what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco. good morning. secretary full are call the roll. >> good morning respond with here or present. >> harrison. >> present. >> hartwig-schulman is absent.

>> mogannam. >> here. >> commissioner simi. >> present and with 3 members present we have quorum for sanitation and streets commission. for member hos wish to comment from outside the hearing room. today you dial 415-655-0001 and upon the id access code: 2664 792 8851 ## note that you must limit comments to the topic of agenda being discussed. unless urn general public comment. if you don't stay on topic the chair may interrupt and ask to you limit your comment to this item. >> ask that comment med in a

civil and respectful american and refingerprint from profanity. address remarks on the commission as a whole not individual commissioners or staff. and public comments are written comments are welcomed at sas. commission @sfgov.org. we have the commission i like to thank you sfgovtv media services and building management staff for helping put on this meeting. mr. chair. >> are there requests to amend the order of this agenda? i have announcements. good morning and welcome. had a busy mont behind the scenes. got involved in float week and participated in very high

noticing events with dpw workers. but float week is not just about the blue angels and the air show it is the work what float week does foroir city and the support. impressed with the support dpw does. it does take a village and a federal and low village sometimes to keep our city moving and ensures of safety in times of need and leisure. i was heartened to hear 3 weeks ago a dp w staff members of attacked, correct me if i'm wrong. sudden early hours cloning un plaza. we wish them a speedy recovery and the quick response of other coworkers, again, we are a team and support each other and i look forward to increased

coprescription from sfpd to keep our people safe. that's the main goal to serve the people san francisco. >> that concludes my announcements. mr. fuller. i have brief announcements. so, the commissioner training module has been made available in each employee portal and the trainings need to be completed the end of december. i'd like to thank all the commissioners for take the valuable trainings and let you know i'm available to help troubleshoot problems with access or tracking. in completes your trainings. that is my announcement. >> thank you. we gallon to public comment. item one is general public comment.

members of public may address the commission on topics in the subject matter of the commission but not part of this agenda. and comments specific to an item on the agenda may be heard but pardon me. comments to an item on the agenda may be heard had that item is considered. members may address the commission for up to 3 machines and public comment may be continued if speakers exceed 15 minutes of general public comment. member who is wish to make 3 minutes of comment may lineup against the wall if you are call nothing dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2664 792 8851 ##.

there is nobody in the room and there are no caller. that condition clouds yes or no public comment. >> thank you. call the next item. >> item 2 is communication and the director's report. director carla short is here and had is an informational item. >> good morning, commissioner carla short interim director. i hope you had a good summer and red for fall. i are a couple topics today.

big, exciting news. that i wanted share. public works awarded a 12 million dollars federal grant to upon plant street trees. it will help our city combat heat and climate change. create jobs and access to nature in the city. the grant represents the largest award among california recipients to grow under biden's inflation reduck act. the funding is prosecute voided by the department of agriculture forest service and part of more hahn 1 upon billion in grant for canomys. in low income communities that beirut brunt of mrougz pollution and have the smallest member of trees the benefit are well documented make neighborhoods inviting and manage storm water. reduce air pollution. improve health and extend the

life of streets. provide habitat and calm traffic. san francisco's public works submitted the grant application, justice, jobs and trees. a san francisco climate solutionch in june. to advance employment and social justice the project will create approximately 100 new green jobs was that based on the full amount which was 38 million dollars. we got 12 upon largest award in california. we are plan to create as many jobs and w force development and positions hiring and training from the city's under served community. announcement come as we are getting red to launch the new street tree nursery next month located south of market on under utilized cal-trans land a hub

for the workforce training. urban foreevaluate real runs street tree sf for maintenance of the 125,000 plus street trees. that funding source is ear americaed for tree maintenance not for planting. the biden administration grant, ward will bolster our ability to support partnerships with nonprofit tree planting and care organizations. it is important to note that san francisco lags behind many large cities with the mallest tree canopy at 13.7% of the ground shelters by leaves and branchs. the average is 27.1 percent. san francisco canopy isy

