i'm calling in remotely because i don't feel like showing up in person. first off-algebra ballot measure. it is stupid idea to put on the ballot. it is talking the political football for something sfu [indiscernible] for those who use drugs. i'm a cocaine user myself, but never bought it myself. my bff gets me cocaine. [audio cutting in and out] [indiscernible] but she wants to crack on poor working class people who do drugs. this is 2023 san francisco. not [indiscernible] i

yield my time. --you. >> let's hear from the next caller, please. hello caller, are you with us? >> ladies and gentlemen of the board, good evening. i stand before you today to discuss a issue that effects each and every resident of our community. the state of our public transit system. as our cities grow, so does the need for reliable efficient and sustainable transit network. let's talk about accessible. currently many areas are under served by public transit forcing to rely on personal vehicles. this not exacerbates transferic but also limits opportunity for those who cannot afford a car. we must expand our bus and train routes to reach these areas and offer more frequent service, especially during peak hours. secondly, affordability is a concern. high fares discourage

from using public transit. i propose we explore options for subsidized fares for low income families, student, senior and most importantly immigrants. we need to purchase as many cattle cars a we can and--back to home land to run-- >> can we cut that caller off, please? can we hear from our next caller, please? caller, are you with us? welcome, caller. perhaps that is unattended line. next call. welcome caller. are you with us? >> good afternoon. hello, can you hear me? >> yes, we can.

welcome. >> how much time do we get? >> setting the timer for two minutes. >> okay. thank you. good afternoon board of supervisors. gilbert, district 8. i want to show my support for supervisor dean preston and his legislation to have no turn on left and hopefully no turn on right neither. he is a transit first supervisor that supports transit riders and transit in the city and we need his support for this legislation. i hope other supervisors will follow along so that [indiscernible] safe in the city. muni only cares about fare hikes and service cuts. we need a transit system that works and not a dysfunction at

muni. also, disappointed that billion airs like elon musk are putting bounties on supervisor heads and [indiscernible] interfere with our elections. this is what happens when billion airs and million airs run rampant in the city and have control over code and now corporations are writing their own traffic codes in the city. we need a city that works for transit for everybody. not the super rich. thank you. >> thank you gilbert for your comments. let's hear from our next caller, please. welcome. >> supervisors, >> yes, hello, mr. decosta, please continue. >> it is a little

confusing today. okay. you have heard that the mothers ask you all for help because their children have been killed. you have heard the taxi drivers plead their case. what i see more and more when i listen to you all is that you have no empathy. have some empathy on those who are suffering. that's all i got to tell you all in the two minutes you have given me. this city has lost its

conscious. have empathy on those who ask for help. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. decosta for your comments. alright. let's go to our next caller, please. >> yeah, hello. hope i'm coming through. how long do i have? >> two minutes. >> okay. good. general comment. i can talk about whatever? >> generally, yes. i'll start your timer now. >> good. this is within the purview of your group because i will talk about the double standard and discrimination used against white people. also talking about your algebra on discussion. i think it is important we teach math early because these kids are learning math way too slow to be competitive. it is bad enough that they are livering in that city filled with these type of influences like the people who have been calling. i guess you can say words like--but you

can't say the yiddish word for circle which is [indiscernible] and somebody said that and you cut them off. this is the reason why the jews were called that is because when they came into ellis island they put a x on their hand. hold an second, please. what i talk about is discrimination against white people-- >> we'll go to the next caller. welcome. >> hello, my name is bandy, a public school parent and sorry is the comments people have had to hear but it doesn't surprise me this is coming from our proponents as 8 grade algebra. our kids-i am a parent of a middle school child and i see the curriculum. sfusd revamped the courses so kids are learning algebra in kindergarten and i

wish that you supervisors would talk to supervisor walton who had experience working in our public schools and also 8 years as a board of education and as the president. this has been a very successful curriculum for our students, a lot of schools around the united states want to copy it, and we don't need to take the district back. this is essentially a segregationest policy which seg greats many of our children with learning disabilities into different classes instead of learning side by side with their peers. this has again-i really appreciate all the work from our teachers and think this is disrespectful of math teachers, many have seen the benefits. i don't see any teachers here and think this is so disrespectful to create the legislation without our math department involved. this is just a many examples we have seen

of teachers disrespected in the united states. we saw this with the recall and if you care about numbers we had teachers who because of the superintendent chosen by our pro-recall school board, we have teachers who have not even gotten paid because we have unfortunately an administration that not for the last year and a half been able to figure out their pay roll. i dont really think that our pro-recall folks are the people to look to when it comes to matters of education. >> thank you for your comments. let's go to our next caller, please. >> hey community. san francisco. let's run through the numbers here. last month there were 84 fentanyl overdoses. approximately 3500 plus deaths since 2017. more then 911.

more then the 06 earthquake and more then u.s. military loss in afghanistan. 2023, there has been 40 homicide, 165 rapes, over 2,000 robberies, over 1700 assaults and 5,000 over 5,000 motor vehicle threfts so this is a concerning issue. [indiscernible] scared to confront these matters. the supreme court ruled about [indiscernible] through the second amendment so the state of california due for many lawsuits with the recent legislation and people should not be grand standing on the [indiscernible] ronan is always grandstanding, saying these 4 people. it has been going on 6, 7 years now so nobody did anything about it and nobody was bouncing off the walls back then. you can't [indiscernible] fix it

now. just give your keys. with regards to algebra, anything and everything could be learned online. kids can go to little einstein. in the 5 grade they can learn algebra online. internet offers a wealth of learning for languages, spanish, and any language you wish to learn. finally, with regards to the upcoming election, no should be grand standing again on all their issues that they have outstanding. we hear so much grand standing and quite frankly dan [indiscernible] should be mayor tomorrow. [indiscernible] she wants welfare recipients to have drug testing. that should begin with her and the whole board. all is a lot of really really-- >> let's hear from our next caller, please. >> hello. good afternoon.

this is barry toronto, calling because i had a experience the other night that raised issues that ought to be addressed sooner then later. i picked up a couple in a taxi from the opera house and took market street down and as we were passing 7 and market, they asked me were appalled what they say there at 7 and market. the outdoor fencing operation going on and hundreds of people gathered for whatever reason. it is not a good image for san francisco. and then, we see stories about people who'siteps are stolen and brought to san francisco for selling other people who would sell to other people. there is a law that says possession of stolen items is against the law, but the problem is why isn't it being enforced? the camera equipment

was told there was a--that the 300 blog of leavenworth is a major fencing operation but why don't do they anything about it and let it stand? yes, there are tents and some of the people [indiscernible] but there is also criminal activity going on under those tents. why it is not important issue and why is that allowed to become the image of san francisco? tourism is down. businesses that rely on tourism are having to go out of business or take less money or become impover rshed including the taxi industry which relies on the tourism industry, especially the people working the airport. there isn't as much business at the airport. i beg of you to work with the police or urge the police to do something about these criminal activities going on in the streets and still have compassion for the homeless. some may be criminals. thank you very much for your time and i appreciate you taking

this one seriously, otherwise san francisco will continue to be in decline, especially as a tourist-- >> thank you for your comments. we have 5 callers who are line up, but if you want to speak you should press star 3. there are two callers in the queue and will take the last group to the end. let's hear from our next caller. welcome caller. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> my name is [indiscernible] and just wanted to touch on the topic of reparations since i heard a few people bring that up earlier. i just don't feel like right [indiscernible] should have to pay reparations when [indiscernible] >> next caller, please. >> hello, can you hear me? >> yes, we can.

