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september 1st, 2023. the meeting began at 9:32 a.m. secretary fuller, please call the roll. good morning. please respond with hear or present it. lynn newhouse seagull. commissioner newhouse. seagull is absent. lauren post is here. chair post is present. gerald turner. commissioner turner is absent. paul wolford present. commissioner commissioner wolford is present. fatty zabi present vice chair. zabi is present with three members present. we do have quorum for the public works commission for members of the public wishing to make comment on an item from

outside the hearing room, you would. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting id. of (266)!a254-6002 8 pound pound. and then to raise your hand to speak, press star three. unless you are speaking under general public comment, please note that you must limit your comments to the topic of the agenda item being discussed first. if commenters do not stay on topic, the chair may interrupt and ask you to limit your comment to the agenda item at hand. we ask that public comment be made in a civil and respectful manner and that you refrain from the use of profanity. please address your remarks to the commission as a whole, not to individual commissioners or staff. the public is always welcome to submit comments in writing via our email address of public works dot commission at sfpd .org. on behalf of the

commission, we extend our thanks to govtv building management and media services staff for helping make this meeting possible. chair post. thank you. before calling the next item, are there any requests from the commission to amend the order of today's agenda? hearing no requests, we will move on to the next item. announcements by chair. i do have several today since our last meeting there were a couple of news articles regarding illegal dumping in the bayview neighborhood, which of course we've heard about before at the commission. one article was discouraging, one was encouraging. i thought the discouraging piece described the breadth of the dumping breadth of the dumping problem and san francisco public works heroic work to address it. in an effort to give residents and businesses a neighborhood in which they can take pride while there is illegal dumping. in every san francisco neighborhood. the problem is worse by orders of

magnitude in the bayview area. the article referenced the cameras the department will be installing to help identify perpetrators in trim. director short, what is the status of the camera project? when can we expect the cameras to be installed. good morning, chair. post commissioners carla short interim director for the camera project excuse me, has been a little bit challenging. we had a identified vendor who knew we were in the process of entering into a contract with that vendor and then during that period of time they were purchased by another company who then basically, i guess, eliminated that function that they had. and so it took some time for us to find a new vendor. we found a

new vendor that can do the same basic work. and i am looking for my cfo. we have run into a snag with a new vendor as well, so i'm going to ask bruce to describe that because i don't want to get the details wrong. good morning, commissioners. bruce robertson, cfo for public works. the overview from interim director schwartz. absolutely correct. we have run into an issue where with the new vendor that we've identified, they're not currently a city vendor. so we're really just going through that process of making sure that they comply with the various ordinances. um, i don't have a timeline at my fingertips, but we can certainly report back. i do know that this is a priority for our contract administration team. and alex burns, the contract manager, is personally working with the vendor and our partners in oca. the office of contract administration, to make sure we can get this up and running as soon as possible. so let me get the exact date and timeline and then we'll certainly report back. but

that's really the holdup at the moment. it's just making sure that they meet all of the city requirements. thank you very much for that clear explanation. we'll look forward to updates on the program as i mentioned, the second news report was encouraging. it profiled brian johnson on a resourceful bayview resident who was designed and built a drone flight program to identify garbage hotspots in his neighborhood and in the mission. and this more quickly deploy public works department resources to clean the areas up rather than relying on 311 calls. mr. johnson is partnering with public works to run a pilot of his system. interim director short, will you please tell us more about this drone pilot program? all so if the pilot is successful, will our colleague, commissioner turner suggested this might be a very good program for workforce development whereby young people would be taught to fly drones and learn related technology skills. is this something the department will consider. thank

you. chair post carlos short, interim director. the pilot program is basically using this technology. to alert our crews to where we have debris to pick up in the bayview more quickly than relying on neighbors to call 311, although we will still track the work through the 311 system. mr. johnson has actually been doing this independently for some time and has found that his technology can identify the debris and call it in and then we've been responding pretty effectively to that. so he's been we've had a couple of meetings with him to talk about specific areas that we would like to have him fly more frequently rather. so basically , you know, looking at operationalizing this to get the best possible data, which will then also allow us to identify potentially when people are

dumping and we may be able to follow up and try to prevent that dumping from happening. and or catch people in the act. so in terms of workforce development, i think the technology he's developed includes, you know, some built in ways to ensure that we're not identifying people, that this is focused on garbage. so i think we would need to explore the possibility with with the developer about whether there's, you know, it's a fairly lean operation at this point. and the city also has these rules around the use of drones. and we for this project we did present to the city's department that reviews that and explained know they want to ensure how we're protecting public privacy and things like that so that we're not identifying individuals. so i think those would all need to be kind of worked through. but

