good evening this is the commission on the environment. date is tuesday august 29, the time is 5. . 02 p.m. ringing and use of cell phones is probabilitied. the chair may order the removal of anyone using a device. remote participates the ring and use of cell phones can happen virtual etch public commenting available on each item. participates who comment in person will come forward and speak clear in the mic. each speaker allowed 3 minutes on speak. member participating remote comment by calling in. the opportunity to peek during the period are available via phone calling 415-655-0001,

access code: 2660 919 5124 once connected dial star 3 to be add. best practices to call from a quiet location. speak clearly and slowly and silence device. members submit comment by e mail. comment via e mail forwarded to commissioner and include as part of the meeting file. i will call the roll. >> president ahn. >> here >> vice president wan. >> here >> commissioner hunter. >> here. >> commissioner sullivan >> we have a quorum >> item 2 president's welcome item for discussion. >> good evening. commission on environment acknowledges we occupy then cest ral home land of the ramaytush ohlone people the original

inhabitants of san francisco peninsula. the interconnectedness of all thing and harmony with nature. we honor the ramaytush ohlone peoples for commitment to mother earth. as protectors of the land with their traditions. the recommend ram never cd, lost nor forgot their responsibilities as care takeers as well as all people who is reside in their traditional territory. we recognize we benefit from living and working on their traditional home land. as uninvited guests we pay respects to the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community. environmentists we recognize we must embase indigenous sdpj how we care for san francisco and their people yoochl commissioners, staff and the members, welcome to tonight's meeting. as we kick it off we will be remiss without recognizing the

fire in hawaii. and uponeen the on going smoke drifting to the bay area that the last until thursday. climate change field wild fires threaten our communities. across the state and the event under scores the need for climate resill uponians. as we work on the climate action plan in san francisco our how thes with the people of the maui community as they heel and recover. the passing of nancey warfeld an advocate and voice for conversation in our city. nancy possessed a knowledge of san francisco's budget and bureaucracy and never afraid to ask questions or hold those to account. as a defender of san francisco space her activism made surety environment department made possible the quail and harding

park. this represents one small element of her legacy range prosecute landscape and oversight of water and increased focus sustainable development. nancy was the best in san francisco. tradition of advocacy and thoughts with her friends and lived once. and we have a lot on our agendaful with what let's get started. with that should we take public comment? public comment here in person then remote comment. are there members present in the room who wish to speak, come forward and speak clear in the mic. ef we will proceed to remote public comment. members participating remote low who wish to comment now press star 3 to be added to the queue for those on hold continue to wait medical it is your turn to

speak. no callers, public comment is closed. zo next item. >> item 3 update on environment department director recruitment process eddie ahn commission president. this item is discussion. yet moment we have been waiting for. first a quick recap of the long process to search for next director of san francisco environmental department. in july of 2022 the commission voted for a search committee to manage the recruit am process the committee met between august of 22 and february of 23 to develop a time line for the effort and credit a prosure and identify and interview for the director position. on march 27, 23 finalists for

director position and the commission voted advance candidates to the mir for consideration per terms of the city charter. on march 28, 2023, the commission grewed additional finalists in closed session and voted advance one additional to the mayor per terms of the charter this was a shared effort. i want to thank the commissioner formy commissioner wall for service on the committee and thank sarah offense of the mayor's office and lawa of the environment lending insight to this rigorous search process. i want to thank sean of drh and sarah crowley. that process brought us to where we are today. the commission searched far and wide for the candidate we were looking for was machine we know well. and this final decision rested with the mayor and cannot be more excited with her choice.

please, join me in welcoming our new director of san francisco environmental department. tyrone jue. [applause] >> and director jue. gi will keep it brief i want to thank the commission. and mayor breed for having faith in me to execute on the duties and responsibilities of this department and mandate of the department. well is a lot of work ahead of us and what gives me hope on the commission and the staff you have here in this room and all the staff that are not here. i have been leading this work. i think with their support, help with your guidance and with the mayor's leadership and the board support, we will accomplish great things i'm looking forward to the work. >> thank you. other discussion or comments?

>> i'm happy that the outcome. i think jue has been a supporter of the commission president department on environment. and it is just history the way he knows the community, the program and his unwaivering commitment to how we execute all the things in san francisco. it is add moirable and i'm pleased and congratulationses, director. no further comment. go to public comment. are there members in the room wish to speak? we will proceed to remote public comment. members who wish to comment on this item press star 3 to be added to the queue.

public comment is closed. thank you other kyle. >> the next is item 4 approval of minutes of may 23, 2023 meet and february 28, 23 search committee meeting on environment meeting draft minute bunkham february 28, 28 draft minutes for discussion and action. eye move approval. >> a motion. second. >> we'll take public comment. are there members who are present wish to speak on this item? we will prosecute seed to remote public comment. member who wish to speak press star 3.

