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the commissioners. i will now call the roll. president ahn. >> here >> stevenson. >> here. >> commissioner hunter. >> here. >> commissioner sullivan. >> here. >> commissioner wald. >> here. >> commissioner wan. >> president, we have a quorum. >> next item. >> approve whether to approve, resolution making find to go allow tele conference meetings. this item is for discussion and action. the commission will discuss and consider adoption of the resolution making findings that governor section 54953e requires and order to require commission to hold meetings remotely as required under local law without brown act

violence. >> if there are nino comments, can i have a motion. >> i move. >> a motion from commissioner wald and second by stephenson and hearing no further discussion, let's open this up for public comment. >> we will begin with public comment here in the room. once that has completed, we will move on to virtual comment. please clearly into the mic. seeing none, we will proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment should press star-3 to be added to the queue. for those holding, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak.

>> and seeing no callers on the queue, public comment is closed. >> please call the roll. >> president. >> yes. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner bermejo is excused. commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> commissioner sullivan. >> aye. >> commissioner wald. >> aye. >> commissioner wan. >> aye. >> and the motion passes. next. >> next item is item 3. >> we occupy the ancestor homeland of the tararoni people. we upsed that they under the inter connectedness with all things.

we honor the tarnoshioni people. in accordance to this interest tradition, as well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. as you know invited guest. we affirm their soverne rights as first people and wish to pay our respect to the community. as environmentalist, we recognize that we must embrace knowledge and how we care for san francisco and all of its people. thank you for your attention during this important acknowledgment. and now for my own welcome message, as president. we have a full agenda so i'll keep my comments brief. but i want to highlight an item on something that we have heard on the news. weighed on gas stoves on human

stove, people just about their minds where they had an unexpected flash point, one congress commented that they can coal hands. now it's but the environment impact of gas appliances are real and it's an issue that san francisco has been leading on for sometime as well as grappling with the implications. so our city released all electric ordinance and it's on the process of updating chapter 7 to address commercial buildings. something that we're going to hear more about tonight. so in the meantime, let's turn down the noise and tune out the tweets and focus the important matter of hand, building a more sustainable environment and equitable city. with that, let's get started. any other public comment? that we should take on this item?

>> we'll begin with public comment, once public comment has concluded, we'll proceed with virtual comment. speak clearly into the mic. seeing none, we will proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment, should now press star-3 to be added to the queue. those waiting, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak. seeing no callers on the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> thank you, kyle.

next item please. >> next item is item 4 approval of minutes of december 6, 2022 meeting. document is december 22 draft admit, this item is for discussion. >> any discussion or changes to this commissioners? if not may i have a motion? >> move approval. >> is there a second. >> second from commissioner hunter. so we have a motion and second. can we open this up? >> we begin with public comment here in the room. once in-person comment has concluded, we will proceed to public comment. interest r there anybody that wish to speak? if so, come one by one and speak kler leon to the mic. seeing none, we'll proceed to public comment. member of the public should now press star-3 to be added to the queue. for those holding, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak.

seeing no callers on the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> thank you, please call the roll. >> president >> yes. >> vice president. >> yes. >> commissioner bermejo is excused. commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> sullivan. >> aye. >> wald. >> aye. >> wan. >> aye. >> and with that the motion passes. the next item is general public comment item 5, are not on today's agenda, we'll begin with public comment here in the room. once in-person public comment is concluded, we'll continue to go to virtual comment.

if there is anybody, please come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. seeing none, we will proceed to public comment. those who wish to make public comment, should now dial star-3 to be added to the queue. seeing no callers on the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> great, next item please. >> clerk: next item is item 6 to either building coordinator, this item is for execution.

>> commissioner hunter, can you introduce the environmental award. >> yes, thank you. let me start, i do understand that we're joined by two special guests. i believe your parents are here and i just want to say thank you for raising such an amazing daughter, public advocate and civil servant. we are pleased to work with somebody so talented. thank you. eden, your sense of creative to bring innovative solutions to the department is something that we treasure and know that you have a passion for. as you took your creativity to build relationships, agencies and stakeholders, we recognize that you were able to maximize your impact and the list could be read here all night long. but i do want to highlight a

few right out the gate. and huge accomplishment and really speak to the passion that you brought to the work. which we can hear about tonight. is really getting into the weeds and bringing attention to detail that i think a lot of people can learn from you about. but, there is still more to say. leaving the department's work on building management material, being awarded a lead fellowship and then finally being selected for green council to travel to singapore and represent the u.s. city's partnership is a litany of things that not anyone can do but you did. with all that mind, i want to close by saying that thank you

for being a compassionate and unfailing colleague not only here but the department. we're sorry to see you leave the department but we know that you'll have an impact. thank you for your service and congratulations. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> first of all, thank you for those words commissioner hunt. any other comments from commissioners? if not, maybe we'll open it up to members of the public to speak. would anyone joining us tonight, would like to say a few words? >> speaker: good evening, i'm cindy and i just want to thank eden for all the work that she has given to the san francisco environment department. i also want to thank her parents, and her step dad for

joining us and raising an incredible human being. not only did eden consistently perform admirably she went above and beyond. she is already a talented individual but commit today growth and just became an extraordinary leader. last but not least as commissioner hunter just said, she is a great human being. and i appreciate everything that she has done and we will miss her dearly. thank you so much, eden. [applause] >> eden would you like to say a

few words? >> speaker: good evening, i'm a little emotional because when i joined the department, i told deputy, the director at the time that i was looking for impact scale and kindness. and in my career, i was lucky to have been in a place with scale but i'm lucky to be in a place with so many kindness, that they can balance their people, other cultures and embracing diversity and doing it with compassion and understanding and experience and knowledge. so this is been such a wonderful work family for me. and i just thank you for placing the druft in me to be able to lead some of the initiatives for partnerships and i'm just can't wait to see

what happens next with the department and with the green building program, i know you'll continue to do wonderful things. thank you. >> thank you, again. [applause] >> so with that, maybe public comment, kyle? >> we'll begin with public comment here in the room. once in room comment has been concluded, we'll move on to virtual comment. please come one by one and speak clearly into the mic. seeing none, we will proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment, should press star-3 to be added to the queue.

>> and seeing no other callers, public comment on this item is now closed. >> we'll now pause for a moment and take a portrait with the recipient.

>> thank you again eden for your services and the environment. >> next item is number 7, the speaker is tie ron acting director. >> acting directer, please. >> hello. here it goes. commissioners i'm looking forward to one of these meetings where we're not saying goodbye to one of our beloved staff. at the same time, we get the

fortune to welcome our new department members. i'm going to ask them to come up in the order that you're called and introduce yourself and title and what you're doing and where you come from and the background. >> hannah, claire and michael sawyer and tiffany wynne. >> speaker: good evening, commissioner i'm hannah traoun. i'm the clean transportation manager, i come in a background in utility and electrification projects and at the department i'll be managing the transport ache program team and operations focusing on bringing in more federal funding to help us implement the electric vehicle road map. i look forward to working with you, thank you. >> speaker: good evening, commissioners, my name is

claire paon i'm the senior account club. i have in accounts payable for 16 years in my background. and in the department, i mainly focus on the p o.c. issues and payments and try to confirm that everything is in compliance with the city's rules and requirements. and like insurance validation something like that. and i will be assigned for more than that but at this moment, i was just focused on pos and payments. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners my name is mike sawyer, my pronoun are he and i am, i'm 1822 grant analyst for the department of environment.

i came from puc my background is in accounting. i'm responsible for reconciling the grants in a timely and efficient manner. thank you. >> speaker: good evening, i'm tiffany knew ini just graduated last month from ucla and i worked at nasa as a social media specialist. i'm fashion at about utilizing communication as a tool to communities. so i'm very excited to be working here. >> and those are new members, so if everyone would join me in giving them a round of applause. [applause] >> welcome all. and i believe we still have to move to public comment on this item. >> we'll begin with public comment here in the room. are there any members of the

public who are present and wish to speak? if so come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. seeing none, we will proceed to remotel public comment. for those on hold, wait until it's your turn to speak. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> next item. >> environmental and general plan policies. the speakers are lisa chen and

planning department and danielle gogh, senior department. this item is for discussion. >> hello again, lisa and danielle. >> good evening, commissioners i'm lisa chan, and we're really excited to be here to provide an informational presentation on the ej framework. so the ej framework leverage the environmental justice work of the department environment and if it's adopted it will comprise san francisco's first city wide policy aimed to dressing across all agencies. so it will be up for adoption at the planning commission and the supervisor of spring. so we welcome your feedback as we're finalizing the document. so danielle, from the planning department will be providing today's presentation. but we wanted to open by

expressing our gratitude first and for most to the community that contribute their time and live experienced and told us their challenges and proposed solutions to us over the past 20 years. we want to thank them for challenging us and we hope that they see their ideas and aspirations reflected. and we want to thank this commission in particular and cindy for all of their collaboration on the project. so it's been a key partner throughout the department of the framework. continuing through the engagement and finally throughout the process. so this partnership has really ensured alignment between the ej framework and look forward to collaboration as we work to implement both. we also attended this commission in april 2021, for an informational hearing at the

