>> the time is 10. . 01. good morning, secretary fuller. call the roll. >> good morning respond with here or present. thomas harrison. >> here. >> hartwig-schulman. >> here. >> vice chair hartwig-schulman. >> mogannam. >> here. >> christopher simi. >> present. >> we have 4 commissioners present and we have quorum for the sanitation and streets commission. note that rules regarding hybrid meeting and remote participation change as of march first.

seat memo atamped to the january 23, 2023 agenda of this commission for more information. remote call in an option for members wish to make comment on items. remote participation by commissioners will be an option but only if the commissioner is on parental leave or accommendation for a disability. for members wish to make comment on an item from outside the hearing room today. dial 415-655-0001 and use the meeting id access code: 24824533623 ## to raise your hand press star tleechl limit your comments to the topic of the item discussions unless you are speak urged the general public comment section. if you don't stay on topic the

chair may ask to you limit your comment to the agenda item. >> we ask that public comment made in a civil and respectful manner and refrain for use of profanity. address your remarks on the commission as a whole not individual commissioners or staff. and on behalf of the commission i like to extend our thanks to the staff of sfgovtv meetia services and building management for helping us put on this meeting mr. chair. commissioners are there questions to amend the order of the agenda? >> yes. i'd like to move to move item 6 ahead of item 4. item 6 after item 4 >> i meant item 6 before item 4

>> thank you, both. do i hear a second. >> second. >> all in favor, aye >> wait. let's see there is a procedural moment we don't need public comment on this motion. is there debate on the motion in all in favor say, aye. the motions passes. i do hear other motions to amend the agenda. >> i have a couple of announcements. good morning. sometimes i feel i'm busy during the months than for the meetings. that statute joy and pleasure of being a commission chair. arbor day, fantastic event. attended it. lots of people. rain staid away long enough for our elected officials to get their word in and come went brief.

some within long and it drizzled a bit that spate separates the dedicate friday undedicated. lots of trees were planted. i love the out reach compliments to carla short and her staff and everybody for the out reach. not only trees were planted but seeds were planted. in the hearts and souls of the community people there i'm talking about the children and the other people. i encourage everyone to attends there's event event system brings the community together and allows to you see had we can do and the more people know the more they attends. it will be a snow ball that rolls uphill and gains size. that's how we feel like we are purke the snow ball uphill. i thought it wasa i great event. and director carla short looked awe some in her green costume of grown is your color on the day

of the st. patrick's day parade. totally promote. the >> land acknowledgment. still working on it agreeing it to a mall event for earth day or day a day of plantings. working on that and look forward to bring something substantive and meaningful out of respect for when we are doing and why. >> also, during the month i had meetings with supervisor melgar with regards to the graffiti there may be language on the graffiti abatement opt in programs i apologize if i am not using the correct verbiage but it spawned from westportal avenue where one merchant outside the metro station grounds zero for litter, vanld limp and graffiti and not

allowed opt in because of the verbiage. i believe the letter of the law is not matching the spirit of the law i reached out to supervisor megovern in her legislative aid we will follow up on this. i think it is disheart ming when someone gets tagged you are 60 feet away from the boarder line and don't qualify. but i understand the side streets not just westportal but ever corridor in the zone adds to the capacity the acomdath. graffiti needs more support and i have been working on is that. that concludes my announcements. mr. fuller do you have announcements? >> thank you, my only announce cemetery a reminder to commissioners that the form 700

financial disclosure form is due to monday april third f. you have not completed that do so soon if you need assistance myself and ethics staff should be able to provide assistance and also for anyone who has not yet completed title 6 training, we have an updated dead line to get that completed by march 31. i know folks have been working on it. if you have any trouble completing that assistance let me know. thank you. >> call the next first item. >> item one is general public comment. members may address the commission on topics. subject matter of the commission but in the part of this agenda. comments to an item oft agenda

may be heard when that item is considered. and members may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. general public comment may be continued to the end of the agenda if speakers exceed 15 minutes of general public comment. members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment lineup on the wall. if you are present in the chamber. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, access code: 24824533623 ##. looking in the chamber we don't have anyone admit public who have approached to smeek on this

item. i know we have a member from sfgovtv helping us with the technical issue. and then sfgovtv is indicating we don't have any members of the public in the queue wish to make general public comment. that concludes general public comment. >> call the next item. >> item 2, is communication and the director's report interim director carla hor is here to present the report and this is an informational item. >> carla short interim director of public works. hope you had a nice weekend i have a couple items i would like to bring to your attention. chair mogannam noted we had the arbor day event it was a great day. i want to thank you, chair mogannam for joining us.

and mayor breed and senator wiener, supervisor dorse and he city add administrator chu. we had 184 volunteers including many public works employee who is came out on the day off. help us plant 112 trees in south of market this . is a significant number the neighborhood has the lowest can open coverage in the city. it was important for us to plant there special that fits with our over all urban forestry planting plan adding new street trees in the neighborhoods with fewest focus equity. >> in addition to the tree planting we hosted our arbor day fair on break the past 2 years because of covid. 13 informational boots with a focus on the environment. friends of urban forest. marine mammal center and bee keeper association.

our crews gave fair goers bucket truck ride and carben ters hosted a station why folks could make planter boxes. it was irrelevant a joyful be event. this year. next up i want to mention our women in leaders in public service recap in celebration of women's history month and mark interinitial women's day the team launched phase 2 of pod cast serious. women leaders in public kefshs everservice we hear from female leaders from public works. we released a new episode every wednesday for 10 week and i would you can find our pod casts at soundcloud.com/sfpublicworks.

they are a great way to know our staff and really learn more about our team. l if seems like the rain is in the letting up this season. i wanted give you a bit more of a storm update. keeping our crews busy. as you know we had historic rainfall earlier in the year in the first 3 weeks of january and more storm y weather since. last week our crews filled 700 potholes. cleared 45 catch baseince and responded to 314 fall in and damaged dproes large limbs. we are not out of this storm season yet. and our crews have been working hard so i want to give a shoulder out and thank them. and recognize the behind the scenes teams that may be don't

get the recognition. our radio room dispatchers who can get calls and they are helping to triage and make sure they get them to the crews. our data tracking team have been trying to make sure we have good, accurate information about that is manage in and what we are responding to and engineer who is keep a watch on slide areas. just a big thank you to everyone for hard work and the storm i'm grateful for the responsiveness of public works employees i'm happy to take any questions. . any questions from commissioners. i wanted recap about arbor day. i had a great time. i learned i can replant an fuji apple tree. i'm look to get one and had a cool looking planter you can put together. i love the branding i foal if we

don't brands ourselves enough that sufficiency a great way to start. thank you very much. no further questions. mr. fuller? next item. >> or sorry. >> before we proceed we need to take public comment on director's report. member who is wish to make 3 minutes of comment on the director's report may lineup against the wall. if in the chamber. if you are calling in dole 415-655-0001, access code: 24824533623 ##. no audio and looks like we don't have folks present in the chamber wish to speak on this item. sfgovtv is indicating there is no one in the call in queue.

we have no public comment. >> thank you, any further discussion. call the next item. >> item 3, is the adoption of the minuteses from the february 13, 2023 meeting. commissioners, received a copy of the draft minutes last week with the agenda. and we are able to review them and they were available for the public as well and since there are no other items on consent this is i'm happy to take questions or corrections to the minutes now. are there any corrections to the minutes or questions from the commission? do i her a motion to adopt the february minutes. >> so moved. >> a second?