>> okay. i just wanted to address that as well. the environment--let's be clear, i fought to have unlimited remote public comment. i will be introducing a change to the board rules. it is-this will be done. ain't going to happen in this chambers in this city, it is over. next speaker, you are going to be one of the last remote public speakers we will have. go ahead. >> mr. president, that was the last caller in the queue. >> public comment is closed. madam clerk, if you please prepare that change to the board rules and if you would read the adoption without committee reference calendar. >> noted mr. president. item 27-28 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. unanimous vote is reeured for resolution on first reading today.

any supervisor may require a resolution on first reading to go to committee. >> supervisor walton. >> please sever item 28. >> item 27, same house same call, the resolution is adopted. madam clerk, please read item 28. >> item 28, this is a resolution to accept the final san francisco reparations plan of the african american reparations advisory committee. >> thank you. colleagues and public, i want to reiterate my thanks, including allies, my team in district 10 office and all of you for the dedicated work on achieving reparations here in san francisco. this resolution to approve the final reparations plan from the african american

reparations advisory committee further solidifys commitment to reparations. as we work to get office of reparation up and running our commitment to this work is imperative. thank cosponsors supervisor ronan, preston, peskin, chan, mandelman, melgar, safai and dorsey. thank you. >> supervisor melgar. >> thank you president peskin. i just are wanted to say thank you to the reparations committee for all their hard work, but also just taking so much abuse and toxicity for doing a really good job and doing exactly what we asked them to. i also want to say particularly thanks to my colleague supervisor walton for his grace and elegance through this process and his leadership. through what has

proven to be an unacceptable level of just viteral over accepting a report of something that we asked a group of citizens to do on their volunteer time unpaid. i wanted to-we are talking about math, a lot this meeting, i want to do a little math because i have gotten a lot of e-mails and correspondence about this resolution. i just want to remind us going back into san francisco history in 1957 san francisco was able to woo the giants from new york to go into the new stadium, and their star center fielder willie mays and wife started looking for a house in my district, district 7 and they put a offer down on a house that was 75 mara loma drive which is in sherwood

forest, and [indiscernible] there was tremendous pressure put on the owner of that house to not sell to a negro family. it was front page paper. mayor christopher got involved and tried to get folks to calm down. he offered a bedroom in his house for willie mays family, which they turned down and they eventually found a house, but if you do the math, that house was listed in 1957 for $37 thousand. that is how much a house cost then. that house today on zil low between 2.7 and $3.12 million. that is how much the house is worth. had that family been able to purchase that house they would have paid it off in around

1978 if they got a 30 year mortgage, which means that for 6 decades that family would have either had no mortgage or been accruing rental income from that house. you do the math of what that opportunity denied by the structural racism in our city in our city, not going back to anywhere farther then 1957 then you can see how we can arrive to a number like what was in the report, which was only one of the many many recommendations, but for whatever reason the one people fixated on. for that, i wholeheartedly support this resolution and thank the efforts and it is only the first step towards a very long road of apologies and reparations which we as a city owe our black community. thank you. >> thank you supervisor melgar.

supervisor stefani. >> i want to make sure i'm added as a cosponsor. >> shall be noted. on the resolution, same house same call, the resolution is adopted and that brings us to conclusion of our agenda. madam clerk, would you please read the in memoria? >> today meelting is adjourned in memory of is the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor president peskin, for the late mr. oden schreder. on bemalf of supervisor walton, raynard hillis and francis ho. >> we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] and

also had an effect. you have been a mentor to many of us in the department, and it extends even past this department. they would always at the me this, johanna a told me this.

whatever you do in your future endeavor, i hope that you will stay in touch with us. thank you for your contribution for this city and for the environment. thank you for everything you have done for this city and for the >> [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you all. thanks for those wonderful words. i'm really touched by what you have said and it's a good thing i have my notes. >> first, can i have more than three minutes? >> yeah. [ laughter ] it's a first time i have been on this side before this body. serving on the san francisco environment commission for all

of these years has been an extraordinary experience for me. i'm grateful to all the mayors who appointed and reappointed me from mayor brown to mayor breed. i'm grateful to the commission secretary, monica fish, anthony valdes and kyle with whom i have worked over the years. with infinite patience, monica taught me how to have a policy committee meeting that was in compliance with san francisco's complicated rules with great good humor anthony kept me on track for a couple of years, and with kyle help solve all of those myriad technological problems for the commission and the policy committee even before the pandemic. i'm grateful to all the commission members with whom i

have served over the years including becky evans who is here and whose seat i took. you all have made significant and unique contributions to the work of the commission and the department and it was an absolute pleasure for me to serve alongside of you. i'm grateful to the executive directors who i got to work with and learn from over the years. gerald blumenfield and betty and kyle. when the department was still relatively new and much smaller than it is now, jared put the department on the map, literally in san francisco and way beyond with his bold ideas and unwavering determination to bring them to light. debbie created a culture of excellence and collaboration

across the department and forged strong and effective bonds across city agencies facilitating the huge number of substantive accomplishments during her tenure. and tyrone, he inherited a department in turmoil and quickly and effectively moved to raise staff morale and then succeed to get significant funds from the city for the first time ever, not once, but twice. what truly exceptional leaders these people have been and what a privilege it's been for me to have a ringside seat as i watched the department grow and mature and change under their leadership. last but by no means least, i'm grateful to the

department. the dedicated talented, committed and very able people from my time on the commission have worked so tirelessly and so hard for me and for the city of san francisco and their hard work dealing with issues across california and the nation and the lead of the world. the accomplishments over the years i have served on this commission is awe inspiring and the host of landmark measures like the plastic water bottles, the pharmaceuticals legislation and cnd ordinance and amendments and climate change to name just a few. as many of you have heard me say many times, all of us who live

and work in this city are so lucky that we have everyone in the department working on our behalf to protect our public health and our environment. it's been an enormous privilege for me to serve on this commission, and i know i leave it and the department in good hands. welcome, commissioner thompkins. thank you all. thank you so very much. i'm really grateful. [ applause ] >> thank you again, commissioner wald. at this time i would like to invite people in the room to come up to speak.

>> >> good evening, commissioners, i'm debbie. as i thought about johanna tonight, i said what's that word i'm going to look for to describe her. so i looked up the definition for activist. it said a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change. sounds pretty good. now i looked at advocate. what about advocate? that's a person who publicly supports or recommends a cause or policy. but those definitions of activist and advocate, they just don't do it for me. they don't say johanna, because the johanna we all know, she just wants to get shit done. sorry, kyle. you can wipe that off the minutes. she just wants to get stuff

done. when it comes to the city of san francisco and the department of the environment, johanna wants to be both cheerleader and agitator and by idealist and fragmentist and architect and behind-the-scenes supporter. johanna is one that gives honest feedback, difficult truth, missing relationships and new opportunities. as one of the four directors over the course of her tenure on the commission i can say that in addition to these attributes, johanna wald is also a friend. someone who shares in the sorrows, the frustrations, and the joys of leadership. honoring her today fills my heart for i know that this acknowledges what we all know to

be true, that it has been a privilege to be in the presence of such deep wisdom and love. wisdom and love in service have this city and the planet. so thank you, my dear friend. thank you my friend and colleague for all you bring to this world and thank you commission for recognizing someone as truly exceptional as commissioner johanna wald. [ applause ] >> that's a truly hard act to follow. my name is becky evans before it was the commission and appointed by several departments. i know johanna before she was on the commission because we helped form the league of voters in san

francisco. you really should be giving her a cape, like a super man cape because she's that kind of extraordinary woman, resource, who cares about her city, her environment. i would like to bring her a message from ruth, who was a previous commissioner, unable to come tonight. she would like to say that she was a mentor and such a great leader for the city. i want to know what you are doing for the press. i don't know who does that but i think the environmental groups across the city and will say, unfortunately the sierra club doesn't give you the kind of support that they should, but please reach out to me because we definitely care. thank you so much.

[ applause ] thank you, commissioner evans. anyone else? i see someone rushing up. >> good evening, commissioners, peter -- i can't speak for the staff but certainly for me, i felt incredibly supported by having johanna on the commission. we are a program of two now, but when the whole time when johanna was on the commission, we did work together and i'm so appreciative of all of support during all of these years.

congratulations on your career and this record of having so many years on the commission. [ applause ] >> if there is no other comment in the room, we can move to public comment. >> seeing no additional public comment in the room. >> we'll open up to remote public comment. members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. seeing no callers in the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> all right. at this moment, we are going to pose for a portrait with commissioner wald. will the commissioner join me at

our usual wall?