sub policy committee as we finalize our communities map. >> thanks lisa and hello everybody, thank you for being here and whier attention. our presentation will start at the top, before sharing with you the major updates of our community engagement and ej. the main event is the framework that has been part of the pact and then we'll wrap up with next steps. so just to prime everybody, especially if you were not here april 2021, this work the environmental justice is respond to go policy mandates, both the state and local level. sb1,000 is the state bill that is requiring municipalities to analyze data on disadvantaged communities. we're relabeling them as environmental justice communities. in addition, it requires us to policies into our general plan

to address unique and compounded health risk. and our planning commission and preservation have called upon the planning department to put racial and social equity policies into the plan. so you can see at the state and local levels there is a lot of reasons to be putting both environment and racial equity into these long-range policies. so to meet sb1,000 requirement, we chose an inter greated approach that serves as for all city agencies rather than a stand alone element. with part two, we have an environment communities map that highlights and we have also included policies to the resilience element and housing element that has just been adopted sxh. so moving forward, we have future updates under way to put environmental

justice and equity throughout our continued general plan updates starting with the transportation element that is upcoming in 2025. and all the elements listed. in particular, the environmental protection element and air quality element. sorry, there is a frog in my throat. and so, to describe what goes inside the environmental justice framework, you can see this full set of high level vision and priority statements that outlines the environmental justice work. this is guided by sb1,000 that encourages us to think broadly about healthy communities of opportunity not just environmental pollution which is a corner stone of this work. so as we propose this new environmental framework to the city, we're proposing to incorporate into reference. the last time was in 1996 so

overall we're incorporate new context such as lands acknowledgment and built environment acknowledgelement and apology policies and action. so with all of these updates, pulling from the departments planning processes over resent years, the introduction so they participate in this document so. moving on, these next few slides will share about our community out reach and engagement that has happened for over two years. so share our goals again encouraged by sb1,000, and community leaders into this local decision making process. we worked really hard to elevate environmental justice to a city wide dialogue across

neighborhood boundaries, a lot of justice work throughout many city agencies. and lastly we want to acknowledge past harms and identify future solutions where the city can step in into this work. so this is timeline, you can see we've done a range of activity starting with youth engage with second graders all the way to open house and sf environment staff supports as well as focus groups at the end of last year. so notely, the working group reached unanimous consensus in a document of draft policy recommendations. these recommendations followed the development of the framework and posted online as supplemental material. you can see that there is a lot of detailed information to reflect the community needs and desires underneath

environmental justice and we look forward to relate that to other agency staff. so this slide highlights all of the community base organizations that were partners with us in this work. so we're really proud of the relationships that we've built in coordination with the action plan, the safety and resilience element and other efforts on this issues. so i just want to appreciate the students residents workers and community leaders who have been involved in this process. they were very like open with us and we're grateful that they shared some pretty honest and frank commentary about their working conditions in the city. so moving along to the environmental map, you all are familiar with cal and virus green and sb1,000 encourages us to use that as starting pace.

it's a tool that uses o 20 indicator, however including many sensitive areas in san francisco. and so on the bottom right hand, you can see only treasure island and bay view hunters point. with our analysis with the communities map, we use cal as a starting place and refined it so have analysis that is aligns with other maps by other agencies. so we'll share more in the following slides to see how much it has reflected from our partner agencies as well as the community. this map about our method shares that our team reviewed over 100 data sets and landed on this simplified mythology.

so with cal we added three additional layers. household income from the census, air pollution from dph and the areas of vulnerability also dph which includes a number of indicators as such as race and linguistic ability. and brings us to this, final map. since you last saw this in april 2021, we made some visual updates to enhance what the communities are, which are these areas in red. they're the 30% of the top areas in the city. so, you can see on the right hand slide, it's a state map and then the larger map is ours. and you can see the difference, it's more inclusive of environmental justice communities includes area of point and china town mission, omi, outer mission, potrero

hill, tenderloin and western addition. so the these are the areas where the environmental framework draws attention to. this is where they should prioritize attention and resources. we received a lot of positive feedback about how this map is reflecting environmental sensitivity. in particular, people really enjoy the opportunity to think collectively about all neighborhoods that are facing these disproportionate challenges. so just as an example, the rec and parks commission adopt thised in december as part of redefining their equity zones and the puc is using to determine grant funding so we're appreciative. so finally, the major document, the framework, we wanted share

briefly, outlines start width historical context of ej and equity in the city. the second part shares our broad definition of environmental justice as well as the community's map and the third and final portion outlines all of our vision statements and priority statements that guide our whole city's work on conditions. so the next few slides are organized by the sb1,000 topics and priority are bulleted on the right hand side. on the left hand slide, we wanted illustrate one example of local victory that has been done. so without reading through all of them, just wanted highlight, we start with healthy resilience environment. we want to prioritize a resilient utility system. with physical activity and healthy public facilities, we're thinking through diverse

and inclusive programming, so that people can really see themselves reflected and physical health and mental health and cultural practice. with healthy food access, we affirm healthy food as a human rights and cultural approach. this next section on affordable homes, we want to say was developed in concert with the housing element, so you can see the mirroring policies, such as having housing that supports public health. with green jobs, we're thinking of having networks and entrepreneurship opportunities so there is community benefits. and then to wrap up, we have empowered neighborhoods and what i want to highlight here is centering environmental efforts and collaboration with the american indian communities and having lots of traditional ecological knowledge.

so to wrap up, again just want to ground ourselves on the coordination that brought us here. this is an [a-/]a we really look forward to continuing that partnership to get implementation. and there are other agency that's are mirroring and we have phase two of our general plan updates so that ej is renrektd through subsequent elements. we are scheduled to adopt at our planning commission on march 2 and then we'll have hearing in april and may. we're really excited to, you know, inform you here today and we're also informing the human rights commission and here, during q & a and afterwards, feel free to reach out to me or

lisa, i want to share this quote, the mother of environmental justice movement, but, to evoke her, if we want safe environment for our children and grandchildren, we must clean up our act, no matter how hard a task it may be. >> thank you for that presentation, it was really en siteful for me. i'm not familiar for the planning department or some of the terms. so i just wanted check in. my assumption that it's similar, we have a climate action plan for our department. is the general plan the main document that you follow as a

city as you're doing city planning. >> so the general plan is stewarded by the planning department but it's owned by the whole city. and it's a land use document that is mandated by the state. so the state mandates all municipalities to have a land use document. to think through development and built in environment and all other aspects that make the city more vibrant. so which jobs, air quality, we just update thed the safety element that deals with safety department and hazards and all of these prongs. there is about tenements also known as chapters or policy sections. and most of them are mandated by the state, again. and there are some elements that we choose to create electively, just because we decide those are values in our city such as our arts and culture element and prehistoric preservation. >> that's really helpful, thank you.

how often, is it a update that it has to be updated or is it a living document that gets created? >> currently a living element. the housing element is reding to be updated every 8 years. and then for all the other elements, it's a range. so there are some elements that are quite outdated, i would say as old as i am, and the most resent element besides the housing and safety element, was the recreation and open space element, from 2014. >> and ejp, sort of impacts all of these different elements, for the entire plan. is there any sort of, mandate or requirement around how often we update that piece of it? >> no, so this is going to be the first time. this environmental component exist. the sb was pass inside 2016. so there is not, information that i know of or regular

updates. but i'll pass to lisa in case i'm missing any other details. >> thank you. >> i have a comment and a question, i'm really excited to see the environment mapping efforts of the city be more inclusive which have been long been ignored in the screen mapping tool in particular. i want to pose a thought at least, have you tried communicating this more inclusive map to the state? in particularly with the weha under klpa. >> we have not done that, that is an open conversation once we final lea dopt it, or not finally but eventually adopt it as a final map. i think we have been involved with the up states so we were

able to incorporate the version 4.4 from october 2021 into this version. >> and just recognize the state of california has come a long way. i remember the early version did not include hunters point which was a travesty but having that conversation with a state, states there is a local efforts that is becoming efforts that are better and better. >> thank you. >> any other comments or questions? from fellow commissioners? if not, let's go to public comment then. >> we'll begin with public comment here in the room. once public comment has concluded. are there any members who wish to speak if so, please come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. seeing none, we'll proceed to remotel public comment.

members of the public who wish to make a public comment, please star-3 to be added on the queue. for those on queue, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak. >> seeing nobody on the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> next item. >> review and vote on whether to vote, resolution authorizing environment department grants, the sponsor is ti, speakers is esther tang and environment education jesus urban forestry

hillary, and commercial coordinator huey and raymond environmental justice coordinator extraordinary document, this item is for discussion and possible action. >> speaker: commissioners tie ron acting director. as this commission knows, you setforth new policy to increase our transparency with our grants within the department. so all departments over a certain threshold with required to go before commission for approval. tonight we're bringing a member of our outgoing grants which include the first set of climate grants. and those grants were funded through the accuracy of last year. but more than having me run through the list, we have each of the program areas representing the grants to talk more about their grants that will be given out.