public comment is closed. >> roll call. >> president ahn >> yes. >> vice president wan. >> aye yoochl commissioner. >> aye. >> commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> commissioner sullivan >> aye >> motion passes. next item. >> the next is item 5 general public comment. members address on matters within the commission's jurisdiction and not on today's agenda. are there members of the public present who wish to speak on this item? remote public comment. members who wish to make a comment press star 3 to be added to the speaker queue. >> public comment is closed. >> okay. next item j. next is item 6 presentation of the commission on environmental service award to matter of trust for

discussion. >> commissioner sullivan this is yours? >> so a pleasure today to present the environmental service award to matter of trust. one of san francisco's most impactful and innovative environmental nonprofits since 98 help the prosecute mote resources and practices to generations of san franciscans. from recycling and compost to education and advocacy. clean air and mawr the depth of the environmental programs sets it apart. matter of trust mission are local. impact extends beyond the bay area. consider their work using natural matteds of human hair to soak up chemicals from contaminated areas clean up sites from the bay to the gulf mexico and beyond. or pioneering eco hope hub

facility planet friendly to countless san franciscans. these are a savenlth communities matter of trust cultivated. range from school field trips to apreventiveships to vast online resource library. found are lisa and her team of eco enthusiasts there every step of the way. matter of trust leverages natural and renewable resources for social and environmental impact. matter of trust marks the 25th anniversary recognize lisa and her team for san francisco's dedication to grass roots and community empower am. congratulations to all you have accomplished the left 25 years and can't wait to see what come next. [applause]

>> thank you very much. really grateful to the commission. and n means so much to us for our mission of linking needs. and for the impact we have. trying to think about what i can say and the word, phoenix came to mind. we are likey with the eco home which is having one week open every 2 months in the heart of coal valley haight ashbury sit with wide open doors and talk to the public walking biechl a great walking score. everybody has been hundred percent wonderful. never had an incident. the city is amazing. i love this city. my family came here in the 1800's for the gold rush.

did not find gold. my great grand mother went to low mountain. nile father's mother wrote the jingle rice arobe y the san francisco treat. i'm feel san francisco and i know the city is going through a lot. but i love that the phoenix is on our flag. i irrelevant get to talk to the public so much all the time to our work and the charity. we have really used this city as a test kitchen and lunching board our program with increase for oil spills moved on to being for soil remediation at presidio, also looking at sea grass and kelp forest restoration with the matts and have 1 where are 3 cites around the world and they are called matter of trust athens.

it is is spectacular and thanks to san francisco. grateful. thank you very much. [applause] would anyone else like to say a few words? good afternoon commissioners alexa kielty with environment department. i had the pleasure of working with matter of trust and early 2000 with the grants. worked on access excess together. one of the first online platforms that aloud excess material and goods from for profit community to go to the nonprofit communities. a matching platform. we fund third degree for many years. and i wanted just congratulate matter of trust for innovation, community building. lisa is one of a kind. nobody thinks like her or

connects people like lisa. i'm excited she is get thanksgiving award they deserve it. they have been committed to san francisco for many years and constantly ino have aing around the hair mats i encourage to you go down to her facility. she has a state art facility that weaves the matts to clone up oil spills around the world. she mentioned. go down and look. so, thank you. [applause] anyone else? let's open up to public comment. >> members of public present who wish to speak on this item? we'll proceed to remote public comment. press star 3 to be added to the

speaker queue. public comment is closed. >> i believe we pause for a portrait with lisa up against that wall.

next item. >> next is item 7 staff introductions the speaker is tyrone jue director for discussion. >> the fun part where we introduce the new staff. joining our department. so i will ask torn come up and we will call your name out. and your title and step up to say a few words. leo, elme are in person and gabriel if you typeset make your way up. i will call you individually and you can have a turn at the mic.

first up, as the commission knew we were doing a search for deputy director for the department. a long process and patience by leo we have our new director for the departmentful i will let leo explain his background and experience we're excited have him >> thank you. i'm prosecute excited be part of this departmentful am i'm eatingtory work on environment and climate full time my background 12 years with the city. i spent 5 years department, children, youth and families and i was in the mayor's budget offense for 5 years and spent 2 at mta. the last 4 years up in so mobile homea county doing climate work i'm excited be back in san

francisco. i love the city and want to do my part and eatingtory work with all of you. thank you for having me. [applause] next up we have [inaudible]. i'm happy to be here melissa and i come a month old so far the department. and i come from almost 3 decades in nonprofit and phil doing grant writing and fund raising development and grant making and so i'm excited to be able to left-hand laned my skills to full time working for environmental causes.

>> hello all. i'm returning to the department of environment. my first job was the city was hsa in public assistant program. cal work bunkham came to environment i was a 1632. senior account clerk. and then i went to puc. 1634 now become to environment. i am 1822. my main duties are grand management. po's, payments, reimburse ams. general entries. i'm happy to be back. thank you. thank you.

next we have keely patron. >> hi. i'm keely i started with commission, fairs. and i'm a senior at usf majoring in vipiral science and i'm excited for this opportunity to work with you and learn as much as i can. thank you. >> thank you. >> the next 2 are promotions n within the department of first we are gabriel hernandez prosecute moted to our municipal to beingic reduction programs assistant. >> hello i'm am [inaudible] and i'm coming to the new position from my position at residential to beingic reduction. still w nothing to beingic reduction field. and supporting our pest manage. xrm buy green program.

thanks. last is someone everyone is familiar with. she is our new community partnership and engagement manager. so we are happy show is willing to tax thel new role. >> thanks, tyrone. i am a familiar face. i joined the department in march of 200 where are the commission secretary. and since then, i spent majority of career leading environmental justice work. i'm excited for this opportunity to lead our community partnerships and team and -- really bring in racial equity as you know that has been the core focus of mine and environmental justice in our out roach and engagement work and expandingor partnerships.

thank you for the opportunity and i'm excited work continue to work with all of you. >> congratulations. [applause] >> we have liz who is our last person remote. who is our to beingic reduction intern. liz, if you are -- red? >> good evening i'm liz [inaudible] i am currently intern with to beingic reduction and healthy environment team. i'm a graduate student. currently [inaudible] toxicology and risk assessment. and i'm hoping that the w that i do which [inaudible] information [inaudible] [inaudible] which is [inaudible] will be helpful. thank you.