>> thank you. given the motion we'll go to public comment secretary fuller open public comment >> members of the public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on itemly the adoption of february 23, 23 commission meeting minutes lineup on the wall if you are calling in, call 415-655-0001, access code: 24824533623 ##. then press star 3 to be recognized. no one is approaching the to speak on this item and sfgovtv is letting me know there are no callers in the queue that concludes public comment.

>> any debasement all in favor of adopting the minutes from 1515, 23, aye. >> any opposed? >> the motion passes. secretary fuller call the next item. >> item 4 is the presentation of the bruro of urban forestry and performance measure report and this will be presented by bureau superintendent nikolas crawford and this is know informational item.

>> i was here in november. and as i was leaving the house this morning my son asked what i was doing and said i would talk about trees with the commission in said set a timer he knows i like to talk about trees a lot. thank you for having me back. last meeting i talked about everything in the bureau the aspects of work we touch on and a high level of the performance measures for our bureau. today i will fake more time to talk about one aspect of it. and i look forward to coming back again to a deer dive on different parts of it. as we go along. today i will talk about street tree sf a voter funds program that was approved in fall of

2016. took affect july first of 2017. and it has been a program designed to maintain the street trees using public funds. which is new for san francisco rather than folks care for them on their own. while public work system doing a small segment of trees previously. we are responsible for all 124 or 25 thousand street trees. that happens throughout the city. our program is to do it in an efficient way by key maps i will show you. the goal is to have regular inspection and maintenance of our trees city wide. we have more information about this on our website if you like to take a closer look. if we were to lay all our trees out in a pie chart. you can see that the blue

section is when we have already completed the maintenance on. one round. unfortunately for us trees keep grow would have gone very well to come become to them. for the purposes of getting trees to a baseline, we have 57.8% completed representatives 72,000 trees. the next part is active splice the lighter blue. slice of the pie. there is about 6,000 trees 5% of the canopy we are pruning now either our internal crews are work or contractor one of our contractor system doing it. that part happens quickly once it gets assigned the contractors do key map in 30-days and our crew when is not storming are able to do it in a couple of

months. but nauswhile we do storm response. and that peach color is the pending section so those are things that we have in a precontract stage. where we have prepped those key map and about to share them with the contractor. have not given them a start date yet but always looking at the judgment group of trees to do. that leaves us a third of the city unassigned and the good new system we are making quick work of assigning those. the next phase the way you can intercept this slide is a dark blue is complete and the pending and active represent what we are doing nouchl between now and the end of the fiscal year june 30. we still have a chunk of the city left to do.

as this snapshot where we are -- today and then the education of the fiscal year would represent 5 years in. this is another way to eventualize this. i realize i look at this 3 times a day it is intuitive. i will slow down and go through upon each component. to tackle all of the trees we tried to come up with smaller by the size way to prop it. key maps. or grids. and they represent 50 to thousand trees. it is a way for us to work as a management unit. it is more effective for us to keep our crews and contractor in one tight area. they can post for no parking and work and up down the blocks until they are done.

the gray color is the those other completed key maps you see how similarly to we were talking in november, we have been focusing on the center part of the city we have the most tree and maintenance needs. that was upon driven by our census about 7 years ago we determined how much trees we had and what maintenance was recommended if there were pruning or removal. prescriptions that were provided to us. now 7 years out everything needs to get pruned. good news we done what we did a worst first. the biggest trees and the densest key maps and moving out to the areas where there are not as many tree and we think it will go a lot faster. the flip side now it has been awhile since they had attention and people pruning and maintaining their trees at their expense.

once the program started they stopped doing this. we can assume that 5 years in there is a bit of work to do on those trees. to layout the legend here the light green out line key maps for internal key maps that's what our city staff is working on now. and we have the dotted out line for the light green for the next key maps that is when they mn finish where they are now they will move to those furna color is contractor work those are out lined plus the dotted ones going next. you see that the center part of the city will be almost finished in a couple months. then that leaves the remaining key maps. one thing that is cool is the

map started out mostly red and orange. key maps those are all grayed out. we are moving to the light are color greens the next tier of prior and then the dark green, which was our lowest priority based on the census recommendations. you can still see corridors we have to focus on like in the richmond there is a higher priority key map and down sunset boulevard there is a lot of work there. you can imagine. the other key map in sunset and bayview lower density with fewer needs. we are getting there now. upon then another way to eventualize our progress. left to right. showing year over year. fiscal 18, 19 and 20 and the

left is current fiscal with projected numbers. it is good to electronic or removals the second tier of lines there or scombars the bottom one is stump is good to electronic but the important thing the pruning number, you see in the upon first fiscal year as we kick things off we did high of 10,000 trees prunes with contractors and internal crews this is 2600 and 3 trees did 7, 133 that are contractor did. and the next year we kick today in gear and got more work done our most effective year ever with the total of 13, 570 trees

pruned. then, in fiscal year 2020, a lot happened. we had to change everything about our work. that impacted our internal crews and folks get reassigned disaster service worker things. had our crews do things different low. we took advantage of the cable car shut down during covid so you prudent fiekace trees. saw few are trees pruned and taxling the hardest 1s to do and things we thought there is in other way to tackle. besides that shut down opportunity. our contractors kept going, fortunately. they came up with protocols to meet the safety requirements. and there is a period where they were allowed do removals you see the removal spike during 2020.

and then we were warned about some finance revenue short fall and cancel the our truck orders and our contracts. with our vendors. you see that for the rest of 2020 and 21, that really impacted our work. because we had to restart that kong tractor process. and it takes weeks or months to get that rolling again. and get that in the pipeline and get it reviewed. now we are seeing the fruits of that pick back up with our contractors and resuming work. we are timing out on the contracts they work for 5 combreers for a set dollar aim now we are starting a new set for the coming years that will be ready to go july 1. so, you can see the trends here we had some impacts over the

years but prud to say this year we are projected prune at the rate we are going, more trees then and there we ever pruned. and our removal numbers are not something we are trying to boost at all. we regret doing removaled we have to remove them for safety reasons. that peeked early during that first phase and than i are coming down. we will remove frees we have to fwu is in the a goal of ours to remove trees. a metric we track that for the most part our contractors remove trees that is included when we have stumps prevents from planting replace am trees we want those to package together a big list of stump grinding cites we'll do in the coming months.