>> good evening, commissioners. the slide, so my name is esther tang and senior environmental specialist. and i lead the youth education during out reach to all k-12 students. so the first grant is an extension for sf u.s. d office so continue existing partner. so this particular, this 100 k grant is mainly to support the staff in the collaborative work where a service liason among us with sfusd teachers and staff. next slide. the next grant also an existing partner. so sf u.s. d sign center. so we've been offering this

grant mainly for field studies program connecting youth to nature. and this is an annual work and on going work. this also includes work where they train teachers so teacher professional program included as well. next slide. so this is part of the new climate grant. so awarding it to two partners, so the first one is enterprise for youth so 12500 is going to them mainly to support their entertainment program for youth. so korea experience, focusing on youth from diverse and under represented background. next slide. so the second one is going to charity cultural centers.

same amount 12500 grant for the use environmental program. so for them, they have this train the trainer model to empower high school students to teach other students and that way they learn, so they will develop the curriculum and teach it to others, so they learn. thank you. >> commissioners? jesus, urban forestry council coordinator also with the environment department. i'll be sharing about the three community grants that we're hoping to award. the first grant supports the poor neighborhood association on going work transforming the overgrown easement between highway 101 and the businesses

along san bruno avenue into the green space. next slide please. this grant supports the green farm apprenticeship, from the community work on the farm. next slide please. the third, ecosystem grant, stim lar to the first, supports citizen film in their work along san jose avenue, also in the biodiverse correction for the neighborhood adjacent to the cut.

all three take action with our enter graining bio diversity and enhancement of open spaces and our built environment as well as supporting and reviewing more green spaces. thank you. >> speaker: hi, i'm hillary i serve the zero team as a coordinator. and we've had the privilege to administer three grants funded through a local is aift ant grant to support our state wide policy. we were administered 1.1 million and we decide today provide over 700,000 through three grants. the first is to sf u.s. d and

we're helping to application to some other storm water site, next slide. is the other two grants with their resent contribution district. they are land managers, they've been work withing small farmers for decades. and this is a project project to connect them with come compost and we want to get it back to small firms. so we're going to do a project and the goal is to get up to 4,000 tons of compost on to the 50 farms in the next year and a half. and the second, in that sort of vain is through organization called zero foot print started here in san francisco who is the next slide, yeah. who is partnering matching

private funding with the local assistant grant funds to do some of the same. but they, they have this private funding so they can get toup 1100, or 11,000 tons of that some of the same compost throughout california. we have a larger spectrum, larger target. >> speaker: good evening, xhiptioners i'm whi, i'm with the healthy ecosystem. so we're excited to issue 50,000 approximately 50,000 dollars in grants to ucsf office of sustainability to really provide education to pregnant and new mothers about the issues of endocrine

disrupting chemicals, they're found in a lot of plastic products and a lot of food storage containers. so part of this grant will also fund a tool kit which will be provided a mothers like a glass baby bottles and glass food containers and this will be directed to the top 30% of environmental justice burden communities zip codes and i appreciate your comment eddie, about how china town has been excluded so i'll be happy to inform the grant recipient about that audience too. we'll be working with new mothers, as a father, i wish my parents knew about something like this when i was younger. looking forward to it, thank you.

>> fwaod evening, i'm ray, i'm environmental coordinator with the environment team. the climate program leads to justice and rfp to support building electrification efforts and some of the most impacted neighborhood, will serve the cities communities using ej communities map, educating residents about the hazard of gas appliance while promoting electrification. they support actual installations, culltora, ertae, delas a americaas also known as cana will decarbonization using email text and spanish radio

combined with induction stove top and giveaway, during carnival. this concludes the presentation, we welcome questions. >> great, questions or comments, yes, commissioner wald? >> yes, thank you. thanks to all of you for bringing the grants to us, they look really really terrific and it's strg to learn about that. are there any grantees in the room? apparently not. so i realize we have a really long agenda tonight but just want to observe, i think it's a good thing when people that we are giving or thinking about giving grants to, as we attend our meetings so that we can

begin to establish relationship between them and us as well as them and the staff of the department. >> if i may through the chair to answer commissioner wald, charles, thank you commissioner for that note. we thought long and hard about this exact point because of the length of the meeting and it was paired with our budget, we decided not to do what every year, and we're continue to go grapple because there is the new requirement to bring all grants. and some of these grants are a little more transactional and some of them are part of our grants. we're still working through what is the best process. so it's, it's good to hear your thoughts on that and we'll incorporate that. >> thank you, i really appreciate that, i just wanted to make sure we were not starting a new tradition.

good thanks. >> yes, commissioner sullivan. >> so this agenda is arising out of the desire to provide the commission more over site. for each of the grants, i assume there is a source of funds. and it was not clear to me where the money was coming from and where he was getting it. that was not clear as we were going through the dozen or so grants. >> trj actor, had to wait a second to turn on. yes, we could be more explicit in terms of the commentation but the grants are coming from primary three forces of funding. the 2.6 add back which was

allocated to the in the last budget cycle. or coming from state monies received for implementation of sb1833, so those are the three primary sources of funding. >> yes, commissioner hunter. >> just wanting to say thank you for presenting such a de tailed so we're aware of where the money is going. i noticed that a few of the presenters were very clear with the tpi oar each of those over 11,000 tons or making sure to restore certain areas. i would be curious to see where each of those end up in a end state specifically people come back to renew those grants. i would be curious to find out on the work that they've done. generally to some other

commissioners points, we're trying to have more over site on how the money is being allocated and having that transparency would be helpful in future presentations. >> yes, commissioner wan. >> just piggy back on this comment, i understand uh important for understanding the reporting requirement. i think it will be lengthy, we asked every organization to present the outcome but it may be helpful just one impact report that will always be helpful. the other thing i want to clarify, is this grant one year or two? i noticed some have different years. i'm trying to get a different understanding. >> i think there are different directions specific to each grants. >> this information will be helpful one year and multi year.

>> good comments. anything else, yes, i see charles coming back. >> charles public affairs, so we have about ten more grants coming next commission meeting and the commission after that. to see if that's good and we can adjust and we'll have a slightly different presentation based on your feedback. and we'll have other grants throughout the year but they will not be in chunks of 10 and 20, this is kind of our biggest season. the feedback is good and we'll revise accordingly. >> all right. >> seeing no other comments from commissioners, maybe we'll go to public comment. >> we will begin with public comment here in the room, once in-person room has proceeded, are there any members of the public and those who wish to speak? if so, come one by one. seeing none, we will proceed to remotel public comment.

>> i'm sorry, i believe we should do a motion first and then to move this grant package forward? yes. may i ask for a motion. >> motion. >> from commissioner wald, is there a second? second from commissioner wan. and we'll do public comment again. >> again, we'll begin with public comment here in the room, once proceed, we will move public comment. if you wush to speak come forward and speak clearly into the mic. seeing none, we'll proceed to public comment. members of the public wish to make a public comment should now press star-3 to be added to the queue. for those holding, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak.

>> seeing no callers on the queue, public comment is closed. >> please call the roll. >> president. >> yes. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner bermejo is excused. commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> commissioner sullivan. >> aye. >> commissioner wald. >> aye. >> commissioner wan. >> aye. >> next item please. >> item 10 review and vote on whether to approve the environment fiscal year 2023-24 budget and accompanying supplement, the speaker is tie ron and program manager, environment department fiscal year 23-24 budget and budget memo. this is for discussion. >> speaker: commissioners i'm

please today present our 24-25 draft budget. we can pull up the presentation, this is a presentation that we're going to tag team with joe our budget manager. so, on the agenda, we're going to cover a couple of different areas. one we're going to review what the budget process is and budget timeline. the second we're going to go over our details for the budget. the third we're going to spend a little more time focusing on our budget request that will be at the request of the budget that we submit and advocate for. and we'll have questions, next slide. and next slide. so the following slide outlines the budget timetable and process. the mayor did release her budget constructions to all city agencies. we've now this is going to be our second hearing on the budget, the first hearing was

heard at the operations committee last month. next slide. in the budget ordinance, we do have to have meetings february 14 to this puts us in compliance with that. after, we'll submit that budget proposal to the mayor controller on february first. they will submit by march first and subsequently the mayor will submit her proposed budget to the board of supervisors by may one. next slide. we tackled the budget process in a timely fashion this time around where they heard from each of the program areas within a department to learn about their priority and staffing and budget and budget challenges. so commissioner heard presentations fromall the program managers and all of our program areas. next slide.

