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commented submitted via email will be committed to the commissioners. i will now call the roll. president ahg. >> here. >> vice president juan is excused. >> here. >> commissioner hunter >> here. >> commissioner sullivan. >> here. >> commissioner tom kins. >> here. >> we have a quorum. >> next item. item 2 this item is for discussion. >> good morning, we occupy the unseeded and homeland of the ramaytush ohlone. we honor the people for their en during commitment, mother earth and indigenous project order, ramaytush ohlone have never lost or given up their as care takers of this place.

we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. as you know invited guests, we wish to pay our respects to the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community. commissioners staff, members of the public, welcome to today's meeting. our as planet continues to grow hotter and hotter and our hurricanes even stronger than ever. we just witnessed last week by the hurricane oatis in southern mexico and we encounter climate change everyday, we acknowledge our work here in the city. before we begin, i want to extend a warm welcome to new

commissioner, and commissioner gwynn, would you like to introduce yourself. >> resident of san francisco 25 years and i started a program on how to keep the city clean and pollution free. and we organized over 18,000 clean ups, removed close to half a million of trash. and you ain't see nothing yet so i hope people come join us and and spread the word. it's action that makes a difference. this is a way that you can do it. thank you very much, and i look part to serving the commission. >> glad to have you. [applause] >> also commission members to commission sub committees aftercareful consideration, i decided to appoint thom kins to the committee. i know that they will both

bring their knowledge to the committee. thank you for your service. we have a full agenda this evening. so let's get started. >> let's begin with public comment. >> we'll begin with public comment. are there any members who wish to comment on this item? if so please come forward, one by one and speak clearly on to the mic. >> good evening, first time i address this commission, right. i treat my agenda otherwise, wiefb talking about the commissions since last february. it's becoming more and more. rule number 1, these guys, i'm watching you 24-7, i know what you're doing all the time. so first thing to pay attention

to the guys, these guys, -- ~>> excuse me, we do have general public comment on item 4, this is on the message specifically. item 4, please. >> speaker: i don't know what you said, welcome. next, sorry. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment? and seeing no further comment to the room, we'll move on to remote public comment. just one moment. members of the public participating remotely should now press star-6 to be added to the queue. and seeing no other callers on the queue, public comment on this item is closed.

>> next item. >> item 3 is approval of minutes on september 26, 2023, commission on the environment special meeting. this item is for discussion and action. >> any discussion or changes commissioners? if not, do i hear a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved. >> all right, we have a motion from commissioner hunter. >> seconds. : >> second from commissioner romejo. >> are there any members in the room that wish to speak to this item? seeing none, we will proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public participating remotely who wish to make a comment to the item, should now press star-3 to be added to the queue.

and seeing no callers on the queue. public comment is closed. >> call the roll. >> commissioner ahn? >> aye. >> commissioner hunter. >> aye. >> commissioner tomkins. >> here. >> commissioner yuen? >> aye. >> with that, the motion passes. >> the next item is general public comment. members of the public may address the members on matters not on today's agenda. welcome back. >> speaker: okay, we need a smile now. i don't see you a smile, oh yeah, but it's very good. we need to push responsibility and critical thinking. i'm sorry, my friend, the mask does not help critical thinking. never mind.

the guys are watching, no matter what, they're watching for me. i'm frefrmg, you can tell, i'm an artist, does not really matters i've been here for years. san francisco can set the president step by step. i just want everybody to be happy, using, remembering the concept that you, happiness is your reason for being, on this to be right. and you need to focus on these what is called, emotional to welcome beauty. you cannot set up, you can set up beauty. it's a mind set. so exude any lie any anything.

we're stuck. it's going to be tough to get out of it. i'm gun to give you an example, so there is no zero in the university, it does not exist. so when you hear a project pushing to ward zero, it does not exist. everything comes from something. there is not just a thing, there is always something that creates something, what is the question? so the zero is already a misconception, i don't know where it comes from. that's the way it is. based on the wrong system of education, that's been going on for many two ways, i think. 1776, after even the french revolution, so we are in the deep, so we must wake up in a way. no zero. first, the other thing i want to arrest, is that everybody

knows that 3s, carbon dioxide. where us when there was humans, i think. so was it the problem; we'll discover from? this is a facts. so if we want a good environment, we have to understand that the trees need carbon dioxide, there is a problem here. it's obvious, pay attention, please. >> thank you for your comment. are there any additional members in the room who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, we proceed to remotel public comment. and members of the public participating remotely wish to make a comment on this item, should now dial star 3 to be added to the queue.

and seeing no callers on the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> thank you, next item please. >> the next item is item 5 presentation of the joehannah wald environment service award. >> i have the distinct honor to issue tonight's award to cara gurney, to put it simply, you've been an icon. the work that you've done, has lead the department to the places we did not think possible. it's not an easy feat and it's not something that anyone can do. and i want you to recognize the impact that had you in the community and the department in this department. helping thousands of businesses

transform their business models, more importantly the near 150 individuals who you helped bring in, mentor teaching row, to become better versions of themselves as a lasting impact beyond anything else. i like to keep these remarks short, but i want to say that you are instrumental in where we are today and i cannot say thank you enough for all the work that you've done. i hope you enjoy your retirement because it's well earned and well deserved at this point. [applause] >> you're welcome to say a few words. >> hi, thank you so much. i am, deeply honored to say the least. i'm very lucky, i'm very lucky

that i ended up at the department to be honest. for those of who don't know me, i applied for a 9-month position and i have been here was there for 14 years. which is amazing. and during that 14 years, i, found myself playing multiple roles. and so i think, i just want to say a few things because i know you've been through an entire day of work including the people behind me. and i promised a couple, notice i didn't say one or two because i don't want you to count. i want to say thanks back to you. first and for most, i had the 9-month position, the department decided to invest in the program that i was with. thank you, otherwise, i would not be around today. beyond that, the department

also challenged to step beyond even managing the environment now program. and challenged me to do other things like marketing and advertising, who knew, i would lead multiple marketing and advertising department. the department challenged me to step up when policy was needed. so i worked with the zero waste team and collaborated with others and figured out how to best implement policy. it was pretty amazing. so, i want to thank you for challenging me to step up into roles that i never knew i would be in, never knew i would be interested in and i'm much better for it to say the least. and finally to say the thank you i want to say about environment now. you're absolutely right. environment now, means so much to me and so much to this department and i'm so happy that i've had the opportunity

to, bring it from its infancy to i would say, it's young adulthood. with eric and david at the heal many. --healm. i also want to thank the people who worked on that program. honestly, i cannot take full credit for it. i cannot take full credit for all the things i've done at the department. it required a lot of people and effort behind me and to the side and sometimes in front of me. i would really like to thank, first david osmond for decide to go invest in the program. johnny, for fighting for the program to stick around for a really long time. pali, james, clark, i'd say any coordinator, dub miguel, now david and eric, everybody who

has done anything to move the program along, thank you. and most of all, i'm most proud of the impact of people who's lives we've had through the program. i was reminded at some my going away happy hour, and that was not all us. that was partly them. they came into the program and really had to commit. they had to put in 50%. we put in 50% together, we made 100. so thank you all. i really appreciate it. and yeah, thanks. [applause] >> at this point, we'll invite any staff to come up and speak and as they come up, maybe commissioners who want to chime in too. but cara, i'll personally appreciate you for your charm, and grace.

you've always been a really cheerful and great person to work with. commissioner. >> cara, i cannot believe you're going to desire, you so well deserve it. but thank you for how you reach out to communities and engaged them so that nobody is left behind. you take wonderful cultural things and turn them into fun and learning experiences and in particular, my favorite, la loteria game. people were learn abouting composting and while having fun, winning a prize. you're out there in the communities, making people feel that their involvement is also causing change. so thank you for all you do for thank you for inviting me to participate in some of those programs.

>> all right, maybe we'll move on to public comment at this point? >> are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item. seeing none, we'll proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public participating in remotely wish to make a comment, should now press star-3 to be added to the speaker queue. seeing no callers on the queue, public comment is closed. >> okay, for now, we'll pose for a portrait right there in the corner.