certainly if the if the if the developer of this would would be interested in teaching folks the technology, then we would that's an interesting idea that we would be very happy to pursue. thank you. i realize it's early days here, but never hurts to start thinking about these things early. good. thank you very much. recently there have been media reports on alleged illegal actions by the director of the city's community challenge grant program and the head of a local nonprofit who was awarded city contracts for public improvement projects. s does it? the public works department have any contracts with rj enterprises or any of its affiliates and how do we work with the city's community challenge grant program? if we do? thank you. chair post carla short, interim director. as this

is an evolving investigation, we are working with other city departments and the city attorney's office to review the complaint that was that was issued against rudolph dwayne jones and lanita enriquez. we will continue to review contracts and grants that may have been implicated by mr. jones and miss enriquez. we did learn through the just released indictment that there are a handful of additional business names that may have been used. so we are going to be reviewing our contracts for those as well . and then we're exploring and pursuing all appropriate remedies and enforcement actions . i think i've been advised to be rather general in comments this morning as the we're still reviewing with the city attorney's office, but but we are looking at all of those grants and contracts that may have involved those individuals

. thank you. i felt that's a very satisfactory answer. could you just explain for a moment, does the department work with the community challenged grant program in the past? we have worked with with the community challenge grant program and that a number that that program serves communities as as the name indicates. but eight city departments would along with public works potentially send funds to the community challenge grant to support those community initiatives, says thank you my final announcement on a cheerier subject is to highlight the august edition of in the works. the department's newsletter. it comes out every month and can be found easily on the department's website. this recent issue highlighted two capital projects that we've had presentations on previously at the commission,

the historic mission library renovation and upgrade, and the castro muni muni metro station, elevator and plaza renovation and upgrade both of these projects show off the talent and skill of the department's architecture and design teams, and we'll be hearing about both of them again when we receive annual updates on significant, significant capital project contracts that the commission approves in the works also highlighted the department's clean corridors program, an initiative that each week provides a deep, clean and sprucing up of a select commercial corridor in the city . the first phase of the better market street improvement program, which is upgrading the streets and sidewalks of the city's signature boulevard and the july love our city neighborhood beautification day, which took place in the sunset district. we do any commissioners have any questions on my announcements? do any commissioners have announcements of their own today? hearing none. secretary fuller, please open this item to public comment

. oh if possible. i have a couple of announcements. i beg your pardon. please continue. oh, so my announcements are very brief. the sanitation and streets commission meet the next sanitation and streets commission meeting will be monday, september 18th and their august meeting was canceled. but the next meeting will include performance measure reports from the bureau of urban forest and street environmental services is on a different note. i'll be surveying commissioners with potential meeting dates and times for the 2024 calendar year. it being september 1st, we're already looking at the new year. so commissioners, please look for a message coming from me in the in the next week or so. and then also to point out on the calendar that we do have a special meeting of this commission that has been scheduled for wednesday, september 13th at 8 a.m. to hear a person matter in closed session. and that meeting will take place in city hall room

400, which is not our normal meeting room. and all of this has been posted to our website and notice has been posted and at the library as well. and that concludes my announcements. thank you. now please open this item to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item one. the announcements by the chair, commissioners and secretary may line up against the wall furthest from the door if you are in the chamber. if you are calling in, please. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access code. of (266)!a254-6002 8 pound pound. and then press star three to raise your hand to be to be recognized and in the chamber we do not have anyone who has approached to speak on this item and govtv is indicating that we

. have one caller in the queue and please go ahead and please go ahead and mute that, unmute that caller and caller. you'll have three minutes to speak and i will provide you with a 32nd notice when your time is about to expire. the great can you hear me now? we can hear you. excellent. david paypal i hope i haven't expired, although my time may at some point so three brief comments on this item as to the drones issue. just wanted to remind the department and perhaps the commission that the city has a surveillance technology policy that requires a technology like drones to be approved by both the committee on information technology, fauci and the board of supervisors. and they're kind of way behind on approving department requests. so i don't recall that dpw has an approved surveillance

technology policy for our drones. and if that's the case, then they would have to write one up and get it approved prior to the city's use of drones for these purposes. anyway, i will let other folks figure more of that out. i did note in the public materials that the advanced calendar is missing. i always look forward to the advanced calendar and hope in the future that it will be included with all regular commission meeting packets. and finally there was a hiring memo that said that it was off calendar but was included publicly. actually, maybe that's under the director's report. anyway, i found the hiring memo to be very encouraging and wanted to appreciate hr director hill and the work that she's doing and throughout the department on hiring two key vacancies. those are my thoughts

on item one. thanks for listening. thank you. caller. and that is our only caller looking to speak on item one. so that concludes public comment. thank you. if there's no further discussion on this item, secretary fuller, please call the next item. item two is the director's report and communications interim director carla short is here to present this report. and this is an informational item. good morning again, commissioners. carla short, interim director. i just i have a few brief updates today. not too extensive. i wanted to start with the hiring update, so we provided the off calendar memo, but a quick summary, as you probably recall, we set a very aggressive hiring target of 250 hires by the end of fiscal year 2023. we were able to meet that hire by having 200 sorry, meet that goal by