to recap the mayor's constructions, for the next two years. they're projecting a cumulative, 720 million dollars deficit over the next two fiscal years. for general fund departments, they were asked to make a cut of 5% in year one and 2% in year two. and also filling vacancies only in those core departments function and priorities and saving the rest for in terms of filling vacancy for budget savings. non general f*und are able to see staff. so as staffing costs go up, we're asked to keep our budget kneeler. neutral so they'll be able to reour general fund budget, a very very small sliver of what we're funded by, 16,000 in the

first year and about 9800 in year two. next slide. i'm going to toss it over to joe for the first slide. >> thank you, good evening, i'm joe salem i'm the budget manager for the san francisco environment department. foeft most of you know, this this san francisco has an annual appropriation ordinance or ooa budget or operating budget. the aao is what we'll deliver to the mayor's office on february first. but more comprehensive on the department's spending plan. essentially the operating takes over the current projections fifn the fiscal year, where as the a eo captures any funding. and we can see that illustrated in the slide here.

well the proposal that we'll submit to the mayor's office will be between 27 and 27.8 million for fiscal 23-24, we plan to aout lays between 31-34 million dollars. because of this, i'll provide a more budget and thorough view for fiscal year 2024. so looking at the proposed summary budget on the right, you can see that we have a large projected deficit for fiscal 2045. the vas majority of this 1.5 million is directly tied to add back funding for the that we have not secured for fiscal 2023. the rest is pieed to salary

increases. we received a one-time add vac of 2.6 million for work around climate and clean transportation. this funded position that's for fiscal 2024, equal 6.15stes and represent a cost of 1.5 million. as i mentioned the funds for these fpo. they have not been secured so they're being representing in our draft budget. i would like to point out that this pij was over 100 with the 8. but thanks to the grant funding we were able to fund 80% of the

gran transportization. next slide. le so there are always changes to our budget nebz twoen the rentation justice as there will be changes between tonight's presentation can our final submission on february 21. few changes are listed here and incorporated into the summary figures this this presentation. next slide. there are however, a few thinks that we just recently became aware of and not incorporated into the figures. specifically the puc lets know that they will not be managing or bio diversity organizes in fiscal 2024.

next slide please. so the previous side, you saw there is a new officer contract workout. na they about begin having their. this shows the involves of the contracts for the 14th legislaturerest uses. he can sue the environment is the largest user of office of contract administrative services. >> i think the point here, is the if i may enter jkt. we workout paces the department. we're doing a tremendous volume of work. so when wiier saying we need to administrative staff, we're a 28 million dollars roughly department and you can compare

to other departments that have vasly larger contracting staff and we proefl only had one person working ob that, so it's key to fill it up, that we fill it to our company. >> i would like to add to that, that grants are not part of figure. so these are grants for contracts. we do a ton of grants as well and that's is even more for the work that we do. to illustrate that it's a large number for the size of our department. next slide. i'm sorry, i was waiting for it to go. all efforts are required to submit a budget each year. because of the budget of our funding and our heavy reliance

on grant revenue, it's inaccurate. as you see here, the fiscal 2025 budget at 2.9 million dollars which is 1.2 million our 2024 deficit. and this is primarily because several grants that were active in 2024 will conclude before fiscal 2025. while we're confident that we grant by the time we submit our 2025-26 budget next year, those grants have not identified yet much less applied for or awarded. next slide. so year over year, we're currently projected, we're about 4 and 10 percent.

on the major drivers increase our new grants and increase in-person he will costs. personnel costs. >> okay, i'm going to handle the other part of the presentation and ask for this fiscal year. next slide. so before i begin talking about our new request for this budget year. i wanted to look back. so we filled 7 positions which if by city hiring standards is an amazing accomplish. : we have soon in progress that are soon hired any day now. using that add back and that will be complete. we have two contracts that have

xlaoetsds, 1 contracts through the review and implementation process. and three that are not started and primarily actually waiting for the two positions we're trying to get filled. on the grant side, you heard today about the tremendous work we're making putting money into the community, related to our climate grants. those are supporting community action to get us to our greenhouse gas emission goals. from two buninget years ago, we just have released the equity hub which is out there and closing in a few days. and we're continue to go move on all the work that we said we were going to do which brings

us to our priority for this coming budget year. first and for most is to make sure that we retain the staff that we hired and what the department created through the position approximates. as joe noted earlier, the original number was 1.8 million dollars that was right after we came out of the last budget cycle, we said in order to keep the positions we're going to keep 1.8 million dollars and just like we said we were going to do we're going to look for grants and bring money into the city to do projects and fund our staff. and thanks to our estate grant, the cec grants which was awarded, now we have to bring our overall from 1.3 to 1.3. what we need the capacity to continue to do. what is key to note is, you

know, these grants mike can't wait for the hiring process and by that time, you've got the grant opportunities. by having the people we have, we go after the federal grants that we know are just coming online now. next slide. this is the table showing the positions that are funded through the add map that will make up the deficit that you saw earlier, so total of 2.65ftd and some are funding fully funding existing positions within the department. next slide. in addition, we know that as we've talked about there is a tremendous amount of work that still needs to be done and we need additional staff and we need additional resources. so if we want to fund the

climate equity fund and continue our technical work and continue our work really trying to bring in as much money into the city and into this department, for the public benefit, we need to continue building our capacity. so the 3.5 million you see here, 2.6 million is for existing professional services what we were able to do last year with our grants and other contracts. there is about 585,000 allocated for new additional staff. that would focus on decarbonization and other work. and about 307,000 in new professional services identified for the upcoming fiscal year. next slide. when you break these when you break that money out into the different categories and these categories should be familiar to the commission as we use it

to define where the money is going to be allocated. i'm not going to go over each individual one. again, it's on limiting fossil fuels and improving our out reach and implementation. you're going to hear about our marketing program which launched just days ago and we need to continue that in order to build public awareness about this work. and we need to continue to expand our work on healthy eco systems. we need to continue our clean transportation work. our racial equity work, and making sure that we have administrative staff as our backbone to support all the activities i just mentioned. next slide. the following table outlines the new position funding so this is the 585,000 and where that funding would go to fund.

all right, and then we're going to transition a little to an ordinance which passed, through the board of supervisors and passed through the mayor, so banning lawn gas equipment and preplacing them with electric. when the ordinance was going through the board process, we were very clear to the board and mayor, that we didn't have the resources to implement this program and it's an unfunded mandate at the moment. and they asked us to put together on what you would need and here is what that budget looks like. it's 1.6 million in the upcoming fiscal year, to fund staff and to help people in switching out their equipment. and then a 2.4 million dollars basically budget request in the

next fiscal year in 24-25. next slide. the following table just outlines the staff positions that would be funded through the dollars i just mentioned. next slide. so per the mayor's budget office instruction we're going to be presenting a balance budget to the mayor's office. we will moving the positions to off budget, that's the only way to create a balances budget. at the same time we've been told to prepare a memo for this commission. that's the next item that i believe you're going to hear about. but together that's what will be submitted to the mayor's office. our budget and balance budget and our memo outlining our additional budget requests. and with that, we have two action items to the commission that i just want to make sure

are clear. one is to approve the aao budget, without the general fund position approximates. and two, request additional or implementation and those are the two items in front of you for this. happy to answer any questions. >> questions or comments from fellow commissioners? so that last slide for the item we're going to do item 1, right? >> that's correct. >> judge: any comments or questions. ? if not, can i have a motion to move this item. >> so moved. >> all right, a from vice president stephen son, second? >> second. >> second from commissioner hunter. with that, let's go to public comment. >> we will begin public comment here in the room, once

in-person comment has conclude, we'll proceed to virtual comment. if there is anything wishing to speak, please come forward and speak clearly into the mic. seeing none, we will proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment, must press star-3 to be placed into the queue. we do have one caller on the queue. caller, you're unmuted.

your three minutes begin now. >> speaker: hello i'm susan green i'm working with san francisco emergency coalition and a number of friends in the urban forest. i just wanted to speak briefly in support of the department of environment's budget request and the need, i know this is the next agenda item but also the need for, money from the general funds to help stabilize the work that they need to do to implement the climate action plan. this is an incredibly urgent matter for a city that is getting little attention and funding and this year we need to turn that around and start the year with a request for general fund money and money that will stabilize the department on going staffing so that they can adequately

address our obligations. thank you. >> thank you for your comment. no other comments. >> roll. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> commissioner sullivan. >> aye. >> and commissioner wald. >> aye. >> commissioner wan. >> aye. >> we move to item 11. >> next is item 11, for environment programs sponsored. commissioner please take it away. >> i move.

