- the retirement board and payroll. so we're going to get to that shortly indeed so the commissioners approval for the department had implement the policy (unintelligible). >> before take questions i'm going to let you know the responded we heard from the comptroller's office about the following items and presuming you make a motion to amend the schedule with that change and the following items on page three and under grants and contracts go specifically language for the retention

column reading the records ever payment the state contract for 7 year retention or the term required and this retention period needs to be changed on the contracts agreement and used- and grants from two years to contract life to seven years or is retention (unintelligible) so we'll now take questions. >> are you able to show page three so we know how to make the amendment? >> yeah. so on page 3. >> i'll try to show they fellow commissioners for the policy that is available on the commission website as well. >> so the pay and schedule. >> yeah. >> so as i understand just to

confirm elizabeth from two years to seven years? (coughing) >> yes. >> we need to motion to discuss this motion and (coughing). >> are you figuring out how to display this? >> excellent to get it done making sure do you want the motion to consider this or prefer all at once to be amended with the amendments proposed to- >> (multiple voices). >> (unintelligible). >> so i'll channel the deputy director i believe the commission needs to make a motion on the amendment and take

a vote on that and take a motion from the pool. >> yeah. i think that sounds right. thank you. >> yeah, we need a motion. >> already second. >> we have a motion on the amended language from commissioner wald and second from commissioner wan and today is a we amend the schedule um, to expend the period for the contract and agreement from two years to 7. >> several other line items; right? all everything that says two years to 7?

>> [off mic.] it is contract wise plus seven years or the term by the (inaudible) and you can see that under records of payments agreements to copy the same for contracts agreement and the next line contractor and brand coroner's and the next line is the draft. >> if you make the motion by staff and make the amendments as mentioned. >> okay. >> i propose an amendment that will reflect the changes that were proposed by staff and required by the comptroller's office. >> second. >> second from commissioner wan so with that, shall we take up a general motion to move this

then or - >> - >> (multiple voices). >> call the roll. >> okay. >> okay. >> one moment. >> begin with public comment in the room in-person go to remote and any members wish to speak and seeing none, proceeded to remote if you any members of the public press star 3 for those on hold please wait until it's your turn to speak. >> we have one caller in the

queue. >> male caller your 3 minutes begin now. >> can you hear me now? >> yes. >> i am david pill pal we heard the last few minutes of meeting on this issue that the department records retention and distribution policy and schedule. um, charter section 4.188 called it the county administration now i don't understand why it is referred to for the environment department i'm not sure the commission has the ability to rename the department which is spelled out in the charter and speaking of desperately out things i- i

noticed ada r f q more are more obvious like the financial system is not obvious to the law read. i would have a separate section for financial records that are not contract or hss relate a number that are referenced um, but i don't view them as general are administrative they things likes revolving fund and um, payables and like i said that be finance specific. and some of the things

about legislation and memoranda and such it seems to me to be general and administrative. there are either i'm missing that no where is there anything specific about the program and outreach that the department um, is preliminarily will program development and implementation and outreach and yet i see no um, retention period for records related to their work that seems um, unusually. to me. the closet i found on page two files an specific environmental organizations/issues two year retention period that suggests that everything that the department has related to zero wait or toxics unless in the context of an agreement or some

other context issue has no required retention period again that seems unusual and unlikely to me. i'm sure will be further revisions. >> thank you other for the work and updating the proposed policy and schedule that's okay. >> let's see do roll call. >> president ahn, yes. >> vice president stephenson, aye. >> commissioner bermejo excused. >> commissioner hunter, aye. >> commissioner hunter, aye. >> and commissioner wald, aye. >> and commissioner wan that motion passes and a motion to consider that overall do i hear a motion? >> so moved. >> motion from commissioner

hunter. >> second from vice president stephenson and then i believe we should take public comment on this as well this motion. >> seeing no members of the public precede to the remote public comment. >> if public comment dial star three and for those waiting in the queue please continue to wait. >> and seeing none, callers public comment is closed. . >> great. call the roll. >> president ahn, yes. >> vice president stephenson, aye. >> mraungsz is excused as commissioner hunter, aye. >> commissioner wan, aye. >> commissioner wald, aye. >> commissioner wan.

>> okay. so the motion and thank you for your work and next requiring commission approval of department of the environment contracts and grants. speaker: david kashani, contracts and grants manager. commissioners i'll introduce and make a presentation you, you passed a policy and resolution putting increasing the grants managed by the department and we identified an area that needs an agreement within the policy to have clean up language i'll walk you through and go to the.

next slide, please. and so this is basically the current language in the resolution. and the language creates a blind spot in material as worded to previously the commission approved a contract for $2 million and as worst not going back to the commission if increased for $4 million that is for the the intent with the resolution. so we can. next slide, please. so proposing an amendment to the resolution that clarifies and removes the criteria an amendment needs approval only in the contract amount is under $1 million and a resolution to removal the criteria that it needs approval in the grant number it under $1 million so the contracts and grant to extend and basically have to

bring it a take or back to the commission prior to moving forward and this classified that i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> and david is also online as well. >> questions? >> if not do i hear a motion? >> i'll so moved. >> motion from commissioner sullivan. >> second from commissioner wald and no further discussion public comment kyle. >> seeing none, to members of the public in the meeting room proceeded to remote public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make a public comment star three and those on hold in the queue please continue to hold until your turn. thank you.