paving the way for more planting opportunity down the road. this it is my last slide. i wanted talk to our strategy things for going forward to improve operations and meet goals. we set the goal of finishing the rest of the city in the next 2 fiscal years. this will require a bit of growth for next fiscal year in pruning if we are at almost 14 we push it to 18, 600 and then grow to 22,000 to finish in that time frame. when we think is happening we got better at contracting and learning a lot about how to do it more efficient low. i will sharer things we will -- about to implement. but it is a big ask for us to do

that and agreeing our inupon attorney courthouse with more staff and equipment will be a part of that, too, we wanted to do it with our in house staff. we continuing is important to get quality work with city employees. but we had a respondent to prune the trees. we had to start with contractor support as we have been growing our in house crew. so -- to talk about some of the things to meet the tarts. we have inspection component. our team goes out preinsmekts key maps we discoverd that has been one of the stick points since we have a small team of inspect sxors a lot to look at. other cities don't do that intensive preinspection and give it to their contractors based on census data and say, prune all trees.

tell require more monitoring as we go long to make sure inspectors watch the contractors daily. we have cool tools google street view to say to a contractor you did in the prune the tree. pret sure we d. you see on google street view, looks the same next year. ago we will go back and do it. i walkd and saw they made a few small cuts that is not good. there are ways to hold contractors accountable in the moment even after the fact. but we don't want to get in our own way of moving forward with pruning especially if there is a risk of a branch failure or something if we don't maintain the trees. we are expecting more staffing. we had a long period where there was a challenge to hiring

arborists and worked through that. and now the next phase the start and exam process and hire again. so we have been able to fill a few vacancies but not able to do the large scale hiring to expand the number of crews we have which is what we need do more in house and inspectors met a mile stone on friday for inspector hiring and filling the vacancies is another important part of being able to be more productive. other thing is our contracting team has got more robust. and that has been valuable for us. so the folks within public works that handle contracts we have more staff there and things are moving quickly and also within [inaudible] we have couple of people working on contracts now,

which is making a big difference and then we are learn to work with partners outside of our department who after review contracts sign off on things and have been working on how to speed this up. they had to do things we had to do things how can we do this more efficiently. and then our pruning cycle for the second go around and third this . is a program in perpetuity, when can we do better in the key thing is focus on corridors, if there i are high maintenance or high frequency maintenance required for certain corridors, we'll build this in the key map program going forward. examples for this would be folsom where they have chinese elms when there is a storm we

have tree and branch failures. there is no way arnold we prune that more frequently and on california street every 2 years the sycamores and building this in our program. coming up next is al meny boulevard a lot of issues there. we will tarrant county they'll more frequently as a corridor. and then on the flip side there are other parts of the city we anyhow we did in the have to prune unaccepted rights of way and open spaces. and finding a way to build this in our key maps so that is o a less frequent cycle. we wanted do all the trees city wide under our responsibility. but we do it every 5 years necessarily. so that is the game plan. going forward. we think that will help us be

more efficient but we think this growing the crew and having that bigger internal staff will be a critical part of -- meeting our goals. quickly. so. i'm proud of when we have done but i think we have more work to improve our processes. so. any questions for me? thanks for the opportunity to share this update. >> thank you. commissioners, questions? commissioner simi? >> hi. thank you for the report i have many questions mostly trees i will not waste public time simple think burglar the program of there be 125,000 trees you are getting this is the first installation or whatever.

you can get through 120 thousand a year but we have gone through everything the first time you are going back and so if you can do 20,000 a year approximate there are 125,000 trees that is every 6 years. i know you said, you don't have the same pruning schedule on each tree but i guess had i'm asking is once you get through the first hump is 20,000 enough capacity to get to keep the fleece good shape approximate not end up where we were in 2016? when we had all the trees falling apart all over the city? >> great question. i think talking to other municipalities 5 year system like a dream frequency if we get on that, that would be great. we are thinking some species will need it more than that

because of west coast growth rates. year around growing season we have a lot of foliage to deal with. maintaining 20,000 a year would be a good level to sustain things. we have been hesitant to be prittive or specific about what tell look like in the future because we are still soaking it all in and seeing realistally how are the trees handling this? are we doing enough, fast enough? is the level of funding we have the right support or do we have enough funding but not able to put it in action fast enough? where are those pointses. i don't have like a full answer with confident of when is the best way to do this but we keep

improving that. i also defer if you have other thoughts you wanted to share. i know you had a lot to do with the creation of this program. >> thanks. carla short, i think one thing that we have always planned in the program was as nick said some trees need more pruning. many trees once brought in within-2 pruning cycles they go 7 to 10 years those are trees not on the sidewalk or some species that are on the sidewalk more mature trees grow less slowly and not need to get to them every 5 years. the goal is most street and sidewalk treeos a 5 year pruning cycle. a number of high marines species more frequency but we did do a lot of modeling.

we are hopeful this is achievable. >> i think the tricky part is getting all those trees to baseline trees had not been prudent in the decades. it should get better every year as we work to provide this care. it should get better every year. i think my over used comment suspect this we are playing the long game with tree care. i think based on the modeling we d based on the frequency of pruning that many species need; i think we should be there. gi didn't finish my thought, thank you. 7 years is a good number for a lot of municipalities and like to be at 7 or more frequent than

that. >> i echo the same concern i have a neighbor and needs to prune every 2-3 years it was fast growing tree it would hit the purline or guster the rain trees are top of minds is my tree going to fall over. go to 311. someone will look and hopefully evaluate the threat of the tree. i have a neighbor 3 houses down and the tree is so tall if it falls i'm in the fall zone. that's the question. prune every 2-3 years and i pruned my every 2-3 years as a citizen i should tell them. real ~ically unless it posed a danger because of the combind

what not dependsoth direction they should not expect the trees every 5 to 7 years is the goal. some are saying where i live let me know i don't want to prune and they show up sick months later well is an expectation as to when people when is required because i know i will go out and i pruned mine once since it was prudented by the city and now will prune it fwaen it is bang nothing my gut exert my street cleaner the trees hang low and tendses to avoid my house. okay. that needs to be taken care of i'm happy to do it but a matter of the community knowing. people are expecting you to in every 3-4 years if it it is 7 or 5 and depends on the tree the sidewalk trees [inaudible]. a lot of growth [inaudible]. one person gutter got knocked