>> i'm sorry. >> this is the letter? >> no this is the memo, right? >> this is the letter. >> my letter, sorry. send a letter to the mayor, on the commission urging that she support the department's budget request. i've been a strong supporter of these letters and this year, rather than have the letter sent developed drafted and developed after the meeting, i thought it would be a good idea to have the letter before us at

the meeting so that we can discuss and vote on its context. which we just heard in great detail and it will make the case that additional funding is necessary if san francisco is really serious about achieving the goals of the action plan. maximize and state funds to achieve these goals. i hope you all will agree with me that, we need to submit such

a letter again this year and that this draft is appropriate. i want to bring to your consideration, before we discuss it one potential amendment which would be a more aggressive conclusion of the letter. the letter says something like we would be happy to meet with you. one possibility is something like i will call you next week. to see if we can schedule a meeting with me and my colleagues, but i'm not sure president ahn if you would go that far or even if you'll be

here next week. this is a critical matter. i look forward to hearing your thoughts. >> i'm open to the change and i welcome more questions or comments from commissioners. >> too long. >> i'm in support of anything that strengthens any of our comments. >> it's been years and years and years and years in san francisco saying that you care

about them and we're excited and it comes time to fund it and not only do you have to fund it yourself but you have to pay for the people that have to find the funding themselves. >> can i respond, this letter is written in the hope that the mayor will actually do what we said, it's probably not as strong as you may like. and the fair responds that we should pull out all the stops

and another letter that is as blunt as you have just been. do we mean it or not? and if we don't mean it, why don't you tell us, and we'll behave accordingly. this is che raid otherwise. >> i'm also baffled that say we have a climate emergency and then you look at the budget compared to city budget and it's laughable how small it is. so we don't have the resources to do what we've been asked to do. i think this letter is a plea to the mayor to do something about it. i think it's a strong letter and there are way that's we can make it stronger. i want to get it in the hands of the mayor. >> commissioner wan. >> this is a great letter, i

really appreciate it. the only thing is i would be der if we have a total, to pick which item to add. >> commissioner hunter? >> thank you for trafting this. it saved us not only time but effort. the letter is well articulated. i'm more in the mind set of let's get this to the hands i think beating the same drum twice is more impactful than changing the verbiage. >> okay. >> commissioner wan? >> yes. >> do other commissioners have

opinions or just leave as is? >> i think total. so if we can do that, that would be great. >> since this is a public affairs, this is kind of agendize document, it may be worth a while and if you agree with commissioner wald's approach those are easy amendments and you can put it underneath the totals, you have the three bullets with the dollar amount and you just put a total and then the 6., 6. whatever it is and then for the second amendment, per commissioner wald suggestion, it would be something like on behalf of the commission, comma and commission president comma, i'll be reaching out to set up a meeting, period.

thank you for your time. so if you want, you can take that and make that a motion and we can formally amend it and pass and send it to the mayor's office. >> can i make that motion. >> yes. >> so we have a motion. >> it would be great. >> i will second. >> and then a second from commissioner sullivan. and with that, let's go to public comment then. >> we will begin with public comment here in the room. once public comment has concluded, we'll proceed to go to public comment. if there is anybody else, speak clearly into the mic. members should now press star-3 be put into the queue.

i see no comments on the queue, public comment. >> you have to vote on the motion and then take public comment on the full item letter. >> all right. >> so the commission can approve op the motion. our city attorney is out tonight. >> president aye. -- ~>> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner vermejo is excused. commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> commissioner seoul van. >> aye. --sullivan. >> aye.

>> commissioner wald. >> aye. >> commissioner wan. >> aye. >> it looks like we need another motion. >> we have a motion, you just need to take public comment. >> let's go to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to make a public comment, should please come forward and speak into the mic. is seeing none, we'll proceed to remotel public comment. members should now press star-3 to be added into the queue for those on the queue, please continue to hold until it's your turn to speak. >> let's do a vote. >> president. >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye.

>> commissioner vermejo is excused. commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> commissioner sullivan. >> aye. >> whisinger wald. >> aye. >> commissioner wan. >> aye. >> this passes, next item. >> next is item 12, climate program manager and acting senior strategist this item is for discussion. >> good evening, commissioners i'm cindy the program program manager. and today i'm going to give a brief update on the climate action plan and then i'm going to turn it over to becca to hear about our new marketing campaign and website that we launched.

we'll go into key accomplishments and then i'm going to turn it over to becca, next slide. next slide please. so as you know, we passed the climate action plan in december of 2021 and the climate action plan has a pathway for the city to be carbon neutral by 2040 and it addressed the six sectors on the slide. next slide please. we want to make sure that we're looking at equity and resilience and also a just transition. next slide. so i'm going to go over accomplishments and then update and then turn it over to becca, next slide please.

so earlier this evening, we heard about the program that we got to reactivate. we heard about our grantee and we're going to have three more grantees coming for approval in march. these are three-year project for building decarbonization that are funded from the add back and carbon fund. and we also heard about the climate equity hub. we finished our design process last year. and the climate equity hub will be a one-stop resource that puts equity flown out reach at the center of the city's building electrification efforts. and this year, we released an rfp and that brings us step

closer to making the climate equity hub a reality. we heard about the long term study that we conducted with our consultant, the center for law environment and environment in berkeley and civic makers. and we identified as a cap as 22 billion dollars investment that the city needs to make and also identify the most saleyant strategies. we're going to have a hearing at the budget and finance committee within the next month. so we'll be presenting with our consultants and other consultants on trying to move this effort forward. those are some key accomplishments and if you go to the next slide to some quick updates. one thing in the spring, we're going to release our action plan. we'll be adding water supply

sector. we have been partner with puc on developing this chapter for the plan and we're working on finalizing the strategies and actions and doing our equity assessment. we're in the process of developing our dashboard which would be a publicly available website to track our progress and our metrics on the climate action plan. and we hope to have that available early this summer. and last but not least, we have updated our greenhouse inventory and made some important model updates to the transportation sector and how we measure vmt which is our vehicles miles traveled. we have more realtime data and if we're looking at our results for 2020, we like look we have reduced our emissions which is a accomplishment.

so with that, i'm going to turn this over to becca to hear our most exciting update on the climate action plan which is our campaign and the launch of our new website. thank you. >> thank you, cindy. you can go to the next slide. so the two goals of the climate action plan campaign are number one, of course raise awareness around san francisco ans that the city has an action plan and two encourage individuals to do their own climate action. next slide. so we did a lot of background research as we always do for campaigns. and one thing we did was social media analysis to see what are san franciscoians talking about, and yes, they do discuss climate change frequently next slide. but they get discouraged just hearing bad news. namely, when they hear bad news, they shut down, they

don't take action. we knew that the negative consequences of climate change was not going to get us the behavior change that we're looking for, next slide. so we knew our messaging had to be moved. the first thing it acknowledges san franciscoian for the hard work that they've been to go for years. it also hopefully creates hope, there is a plan and it's working. and by somewhat vaguely referring to the plan, we're hoping to spark curiosity, the natural thing when you look at the add, what is the plan? next slide? and the answer is, come to our website and find out. next slide. good news around climate change

is rare. seeing an add riek this, stands out and it's up to that hope and optimism in the plan by showing that it's already achieved significant positive results. next slide. so we made our ads very simple and focused around individual action to see help residents connect with the larger plan. next slide. we're featuring that san franciscoans are already doing and beginning to do. so that they want to do more. the ads are running in english, spanish and chinese, google mafms and meta and next door and in terms of out of home, bus shelters as well as mini

interiors. and in our in addition add, these are in local print. we created radio and video add in all three languages and they feature a character who comes from the future and she goes around and thanks san francisco residents for the climate actions that they're doing. next slide. with the tag line, the future thanks you. again we're back to acknowledgment and then also, creating that hope, the small actions that we're doing today really do add up to a better future. is it possible to play one of our video ads? >> thanks for doing this >>

>> doing what? >> taking public transit, by 2023 reduce climate. >> wait are you like a future person? >> labels, so 2023. >> all right, thank you. so all drive to our website. and this website is deliberately not hosted on sf environment.org because we wanted to create a neutral stand alone space. so when this wraps up, it will go to the end of april. the departments who are part of

the action plan can contribute their work to be highlighted, so we can show the work going on not just in our department. if it were on our web page, it looks like the action plan is ours and we want to encourage other department to see own it as well. and the dashboard that cindy mentioned that will have accessible data that tracks the progress, will also hosted on this site. next slide. currently we have style videos which feature individual individuals on how to get started. next slide. we summarize each of the sector of the climate action plan if you click on one of these, you'll get a brief overview of what the sector is.

there are many other features, i recommend checking it out. next slide. commissioners, we love our help sparing it on instagram and facebook. to really engage speakers in this campaign. we often don't necessarily effectively so we want to do this inperson engagement just to have really solid engagements and continue to spread awareness. so if you have any interest to being part of that those, we would love to have you. that's all, thank you. i can take any questions if anyone has any. >> thank you, any questions?

>> one question. >> the 48 reduction since 1990, almost ha* half is the marketing, is that a new number? or is that an old number? >> cindy, do you want to take that? >> cindy so you may remember we came to the commission to present on the greenhouse inventory. and afterwards, we looked at some of our back end models and realized there was some opportunities to optimize them. and it was using a very outdated mile and we were able to update that. so that 48% is the outcome and it's a new number that we'll be repleasing shortly. >> do you know what the old number was?