[applause] i have one final mention. she is not here in person. i want to extend appreciation to kelly. who is our hr analyst. she came and worked for a stint for sick months w adam on helping get through the vacancies in our department and she was truly invaluable help you to. published 12 j.w. announcements and 26 appointments that's how many positions we pushed through the city hiring process takes a language time to get 26 is an accomplishment. we are grateful for kelly's support and she moveod to support the health service system. wish the best. with that that concludes my announcements. >> more discussion? commissioners? public comment? are there members of public present who wish to speak on this item? brae seed to remote comment.

members who wish it make i comment now press star 3 to be added to the queue. public comment is closed. >> all right. welcome staff, congratulations on promotions. >> next is item 8 review and vote to approve the file 23-09coe environmental department education grants this sponsor is tyrone jue and esther tang and. this is for discussion and possible action. >> the commission had a policy to increase transparency on grant making process we bring for approval grants over 100,000 to the commission and we like to

bring our out going grants to our commission when possible. tonight we'll present 3 pending out going environmental education grantses for review and approval. i will turn it over to esther. who will tell us more about when is in store with the guarantees. >> thank you. good afternoon, evening. commissioners. and so um my pleasure to introduce the 3 grants. and asking for approval. so, um, this are for boy and girl club of san francisco. city of dreams and ymca. they are each for 25 k for the duration of 2 years. for the fiscal year and the coming fiscal year example of they are funded. so, we have boy and girl club of san francisco. so hay provide community base

youth development this . is an engagement for local youth since eversince 1891. they serve 3,000 plus youth across san francisco. the scope of the grant is to provide 32 field trip its 300 youth k-12 focusing on environmental education. will understanding environmental justice issues with racial equity lens. city of dreams. so hay have served 4800 plus youth and families. and living in the bay vow since 2004. and the scope of the grant to provide environmental education workshops to bayview youth and create youth lead ziro waist community engagement project.

we have ymca. so they are the leader in out door education promise the scope of the grant is to extend the zero waste program activities including after school programs and summer catches. youth train and development and field trips opportunity for programs to excess the wherevero waste programming space. thank you. >> thank you. would tonight's grantees like to speak? >> yes. please. i was wondering if we know examples of what these awe some programs are doing. i don't know you said that they like have wherevero wastey education i love that.

>> are you a grantee. >> i'm sorry. >> we will have public ment on this. >> okay. >> you can tell i'm new. >> no worries. >> any of tone's grantees are welcomeed speak on this item first before we go to discussion by commissioners and public comment. are there grantees? yes. come on up. good evening. i'm monroe rodriguez i represent y of san francisco and we are one of the grantee applications now. to answer that was heard the public comment when we talk about wherevero waste we are activating spaces where young people come in to the class rooms and some of our grantee calls for the creation of ejszal curriculum not the program specialist speaking out of

terms. any other grantees tonight? is represent city of drolls to speak to the question. we have 2 programs that we are [inaudible] one is our earn to learn program already in session. we serve youth ages 7-14.

and our first session. a 6 week gardening program. we have a large community garden we harvested over 200 pounds and distributed across the street in our 92ed bank. serving families and partners to use. we use our compost to replenish our garden. we have a contest going on where our families we have -- 15 participates per month. and have our families -- we have our youth collect compost from our families and weigh it and

who has the highest yield they win 50 dollar gift cards those are a now ways we implement zero waste and getting the community enengage in the composting. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> anyone else? if not discussion by commissioners? no discussion a motion? >> motion. >> we have a motion from commissioner wan. >> a second. >> second. >> and then now public comment. before weeen take a vet on this item. so members may come up and speak. if you desire. >> i'm sorry about that. not knowing the order. thank you.

for sharing those that information. i appreciate it. yea. i feel my question is answered. >> all right. why all's well that ends well. why anyone else that wants to speak if not rewill move to remote public comment. why members when wish it make a remote comment press star 3. >> public comment is closed. >> roll call vote. >> president wan >> vice president wan >> aye >> commissioner bermejo. why aye >> xhrp hunter. >> aye >> commissioner sullivan. >> aye >> congratulations to the grantees, next item item 9. update on climate action plan the sponsor is cindy, climate program manager the speaker is

richard chan the document is the 2021 san francisco climate action plan this is for discussion. hello, commissioners. nice to see you rich chan, senior environmental specialist. with the environment department. excited be here to update you on what we have been doing with the climate action plan. hard to believe it has been 2 years since this got out. we have been doing exciting things, i think and i'm help it share with you. >> so, the agenda is here i'm going to give you a quick update including something addendum we publish for the plan. talk about green house gas. and i will spends time going throughout new reporting dash board that will be on our public facing website. that i think you heard about already. and then there was some preand pest campaign surveys conducted

i would like to share result and have a discussion. so. when the cap dame evercame out there were 6 sectors. since then we worked with the san francisco puc water resources to add a new chapter or sector for the climate action plan this is about water supply. it is a strong connection to the climate issues in cal dam. i think one thing that we learn friday all of this is tht puc is working heard to ensure that san francisco has a reliable and clean water ploy to carry us for the. upon given challengers from regular and climate change challenges. so the new sector contains 3 key strategies and 15 actions on water supply demand management and consumption reduction.