having 265 hires complete within the timeline. overall, the hiring has continued with a total of 297 hires, and public works is processing 85 additional new hires. these important employees have already made a significant improvement in our ability to develop, deliver the critical services that we provide of the new hires. there's a combination of positions to the department and internal new positions to the department and internal promotions. i wanted to just highlight a couple of the key areas where we've made progress by our human resources bureau. so bureau of street environmental services, one of our most public facing bureaus. it's the bureau responsible for our street cleaning staff, our functional vacancy rate is 13.9% as of august 2023. however because we're in the process of onboarding an additional 41 staff, once they are hired, our

functional vacancy rate will be down to 5.3. i think that's the lowest that we've had in many years. so that's a huge achievement that we wanted to highlight. another critical position that you've heard a bit about in our meetings is our 9916 public service aid, and these are our block cleaners. so they're the folks you see out in the orange vests with their brooms and their rolling garbage cans, and they are out on the streets cleaning, assigned blocks all day, every day. that's been a really, really important program for us. and they are part of our workforce development program as they feed into our apprenticeship programs. in an ideal world. so we've hired an additional 45 staff in this classification. we have another 18 hires all additional staff to the department in the hiring process. so 18 new folks coming in. i also wanted to note our

6230 street inspectors. we've approached full staffing for this classification when we have a just a handful of vacancies remaining, we have 11 additional hires in this program. so i think we are seeing the results of that improvement. they are responsible for not just looking at street cleaning, sorry, sidewalk conditions and street conditions around the city, but also implementing the illegal vending program which has been, as you know, a challenging program. but having the staff available to be able to rotate through the assignments has really, really helped with that program. so the focus there, as you know, is the mission in particularly un plaza, chinatown , some areas working with partners along the port and then we also have a few of the street inspectors who help with our

graffiti program. so notifying property owners of their responsibilities to clean up graffiti and also assisting property owners to opt in to our proactive graffiti abatement program for commercial corridors . so another really critical all our positions are critical, but wanted to highlight some of the essential positions that we filled. other essential positions include our human resources staff, so our newly created public works human resources program is fully staffed with 47 positions filled and a functional vacancy rate of zero. so that you've got to hire the people who can hire the people. so we're really proud to have that completed. and we also have filled several key leadership positions, such as our finance manager, our new housing delivery coordinator, and our performance program manager, and then one last kind of category of positions i wanted to highlight are our analyst positions in march of

2023, the citywide vacancy rate for the administrative analyst series was 32.3% and for senior administrative analysts, the vacancy rate was 16.5% and we had similar vacancy rates within public works for these series. since january 1st, we've hired 14 new staff into these two critical classifications and there are another seven positions in the hiring process . and as you know, we'll be providing a more detailed overview at an upcoming commission hearing. but i did want to highlight those great achievements by our hr team. um i also wanted to let you know that starting next week actually we and continuing through, through the week through september 8th, public works will be undergoing the final step of re-accreditation by the american public works association. apwa is an independent. national organization of professionals with a mission to support those

who operate, improve and maintain public works and infrastructure for through advocacy, education and member engagement. a accreditation provides public works, formal recognition that the department complies with the current recommended national practices that are established by the epa for the re accreditation process helps our department make continuous improvements to better support our mission of providing the best possible service to san francisco, its residents and visitors. public works was first accredited in 2010 and accredited in 2014 and 2018. the 2022 assessment was postponed due to the pandemic and uncertainty over proposals to split the department to prepare for the current re accreditation. more than 100 people in every division and bureau of the department spent more than a year conducting a complete review of our procedure manuals to ensure that our practices are updated to current standards and for the past two months, we've created document station to submit to apwa,

showing how the department follows more than 280 individual apw practices. next week. the apwa evaluators will conduct virtual visits with the department leadership to examine our processes and audit our procedures to ensure that we meet the highest standards of performance. re accreditation is expected to be achieved by the end of september. and i should note that while we spent more than a year, that was clearly not full time, these procedures are really a good way for us to validate our workflows and make sure that they're up to date and that we're taking into consideration new technologies and so it's a good exercise for us as a department chair. post. as you noted, we celebrated the groundbreaking for the major renovation of the historic mission branch library, the library at the corner of 24th and bartlett streets is one of the city's seven carnegie libraries and steeped in history in san francisco lore. built in