>> 42%. >> wow, that's impressive. we have these carbon neutral by 2040. >> i do want to caveat that, 2020 what s a penn pandemic, so it's not our typical driving and consumption patterns. while it's great news, it may change in the next upcoming inventory. >> thank you for keeping up updated. we look forward to future progress. >> thank you. >> cindy before you walk away, one quick question, for the metric dash bored, i want to confirm when you think that would go live. is know there is a lot of coordination that needs to happen there. but curious to hear your thoughts. >> we've been doing, the

resultant is the same consultant that did our website is going to help us with that. so which have a pretty tight timeline and a lot of metrics end indicators have been identified within the climate action plan. so now it's about data collection and having the web presence, so we're hoping that we can accomplish that in the next six months. >> thank you. >> ye, vice president stephen son. >> first of all, i cannot wait to go and send people. congratulations on that. the budget committee meeting on the board of supes, do we have any idea, isn't that the next step? >> so the goal of the meeting is to highlight the report. so we'll have uc berkeley come

present with us. and then other city department that's can provide their comments on the report and how we're trying to move on that. i'm not 100 percent but it's the opportunity to highlight the cost and different funding strategies and how other city departments are trying to move that forward or not. >> and is there an ask? >> it's going to be informational? and the supervisors could make some recommendations based on the hearing. great, and i want to thank becca for all of her great work, first marketing campaign ever and it's pretty excited to see it launch. >> i personally enjoy that add. commissioner, nothing else? seeing no other discussion, this is just a discussion only

item if we can open up to public. >> great, seeing no members in the public today, we go to remotel public comment. those who wish to make a comment should press star-3 to be put in the queue. for those in the queue, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak. i see no callers from the queue, public comment is closed. >> great, the next item. >> item 13 review and vote on resolution file 2023-03-co3, updated changes sponsor is

cindy program manager senior coordinator resolution file 2023-03-co3 this is for discussion and possible action. >> cindy again. >> speaker: cindy climate program manager. i have the great honor of introducing the next item which is the update of environment code which is our green ordinance. so this legislation is scheduled to be heard at committee march first and we love your support in the form of a resolution. so to update the ordinance is about transforming the way that we design and retrofit buildings. and this will help us, it's very important that government is a leader in this space.

so with that, i would like to introduce eden who will give this evening's presentation. thank you and good evening commissioners. i'm also the chair of the municipal green building task force which is the advise' body that worked on the content for the update. for those of you not as familiar with the task force it's comprised from representative from 20 different departments and dwitionz throughout the city as well as a appointed member appointed by the mayor. thank you for being here. this is the municipal green requirement that are in addition to the san francisco green building code and they can apply to any planning, design, construction, decon construction or demolition activity performed by a city

department or city owned property. next slide. so there are reasons why an update 2 to environment code 7 is timely. first as been discussed this evening, we have an accelerated climate action goal to target net zero carbon by 2040. this will require the requirement and systems to be retrofitted while being mindful of their environment footprint. second, overlaps with other chapters of the environment code that is no longer congruhe is. in addition the green council released version 4.1 in 2019 and that simplified some requirement for the questions without compromising their intent. many of our teams are opting to--because of the way that the

document has been stream lined this makes it possible to introduce new credit with other themes into the code. and third, this is a chance for us to sim ply fly and refine language to make it easier to find content and ensure that it's only mentioned in one location.

code slide. next slide. there are expanded or new metrics in each of the areas and here are most notable. energy resilience so they can continue to provide slelter and other needs to our residents.

waste prevention, changes the way that tenant improvement projects calculate the material recovery by first placing a cap on the amount of waste about to be generated. and body reduction are about helping project teams better understand the greenhouse attribute thed to the cycle of products that they use. a new requirement is to hold accountable to make products to then eliminate human and environmental hazard. and the bio diversity work group our best practices by our teams to follow. next slide. there are three proposed requirements that have the largest potential financial impact. and each aligns with at least one commitment with the climate plan as indicated on this slide.

first spob installed. infrastructure needs to be it should accommodate the future electrification needs. second is for new construction on major renovation of critical institution to see install battery storage to accommodate their emergency energy loads. this is about 10% of the building overall demand. a critical community is designed as a building that is necessary for providing vital and individual functions including public safety facilities, health clinics, community centers and libraries and emergency management facilities. battery storage is also an option for new renovations to support efficiency and decrease grid efficiencies. and they must xhaous from one of four. third is for the project team

to use lifecycle assessment. from it's origin all the way to its final disposal and this can lead to construction choices. next slide. drilling down a bit into the known impacts, you can see that the proposed requirement with the largest additional cost is the time electrification. by far the most expensive aspect of this work is related to the charges because of inter facing between sf and pg&e and the possible need for primary switch gear due to pg&e's rules. according this increase the cost of project between 300,000 and 2.5 million. as per direct equipment and installation costs, additional cost from range from 150,000 and 440,000. they're based on a evaluate

existing equipment in five municipal buildings. unfortunately though, there are still some gaps and cost information for this item because every building is different and will have unique circumstances. unknown costs might be related to engineering design and construction for additional coordination, structural upgrades or evaluation of emergency power capacity. for battery storage, cost for the estimated amount needed to accommodate range from 160,000 to 270,000. this is based on study published by and for the energy commission. and for lifecycle assessment, 16 to 20,000 per project to comply with the lead credit expectations. the estimate here is based on interviews with local consultant providing this service.

next slide. it's worth some of the costs are added now, there are new laws at the regional and state level that are raising the floor for everyone. the bay area, air quality district has proposed an element to nine rule 6 which bans the sailor installation of the same equipment we're targeting. in 2027 for water heaters, 2029 furnaces and 2031 for large heaters. i also mentioned that the california energy commission performed a cost impact analysis for battery storage. can that's because 2022, energy has solar, so that has a date of january first this year.

it will be less than what is included for chapter 7 because this one, this will be in one aspect of the performance path to meet their metric for energy efficiency. the cec version does impact some building types that will be in the municipal portfolio but broader and a bit. so it includes grocery, high-rise multi family, office retail school, warehouse, hotels, libraries, medical office buildings and clinic and restaurants and theaters. the collaborative and which i'm a member is put ing forward a proposal to the precycle to include lifecycle assessment.

it will be expand approximated further that will have an affective date of january first, 2026. the standard commission is meeting this week to discuss and recommend actions for this item. next. sometimes despite best efforts,--this is another instance where the municipal green task force gets involved. project teams present and explain the situations. who in tern approves or ejects the q often comes with continues such as con going reporting or demonstrating other way to see meet the intent. since 2012, there have been some 26 waivers but note no

waiver request because of cost prohibitive. between program review score wards and provide informal advise and we also help coordinate communication to address outstanding questions or concerns. we maintain the g-6 form that the department of building inspection use to see track the green building design elements. and this happens to be a useful cliff note summary that project team use to make sure that all design element right side incorporated. to compliment that g-6 form, they have processed a checklist that keeps track of the various to do items such as registering the project with the green council or developing that recovery plan.

and because they reference documentation expectations, they have a resource web page with links to each item. next slide. thank you for this time this evening and i'm happy to address any questions you may have. thank you. >> >> yes, one comment and one question. this is a lot of work to redo legislation and statute is a lot of work. big thank you for you and the team for doing it. my question is about the cost of equipment replacement which is the biggest cost element and the changes. i wonder if electrification creates on going saving in the way that ev is more expensive

but waves you money, does the building, can building owner build saving by electrifying as oppose today gas? >> yes, they can. we recommend projects that are retrofiting look at the energy saving first. so it makes a lot of sense to look at the envelope to look at insulation to look at the way that the building operates and to right size equipment as well as some of these more passive systems. and when you electrify, you can benefit from onsite generation or, it's projected that the natural gas costs are going up a lot faster and we're seeing that than proposed electricity costs. there is a lot of different way that's they can benefit long term. >> that may be part of the messaging as we go out and talk

about the changes, if we talk about the cost the on going savings can i part of the messaging. >> thank you for that. >> comments, questions? seeing none, thank you for your comment. i believe this is an action item so we'll need a motion. >> i'll move approval. >> motion from commissioner sullivan. second from vice president stephenson and seeing no other comments, let's go to public comment. >> seeing no public in the room, we go to virtual comment. anyone wanting to make a public comment, press star-3 to be place in the queue. those waiting, please continue to wait to speak.

seeing no other comments, public comment is now closed. >> call the roll. >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner vermejo excused. commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> commissioner sullivan. >> aye. >> commissioner wald. >> aye. >> commissioner wan. >> aye. >> and the motion passes. next item. >> item 14 review and vote on whether to approve the annual report. speaker, is kyle webinar, this is for discussion. commissioners it's a obligation that they prepare annual report, i'm going to share my screen here. this report sefshsz as the report of achievement over the

previous year and can help us set the stage for the year ahead. they reviewed the report last month and tonight we're bringing it. i'm going to go through the report page by page, if you have any questions please let me know. before i get started, i want to thank commissioner wald and helping us proofread the report which we appreciate very much. this is the cover page, this is the draft for 2022, the structure of the report is somewhat standard from year to year even as the content evolves. compared to 2021, we were able to provide more photos which we're happy about. something that we have struggled is that we don't still have a photo of all seven commissioners together. since we did return to inperson meetings, we've had at least

one commissioner who is eithered excused or participate remotely for a covid rilted reason. --related reason. we're confident we'll have one more 2023. here we have the letter from the commission president, since there were no appointment or reappointment to the commission in 2022, we're omitting the traditional section of reappointment. funding the cap was the major focus and something that we highlight here. we detailed the commission's work on recruitment process, director, focus on implementation and status of key implementation steps. laying foundation for potential reasonable policy for onsite

dining, something we expect to be a priority for 2023. we highlight that here as well. we highlight focused on implement on recommendations on preliminary assessment and strengthening oversight of administrative processes around grants. also spotlight racial equity work, i think the commission discussed at the september meeting, commissioners also completed a demographic survey in 2021 which is part of the action plan and we included a survey. and since the commission didn't change from 2022, from 2021 rather, this is the same da featured in the previous report. and captured the activity of the various committees including the add vok.