>> 6. review and vote on the commission on the environment - environmental service award name. (discussion and possible action) we have a speaker today. >> it gives me honor and great pleasure to renew the environmental service award and every time we give this award in the future, it reminds us of this irreplaceable colleague. it will be named the johanna wald environmental award. >> [ applause ] that was a motion. so we'll need a second. >> it will be my greatest pleasure to second. >> any other discussion? i'm happy to say i'm happy to vote for this as well. we will make sure there is no other discussion.

if not, we'll move to public comment. >>members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. >> not seeing anyone, we'll turn to remote public comment. seeing no callers in the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> commissioner wald? >> i think it will be nice if you spoke a few words given that you have been here for 20 years. >> i will be brief but want to say thank you for incredible and totally unexpected honor. it's

beyond my imagination, and i thank you. thank you, thank you. from the bottom of my heart. >> thank you, commissioner wald. [ applause ] . with that, please call the roll. >> [roll call] >> with that, the award is renamed. >> all right. that was the fun part today. [ laughter ] no, i'm teasing. the staff presentations i'm really much looking forward to. next item. >> the next item is item 7. 7. review and vote on whether to approve resolution file 2023-11-coe, resolution amending environment department energy efficiency contract. speaker: cara bautista-rao, senior energy

specialist. explanatory document: resolution file 2023-11-coe. (discussion and possible action) >> good evening, commissioners. i'm cara rao speaking on this amendment tonight. this runs the program for qualifying efficiency upgrades to commercial buildings. under the contract the scope of work includes issuing payments and supporting marketing research efforts and providing technical assistance and other tasks. we received funding for this

program and this contract through the bay area regional network through the public utilities commission. our contract is $1.4 million and today we are asking to modify the contract in two ways. the first is to extend the term of the contract by two years from the current end date of october 18, 2023, to a new end date of october 18, 2025. and a second modification is to increase the budget in the contract for incentives by $4,593,000. this will help to ensure the bay area program and to allow to serve more businesses by increasing the budget available for creating incentive payments. with that, i'm happy to take any

questions. >> what is the current incentive budget. >> right now it is $2.9 million and this will bring it up to $7.5 million for incentives. >> any other questions? >> this is an action item. could i have a motion to approve this resolution. >> i have a motion from commissioner wan, do i have i second? second from commissioner hunter. with that we'll open up to public comment. members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak.

>> >> seeing none, public comment on this item is closed. >> >> roll call, please. >> [roll call] >> the resolution passes. thank you again, cara. next item, please. >> >>clerk: 8. presentation on the water chapter of the climate action plan. sponsor: richard chien, senior environmental specialist, environment department. speakers: paula kehoe, director of water resources, san francisco public utilities commission; manisha kothari, alternative water supply program manager, san francisco public utilities commission; and julie ortiz, water conservation manager, san francisco public utilities commission. explanatory document: 2023 water supply addendum. (discussion)

>> charles, you are replacing rich today? >> i am. rich is sick and cannot join us. i will attempt to fill his big shoes. since we passed the climate action plan and i believe late 2021, we have been hard at work to add a water chapter to the climate action plan because as we know the climate changes, our water supply is impacted and we have been collaborating with sf puc for a little bit over a year for a certain amount of time and we have been holding public workshops from them and exploring their issues from their side, the water side and put them to our processes with the scan and rc tool. it's been a joint collaborative effort to get to this point.

so we are pleased that we can present to you the new water addendum chapter of the climate action plan. i would like to introduce to you my former colleague because i was at sf puc for nine years. i would like to bring to you manisha kothari. >> good evening, commissioners. director paula kehoe is out sick. so as mentioned water is our precious resource and one of our

most essential but challenging to maintain a future supply with climate change and drought and earthquakes and natural disaster and we are an old city with a lot of old pipes, growth, regulatory requirements are all challenges. so given that, our agency has been looking at new ways to ensure our water supply including looking at a one water lens. rather than the traditional way of viewing water in, we use water that goes out as wastewater. we are looking at weighs to more holistically reuse that water, find energy benefits as well and again looking at it through a

complete one water lens. so that really also is a broad overlay for our water supply program which is focused on extending and preserving our water supplies as much as possible and that's true demand management or conservation using less water as well as finding ways to develop sustainable new water supplies through groundwater sources, recycled water projects, reusing water within buildings on-site, finding new innovations to come up with new supplies, and also a growing and robust program of planning for alternative water supply projects.

our overarching goals for our water supply program are looking at diversifying our supplies both during dry times and non-dry times and by diversifying of reliance on a single regional system. also looking at ways that we can improve the use of new water sources from a demand management through drought management and again including groundwater recycled water sources, on-site reuse water transfers and other efforts. and then lastly really to maintain the fact that we have a gravity driven regional water system as our primary source of supply. so working with your

staff to add the water supply section include three key strategies and we'll go over this in the presentation this evening. the first is to vest and implement the conservation programs and implement the water supply augmentation program and the third is to develop innovative programs to help reduce water use and come up with efficient creative ways for new supplies. so this was my area as water conservation manager with sf puc. i outlined strategy one which is invest and implement demand management programs, and the puc rain or shine has long had a comprehensivi water conservation program for many decades. we have a mix of incentives and

research and education to help customers use water efficiently. we have developed that based on best practices, studies we have done in the field, in you and developing technologies, and it has led and contributed to san francisco having the lowest amount of per capita water use in california, and we continue that program because we know there is still more water to save. we have a conservation planning process and program that's explained in the water supply chapter, but we develop every year, we developed a master plan to guide our conservation efforts. we formally update that every five years. it's posted and shared online in the form of our water conservation plan. but when we update it, we go back

through and look at all the assistance measures that we have and forecast the water savings. there is a link on the presentation slide to where you can find that. we'll soon be starting the process to creating our 2025 plan. overall our conservation program includes financial incentives to encourage customers and water users to replace and repair water leaks with new systems and a whole host of tools where platforms where customers can

view their water use down to the hourly level and we issue leak alerts if there is a leak or water problems. we do a wide range of education outreach and there is a host to mandate and require it. i'm going to manisha. good evening, commissioners. i will talk about strategy two and three. as julie mentioned, our gravity driven water supply, surface water supply is our primary water supply and the backbone of what we deliver to our customers in san francisco and around the bay area. but as we look at the future and we look at droughts really becoming the new normal as we

look at climate change in the last 20 years, the droughts have been more frequent than the preceding hundred years. it really behooves us to in order to be resilient for our water supply future to really think about sustainable water for drought and existing water supply with and looking at our approach and all the water resources we have and using them to their maximum and highest use is really critical. that's what this strategy hinges on. so taking advantage of water supply that is here and that is local groundwater since 2017 we started pumping small amount of

groundwater for drinking again as a local supply source and goes through monitoring and high quality source and matching the right water for the right end use and making it available for drinking. recycled water. we have irrigation needs and golden gate park is where we use groundwater for irrigation but the perfect water for that could be recycled water and through the construction of the west side recycled water project, near way side treatment plant for irrigation and golf courses and we already have golf courses using this with our neighboring utilities. we will be starting irrigation of golden gate park soon with our water project and really

allows us to save on that groundwater use. we have the on-site water reuse program in place since 2012. we have been a pioneer, san francisco has been a pioneer in this effort, and over time, the ordinance actually had just gotten more stringent. we have been able to save more water with the on-site water reuse program. now all buildings over 100,000 square feet in san francisco, new developments are required to have on-site water programs which is really significant for water savings and can save up to 25% of demand from commercial buildings, for example. then we have the alternative water supply plan which basically this planning program is the program that i manage and we are looking out not just in san francisco, but throughout our service area for new opportunities to work with

neighboring water and wastewater utilities for storage and that's above and below ground storage and to reuse more of our water and also looking at desalination. we are looking at ways to secure our water supplies for future droughts. the third and final strategy in the water supply chapter is implementing innovative programs to reduce use and develop new supplies. these are some examples on the slide of things that are innovative that we have piloted and identified new ways to save both water and energy. so expanding the leak detection program. we have a water loss reduction program that monitors and reduces water lost from main breaks in our infrastructure. we are also implementing