through projects and supply augmentation programs. so, includes a year and a half of collaboration to add a chapter. that and we want to thank the puc water resource division for per inship on this effort. it should be post to the climate action plan site tomorrow. next slide. and next i will talk about the green house gas inventory. so, a bit of background we normally publish the results of a year inreason tory about a year and a half after the conclusion of the year. normally the 2020 would have been published in spring of 2022. but to staffing issues result figure covid we lost our key staff member who was doing this process for 5 or 6 years.

committee hiring process we got a new purpose on board and they were starting from scratch we are delayed in getting it out. the other caveat is this it was 2020 we were in covid, look downs. the transit system and transportation. business closures. general economic turmoil going on in 2020. we need to cope this in the minds when is we look at numbers. butt results are good. we are 48% below our 1990 level in 2020. which is a 12% reduction below the 2019 level and prebl a lot of this is attributable to the covid impacts we are starting initiate the 202 inventory tow get become on a regular schedule. i think our plan it is to now

pivot to doing it once every other year temperature is an intensive press it is labor intensive there is data that needs to be collected and we think this our staff could be working on other things to advance the climate action plan. we will do it once every other year moving forward. so, next slide? ummented get down in a bit of more detail on the e mission sources. so, buildings and transportation remained the learningest contributors and combined 88% of society e missions. transportation e missions decreased 19% come paired 2019 levels which is do you to all of the stay at home orders and people changing behaviors. one technical note they will add is had during while we were doing the 2020 inventory, we realized this the model this we

used for past inventory we knew was high level and course for transportation. and we work with the transportation authority as our data purveyors. but our initial runs using our older method shows the transportation e mission went up in 2020 and realized that did in the make sense at all. so, they turned us on to a new tool what uses more real thyme data and censors on road sxsz extrapulate throughout the city. and looking at google and to find things that are more easy to manage and more accurate and updated so, and building e missions decrease for you % below 2019 levels. so those are highlights and we will know more in spring of 2024 how we did in 2022.

so, excited shirr about the dash board. wren if you have seen it but, next slide, kyle? this is a now edition to the sf climate plan website. which was created through a holistic marketing and engagement campaign we ran with consultants earlier this year. and basically spring of 2023. and one of the key items was to in addition to doing all of the direct communication in the community about the climate action plan we wanted have somewhere to send people to learn more. that was like the sf climate plan website. and so now we added the dash board what you see is the home page of the website and there is a button at top this says, dash board. so00 eye think a few things we

committed in the climate action plan to have metrics, indicators to have another way to show progress. and to get people to understand what we are trying to do with the climate action plan. so, i will talk more about the indicators but this is about taking all of the complex information in the climate action plan and trying to make it more approachable, understandable and tanningable for every day people. so, we start off with achievements. given how easy it is to feel pessimistic about the state of the climate. and our ability to make meaningful, fast change. we think it is important to show role progress. and will highlight successes had they occur president truth is the city is dog a lot to advance the climate action plan now.

this approach is consistent with a marketing campaign of staying on positive messages and to show all of the progress this we are making. and on the slide home page are examples from 2022 and we will add more with each year's damp board update occur nothing the spring. etch >> so thshg implementation snapshot is what you will see next temperature is a high level summary of cap implementation progress >> it say summary of information our team collects about actions of the beginning of the year. and the back end is spreadsheet with the actions and data about the departments and who is out and barriers they fits and successes and engage am opportunities. and i mention now that this is set up we have the ability to make updated evers to the dash board that was key of the project and when we do these

city department wide climate action plan updates we would include updated information in the snapshot. next is getting in the key indicators part. so, again another way to communicate and educate the prs progress about the intent and make them more role for people. so we work with all the departments to identify indicators that leveraged existing data collection presses torous the burden. and each am includes the intent of the strategy the original language. description of the indicator and a blur and the did thea itself, shown as a chart. here is the example from energy supply es within and the

percentage of electricity this is renowable and how we progressing toward the city's goal of 100% renewable by 2025. and one more example next. if you flip to the next slide. transportation and land use to build a fast transit system will be everyone's preferred way to get around. the inld indicator we use is muni agency, weekday ridership which is a key inld indicator of the health and use of the system. we get from sfmta. we have 19 indicators 4 in the climate action plan and adding mores we move forward as data and time and resources allow. next slide. now i am go into the public

survey conducted preand post campaign. the slide shoes the over view of the engagement campaign we ran. as if you w with consultants and staff for a marketing campaign to increase aware knows of the climate action plan and drive people to the new website. key were dig at that time, tv, ro, media the website. we held 2 climate resource faris in language and spanish and chinese. and then have been doing sector specific out reach induction cooking demonstrations at farmer markets. project included i preand post campaign survey which i will discuss next. the survey over view was performed gauge the impact of the campaign. sum redetails are on this slide.