1915 and designed by and funded by the philanthropist and industrial at carnegie, the public works team has been working with the san francisco public library and community groups to redesign this beauty of a building. it received landmark city landmark status in the early 2000, even though the building was renovated in 1997 to make seismic improvement and accessibility upgrades. the makeover led to the loss of some of the library's most recognizable features, including its historic entrance and monumental stairway. now, more than two decades later, public works architects, landscape architects construct managers, project managers and engineers are looking to restore the showpiece reading room and the rest of the historic building to some of its original glory. while adding much needed upgrades to transform the facility into a less cramped, more accommodating and more climate resilient space for staff and patrons. public works also handled regular affairs, site assessment and remediation between providing a 100 person

community room, constructing a dedicated teen room, restoring the main entry to its original location, and replacing the lost historic main staircase. building additional restrooms and adding a fenced courtyard and sustainability features such as rooftop solar panels and air conditioning. the project packs a punch, an array of robust improvements that have fit together like a jigsaw puzzle for construction, which just started in august, will cost 23 million and is expected to wrap up by fall 2025. until then, a temporary branch for the mission community will continue to be housed nearby at 1234 valencia and the renovation is being executed by sj amoroso construction company, a san francisco based company. the construction project generated roughly 2% for art enrichment funds, which helped the san francisco arts commission hire. celebrated bay area artist juana alicia araiza to create a new public artwork in the form of a large fuzed glass window for the main reading room. the design

called nopal de la mision, features a monumental prickly pear cactus nopal with flowers and fruit that symbolize resistance, sustenance and regeneration. when we actually got to see one panel of this at the groundbreaking and it is just stunning, it's going to be an incredible feature. public works and the san francisco public library have been long time collaborators on capital projects to upgrade the city's network of 27 neighborhood branches and work on the mission library, supported by the library preservation fund, which was overwhelmingly passed by voters last november, as well as a $5.3 million grant from california state library building forward initiative. we are designing this renovation to be leed gold certified to align with our climate action plan goals to achieve net zero greenhouse gases gas emissions by 2040. it is going to be a stunning project. i'm very excited about it. as you can see by my lengthy report out. lastly

the sunset district, as you noted, chair post, we had our love our city neighborhood beautification day on a foggy, chilly morning in the sunset district, but we had quite a great turnout. about 100 volunteers joined us. we worked on on sunset boulevard. we did medians, planted trees, us spread mulch. we also worked on sloat planting new cypress trees and the youngest amongst us were able to dig and prep soil for new plants. so we do want to thank sunset elementary school for hosting our kickoff and providing some of our enthusiast volunteers. the mighty team of neighborhood stewards wrapped up the saturday event. seeing and feeling that they had made the sunset more beautiful while strengthening our community ties . and next month, our love, our city neighborhood beautification day will be in north beach, chinatown, russian hill and other district three

neighborhood boards and that will be on september 16th. we hope to see some of you there. that wraps up my report. thank you very much. thank you. interim director short. we congratulate miss hill and the department for these great hiring news. we look forward to the more detailed presentation when we see her for her regular presentation. this fall. i'm sure your report was music to commissioner zombie's ears. also we wish you the best of luck on the apwa audit next week for the reaccreditation. it does sound like it was probably a useful exercise and that the department is well prepared to pass that. so let us know what happens. we will. we will update you. thank you. thank you. are there any questions for interim director short? it's not really a question, but a comment. so i had the privilege of serving on the arts commission civic design review committee when the mission library was under design . and i did want to share with everyone in the community that it's going to be a beautiful

addition. rio addition, if you will, to our community. other cities might have taken that beautiful edifice and sold it and turned it into private housing, which would have been an easy reach. but san francisco kept one of the most beautiful buildings in the mission neighborhood is renovating it, bringing it up to current standards and current needs for the community. it's going to be an incredible re-edition back into san francisco, cityscape and intellectual scape. so i just wanted to highlight the wonderful things that san francisco does for our our community. and just a remark on that. and i hadn't seen the final art because they were still looking at artists when i termed off the arts commission. so that's exciting news here. here commissioner zarb. i want to start by wishing everyone a happy labor day and thank you for the report today. coming giving us let us know that because to me, i really felt it's a huge priority to get all

the vacancies filled out. so thank you. and good luck with the reaccreditation. thank you. please open this item to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item to the director's report may line up against the wall furthest from the door. if in the chamber. if you're calling in. dial (415)!a655-0001 where you use te meeting number access code. of 26622546002 8 pound pound. and then press star three to raise your hand to be recognized. we do not have any in-person commenters at this time and sfcv is also indicating we do not have any callers interested in

speaking on this item. so that concludes public comment. thank you, secretary fuller. please call the next item on the agenda for item three is general public comment, which is for the public to comment on topics under the commission's mandate but not related to a specific item on today's agenda, members of the public who wish to make three minutes of general public comment may line up against the wall furthest from the door here in the chamber here, or if you're calling in dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access. code (266)!a254-6002 8 pound pound. and then press star three to be recognized. and we do not have any members in person who have approached to speak on this item. but as govtv is indicating, we have one caller. please go ahead and unmute that.