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>> all right with that, next item. >> next item is item 6, staff introduction. this item is for introduction. >> thank you, kyle, as we recognize the work of cara, she has paved the way to have people join to continue the work that she has in some way began. we're going to invite all the people here in person. i'm going to call you out one by one and if you'd like and if you're comfortable, you're welcome to say a few words to the commission to introduce yourself.

come on up, if you're a new employee. we've been busy in hr. first we have josh, as a clean transportation specialist. >> hi i'm josh i'm the new clean transportation specialist. and right now i'm working on the heavy zero emission blueprint for the city and i'm excited to work with you all. >> thank you, next we have andre, who is our assistant community assistant coordinator. >> buenas tardes, i go by adri and i go for she, they them pronouns, local san franciscans so i'm excited to to be here. shout out to cara, she hired me. i'm an assistant coordinator working on the environment team. thank you. >> next we have jason small. and jason is joining us as an

assistant community engagement coordinator. >> good evening, i'm jason, i'm the assistant coordinator. this is the second month in this department. i'm looking forward to work with every one in the department in the future. thank you. >> next up, we have augusta lewis who is joining the climate team. >> hi, i'm augusta and i'm a civic fellow and i'm working on the greenhouse en inventory, it's nice to meet you and i'm excited to be here. >> and we have taryn, who is our core fellow working on clean transportation. >> good evening, commissioners, i'm twairn i'm out of the office of the govern working under the leadership of assesstain on a proposal for collaborative for education

design using artificial intelligence. i'll also be working with the clean transportation with a focus in looking and being introduced to the bay view hunters point area. >> thank you. next we have a promotion from the department, ana went to our first racial equity coordinator. so filling in ana's role, i'm pleased to announce that jax will be taking over. >> hello i'm jabsingsinger, pro known or she and her and ella in spanish, and i was helping the program which i'll hear from over. and i'm taking over ana, i'm really glad to be here and also born and raised in san francisco. i'm really proud to work for this department. thank you. >> thank you, jax.

next we have jessica reyez, also a promotion internally who is joining us as environmental coordination. >> i'm jessica reyez, use she, her pronouns. i started today as the assistant coordinator. so i'm excited to be here. >> thank you, next kelly is who is our other climate action core fellow, working on zero waste. >> hi, i'm kelly zhang i'm a core fellow serving on the zero waste team, my area is food recovery and i'm excited to be here working for the department. thank you. >> next is valerie vines who is our municipal assist apartment coordinator. >> good evening, my name is valley vines, i'll be assisted shoba iron on the management and buy green teams as an assistant coordinator. >> and then last for in-person,

we have william jen who is our environmental associate. >> i'm environmental out reach associate and the team that cara founded. and i'm also a sf native and i'm excited to work here. >> and we have one person who is remote, lauren crane who will be assisting peter. lauren? >> hi every one, i hope you can hear me, i'm lauren and i use she, her pronouns from the eco team. like you said and i'm part of the urban environment and also a student in uc san francisco studying politics. it's so exciting to be here. >> thank you, lauren. and commissioners, that concludes staff introduction. so let's greet every one with a round of applause. [applause]

>> and as a note, because i know it's really awkward, if you need to leave and you're just for the staff introduction portion, feel free to get up and go out, we're used to it, don't worry about it. go home, do what you want to do for tonight. >> totally fair. >> any other discussion commissioners? if not, public comment, please? >> are there any members from the public who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, we'll proceed to public comment. members from the public who wish to make a comment on this item should now press star-3 to be added to the queue. and seeing no callers on the queue, public comment on this item is clodes. >> next item. >> item 7 review and vote on

whether to approve resolution file 2023-13, cqe, speaker is alina beckerman. this is for discussion and possible action. >> thank you, kyle. and just a reminder, this commission set a policy to ensure transparency. approval of grants over $100,000. however we made it a practice to bring all outgoing grants just in the interest of transparency and to see where the resource right side going to and for the commission to meet the organization that's are involved. and so tonight, here to present on a zero waste grant, is alina and she's going to tell us a little bit more on this grant. >> good evening, director jue and commissioner thank you for hearing us here.

i'm alina, and i have a sort member s*um reof the local motion known to the community as bike mobile was founded in 2013 and hosted nearly 3000 events throughout the bay area. a originally funded from the spare of the use climate initiative program from the metro transportation commission. local established local mobile and it's mobile bay area service with experts and mechanics, equipped to train the public on how to repair their bikes as well as providing resources, parts and accessories when possible to get folks on the road. the goal of bike mobile is to engage participants on hands-on repair process sxz to train them to make future repairs on

their own. the grant fulfills the climate action plan responsibility production and goal 3.3 and the grant offers funding for local organizations to provide repair, and clinic for free of charge to the public. so funding this particular program is coming from the impound dollars and the grant has an access to waste by keeping bikes out of the landfill and in public safety regulation. so the program itself, will run for the next three years and local motion will be bringing bike mobile to more than 30 local events in collaboration with the department, the san francisco public library and the public library eco center. and with us, today, hopefully we have tommy who can share a little bit more about the program. thank you.

>> all right, tommy, are you able to say a few words? >> yes, just a second had to get things turned on tl. thank you for having me. we're really excited to deliver this program for you all. we started this about a decade ago when i was sitting in front of a classroom and my job was to encourage children to ride their bike more often. and the programs we were running were okay, but i knew we could do better. so i asked the students, why aren't you riding your school. and a girl said, it messed up

my hair. and the second student said, my bike has a flat tire. and i thought, we're encouraging and promoting safety but we're not doing a lot to help people overcome barrier of repair and maintenance. so the bike mobile was born the first program of its kind in the country that we're aware of and it expanded into san francisco about a decade ago. and we've been doing about 10 to 15 events per year since then. and it's been going great, we branched off from schools and got into libraries and affordable housing. and it's been going really well. there is been a gap in the funding from all the transportation commission so this is perfect, it's going to keep the program going. and freddy coronado reached out about a year ago and said we want to hear a pilot, partner with you, so we did three pilot

event. it all went really well. it was mind blowing, we have an average of about 20 participants showing up and that's a good day. but i think because of all the extra promotion that the organization did, we had over 60 people show up that one day. and we were slammed, there was a-line around block in front of the library. and it looked like a sold out concert or something like that. and it was just great. so y'all, fantastic job of promoting it and coordinating and we're looking forward to doing this program with you. so thank you so much for funding it. >> and commissioners, i'll just add the 10 to 12 events, that we plan to hold are in the fix it clinics and partnership is we're going out to the library

branches and holding these fix it clinic where we're helping people to repair their clothing and also teaching them how to fix their bikes. which is more cost efficient and it helps plan it. >> thank you. any other discussion by commissioners? seeing none, maybe we'll open this up to public comment. well actually we need a motion first. >> i'll move approval. >> we have a motion from commissioner sullivan. >> second. >> commissioner from commissioner tomkins. >> are there any members in the public who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, we move to remotel public comment.

members remotely should dial star-3 to be added to the queue. seeing no callers on the queue, public comment is closed. >> please call the roll. >> mr. han? >> aye. >> ahn >> >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. n.commissioner yuen? >> aye. >> commissioner tomkins. >> aye. >> with that the motion pasz. with that the next item please. >> item 8 is presentation on chapter climate action plan sponsored cindy, climate program manager, 2021 action plan. this item is for discussion. >> hi, cindy. >> great, good evening, i'm cyndy comeford, climate program manager.