>> and have one caller in the queue. >> hello caller you're unmute your three minutes begin now. >> can you hear me now? >> yes. >> great david pill pal i asked a moment ago no response for charter called the commission on the environment once again that proposal referred to the environment department i don't understand that and on i have no objection to the substantive change. i have a concern about the form of the resolution simply has track changes to the resolution that was adopted by the commission in

september that is um, unusually given the way the city normally works there is a resolution that amends the prior resolution normally will have um, whereas, clauses whereas, commission adopted a resolution back in september they did blah blah and change to the practice or change in the wording of policy therefore therefore, be it resolved that the commission hereby amends the policy in the following way blah blah has has the effect of rios the policy did didn't in general rescind the prior resolution not at all clear since you're using the

same file number and resolution number if this would rescind the supersede or when that does to the action in september. i note the three the resolution text has the september date at the bottom of both pages and on the certification line on page 2 lines 13 and 14 the former how it is done strikes me as odd. >> those are my thoughts and it would be nice if those were addressed. thank you. >> thank you for your comments seeing no additional commenters in the queue. >> thank you kyle payroll. >> president ahn, aye. >> vice president stephenson, aye. >> mraungsz is excused. >> commissioner hunter, aye.

>> commissioner sullivan, aye. >> commissioner wald, aye. >> commissioner wan. >> the motion carries. next item, please. >> the next bylaws concerning location, department name, and compensation. speaker: kyle wehner, commission affairs officer. thank you, commissioners. before you recommending before you is i think three technical changes to the bylaws first three environment department has a new address and officials our office functions as the mailing address of commission and recommending we just want that balling and

second as the department is presenting it's to the public as the county administration as the official name is unchanged in the charter and proposed to reflective and the first reference to the bylaws is the form name commission on the environment and recommending as the second chance and third prop eliminating the requirement in the bylaws that prohibit compensation for commissioners based on how commissioners are set up and in the employment system the commissioners receive and $25 prosecutor and will removal this conflict i'll pause

for any questions? >> motion from vice president stephenson and seconded by mraurpt no other discussion move to public comment. >> and seeing none, members of the public in the room proceeded to remote public comment one moment. >> members of the public wish to make a public comment should press star three to be added to the speaker cue for those who are in the queue wait until your turn to speak. >> we have one caller in the

queue one moment. >> hello caller you're unmuted your three minutes begin now. >> can you hear me now? >> great. david pill pal first of all, i made comments on the last two items and got no response that is frustrating to download the materials and prepare comments and think about those issues to not get any response is frustrating if you're trying to agitate me consider that mission accomplished but don't appreciate and didn't speak well, for the commission in general and those of you sitting on is commission and serving the public. as i said on the previous items charter section calls that the department of

environment i heard reference to the county administration but again don't understand how that is accomplished the department public works has referred to itself in general as public works but that didn't change it's legal toilet at the department of public works simple a question of bernard, if you will, but there is been not change to their bylaws rules or other organizational documents to reflective that it is simply had you he present themselves similar to how the public utilities refers to its as water power and sewer that the acting director chu is familiar with unnecessary for the office location in the bylaws as

including compensation um, i think is not relevant and support loechl compensation from the bylaws compensation is set by the city charter or other provisions and need not be here is unnecessary to have the office location in the bylaws and car removing that section entirety and board of supervisors within by folio 8 now codified at the case load section b h requires parental leave in the bylaws are rolls of the order and requires each board and commission in the city to amend it's bylaws to provide for parental leave i'm surprised in this bylaws provision that was for the caught and amended as required by the city. thanks

for listening (coughing) thank you for your comments and no additional callers public comment is closed. and thank you, before we call the role we appreciate you're calling in mr. pill palace as matter of policy the commission didn't directly respond to public comment and what i urge you you as perhaps contact the staff online in professionalism i peshl appreciate your comments having said that call the roll, please. >> president ahn, yes. >> vice president stephenson, aye. >> commissioner bermejo is excused as commissioner hunter, aye. >> commissioner sullivan, aye. >> commissioner wald, aye. >> commissioner wan, aye. >> w >> director report.

