us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you get, the more leadership you have, and power. the more power and leadership we have that we can put out time is 5:01 p.m. note that the ring and use of cell phones and devices is

prohibited. the chair may order remove from the roof anyone using a phone or device. public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. comments on matters not on the agenda, there will be an opportunity for general public comment. participate who is wish to comment will be asked to come forward and speak in the mic. each speaker will be allowed 3 minutes to speak. >> members of public may submit comment by e mail. comments by e mail forwarded to the commissioners and included part of the official filism will call the roll. president wan >> here >> vice president sullivan is excused. >> commissioner ahn. >> here >> commissioner bermejo >> here >> fr commissioner hunter >> here. >> commissioner thompkins. >> yea >> commissioner yuen. >> here >> woman 2 is president's wkz.

>> staff introductions and approval of minutes of the 24 mission on environment meeting. >> thank you. good evening item 2 a president's welcome. >> the commission on environment acknowledges we occupy then cest roll home land of the ramaytush ohlone. we recognize the ramaytush ohlone understand the interconnectedness of all things and maintained harmony with nature. we honor the ramaytush ohlone people it is for enduring commitment to [inaudible]. mother earth as the protectors of this land and in accordance with their traditions. the recommend ram has never lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. we recognize that we benefit from living and working on the

traditional home land. as uninvited guests affirm rights at first peoples and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors,elders of the ramaytush ohlone community. >> as environmentalists we must embrace indigenous knowledge in how we care for san francisco and the people. commissioners, staff and members of public, welcome. today's presentations includes staff introduction. updates on the 2025 climate plan. the warehouse program. a vote on a resolution and a vote on the resolution a 20 torreduced risk pesticide list. let's get started. next the staff introduction. we'll have deputy let the record reflect kneel. >> thank you. i'm here in lui of director chu.

i will let you know about our new hires. wish a warm welcome to elizabeth our new senior climate action coordinate. chris, our zero waste assistant and alice our commission affair's officer >> we want to welcome zero waist hernandez if the 4 of you would like to get and up go ahead and take a few minutes to introduce yourself that would be appreciated. thank you for being here >> good evening i'm elizabeth i'm the new senior climate action cord narrator with sf environment were the i will leave the wument of the action plan for 2025 through 2030. my background is in well, earliest it was in ecology, and transportation and land use. i was the executive director of walk san francisco.

and then more recently, i worked with the american city's climate challenge to help 7 large cities advance ambitious climate action. i'm everywhere excited do this here. >> good evening. i'm chris, i am the new city government assistant zero waste cord narrator. i will be working on the virtual warehouse program and in communication with the different departments zero waste cord narrators. prior i was with america core with san francisco environment on the construction and demolition program. i did work for building material's management work and i'm excited continue with the department. >> hello i'm hernandez i'm the

zero waste fellow through the sustain ability core fellowship. i did a fellowship with a nonprofit solar company. i will work in the residential and city government team. >> hello i'm alice hur. the new commissioner affair's officer. i'm responsible for coordinating documentation to hopefully make the meetings run smooth and other public affairs reporting items. i have a back ground in local government consulting that's what i did for 7 years master of public policy degree from uc berkeley. >> great, thanks. welcome to san francisco environment. or welcome to your new role. [applause]. >> thank you. it is xoiting. welcome. next, final item in consent calendar the minutes. so fellow commissioners we have

an action item. is there discussion or changes to the draft minutes do i hear a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved. >> second? >> second. >> okay. we have a motion by commissioner bermejo and hunter. >> let's open for public comment. are there members of public who wish to speak on 2-4 of the agenda? madam present we have no speakers >> thank you. hearing no further public comment temperature is closed. call the roll for 4. >> president yuen. >> yate >> commissioner ahn >> air. >> commissioner bermejo. >> aye. >> commissioner thompkins. >> aye >> >> the motion passes. next item, please. >> next is item 5 general public

comment. members address the commission on matter in thes jurisdiction and not on today's agenda. e mail public comments were received, filed and posted our website. are there members who wish to comment on this item? >> good evening, commissioners. i'm josie and i'm community engage am manager at walk san francisco. i'm here representing more than 30 community based organizations, nonprofits and civic groups a part of the vision zero coalition. the groups represent the diversity of our city. groups like china town community development center. lighthouse for the blind. coleman and united players. we believe in vision zero. as an approach and as a goal.