and here to discuss the climate action plan. if you develop the word cloud for all the feed babsinger the word trees and green spaces were ten times larger than anything else. this is a very important topic to our resident sxz department. we know that green space sxz nature, help climate change through carbon c is hequestration. we've had a lot of momentum in this area. which inspires leader, and have

nature fall cities. additional, some of you may have read in the chronicle over the last week, san francisco just received 14 million dollars to augment tree planting in the city over the next five years. so there is a lot more accomplishments and challenges. and i'm going to turn it over to our senior biodiversity coordinate er peter to present this evening. >> all right, thank you, cindy. thanks for having me. great to be here. good to be back. so i'll just introduce myself, peter brasstow, i've been with the department since 2012, i came out of decades old long, ecological restoration ster

gent movement and the idea was to let's really work together. that's what we'll talk about today when i talk about the healthy ecosystem. but i want to mention, for ten years, we were a program of one and now we're a program of two. jesus also works with me and i think he's sitting back there. i think, you can go to the next slide. so the opportunity for the healthy ecosystem chapter was something from my perspective because having been part of this movement for so many years, work withing for a nonprofit, i, you know, we've had, we had so many ideas, so many meetings over the years and so many advocacy and amazing projects. but how we paint a picture of a really bold vision for our city? so we've done that in the healthy ecosystem chapter and

that was what i wanted and that's what we got. so, it turned out pretty well, you know. it is about carbon is he quest tracing and storage. but you'll see as i'm talking it's about so many other things as well. let me check my note. you can go to the next slide, please. so, this is a really central part of how the healthy ecosystem chapter got done. inspired by a 2017 commission on the environment resolution. 2018, board of supervisors and gave direction in the work group via articulate vision, as well as basically laying out a framework. that's what we've been doing for ten years. but in 2018, we got a real jolt of doing more of that. so this, this structure was key

for the process of creating the healthy ecosystem chapters, excuse me, dry mouth. i should have brought some water, that happens to me sometimes. calm down, relax. so 15 agency wrz named in the 2018, resolutions. and i would say upwards of 8, 9, 10, definitely participated regularly in the process of vetting, our ideas, and you know, editing, language for the actions that we were talking about over the month, over the years really of producing the cap. and so, so really that was critical to how we got to where we are today with this spectacular, spectacular, chapter. let me just make sure i didn't leave anything out. so it was in the course of our monthly meeting with many people in the room but also

lots of one on one. i sat down with the interim head of works and she was still, before she went to be the head of the public works, she runs the urban forestry. so we went through all 7 actions that are forestry related and work together to make sure, she and her team and serve en were fine with those. so it was a very collaborative process. next slide. so the results were strategies which you'll see shortly and 32 actions among those strategies. so you can see, so healthy eco systems, is equivalent in terms of its importance as illustrated on these, including water now so. that was really gratifying for everybody, here in the conservation community. and the, the weaving together

as well the climate crisis and the ban versity was something we achieved publishing this chapter as well. next slide. okay, i guess, i can look over there instead of looking to my left. and also i want to make the point that as i kind of said earlier, that the restoring healthy eco systems planting, trees, you know, revegetating our landscapes whether they're natural or parks and everywhere is not just about carbon, although, we want to do our part. it's about all of these other elements, so i called it the healthy ecosystem solar systems with all the benefits that are important, nature right where you live and for the benefit of all of our native plants and animals. next slide. okay, so these are strategies

and i made sure i printed them them out, so i make sure i have them when i'm talking. i'm going to go through some example beings from each of the strategies. and, and so that will give you an idea of each one of them and how they sort of fit together. this list here, is the order in which they're presented in the chapter. it's not necessarily, like a chronological order, but there is some logic in that the first strategy is really a sort of, it's kind of a planning and research and, kind of an organizational set of elements, set of actions to create a framework for implementing all the actions in the chapter, that's why that is one is included first. okay, you can go to the next slide, kyle thank you. this is our very first action. for strategy 1, which is advance city wide collaboration

to refine climate solutions, strategy one. 1.1 is the water shed study which is basically commissioned by the puc when we started working on the cap and essentially had two goals. one was to characterize the carbon storage, the current carbon storage, it's the largest land holding of the city. as well as to, to kind of layout some recommendations for what are the potential ways that we can store more carbon on the lands. and so it's really an incredible report. we just made a presentation at our climate action plan to all the other departments recently. and it really laid the groundwork for understanding across a whole range of

systems, actually, you can go to the next slide this. shows the relative contribution of carbon storage sequesteration, among all 6 seek o systems. and so, this was a kind of a first of its kind, products certainly for our city and a really, great start and a great reference point for us to think about, how do we talk about, what are, what restore nationally systems do for carbon in the city's land. so we're really happy with that study. you can go to the next slide. strategy 2 is a long strategy, no, do i have it written here. so that's increase participation, including meaningful, sorry.

my writing, meaningful, efforts to prioritize indigenous science--i don't have my read glasses either. we have three actions and this slide is kind of representing two. the first action 2.1 is really about, validating that we need to do equitable community out reach for all of the greening projects that the city does. and then, in addition, 2.2 or 2-2, is the idea to create an inter--so we have the working group which is within the family if you will but also going out to all the other callers and, n g.o. colleagues and really, creating a broader network of folks working together around restoring bader he iserity. so luckily what happened

recently at cad maoe, stare headed this reimagining san francisco, we got some press and had a great lunch event in the roof of the academy. we're now looking at 32 organizational to be our opportunity for implementing not only these out reach and engagement strategies and collaboration, but much of what we want to do in implementing the eco health chapter. these represent the folks, who have been involved in this work for 30 years. . okay, next slide. okay. so this is, strategy 3 which is natural lands so i get the opportunity to showcase treasure island, some of you know, i spent about a third of my time supporting the authority implementing the habitat for yerba buena island

will look like in 15-years time or so. so we, basically, we basically, i talked to the colleagues out there and said, hey, how can we quantify, what we're doing out in treasure island and yerba buena island? so and that's unfolding and we're doing a lot of great work. we just completed two big storm water gardens. so you'll hear more about that and i'll come back and give an update on what is going on in the islands in the near future. you can go to the next slide. thank you. so this is, strategy 4, optimize management and so the action that we wanted to highlight here, is basically our effort to, promote, to

create and promote guidelines for tree species selection. so is heading that up as coordinator work with urban forestry council. so that we're selecting trees tlut lens of bad adversity, heat island and shading et cetera. so we're not just, selecting trees, you know on a whim or just what a neighbor wants. we want to have the framework for which trees we select and which species so that's that item. next slide. and this strategy is max trees. this is a really exciting project and action and so the action is, maximize where vegetation is appropriate, planting other native trees

throughout the entire realm. sol this map shows all the points on the map of all the oaks that are planted in san francisco. so coast live oak is our most common trees. and we have 500, i think over 500 individuals in just in the street network, this does not include the parks and natural areas. we want to do more of planting native trees throughout the city, throughout the public realm. sol this is a proj that shows that we're literally collecting data on every single one so that we can help drive decisions about where to plant and where to plant it. next slide. trying to get through this. i know we've got a couple big items here. strategy 6. this is strategy with 8 actions, there is a lot here. i'm going to highlight two quickly.

local into the built environment. in order to do this work, in order to create adversity, we need local native plants. and so we put that action into the cap as something, what does it say? it says, create a city owned and manage nursery that supplies annually to city agencies, good enough. and so, this is an imagine of absolutely ledge, literal see for environmental justices, this is actually a relatively old photo because they doubled the size of their nursery, they're a big grant and they're going to continue to be one of the big leaders throughout the city. but this action is specifically to create a city owned native plant nursery which we don't have. rec and park has a nurse' in golden gate park, but you may know the location, it's memorial grove and a big fenced off area. i recently talked to rec and

park and confirmed that they don't have increased capacity there. so this action is to find a new site to create a new nursery so that public works, and maybe rec and park, like i said, they have their own site and other agencies can have a supply for all of their projects. next slide please. and this is, action 6-6 which is 2030, public housing site. this action was inspired by presentation that i saw at a california native study conference a number of years ago. this is a photo from the housing authority in los angeles to do pile it, locate at native plants at four sites in los angeles. good news, we're working on a grant, i don't want to spoil too much, i don't want to jinx

it but we have a grant and we have a meeting wednesday morning at hunters point and look at sites to do this very same thing. we are keeping our fingers crossed that we get big bucks. okay, you can go to the next slide. so i'm going to wrap up with this is strategy 7 which is conduct carbon farming pilot projects and research. and this is action 7.3 which relates black to action 8.1 so the action is appropriate as part as ecological restoration with snp sea lands. so these six actionsewhat were listed in the water shed study that i talked about in the beginning.