speaker is tyrone acting director. the item is for discussion. item in two parts, part a presentation for bhujt preparation for fiscal year 23-24 and part b- >> this report will cover september 1, 2022 to october 31. we have two presentations. one on the budget and one that i'm seeking feedback regarding the deputy director position as we previously discussed earlier in the meeting. before we start with the presentation i want to highlight a few things that were accomplished. you find a lot more detail within the written reports. one thing i did want to highlight is that in the policy committee meeting on november 14 there was a presentation about our emission inventory which was a great presentation. upon deep analysis the climate team found areas that need

additional attentions sorks we are not formally publishing the results until we get to the bottom of specifically our transportation emissions. right now they have been working with the cta to look at their modeling for how they calculate emissions from the transportation secter, and they are looking at potentially using a new tool to calculate evisions. if policy committee will remember we saw increase in emission in the transportation sector which actually didn't align with what we saw in other cities with similar policies like san francisco that shut down during the pandemic and so, upon closer inspection and review of the data, that is where we work with cta to figure a new methodology to get to a more accurate emission number on the transportation sector and we are happy to present at a later date. want to note it will

happen between commission meetings but we will launch our climate action plan marketing campaign end of january beginning february. we also introduced chapter 7 municipal building code update at the board of supervisors today and this would require time of replacement for gas equipment within buildings and require them to be electric on replacement. we completed and in the process of completing our grant awarding and so we released $2 million for community and climate work and submissions were due november 21. there was overwhelming interest in the grants we are putting forward. now we are working through the panel scoring process to bring it back to commission in march. some other things to highlight, we did and mentioned this at policy committee meeting, we did get approval for

accept and extend from board of supervisors for the california energy commission grant of $2.4 million that will fund ev charging faigzs in bayview hunter point and pilot project for e bike delivery for food service workerss within the city. now we are coordinating with partners ev grow and grid alternatives to dispurse funding to move forward with that project. as you heard from the number of new hires we had over the last couple months we continue to make progress on hiring more people then losing. we have a big wave of new employees starting beginning of the year we are continuing to shrink the vacancies we have within the department so positive sign. and with that, i'll move it along to our budget presentation and i think cindy will come up and give that presentation.

budget season is right around corner. we will give a preview what we are proposing of this year request we like to submit within the mayor budget proposal. we heard from the long-term funding there is not enough money to really you know, fund the climate action plan. everyone acknowledges that. what we are putting forward are different scenarios we like toprint to commission about what we need to continue what we receive at the last add-back to what we would propose additionally for this year to include within our budget proposal mpt this will come back to commission at the operation committee meeting in january and then to the full commission in february for budget adoption but we want to give a earlier preview to get feedback from the commissioners. cindy. >> cindy (inaudible) climate program manager. exciting budget presentation. i will give you a update on

our development for our fiscal budget for next fiscal year, and just this is really a work in progress and the final budget presentation will be presented at the operation committee next year and then at the full commission february 6. so, next slide. this slide shows the agenda for the presentation. give a very quick update how we are expending our add-back for this fiscal year. i will move to the budget priorities, talk about details, budget timeline and open it up for discussion. next slide. so, as i said in my previous presentation we received $2.6 million in add-back funding from the board of supervisorss and this slide shows update on our progress on expending that funding. so, for positions, we had gotten 7 new positions in-8 new

positions through that add-back. we have 4 of the positions filled. 3 are in progress and one not started and the one not started is dependent on filling a position before we move forward with it. we have many many professional service contracts so just to let you know two have been completed, 9 in progress and 7 have not started and slated to start early next year. we talked about-the director's report we talked about the grants, so big accomplishment was the $2 million in grant funding announced and then we also heard many notable accomplishments in the director's report so i won't repeat those. next slide. now i'll jump into the development of the fiscal 23-24 budget and to reiterate we are at the beginning of this work and certain aspects can change as we go through the process. so, this slide shows our

budget priorities. our first priority is to make sure we retain all our existing positions and that we can deliver on our key commitments. the second is new requests to continue implementation of our climate action plan. and last but not least is ordinance implementation and this specifically refers to the gas lawn equipment ordinance. so next i'll go through each priority in more detail. so, the first one around retaining existing staff and services and key commitments. this is our most critical priority to make certain we keep all our existing positions. so, the existing positions are the positions that we added through the add-back funding or in process of adding and then we also have gotten news presented at the policy commission last month that a contract we had with pg&e around our energy

access program they have intent to end that, so we want to make sure we get funding to retain those positions and also the professional services that were allocated in the add-back. additionally, we had two really important key commitments that we want to make sure that we can continue to fund for next fiscal year, so one is the climate equity hub. we have worked with a consultant to develop a design of the hub and also a budget, so that would be augmented for next fiscal year. originally we received $3 hundred thousand and we will be asking for about $900 thousand for next fiscal year. all the professional service dollars are to include doing marketing, education, outreach and technical studies to support implementation of our climate action plan. and so, the total is about $2.4 million in personnel and about