they were pretty clear that the preand post are the indicators but hard to point exact low to changes and, wearness directly related the things we were dealing with the campaign. well is a good sense there was an impact. next slide. so examples of the data collected from the survey. on one question asked people seen or heard information encouraging residents to take action to fight climate change. precampaign was 12% and post, 31%. again, we can't point to the campaign as the cause of that change especially there have been climate news and things that have been going on what have because of the stuff going on but00 eye think the results indicate an increase in messages

this encourage behavior change really the heart of when we were trying to do with our campaign. climate change concern level. 80% are concerned about climate change and the number of very concerned increased post campaign. and about 10% increase from those simple low concerned to very concerned. next slide. >> this swon about the likelihood to take specific actions and one question was someone would take an action from i list we developed. thinking about the population. rernltss and we were not talking about switching out appliances we taylored the questions to be things that people can do easily. and note that the toply taking one less car trip. per week.

cutting outate one or more days a week and paying 3 dollars more for renewable electric. those are indicators where people may take action. >> i think this is left. learning anything new. there was a question asked if than i learned anything now from the messages they saw. during the campaign period and 40% said yes, we thought was high and encourage the most came if the age group of 25-44. 65% said, yes. followed boy half of those from ages 45-pen and 29% of those over 60. so, the fact the 40% of people thought they learned manage new was encouraging for ulc.

this concludes my presentation. and i'm happy to discuss and take questions. thanks. >> questions. why yes. >> richard thank you for this presentation. really excitings to see the dash board. we have been talking for aye awhile that so it is exciting to see it roll out. and i assume the work in progress? at this point? >> yea. i think the there was a web developer brought on by the most like low with the prime consultants did the reuse campaign they are familiar with when we are doing now in terms of messaging there is an architecture to the site they handed the keys to us. we can make updates and plan on refining it adding more as it makes sense and we dot refresh every year.

joy know most useful to me and the public would be to see for each big section of the that is our goal by what date, and vathat be on the slide visible and where are we in the years. you can look at the goal. and the date and look at the current number of metrics and see we are doing well or not doing well. the -- dash board for energy supply was that. . had 100% boy 2025 and eighty-four % in 2020 the one for muni ridership i lookd and i guessed 3 for,000 is a goal. but i could not was not easy for mow to visualize it there. and it is grit to celebrate where we succeed but more important for us to see where we are not succeeding that is where we try to do something to make the change that is one

commissioner that would be helpful. >> absolutely. thank you. and it was quite challenging once we got down to the departments to understand the available data. our intent. when they are comfortable with you know collecting, reporting on. won'tmented to pigy become on those efforts as much as possible. and to finds an indicator for a strategy -- it is a very nuanced exploration of what makes sense begin they are trying to community quickly and clears well. you can get in the weeds fast and we are billionsing all of those things. why thank you. >> i will say, thank you to staff. i know he updated us on the dash board every meeting the last few years. i think my general occurrence were addressed and that

snapshot. being able it click on the button and seat 11 completed okays the department achieve side i good boost for morale. excellent job excited to seat progress. >> thank you. there was free lunch for folks and all vegetables. it was showing folks how can we be creative. and the use of the game using environmental terminology was create and i have everybody engage in the the game. and than i could win cox typeset or other prizes, which i think was helpful and enengaging folks this could be fun, health and he

good for the environment. i talk with occura and got my set of [inaudible]. >> appreciate that. thank you. i appreciate the engagement with the chinese community in language and cull roll competent material. i appreciate this. >> thank you. >> other comments? questions? >> let's go to public comment. >> are there members present wishing to speak on this item? . public comment is closed. why thank you.

why thank you very much. >> next item. >> item 10 update on sf safe medicine dispezal program. textic program manager [inaudible] special waste disposal analyst for discussion. . reminds you to the staff who did introductions you are in the required stick around for you entirety of the meeting >> thank you. >> am hello commissioners i'm pauli the program manager for to beingic reduction and healthy communities team. we did get i name change it sounds different. we can talk about this another day. tonight we'll proicide an update on the safe medicine disposal program. the program prosecute viced residents collection services to dispose of unwanted medicine in i safe and environmentally sound manner. providing residents the service

is important and we will briefly talk about why. kyle can i get slides? thank you. >> one of the environmental protection. am we don't want the medicines winding up in the trash or in the toilet. they go down the drain and pollute the water system. prevent drug misuse and addiction. this can help. we want to upon preupon vent axal pointing that happenings when left over medicine is left in the house. because of the reasons, in 2015, the board of sprierdzs adopted the safe drug disposal stewartship ordinance and the ordinance is unique and utilizes an extended responsibility approach where medicine manufacturers and ordinance referred it producers. sell product in san francisco rivered operate and fund the

collection program. and since 2017, producers respondent 8 million dollars providing services to reds dents at no cost to the city or ricology rate payors. responsible for over seeing to ensure the program is meeting our goals. maggie johnson and christopher lester on to beingic team are responsible for the work. and christopher is here to tell you more about how it is going. >> thank you. >> good evening. i'm chris lester special waste disposal with the environment department. thank you being paul in setting the stage. next slide. we will jump in the ordinance requirements. they can broadly bucket in the 3 main categories. the first the collection special disposal ierment establish 3 things. one, type of collection service

provide. convenience standard of 5 drop off kiosks for each district. and also guide lines for producers for program operators how the collected medicines should be handled and disposed of. >> second prosecute motion system requirements. to ensurety medicine collection options are promoted to residents, medicine prescribe and ares others in the health care and vet communities. reporting requirements for producers and their program operators operating programos behalf and for sfc it report to the board bianual on the implementation status with recommended changes. prugs are submit a written stewardship plan details how they operate the programs with the ordinance requirements and also to meet city goals.