inequally distributed. with the infusion. money we plan to target the tree planting in the tenderloin, bayview and south of market. i want to thank the urban forest team for pushing grant opportunity and john way who wrote the grant application and ushered it through to success. chair mogannam, we had an incident about 3 a.m. on september 30. one of our laborers was attack by a man who hit him with a skate board. our worker fell and hit his head on the brick walk way. taken to the hospital and released later that morning with a swollen eye and bumps and bruises off work for a week and

a half and he is doing well in the recovery from his injuries. i wanted highlight the heroic efforts of his supervisor who happened to be driving by as the attack was happening and he pulled over immediately. jumped out of his truck and rushed his aid using his roto alert dispatch to call the lease police. he shouted to the suspect to alert him the police were called the suspect did not back down and turned wrath on antonio and shoved him. he was able to detain the suspect and hold him until officers arrive they did in the take the suspect at the time we are working with chief scott and the team to follow up. we want to make sure he is brought to justice for the assault on 2 employees while they were working. after this, we put a new policy in place street cleaners over night work in per ses ask only work in areas with elevated and

street behavior change when is sfpd is present it protect them. our crews have an important job we want them safe >> lastly, i wanted let you know we had a good love our city beautification event on saturday september 6 in russian hill, north beach and mid polk. volunteer working with our crews planted trees and painted graf fittee the bigger project to rirn in the ivy at the stairway garden a major under taking. filled a back of a truck with the pleasant in a couple hours and remained covered but a lot neater. next saturday on october 21, we will be in westportal and other district 7 neighborhoods. i hope can you join us. start at 9 a.m. on westportal

elementary that wraps up my director's report. thank you. >> thank you and again, will be working with -- more cooperation from sfpd we can't have this happen to the staff we need to work safely and efficiently. i can't imagine being an efficient worker. and big shout out to antonio, the supervisor for his swift actions and his brave engagement. very important. and dloited hear about the trees i'm an advocate and at a symposium on the federal level and talked about trees i was thinking san francisco is lagging. we need that. this was involved military and other people part of the float week symposiums. amazing they got it down

granular to the trees. thank you. the commission have questions on the director's report. >> mr. fuller open comment on this item. >> members of public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 2 the director's report may lineup against the wall. if you are calling in, dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2664 792 8851 ##. >> we don't have members in person who are expressed

interest in speaking on this item. and sfgovtv is indicating we don't have callers who are interested in speaking. this concludes public comment. why further discussion from the commission. hearing no further discussion. call the next item. >> item 3 the minutes of this commission september 18th, 2023 meeting. this is an action item. and before any motion is made i'm happy to take questions or corrections to the minutes. >> are there corrections or questions? from the commission? i do hear a motion to adopt september 18, 23 minutes? moved. >> a second. >> second. >> thank you. we will go to public comment.

secretary fuller open public comment. >> members of public who wish to make 3 millions of comment on item threat adoption of the september 18, 2023 commission meeting minutes may lineup against the wall. if you are calling in, use the 415-655-0001, access code: 2664 792 8851 ##. we have no one in person and sfgovtv is indicating there are in callers. this concludes public comment. >> is there debate on this motion. all in favor of adopting the

minutes from september 18, 2023 say, aye. >> aye. >> the motion passed. secretary fuller call the next item. >> chair i'm not sure appropriate to request this but our superintendent is on his way we had a miscommunication would you be amenable to calling 5 out of order he should be here shortly. gi don't see a problem. >> commissioners. >> mr. fuller, how do we do this. >> we need a motion and i don't -- hear it out of order item 5 before item 4. >> i like to make a motion we hear an item out of order and item 5 before item 4. can i get a move.

>> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> item 5, which we are hearing out of order, the commission calendar of regular meetings for year 2024. i will present this report and provides the calendar for the 2024 commissions regular meetings and a prevow of the calendar was distributed and displayed at september 18th, 23 meeting of this commission. this is an action item.