the idea is that now that we have this great report and information, the puc can now contemplate doing further action on their lands to, to not only restore adversity but. and then you can go to the next slide. and i'll wrap things up. however, there is a interest caveat na is interesting to bring. one of the things that we learned from alameda water shed study and this applies to the map that you just saw, in the southeast bay area, so the logic right of the cap is was that we, we mitigate 90 percent of ghg by 2040, right? somebody correct me if i have the dates wrong. and the remaining 10 percent we

take care of residual emissions. well, what this study, one of the conclusions of this study, it was estimated that, if they were to deploy all of the recommendations, among the six that you just saw and not counting liability and the cost and all of that, but if they're able to do everything recommended, the amount of carbon storage that we can get from that is actually, not ten percent but point 4 percent of, of that, of that you know, overall 100 percent of ghd emissions. that's interesting and good information. you've got to remember that the healthy chapter is not all about carbon but these other reasons that we restore nature but it's a ground true thing of what the city lens can provide. and there is lots of other

items about other ways that we can sequester carbon but this speaks to the alameda water shed land. and of course the city itself, the city lands and the city itself does not get to 25,000 acres. and i think it's important to bring up. so final slide, or nearly final slide, so, just wanted to kind of touch on, you know, the bigger picture a little bit when i'm wrapping this up, which is as i said, this is about carbon storage and is he vastation but it's really about redefining our relationship to the land. we've been doing this with for decades, we've been work withing people all over the state but we've had an extremely energetic legacy, culture of stewardship so we

want to expand that even more. if you you figure, we have hundreds of volunteers that get out on a monthly basis, we want thousands of volunteers getting out and experiencing. so me that's what the chapter represents is scaling that up. but in terms of next steps, we'll continue to look for funding and, you know, on that note, we're looking to the healthy systems chapter as a vehicle for increasing the program, so we went from one to two and hopefully we can double again before too long. >> thank you, peter. any questions? yes, commissioner sullivan. >> i just wanted to say, great presentations peter, eye catching slides and some good nuggets of information. among other things, good to be

reminded that the property is not just 7 by 7, but we have the water shed i did not realize how extensive that is. great presentation. >> yes, commissioner tompkins? >> yes, i appreciate the in depth preptation that you did. you talked about validating community out reach. what have you seen as the results of representation around the various parts of the city and do you see any areas for improvements or gaps that we need to close to ensure that we have presentation across the board? >> well, thanks for the question. of course, we can definitely improve and i think that's the point of action, right. i mean, the nice thing is, for me i feel a sense of warmth and

foundation and all the work that it's done in terms of community out reach and the focus that this department has on equity. it's great to stand here and feel, i'm part of a larger team that really has that as a strength and focus. and so, and i think within, and i can mention for sure without that reimagining collaboration, that's a corner stone of the organization as powses. really looking forward to that. and that's where we're going out on wednesday to hunters point, to work with the, and it's going to be a it's a fact minding mission really. we're able to engage, the leadership of the housing corporation and we're going to go out there and meet with them and say, what do you think about this idea? and who is everybody that we're working with to make sure that

it's going to serve everybody's needs. we're really excited about that. >> do we see any difference between the youth and adult population that is engaged? >> you mean? >> do you have any, like balance is it 40-60? 70-30? >> in my field, it's pretty balanced. i mean, back to working at the park service, we had iso in turns from back in the 90s and those folks are working in the skate capitol now. which is incredible to see them in a totally venues, you know, locations and places. where i met them when they were 16 years old. we've had a lot of use engagement within the conservation and search movement over the decades, yeah. >> okay, and one other observation, thank you for showing ledge.

they're a corner stone there in the hunters area. so you're talking about identifying a new site, just want to make sure that if there is partnership and collaboration with ledge until you phase in the new site that that is something that is being addressed so that the city has benefit of what is already there and can leverage that? >> can you, i'm not, -- ~>> so if ledge is already in place and already producing native plants. >> yes, they are absolutely are. >> that the city leveraging that that is exist already while you're trying to ramp on a new site? >> right, right, that's the idea. >> is that helpful? >> and there are other native planters in the city, sudro, they have the whole back yard network. but yeah, ledge is, i would say within the city, ledge is the leader in terms of capacity. >> thank you. >> thank you, excellent presentation.

thank you. >> thank you. >> yeah, quick question, i'm out there picking out trash a lot and i see a lot of volunteers. and i notice quite a few tree planters, is there any, program to identify all of those in the city? and plans to plant them? addition to taking them out? more concrete? >> yeah, for sure. so, let's see, i think it was in 2015, that we did the, or 16, that we did the inventory of all the street trees. so not only were the street trees counted and we came up with 25,000 which is more than i thought we had. but all the tree wells were counted for. and i think, the original, i can mention numbers here, because the original goal of the urban forest plan which was 2015 was 50,000 new trees. in addition to replacement, on

going replacement, 50,000 new trees. but once we did the inventory, we learned how many we had and soum room we had for more. and so that number got trimmed to 30,000 more in addition, so the full, you know, the full build out if you will of street trees is 155,000 trees, yeah. >> what is the bottle neck to get into that? is it fund ?g >> yes, absolutely funding, prop e, i cannot remember the dates of all of these things. but, that funding is a, is a general fund, set aside for maintenance, but not for any planting and so, so, buff and fuf and other n g.o.s are

jambling to plant trees. but as you heard from cyndy, public works just got a million for planting trees from that source, yeah. >> any other comments or questions? thanks, peter. maybe we'll move on to public comment at this point. >> are there any members of the public present in the room today who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, we'll proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public who wish to make a public comment to this item, should press star-3 now to be added to the speaker queue. and we do have one caller in the queue. hello caller, you're unmuted, your three minutes begin now.

>> caller: thank you, i have a couple concerns. first the biodiversity, i notice all disjointed, they have been throughout the years. there is the counts, council, there is a natural resource department at rec and park. so i don't see all of these places coming together to support the goals that you're talking about, like you said, you're only a team of one now two. so that's something that i'm concerned about that, i would like to hear how that is addressed. they don't really have any tees, it's more of an advisory body. another thing that i'm concerned about is the site for this new native plant nursery and what is the boundary, what is the barrier, not only to finding the site but where will that funding come from? where will the department will the staff come from?

will that be mayor set aside funding? i don't see a lot of movement on this. i know there is a new tree nursery that is planning to go in by the bay bridge, that won't, that may maybe have 4,000 trees, there should be another tree nursery as well, maybe perhaps on the west side. another issue, is even when trees get planted, a big issue has been watering. so it's been a waste of funds to plant these trees. but then they're not getting water, that's been, that buck has been passed back and forth and a lot of non profits. of which were involved in construction schemes. so i'm concerning about watering of trees and also the size of tree basins. a lot of people are concerned about climate change. a lot of these base ins are not big enough to plant shrubs, is

there a plan to create more wider base ins that could actually house a lot of these native plants? i like the plan on treasure island and yerba buena island, that looks great and drainage are great too. i'm not seeing a lot of native plants on our streets. so i would like to see this addressed too. that's probably my two minutes. yeah, there is a lot of que,z i'm just supportive of more diversity in the city. i appreciate your efforts but i see not a lot of wait and money behind it and i'm concerned that this keeps getting delayed. we declared a climate emergency here in san francisco but i don't see a lot of movement emergency wise, thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. if you would not mind identifying yourself, it's not required but i think i missed that.

>> oh yeah, i'm micah buck rogers long time ecologist conservationist and i've known peters since his early days. >> thank you for your comment. any other questions? --any additional comments? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> next item. >> item 9 update on green business program sponsor paulie ajeo. >> i'm pauli, i'm project manager for healthy communities team and i'm very excited to talk about the green program. i think we've spoken to the policy committee last. but it's great to see all of you tonight.

so, a little background about the program. the program started in 2004 and it grew out of an idea within agencies that we needed something that was recognition program, a carrot so to speak in addition to the work that money agencies do in compliance and work that we do, to so to speak spanishes bad actors. and that's what the green business program is, working with businesses to help them green their day-to-day operation sxz then really publicly recognizing them for their efforts. i mentioned, it's been around since 2004, that first year, we certified 7 businesses and since then, we worked with over 1,000 businesses and you'll hear a lot more about the changes that the program has gone through.