the role is to approve the written stewardship plan and witness approved over see implementation by program operators to ensure they are as described in the written plan. to date approved 2 stewardship operators. they include, med projectses, first, prove in the late 2016. and the second is intelligence approved to prit in san francisco in late 2020. next slide. the clekdzing disposal system includes i voens system of sxae kiosks. these are located in retail pharmacies, hospitals and clinicics. all 10 san francisco police station and one sheriff's facility. a limation allment locations were policed in compliance with

federal dea rules limit to pharmacies and law enforcement locations. that distinctively limit our ability to place drop off kiosk in locations. next. here is the map of the locations around san francisco. you see that over all coverage is good. there are a new neighborhoods have more sparse collection option in terms of kiosks connected to the dea limitation i discussed where by if they are in the many pharmacies we cannot place an off in certain neighborhoods with you a pharmacy participating. in districts where a program prirt is not providing 5 kiosks they are is up elementing collection service per requirement ordinance with what we refer to mail box envelope distribution locations. physical locations residence

denial can pick up a mailbox envelope like the 1 on the screen the idea they visit the election. get envelope. bring it home. fill it with medicines and return it to the postal service. this is another supplemental service it limits you can't drop everything you have in the bag. but it is a great service to compliment the determine off kiosks. >> again here is a map of the 204 envelope distribution negotiations. they are at business this is have 96 us it medicines and prescription prescribing or a veterinary. this would individual urgent cares and dental offices and vet clinics. checking at location in san

francisco. and this is upon notable in per because wall greens previous to this was operating their own private medicine collection program outside of med project and it is a private effort and limited number of locations. than i increased their participation in san francisco. this is significant because of the over all increase in the number of collection locations. we added 24 locations to a network up to 63 that was great. also wall growns is the most prom nanlt operator in san francisco the most pharmacies this helps raise, wearness going in a wall greens, seeing the kiosk and understanding the service available and because in many neighborhoodses they were the only pharmacy available. so without them participating in certain neighborhoods we could not place a kiosk there.

it let us play them in neighborhoods like the bay vow. outer mission and outer sunset you may have notice did not have a ton of kiosks prior. the requirement is producers or program operators to collaborate rit and create a coordinated system prosecute motion. and the idea here is what they are trying to ensure they are separate out reach efforts consistent messaging and, void concontrary messages to the public. they are not collaborateerated like we would like to see but on a few key elements. this includes a coordinated design for the color and signage of collection kiosks allow upon to use pre-existing signage

through royalty free licensing agreement and agree to use project materials rather than using their own branded kiosk design. you see the kiosk design is on the left. med project on the right. they are similar and the pain killers in ream life look more similar than what is on the screen. they credited a website med project sf. org and sharing operation costs of website equal loam through the website, residence denials access a map and list of all of the collection locations. and there is links for them to access the program operator's website they can order mail back services delivered to their door at no cost. than i conducting out reach

usingvator of out reach vehicles. an example med project is on the screen. they dog out reach including vo. they got addos pandora and traditional rothis is an example of the look come feel and one out reach they are doing. >> next. please. here is a postcard design mail to household in every district is this year not every household but wing through subsets. general low when we zoom out about out reach there suspect some duplication happening. but typically they are taken their own approach result in the efforts complimenting each other rather than duplicating efforts. jump in some performance metrics. that offers insights. this is the program operation costs since 2016.

again started prit nothing 2021 we have 2 years worth of operation costs. in total they spent 7.7 million dollars prosecute voiding services to residents since 2017. and these are fully covered boy producers, medicine producers and program operators. not riicologist or city funding sources. a chart of each upon program operator medicine collection service boy supervisor districts. you see clearly med project with 62 of the 63 kiosk locations, they have cornered the kiosk landscape. med project operating since 2017. and so med project had the first go at all the prime pharmacy locations able and willing to collect medicines.

has been trying to add collection kiosks. but than i are is up elementing their one collection kiosk location with over 150 mail envelope distribution locations while than i try to add more collection kiosks. heater collection results from 6 years of the program. 2 key take aways toll the dwo operators collected over 140,000 pounds of medicine bunkham. since the start. a lot. and med project in orange is collecting the vast majority of medicines. again, i think this relates to their robust collection kiosk network and the tick away residents prefer know in person determine off rather than mail back options. next. >> in terms of what is next. >> drafted ups to the ordinance

impelements regulations. the updates strengthen the collection system. specific low requiring program prirts to prit one day collection events. in districts that are in the meeting the 5 district kiosk standards the mailbox prop is in the as effective. we are looking for other options. you formalize the elements with i single system or prosecute motion. cod fighting the requirements in regulations it is in the something done on voluntary. and will third, establish a press near new program operators if a third or fourth operator wanted to operate in san francisco. as we talked about in religion to medicine collection. our data shows mill back distribution locations are not utilized. people prefer the in person