out due to winds 2 months ago. thank you very much. so, for clarity all the trees in the city have not been pruned since the implementation of the new legislation? >> okay. >> that's right. >> if i might chair mogannam. i would like to let you and others know we have a robust online map where people can go and see when our projected the pruning was complete and theed projected next pruning will occur. so -- if someone is wondering when we will get there they can plug in their address and it is projection beaut we update it as we issue contract work orders. to our crews and to the contractors. so, at least theyville a sense when we anticipate being there. now i want to make sure everyone understands its is a projection we get a lot of calls you said

october and you are not here. we are doing our best to keep that map updated but the goal is in the future, as we develop the pruning cycles based on species which was always what we were planning toward, we valid that information on the website. people can have more updated information when we expect to prune trees. i'm asking questions in the thought how we may support you i think we need more people and many trees need to be pruned moreune and encouraging planting of more trees they need 10 years before the first prudent nothing 10 years from now you will have more sdproes hope you have more you will have to prune. we have to be spooling this production up. whether or not you efficiency, hiring, better whatever it is. and that's why i'm asking the

questions i see a gapful i want to support it and make it efficient. what the expectation is different and be communicated. so. thank you. great. yea. i don't mean to. put you on the spot chair mogannam but may be would be helpful. i don't know if public works has an official position on people trimming the city's street trees or is there a way to tell the city if you are doing that? >> yes. we have when we call the opt out proechltsz the tree is street tree maintenance agreement. if you would like to maintain your own tree you sign an agreement saying you will have a qualified arborist dot maintenance.

and will agree to let you do this if you want to do it more then and there we are doing. we can prudent it on our schedule and you come in because you are used to that or have the means to or desire to. perhaps you have a building with 1 huh people who can contribute a fwoit have the tree look more perfect for your liking. you have that flexibility if you like. we will provide this baseline standard of care we provide for all the trees with the option for to you go above approximate beyond if you like to. to do that work with our inspectors we have our urban forest at dpw in box if you are interested, we start by sharing the documents with you and looking at your tree and out lining like -- okay if you want to do that this is had you

should consider. don't prune a wedge in it for a view of the bridge or something like that. if you meet these requirements we will support you with that. and thank you, commissioner for bring that up heaven forbid the chair of the commission breaks the rules. >> no. thank you very much this is good dmchlgz is good to get input my goal is for the health of the tree. well taken. thank you very much other questions? mr. fuller public comment? member when is wish to make 3 minutes of comment on this item 4 the bureau of forestry performance measure report line up by the door and if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 24824533623 ##.

we don't have member of the public in the chamber whochlt have approached to speak on this item. sfgovtv, is indicating we have one caller wish to speak on this item. sfgovtv please go ahead and unmute the caller and caller, you will have 3 minutes to peek and i will provide you with a 30 second warning. it is david pilpel, can you hear me? >> we hear you. >> excellent. sorry i had some tech issues earlier in the sfgovtv on page one of the agenda the [inaudible] whatever it is link

does in the work. took me time to work through. i wonder if starch could assess today or at a future meeting about how much trees have been lost so far in the last few months due to storms and how that tree loss across the city affects the urban forest? and prudent persons the urban forest counsel could address that tissue is significant and more significantful in their next report. i have been unable to reach up staff the last couple weeks to follow up on a director's hearing. so i hope i will be more success envelope reaching with susan or that perhaps i will reach out to nick later and can help me with

that. finally, i since the meeting moved pretty quickly i had a couple of comments on items 1 and 3. could we revisit those items border patrol or make the comments now? what is the commission's pleasure? that should be fine. we can provide you --. oh . city attorney. >> city attorney said comments mead to stay on the topic at hand. >> i asking if we could revisit the 2 items quickly. when you issue done with item 4. or after item 5. i'm here. thank you. >> thank you, caller. hearing no further questions any

further questions from the commission? and i believe we have one more caller. sorry about this. sfgovtv unmute that second caller, you will have 3 minutes to speak. >> sure. commissioners i'm francisco decosta. i would like us to have, the citizens to have some sense as to the canopy that we have for our city. in relation to other cities. also, we have places like mc clarin park and some other places too many trees have fallen. because of the storms.

do we have a policy when one tree falls down how many trees do we plant 2, 5, 6? so we have to be proactive in this. trees are very helpful. we know that. but we have seen very old trees fall on some landmark buildings, fall on other properties. which you know it is is a liability. and in many case then you can park and rec don't have the money. but aged tree caused the budgetary damage. not that we have the trees but

are we doing a need's assessment. sometimes we have some experts talk in yes or no about some 3s we have on potrero hill and all that should be removed. on san bruno they plant the trees but don't water. thank god we got the rains this time. we need to have among our performance measures certain things like i stated. what trees are a liability? one woman even died one-two died. a tree fell on her. 30 seconds. >> as part of our performance measures, do a need's assessment. thank you very much. >> thank you, caller.

and this is our last caller for public comment on this item >> further questions or comments from the commissioners. i would like to say that we have a fellow commissioner here from our partner commissions. i want to say welcome to commissioner settleal from dpw. commission. thank you for coming and welcome. i have been having meeting with the chair the dpw commission buzz we are all this this signature in a relationship. so welcome and thank you. on this note. no further questions or comments. mr. fuller next item. >> per the agenda amendment at the beginning of the meeting the next item is item 6. new business by commissioners. and we will return to item 5

after this. this is an informational item where commissioners are able to bring forth business for future meeting for commission. why mr. president? microphone? yes. mr. chair, i'd like to put in the record a resolution at this time to establish the annual san francisco public works san francisco building and construction trade's upon council, quote, montoya, recognition event and, ward's program. where as the mission of the san francisco public works is to enhance the quality of life in san francisco by providing outstanding public service. driven by the values of respect integrity competence responsiveness. and where as, the key to advancing the mission are the departments essential front line union proud trade workers who deliver their work with

exceptional skill and dedication. at times amid the challenging street conditions. where as, in 2007 the then mayor met with rank and file leadership at the sudden front public works for the purpose of implementing a plan to honor these employees and where as, the result of that meeting was an establishment of 261 montoya awards the naming, dedication of montoya way at the 2323 caesar chavez yard and local 261 public works recognition event in 2010. and where as, the recognition initiatives are named after anthony montoya senior for 1943

to 2010. montoya junior. 2 long time public works employees in 261 officials dem stated leadership on the job and in the union garnering the respect and appreciation of the colleagues. and where as local 261 is affiliate of the building and construction trade's council representing 32 bay area building construction and trades unions who's membership generations of public works employees. now and therefore be it resolved that the san francisco sanitation and street's commission endorses, establishment of the san francisco public works san francisco building trade rescue naz and awards program the montoya awards. and be it further resolved that the san francisco building and construction trades council the

northern california district counsels of labors. san francisco department of public works, and sanitation and streets commission shall establish the annual san francisco public works san francisco building trades recognition event and awards program known as the montoya award. and further restole that no few are think that 6 employees the san frap public works arrangemented by building trade's council publicly recognized on the annual bases by the department and unions in the month of may. and further resolve that for 2023 only, san francisco and the rest of the in addition e merge from the covid-19 pandemic and this results in the spread shut down of in person events during

the most of 2021 and 2023. a total of 12ed haves be recognized at the event. signed by carla short san francisco department of public works, tom harrison, sanitation commission. mazzola president. hernandez vice president rudy gonzalez, secretary treasurer, san francisco building trades council. vince courtney northern council district counsels of labor i put this in for further action in april. at our next meeting and at the first event as was mentioned in the resolution. in may.