>> and -- as now displayed, the commission has updates over the current years meeting calendar. we made a couple of changes one is that in january we would have a joint meeting with the public works commission in order to have a joint presentation from the budget team about the department's the department's proposed damage. and obviously this -- commission does in the have budget approval power but it is crucial this commission able to hear and comment on it and inquire about the direction of the department. and then for the most part the calendar reand mains the same meeting on the third monday of the month. aside if a couple of holiday

conflicts in february. or only in february. and then we also after our first year in business of trying to go full charge ahead in meeting every month when possible, we received feedback that may be we should adopt the calendar that is more in line with hat board of supervisors does take off late march and then not meeting in august at all and then also upon the discretion to take december off. we have plenty of meetings to get throughout business of the commission. but make it a bit less onerous on our volunteer commissioners and for the amount time it takes for department staff to and -- city attorney's office to prepare for meetings. so. >> this is the visual in the

packet that was distributed to commissioners and posted online is the resolution that commission team is asking for the commission to adopt so it would require motion to adopt the calendar for calendar year 2024. and then we will vote on this. >> thank you does the mission have questions on the calendar? thank you, i want to emphasize this january 22nd meeting even thewe are not a voting body with the budget and what not, numerous time i heard from chair warren and post that urincytokinesis ever valued to make informed decisions as well. really appreciate her seeing that and real takes a village. do i hear a motion to adopt the

meetings for 2024? move, seconded. >> begin the motion we'll go to public comment. >> members of public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 5 the calendar of regular meetings from 2024 may lineup further from the door if present in the chamber if you mean are call nothing dial 415-655-0001. use the access code: 2664 792 8851 ##. then star 3 to speak. and we don't have members of public in person. wish to speak on this item. and -- sfgovtv is -- sfgovtv

indicating we don't have callers on this item as well. that concludes public comment on the calendar. any debate on this motion. all in favor of adopting the calendar of meetings for 20 torsay, aye. >> aye. >> and any opposed. the motion passes. secretary full are call the next item. >> mr. chair i will post that approved calendar to the commission's website as well and distribute it to the commission. >> thank you. >> returning to the normal order of business with item 4.

is the bureau of building and street repair report and cement alexander the head of the planning and performance team here to discuss it? >> thank you. performance manager for public works thank you for your time. and this is an update of the staff measures for building repair and start with building repair and later with street repair. most of the data is on 4 fiscal year ending is the summary of multiple years of data. what this is showing us is this for fiscal year included what we have available for fiscal 24. 23 and 24 and highlight fiscal 23. and results.

for fiscal 23, we have about 3,000 corrected on projects received for building repair. this is significant increase from prior years getting close to what happened during 2020. for building repair projects, plumbing. painting and glass are the top 4. significant low pawns and showing most important. one with the highest number of volume of service orders and projects. total request for clients this , is important. building repair the bureau that depends on the work provide to other city departments and we provide services for most of them with police, library and internal and public works we will did work for real estate and mta.

police and library other main clis clients of building repair. >> and conversion count special rate a measure where we want to show the how likely are our work to be converted. we have been checking over several years how has been that trend. converted and estimates to projects. and for fiscal year we noticed that the conversion rate 56% for fiscal 23. closer average of the prior years. [inaudible].

>> good morning i'm matt the superintendent for bureau of building and street repair apologize there was confusion today when we learned. confusion we rushed over. i'm not sure where we are. on the conversion. you want to say -- we can discuss [inaudible]. sure. were there questions on the building repair performance measurements? if we can continue we may have questions at the end. thank you for prioritizing and rushing over. >> again sorry for you the confusion. so annual count of pothole service orders within 3 business days the current goals for filling potholes from 311 is we have 72 hours which they were reported to complete 90% of all

potholes within 72 hours. and you can see -- that -- according to this we are -- this fiscal year at 91% we have consistent low out performed the 90% for many, many years. i will say that i just made aware this month that the calculation for wing days has been changed. so this might reflect a little different low in future percentages. but you in this we are aware, we are -- staffing accordingly and prioritizing accordingly. thank you. and pothole repairs. as you remember -- last fiscal year was wet and rainy season. so you could see that there was a significant can increase.