preventative water loss actions to be able to identify and save water through potential leaks and then implementing a main replacement program. in the last ten years we have replaced an average of nine miles of pipe per year and that aging infrastructure that julie was talking about trying to make sure that we have efficient pipes. opportunities to reuse water. we had a partnership with local brewery in san francisco to reuse processed water. so water that goes through the processing can be reuse for tanks and processed equipment on-site to save a significant amount of water. san francisco developed its own water treatment guidelines and this was ground-breaking and we

didn't have any path for permitted kinds of uses prior and anchor brewing company was the grant that we awarded to help with this project. i mentioned heat recovery. these on-site systems can use a lot of energy and installing heat recovery systems can help with that footprint with these projects and opportunity to recovery thermal energy from this water reuse this process and to incentivize recapturing through the heat of this process. atmospheric water to produce water doesn't produce much but we had two pilots of atmospheric water panels one at golden gate

park and -- way side park. and this is from two of the wastewater treatment plants in san francisco and we bring that to new drinking water standards and in california now that allows that and chart to path forward and that is cutting edge and we are engaging with other utilities around the state and the world to understand that and understand best practices to see what's possible with san francisco. that's my last slide and we are happy to answer any questions you might have. >> i will comment briefly. i was excited to see that you are in partnership with anchor

brewery but they are now closed. are you in partnership with other companies? >> yes, we are. >> i understand there are other places in other counties with cases with big lawns. does san francisco have the ability to help manage water use in those places? we own the source of the water. do we have any control over what other counties are doing? >> we work very closely with the -- we have 26 cities besides san francisco that are served by the hetch hetchy water system and they are represented by an agency called bawsca and we share all of our best practices with them and also other demand

management measures. a number of these water supply projects they also partner in and share the cost of and we work very closely with them. >> i would just add that bawsca runs other agency programs on a wholesale basis from us and they have a conservation program and we do talk and share best practices. >> thank you. >> do you have any rough sense of to what percent that hetch hetchy gets consumed in san francisco as opposed to other places? >> 1/3 san francisco, two-thirds outside. >> thank you. >> commissioner thompkins: i have a question about the incentive use and the data and how it's used, someway to look at that data?

>> yeah, we do regulate review of who participates in our water conservation incentive program so we know how many we issue, we know how much has gone out dollar wise. we know if it went to a single family home or apartment number or geographically, we know where it went. we do look at that and that factors into considerations when we are making or trying to make improvements to these incentives, how to get, if we see we need more participation or we want more participation from some group or some area that's not participating as much as we had anticipated. so, yes, we do look at that. >> it would be great to share that information, and then to understand particularly where it's under utilized, what those mitigations would be to increase utilization. >> yeah, that's a real good point. at a general level, we put out a report and we are currently

looking at our annual report for the last fiscal year that includes a summary of the participation of these programs and the conservation plan that i mentioned that we'll be updating for 2025 and talking about the opportunities and strategies to try to meet those markets. thank you. >> commissioner hunter? >> just getting an email that algae is blooming. i'm wondering how this will affect water outside of san francisco? >> so, with algae blooms, i guess there is two separate things. with the salmon habitat, that is one of the drivers for changing regulations in the state, and

requirement to leave more flows for the environment. so really for us it's about balancing those needs which are both part of our stewardship is certainly protecting and providing for the environment in our water sheds, but also making sure there is enough water to serve our communities. and so really that's what these plans are about especially augmenting these supplies is how do we do that in a sustainable way. how do we augment our supplies in the future when we may be required to leave more flows, but even with a drier climate, how do we adapt to those changes that we see coming in a sustainable way. the algae bloom issue, it is to some extent nutrient related issue. it's not clear yet

whether reuse water will take care of that issue, but it is something we are looking at with new reuse projects, what is the impact on the nutrient load that goes back into gets discharged and in some cases, there are some constituents that will be more concentrated, some that will be taken out during the treatment process and really understanding the relationship between that and algae bloom is something we are still looking at. >> thank you. >> seeing no other discussion from commissioners, we'll move to public comment. >> are there any members of the present who are present in the room today who wish to comment on this item? seeing none. >>members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak.

>> seeing none, public comment on this item is closed. >> thank you for your presentation. >> next item. >> >>clerk: 9. update on the energy efficiency program. sponsor: lowell chu, energy program manager. speakers: cara bautista-rao, senior energy specialist; and ryan ramos, senior energy specialist. this item is up for discussion. >> take it away. >> good evening commissioners. i'm the energy efficiency program manager. my name is lowell chu. we will speak about some of the accomplishments we had last year and take a look ahead in 2024 on our new programs and the funding opportunities that we are going

to be going over. that was the agenda and now the overview part. i will introduce you to the team. i have the honor of working with seven incredible professionals. i work with cara who is on the regional side and ryan is on the residential side. you will hear from them a little bit later. working with cara would be rena and michael. they have over 20 years experience on the environment. on the residential side we have

meera and paul. speak of paul, there he is examining a condenser coil at a grocery store. before we provide you with the information on the program, i want to provide you with key details on the program. they have their own employees to bring talents to the mission and in language technical assistance. they are the driving force behind the success of our programs. when it comes to funding, it's important to note that our energy team is funding by work orders from the departments as well as grants. now, in terms of the work order, we are proud to have a solid partnership with key departments like department of health, san francisco public utilities commission and city of san francisco international airport.

their support allows us to continue our vital work in terms of energy. in terms of grants, the bay area regional network is an important part which is a ratepayer funds and comprised of local government and takes public funds and channels it into energy efficiency electrification programs. you will hear some of that later in the presentation. for the current program, both a substantial budget of $8 million of this funding allocation is strategically divided with approximately $5 million earmarked for professional services and rebates. you heard in item no. 7, cara asking for more incentive dollars because we have more to serve. these are to maintain not only

ongoing projects but growth and innovation in the field. commissioners, we exist to implement local and state goals and policies. we exist to implement state goals and policies. the statement serves at the compass guiding our efforts to create this process for all san franciscans. you can see how our current program is not only aligned with this but directly instrumental with realizing these goals and policies. so just what are those goals and policies? we'll, first and foremost the climate action plan in 2021, next we have the mayor's priorities on affordability and economic recovery. we are supporting the state and local ambition to save on our natural gas appliances and environmentally harmful

refrigerant and state energy efficiency and environmental justice goals. in addition to implementing state goals and policies, we are also interested in energizing needs. this goes beyond just implementing energy needs but priorities and electrification resources to those that are hard to reach and underserved in both residential and commercial sectors. in essence, we have this sustainability is not a privilege, but a right for all, and our efforts reflect a commitment of ensuring that every san franciscan can benefit from advancing opportunities

within our work. so now, i will transition over to my colleague cara, who plays a pivotal role in our program team providing strong leadership and vision and will walk us through this initiative and goals and policies and transformative action. >> good evening, again, commissioners. i'm cara bautista. in 2018, the san francisco department has had a work order with the san francisco international airport. the airport has a goal of achieving net zero emissions. and we have equipment for the airports terminals and non-terminal buildings. this helped to identify their

natural gas appliances towards a step of electrification. we also not only identified their gas equipment but all electric alternatives for them. this work is going to continue into the next year. next, i want to notify you that our partnership with pg & e ended this year and we ended a strong relationship with pg & e. so a little bit more about the partnership. energy access sf was a three year partnership program that conducted outreach to our low-income and disadvantaged communities. we conducted both electronic and on the ground outreach in the bayview hunter's point and tenderloin communities and served over 550 residents to pg