further news or updates? thank you very much. thank you very much commissioner harrison a well intended and electric forward to the event and. why thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. going to secretary fuller do we need to go to public comment after this. >> yes, we do. >> public comment. >> members who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 6 new business by commissioners, lineup against the wall. if call nothing call 415-655-0001, access code: 24824533623 ## and press star 3.

looking in the chamber no one in the public approached speak. sfgovtv is indicating we have one caller, unmute that caller. >> david pilpel i assume the proposal will being subject to action at a future meeting? and once again if could indicate if possible to relook at 1 and 3 later so i with provide quick comments on those since i missed them. i appreciate it and look forward to the next item on refuse rates. thank you very much. >> thank you, caller. and that concludes public comment on this item. >> thank you, bob.

commissioners? no further comments. call the next item. >> the item 5 the refuse rate proposed by refuse rates add administrator. we will hold a public hearoth proposal of rates mandated by prop f and the san francisco health code section 290.6. subsection b 3. notice that of this public hearing publish in the the february 26, 23 of the examiner and published this commission's website on february 28 of 23. this is a 3 part presentation the first by refuse rate add administrator jllow. the second by department of passport works bruce roberts and

the third part by recology, jackson this . is an upon informational item. good morning commissioners refuse rate controller's office. presentation. >> so today we will talk a bit about the refuse rate setting process. and i will give you context for why we are here in present in fronts of this body and had the process will look like. see. these are tech heavy slides i will talk over them. and 2022, prop f was passed made the controller of the refuse rate and requires the add administrator to submit in front of sanitation and streets and

commission of the environment. purpose of these hearings to provide transparency to programs and service conducted and funded throughout refuse rates. including services provided by the city as well as through recology for upon standard refuse collection. hearing provide opportunity for commissioners and the public to provide comment on our proposed rate order. we will present twice to each commission the meeting is occur background aroundoir process and,llow the departments to present their proposals funded throughout rates and also this meeting is allowing recology to share the rate change request. the second meeting you will hear more from our office around our proposed rate order after an evaluation of the rate change ask.

and considered public input. so background on prop f established 4 principles the first refuse service cost effective. the rates will be stable and the structure will be rates will be reason and fair. and the third is the process will be transparent accountability and accessible. the fourth the rate board and controller shall conduct our work in line with high professional ethical standards. our hope adhering to the principles zee that ethical standard and rebuild public trust. the 5 major changes this prospect f brought was first making the controller's office the refuse rate add administrator. second is removing the will controller away from the board and placing control weir a rate

payor represent. third is important, it changes the rate setting process. and prior rate process the refuse rate proposed by the dpw director and heard through the director hearings. the requirement mou is the controller prosecute poses the rate and the proposal heard directly with the board and the refuse rate board will have to adopt rates. the fourth change is that the refuse rate board is authorized but in the required to set commercial rates. currently the city regulates residential rate and authorizes the board of supervisors to amend the refuse ordinance by a super majority vote. so in addition to prop f, are rate process we take guidance

from 2 settlement agreements agree to pay 101 million for restitution for errors in the 2017 rate application and december of 22 recology greed to put 25 minute to stabilize rates and in addition recology agreed to a number of additional reporting requirements that are being imelemented today. and lastly we take guidance from a series of public integrity reviewed the first april 2021, second miof 22. a third is in audit of the landfill agreement release. fees recommendations included conducting reporting with highest standards of conduct. greater transparency. rate setting methodology, compos

other jurisdictions and establishing a balance account and public access to all information. most recommendations have been implemented or in the process of during the rate setting process. this is our time line, just moving to the right, we are up against an october first dead line to set new effective rates. typically a rate setting process takes a year plus given the timing of prop f and the office we are doing a 7 minute sprint. we see this in 3 phases the first is the rate change request. which we issued recology submitted the proposal a few weeks ago. we are in phase 2 now which is the rate other proposal development. analysis and evaluating recology

rate change request fornls and a series of opinion hearings to 2 public workshops last week. have the commission hearing here with the commission on environment we will have a kickoff of the rate board hearing. all in all, the hearing indicate 11 opportunity for oral comment from the public. the public will have opportunity for written objections. and then once we release our rate order proposal. a prop 218 proposal period. the third phase once we released the rate proposal this triggered board to hear it and anticipate 4 board hearings to work out for will the refuse rate board to review the proposal and hopeful low adopt new rates the end of july for us to notice in august.

and in terms of the rolls for the rate setting process there is input and recommendation and adoption. input there is public input. rate payers have the town to provide input through the public workshops, hearings and the commission hearing and refuse rate hearing and written meant or public protest. diameters will have opportunity for input with public works and department of environment who receive funding through the rates. and department of public health does in the receive funding through rates but does provide adjudication services for billing come plains and issuing permits and licenses for route permits and licensing for trucks. and lastly are the refuse

companies recology provides input through the rate forms and also through the hearings. for monitor and recommendation that is our office. we recommend proposed rates we advise the rate board. do monitoring of operations and financing and do studies and investigations and the board has 2 main responsibilities the first is to hear our proposed rate ordand adopt one. the second is to adopt a set of performance metrics for refuse companies. the left few slides i will talk about high level components of the rates. rates are out lined across 6 schedules and last 2 years and a mack of 5 years.

on the left side is the city regulated rates. so there are 3 scheduled here. residential rates 5 units or less and apartment buildings 6 plus units and the tipping fee. the tipping fee is embedded in the rate payer rates. but we set this fee. and for any nonrate payers disposing at recology have to pay this additional fee here. on the other side, is recology set rates. set or negotiateded rated compactor and debris box rates and extra service refuse rates. past practice begins with determining rate eligibility of cost and revenues. once you determined that, then costs are determined for profit

eligibility. since the service are most of them are provided by a third party private provider, we allow there is an allowable profit margin. some related refuse cleaning funding through rates are not allowed the prefer margin this would include like service provided by dpw or the d. environment. once we categorize costs and revenues past practice requires calculation. we presents this the inverse of the operating ratio the allowable profit majorityince the considerations first the net prefer divide by rate ref now. and the net professional is revenue minus the cost. rate eligible revenue

requirement and third considering is the amount of revenue needed to be generated by rate eligible services to generate profit. all variables are rate year 24 and 25. some are controllable somewhere not. hiring would be a controllable variable. you know pandemic impact on commercial ash count system not controllable. the percent difference and this rate eligible requirement, that is when will determine the change in a future refuse rates. lastly, past rates include the cost of zero waste incentive and solid waste fee account. ziro waste is a waste diversion, incentive account this recology

draws down on if targets are met. and this account generates a million a year and meeting all targets yell 2% in profit margin and the fee impound account fund flex services at dpw and department of environment includes refuse services. cloning services dpw which bruce will talk about and support the city zero waste goals at d. environment. and as a result the settlement in december of 22 the next rate setting cycle will be considering the balancing account for the future rates to help stabilize rates. that concludes my presentation. happy to take questions. thank you very much. questions from the commissioners.