it is over 30% increase in pothole repairs done last fiscal year. and -- again we did meet the goal last physical year to exceed that 90% within 72 hours they mentioned this . ier it has been since july we are counting under 2,000. the projections are another wet winter. and i just e mailed getting sand bags because there was a rush on sand bags left year. we are plan to make sure we have sand bags in with that. also plenty of materials. we will continue to staff up for pothole repairs if there is indeed heavy rains that are expects. this is showing the response from the pothole crew.

so -- probably a year and a half ago. we create third degree pothole sweep crew. one crew they rotate throughout the districts. and every month they go from one district to the next. they are only travelling residential streets and small commercial streets not on the business streets the idea here is to get the potholes before they become larger. but also it is a small crew we don't have enough staff to put up traffic detours. you can see that with the proactive sweep. i third done in august are you

see in july they have done more. the course of the year we are finding the pothole sweep crew is doing between 25 and 30. fashl low because they are able to go in quickly and take care of them and get out and traveling down the entire street. so as they encounter them they are able to fill them. more efficient butt ever trues have list they are going throughout the city and not efficient. block paving. you see that last fiscal year we paved 122 blocks the goal was 120 blocks we exceeded that. this fiscal year showing 18 blocks the counsel is 26 as of last week.

and -- just -- so you are aware and i know we have been in discussions with this. there has been the enforcement of a policy existed where as we resurface or over laying street. we have to reference monuments. we are working with the survey group and that is slowing down our productivity. i know carla working with them close low.

some of embed in the the pavement and some are just as chiselled key in the curve face. and they need to be referenced. thank you. i knew them as markers but monuments i like that better. >> just a note on that. there is i state law that required we protect these reference point in the roadway of way. so we are trying to ensure that we are -- our survey crews get those referenced ahead of overhaul paving crews we are working on ways to stream line that efficiency to hopefully make sure we are not slowing down our own team. the next is showing other key measurements. so you see -- if we look at the

blue line, which is that? i assume for past paving? the square footage decreased and this is based on a projection. and i mentioned we are projecting now not to meet the goal that we set. for patch paving, it looks like we are going to be projected to be a little low. but that's based on when we paved so far and again this is the wet weather has in the happens idea. that may increase and change and same for voids and debregzs.

look at block paving one is about the goals you stated you don't think you will hit the gospel 120 blocked should be in 23-24.

sounds like you contract and dpw gets the contracts is the 12 to show the difference in who is doing the work whether employees our outside contractors hopeful low they will incorporate that. >> we can do that and we manage

the city's paving program wore general low issuing the contracts the delta when we do in house our goal first and become out when we can we ford to do with contractors beyond that. >> i had one question. this was like not able to deserve what fast does versus dpw. president hole, small or like on fillmore this was puc most low but i imagine we surface them example for clarity for people listening that's why dpw would do this under contract? >> yea. the division is -- bureau of street repair does most of the potholes in the city. those are the as needed response

to conditions. if there are lets of potholes or they have multiple going become to the same block multiple times they refer that to the public works side of the house where they dot design for streets and then they dot contracting for paving. so, they will handle issuing most of the contracts paving comtransplants. do designs necessary for bureau of street repair if than i did i large are project engineering. if design is required they will do that. one thing the advantages we have to paving in house with street repair is yes or no low they don't have to have the level of engineering design an outside condition transactor require its is cost effective that is why we want to mack myself when we do in house. then public works side handles engineering and the designs for

curb ramps installed with 55ing and issue those paving contracts. we do have of course, the goal of the city is to bring other departments in. so if we have, for example a planned sewer replace am puc notifies us and we arage paving around that. we are working of course the fillmore green water main break was notice a planned situation and we are doing the surveying now that is required and we are doing the design work and hand that over to puc and their contractor will do the final pavement restoration. >> thank you. the other thing i add if okay. so we are doing the pothole repair citywide including repair of mall sink holes credited by last rolls or sewer mains.