i am, going to introduce kevin, kumataka, he's the green business coordinator. he's been with the program for a long time working in san francisco for a long time. and also in sonoma county and also supported the green business network. we're not the only program in the state, but there is many. so kevin has really been working in this program in many place sxz has a good bird's eye view. he's going to talk about the program and its evolution and some of the exciting work this we've been doing over the past couple of years to make sure that it's accessible no matter where they're on their journey. with that, i'll turn it over to kevin. [applause] >> all right, thank you so much

for that, warm introduction pauli and that overview of the green business program. hello commissioners. i know a lot of you, this may be the first time you heard about the program so it starts with an overview and then provide an update on what we've been working on for the last three years. so our, current business program recognizes businesses for achieving high environmental standard and we promote their achievements. we work with businesses along the process and register for the program. we then conduct a site vision, and then follow-up with an action item to complete the recognition. during the site vision, we provide templates, signage, and identify any rebate opportunities. after the site visit, we provide regular check in to

help the business get to the finish line. and as paulie mentioned, we don't do this work alone. supports our program with marketing, administering our rebate and the host tracking, the website business use to register for the program and track the recognition process. and our--sorry next slide. and next slide. memorandum of understanding with a san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco department of public health to deliver the green business program. the puc supports the efforts, our waste water compliance and make our business to 100%

energy. the department helps by verifying businesses are compliant with health and safety code and storage and disposal standards. and next slide. and here's our jaim, it consist, the tlaoef us, myself, jax, who sadly this tomorrow will be her last day, and she will be greatly missed. and alejandra who came from an environmental now team and has a tremendous amount of expertise with helping businesses switch from single use items to reuseables. next slide. so we have three different recognition levels to work with business where ever they're at. the entry level is focused on low cost and low impact to help

the business save money and roughly 16 measures at this level. the certify level is based on environmental measures. and the innovative level is for leaders in the environmental movement and has four additional big impact measures, such as upgrading to 100% renewable energy or creating a five-year sustainability action plan. next slide. and now, quickly highlight the six audit areas of our checklist. the energy the looks at reducing energy usage such as scheduling regular maintenance, and switching from energy inefficient to led. next slide. in the pollution prevention section, we find businesses

find al na tiff to reduce their employees and environment exposure to harmful chemicals. next slide. in our water section, we provide free devices for bathroom and kitchen sinks and ensure that the flow for all water fixtures meet our green business standards. and for large water users such as hotels, rerequire a comprehensive water audit from the puc. in the solid waste section, we look for opportunities to reduce waste generation, by encouraging reuse and reducing single use items. and educate staff to properly sort within our three-event system. and next slide. in the transportation section, we educate employees about clean transportation options

and provide info about our emergency ride home program. and next slide. and the last section is about community, which is engaging the community ensuring the good work that we do. employers are asked to educate employees by distributing green resource guide and asked to develop policies that institutional green business measures through the environmental statement. next slide. and businesses are complete, the green business process are recognized for four years and get many benefits and these include relief, we put them on associate media sf green business directory. they get a certificate of recognition sent by mayor london breed and the logo where think he can use on their store

front, website or marketing materials. and next slide. and in total our program currently has 4 19 recognized businesses mostly recognized in the office retail sector. and this number fluctuates because many businesses moves or close or expires. since our program began, we're happy to a recognize that our program has recognized over 1,000 businesses. and we've worked with many more businesses but those are the ones that were able to start the process and complete the recognition. businesses in the other sector category, that we work include auto repair, construction, dental stores and garment cleaners, mail salons and remote offices. so we work with very diverse

type of businesses. next slide. while the team is proud of the business, we're leading with equity because we're a city program and we're meant to serve all businesses in san francisco. not just those that have the resources to implement green practices. for those of you familiar with the program, we use today have one level of recognition that focused on those implementing their best management practices. but this meant we were mostly work withing businesses commit today sustainability. starting in 2018, we launched a program so it can support all businesses where ever they were on their sustainability journey. next slide.

and to help businesses, for the last three years, we've partnered with entrepreneurship and bay area of black owned businesses. they have trusted relationship with bay, hunters point, lower fillmore and visitation neighborhoods. they also recruit businesses by--inviting us to merchant association meetings, highlighting our program in newsletters and making personal phone calls to businesses. additionally our program is providing predates which are expenditures that our team makes for the business. and rebates to help the

businesses achieve recognition. the advantage of the predate is that it helps overcome the financial and logitic al barriers to implementing some of the business practices. for example, we help ga lindo installation and moving services install new led lights by paying up front for their service. without the support, they won have been recognized as a green business. it will not only help them save money on their energy bill. but when i did the final walk through, the owner was really excited. he didn't have to go through thinks warehouse using his cell phone as a flashlight. next slide. and we also translated our premate flyers and all our

website material into spanish, chinese, tagolan and vietnamese. and by pulling many small projects together, it makes a small project worth while for the lighting contractor. picture here, completed lighting retrofit an incubator space located in hunters point. next slide. since beginning the corridor walks, rewelcomed communities, and art studios into the program. next slide. and through our healthy he quit

work, we've also worked to recognize our first nail salon as a business. this achievement was lead by jax in the business team. and this certification was recently featured. they were translated by mintu and nail salon purchased a ventilation unit which is reimbursed with the green business rebate. next slide. in the last three years, since we've been offering rebates. to 100 small businesses. they've completed 38 retro fits and recognized black indigenous people.

and we're not done. our recommendation for organizations we should work with, we would, we're always looking for new opportunities. next slide, thank you. >> questions, i have a comment. i've seen that since 2004 there is some that haver certified. >> we use the term recognized for middle level and then we have the three different

recognition, so we consider any recognition at the certified level or innovative level of recognition, and we have over 1,000. but since their certification, four years and businesses move or close. in this current amount, we have 4 19. >> okay. at the current moment. >> okay, thank you, that's helpful for that. and then, in addition, do we see more subsidies that are needed to support these and again, to drive towards, the results that you're seeking? >> yeah. i find the biggest constraint or barrier for a lot of businesses is the time and staffing element. the majority of the businesses that we're work withing small are small mom-and-pop operations. they're really busy, just, if it's a restaurant, they're trying to get their staff to show up.

they're filling in for their staff when nair sick. there is, there is 16 best management practices. and those are measures that impactful and also focused on helping those businesses save money. >> it still covers, six different audit groups, energy, water, waste, collision prevention but and, i would say, our staff is also been

incredible, jax is always like on the phone with these businesses, checking in with them, for a lot of businesses, it is, priority for them. but, you know, other things, come up and they want to get recognized but they just, it may fall to like a back burner type situation. so our teams, they're holding our hand and walk them through the recognition process. >> thank you. so, the staff that you have, are they doing this on a proactive basis? or are they waiting to be engaged by the businesses. >> yeah, we try to be as proactive as much as possible. and so, we schedule monthly, check in meetings, and, yeah, we'll put that like when we finish up one meeting with them, put it on a calendar so

we can have a regular check in and keep the process moving forward. >> thank you. >> commissioner sullivan. >> thanks for the presentation. i wanted to ask what the source of funding for the program is, and how many members of the department are dedicated to it? >> yeah, so there is four people including the preptation, including myself, jax, alejandra and our program manager, pauli. and our funding comes from part of it comes from the san francisco utilities commission. and then, some of it is funded through our impound account and some from grants coming from the state of california. >> got it. so with some of our programs, we live hand to mouth and programs go away, if grants don't come in. it sounds like there is pretty

dependable funding. >> yes, for staff time. our program funding comes from the public utilities commission. the grant funding that comes from the state of california, we received the last three years and we're really able to expand, our community membership and provide this, these rebate and predates to businesses. that funding unfortunately, is not going to continue this next year. but, pauli and i have been working with our program partners, or you know, green business touches on so many others, and we benefit so many areas. we're looking for alternative sources of funding as well. >> thank you. and i might had, a lot of work really does as indicated. it has to be that one on one actions.

and so all of that takes, i lot of effort. and absolutely, the more resources, we have the bigger this can be and there is a direct correlation there and the team does a great job with the resources they do get saying, hey we're out there talking about these energy programs, we're also talking about water conservation, so here's how it benefits you and your priority. we're trying to pull this altogether and it's really thanks to the great work as a team that we've been able to accomplish so much already. >> i would acknowledge too

that, that it's incredibly important, conversation around trusted partners and those in the community are already doing that work. that's clearly a contribution to success. >> and to commissioner, small businesses as mentioned, don't have a lot of time to go to, chamber events, a lot of things most of them are working in the business. i would be interested in learning more about the corridor walks, because i think it's a way to talk about other programs that small businesses might have access to whether it's grants or just different things that happen, especially, when we see disaster happening,

left and right, that they are also well versed. it's an opportunity it seems to not just talk about the environment but some other things that cause disruption in small businesses. i do have one more question, you mentioned that once a business is recognized as four-year recognition. and after four years, do they applied to be recertified? or do they drop out. >> somebody in our team reaches out to them, letting them know that their recognition is going to expire and we encourage them to move forward with the process. four years ago, we didn't offer the rebate program. here's an opportunity to improve your environmental sustainability, tap and journey, it's something that

we're striving to do more on even if you've been been with the program for 12 years. especially with new technology, like new, understandings just about toxic chemicals. we are trying to continuously push them towards improving and lowering their environmental impact. >> thank you. >> any other comments? questions? well seeing none, let's go to public comment. >> are there any members in the public in the room wish to go comment on this item? seeing none, we proceed to public comment. remote public comment. members of the public participating remotely, should now press star-3 to be added to the queue.