caller and caller. you'll have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 32nd notice when your time is about to expire. great. david pilpel, you can hear me again. we can. excellent. so i mentioned at the last meeting a brief comment on the refuse rates impact on dpwh's budget and i believe the board, the refuse rate board acted yesterday to adopt the new rates. little ambiguity on some things there. but assuming that it settles either yesterday or soon, i believe that will have some impact on the dpw budget. moving a few things around. so i once again suggest a memo or update to this commission in the future that might actually require an amendment for all i know. so i assume that deputy

director robertson is all over it and getting it right. so anyway, just wanted to be sure that that gets caught at some point. that's all for general public comment. thanks for listening. thank you. caller and that is our last caller under general public comment. thank you. please call the next item. item four is the consent calendar of routine matters. includes the minutes from the august 18th, 2023 meeting of this commission and two contract awards. both contract awards are eligible for the consent calendar in accordance with the contract delegation policy adopted by this commission. please note that corrections for clarity have been made to the draft minutes to items. 154j6s, 7n8 and nine, and all consent calendar items can be heard individually upon request by a

commissioner, staff or the public. an adoption of the consent calendar and all resolutions contained in it is an action item, and i wanted to inform the commission that department staff has requested a postponement of item four c to a later date and so suggest a motion for that separately from the adoption of the consent calendar. thank you very much. i will move to postpone item four c to a later date. second secretary fuller, please open public comment on the motion. on the motion to postpone item four c members of the public who wish to make comment on that motion. if you're in the chamber, you may line up against the wall for this from the door. if you are calling in, please. dial

(415)!a655-0001 and use that sae meeting. access code. of 26625460028. and then pound, pound and star three. and we do not have any callers or we do not have any members of the public in person wishing to speak on this. and an sf govtv is also indicating we do not have any callers on this motion either. thank you. please call the roll on the motion on the on the motion to postpone. item four c please respond with i or nay. paul wolford. i fatties rb all right, warren post i we have

three votes in favor of the motion to postpone item four c so the motion. the motion passes. thank you. before entertaining a motion on adopting the consent calendar, i did have a question on item four b interim director short. i don't know if you could answer it. there may have been a typo in the staff memo. is this project expected to be completed by summer of 2024? do you know? or if anyone in the audience knows us, i think it is us, but in the cover memo that i saw, it didn't say completion. i'm sorry. i don't know that off the top of my head, but we can certainly double check and let you know. thanks to clarify, i actually did pose that question to the project manager and they did clarify that the construction completion would be

summer of 2024. yes that's what i expected. thank you. that was updated on on the document posted to the website. so perfect. thank you. are there any questions on the consent calendar from the commission? if not, is there a motion to adopt the consent calendar? so moved wolford i'll second, please open this item to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item for the adoption of the consent calendar and all resolution is contained within it. aside from item four c may line up against the wall for this from the door. if here in the chamber, if you're calling in. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access code. of (266)!a254-6002 8 pound poun. and then press star three to

raise your hand to speak and we do not have any members of the public who have approached to speak about this item in person. sfcv tv is indicating we do have one caller wishing to make public comment on the consent calendar for please unmute that caller and caller. you'll have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 32nd notice. great thank you. david pilpel. so yes, on item four, b on page three of the public document that i downloaded this morning, it does have construction completion of in summer of 2024, near the top on item four, a the minutes i have a number of non-substantive edits. i'll run through them quickly and i can review them with secretary fuller after the meeting on the top of each page it indicates a recording of this meeting is available at a website address. i would only include that once,

either at the beginning or the end of the minutes. i don't think it needs to be on each page on page one, the chair's report, the sixth bullet says chair asked interim director short i would insert post so it reads chair post asked. interim director short on starting on page three, i gather that there were a few divided votes, but the way the votes read is a little confusing. so i think i would reword that somehow. so it indicates that there was a motion and a second and then the votes in favor and against. i'm not sure that it needs three lines for that one for each. commissioner, i think you can just say, you know, the ayes and the noes and whether the motion passed or failed, there was something else related to voting . no on page five, item seven,

deputy director of finance, financial management. i think it should be financial management and administration. bruce robertson so substitute and for the comma after management and i can't remember if there was something else. but anyway, if i see anything further in the non-substantive department, i'm happy to communicate that to secretary fuller. but i think clarifying the minutes, particularly as relates to the votes, is important for the record that is all i have on the consent calendar. thanks for listening. thank you. caller and that that is the last public commenter on the consent calendar. thank you. if there's no further discussion from the commission all in favor of adopting the consent calendar, please say aye or yes. aye aye. the consent calendar is passed

unanimous. secretary fuller will post the corrected minutes and the pertinent resolution to the commission's website. but mr. fuller, please call the next item. item five is the award of the pit stop workforce development agreement with mission hiring hall. warren hill, assistant manager of central operations, is here to present the grant agreement. and this is an action item. thank you, mr. hill. before you come to the podium, i have a few comments since the motion to approve this item and the other grant award on the agenda today did not pass at our last commission meeting. these items were continued to prepare for the reconsideration on the commission asked public works staff to provide answers to a number of questions. commissioner turner raised regarding department grant rfp and awards. i'd like to thank the department staff for answering commissioner turner's question and providing the additional information he requested. those answers and