we do staff an after hours supervisor who will get called out throughout the evening or a weekend it sdraesz address the small sink hole and have i approximately we give i among low report 3 times or more and puc go out and staff to look to determine whether additional w should be done. there are some let rolls remain that sink that because a failure. puc is sdmrmd than i take action. >> thank you. i believe we talked about commissioner sip and he i discussed about getting more guarantee lawyer and w with to you get better. i think hopeful low going to get you on to try to meet and do more reports. we are developing the reports

and you know, good crooperative so i can understand. thank you. any further questions. mr. full are public comment. >> members of public who wish to make 3 minutes of comment on item 4 the bureau building and street repair performance measure report. may lineup further from the door if present in the chamber. if you are calling in, dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2664 792 8851 ##. we don't have anyone in person to speak on this item.

and sfgovtv is indicating we don't have callers. this concludes public comment on item 4. >> further questions or debate? thank you. >> call the next item. thank you. >> and our next item is 6 since we heard 5 earlier in the meeting. item 6 is new business by commissioners an opportunity for commissioners to announce and raise topics to be added future agenda this is is an informational item. any news from commissioner, simi? >> i wanted one thing, left time you asked about staffing levels and i know this secretary fuller you sudden an e mail staff is wing on this. thank you. another alined conversation with that is pregnant this would be

helpful to understand is -- before the budget discussion in january i think the mayor did announce mid year cuts left week. and what impact a funded department will have on sas would be helpful to know anything in a conversation with the budget. november or december >> when staff know what the idea will be will be helpful for you to be informed through an item or memo. either way. >> thank you. nope. no further questions open public comment. >> members of the public who wish to comment on item 6 new

business initiated by commissioners may lineup or call 415-655-0001, access code: 2664 792 8851 ##. we don't have member this is propped in person. and sfgovtv also indicated we don't have callers on the item. this concludes public comment on new business. >> thank you. mr. secretary. further business? >> there is no further business on the agenda. >> we will jump off of 7 and say hearing no objections i adjourn this meeting. will meet november 20, 2023. thank you, everyone.

>> we can sweep by in front of a house in a matter of seconds. the only people who don't like it are the people who get the tickets. >> this is a street sweeping sign. don't let it get you. pay attention. [♪♪♪]

>> in the morning, when we first go out, we start at six in the morning or seven in the morning. we call that our business run. we sweep all the main arteries of the city. after 8:00, we go into the residential areas and take care of all the other customers. >> the idea with the street sweeping program is to get the leaves and the debris off the ground. >> we -- for not only appearance and cleanliness but safety as well. >> we will get anywhere from 2- 7,000 pounds per truck depending on the season and the route. the street sweeper and the choice of the use right now is an error sweeper. they have a motor in the back and it blows winds down one side and carried by air into the hopper. what will mess this up is new -- large pieces of cardboard or sticks or coat hangers. anything that is more than 12

inches. the tube on the tracks is only 12-inch diameter. >> people asked what they can do to help to keep the city clean. there are people that letter. leaves are one thing. any of the garbage you see is from people being careless. [♪♪♪] >> one cars parked in the way, we can't sweep under the congress. to deal with this, we have parking control officers that are provided by m.t.a. and they go in front of our sweepers and pass out citations to people that are parking the wrong way. once the sweepers sweep past in san francisco, you may park behind the street sweeper. we all know parking is a big issue.

north beach hasn't been swept since the eighties because of opposition. but we are getting a lot of requests to sweep. basically our trucks are 10 feet wide. we stick the brooms out and they are may be 12 feet wide. >> there are a lot of blind spots when driving a large truck pedestrians and bicyclists and cars. and navigates this 22,000-pound truck through the city. >> we involve the public here -- to adhere to traffic laws. these routes were developed back in the eighties around the capability of the sweeper. things have changed since then so we have to adapt. luckily, public works is embracing technology and working on a system to alter our maps. this is literally cut and paste -- cut and paste. we will have a computer program soon that will be able to alter the maps and be updated instantly. we will have tablets in the