$2.6 million for the grants and professional services. next slide. so, the next priority is funding to continue implementation of our climate action plan which will require a couple new positions and also new resources. highlight a couple new positions. we would like to hire a commercial building decarbonization coordinator. last cycle we hired a residential building decarbonization coordinator. also hiring someone to manage that team and round all the responsibilities we have in the sector. like to hire someone to focus on the commercial sector. looking to increase staff around healthy eco systems so that would increase part time staff to full time staff. and nen there is other professional services that would continue to support implementation of our climate action plan. and just

to mention a couple other positions are to augment outreach, so we have more multilingual staff around the climate action plan and have more policy support around our climate policies. and the last section i want to talk about is the ordinance to implement the gas lawn equipment. this ordinance was passed and it bans gas powered landscaping equipment and it creates a buy-back program and helps landscapers make the transition from gas to electric equipment. and so, the ban goes into effect july 1, 2024 for the city agencies and their contractors and commercial landscapers it goes into effect in january 1 of 2026. and so funding for this would cover staffing to build a program, it would cover grants, community based organizations and do

extensive outreach and marketing about the ban. in subsequent years we need to continue to increase that budget to make sure that we are able to have a comprehensive buy-back program and also offer incentives for individuals to make the switch. next slide. the total budget request comes to $7.6 million and this slide shows the allocation of the 3 priorities. so, the largest priority would be to retain existing staff and key services would be $5 million. ordinance implementation would be $1.7 million. we expect that to increase to $3.3 million in fiscal year 24-25, and then a little less then a million dollars for new request for climate action. next slide. so, if we remove the

gas lawn equipment and just focus on the climate action, the request is about $5.6 million and this slide shows the buckets used in the last budget cycle to categorize the request. we will use the same ones this year because they are somewhat successful last year and public is familiar with them. i'll quickly review each bucket in a little more detail. so, this slide shows the detail for all the different categories. we have the what increase is for fiscal 23-24 and also fiscal year 24-25. for in order to eliminate fossil fuels in every building retaining key staff increasing funding for the climate equity hub, commercial decarbonization coordinator and also we will ask for some specialized software for existing buildings ordinance that would help with commercial implementation down the road.

for increasing inclusive engagement out reach and implementation, again retaining existing staff and services and also outreach for multilingual community engagement and implementation. to capture carbon through helthsy eco systems important to retain existing staff and increase urban forest staff and increase training funds for the staff that doesn't have any. if you go to the next slide. so, for eliminating fossil fuel in the transportation sector the key is retaining service and positions we have. if you look at delivering equity centered environmental solutions we want to make sure we continue our environmental justice grants program, keep our staff and last but not least, we are going to need to continue to scale that our administrative and policy support and so

we'll-asking for dedicated policy staff for climate action training funds and to keep our existing positions. and so the last slide shows the timeline for the budget. we are here tonight december 6 just providing a update on the budget request. in mid-december the budget mayor office releases the budget instructions to potentially change the path of this request. in january we'll present the draft budget to the operation committee and then february we'll have the presentation to the full commission. after we do the presentation to the full commission, we need to submit in our balanced budget by february 21, and then in the spring there's the mayor reviews the budget and also the board of supervisor analyst so there is a is couple months of review. the department has its budget hearing in may, and then the board of

supervisors adopts the final budget july 31. so, that's a very quick overview in the budget development and happy to answer any questions. >> yes. vice president. >> i know we will have lots more time to talk about all these things in detail, but i just-if something fell from the sky and got $12 million are we equip to handle more or is this the right amount for capacity planning now? >> i think this is the right amount for the way the department is set up. i think we will have to expand the administrative support. i think tyrone will talk about that with the deputy (inaudible) request. i think we need to slowly scale up so we can handle the money and make sure we show success for what we have. >> thanks. >> yes. commissioner hunter. >> just along those

same lines, in the earlier presentation the report outlined so many grants that would possibly become available and acting director mentioned the federal government is still figuring that out. hypothetically they figure it out not incoming year but fallying year we would have needed to ask for additional staffing this go-round if i do my math correctly. is there a expectation that they might figure it out in two years from now and therefore we should ask for staffing allocation now? >> i think that the federal government is actively seeking request for information on those programs. january this year the tax incentive and rebates will start, but as you said the program development will take more time, but i do think we will be coming down either later next year or the

following year so it is important that we are able to set up a system to acquire the funding. >> that is definitely the approach for the staff we have brought on through the add-back. the risk of hiring through the add-back as discussed earlier in the year is that it isn't a sustained source of funding. we have to go back and get the money if we keep the staff on long-term but each of those positions is tied directly to what we need to go for the grants. it already took us roughly 4 to 5 months just to hire for these positions in the temporary exemp positions which is a long time. if we wait until the grants come out and try to hire-we will miss all the grant windows so woo we are in a good place nowment. we think with the additional support on the commercial side we have all the different sectors covered. we need to hire for a new shawn to make sure that we are on top of all the grants coming