. at the core vision zero is a commitment to prevent suffering, trauma and tragedy on our streets. today you received a copy of the vision zero safe streets and strong neighborhood recommendations. they are a result of the months of discussion and research around one big question what is need for san francisco to accelerate progress. the packet you got includes 7 recommendations from the vision zero coalition. we believe are crucial as san franciscoers the second decade of vision zero first coalition is asking the department of environment to the recommitment. next, we are look to you to do everything in your power to enact the recommendations. changes are needed on how projects are prioritized, plans, managed, funded and delivered.

the number of people who continue to be hurt and kill in the traffic crashes those outside of a vehicle, shows what the city has done so far is in the sufficient for the size and depth of the practical. traffic violence threatens our lives and quality of life. safe streets are what strong neighborhoods and a thriving equal, climb friendly city are built on. thank you for your leadership on and your commitment to vision zero. >> good evening. i'm -- a resident of bayview district. and even though it might be your purview i like to bring your attention to the fact that out of the district in san francisco bayview is the most has the

least of tree cover. compared with rich people in the northwest. so i'd like to bring your attention. i locked at the climate action plan you have, that zone will be threatened. so i like to you bring your attention to the fact we need more trees it is industrial, the inner of the san francisco where everything is made. and delivered, produce market is there alegality of people and a lot of streets void of trees. void. i like to bring your attention to that. just you know pleasant a seed now and hopefully something will happen. thank you very much, have a productive meeting. thank you. >> are there additional members of public who wish to comment on this item? >> madam president?

>> public comment is closed next item. >> the next is item 6. presentation and update on the 2025 hazards and climate resilience plan the experience is cindy. climate program manager and speak cert melissa program manager office of capitol planning. >> good evening. i'm cindy i'm the climate program manager at the environment department. >> i'm here to introduce the next item an update on the city's hazzard and climate resilience plan. city's plan is a companion to the climate action plan. so the hazzard and climate resilience plan looks at protecting our infrastructure and our people from the affects of climate change we are known as climate adaptation the plan looks at reducing green house gas and reducing harmful climate

flugz mrougz i'm here to introduce melissa from office of resilience and capitol planning for an update on that important document. >> thank you. as i understand and he thank you commissioners for having me today. >> is this possible more for me to stand to the side? great. so again i'm with office of resilience and capitol plan negligent office of the city add administrator. and i'm here to talk to you about the 2025 update to the hazzard and climate plan. and my goal is to help make sure they are aware and the work we are doing. the role it plays in climate in the city. and also the world that the department of the environment play in this plan. and provide an opportunity for members ever public, and commissioners to provide feedback. >> this plan is a citywide

action plan. to improve resilience and reduce risks to hazzards and climate change impacts. includes priority actions could be project, plans or programs for strategic funding. we have it for a few reasons. one of them is a federal requirement. in order to be eligible for fema grants we need to have the plan serves the mitigation plan and we also need to update it every 5 years. so we need to update by july of 25 to remain eligible for key source of funding. at the state level, it helps us with compliance with sb379 and as sinldzy mentioned. it is a companion to the climate action plan and safety and resilience element and the sf strategy. why there is a draft rabble for public comment that is the reasons why i'm here today.

>> a bit more about the scope. it covers 13 different hazards natural hazards we face in san francisco. it includes information about how climate change is make them more freak went or severe. and we try to make that hazzard information more accessible to the public. so that you know people in organizations are able toarc sesz the same information we are using for planning. we have story maps available on hyphen. and where folks toggle different hazards or zoom in a community of their interests and learn more. >> and a bit more about the scope. and how we think about climate resilience in san francisco. cindy mentioned this plan is a bit more on the yellow side of the diagram on the climate adaptation side and safe guarding people and buildings and community from climate

hazards. we make many connections across to the blue side climate mitigation. corrections in the plan million dollars mobility. healthy housing and ecosystems and trips. to the extent possible we are trying to work in the middle space. >> our approach to the update has been targeted since in 2020 we did a comprehensive update. we have been working with staff from across the city to incorporate new science. like the reports you see around extreme precipitation or ground water respondents to sea level rise and the new plans that have come out since 2020 like the climate action plan and heat resilience plan. we have been trying to do more prioritization with this update. the last plan had 96 different actions and through

prioritization thinking about fees abltd and benefits got that down to 74. we have focused engagement in environmental justice communities and meeting community groups they are meeting to provide a low barrier to entry folksmenting to learn and provide feedback. a bit more about what we heard during our community engage am events did 15 different acat this points in the community. i think may be most interests to the commission might be -- you know focus on energy from the community. people are concerned about energy access and prices and interested in support for electrification. people are concerned about the grid over all and reliability. especially in extreme weather and interested in having more access to back up power.