option. the federal dea does, lua day collection events additional way people can lawfully collect medicines. once the updated regs are adopted, certain program operators with less than 2 kiosks will be required to operate one day collection in that district you mirecall under the current deploy am that will fall in ennear and men rivered to conduct efforts regardless how that shakes out the department want to facilitate. and collection events. hospital organizations find partners for one day collection events might be a good fit. the ordinance requires to report to the board of supervisors on bianual on implementation status and recommended changes it

ordinance itself. i don't think we have recommended changes as far as the ordinance. we did do an update a mall update this past april. but we will submittingure fourth report to the board later this year. i'm happy to share a copy with you. and i think this concludes my presentation. any discussion. i wander if you can i saw some of the campaign material has 2 languages. wrndz have you done target out roach to commitose who have language barrier. >> absolutely. targeted out roach is happen nothing 5 required languages that out roach needs to be conduct under the ordinance, english, spanish, chinese rush an and [inaudible]. >> collection becomes do you have signage in different languages. so for from the slide is

english. >> part of the signage on the side does have multiple languages. i think the primary signage itself is relying on visuals opposed transations. i think the change they encountered the program operators, is having the massive block of text. but we are under the regulations the ability to work with them to perform improve their collection kiosk signage. well is an interest in dog this. i encourage you grit to work with community especially serving seniors. that have language barriers to learn about this program. yes. med project have been good at working with based on the collection location itself. adding additional signage. chinese hospital pharmacy. they provided them additional

signage to serve their customer base. >> yes. any other comments and questions. if in the, thank you. i have one question for the commissioners. present to ask it now. kyle in i mentioned one day collection events looking for organizations to partner with i know all of you are involved with where you are communities. i'm worn figure there are suggestions on organizations we might reach out to. as far as part anywhering on the events? typically had a medicine focus or community focus. might include a senior's event or geared children and families. no need to responded now. but if you have any thoughts share them with kyle to relay to our team that would be appreciated. >> really quick example neighborhood base health fair

those would be good to per in with the community. to do the one big collection events. reach out to me as well. >> great. >> one other idea. wallgreens 24 out of 48 participating is there a chance to get all 48 great to know any you can walk in come legal be i bin there. >> yea. that was our hope and goal. i think one of the limitations we encounter with produce are responsibility is that weed department not rung the program x. they. at heart of the core are compliance driven organizations. in any district they had 5 collection kiosks, it would represent an additional cost to add one to the locations. they honest low speaking can no incentive to add in certain locations they focused on districts where hay were not

needing the 5 and others. we did in the get a universal coverage. >> got it. thank you. >> may be we gallon to public comment at this point. >> are there members of the public present wish to speak on this item? keep will prosecute seed to remote public comment. public comment is closed. thank you gwen for your presentation. [inaudible]. >> great.

>> thank you. the next is 11 director's report. director alexa zero waste coordinator the do you remember for discussion. also includes subitems update on the environmental fiscal 23/24 budget. item 11 b update on environment department office for consolidation and the renews process. >> commissioners it hen awhile since a commission meeting everyone is, wear i want to give you an update on the department's budget. signed and approved. the major's budget released this spring 1. 5 million dollars in on going funding to the department. represents the learningest on going allocation resource ever for the department. this will be included per of the budget going forward and key to

helping retain existing staff and keep it on our path building up to meet claimant action goals it was never guaranteed. there were, let of conversations. in back room conversation with thes budget team, board, mayor's office. but we are grateful for the support of commission and leadingous this charge. many stake holders wing on this. a lot of credit goes to them. i want to recognize individuals key to this budget process. our budget manager joe. charles. cindy and the policy team comprised of deirdre and joseph. that team really that helped spearhead the meetings the mayor and budget office. helped us get over the finish line. so. thank you also to mayor breed. for her leadership i said to

many people you know one of the most difficult thing system to spends money. more difficult things spend it when you den have, let to spend. in a tough and difficult budget year for the city. their allocated resource in her budget. and toward wing with the department. lot of include goes to the mayor. we also on the state budget side did receive not us but allocation of 500 thousand dollars that will support our work for the san francisco bottle inc. pilot project. as we transition that project it a sustainable model. update the commission on in the future. i wanted update on the office floor consolidation we are occupying half of the second floor and the full third floor at lefrn 1155 market.

we are waisting for the pending vote by the board of supervisors tell be report in the september. witness a prufed we will move forward and scouting our consolidation assuming the board approved. and next know update on refuse rate setting press. alexa will handle this one in place of jack on vacation now. alexis? >> hi. every. from environment department. i will make a brief refuse rate update. we have been meeting with the controller's office and ricology. and we are finally coming to a close. the rate board august therein which is thursday, i believe, is voting on their final decision to resolution.