out, but i think we'll have all the pieces and as cindy mentioned, we have to grow responsibly. it ask is easy to say get as much money we can but we lose credibility for the short term game and miss the long-term plan where we need to be by 2040 so it is important we take the steps carefully, methodically, we ask what we can support with the current infrastructure and we have to build out the plan so we'll get to that in the next presentation around the deputy director position and whether they support where that position may transition with the new hire. i are think that is all kind of steps in that direction and we are not quite there yet right now of a solid game plan to say yes, we are adequately staffed right now with the right number of people. we think we have a general sense that we are not staffed well enough,

but we got the sectors covered where the grants will become available so we can take advantage of the opportunity and bring it into san francisco. >> just a related follow-up question. i realize the add-back program always leaves us this slight sense of ambiguity in the sense it is possible that we do not get add-back of funds. is there any discussion on becoming part of the proposed budget and having to go the route of supervisors? >> that is the plan for this year so the propoezal in front of you is what we want to work through the operation committee is and submit as the department proposal. the mayor's budget instructions will come out at the end of next week. you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is not go toog say the city is in great economic times and please hire as many people as you want. it will likely be to the contrary so i think

these are discussions we have to have because we are in a slightly different position then a lot of other departments where they have scaled. they have these operations. we are try toog build the team to imp lm the plan the city wants and so we are in a slightly different frame of mind and i think that's what we will go forward with. we have to, either that or we accept we are not going to commitment to the goal and move forward and it simple as that at this point. >> thank you for the clarification. >> i have a follow-up question. cindy is our exposure to the general fund limited to the add-back money? >> no. the hope is we submit a balanced budget that includes the general fund request in advance so we dont have to a scramble at the end of the budget season and get a lot of stakeholder support to get it passed . can you remind how much general fund

dollars as it relates to the entire budget? >> the total amount we would ask is $7.6 million and that includes the gas lawn equipment ordinance implementation. >> $7.6 million is the total budget? >> no, no, no. the total budget request. >> general fund request. got it. >> yes. >> our total department budget is around $27 million and that gives the sense of scales so when we ask for resources $2.6 million from last budget cycle, that's 10 percent increase in our budget so we have to account for that within our systems and process said. if you ask for a larger amount, we have to be able to scale that based on our existing resources. >> in the past the bad news we haven't gotten a lot of general fund money but we were

also not exposed to reduction in general fund. going forward we will have that risk with all the other departments. >> we will see this manifest in-as departments are all forced to trim back a little, one of the first places departments may look are the work orders sent outside the department to other city departments. >> thank you. >> questions? points of discussion? >> thank you. >> could i just say that i know this was a really excellent presentation and to both of you, i'm very grateful for the emphasis that you are putting on implementation and that clarity with which you

are making sure that we understand what you're doing with all this money. that is a significant difference. we never had this much money before. [laughter] it is i think an action of significant importance and not just to us as commission members but also to all our constituency as well as people like the board of supervisors and the mayor. appreciate it a lot. >> thank you commissioner. all i can say is buckle you seat belt because it will be a very long budget process for us all and a uphill battle. >> just a quick follow-up question if i may. >> yes. >> because it is important for the mayor and board of supervisors to heard about the update. has that been

done? >> we have started briefing the mayor budget office. we met with them a few weeks ago to give a preview what we are presenting today so we don't want any surprises. all most immediately after we had our add-back we did the calculation of we have the add-back and bring on the number of positions and started talking to the board and saying just so you know this ends at the end of the fiscal year. if we want to continue, here is what the amount is just for staffing. we started there, not knowing what other commitments we might to layer on top of it and it is only recently with the mayor budget office and other partners we say this is our new ask would be in terms of saving staffing. >> could i ask a can clarifying question about the new hires under the add-back? do you have to have a new

search process if these people are made permanent or can you just move them over? >> so, typically you would have to go through a new recruitment and hiring process to convert the position to permanent, so these are three year category 18 temporary exempt positions. the city because we have been challenged with hiring has made through the emergency powers certain expedited ways of transferring and converting temporary positions into permanent ones. we have taken advantage of that for the classifications we have within the department where we have stable funding for, we are taking advantage of that pathway. i don't know if that pathway will exist later so that is a question we have to broach. go into it isn't stable so the only pathway to hire now would have been for the project based position of temporary 3 year basis. that is the obviously

avenue we have available to bring on the positions. the only way woo get a permanent position is if we get this included within the budget it becomes a part of the department budget annually and then we can look at permanent hires with funding requests-associated positions requests. >> thank you. >> i believe you also have a update on the deputy director? >> yes. thank you cindy. we can jump to the presentation. there are two executive level positions within the department. there is this position, the director position and deputy director position which was occupied by jennifer cass before. jennifer cass retiring and leaving the city, we want to move forward with the hiring for it because everyone that reported to her is now reporting to me, so i have i think by my calculation a quarter of the

department reporting directly to me at the moment because of all the vacancies and positions we have. what i wanted to share with the commission and get feedback on was how i have been thinking about the position and how i like to proceed with the posting of the job. given i'm in a acting role now, you are in the process of hiring a permanent director making sure the match is there for whatever you are planning for for the permanent director position is really important so we don't miss this opportunity that we but the wrong person with the wrong skillset in that position and then that would influence your higher for the permanent director job. with that, if we can bring up the slides. this is just a discussion only. there is no action required. next slide. this is a