& e's great assistance and energy efficient programs. for example, the initialing savings assistance program for low-income residents which help to create support for affordability. we reached over 600 businesses with limiting no cost to reassessment with upgrading those costs. we completed the program june 30th and transitioned to our bay run programs. so michael, rina and i are working on these bay run programs that is an equity centered program for the entire region and service local economic recovery and energy

efficiency. bay ren provides generous incentives, it uses a unique program design that only pays incentives for measured and verified energy savings. the bay ren business program opened this summer on june 14th, and since then, we have had 51 projects enrolled which represents about 70 businesses. these businesses are all hard to reach and what that means is that they need a category where they have less than 25 employees, they occupy a leased or rented space and speak a language other than english. all of these businesses are in disadvantaged communities in the bay area. with that, i will pass it over to my colleague ryan. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm here to speak about the bay ren residential programs. bay ren has been running the program for energy efficiency

since 2015 to focus on affordability and we are now prioritizing electrification in residential programming. the residential programming is divide into two categories, multifamily and single family. we have erected over 10,000 units and provided over $4 million in incentives. we have developments as the community center and mission housing, to name a few. over half of the units that we have served over the last ten years are considerable affordable. in 2020, we've pivoted to rolling out electrification and roof tops, pumps and more

equipment. we are looking to provide more incentives for areas that are considered health burdened communities on the climate action plan. the single family program has been around also since 2013, retrofitting over 460 homes in san francisco at that time. the program is in the midst of redesign to focus on serving more equity households from the low and moderate-income communities with weatherization and electrification as a priority. single family program include linking it to the climate equity club to enhanced program participation in communities. another program that the energy team implements is a fixed let sf program. my partner paul is working on

this program and collaboration with the department of health to reduce lead hazards in residential buildings that contain children. the program moves beyond standard practice of interim controls and removes the highest risk lead in components of homes such as doors and windows and replaces them with lead free components. since the program rolled out this year and we have enrolled eight projects within a pilot program with three fully completed and two of those with families that needed relocation in order to accommodate the lead remediation activity. the other five projects are on track to finish this year. and in 2024, we plan to have a full launch of the program in the priority neighborhoods that include the mission, excelsior and bayview hunters point with

equity in mind. turning it over lowell for the discussion on these programs. >> thanks, commissioners. we have talked about the program and who we are and the programs over the last decade and now i will speak about the new program. we are really excited about the bay ren refrigerant program this is the building operation no. 4 transition to global warming refrigerant and the state's plan to remove local harmful

emissions by 2020. the government approved over $18 million over four years to fund to provide rebates through the bay ren. so, this program will target food service sector including restaurants, grocery and convenient stores, bars, warehouses, food pantries and centers and places where food is offered to the hungry for free. we have staff goes out to detect and fix refrigerant leaks and protect from harmful refrigerant at little to no charge. this is a very important service that we are doing for small businesses in the food services sector. in addition to managing the bad

refrigerants, we will also provide retrofits and to reuse and small businesses to affordability. the second plan is a partnership with cleanpowersf. this partnership aims to compliment brrr where it gets rid of harmful effects and this will change the energy efficiency in restaurants and bars and businesses and will support economic recovery and affordability. the teach is looking to launch this program at the first quarter of next year. so for the final portion of the presentation, we want to share with you some of the funding opportunities we are going after. as we know the team is pursuing

opportunities at federal and state levels. these opportunities not only enhance our impacts but also reinforce our commitment to commitment to policy driven change and the implementation on the energy efficiency block grant from the u.s. department of energy. the block grant is known as energy efficiency and conservation block grant earmarked to drive forward our efforts in equity and under scores our dedication to making our energy landscape more sustainable and equitable. we have also thrown our hat in for the u.s. department of energy building upgrade challenge. this challenge speaks innovative ideas from across the nation to deploy energy efficiency and technology for key pump water here it is. our submission is ambition and community centric. in this challenge, we aim to install 200 low voltage hot

water heat pumps in 200 days right in our city's disadvantaged communities. to service this, in partnership with those opportunities and others to engage in this recruitment. finally we are working with the sf puc from the redemption act to low-income and spanish communities. at the same level, we are actively seeking partners from the california energy commission grant that supports market transformation in refrigerant technologies in large food warehouses. we think this will nicely compliment brrr. and this is a commitment to seek out and implement initiatives that will positively impact our

communities and moving our goals and objectives. that concludes our presentation and we are happy to take thank you very much for your time. . >> no questions, but i love to congratulate you on your work that you are doing especially on the new opportunities that are coming your way. it would be great to see the grants that you are proposing to be awarded and get a little bit more insight on those. >> absolutely, thank you, commissioner. >> thank you. >> one question. you mentioned the end of the pg & e program followed immediately about the good news of bay ren, how is it overall to the work and the dollars. did the bay ren program run at the same time pg & e expired?

>> yes. thank you, commissioner. the pg & e government dollars was about a year. and this program where staff and local government partnership transferred into for just the implementation piece is about the same, maybe a little bit more, but is about the equivalent. in terms of timing, you know, the bay ren business program has been around since 2018. but, it suffered several set backs including the pandemic. as a result we just got started this year. we had a pilot phase last year towards the end, but we really were more in the regional roll outmode in june. so the pg & e contract ended june 30th, and the regional roll out started in mid-june.

so the timing was very good. >> thank you. >> seeing no other discussion from commissioners, we'll take public comment. >> are there any members from the public wishing to make public comment on this item? seeing none. we'll go to remote public comment. >>members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. >> seeing none, public comment on this item is closed. >> next item, please. >> 10. update on construction and demolition ordinance enforcement. speaker: james slattery, construction and demolition zero waste senior coordinator. this item is for discussion.

>> >> good evening, james. >> i'm james slattery from the program and with the company for about 11 years now and will explain this program this evening. just a quick reminder that requirements for debris recovery is in chapter 15 of the code. there is a prohibition ban on direct hauling any discards from a construction project directly to landfill for the purpose of disposal. i was here about a year ago almost exactly to share a project update on some of the new requirements that were adopted unanimously by the board

of supervisors in 2021, and i will pick up where we left off with a progress update on how implementation has been going since then. so going beyond just the ban on land filling, the cd discards and the ordinance for transportation and processing of mixed debris. they are hyper focused today because this is the demand and strategy for most construction teams. they will team off and let someone recover the resources that can be recovered. the debris recovery ordinance is in task for monitoring and complying with the requirements as well as green requirements and the san francisco green building code with domestic

projects. aside from the related ecosystem is enormous. prepandemic, it was not uncommon for the department of building to issue 60,000 building permits. 25-30,000 of them projected to generate significant quantities of discards. there is hundreds of hauling companies here with thousands of vehicles. this is not a franchise model. it's an open and competitive hauling system and dozens of facilities scattered throughout the region that we are tasked with monitoring. in 20 one, there were some updates to our ordinance that touched on every component of the ecosystem. some for the facility networks, small changes for project, but the most significant change was impacting the transporter network and the most notable one that mandate the requirements for the permits that require for collection and transport mix

construction debris. this is the 2023 permit decal that is affixed on a vehicle to transport debris regardless if the truck is on public or private property. last year the work program called for us to recruit and train staff as the program was expanding and we basically built the program from the ground up and we developed and deployed a campaign to notify the users of these requirements and provided them with technical assistance for how to comply and midway we started to build and shift the focus on the ordinance update. what you see here is the outreach flyer for stakeholders informing them that by

january 2022, this permit was required to transport mixed debris and this was in different languages and public works who monitor the public way who monitor the construction in demolition and circulated by colleagues at the time of building permit issuance. just a quick reminder, the fees were tiered and increased based on the hauling capacity of each vehicle. the larger the load, the larger the fee. showing here on the slide on these two images, the chart to the right is showing you the permit revenue generated by tier over the two employment cycles. we are in the 3rd quarter of the permit cycle of the second year. so in calendar year 2022, measured in calendar year because the permit cycle is affixed to a calendar year

rather than fiscal. calendar year 2022, we generated $28,000, in 2023 we have collected so far $148,000. on the chart to the left, you see the breakout for each year and whether they are increasing or decreasing year over year. there may or may not be a story. you are all well aware of the challenges we face with the resources and the funds and this is a strong limitation on where the funds can be spent which are only meant to enforce the environment code. here is the initial result of the new funding source. this is the team that was recruited, hired and trained in the last year. on the far right hand, you see

cat, cat has been with us for a year 1/2 and active construction projects, demolition projects, monitoring compliance with these new requirements. and chris is one of our climate corp fellows. we hosted five fellows on this team, five executive years. chris wright is also a former fellow who was hired on 2019 doing compliance monitoring from the desktop. next to the right of nicole is pat, he's our 5640. he and nicole are about to hit their one year anniversary with us. chris is on the background. he splits his time from two of our programs, toxic reduction and zero waste team and he's on the