information will be posted to the public works commission's correspondence log. also, between our last meeting and today, commissioner turner and i had a lengthy discussion with public works manager of contract administration alex burns and deputy city attorney yadira taylor to discuss public works contracting and competitive selection period policies in general. commissioner turner and i found this session very helpful and even more of our questions were answered in the weeks ahead. all of us on the public works commission look forward to a deeper dive into the department's grant making function and the workforce development program that is being scheduled for a regular commission meeting later this fall. regarding today's agenda, since we heard presentations on these two grants two weeks ago and the presentation options have not materially changed since then, i would like to suggest to my colleagues that we forego the same formal presentations today. the presentation materials are

posted on the commission's website and we have all reviewed them. that said, commissioners or commissioner wolford, do you have any questions on this item? the pit stop workforce development grant award before we entertain a motion on it? no . i also have no questions. i will move that we approve the pit stop workforce development grant award. is there a second? i'll second it. thank you. secretary fuller, please open the motion for public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item five, the pit stop workforce development grant agreement may line up against the wall for this from the door. if here in the chamber. if you are calling in, please. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting access code.

(266)!a254-6002 8 pound pound. and then press star three to raise your hand to speak. no members of the public have approached to speak on this item in person. sfcv is indicating that we do have one caller who would like to speak on this item as if govtv. please go ahead and unmute that caller and caller. you will have three minutes to speak and i'll provide you with a 32nd notice. uh, great. david pilpel again, so i'm not particularly concerned about this or the next item, but nor did i listen to it at length at the last meeting. but i did note in the page one of the item five memo, it says, since the august 18th meeting, in response to questions raised about this grant recommendation, staff have provided supplemental information. and i think i just heard from chair post that that

supplemental information will be posted to the website with with the commission correspondence for the next meeting. the problem is the public has not seen that supplemental information and that might be material to approve all of the this item and the other item today plus commissioner turner is not present and i for one, would be interested in commissioner turner's views publicly on whether the on the supplemental information and how it responds to his concerns that led to his vote against so i think i would respectfully request that these items be continued again to the next meeting when commissioner turner is present and that supplemental information is available to the public. i think it does a bit of a disservice to only share that information with the commission and not have it publicly be available in connection with

consideration of the items, however important these workforce development grants are . those are my thoughts and that applies to the other item as well. thanks for listening. thank you. caller and that is our last public commenter on this item. thank you. as i normally don't respond to public comment, but i will hear i do appreciate the callers concerns and apologize that the information was not posted prior to the meeting. i would like, though, to be very clear that i was very conscious about not having an end run around our colleague, commissioner turner. he and i have discussed at length this vote and i feel confident that i don't know how my colleagues will be voting, but i feel confident that my vote will not betray commissioner turner's views on the matter. all right. there's

no other discussion. i know there are people here who have taken the time and trouble to attend the meeting. mr. hill, or if anyone else in the audience wants to comment on this motion , please feel free to come up. otherwise, we'll get to the vote . all right. secretary fowler, please call the roll on the motion on the on the motion to approve the. pardon me? on the motion to approve the pit stop workforce development grant agreement. please respond with yes or no, paul wolford. yes commissioner wolford votes yes. fatty zabi yes. vice chair zogby votes yes. warren post yes. chair post votes yes. with the with three votes in favor of the

motion pass. thank you. the resolution awarding the pit stop workforce development grant award to and hiring hall will be posted to the commission's website. secretary fuller, please call the next item. item six is the tree watering workforce development grant award with the san francisco conservation corps. acting superintendent nicholas crawford is present to present this item and answer any questions. and this is an action item. thank you. i have no questions. are there any questions from the commission on this item before we open or before we take a motion on it? um, no questions for me. i actually have just a comment. we did go through, um, i had a meeting also with, um, a director, carla short, and we discussed, we talked at that, that this is a marathon. it's not a sprint. and i would like

to, you know, i requested that, not requested. i thought it was a good idea just to have more conversation, more with the commission about the process itself, because i felt that the process is the one that caused the confusion in the. but other than that, i don't have any more questions about about this item. thank you. i will move that we approve the tree watering workforce development grant award to the san francisco conservation corps is there a second? second wolford thank you. secretary fuller, please open the motion to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item six, the tree watering workforce development grant award may line up against the wall for this from the door. if here in the chamber, if you are calling in, please dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access code. of