seeing none in the queue, thank you, peter and pauli. >> next item is item 10, update on environment department website. this item is for discussion. >> that was a great transition with kevin talking about about new technology. good evening, i'm strategist at sfg. the current sfe website was created in 2012 and we're very excited to be rounding out the final touches in a few weeks. we presented at the january operations committee and we're here today to update you on our progress and provide a near final product. decisions were based on research and metrics and

audience first approach focused on access ability and consistency and incorporating the brand we implemented last year. and with that, i'll hand it over to steven to present on the overhaul project in more detail. >> thank you, thank you jennifer. good evening, commissioners. jennifer, my name is stephen wilson, and i'm the coordinator for the department. and today i'm here to just provide an update on the overall of our new website. next slide please. just so get ground, i want to start with the new objectives. these are three objectives that you can see on the slide. first like jennifer mentioned,

we want to have a laser focus on our users. from the beginning, we want the designer to be user friendly. which is a easy to organize our content and organization with more care and make it easier for our visitors to find that information quicker. and we wanted to have a modern looking feel and also prepare to come in comply as with their dis requirement which stands for digital accessibility and inclusion standards. next slide, please. so a major mild stones, these are some of the strategies and tactics that we use to achieve those, to act on those objectives and i'll walk you through here. next slide.

so phase 1, like jennifer mentioned, we hadn't had an overhaul of the website since 2012. there was a lot of emotion sxz decisions to be made. so we needed a solid foundation to start from. and basically, what happened here, is that we recruited visitors to our website, asked them to complete a survey, asking them questions like, why are you visiting the website today? what information did you hope to find? were you successful in finding the information. on some of the users we were able to follow-up and have a more in depth interview over the phone so. this provided a lot of solid foundation for us to start designing and start receiving achieve back from staff and stakeholders. we also had a content audit and migration. instead of doing just sort of a blind bulk, migration of all of our content, i worked with each program team individually to

identify which, paid strategically made sense to them to also provide some quantitative data to them to show them which pages users thought were important. measured and paid visits, and so that is how we decided to migrate our content instead of just bringing everything over to our website and i'll present some of that later in the presentation, but those are basic black and white, mock up about the what the new website can look like. next slide please. phase 2, we did, we engaged with a lost external partners, some of those listed here in this slide today. we engaged with the sitting county of san francisco and their language translation team, and their department of research. we of course engaged with our

vendors l pads and design. and some groups that we were excited about, because they held usability testing for folks who don't speak english as a first language. and with lighthouse, they were able to test a prototype of our website with people with low vision to engage with digital products. so prototyping and development, was the sort of the last stage of this phase. and it's kind of stage we're currently in. it's a step up from the wire frame and it actually is, a version of the website that you can interact with and gives you more accurate results when people are testing it. next slide. here i'll just present some of the screen shots of what we started with when we started the project and what we're working with today. next slide, please.

so, here's some screen shots of the wire frame of the websites. some of the beginning stages. we wanted to design, mobile first, as almost 70% of our visitors with visiting the website with a mobile device, 67 percent. on the left, you can see some of the new adoration of what the website would look like. not many images, but this was the basic foundation. you can think of it as a blueprint, anytime you set out to, you need a blueprint first before construction begins. next slide, please. and so here's a preview of what the new website will look like on the right. this a preview of our home page, our default home page and

the new sf environment.org when visitors come to our website. on the left is a screen shot of what the home website looks like. just so you can see the evolution from the beginning to its current state. next slide, please. and here i'll just dive in a little bit deeper on the next few slides into what makes the new website special. so, first of all, we're, we're curating a different home page for each of our targeted audiences. so these are mobile friendly. so they can visit our website and interact with a fee that is relevant to them, instead of coming to our website and figuring out what our programs are, they can come as they are

and interact with the home page or the fee that is relevant to them. next slide please. we have some contents that are visually engaging but also accessibility. we didn't the user to use a lot of their data to access the website. next slide please. so on the new websites, users can now filter policies, meetings and events. now currently on the website,

we have a global search, so when a user visits the website, they can go in and enter in a keyword and everything will be returned to them, from campaigns and that is not always relevant to the reason why they're visiting the website. they wanted to make a more robust and offer it in a more granular, like our policy and events hub. next slide, please. and this is a preview that we're really proud of. it's, it shows our, utilities navigation above the header there and our language select or. so any user that comes to our site, will be able to select the language of their choice, their preferred language and we have each of the threshold languages, spanish, chinese,

talouge and we're including russian and vietnamese because our cs ordinance access identifies these two languages as emerging, threshold languages. so more people are requesting that materials be translated in russian or vietnamese, more people are calling to ask that, for directions and things like that over the phone and that they be translated into the two languages. so as part of research we identify that we would try to get ahead of the curve and add that as a part of the menu available languages. as you can see, it's a same user experience, so the website has the same look and feel, site wide, no matter what language you use. this supports our ratio quit goals, that can be he --reflected online for our

visitors. and it's how we're going to adopt to our users and rather than asking our users to adopt to our structure and what we have available, we're adapting to them. next slide. so, next steps. this is where we are now. next slide. and this is just, some of the feedback we've received so far. like i mentioned earlier, we have conducted usability test. so most the participants rated the design good or excellent. and many expressed their willingness to share the website with others.

so intuitiveness, useable, share ability were some of our main goals with this website overhaul. so this move on ut, we're still above budget. we're on our ledge timeline, to have it available to the public by the end of the handle year. we will refine the content to ensure that they're taking development and then make sure that i got migrated are really fine tuned and in top notch shape for the visitors. and we'll continue to test and improve overtime.

so we don't want it to be sort of like a said-it and forget it launch, we have a opportunity to look at the full cycle of content not just publish because it's the hot topic right now and still have it available on the website in a few years. so we'll continue to iterate, and improve through testing overtime. next slide, please. and that's it. thanks for listening. if you have any questions, i'm happy to discuss. >> i'm glad first of all, it's mobile friendly experience that is long over two. and one smriment compliment, i like the design language. i i think that's important. >> thank you commissioner. >> other questions, comments?

>> the comment, here's a phrase you don't hear often, budget and original timeline. [laughter] >> that was my first one. >> especially in government, but that could be a model for not only other departments but other cities as to residents especially with language variety of language can access information that is really easy to find. thank you for the presentation. >> thank you. >> all right, seeing no other discussion, let's go to public comment, then. >> are there any members of the public who are present that wish to comment on this item? seeing none, we'll proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public participating remotely who wish to make a comment should now press star-3 to be added to the queue.

seeing no callers on the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> thank you, stephen. [applause] >> thank you. >> all right, next item please. >> next item is director's report. tie ron jue, director, and charles and joseph piasecki. this item is in two parts. and update on the asia pacific economic corporation, apec summit. >> so i'll keep my comments simple, now that the commission is meeting monthly, we're going to do a verbal update every other month and then a full.

