explains how we interpret it. one of the other conference that the aggregate totals. how much puryou can have in the homes and provide wayed bulletin this did not know existed an superstition 'll interpretation from march of 22. states how many power walls can you have throughout the home and we adjust today. i don't have concern if we hold 512 buzz we can hear it at the next hearing and i can work with additional stake holders i wish they would have been at the hearing and gave me that. there was only one person. who came and i think i'm fine with wing on it longer. so if you are okay with that i like to with draw 512

temporarily and set up for hear nothing january or february. we could use the model code it is in the code and passed we were trying to make an team of an interpretation. we will i like to get back to you on that one if you don't mind. otherwise, the other bulletin that remember brought up or add regarding the emergency responded are communication system we want to clarify how to get certification. we also claireified sprinkler protection for ev charging stations the idea that electric vehicles, some garage will add places to charge a vehicle and increased sprinkler requirements because the bat res and the way to meet that requirement and one more with we set guide lines on demand fuels sites.

3 others no need for interpretation. until you have questions i put them forth and hope you pass them. all right. did we have questions or comments from our commissioners? commissioner fraser. thank you for clarifying that. not having backgrounds in bat row storage or the need to understand it but this is great i appreciate your efforts to with draw and hold it and continue it but thank you very much. wanted to offer my gratitude.

other comments or questions. for the fire marshall. >> madam president? >> yes, >> please. this is the vice president i would like to ask the fire marshall clarity what you are asking for is an action item today. of because bulletins need to be adopt third degree year as i understand it. >> what i heard you are suggesting that accommendation to the speakers that spoke today in terms of the issue of 512 so am i hear thanksgiving we adopt all of the bulletince and you will pull 512 until we are able to sdhied at the next fire commission meet something >> correct. >> ychls i'm asking we accept all the others and then 512 since it is a new bulletin we

can hold that until future hearing. >> okay. does that not put jeppard in this adoption by the year for 512? >> no it does in the it it is a these are our interpretations of it. so it is also new bulletin did in the exist so it just will not still exist. >> okay. >> as a commissioner i wanted to say i appreciate the reenforcement this has been posted. and this there was a meeting. i also want to note that i appreciate w with the speakers in terms of concern and clarity for 512. so at this point turn to the spirit of the action i like to move madam president and colleagues the adoption of the bulletins save 512 to be removed for you fire marshall to go through your process and if you could bring it back in january when you think it is appropriate

to the chief of the department. and we can deal with this that would be my motion madam president and colleagues. >> i think the fire marshall also very much for all the work that gone into these into the fire code and the bulletin and and -- for his understanding of all the content and i would second the vice president nakajo's motion with regard to adoption sept for 512. exception. i will take a vote. commissioner morgan? >> yea i agree. no need to rush uncharted waters with the new technology. so i agree i vote, yes.

>> commissioner fraser? >> i vote, yes. >> and commissioner collins? >> i vote, yes. >> motion is unanimous. the administrative bulletin 2022 are adopted with the removal of bulletin 512 for further discussion. item 8 calendar 2023. discussion and possible action to adopt the 2023 fire commission regular meeting calendar and i'd like to announce our next meeting is january 11th 2023. >> all right. any comments on the calendar? there is nobody on the public comment line with their hand and up nobody approaching the

podium. all right. is there a motion with regard to the calendar? >> madam president. >> please. may i ask the secretary of the department to clarify what was on the agenda on the next commission meeting in january now that we add this bulletin as limp >> >> well, possibly the administrative bulletin 512. as well as the election of officers for the fire commission. and the chief's reports. approval of the minutes and at the moment i don't have prosecute a lives anything else that may be. added. >> thank you very much. madam secretary. madam in the is an informational item not a vote action. >> no we need to adopt the meeting calendar for 2023.

as present in the your packet. >> thank you for the clarification i move. >> >> all right. and i will second the motion. i vote, yes >> no public comment. >> so00 eye think we can take a roll call vote. >> commissioner morgan. >> yes. >> commissioner fraser. >> yes. >> and commissioner collins. >> yes. >> the motion pass. item 9 public comment on item 10. public comment on all matters pertaining to 10 below including public comment on whether to told 10 in closed session. item 10b is conference with legal council existing litigation. conference with legal council to discuss litigation pursuant to

code section 54956.9acd and code section 67.nd1 and possible recommendation to the board of supervisors for settlement approval or take other action in existing litigation nicole spencer versus city of san francisco. superior court case 21-589457. >> public comment on item 10b. and there is nobody. >> i'm sorry. >> pardon me i did not hear you. du say that there is public comment. this item or is not. we are taking public comment and there is nobody on the public comment line. >> got it >> okay. public comment will be closed. and is there a motion as to

whether to discuss this matter in closed session? >> madam president i move we move to closed session. >> and i will second your motion. mr. vice president. okay. i will take a vote this is pursuant to government code section 54957b and 67.10b to hold in closed session. commissioner morgan. >> yes >> commissioner fraser. >> yes. >> commissioner collins. >> yes. >> we will go into closed session at 10:10 a.m. >> madam president may i make a comment before closed session and regular session? >> fine with me.

>> i wanted to take advantage this is the last commission meeting of the year to in terms of moiz with the thank the commissioners and command force all the members of the add sdpragz all of the members of the department uniformd and civil yen our city deputy attorney and our madam secretary. for all of your work and appreciation this last year. thank you very much. >> thank

no audio not on disclose. i seconded. >> we is a first and second. president feinstein? >> not to disclose. >> commissioner fraser. >> not to disclose. >> and commissioner collins, how do you vote >> not to disclose. >> the motion is unanimous not

to disclose all discussions held in closed session. item 13 adjournment. >> if i may, madam secretary, i would am move to adjourn this session in memory of boy. not just fire commissioner and everything mike @al hardman. i read his obituaries in the chronicle i have known him since i was 10 he have been active in gentlemanal, labor, public service, sports, art and every

of k everything you can think of for over 50 years. i think it it is a rare person who dedicates that much of their limp to serving the communities they live in. he. he was a gentlemen, he had a sense about him that really made him a rarity. and i didn't have the pleasure of sitting on the fire commission with him but had the pleasure of working with him in other situations for other causes. and he was a real loss to our community. and i really i know this commission feels it those this knew him in the commission or outside felt it. you know he smiled the laugh the work and everything about him.

is a huge losdz for san francisco and for those of us lives touched by him. i would move that we adjourn in his memory. >> very good. >> this meeting is adjourned at 10:20 a.m.

. >> my name is ana renzi. i'm a fire investigator for the city and county of san francisco. the job of a fire investigator is to go after the fire has been put out and to determine the origin and the cause of the fire. so we are the people who after the firefighters have come in and done their magnificent work to extinguish the fire, we go through the fire scene and we are able to find how the fire started. just showing up, being who you are can mean a world of difference to someone. when someone sees you as an identifiably queer person, an identifiable female presenting

person or a person of color walk into their home, they can feel more comfortable and more trusting just knowing that you are around and that you may have some insight into their situation and to their community needs that others may not have. the san francisco fire department i'm proud to say goes out of its way to recruit women, minorities, and to the lgbtq+ community, we are awaiting you and wanting you to come join us as a san francisco fire department. no one is going to represent us like you are going to represent us. no one is going to care for our communities and for our departments like you are going to come and represent our communities and our departments. i am a proud black queer member of the san francisco fire department and i'm especially proud to be part of an

organization that respects and values our diverse communities in san francisco. [♪♪] >> 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.

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