26625460028. and then press star three to raise your hand to speak. and we do not have any members of the public who have approached in person to speak on this item. sfcv is indicating let me just check that. oh, sfcv is indicating that we do not have any callers on this item either. so that concludes public comment. thank you. before voting on this motion, is there anyone in the audience that wishes to address the commission or speak on the on the item? all right. i don't see anybody. secretary fuller, please call the roll on the motion on the on the motion to approve item item six, please respond with yes or no. paul wolford. yes

commissioner wolford votes yes. fatty zogby. yes vice chair zogby votes yes. lauren post. yes chair post votes. yes. with three votes in favor. the item passes. thank you. and secretary fuller will post the resolution regarding the workforce development grant. san francisco conservation corps to the commission's website. secretary fuller, please call the next item on the agenda, item seven seven. is new business initiated by commissioners. and this is an opportunity for commissioners to suggest business for a future vendor for a future agenda. this is an informational item. thank you. do any commissioners have new business to initiate? commissioner zarb i um. thank you. chair post. um everyone. i mean, whoever knows me and knows my background as a lot of it is being involved with the business community of san francisco,

especially the very small business community like moms and pops, i serve on the board, served on the board for a long time on north beach business association, which automatically got me, you know, made me a member of the council of merchants, been working, worked with the chamber of commerce of san francisco. and i just wanted to remind everyone of the sacrifice that small businesses did during our recent pandemic back in 2020 when they had to shut down and, you know, the source of income took a took a long break. we've had businesses that never closed in the past 50 years that first time ever they had to close for the sake of the community and to be part of the whole pandemic emergency rules. and if everyone remembers when we when the city reopened at 25% capacity for businesses and

businesses started and a whole process of outdoor seatings where they they were they put tables and chairs in the parking spaces in front of their storefronts and they had to also, you know, get it to a point where it's comfortable for their clients. they built those structures and now we're going through a process of permitting , permitting some businesses they decided to keep to either keep or rebuild, remodel and get a permit and do everything legally, which was which was great from the city of san francisco to allow those small businesses to keep that at shared spaces or or we call it parklets. but in the past couple of in the past meetings, we've been we've been approving projects in in the consent

calendar to repave certain streets. and i wanted to see what is what is the department doing in coordination with the permit process and the repaving thing from, from talking to a lot of business owners, small business owners tell them we ask them, what do you think about that, you know, shared space outside? are you going to keep it or are you not? they're all thinking they're all scared about getting the permits built wing it, which is right now after the pandemic is costing over close to $100,000. and then . and then, you know, public works will come and say, we need to pave that street. now i will. i wanted to just bring it to the table here to at least have a conversation, have a discussion on about what is the department doing to coordinate these and, you know, prevent businesses

from getting permits, spending the money and then having to do at their own expense, having to remove it for the street to be paved. um that's a very interesting question. do you want to respond to today interim director short or do you want to look into it with deputy director coe and get back to us maybe at the next meeting, the september 15th meeting on it sounds very worthwhile that that we're repaving, but then i guess business owners are going to have to pull these permits pretty soon and don't want to, of course, do it if they're going to be repaved maybe next year or something. so it's an interesting question i'd like to hear the answer to. sure okay. carla shaud, interim director, i can make just brief comments now and then we can get you more information at the next meeting. so we do do our best to work with businesses when the paving projects are upcoming, we notify the businesses that have shared

spaces and i'll use one example from your neighborhood where we adjusted the paving schedule to accommodate the use of the shared spaces during their highest time of year around the holidays. and then the businesses indicated that they it would be more convenient for them to remove the parklets during their slower period, which is just after the holidays. so the original plan was to basically pave november, december, we postponed that to try to accommodate the best time for those businesses. many of the parks hits are not entire rebuilds. they're modifications ones to the existing structures . so i think there there is not a like they're down to zero and then they build a new thing and we come through and pave right after that. having said that, i think our goal is always to provide sufficient notice. that's why we have a five year

plan. we while things change, you know, we want to make sure that we give people notice of our intent so they can plan around it. the permit applications were actually already due and, you know, they're actually supposed to be completed by september 27th. we have received quite a few permit applications. we're in the review process. some of them still need modifications. so they're not 100% necessarily code compliant yet. but we're working with them on that. so those are my general comments. but we can certainly look at if there are ways to improve our our notifications or coordinations. i think certainly anyone who has paving coming up should have already gotten notices about that because of our our efforts. to let people know the notices of intent of intent that go out fairly early in the process. yes. so i don't know how easy it will be to overlay, but it seems like

that's something we can do. we have a map of where these applicable zones are. we know where we're going to be paving. so we could try to do a little bit of extra outreach in those areas. thank you. um, i would, i would. you said that there was incidents where you had to postpone. were there will there be any consideration to expedite a street that has permits that are ready to go just to get it out of the way? i mean, we would happily look at that. i think the challenge is, you know, if it's an as needed contract, that might be possible. part of the challenge is that we have of course, are getting our contracts approved, getting things done. you know, through through the commission process. so it all depends on where we are with the contracting capacity and then mobilizing for the contractor. obviously, there can be additional costs if we're pulling them from one side of