zero waste construction and demolition team since 2020. so with the key planners hired and trained we were off to developing and enforcing these regulations to chapter 14. and you see the inspection form developed and what cat and arab used to request documentation receipts to demonstrate that debris was delivered to the proper facility and issued warning as well as curable notices of violation. these regulations that were effective as of february 15th were developed in collaboration with a number of agencies. they are listed there. not just a regulations but the protocols, the citation issuance process, the appeals process, and the fine citation collection

process in collaboration with sister agencies and multiple hearings were held about the effective date. a critical strategy not just on our team but to embrace tactics that are rooted in outreach and stakeholder engagement and that's also centered in the way we approach enforcement. we provide in language support through the language line, we translate all relevant forms as well as the violation notice packet and there is much more translated into multiple languages. here are the results speaking for themselves where we presented stakeholder engagement technical assistance and outreach. since effective from march to june, we have issued 68 of these inspection reports. ten of them request for

documentation, 30 were official warnings and 28 were curable notices of violation with a cure rate of 93%. we have only issued a small fraction of citations. that's by design. the important protocols were meant to be a deterrence. i'm going to pivot away from chapter 14 and will speak to some of the work our team performance with the work order and the department of building inspection. if you noted with the slide, i had a break there that showed how our team is funded. from 2006, to 2021, we were 100% funded by dbi. that's now 28% of our team's funding. more than 65% are the permit fees and the rest is from --

it's providing a service to our sister agencies that are implementing and modeling compliance and those requirements. the heart of those requirements is projects impacted by cal green must include the plan in order for dbi to issue a permit and they have to submit the documentation, the receipt to show the plan was followed, the material went to the correct facilities and our team is tackled with making sure these plans and notifying dbi to proceed. what i'm calling out this year, dbi was charged with expanding this program to a sub set of impacted projects that

were led in this sector. while this was at the economic point, our agenda was to expand. this is an example of translated materials into spanish and chinese. for us to efficiently implement that work order, we rely on technology. we use an online platform called green halo which is fairly ubiquitous in the bay area and they have to figure out how they are going to recapture these recovery plans and most of them are using these platforms which is critical infrastructure for the state at the moment.

here is the breakout of the performance. you can see year over year from 2020 until now how our work plan is expanding and even while this permit issue is declining and with all project impact tiers. what's noteworthy is we did not expand until march 15, 2023. we are still figuring out how to work the work flow and tweaking the platforms and customizing it for automation and we had 16 final plan reviews and the chart on the left is showing you recovery debris and diversion outcome from those plans. the final stakeholder group impacted by this patch work of regulatory requirements is the facility network that we monitor and inspect. we have 14 registered facilities

permitted, authorized by sf to provide mixed debris and we have also issued a regulation in 2013 requiring availability of its performance. this is that result of that requirement. you can see the impacted project teams now know which facility is able to sort through a ton of mixed debris and what the typical outcome would be. we could recover 60% of one, or 39%. our model has been the gold standard for the facilities performance monitoring from the green building counsel and the green credit system and north star point of reference to our neighboring jurisdiction who don't have this type of performance monitoring and they are used by other counties and

able to tell their project teams that this is how it performs and currently serving as a statewide policy mandate. next on our final slide before q and a. what's coming up in the year ahead is we are developing some new requirements and need to set new regulations that will be targeted at the facility network. we'll be migrating all of our work of data management into sales force. we have to balance the revenue projections and expenditure process. for year one, we had a process and deficit. this is explaining be our program of team funding coming from zero waste impound and new programs and new policies under the climate action plan and for

the consumption direction, i will direct you to page 106. finally on that image there what's notable is the two permit decals on that vehicle with two consecutive years with that one operator complying with the new requirement. thank you very much for your time. i'm happy to take any questions you might have. >> i commend you on the presentation. great program. >> thank you. >> great presentation and experience helps. my question is about the incredible success of the 2021 legislation must have had a big impact on cd and looking at the charts up until the right and

all of that has generated a lot of stuff and that work and demand on the other side. how has that work in making sure that businesses in construction know that there is material available to purchase and use. how is the demand side working with the supply side? >> great question. >> there is a pretty significant disconnect in the generation of discarded cd materials and products and those that can be recovered. the vast majority cannot. what we are sending to landfill, 25% of what san francisco sends to landfill is the result of the building industry. i would signal that the primary products that can be recovered are your metals, concrete or inert material, sand and gravel and asphalt are easily

recyclable. clean wood, we direct clean lumber bio mass plants that incinerate it or it gets chipped and into mulch. clean drywall also makes its way to the amendment market, composting market. after that, it's creator in what's recoverable. that is really important why we need to work with the upstream stakeholders which we started to do very closely in 2013. our team in the zero waste program and we formed an ad hoc working group with the building materials management team. a lot of that work has found its way into the climate action plan of page 1. where you see path ways to things like a deconstruction ordinance, adaptive reuse of

structures. so don't demolish it, use the structure as it is and you can reskin it and change elements internally but demolish it and to answer your question about the supply and demand, it's tricky, and those markets really do teeter. the metal market tends to stabilize everything. there is the economics involved there that you usually get paid for the metals, but right now we are seeing extreme volatility in the concrete market because demand and most tell construction projects that you have to recycle certain amounts. concrete has longstanding thriving markets. the demand is overwhelming and many of the facilities have maxed out the permit development that they can stage and they

give away concrete and when they can't give it away fast enough, they tell projects you can't build here. so ever region using recycled concrete turn them arbitrated and we are starting to see an effect on where they can store concrete on this recycle. it's the short separation rather than the comingling of these materials and when you comingle these projects that were never meant to be together, they are creating a procedure that the businesses will not take. the permits for rehauling and the incentive there is if your project team separates, you do not have to hire a permanent hauler. so in theory we see a ripple effect across the impacts.

>> thank you. >> thanks again. with that, we'll go to public comment. >> are there any members pel in the room wishing to comment on this item? seeing none. >> we'll proceed to public comment. >>members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. >> seeing none, public comment on this item is closed. >> thank you again. >> next item, please. >> >>clerk: next item, 11. review and vote on whether to approve resolution file 2023-12-coe, resolution adopting the 2023 reduced risk pesticide list for city properties. speakers: dr. shoba iyer, integrated pest management program manager; gabriel hernandez, municipal toxics reduction assistant coordinator. explanatory documents: staff memo, draft 2023 reduced risk pesticide list, and resolution file 2023-12-coe. (discussion and possible action) under the environment code, the department maintains a reduced risk pesticide list identifying those pesticides that may be used on city property, subject to

restrictions. >> thank you. hi, everyone, and good evening commissioners. >> let me first introduce our integrated pest management. my name is shoba iyer, and my teammate gabriel hernandez.

gabriel joined my team four months ago and was an associate on our toxic team. it's been wonderful working with gabriel these last few months and he's a wonderful addition to our team. some of the staffing changes on the team, prior to bringing gabriel on the board, we had a variety of changes on the toxic reduction team. for the past year i was the only one on the team and was leaning on my amazing colleagues ricks lozano and i will have one more program analyst joining us next month. i look forward to having a full team since i joined the department.