>> reporter:. this month will be a verbal update, next month you'll get a two-month report covering last month. just two items. one i did want to acknowledge that we hosted a workshop on the intersection on racial equity. and set the stage tore discussion and we thought it was a fabulous event. there is been some conversations that you may have read at the board of supervisors that they have suspended remote public comment. i bring this up as a point of reference. the main reason that the board chose to do that, they were receiving a number of call ins, and remote callers providing anti-semitic remarks. soy put that out as a

discussion, just as you're discussing how to move forward with your commission meetings and our remote comments. but to our main topic, i'm going to jump over to floor console tation. everything is on pause, we talked about consolidating our second floor to one floor to get some cost savings. that was contingent on a new lease. at the previous meeting, they felt that the rate was too high and so they directed the department of real estate director to go back and renegotiate a lower rate for the city or. two, to look at alternative sites where a the city may pro curiae building to buy a structure given that these departments are going to be here for a long time, in the long term is this a good place

to pro curiae building rather than continue to go pay leasing fees with ebb and flow when the economy recovers. so right now, it may seem cheat. five years from now, we could be in another economic boom and rates can double. so maybe this is the opportunity to get out of that cycle. and, i did want to do one acknowledgment for our departing dhr analyst, adam, i know he's not listening because he has other things to do tonight. but you heard from all the people that we hired, a lot of that was thanks to the work of adam. he processed over 104 appointments during his tenure here over four years, which is a huge number of appointments. each takes about 9 months so that number is really credited to him. he was able to get a promotion, so he's moving on to help the city still in terms of building

up that team. and so we're really happy for them and we're looking forward to the next analyst that is going to join our department. and with that, i'll turn it over to who is going to talk about our federal and state grants, because we've been really busy, as charles will note applying for a lot of grants. >> thank you, tyrone. i'm going to give an overview of some of the grants that we're going to talk about and some of the transportation team. so i'm subbing in for them and then my colleagues are going to talk about some grants that we have applied and won as well. so next slide, please. this is kind of our grant tracker of what we're looking at. and we've got grants that we've submitted, that we're preparing and evaluate thating we won from the federal government, from the state government and one came in a couple of days

ago from a professional organization so we're all over the map where we're applying and wing grants. tonight, specifically we're going to talk about four grants that we have won and those are mark, there, you can see in the winning amount, totals are 2 about 2.3 million and with a little luck, we'll continue to increase that number. if you submitted, as long as you did a good job on your submission, you may get it. the only other thing, i'll note is, i think in the beginning of the year we were more focused on federal grants but over the next month, we have four state grants due. so we're going from federal to state grants.

i'm going to go to my next slide, we won to pilot e-bike food delivery here in the city. next slide, it's a grant for about 506,000, and it's going to provide e-bikes and training to people who become part of the program and online calculate to help e-bike delivery workers as well. and ultimately the goal is for food delivery work inventories choose e-bikes and not cars. that's the ultimate goal. next slide, please. this grant is based on a cec grant, we won last year which had many components. and you can see the components there, one was to study the ethicacy of food delivery on e-bikes, again, e-bikes versus cars. and most of the grants that we applied for, require some sort of match, we want to see what you're doing to augment what we're doing in this grant.

and we're lucky with the cec grant so when we applied for the department of emergency, we used the grant as a match and they did that, they matched us, you know for about of 600,000 with 600,000 grant from the department of energy. so to be brief, studying 30 e-bikes participants, we're looking at the revenue, where they make deliveries, where in the city they make deliveries and we're studying that, versus the car control work. how did the e-bikes do delivering food, versus the car delivery, who does best and who generates more revenue? and the goal is that we can show that it's profitable and better sense to be on e-bikes versus cars. and so with the cec, we're

going to study 30 e-bikes participants. and with addition with the we're hoping to increase that number to 75 e-bikers. and then, i think that's my last slide. so i'm going to turnover to my colleague loel, who is going to talk about another department with the energy grant. >> good evening, i'm the program manager. this is not exactly a grant. this is a prize, we won 400,000 cash, they asked for our ach act, to deposit into the funds and this, next slide please, kyle. and this prize came from the u.s. department of energy building upgrade challenge and this challenge provides more than 22 million dollars in cash price sxz technical assistance to support the transformation

of existing u.s. buildings for energy efficiency and clean energy readiness. so upgrading buildings to run clean energy will help address our climate change challenges. next slide please. so the upgrade challenge is in four phases over 5 years. so we overcame the first gate, which is phase one, we're now in phase 2. so with the $400,000 cash, we're suppose to develop an implementation plan. next slide, kyle. we will go through those concern gates and if we pass through all of them. we will get another run of funding to do our piloting of our plan. and if we're successful, we'll get the grand prize. again this is several phases over five years. next slide please.

so what is our concept? it's called 200 by 200, fast upgrades, equitable outcomes? what is the challenge? there is a big push to replace our natural gas, water heaters with electric heat water heaters. and with the reason regulatory policies adopted by 2027, the sale of hot water heaters will not be possible. so we want to advance, accelerate equitable solutions to help those transition from natural gas to heat pump. so the solution is home improvement for every one program. sf hippie. so they're going to try to zero out the cost for the participant to install low voltage, upgrade avoiding water heaters as other energy efficiency measures that we'll try to integrate. so the objective again, is 200

heat pumps in 200 days within near or next to the community in our city. and the team is really excited, we have rising sun, we have technology and heat pump expert in quick carbon and then we're also going to solicit from the climate equity club. i will now turn to cindy to speak about her grant. >> thank you, loel. i have two grants that i'm going to talk about today. again i'm cyndy, the first fund is the ipm model for affordable housing. and the goal of this grant is to expand affordable housing, i

pm programs pest infestation. and also to build the capacity within affordable housing property han jer and maintenance staff to be able to do this work in the future. so this is a state grant from dpr, pesticide. we have a fantastic team that will be implementing this grant. it's a combination between our environmental justice team, our community partnership and engagement team, our toxic team and then we have a whole host of community partners, m.o. rcd. ucipm and more. and, so, as you noticed in the title, it says the expansion, back in 2014, we worked with rad sites, which is the

demonstration properties and this was a hud initiative to take public housing and transfer over to community developers. so we worked with them as they transferred over these properties and renovated them to make sure they did trainings. and during that process, we worked on retrofiting over 30 units. and after that, we got a grant to evaluate that whole effort. and through our evaluation, we saw a significant increase in pests and all of those units and take the best parts of the project and apply for this new grant. so this new grant, is going to be working with new affordable housing sites. we aim to, work on about 1200 new sites. and, this is integrated community pest management

project, where we do more module trainings, working with residents and property management. all with the goal of really, you know, reducing pest and improving outcome for the residents of, in affordable housing. >> cyndy, before you go, would you mind letting folks know what the acronyms stand for. >> sure, i said so much. >> m.o. hcd, mayor's housing, ccd, is a khien' community development center. ucipm, university of berkeley integrated pest management ramp, regional asthma, management project, i think they're regional advocacy. and pest tech, is the organization that does the pest inspections.

>> thank you. >> okay. and with that, i will try to do a better job on acronyms on the next slide. so the next grant is titled community driven action in ej, environmental justice communities. and the goal of this grant is to use community climate action to implement the action plan and to increase environmental justice to understand and act on climate change in order to improve our response and our services and ultimately to improve outcomes in these neighborhoods. this is a federal grant from the epa's office of environmental justice. it's a million dollars, you'll see a little asterisk next to the million dollars, we have not certified the contract but that's our expectation. it's a three-year timeline and we'll be working with our environmental justice, also

working with the planning department, the library and our anchor community partner, hunters bay view point, advocates. one thing that i'm excited about is we're going to take the information from the inflation reduction act and try to translate it into language that organizations can understand and take advantage of direct pay program so they can benefit from the large amount of money that is coming from the federal government. we're going also to have grants na come out of this program. last year, we initialed our grant program, we'll be able to use this money to augment that program and give incentives to the community around electrification. so it's another really excited project and i look forward to coming back and talking to you

about both of them in the future. thank you. >> so commissioners, do you have any questions regarding the grants? if you see a strong is making sure that it does have an equity focus and that we're putting the focus on in the communities that have been under served for far too long. and that's what has lead to the successful grant operation. we're really excited. we're leveraging every dollar to put multiple dollars back in the community. so we're happy with the progress we're making. >> other comments, or questions? finance, let's go to public comment. >> i believe we have another presentation from joseph piasecki. >> oh.