checks for all of the maps. we will send a broom wherever it needs to go and he has the information he needs to complete the safety. what is needed about these tablets as they will have a g.p.s. on it so we know where they're at. you do get confused driving along, especially the inner sunset. recall that to the be made a triangle. >> thanks for writing along with us today. i enjoyed showing you what we do and i urge you to pay attention to the signs and move your car and don't litter. with all >> in the bay area as a whole, thinking about environmental sustainability. we have been a leader in the

country across industries in terms of what you can do and we have a learn approach. that is what allows us to be successful. >> what's wonderful is you have so many people who come here and they are what i call policy innovators and whether it's banning plastic bags, recycling, composting, all the different things that we can do to improve the environment. we really champion. we are at recycle central, a large recycle fail on san francisco pier 96. every day the neighborhood trucks that pick up recycling from the blue bins bring 50 # o tons of bottles, cans and paper here to this facility and unload it. and inside recology, san

francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the

waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it is cheaper for the oil industry to create new plastics and so they have been producing more and more plastics so with our ab793, we have a bill that really has a goal of getting our beverage bottles to be made of more recycled content so by the time 2030 rolls around t recycle content in a coke bottle, pepsi bottle, water bottle, will be up to 50% which is higher thatten the percentage in the european union and the highest percentage in the world. and that way you can actually feel confident that what you're

drinking will actually become recycled. now, our recommendation is don't use to plastic bottle to begin w but if you do, they are committing to 50% recycled content. >> the test thing we can do is vote with our consumer dollars when we're shopping. if you can die something with no packaging and find loose fruits and vegetables, that is the best. find in packaging and glass, metal and pap rer all easily recycled. we don't want plastic. we want less plastic. awe what you we do locally is we have the program to think disposable and work one on one to provide technical assistance to swap out the disposable food service to reusables and we have funding available to support businesses to do that so that is

a way to get them off there. and i believe now is the time we will see a lot of the solutions come on the market and come on the scene. >> and is really logistics company and what we offer to restaurants is reasonable containers that they can order just like they would so we came from about a pain point that a lot of customers feel which wills a lot of waste with takeout and deliver, even transitioning from styrofoam to plastic, it is still wasteful. and to dream about reusing this one to be re-implemented and cost delivery and food takeout. we didn't have throwaway culture always. most people used to get delivered to people's homes and then the empty milk containers were put back out when fresh milk came. customers are so excited that we have this available in our

restaurant and came back and asked and were so excited about it and rolled it out as customers gain awareness understanding what it is and how it works and how they can integrate it into their life. >> and they have always done it and usually that is a way of being sustainable and long-term change to what makes good financial sense especially as there are shipping issues and material issues and we see that will potentially be a way that we can save money as well. and so i think making that case to other restaurateurs will really help people adopt this.

>> one restaurant we converted 2,000 packages and the impact and impact they have in the community with one switch. and we have been really encouraged to see more and more restaurants cooperate this. we are big fans of what re-ecology does in terms of adopting new systems and understanding why the current system is broken. when people come to the facility, they are shocked by how much waste they see and the volume of the operations and how much technology we have dedicated to sort correctly and we led 25 tours and for students

to reach about 1100 students. and they wanted to make change and this is sorting in the waste stream they do every single day and they can take ownership of and make a difference with. >> an i feel very, very fortunate that i get to represent san francisco in the legislature and allows me to push the envelope and it is because of the people the city attracts and is because of the eco system of policy thinking that goes on in san francisco that we are constantly seeing san francisco leading the way. >> kids know there's a lot of environmental issues that they are facing. and that they will be impacted by the impact of climate change. they will have the opportunity to be in charge and make change and make the decisions in the future.

>> we are re-inventing the way the planet does garbage founded in the environmental ethic and hunger to send less to landfills. this is so many wonderful things happening in san francisco. i feel very fortunate and very humble to live here and to be part of this wonderful place.

1234e7b welcome, everyone to the 35 and heritage month at city hall i i'd like to 2457k i take it and the san francisco sister committee and my office and before we begin i'd like to call up a dear friend and intruder member of our italian county to sing the national anthem of the united states and i take it >> (clapping) since we've sunk the