high level organization chart of what the-how the department was structured previously. again, you had the director position, deputy director reporting, and reporting to the deputy director you had administration and fiscal, and you had the energy and clean transportation team. next slide. so, the next slide drills down into admin and fiscal how it was previously organized. you had our budget manager, joe salem and then our contact grant coordinator (inaudible) who you met and mark brown who managed our fiscal side and you see the report ing this is one the first things is lopsided how everything was organizationally structured. we can go to it the next slide. this gets to where we are going now. i moved over clean transportation at which we are making

back under all the programs reporting to the director. from a policy standpoint it makes a lot more sense to collapse that and having the deputy director position which is vacant focus on admin and fiscal responsibilities. next slide. i started making some changes in review of classifications, workload and reporting responsibilities to basically even out the reporting structure and make it more equitable for the employees. based on the workload and comparison to other city departments and the reporting structure itself. you have david (inaudible) who is going to be supervising one of the senior account clerks moving from the mark brown. bionca is a new employee funded through the add-back to provide the additional contract grants support. joseph salem is sliding over to role

as budget manager and we will have it reporting to him, and mark will supervise mostly the same people but reduce number which is much more manageable and reasonable. and also reporting to deputy director would be the analyst assigned from the department of human resources. next slide. so, as we are focused on the of or i focus on the job description and look at certain key qualifications i think would be most helpful for the deputy director position to complement who you bring on. we want someone with strong financial expecatize with budget, specifically resource planning and forcasting. a coveted skill in the job market to be honest. you see a lot of movement between cfo between city department. larger departments are pulling from

other smaller departments, because the strategic resource forecasting so paramount. if you want to succeed as a agency and figure where you need to go over the next couple years and further you have to have a strong resource budget plan associated with that. finally of course someone with strong managem and leadership skills. the big take away is where jennifer was also focused on the policy side and advising on a range of issues in addition to admin and budget side, it spread her out to a number of different areas and so what i like to do is to focus the hiring for this position to insure we recruit the right person because i think if we go too broad this is what happens-if you go too broad saying we want every skillset you tend to-you don't attract the right candidates bah you aret nosure what you are applying for. putting emp iss othen 3 qualifications i think is the right direction

but happy to hear commission guidance and feedback before proceeding. i would like to proceed with posting this job based on feedback we get from today's meeting. with that, i'll take any questions or comments. >> can you go back to the last slide kyle? if you look at the job as acting director and think about the job of the director and think of the deputy director and the way you positioned it here, does it take enough off the plate of the director to make that job manageable because when i look at the reports and deliverable as we implement it feels like a lot. >> it is, so if-maybe to answer the earlier question,b if i had $12 million fall in my lap and say what do you want to do with the organization there would

have to be additional layers of organization based on the current reporting requirements. you would probably have another deputy in place and in fact that was what we were proposing when we-i first came to the commission and started is requesting a cfo position in addition to the deputy director with jennifer currently occupying the position. thated with probably be the ideal at least in the interim. you probably need to scale further based on the growth of the organization if we start to get additional sources of money, additional revenue, then structure starts to build out, but i think in terms of priorities this seems to-we don't get there unless we have the resource planning and budgeting and accountability like first and foremost in the department mind, because that accountability is crucial to getting everybody to believe that yes i trust the department with these additional resources to implement the mission. it

is all about with the positions i have and have available to us what do we want to want prioritize now knowing it is not the end of the story. >> is it fair to say if we are in a world of stasis where we are not trying to grow, that we might think about this position differently? this is considered to be a part of a team we expect to be broader of second level-second tier management. we expect to grow over time and if we do the climate action plan we have to do that anyway so you would think about this specific to the idea we will be growing in the next 2 years? >> that is correct and what is key to that growth. >> okay. that is helpful. >> i start by saying i'm supportive of your association how to structure it. i wouldn't second guess a director on that kind of thing but i want to ask about the timing of the hire as

it relates to the search going on now for the permanent director. you mentioned those two side by side and thought where you were going is you wanted to be sure the permanent director was part of the hiring process with respect to this one but maybe that wasn't where you are going. i wanted to hear you talk about the timing of the two hires. >> that is one option is to keep status quo until the new permanent hire so why i'm bringing it forward because this commission will make the decision of who the permanent will be to forward to the mayor. if the commission says yes, this actually makes sense, then you will be hiring the next director and it will be in place with that in mind. if you say you are not sure, like maybe we want to redo the entire org and wait until the new director is on-board, we'll keep status quo until the hiring process is complete,