and it is recommending a 1. 3% rate refuse rate increase in 24 and 2.55% rate increase in 25. i will not go over all of it we will come become and give you a presentation. but includes sf environment's total budget, which is our most important thing. we are in the resolution. our treasure processing pilot i'm most excite body the most iny i havive things we are doing in terms of zero waste is it in there. piloting 1200 tons of material pressing treasure. i will work close low on this. contamination enhance am monitor included. this includes looking at testing cameras on board the trucks

ricology trucks. and annual residential out reach. a year multifamily the following single friendship. every year will have hit like half the city. it will not include the zero waste incentive. that is in the completely off the table the rate and board are saying that needs more and considered in the next process. so we are expecting the board to vote in for the resolution on the thereinst. we don't expect any other issues to come up. we, who knows. we will come become in the next meet and report in more detail >> thank you. >> we are looking in the surveillance issue around the camera technology. we had on going conversations with the city attorney's office

and the city's committee on information tech untiling we will have more next month. >> a couple other updates the board of summer recess on september 5. we are going to give a presentation on september 15th lafco we are collecting and tracking data from the e bike delivery drivers or bikeers making deliveries now. and -- last update is around the upcoming asia economic collaborative happening between november 47-16. we are expecting president boydeng here and possible low president from china. there were articles post in the the how [inaudible] the mayor is talking about we have in the had i garthing of this come plexity

and security magnitude since the 1945un charter in san francisco. that's the level of delegation and heads of state here in the city. so there will be parts of the city i encourage you not to go toward. otherwise you will be stuck. but we are enengaged as a department in highlighting our work in the department buzz one of the key things surrounding the department the themes for the collaborative is sustainability and inclusion. and so i'm sending out a letter this week to the climate technology companies when want it show case the work happening here in san francisco. the delegations are here to show the work happening similarly cross our entire city family from mta to small business commission. entertainment commission.

and with that, i'm going to conclude my remarks. thank you. questions? >> director jue i have a question about theent in san francisco. did we know how much tell cost the city of san francisco to help with putting the such an even large event in november? >> i believe funds raising goal is about 25 million dollars than i are wing toward this plan as we speak. >> thank you. and one of the things to note about the conference is all of the logistic and security over time street cleaning all of

those are better than on the host city and so we don't receive federal resources either to help temperature has to be funds raised leading in the conference. with this. men we should take public upon comment? are there member present poke on this item? public comment is closed. next item. >> item 12 review whether or not to approve file 2023-10 manying prosecute visions of the commission on environment

bilaws. the speaker [inaudible] documents the commission on environment by law and file 2023-10. item is for discussion and action. commissioners one moment while i pull up my slide deck. commissioners. as you may recall created a survey to help the department identify steps to take to support commission and work. the mimeet thanksgiving is a period of transification given the departure of 2 commissioner bunkham return to in person meetings for the commission commito. thinking how to ensure that meetings stay efficient. . and action oriented.

when you see is the sum row of the amendments feature in the the resolution buffer the first 4 changes are very much linked together. this changes separate. most commissioners seemed open to the idea of transificationing to month low meetings and transificationing the standing committees policy and tragz it ad hoc status. under the amendments we drafted here the commission continue it mote inlet march, may, july and september as well as early figure february and december. with the changes we would add additional meetings inlet april, june, august and october. and so because there are more boards and commissions then and there prior to the covid 19 pandemic there are comping tigz for meeting rooms there were

none on the fourth tuesday of each month when we want to meet but 408 is available on the fourth monday of each month when we are prosecute posing to shift our meetings from tuesday to monday and shifting the room if 416 to 4 where are 8 and the results equal number identify monday is convenient. we hope that is still the case and to be clear, we would be shifting forward by a day if it was on september 26 we meet on 25th instead the committees transification to ad hoc status mote as needed there would not be a set schedule and parental leave rights to members including the rit to attends meetings remet for on parental leave. we are enshrining that in the by

laws here. >> just for sxrefrns to see everything together. we included comparing the concern schedule for 2024. with the schedule tht commission would be adopting if chose to adopt amendments. meetinglies moved from tuesday to monday and additional scheduled for for you of the sick months of the commission does in the meet. i note this for budget press we would continue it expect the condition venal a prescription's meet nothing early january. given the prescribed nature of the time line and process. additional meetings scheduled as needed basis. so with had i'm help to take questions. questions? discussion?

thank you, yea. with that i believe this is an action item. kyle? >> it is, yes, commissioner. >> may i have a motion. >> move to approve. >> motion and second? second. >> go to public comment. why are there members in the meeting room present when wish to speak? remote public comment. >> member pimenting remote low make a comment should dial star 3 to be added to the speaker queue. public comment is closed. >> roll call. president bermejo. vice president ahn >> commissioner hunter. why aye. commissioner sulveteran.

>> aye. >> great. the motion passes. next item. item 13 new business for discussion. commissioners. the next meeting is tuesday september 26 at 5 p.m. we recommend that for the purpose of this meeting we meet on tuesday begin we have the room books and sfgovtv booked we will hear presentations that we are planning on specific individual chapters of the climate action plan. we expect top hear the water use chapter. we would have puc copresent. we expect to hear integrated pest management on city properties include i review and vet on the reduced risk pesticide list. program updates on energy efficiency and ordinance enforcement.

we may include one on the icc report. and also looking ahead to the next meetings schedule a new meeting based on the amended biluos monday october 30 at 5 p.m. and the original on today september 5 this is 5 p.m. and similar to the september meeting may want to meet for that tuesday for this meeting. and with this i'm happy to take questions. thank you for wing all of this out. no other comments or questions move to public comment. are there members here this wish to comment on this item? we will go to remote public comment. >> members participating remote low wishing it comment dial star 3 to be added to the queue.

public comment is closed. all right. thank you. kyle. next item. why the next is 14 adjournment the meeting is adjourned the time is 6:34 p.m. thank you for joining us. clear clear

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