today's action is for you to review and approve the plan for the sf integrated pest management list and it has no ordinance over private or commercial uses over pesticides. the program is really a lot more than a pesticide monitoring on pesticide reduction program. it's really more of a harm reduction program that manages different risks based on the pest problem we are dealing with in san francisco and the amounts of pesticides use. the landscape management and opportunities and the precautionary principle. with that, what we'll be covering in today's presentation is here. i will first briefly describe some of the ipm activities that

have occurred over the last year in the program, then you will hear from gabriel with some of the information on the overall pesticide use trends in san francisco in the 2022 calendar year. then also some ideas about the program next year and we'll finish off on the recommendations on the pesticide list. so i will first share our key accomplishments for 2022. by 98.7%. tier one pesticides are the highest hazards and usually the highest priorities for identifying a replacement for safer alternatives. pest inspections, interviews and data analysis on 1200 units of affordable housing were completed. and this was work that was part of a larger project funded by a

grant by the california department of pesticide regulation. it was a big collaborative effort with the mayor's office of housing and community development, as well as sf toxic reduction and environmental justice teams and property developers and managers. i want to give major props to my predecessor for their hard work on leading this project. we recently got the good news that we secured additional grant funding from the california department of pesticide regulation to continue this work and ray, with us, he's the environmental justice program that will be spear heading the continued work. i'm continuing our key accomplishments from last year here. we are continue to convene our monthly public ipm meetings despite our challenges of being short staffed and we have been holding these meetings virtually

and some of the topics we discussed include invasive plant management, restoration and enhancement, aquatic ecology and vector control. they provide really good forums for ipm professionals to exchange tips and guidance while avoiding the use of harmful pesticides. we have also continued to convene annual ipm trainings for city departments and a variety of topics are covered in these trainings and i heard sessions of managing ivies on particular prevention and controls. we also took some opportunities to connect with some of our colleagues in the field and learn about past management

issues. and we did a field trip with our pest contractors and we saw vermin and burroughs in some areas and there is pigeon proofing all along the beams on the buses there. more recently gabriel and i visited our recreation and parks colleagues and looked at different considerations like grass types. i'm looking forward to continuing these kinds of field trips to look at the pest problems that we are seeing in city properties. at this point, i'm going to pass it over to gabriel for the next couple slides. >> >> thank you. good evening. hello, on the slide is the graph for the pesticide use in the

city. tier one is the most hazardous pesticides and we advised the department to use them sparingly. here on the x axis is the year, the y axis is the active ingredient which corresponds to pesticide usage. here we are displaying 2010 and the four most current years of complete data that we have. so when comparing 2022 to 2010, we observed a 29% reduction in pesticide usage. in looking at 2021 and 2022, we see a 36 pound decrease in usage in 2022. a larger portion of this decrease in usage of these tier one products comes from the department of recreation and

parks. here on this slide displays that all pesticide usage in san francisco. so the different ones here are representing our different tiers. tier one being the most hazardous and tier 3 being the least hazardous and tier one at the bottom of the graph the least used of the three types. i want to highlight from 2021, to 2022, the cumulative use of pounds of pesticides used have decreased compared to 2021. the slide tier 3 usage of the green dotted one and you can see it's quite a bit above the others and that is because often with a tier 3 product which is a safer product, you need more essentially to achieve the desired pest management goal

opposed to using one that is more toxic which is a safer product. and a large portion of that is coming from fungicide applications at the golf course and two products in particular being used and one is a mineral oil based product and the other is a phospate product. >> >> thank you, gabriel. here i'm showing you some activities that i have for the coming year and we'll continue to building relationships with the ipm staff and continue to tackle pest problems on the field that we manage. our team is relatively new, so by stepping away from our office and computer and taking a look at what's going on in the field, we'll get a better understanding

of pest problems and we'll be able to identify pest strategies and get away from using harmful pesticides. we have been holding our monthly ipm meeting virtually and would like to have a hybrid format to have the option to join us in person. we'll need to update the supporting database that we manage and this is the database that is used to track all pesticides used on city properties. one of the other things i would like to do is work on the content on our ipm website and will continue to use technological review of the pesticides and this between pest problems that we are seeing in san francisco that may be led to indicators on climate change.

something on my mind that with warm wet weather that allows insects to thrive and the growth of poison ivy increases with carbon dioxide levels and with potency as well and the land with alameda water sheds and hetch hetchy and more fire risks. this is something i'm more interested in learning about with climate change and pesticides. >> now, in the proposed changes i will summarize here after we have gone through our annual process that our ipm program conducts to ensure we have the most limited use of these products. in summer june and july we

convened a meeting to discuss the pesticide list and last month in august, we held a public hearing where we heard city departments explain their ipm worked including tier one and any pesticide product exemptions they were granted. that's the process we have already gone through and now this brings me to the summary of the pesticide list changes. for anyone that might want to see the proposed details, i will ask you to take a look at the web page and the meeting document for posted agenda item no. 11. >> so this year we are proposing the addition of four tier two or more hazardous products and one is the plant regulator for pest management and where sanitation is not enforceable, one is a

rodent bait that can be used to prevent resistance, one is an -- agivent, one is an organic insecticide prevention and one that is no longer used. one is an insecticide mineral oil, and one is marked for removal and that's lawn ultra and there is success in using an alternative one that was in tier two.

they have the same active ingredient that is a safer ingredient and two tier 3 products that are marked for removal and no longer used by city staff and the departments no longer have them in stock. we also clarified and updated the language for 15 products on the reduced pesticide risk list and an example are updating and correcting the product name or registration numbers, and clarifying the use. thanks for your attention. we have our ipm email address on the slide for anyone to reach out to us. i welcome any questions or comments. >> any questions, comments?

>> yes, one question. the metric that really jumped out to me and the change, but overall it was pretty constant. we hear from advocates on this topic regularly. this seems like there must be a good news story to why the tier one usage drops over 75% from one year to the next. i think gabriel said it was recreation and parks. >> yes, there were two main products that seemed to explain a lot of that decrease and it

was the use by recreation and parks for that decrease, and one was not to use the lawn ultra and that was removed from the list that was part of it. the other product was an insecticide and i don't know if matt, you want to offer any comments or differences of the insecticide use. i will ask matt to talk about that. >> it's for parks used intermittently for pest like we have one at the garden and had

wood insects like the beetle and we had to treat the new wood. it's not always using these insecticides year to year. it will depend on projects and need as well. >> we may not see another 75% decrease is what you are saying? >> [ laughter ] >> we'll see what the data says. >> thank you. >> just a fast question. generally i think we received some public comment earlier in this meeting and you mentioned updating the website. are there any plans to increase notice or availability of notice to when we are using tier one or any herbicide? >> yes, the comment related to the posting. it's a good question. >> right now, what the ordinance states is that for tier one and

tier two pesticide application, a warning sign needs to be posted three days before and four days after. i would like to know information about where they are posted in the city and what we might be able to accomplish from that. i would like to talk to our city partners to think about that a little bit more. >> it makes sense. generally, the program, chris did a fantastic job and now transitioning to you. it's been great to watch this program blossom into something. i don't think pest management is a sexy topic, but you are doing great work. >> thank you so much. comments, questions. we need to entertain a motion. this is an action item.

we have a resolution today accepting the reduced risk pesticide list. do i hear a motion. >> i will move approval. >> we have a motion for approval from commissioner sullivan. >> second. commissioner wan. with that, we'll go to public comment. >> are there any members present in the room that wish to comment on this item? seeing none, we'll proceed to remote public comment. >>members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. >> we do have a couple callers in the queue. just a moment.

>> hello, caller, we are getting feedback in the room. please mute the second device. >> hello, caller, you are unmuted. we are still getting some feedback. if you are also playing the audio of the meeting on a separate device, please be sure to mute that device. okay, caller, you have been the unmuted once again. please begin speaking now. >> caller, i'm afraid we are still getting feedback on our end. we are going to move to the next

caller in the queue. >> caller, you are unmuted. your three minutes begin now. public speaker: thank you for taking my call. thank you for holding this meeting. can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> thank you. my name is dr. dave. i want to appreciate that you are going in a more concrete exception. there is very little pesticide that is still safe that is infinitely small and to poison our land and water and soil just to say that you are using different combinations or less poisonous substances, is not

convincing to us. the u.s. has already killed 30% of our bird population, and many of our bee populations that pollinate 80% of our flowers, fruits and vegetables have been already decimated. we don't approve of these pesticides anymore. time is running out for us, for our world and we want you to stop poisoning us and making excuses about how you are reducing pesticide use and herbicide use with alternatives that are safe. we don't appreciate the doublespeak of our lives and this is a plan to remove our

native plants and they can not survive climate change. they need to look in the mirror. it's humanity. we need to quicken our space and show this towards other kingdoms. it's no longer safe for our children to walk barefoot in the park, no longer safe to drink water. they are poisoned with water in 1991 two years before i moved to san francisco and my husband has never recovered. i don't appreciate the comments of this commission when time is running out. we need to be doing much much more for climate disruption and the chrome active

and really would appreciate more policy to take into account this urgency. we could not continue to poison our soil, our water, our air and our food and think we are going to survive as a species. time is up for that. >> >> thank you for your comment. we are going to return to our initial caller in our queue. caller, we are still encountering quite a bit of feedback. i believe you commented earlier on item 2. we'll give you a moment to

resolve your feedback issue. >> caller, we are still getting awful feedback on the line. we'll try another time to give you a second to resolve the feedback issue. you can also try calling via a difference device.