--ad hoc and we're happy to get several portraits with the commissioners last year. this is full commission, and for transparency, we have detailed gifts over the past fiscal year, that were reviewed. these gifts were reported to the board of supervisors and controllers office. and president ahn is our artist, we appreciate commissioner's making some of their photos for their report it makes it a little more presentable. this is the report for 2022, i'll pause now to see if there are any questions. >> beautiful. well done, again to mark

nicolas too for always doing a great design. >> we have a motion and a second. with that, let's do public comment. >> seeing no members of the public in the room today, we go to remotel public comment. members should press star-3 to be placed in the queue. for those waiting in the queue, continue to hold until it's your turn to speak. seeing no callers from the queue, public comment is closed. >> roll call. >> president. >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner hunter.

>> aye. >> commissioner wald. >> aye. >> commissioner sullivan. >> aye. >> commissioner wan. >> aye. >> motion passes. >> the next item is director's report this item is for discussion. >> commissioners i'll again be extremely brief on this item for my report. i did want to pick up where eden mentioned in the last item, i'm the mayor's hat on environment. we're considering a new rule on appliances. very much in line with what we're doing. the direction the state is moving and indicated as far as their path. but it's clear that we need to be drivers of this market transformation that we want to create so i think we're showing leadership here on a local and regional and state the state is

doing what they need to do. one thing to note is you're upcoming meeting, on march 28 and then on may third, you will be getting presentation from the controllers office and our staff from the refuse process. so if you recall on the last election, proposition ft changed the rate setting process with rickology, our staff has been engaged with the controllers office and rickology starting in january. and we're going to be giving you an update and then in may on the progress on what we're setting for and what is going to be in the rate application in self. so i look forward to that. another initiative is that i want to make sure other ware. it's initiative organized by

the california academy of sciences in partnership with department of environment. we've been organizing key actors with our bio diversity system. to potentially launch a new city wide campaign to organize all of our efforts around how we enhance urban green anding bio diversity within the city. so we had a day long meeting on friday to work out organizational structure how is this going to work and fundraising. and in the direction that we're heading, we should have something to announce on this initiative so very exciting. we did convene a meeting with electrical group with a bunch of city departments. something of note is that if you have not heard the asia pacific cooperation event is coming to san francisco, in november, this is going to be a major event. i participated in a briefing on

february first and the equivalent i was that was really told everyone gathered there, we have not seen a gathering of heads of state from the international community like this or of visiting kind of leaders, since the 19 84 democratic national convention. that's how massive this event is going to be. it's going to turn our city in a good way in terms of the amount of activity that is going to be generated, so you'll have biden here and vice president harris, prime minister trudeau and every head of state from the region. and guess what the theme is, sustainability and inclusion. so it's a perfect opportunity to highlight all the work that we're doing here in san francisco and hopefully we'll have a good message to share. last thing, i'll couple of on

note, one i'll be giving a presentation we're continue to go do out reach around our long term funding needs. so i have a presentation with the san francisco chamber of commerce on valentine's day, that will be our valentine's day gift to our partners and hotel consul a couple of weeks after. we're trying to get the word out and also the need to support our funding request. lastly, i will just highlight the amazing work you heard from becca, it's not about the marketing campaign, we're in the community, we had a successfulle table, opening event and baby event and we had over 900 conversations, a lot of them in language conversation in chinese and we're doing out reach. we're going to do tabling at the cyc lunar new year coming

up. and lastly, we had an amazing, if you didn't see the npr story about our sick clinics that we've been doing in all of our libraries. we repaired bikes and clothing items. the it has gotten a lot of attention and been a huge hit with everyone in the city. and i'll conclude my report there. >> thank you, acting director yu, very excited about the summit. seeing none, we go to public comment. >> seeing nobody in the room today, we proceed to remotel public comment. anyone who wish to comment, please press star-3 to be placed on the queue.

seeing no callers on the queue, public comment is closed. >> next item. >> committee reports, this item is for discussion. >> we'll start with i believe, the policy committee commissioner sullivan. >> very short report, policy committee has not met since december 14 and our next meet ising scheduled for monday, february 14th. >> briefly operations last met on january 9. we heard three presentations including a presentation on the environment department fiscal year 2023-24 budget and priorities. we also have an update on plans for department website and presentation for the annual

report which we have reviewed the two items ago. and next operation, will be held on wednesday april 19, 2023 at 5:00 p.m., thanks. >> and finally the search committee, it has not met since december first. and our next church committee is scheduled for thursday, february 9 at 5 p.m. at this meeting, we expect to review and determine finalist interview. that's where we're at. any other comments or discussions on committee reports? if not, let's go to public comment. >> seeing no members in the room today, we'll proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment, should press star-3 to be added to the queue.

those waiting continue to wait on the queue to speak. seeing no callers in the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> next item, please. >> the next item is item 17 update on format of commission on environment meetings, speakers is commissioners officer explanatory regarding legal rules and remote participation by the meetings beginning march 1, 2023. this item is discussion and possible action. >> this is a high level update, you'll find more details information in the city attorney's memo. so for the previous three years, special rules introduced in response to the covid public

health emergency and the big picture take away is that those rules are coming to an end. the governor has announced that the state wide he declyder on march of 2020, will conclude on february 28. the mayor's records regarding conduct will also terminate at the end of february. so this means that the commission will be going back to the future so to speak with the new requirement largely mirroring, the precovid-19 rules. so starting march first, commissioners will be required to attend all meetings and including all commission meetings in-person. commissioners may no longer attend remotely due do a covid-19 reason which had had been permitted under the emergency order. so even as we say goodbye to remotel meetings as rule, there are still exceptions. there is a brown act tele

conference provision that provides additional opportunities for remote in emergency circumstances, however there is limits to how many times evoke. if you have a disability and the disability limits or does not allow for public, it may allow for remote participation. the request may be submit to department of human resources. and a couple other noteworthy items, this apply to commissioners so they don't apply to external presenters or staff. and no other able to take remote public comment. so the two main questions before the commission on this matter, first whether to continue to use web ex to allow

to remotel presentation and public comment and second, where to hold our committee meetings. so the first question, continuing to use web ex, this helps to promote excess ability and we do recommend using the conference room as recommendation for committee meetings for a couple of reasons. first, it's publicly accessible, the fire station and our conference room is to support web ex is the commission does wish to continue to use hybrid format, and second there are various to choose with meetings rooms and city hall. the commission had previously used 421 to have meetings. but microphone have been removed and will not be installed for six months. other rooms such as the one we're in right now, that are

outfitted it that are in very high demand. other commissioners and public bodies are in a similar situation and we'll likely be difficult to reserve one of the normal meetings rooms for the commission meetings. so those are our recommendations, these are issues that are up for the commission. i'll pause for any questions. >> quick question, do we have a sense of what others commission right side doing? >> that's, that's kind of a major ex suspension question, question that everybody is dealing. on two weeks ago, on this very issue. the city attorney was

reluctance about provide advise with web ex, it's to the discretion. >> other thoughts or comments? yes, vice president. >> yeah, i think that while allowing members of the public to know you know participate remotely has caused a little bit of more time in time of lapse meeting. i think the intention is to allow the public an opportunity to participate in government, and i like the recommendation by the department to keep the web ex portion for remote public comment in the meetings and i support that. in terms of the putting the operations and the policy committee meetings in the department offices, my question on that is, do we feel like there is, one of the things of

being in city hall, we feel comfortable that we can all be here and know that we have access to things that we have here. and i want to make sure that we feel confident with that department in the same way if we were going to open up to public comment. >> i'm happy to a tres that a little bit. it's something that we checked in with security team environment office on. they have given us the go-ahead that this is an option. any folks attending the meeting, would have to check in with security and we would have to give security heads up on any meeting occurring in our office. >> charles, public affairs through the chair. the smaller committee meetings did not leave us with a lot of options because getting ahold to one of these raolz, next to

impossible we would not be able to do it. and 421, we had to fight but it's not web ex enabled. we do have nice big conference rooms that are web ex capable and we checked with security downstairs, they don't see it as a issue. if the commission decides to move forward, we should consider a little bit of a trial run to see how it goes. and if it goes well, we may want to update our bylaw because the bylaw says that we are meeting at city hall. a little bit of testing out. and i'm not concerned about the web ex component for in the environment department, i'm concerned with logitics people coming upstairs and entering the department, that's what we need to work through. if you decide to move in that direction, there will be a

couple of months where we'll work through and report back on how it's going. >> yes, commissioner, wald. >> thank you. i'm with commissioner stephenson in terms of making these meetings webex accessible remotely accessible. i do have to say, webex is awful, it's clunky and demeaning to people trying to participate. and it's not a friendly technology, must we use webex? or is there any possibility that we can use some other platform to enable people to participate in our meetings?