>> thank you. for the public input, how are you reaching out to the public or how is this information getting to you? we are hearing from the public through the hearings the public hearing processes. we had the 2 public workshops. where we had one public commenter and we had the on the website we have place where you provide written public comment. are you asking out roach? >> yea. kinds of and how are we getting the opinion e input. >> so how many opportunity are there the public >>. sure. >> in terms of out reach. we have been out to our listeners and social media. and we have also been using oewd

and commission on small business commission to help push out this information as well. and then in terms of the channels than i provide input through. this is the hearings, public workshops. we are collecting that public comment or recording it. this is requirement for our office to present to the refuse rate board. and the last piece is the written comments throughout website. you can there are forms you fill out to provide your written comment. >> yea. i see that. looks like last week there was a public workshop virtual. do you know when the next one will be? >> we are only have 2 we had the 2 and the remindser of the oral comment that will getting through the commission hearing and the refuse rate board. >> okay.

i would like to give you a forewarning when you come back, in may? 15th? these are really -- give us like how you came up with the rates, correct? >> absolutely. >> if you could do a road map so that anyone can follow along, that would be great. >> okay >> great. >> thanks. >> thank you. commissioner. >> commissioner simi? >> sufrm thank you. i wanted ask a quick, do, does this commission vote or we are to forums for public hearings. >> to hear and we are here to referred your comments on our rate ordthat's the requirement prop f. >> thank you. >> thank you. and just a few remarks from me. you know out roach is important i urge to you even though you had your 2 to do the out reach.

as a small business community leader as well, i will out reach and you know of course, you know who do you blame the people are not listening or ban width it is something we do to be genuine have you to reach out sometimes. i say 3-4 times and shake them by the shoulder. because this sometimes when than i need and if you want good inpump i know when i was head of i large group there was a question when the whole corrugated cardboard issue and the price plummeted and everybody getting huge bills from recology. i then and there is illegal. i was not one of them. but they were taking the corrugated home the over flu for recycling bin is a dollar and

over flow for business was 17 dlrs per what calculated someone got a handled dollar bills per pick up. i feel the cost doing business creates the problem we have on streets people are taking cardboard and driving and out of the truck. so sometimes you know raising prices on businesses or people apt to create the problems creates another probable and now rather than up from the business for 5 dollars. instead of 17 we don't look around for it or answer it on a 311 call. or commission for having to collect it because someone found it.

you make plea think of other questions. >> i think -- within this office's scope is for residential. rates. i want to you brought up commercial rates. but to so we are clear you are reviewing the residential rates opposed to commercial rates? >> so. we are reviewing both butt rate board is allowed to not required set commercial rates. you were getting at looking at the vacuum and seeing the greater context you change one rate it might change incentives toward other rates. >> thank you. >> yes. >>

>> thank you. welcome. >> sorry. mr. robertson, welcome. dicall you commissioner. why fraudian slip. >> good morning, commissioners. deputy dresht of finance for public works and san station and streets. noise to be here. i will give a brief presentation how we use the rate money through the impound or solid waste account. >> before i get in how we use it i want to talk about the refuse rate goals we hope to get from the rate process. a couple key programs funded through the refuse rate process. some are internal in public works the first is one team, an out reach and enforce am team. get funds for example litter

patrol. trash can cleaning. those are all in house and i will go through each in more detail. we get to service not just public works and the city for 3 key program catharsis a benefit. residents get bulk item pick up. everyone in san francisco twice a year allowed get bulk items picked up from recology. the abandon material program that is important where recology will pick up learning items like a mattress on the sidewalk or street that it is helpful to us. and the last item is program this is in the as known but 4 times a week recology will partner with public work staff and work on removing illegal dumping most low in the bayview. and it it is a good program and all hope to continue. and there is a let of alignment

with recology and public w in terms of these programs and having them continue. why we have new initiatives we hope to funds in the up something rate process. one is procurement of new trash cans and senseors. and we are look to funds one new position in the upcoming press all this was before you in january when we presented the budget we are going to more granularity. the new 1824 classification an analyst position the treasure can manager and go through and make sure trash cans are emptied and that they near a state of good use and no maintenance requirements for them. and foible low, the last item is the upcoming rate process a clarification of rules and requirements and expectations.

so one recology come to pick up city cans make sure they are clean around the diameter around the can you see a trash can and see debris on the sidewalk around the trash can. and just to ensuburban the electronics, gain efficiency of trash can removal and pick up and continue the on going maintenance and repair of the treasure cans. >> so xhrngs in january i presented before you our 400 million dollars operating budget of embed in the this 400 million dollars is this detail. . roughly everyier we get 9.5 million dollars of refuse money it conditions in the middle column when is new is public works in our budget submittal submitted boy mayor's office to the board on june 1.

includes the move am of 15 million dollars of funds balance and prior year savings to funds the 33 huh human replacement treasure cans. so the benefit of this is it is prior year savings we don't need to ask the rate board for additional money impact costings small but increase rates. we use prior year savings. what we are doing is for full transparency in the budget and the slide for the public. is we are showing how we move the 11. 9 million dollars of prior year savings and 3.1 million dollars in fund budget of wanted make sure we were showing what the intention of when we were plan to do for the trash can. >> 9.5 million dollars i will go in more detail. these are important programs for public works to keep the city clean and an opportunity to talk about the benefits of the programs. of first is called, one team out reach and enforce

am team. 10fte. staff that go out and w to make sure that merchants and property owners and residents are clear of right and role and responsibilities in terms of coping the city clean. they are eligible to issue citations than i can enforce city codes. we videotry to work with people before we get to that point. >> the refuse rates funds litter patrol. staff to help keep the city clean and get a small amount of money for our staff to reparity existing trash cans. we get a fair amount. 2.8 million dollars of nonlabor costs that is driven boy one item. an item before the commission, this is the steam cleaning of city cans done by community use center of san francisco.