>> caller, you are unmuted. you can begin now. for the time being, we are still encountering feedback which means that we could not listen to your comments, unfortunately. we have received your written comments and will try again later on our agenda to hear your verbal comments as well. >> is that the end of public comment? thank you. >> seeing no additional callers in the queue, that is the end of public comment on this item. again, caller, we can try again at the conclusion of the meeting pursuant to the public comment policy for the commission. >> thank you, kyle. >> at this point, please call the roll. >> [roll call] >> >> with that, the motion passes.

thank you again for your work and let's move on to the next item. >> >>clerk: next item is 12. director's report. speakers: leo chyi, deputy director; alexa kielty, residential zero waste senior coordinator; and charles sheehan, chief policy and public affairs officer. explanatory document: director's report. (discussion) a. update on the refuse rate-setting process. b. update on a reusable food service ware ordinance to eliminate unnecessary single use food service ware waste. send >> this item is up for discussion. >> thank you. for those of you that i haven't met, i'm the officer for san francisco environment and representing the department for director that is not here today. i will keep it brief. i know we have had a lot of information updating you on the program that is happening and

update on the other groups from the director's report that's available to you. i consulted director and he wanted me to highlight on the apex economic -- report and highlight the work that they are doing as climate technology businesses and we've gotten ten responses from companies who are interested in showcasing their work. that may be possibly integrated as part of a place for participants to visitor it may be connected to press events and we should have more detail on that in october. we are happy that is moving forward. additionally, i wanted to share,

some of you may have seen in the press that is imagining and the california academy of science have done a lot of great work on this initiative and the goal to bring together san francisco's cbo's and organizations to work together to increasing nature to ensure that we have biodiverse green space and looking at the ecosystem and the benefits that biodiverse corridors have on our communities and neighborhood wildlife and animals. related to that, our mayor breed is one of five mayors participating on the global commission on nature positive cities and this is an

international community that is convened by the world economic forum and it's from former mayors from different continents from coastal cities engaging in just some really interesting collaborations that will be happening in the upcoming months. their kickoff meeting is on the third of october that is a virtual meeting where they will get to share their visions about how we can bring more nature and have more nature positive environments in cities and what we can learn from one another and i'm interested to learning about this going forward. with that, i'm going to my colleague alexa to share. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is alexa. i was on the last committee and i came back and to let you know

the refuse rate has been completed. there is a small, the rate increase, 1.33% rate increase on your garbage rates which includes composting and recycling. 1.33% and next year will be at 2.55 rate% increase. i realize it's cumulative why you can't add the cumulative why the total adds and this is the ready that the board advised which is slightly different. the main environmental pieces that we got are the contamination charges that will be reinstated.

we talked about cameras. they are testing six cameras on the trucks that monitor contamination. we'll be instituting some preprocessing technology, our organic, and composting stream has been very contaminated. we are exercising some technology at the transfer station to pull off a lot of plastic is our main contaminant. our district clean up, that used to be called the gigantic three are coming back. each district will have one clean up once a year. we really advocated for a three stream system and will be composting at the clean ups. i kind of mentioned this for preprocessing. ecology will get a new staffing person to monitor the preprocessing and the equipment to make sure it's up to par and

will advocate for different cameras if that works. my most favorite part of the rate process is the trash processing pilot. we are moving ahead with that and taking in 1300 tons of trash and bringing in to san lleandro management facility where we will start this processing and will begin smoothly and the pilot will start in october. we want it to happen before the rain starts because we don't want the holidays and the rain to affect the analysis, and the goal is to pull out as much recycling and compost of the organic residuals. i'm very excited. once we have that data, i will be sure to come back and that will be paid for with our new rate. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> all right.

would the chair like to hear from charles on the reasonable food service. >> let's pause for questions on this rate setting. >> thank you. >> next presenter. >> we have charles who will give us an update on the food service ordinance to eliminate unnecessary single use food service ware waste. >> hi. if you recall months ago you passed a resolution after hearing from our zero waste advocates calling on a resolution on the board to eliminate the use of reusables at our restaurants, large stadiums to promote the idea of mandating that restaurant,

places like starbucks must accept byo. bring your own, you bring your mug and they give it back to you so you eliminate that trash. so restaurants, byo for usables at the large stadiums and that resolution, i believe was further strengthening laws that we have on our books, laws that states have on their books that instruct the uber eats and grubhubs of the world to make sure that customers that are ordering to those websites can specify what condiments and what use they don't want so you avoid them throwing ten knives and forks when you just order for yourself. so you pass that resolution and ask the board to work on it. i'm here to say that we as staff

with members of the, with the mayor's office and potential members of the board have been working on that and we are close to kind of finalizing something and moving that to the board. so it's an update, and also a stay tuned and i wanted to give you a progress update on that. i'm available for any questions. >> questions? >> what's the timeline again? i know you say it's at the final process, but what would that timeline be like? >> i think we are going to be final sometime in the next month. >> oh good. >> okay. after you. deputy director. is there anything else? >> no, that's the full update. please let me know if there is any questions or anything we need to follow-up.

>> okay, any other comments? seeing none. public comments then. >> there are any persons in the room wishing to comment on this item? seeing none, we'll proceed to outside public comment. >>members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. >> seeing no callers in the queue, public comment is closed. >> next item. >> 13. new business/future agenda items. speaker: charles sheehan, chief policy and public affairs officer. >> this item is for discussion. >> thank you, commissioners.

charles shehan, chief policy and public affairs officer. >> we have all of next year in front of us that not only is this an opportunity for me to talk about what staff has planned and what we need to have come in front of the commission, but it's also an opportunity for you to suggest things that you would like to come before the commission that you are thinking about that say staff may want to work on and come back to you again through the commission. so, it's kind of a two way conversation if you will. so that's kind of an intro to what this agenda item is. but also in 2024, it's just around the corner and we typically end the year with a large blank slate for next year that we need to fill. your help in filling that slate is very much appreciated. so on that note and i will give you the opportunity to ask questions and ideas.

the next commission meeting is october 30th. and we are planning on bringing an update to our healthy eating eco chapter and our business plan that we have been working on and potentially dealing with the electrification of vehicles in the city. we are hoping that will be ready. and potentially if it's ready, the director's performance evaluation, if not the next commission meeting december 4th. i will pause for any questions to see if anyone wants to add anything. >> yes, one suggestion or request which is that we at some point here get a presentation on electricity storage and how san francisco compares to the rest

of the state and the fire department's concerns about storage and whether it's limiting residents of san francisco contributing to the solution of the climate crisis. >> sure. we are working on that issue right now and will have an update on that shortly. >> i want to make an announcement that i'm taking a sabbatical leave from mid-october to january 20th. after five years, i finally got a three months sabbatical. >> we are very happy for you. >> i'm sorry i'm going to miss the meeting. >> please, take the sabbatical. any other questions or comments or announcements on future

business? seeing none. let's take public comment on this item. >> seeing no members in the room lining up to speak, we'll go virtual public members. >>members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. >> we do have a caller in the queue. >> hello, caller, you are unmuted. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> finally. thank you. >> i want to know everything is off. anyway. i will tell you a personal

story. i don't know if you are hear it or not. >> yes. >> i have cancer. a friend tested for cancer. two people down the block have cancer. they are all working on -- my dog died of cancer. now poisoned with herbicide. i'm sure that this contributed to this thing. it was a comment on next door and this was generally ignored. and