the city to another. but we absolutely want to work with our small businesses so we can certainly look at that. if there's a case like that and if it's possible to expedite, we certainly would do that. you know, i would like to follow up on that and just say if it's a permitted parklet, you're not parking there anyway. so it does call into question the reason for paving underneath it and destroying the parklet. so perhaps there could be just one more layer of scrutiny and investigation into that, because if it's a permitted parklet, no one's going to park in the space. it might it could be a green space for all that matters, you know? so it would be really important because those businesses that are doing that are hanging on, as we all know. so the last thing we want to do is, is kill another local business because of well-intended policy. certainly i think we can and do look at that option as well. there are there are a lot of complications, as i'm sure you know, with your experience in terms of, you know, being able

to have the pavement hold you know, drainage issues there are a lot of complicating factors. but i know that there have been examples where we've looked at just basically trying to pave around the existing structure. um, how much time i mean, i know it's going to, you know what, september 27th is the, the, the cut off for, for approving all permits. do you think we can get back to us with a presentation beforehand or after or how, how much time would we need. um in terms of approving all permits. i think the city is working through it's an iterative process and so there's a lot of back and forth with applicants. so i think there it's likely that all those permits will not be 100% finalized by the

deadline. um, we're working as quickly as we can with the applicants, but a lot of times we need we need more information or things are correct on paper. and then when we go out and inspect, they're not actually built to the exact same specification. so it's, it's ongoing in terms of when we can come back to this commission on, um, i, i am looking at our deputy director. you think two weeks is sufficient. he seems to think we can come back for the next commission meeting with a brief presentation on on what our findings are. thank you. that would be great. thank you. all right. if there's no other new business, please open this item to public comment. members of the public who wish to make three minutes of comment on item seven new business initiated by

commissioners may line up against the wall for this from the door if present in the chamber. if you're calling in. dial (415)!a655-0001 and use the meeting number access. code (266)!a254-6002 8 pound pound. and then press star three to be recognized. and there are not members of the public in the chamber who have approached to speak on this item and govtv has also indicated we do not have any callers on this item. so that concludes public comment on item seven. thank you. and we can forego item eight, isn't that correct? that is correct. we did not exceed the 15 minutes of general public comment. and item three. thank you very much. our next regular meeting will be on friday, september 15th at 930

am. five minutes over where i promised we'd be out. it is 1035, but we are looking forward to giving everyone an early start on the labor day holiday weekend and wish you all a very nice one. as commissioner zogby expressed earlier, we are adjourned and. okay.

seeing no hands raised. i will recess this meeting at 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

>> the stewardship program is a (indiscernible) based program. we work with student kind r garten through 12 grade and work with scrks fusd and (indiscernible) focus on 5 themes. sense of place, plant adapation and animal adaptation, water soil or (indiscernible) depending on the grade level and accommodations the class may need the educators work to adapt the programming to be whatever works best for the class, so they can gain activities (indiscernible) some don't, we try to meet students where they are at and get comfortable connecting in the space and feeling a sense of ownership and safety within

their (indiscernible) >> the first component of a youth stewardship program trip will be a in clasds visit where we go to the school, we give a presentation on the natural history of san francisco, we talk about the concept of a habitat, so what does a habitat contain, understood, water, shelter, space. >> children at this age, they learn best through using their senses, having the real life experience and (indiscernible) students also learn about responsibility and it is a great message for student to learn, if you take care of environment, the environment will take care of you. >> so, when we finally get the kids outside, we have

two main components to the field trips. one is going to be the restoration component where we are working on the habitat and parks by pulling out (indiscernible) or maybe watering, and then the other side of our trip is going to be the educational component, which can range from a nature walk with a sensory theme where we are talking about what we smell and hear, to a focus on plant adaptation and animal adaptations. >> (indiscernible) >> just a great opportunity for students to learn more, connect with nature, and hopefully what they learn from the youth stewardship program they can take with them for the rest of their lives, and they will appreciate their environment more. hopefully, when they appreciate it, they take care of it more every day. >>

(indiscernible) >> so every year we open the application up in the fall. interested teachers can apply for a classroom visit and up to two field trips to the city park of their choice. field trips are 2 and a half hours long and like i said, they can happen in any city park (indiscernible) the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was

launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investments in the neighborhood. as city and community-based partners, we work daily to make these changes a reality. we invite you to the tenderloin history, inclusivity make this neighborhood special. >> we're all citizens of san francisco and we deserve food, water, shelter, all of those things that any system would. >> what i find the most fulfilling about being in the tenderloin is that it's really basically a big family here and i love working and living here. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> my hopes and dreams for the tenderloin are what any other community organizer would want for their community, safe, clean streets for everyone and good operating conditions for small businesses. >> everything in the tenderloin is very good. the food is very good. if you go to any restaurant in san francisco, you will feel like oh, wow, the food is great. the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there.

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