and we went in an agreement with them. and had they do is go out on a schedule and clean the treasure cans and got a schedule t. is different depending on location the can at 7let and market, is going to get steam cleaned more than at the outer sunset. we do have on going funding for treasure can maintenance to maintain and keep the ones that are out there in the state of good repair. and get some amounts of money for analytical support. new exciting item this is included in our budget is the prosecute curement of the 3300 new trash cans. i think you seen in the press we had did a very extensive and thorough pilot. we to being a dozen designs. put them throughout the city.

and solicited feedback from the public and had over a thousand responses and 66,000 responses. and social media. and then we took all of those responses and lookad the what requirements were. we wanted make sure they were trash an ready and handle the 32 gallon rolling liner. easy it service and maintain and rummage resistance. one item we want to clarify is debee you see about around trash cans. coming from different sources. rummaging the treasure can and leaving the debris or mechanic to the can. keep met with recology and public work and the community benefit districts to get feed badge after all of that feedback, the trash can that was chosen by everybody was this

slim silhouette. our plan to you is to take that 15 million dollars in the budget and begin the prosecute curement process. sewe have a long way to go. we amount of trash cans out but we are beginning to the process now of issuing the rfp and i'm going through details what the requirements are. the manufacture will have shop drawings. like low need to build prototypes and we need additional approvals. this contract will be over 10 million dollars. we need to go before the board of supervisors to get approval. so not only the board approve the budget in the upcoming budget cycle but review and approve that contract. we need the historic preservation commission, planning department and the civic design review. but it is exciting. we have a can we are red to go forward with. and one of the items this we are

excited with and work with recology is piloting trash can censors. we have over 900 currently active now that we are work to implement and piloting. what the show is when a trash can gets full up to the 80% threshold a 311 request is sent and they know to come and empty it. so we got a few photos on the slide of where they are at. the color of them. red, green, blue. dash board indicators showing the status of the can and the impact when recology come and empties it. we are evaluating the efficiency and efficacy but continuing is exciting and one key areas the analyst will w on is to make sure that we are working with recategory this we got the pick up and times and delivery times around the trash cans finalized to again.

we get the treasure cans cleaned and emptied more and improve efficiency for recology. this is it. i am help to answer questions you have before i turn it over to jackson and recology. thank you. question? getting off easy. >> thank you. >> thank you.

good morning commissioners and staff and director carla short. i believe the presentation is queueing up. today i present recology rate

change request proposal we submitted on the controller's office on march of 23. i will refer to our request size a proposal. because the city will have to conduct the detailed review before authorizing the rates we are proposing in our rate change q. with me are people from staff that helped put together our proposal. we have with us dan shale or renaling nap vp for recology. we have our director of business system services john, terry our controller. and anthony our general manager of recology and becky holden our senior manager. and i'm jarmar jackson with community religions and manager. why recology services sudden front for 100 years we work to understand the communities needs and responsibilities and needs we embed in the the communities

we will care about the community and put together a frefl that maintains that commitment and this proposal helps keep san francisco clean and alined with the climate action goals to maintain the world class system in san francisco. so issue before i get to the different aspects of our proposal i will start with the basics. service to the green bin. the blue and gray bin is when we proicide the suite of service and in addition in also supported by rate itself are 29 programs. this we feel aline with keeping san francisco clean and supporting the stele's climate action goals. they are not all the programs but demonstrate huwe aline in the areas and the programs are complimentary and work in support of one another as well. we will talk about the first 2 bullet points on the left

handled exit will give examples of the programs. in the proposal an increase in and personnel to service our material collections for item this is might be found in the right-of-way. bulky things that would not fit in i condition tainer we service those and receive the service requests through the 311 system in san francisco and dispitcher a crew to pick up this material and want to make sure we have the investments in that program to respond. the second enhancement. the programs we offer in san francisco are the public receptacle service. the public cans sitting on the curb throughout san francisco. we service those cans with the department of public works and for this program, we want to be able to service them more close low depending on the needs of

each neighborhood. cans are scattered throughout san francisco each neighborhood has avator of needs. we are asking for the ability to increase the service for these receptacles. and then lastly the contamination strategy behind the green bin. we would like to focus more on out roach and education for this program. we identified i number of plastic contammy nanlts to the green bin. want torous this to ensure we are prowsing the highest quality compote in san francisco. and to deliver upon that we think by increasing the amount of education to customers we offer needs to increase and we want to correct any sorting at the points of collection and anything we don't catch in the first 2 steps we catch through investments of tech untiling like cameras and other things. to identify and also sort out

the contammy nanlts by the time we switch we provide the highest quality of material it produce the highest level of compost.

the rate change we are proposing produces a higher rate because of that. when we go back to the top you see this

[disconnect] >> separate containerized material if driving to the processing facility they experience the full amount increase. at the same time the rate increase you saw on the previous slide it is inclusive. 3.9% is inclusive of the tipping fee. next iil show you how this electrics to a default account.

so, had i customer opens service the default offer suggest a 16 gallon graham 64 blue and 32 green. you see the current price totals month low of $46.87 and next to that for year 24 and 25 the proposed increase and how this affects the rate itself. >> and this slide you see what our current rate looks like and projected rate compared to the niching cities of oak land and san jose u nobodying to san francisco you offer a services and programs that are competitors are not to meet the needs. they are unique programs we have. and in addition to this our rate is below 50 dollars. there has been 2 years of worth of increases the rate itself is maintaining below 50 dollars to still prosecute void all the

services we have in san francisco. and the team with me today worked heard it make sure we controlled prescriptional mechanisms to keep this rate low. for us we are committed to san francisco and the principle we submitted to the controller's office ensures that. ensure to keep san francisco clean and aline with the climate action goals. so with that that concludes my presentation on behalf of owners i'm happy to answer questions you may have. >> thank you. commissioners, questions? asking, lot today. i may not be able to articulate but00 on the tipping fee. the tipping fee is if you pay as you put where you are treasure in the dump or land fill or wherever it simple so, i understands well is less trash being tipped.