>> i'm happy to address that commissioner, thank you for the question. there are alternative software systems that we can use through zoom. the department recommended using web ex for several reasons including the way that the member of a public appears and can orders them in a list format so it's clear somebody has already spoken for public comment on item being considered by the commission. so we, we can take a look at other options. most commissions that we're aware of do use web ex and that is the software that the department of technology has confirmed they will continue to offer assistance with. >> that's awful. >> i had to do a couple of

these meetings via webex and it was not fun. where you can at least see the person. to me that's one of the big advantages that they can be seen by the people that they're speaking and it makes those people feel a lot better about their participation. as we're in this page of experimentation, there is no rule saying we cannot use zoom or teams or whatever else we want to use. i suggest we pilot a couple of different ones and select. but it seems to make sense based on our public comment and what people feel comfortable

with. and i did want to note one other thing in option that the commission has, the time, so it's not just the place. so if there was a and afternoon time that the commission would like to meet, you're certainly able to choose that as a variable in your consideration. >> one other thought, if we offer public comment during just the public comment, versus item specific remotely? >> that's a good question, i think we may need to check in with the city important with that. >> the reap i'm thinking is streamlining would be nicer but i also hear, the need to make our meetings as accessible as possible. and i think that may be compromised of sorts.

it's something i definitely want to keep in mind that we're in a ecosystem. if everybody is doing remote comment all the time, the commission can also follow the ecosystem. >> it's more accessible for people with disabilities and kids who work 9 to 5 and one option to give option, may not work if somebody comes up because the kid got into something that they got. pour participates is a foundation of city hall and something we should strife towards. on the 12:00 o'clock time in the afternoon, i've tried to go to planning commission meeting in the middle of day, good luck and goodbye shifting the time is something we should be sensitive to overall.

and final leon the logitic for the office, the barriers that you're describing charles, are some concerns. i'm sure that it's a violation of the brown act that we ask that they check in and disclose full name. >> on a timing issue, i want to say i think i'm correct in remembering that commissioners always met as 5:00 o'clock as a means of encouraging people to attend. it's much easier to have people come if it's after their regular working hours. that's the reason why we have kept the time throughout the history of the organization.

>> i support to keep the time at 5:00 p.m. just to keep consistency. i do have concerns about safety concern to have meetings at office, during night time. so i would like to do a site visit if possible before we start to trial, just personal safety. yeah. >> i don't believe this is an action item. >> this is a discussion possible action, the commission is not obligated on anything related to this item, though.

>> when the next meeting? >> that's a good question. >> the full commission meeting? >> i know it will be march but how about the committee meetings? >> we do have a policy scheduled for next week and a search committee scheduled this coming thursday. the first policy meeting would be scheduled on march 15th and then operations committee meetings in april. but those february smaller committee meetings can and will be virtual because the deadline is march 1st. so the upcoming meetings are all going to be virtual. >> that means we have to make a decision before march. >> yeah. >> yes, if i may, i think we heard some feedback.

there is a desire to keep going to webex and maybe pilot some other forums of virtual meetings. the full action, we'll continue to with webex. but for the smaller committee meetings, we've got a couple of action items, one is to do a site visit commissioner wan and we can report back to the commission on that potentially in march. and from there, we can revisit this topic and see how we feel. we can also talk through logitics. i think that's what i'm recommending at this time. >> so will the march policy committee meeting be held in the city hall? do we have a room ready? >> because of the abundance and i'm going to get to that in the new business, because of the abundance of our committee meetings and we may have a

special meet ining march, on the new director search. that does buy us some time so the real next committee meetings will be in april. so we can revisit this a little bit at the march commission meeting. >> do we need to take action to take no action. >> no, public comment then. >> seeing no members in the room tonight, we'll proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment, please press star-3 for those in the queue, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak.

seeing none, public comment is closed. >> we're getting close to the end. next item is new business. >> the speaker is up for discussion. >> good evening, charles for i'm going to recap because some of the meeting dates is february 9 is our next search meeting committee. and february 15 is our next policy subcommittee. likely going to be a follow-up search committee meeting in later february, i do not have a date for that yet. march 14th, i think it's the tentative date for a smesh committee meeting directed to the search that is not 100% final but that's what we're shooting for and of course we have to get a room at city hall

and that's what makes the meetings a little tricky when na special and then there is a regular meeting on march 28th and then the next operations meeting is april 19th. so a lot is happening over the next month and a half. at the march 28th commission meeting, as already mentioned, the big sub stantive item is discussion. that will be the largest agenda for that meeting. does anybody have any questions. >> i'm sorry for what? special meeting? is that for the full commission or only the committee. >> the march 14, potential not yet scheduled potential committee it would be related to the director search. >> sorry that is scheduled at 5:00 again. >> theoretically, yes.

but that's the tentative date that has not been 100% set. >> thank you. any other questions or comments? seeing none, public comment please. >> seeing no members in the room tonight, we proceed to remotel public comment. those who want to speak, should press star-3 to speak. for those already in the queue, please continue to hold until it's your turn to speak. seeing no callers in the queue, public comment on this item is closed. all right, next item please. >> item 19 nomination on vice president this item is for discussion and possible action. >> kyle can you provide a brief summary of this process. >> thank you, president ahn, we'll begin with the presidency and accept a nomination for

this position only. after that there will be public comment and a vote. and we'll repeat for vice president. commission ebbser can nominate themselves. nominations do not require a second in order for the commission to nominate on a nomination. is there r there any questions for the president and vice president positions? seeing no questions, the commission will entertainment the nominations for position of president. commissioner wald. >> i would like to nominate eddie ahn to serve another term as president. i think he has done a great job this year in a year, that we

knew was going to be critical and important even before we knew we were going to be searching for a new executive directer. i think his calm demeaner and thoughtful approach to every issue has ensured that we have steady leadership. his savvy and strategic sense has been invalable and last but not least i think his focus on environmental justice has helped ensure that that element of the department work has remained the priority that we all wanted to be. i think we've been really lucky to have eddie as our president this past year and i think we're going to need his

strength and his skills in the coming year even more than we've needed this year. i hope you all join me in supporting him. >> thank you for those kind words, one thing i would if, fellow commissioners do want me to serve as president, we have to think about succession, not me being president all the time. having other people serve in this role is really important to me too. >> does that count as a motion? >> nomination. >> so that's there is a

nomination, any other discussion? if not, if not we will move to public comment. >> seeing no members in the public comment, we'll proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment on this motion, should now press star-3 to be added in the queue. for those added to the queue, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak. >> seeing no other comments, public comment is closed. >> aye. >> aye. >> commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> commissioner sullivan. >> aye >> commissioner wald >> aye. ?fm commissioner wan. >> aye. >> motion passes. thank you. [applause]

>> we will now to the other item. >> we will now entertain nominations for vice president. >> yes, vice president stephenson. >> i would like to nominate commissioner wan, for the last many years, we have sat in operations together and being in the full body of the commission also on the committee together, i definitely gotten to see her steady quiet leadership on the sidelines but this last year, i got to see her step in the chair of the committee and i think it's she has done an amazing job and it's her time to take a greater leadership in the committee. i'm proud to nominate her. >> any other discussions, comments. commissioner wan, we hope you serve. >> thank you for your kind

words, it's been my honor. all of these year. we've been through a lot of budget advocacy. but operations committee really see the true cover how they really out reach. for the commission but also at the same time, agree with you. for quite a long time, so yes, i'll serve this year at least, thank you. >> we'll take public comment on those. >> seeing no members in the room, we'll proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public who wish to make public comment, should now press star-3 to get in the queue. for those in the queue, please continue to wait until it's your turn to speak.

>> call the roll. >> president. >> aye >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> commissioner sullivan. >> aye. >> commissioner wald. >> aye. >> commissioner wan. >> aye. >> the motion passes, congratulations. [applause]. >> next item. >> the meeting is adjourn at 7:51 p.m., thank you for joining us. >> well done.

>> we have private and public gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for

a day. so we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. it's a variety -- all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. >> i have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. in the early 1800s the portola was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere

future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. in the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a

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

environment, their outdoor living room. >> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day. you walk around and look at gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website

well, welcome. i'm doug shoemaker for mercy. housing. uh, california. i'm pleased to be here with our partners from episcopal community services and all the other partners in the room. um to start with like to begin the program by recognizing that we are gathered on ethno historic tribal territory, the indigenous aloni tribe. we recognize the importance of this land and welcome indeed, galvan , a member of the aloni indian tribe, to say a few words. thank you, andy.