which is i don't know how long it will take, but again like i said i have a quarter of the department reporting to me at the moment including every single direct report to the deputy directser reporting to me now so managing all that work. it is not a good practice organizationally to have that in place. it comes down to just making sure there is alignment and staffing decisions as you mentioned commissioner are up to discretion of the director but i think given where you are in the timing of the hiring for that position just making sure this seems to be in general alignment, if it doesn't then have to go back to the drawing board or delay the hiring. >> so, i feel like for the rest of my time thinking about climate, which is probably the rest of my life, i feel my job is always are we moving fast enough and that is just what i will say all the time

so i think i would like to state i'm strongly in support of not waiting to hire this person. as much i believe people should get to hire their own teams, we are not in a position where we have time to wait on things and i feel really strongly we should move forward in tandem as we go forward. >> i agree. i just think with the budget also underway, future budget discussions underway locking the position in seems to be very important. >> it is not only a matter of time to wait or time to waste, in terms of climate, but we don't want this job to destroy you. [laughter] (inaudible) [coughing] >> any other questions or observations, concerns for acting director?

>> if not, let's move to public comment kyle. >> seeing no members in the room today we'll proceed to remote public comment. members of the public who wish to comment dial star 3 to be added to the queue. those on hold in the queue please continue to wait until it is your turn to speak. we have one caller in the queue. hello caller, you are unmuted. your 3 minutes begin now. >> can you hear me now? >> yes. >> great. david pillpel, is this the opportunity to comment on all of item 13 the entire director's report including item a and b? >> yes.

>> great. okay. so, i'm not get nothing to a back and forth here but there is nothing in the brown act or sunshine ordinance that prohibit a brief response to public comment. it is encouraged to not get into extensive dialogue, but a brief response to public comment is not prohibited anywhere. and it is difficult for me to reach department staff by phone. not all are in the office and some cases go straight to voice mail and i don't use e-mail so it is difficult to reach department staff as commission president advised me earlier. it is difficult to discuss organization structure without referring to incumbents in those positions, so i will avoid that today. i said before and i continue to believe that there are too many 5644 program manager

positions in the department whether filled or vacant. i would cluster some staff into larger programs and redirect some of that 5644 funding into 564240 and 38 positions to accomplish more work with fewer program managers. that's been my belief for several years now. i support focusing the deputy director on finance and administration right now given the challenges that the department has and that need to strengthen that area. i recognize that that might change in the future, but i think we are a way from that need changing and so i support the notion of having a deputy director focused on finance and administration and finally, i

think the existing base funding from the impound account to support zero waste toxics outreach and some administration and other functions which has been the core of department funding for since the department inception, will likely be reevaluated with the new refuse rate setting process authorized by the voters in june and set up by the controller's office so i think the idea that everything is copesetic in terms of impound account and there is nothing to worry about there, might be up-ended in the next year and i would have contingency planning around that issue. thanks for listening. >> thank you for your comment. >> seeing this is information item only just next

item please kyle. >> thank you president. the next item is 14. committee reports. this item is for discussion. >> great. commissioner sullivan, report of the policy committee please. >> sure. the policy committee last met november 14. the committee heard three presentations including update on the city greenhouse gas inventory. update on all electric new construction ordinance imp implementation and review on building code section 106a.1.17. frombery hooper. presentation energy access program from cara (inaudible) we also discussed the possibility of the commission drafting a letter to pg&e to advocate for continued funding for energy access sf program we heard is discontinued. perhaps a item for commission

meeting. october 3 heard 2 prezen sentations including update on the construction and demolition ordinance implementation from jaimed flaherty and fix sf lead program. the meeting scheduled for december 12 is canceled and the next meeting is monday february 13, 2023 at 5 o'clock p.m. >> thank you commissioner sullivan. operation. jrkts sure. the operation committee last met october 19 and we have two presentations including mission (inaudible) as well as equity and zero waste and affordable housing and our mixed operation committee meeting will be held monday january 9, 2023 as 5 p.m. >> thank you commission. i have to deliver the search committee report so search committee last met nrfb

november 21. exectrfb director recruitment process and two things we considered where the committee offered feedback on the draft brochure and voted to move forward with the search effort and we anticipate a meeting towards the end of january to review the search firm recommendation on top candidates and approve the short list for review. with that said, maybe we should-is there any discussion among commissioners on the committee reports? seeing none, maybe we should move to public comment kyle. >> seeing no members of the public in the room we'll proceed to remote public comment. members of the public who wish to make comment dial star 3. those on hold in the queue wait until it is your turn to speak. seeing

no callers from the queue, public comment on the item is closed. >> next item, please. >> next item is 15, new business future agenda items. speaker (inaudible) public affair officer. item is for discussion. >> good evening commissioners. reminder because it is ends the of the year the harassment prevention train sg due i believe for all the commissioners so if you haven't done so, please complete it. thank you. moving on to future business new agenda items, december 12 policy meeting has been canceled. the next operation committee meeting is january 9 and the next commission meeting is february 6. at that commission meet ing we already do have potential agenda items, the first will be our department budget. the second will be the

annual report. we also usually do commission elections at that initial meeting and there is probably a few other things that pop up between now squl then so we are already getting set up for next year's commission meeting. let me know if you have any questions. >> thank you charles. any questions? seeing none, let's move to public comment. >> seeing no members of the public in the room we'll proceed to remote public comment. members of the public who wish to make public comment should press star 3 to be added to the queue. those on hold, please continue to wait until it is your turn to speak. seeing no callers in the queue, public comment is closed. >> thank you kyle. next item. >> item 16, adjournment. the

meeting is adjourned. the time is 8:17 p.m. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. [meeting adjourned]

>> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by

pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study, and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill,

produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed

and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which

is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. -- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical

assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things

they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get

through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in

all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history

starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.

television. >> in 1948 swensen's ice cream used to make ice cream in the navy and decided to open up an ice cream shop it it takes time for the parent to put money down and diane one of the managers at zen citizen in arena hills open and serve old-fashioned ice cream. >> over 20 years. >> yeah. >> had my own business i was a firefighter and came in- in 1969 her dad had ice cream and left here still the owner but shortly after um, in here became the inc. maker the manager and

lead and branded the store from day to day and in the late 90s- was obvious choice he sold it to him and he called us up one night and said i'm going to sell the ice cream store what you you talking about diane came and looked at the store and something we want to do and had a history of her dad here and growing up here at the ice cream store we decided to take that business on. >> and have it in the family i didn't want to sell it. >> to keep it here in san francisco. >> and (unintelligible). >> share worked there and worked with all the people and a

lot of customers come in. >> a round hill in the adjoining areas loved neither ice cream shop in this area and support russia hills and have clean up day and give them free ice cream because that is those are the people that keep us the opportunity to stick around here four so many years next generations have been coming her 20 er thirty or 40 years and we have the ingredients something it sold and, you know, her dad said to treat the customers right and people will keep on coming back and 75 or 74 years, you know, that is quite an accomplishment i think of it as our first 75 years and like to

see that, you know, going into the future um, that ice cream shop will be around used to be 4 hundred in the united states and all gone equipment for that one that is the first and last we're proud of that we're still standing and people people are you tell people it's been around in 50 years and don't plan on

>> i personally love the mega jobs. i think they're a lot of fun. i like being part of a build that is bigger than myself and outlast me and make a mark on a landscape or industry. ♪♪♪ we do a lot of the big sexy jobs, the stacked towers, transit center, a lot of the note worthy projects. i'm second generation

construction. my dad was in it and for me it just felt right. i was about 16 when i first started drafting home plans for people and working my way through college. in college i became a project engineer on the job, replacing others who were there previously and took over for them. the transit center project is about a million square feet. the entire floor is for commuter buses to come in and drop off, there will be five and a half acre city park accessible to everyone. it has an amputheater and water marsh that will filter it through to use it for landscaping. bay area council is big here in the area, and they have a gender equity group. i love going to the workshops. it's where i met jessica.

>> we hit it off, we were both in the same field and the only two women in the same. >> through that friendship did we discover that our projects are interrelated. >> the projects provide the power from san jose to san francisco and end in the trans bay terminal where amanda was in charge of construction. >> without her project basically i have a fancy bus stop. she has headed up the women's network and i do, too. we have exchanged a lot of ideas on how to get groups to work together. it's been a good partnership for us. >> women can play leadership role in this field. >> i tell him that the schedule

is behind, his work is crappy. he starts dropping f-bombs and i say if you're going to talk to me like that, the meeting is over. so these are the challenges that we face over and over again. the reality, okay, but it is getting better i think. >> it has been great to bond with other women in the field. we lack diversity and so we have to support each other and change the culture a bit so more women see it as a great field that they can succeed in. >> what drew me in, i could use more of my mind than my body to get the work done. >> it's important for women to network with each other, especially in construction. the percentage of women and men in construction is so different. it's hard to feel a part of something and you feel alone. >> it's fun to play a leadership

role in an important project, this is important for the transportation of the entire peninsula. >> to have that person -- of women coming into construction, returning to construction from family leave and creating the network of women that can rely on each other. >> women are the main source of income in your household. show of hands. >> people are very charmed with the idea of the reverse role, that there's a dad at home instead of a mom. you won't have gender equity in the office until it's at home. >> whatever you do, be the best you can be. don't say i can't do it, you can excel and do whatever you want. just put your mind into it.2022

>> tuesday, december 6, 2022, san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors & parking authority commission. >> good afternoon director and staff held in hybrid in-person at city hall and on sfgovtv and by phone the watch: www.sfgovtv.org/sfmtalive or https://www.sfmta.com/calendar/ board-directors-meeting-december -6-2022. and when promoted public comment call-in: 415.655.0001 access code: 2 (498) 110-6321 speakers have two minutes otherwise when prompted, callers will have two minutes to provide comment unless otherwise noted by the chair. please speak clearly. plays you on item 2 roll call. >> director cajina