right? so, it does stand it reason if there is may be i don't understand this. the fee per ton or container or whatever it is, or is per ton. say. like less treasure going in. mix sense the the rate the tip go up. but i guess i'm thinking is it balance out, right? like costing 10 dollars to tip you are dumping helpful as much may be cost 20 butt total amount miss out the same. you will call up dan. the regional. i hope this made sense. great question we have been getting it often. >> good morning and thank you for this opportunity. i'm the regional violent for recology of san francisco. great question. the situation where you are seeing less business downtown. businesses are making adjustments and shrinking

service. less service less traffic less collection approximate less tonnage you have a smaller revenue base for the same the costs don't go, way the facilities the infrastructure they are fixed. and so the problem is not how the revenue base is smaller with decrease fontage but we have that expense. it is also important to note that increase is in the something the rate payers see the 3.9% is had the payers say. with transparency we show how it flows through. >> i think it does. and very clear over all rate is lower than on the tipping. i guess it sounds like you are trying to net out the hold the revenue where it was previously. you said your fixed costs are not changing >> right than i don't change the facility this is process this

material, those costs have gone up. because of the inflationary pressures we feel like every business in san flan you look at pg and e bills than i gone up 30 and 40%. look at any of the bills you pay here in san francisco or the state or countryination wide all businesses foal this impact. of the if i canned costs that infrastructure is critical to be able to sort, divert and sprit that material and get them to the correct sites to handle the material. the costs can't go away. well is less volume less ref now supporting them >> i sproised see the costs as fixed. i great if you could hold them but. not they have gone up. that's all. why they are fix in the the sense we can't get rid of them opposed i variable cost which is

more controllable. >> and -- one question on my behalf, how is the the tipping de feo and reduction. i get it trucks go out and machine in the truck or anyone in the truck has to fill it up. if half full it costs the same how does the mosquito float and illegal whenever i heard the mosquito float the people that inspect people who walk collecting the card bonjoured. >> hay are hurting the problem. those people are not subdescribing to the services and since the tipping fee is universal tip to cover the facilities those people using the mosquito floats are bringing up costs for residents. in year's past the mosquito fleet served a purpose because of the over load now it is changing because you are not

meeting capacity because of covid. i'm trying to get -- we have been pick up the mosquito floats slack. rung extra truck and picking up the cardboard. and booth everabandon materials. why it has not cost anybody. we have been running through china town and the mission picking it up and sending reports to dpw and to letting them know how much we pick up >> i understand had the price of pulp or corrugated was high. they were skimming off the good cardboard and leaving you in a binds and when you were over loaded they were a necessary whafsh you call temperature not saying you condone today but they were there. and now this volumes are down we need to discourage this behavior. volume up in order to have

numbers be fortunate. >> right. >> thank you. no further questions. thank you. >> no further questions. public comment? >> members of the public who wish it make 3 minutes of comment on item 5 the public hearing of the refuse rate proposed by the add administrator may line up against the wall. if you are calling in dial 415-655-0001, access code: 24824533623 ##. we don't have members of public

in the chamber wish to speak on this item. sfgovtv do we have any callers on this item? they are indicating we have one caller at the moment. please, unmute the call and you are 3 minutes to peek and provided with a 30 second notice when your time is up. >> great. david pilpel again. can you hear me. we hear you. >> excellent i made initial comments on refuse rates last week and intend to submit more comments when i can. to chair mogannam point about residential versus commercial rate, over time i think we should have similar rateings for the same rates for the same service. it seems to me that if someone is getting, for example. a 32 times 3 -- service with 32

gallon black or gray and blue and green service at a single family home versus a small business, i don't know on westportal or elsewhere, that the service is the same or similar. the costs are the same or similar. and that is the rates should be the same or similar and there should not be a process for these residential and commercial. i think this will take time and that deals with costs of service and requires analysis. anyway that was on that question of commercial versus residential. as to bruce robertson's presentation on impound account; i believe the impound account funds allocated to city departments through the rate process but not clear to me how those funds are controlled.

once the recology is transferred to the funds to the city. if they just sit with the departments. and are subject to the normal way that city funds are budgeted and controlled or something different about impound account funds i can compler that off line with bruce robert sans or other appropriate staff. next point. i would like to see some of the abandon material's collection and bulk item collection staffed with sunday/monday regular days off to staff saturday collection and neighborhood events. i -- like to believe there will be a neighborhood collection event there hen in the past out roach starting. 30 seconds >> thanks y. than i are on saturdays. and perhaps having the ability

that to have correction on saturdays as well for folk who is work monday-friday and want to meet the staff. involved in the pick ups would be helpful. >> thanks for listening on that. and once again i have some brief comments and i want to include the few typose in the draft minutes and like to address that. public low. >> thank you. >> thank you, caller >> appear this is is our final call or this item. that concludes public comment. why thank you. any further remarks. >> all right. and this concludes this item. >> now our next is general public comment. and the interest of transparency and benefit the doubt our system had a problem earlier we will

have general public comment in addition so that way who was not able to call in earlier will be able to. i checked with our secretary and he said was not sure what was going on. in caution we are going to extend that courtesy. so -- okay. >> so, the item 7 is general public comment which hen continue friday item 1. as nez. members of the public had wish to make a comment on an item not specific to this agenda or to the agenda if you like. may speak for 3 minutes if you are in the chamber line up against the wall if you are remote dial 415-655-0001, access code: 24824533623 ##.

appear we don't have members of public wish to make general public comment in person. sfgovtv, is do we have callers who would like to make general public comment at this time? and we have one caller. go head and unmute them. caller you have 3 minutes. you will be provided a 30 second notice. >> great. thank you, again, david pilpel. last time today. for the chair's announcements, that still not a numbered agenda item here at sas somewhere to

public works i would make that a numbered agenda item to allow for public comment. since i joined late i missed important announcementsil pick those up later and thank you if you can make that change. on the minutes. some things i notice third degree morning going over it on the cover page, cover page commissioner kwon is no longer the vice chair that should read vice chair commissioner hartwig-schulman. throughout the minutes francisco decasta is da not de. on page 2 item 2 i believe refers to director short and elsewhere as innerim director i make that change to add interim. on page 3 item 3 i believe it

refers to commissioner made by commissioner harris that should read commissioner harrison. and the action there says motion to hear approve grant modification i believe should read, on the motion to approve the consent calendar. the top of page 3. on page 5, item 5, i believe at the bottom commissioner mogannam request a break oun of graffiti on public property should read by property type not my property type. on page 4 item 8 it was not clear from the minutes says speakers commission but in the clear if there was new business raised. those were my thoughts on the

minutes and i'm noted sure it requires a motion to incorporate those comments as appropriate or if you could direct the commission secretary where appropriate to make those changes. >> 30 seconds. >> thank you very much, more fun next month. >> thank you, caller. and that is our last caller for general public comment. >> thank you being secretary fuller. commissioners. >> anything for the good of the cause? thank you, everyone. hearing no objections i adjourn this meeting. the commission will meet april 17 of 23. thank you very much.

>> hybrid and in person-sorry. is it still hybrid? in person and virtual meeting och the san francisco entertainment commission. we'll start with announcements. before we start with announcements, i just want to-we'll talk about it later but i want to dedicate this commission hearing which i know is not much of a thing, but to the memory of hecklina, good friend of many of ours. now we'll have announcements. >> we would like to start the meeting with land acknowledgment. we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by