>> we wanted to give a brief update on the event in november. and joseph of our policy and public affairs has been our point person helping to coordinate a lot of our activities. >> good evening, commissioners, thank you for having me this evening and talking about what our department has been doing. as you can see and as you have heard, the apec is coming to san francisco, there will be a lot going on. this is the largest gathering of international leaders here in san francisco since the signing of u.n. charter. so there is a lot of hype about this and a lot on the table for the city to take advantage of. next slide please. so this is the technical definition of what apec is, in very layman's term it's a economic corporation of 21

countries focused on trade in the civic region. and apec economies act for 50% of global trade across the world. next slide, please. so, where our department's role has come in, we're a fourth order operation for apec during its time here in the city. there is the organization itself, followed by the state department, followed by the city, and followed by us. now, apec beam is creating a resilient and sustainable future for all. that's what our department does. back in september, director jue, made a--asking them to join our effort in make vibl either their facility to tour or host a discussion either

available to delegate members from any of these 21 countries or members of the international media. so i've had the opportunity to coordinate these opportunities with the countries, i'm sorry, not with the countries but with the communities to share with international media and delegates. and i've also been able to provide support to our city's apec branding efforts. you should see some of the city, and they do talk about sustainability efforts that our department has been a national leader on for decades now. next slide. so, i know, there was kind of a lightning fast update but where you can learn more is a city's website for apec2023.sfgov. and even questions and comments

and concerns about what is going to be accessible in the city, where should i maybe not walk down, the street during the busiest time of the year? some items like that. but with that, i would be happy to take any questions you may have on what we've been doing. >> questions? >> is there any one event that you think we should not miss. >> one event that i think you should not miss. >> it's like asking me to pick my favorite child, because all of these companies have been really really great partners to share. i know a lot of them on the apec website it will list out san francisco events, and i think they will all be listed on there and you can request on invitation or sign up there. really these are showcase efforts to look at the climate technologies that have chosen to start here in san francisco. and this is kind of a great

opportunity for us to share their story. >> okay, and commissioner, i might also add if you go visit the website, there is a page that shows all the events that they know of happening. and we can request an invitation. so if any commissioners are interested in attending, they're not our events but it will help elevate the chance that you'll be able to attend. it's a wide variety of topics so it's impossible to say, this is the one you should attend. this is one focused on women and sustainability so. it runs the gamut, if there is anything of interest, let kyle know and i'll be happy to register you. >> i have a question, there have been articles in the newspaper about the difficulty what businesses may experience

in terms of security and how not only are the employees going to get there but product, because of the pararifery of the community. is that a real concern? >> yes, i don't want to speak too much on the efforts because that is not our responsibility. however, i can say that in the meet that'sing i've been involved in, our city colleagues have been out on the street doing door to door out reach to the businesses and communities to talk to them about the what the expectations will look like. there is been a lot of conversation about what the securities look like and what the term checkpoint will mean for people who are walking down. this is essentially, airport style security. and even saying that, is even a little bit too much.

it will be, if you have a bag, secret service will ask to look inside. there will be no identification checks, no intense scrutiny to that agree. for deliberate he's that is a little bit trickier because these are larger vehicles, security is a concern. i would direct any business that has any business that has concerns for assistance and organization. there will be specific delivery times, the 14th, 15th and 16th when we know that the leaders from this country and others will be in town around the missconi center. >> and also where our small business commission is under, so they're definitely aware of all the concerns that have been raised and they're trying to do out reach. and i know the mayor, is also

in seeing how that unfolds too. there is a lot of uncertainty on how this is going to impact the businesses. and she made comments that she will help out, it could be that and hopefully this is the case, that this could drive additional business in those areas because that's where the delegates are going to be able to move around freely, versus outside of that area. the delegates will not be moving past that security zone. so you will not have the president or any of the other ministers, heading outside of any zone that has not been vetted by the secret service. >> yeah, and i'll leave you with two items. so we expect over 2000 delegates to come here from those 21 countries. and there is over 600 members of the international media that will be with them as well. so there is a significant

contingent of visitors that we have here and finally, 311 and the joint information center will be operating over the ten days of apec from november 9 to november 19th so any one resident, if they they have a call or concern, the city has resources to address resources appropriately. you're welcome. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> that concludes my report. >> thank you, all right. to public comment, then. >> are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, we'll proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public participating remotely who wish to make a comment, should press star-3 to be added to the queue. and seeing no callers in the queue, public comment on this item is closed.

>> thank you, next item. >> next item is item 12. this item is for discussion. new business. >> hello commissioners, charles chief policy public affairs officer. i'm also going to then, seed to my colleague our director leo who is going to talk about new specific agenda items coming up. so for my usually part, the next commission meeting is december 4, we sometimes don't have a commission meet ining november because of the holiday so the next commission meeting is december 4, that is the final commission meeting currently scheduled for the year. we will have an operations committee meeting in january,

where we do a deep dive with the commission. so we're set up with that, at the beginning of the year. coming up for that commission meeting in december, we will have a couple of presentations, the report and approval of the green purchasing and policies. we will also hear a report from the climate team, for the all electric ordinance it's a requirement that we hear every year, that report. and we're also hoping to talk about the other topics, like battery collection. there is a lot going on on that field. and hopefully the icct electrical report that we're writing and it's in its final stages. i'll pause now, and i think i'll turn it over to my colleague leo who will talk about more speflz for future

agenda items and then we can take questions. >> thank you so much. leo deputy director and chief administrative officer. so i wanted to provide some high level content on what is coming up on the calendar regarding planning and budget. so, basically, you know, internally, the department staff have been doing a lot of work to do our own planning for upcoming year. so each division has been really looking at their workload and, identifying their work priorities and then, working on performance planning with individual staff members. and so we did have an initial retreat in september where we started to do a range of activities, but it was largely focused on making sure that we're all on the same page and that we're sharing information

about each group focused on. there are a fair number of new program managers and i'm new, so it was a really good opportunity for us to make sure that we're getting on the same page. and additionally, we got to do additional of fun stuff so there was some role playing, making sure that we're getting on message with what the city's priority are and trying to show how the department is doing fits in with the overall city priorities. so we have another, second retreat with our senior staff in november coming up where we're going to be able to really pull together our top priorities for each division. and i'm going to take that information to make sure that we're able to share that information with all of you in december at your commission meeting. so we really want to give you, a good basis of information so

that you can give us our feedback and thoughts about whether our priorities match what you think is more important or any changes that december meeting will be a chance for us to share sort of what we've come up with interp alley and get a chance to start that conversation about what you want to see. and then, charles did mention, both january and february, we'll have budget conversations. so we're required to make sure that the public has a chance to hear, what the department is considering and proposing and then, the commission would finalize the, or vote on the budget proposal in february before we're rider r*ird to commit it. pauli should have given some larger budget contacts for those of us who are new.

generally, the mayor's office issues budget instructions to all departments in like the week or two after thanksgiving. so lately i think it's been december. last yae, the mayor's office did ask for a reduction in general fund support from the city. and while our department has a very small relative percentage, we do get some general fund now which we're excited about but that means we'll be more involved on reduction going forward. in fact, the mayor's office did issue a 3 percent cut instruction already for a mid-year cut. so looking at the current year budget, they felt like things were tough enough shape that they wanted to see reduction proposed right away. so for our department, it was 50,000, on going cut that was requested and we were able to comply. luckily, we had, a general fund

supported grant program that, that is fully funded but is wrapping up in rather than rolling into a new grant cycle we were able to put that forward as a reduction in general fund. so, i feel that is a very provide context that the mayor's office has been saying how difficult they expect the budget to be. so, you know, we're taking that into account when we think about what we might ask for or what, might get us out the door. so we'll be thinking, once we get that information about what we can do and you know, i think we can show a lot of return on the general fund dollars that have come in and being able to leverage those dollars. this is going to be an interesting conversation going forward this year. so, i just wanted to preview that so you got a sense of how

overall calendar, the budget itself will not be get passed until the mayor has to finalize their theirs by june first. and then the board hears it. one other topic i wanted to raise, for our director, we're required to do, an evaluation of his performance every year. and since he was recently appointed permanently to his role, we as staff, checked with the city attorney and are recommending that you allow him to basically work for a year and do the evaluation toward the end of fiscal year. and there is other reasons why that's beneficial. the city's hr department has a process where they do, salary

setting, increases for department heads that happen after the fiscal year closes. and so, it lines up well so if that the commission, or if the director himself wanted to, you can self propose but you can also propose an increase in the commission. if that were something that you felt was merited. so we felt it gave you more time to see what is taken place over that year and for you to be able to be on a fiscal year, evaluation cycle which works with the city and actually matches, not exactly but we're in a fiscal year as well for the other staff within the department. so that's, those are the calendar updates i have. can i answer any questions or clarify anything? >> i think we're all okay. thank you, leo.

>> great, thanks so much. with that, i think we go to public comment, last time. >> are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? seeing none, we proceed to remotel public comment. members of the public participating remotely wish to make a comment on this item, should now press star-3 to be added to the queue. and no callers on the queue, public comment on this item is closed. >> next item. >> next item is item 13, adjournment. the meeting is adjourned at 7:31, thank you for joining us. [meeting adjourned].

>> 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 >> good afternoon this meeting will come to order welcome to the november 6, 2023 regular meeting of the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisor dean preston chairing today. for supervisor melgar. i'm joined by board president