>> also probably interests is transportation. was a theme we heard especially reliable service in the face of more extreme events. this gives you a bit of an over view of the main part of the plan. our strategy. we have 3 pill arts building, communities and infrastructure and we have 17 different objectives that organize those 74 actions. and the arrows here help point out where sfe plays a role in this plan. and so the darker yellow where the department of environment has actions they play a leadership role in and the lighter yellow are objectives where they lead -- partners on the actions. so the department of environment plays a role in working on buildings. resilience and environmental

health. capacity building. electric power systems and resill iant power. and nature based solutions. i will highlight a few of those as examples for you all and i can answer more specific questions as well. >> enemy terms of actions the department of environment is listed as a lead. those would be in supporting increased building electrification. mechanical upgrade and weatherization. expanding the hazzard waste collection and city efforts to conserve biodiversity. department on environment is lead on many other actions across the city. the resilience at critical facilities. drought tolerance >> biodiversity. increasing the ricell yens and affordable housing rehab.

and design guidance for capitol planning and surfaces, capacity building and community engage am. the department of environment plays a role in climate resilience citywide. >> there are other strategies are not lead or have department of environment as a key partner help advance the climate action plan. these are here for your reference to demonstrate the key intersection between climate action and resilience. this plan is availability for public comment until the end of assessment. i'm doing presentations to raise awareness. briefing the board members and i will take feedback i hear from the engagements and i will be updating the plan for a final draft to submit in october.

they can take up to sick months review and give feedback and after that submitting to the board of supervisors for adoption. >> with that, thank you for your time. and i'm happy to answer questions. or hear feedback you may have. thank you. thank you. any questions? >> open up public comment. thank you. >> are there members of public who wish to comment on this item? we have no more speakers >> public comment is closed. next item, please yoochl item 7. review and vote whether to approve file 2024-07-coe authorizing environment department recommendation for grant amendments for san

francisco school district. grant award for 23-25 grant cycle. sponsor is leo the deputy director. the original speaker could not make it but the program manager will present on her behalf. >> thank you. why part of our standards procedures bring an amendment for the unified school district grant to you for your consideration. as a grant to a government entity a competitive solicitation was not required and will provide details about the grant amendment in her presentation. >> thank you,lyo. good evening. commissioners. community partnerships and engage am program manager at department of environment. i'm representing esther tang who leads the environmental education team and she is sick, unfortunately. so, aslyo said i request you

approve a grant amendment for grant to the san francisco unified school district. it is an environmental education grant. the funding source for this grant is zero waste funding. >> sfusd has been a partner to the department. they have supported a number of initiatives including school sites and facilities improvements. youth programming and cordination with teachers and youth. >> and while the time line of the grant would remay not same through us this amendment, we would like to add 200 thousand dollars to the grant. and modify the scope of work. so prior to the modification the original scope was limited to an over night field trip program for students to learn and experience out door education connected to nature.

the additional funding will enable the grantee partially fund two staff members. one staff member would provide facility support for the initiative and another staff member engage teach and students in climate action and zero waste initiatives. i will conclude by saying that we rely on our partnership with the sfusd to meet our goals around environmental education. and this funding would help us would support us on the operations and facility's side and the programming side. so, i hope that you will approve this amendment. thank you. >> just a quick question. the grant increase on 66, 266,000. the grant starting left year

2023, correct. how much has been expand already? and is that for personnel to increase or 200,000? >> the 200,000 is for personnel. it would support partial funding for two staff positions. i would have to get back to you because esther would have the information on how much is remaining. i don't knowlyo? >> of the 200 thousand the intention is for about half to have been the fiscal year that has past and 100 thousand is the fiscal going forward. i don't know if it is that amount tht concept. and we had originally moved forward with mou with sfusd that their attorneys were on board. after consulting with our city attorney as well as with the controller's office we recall

told use a grant mechanism rather than relationship with another government entity outside of the city. so, that is why we decided to use just grant making victim as the way to move forward based on consultation with our city attorney that was an appropriate way to move forward. >> okay. >> any other questions or discussion, commissioner hunter >> i am curious around the additional funding to engage teachers and students on environmental education. do you know the k pi that the program will set up around or that this grant will index on? if we should e mail efthey're is okay, too. >> i might ask eftory follow up with you i know that the staff position that supporting the programming work was instrumental in helping us coordinate our fellowship program last year as well as

hosting a very large climate action youth summit. there was engagement with teachers around solutionary -- thinking around climate action as well as engaging the youth in coming up with their climate action projects i imagine that position will continue to support the efforts. regarding k pi's i will ask esther to follow up with you. >> just a follow up is it one event like the summit or a lot of prep work prior that the staff are working? >> there is a lot of prep work. prior to the summit. the fellowship program engages youth over a long are period of time. to help them develop their climate action projectses there are a series of meetings with the fellows to -- you know to help them develop ideas.

and learning around climate action. different modules. and the work with the teachers to help them understands how they can engage youth as well and -- climate action work. yea. >> any other question sns or comments? >> on this? >> motion by commissioner ahn. >> second? anyone? second commissioner yuen. >> and let's open for public comment. are there members of public who wish to comment on this item? we have no speakers. public comment is closed. call the role >> president wan >> commissioner ahn >> aye >> commissioner bermejo. >> aye >> commissioner hunter. >> aye >> commissioner thompkins.

>> aye >> commissioner yern >> aye >> the next is item 8 review and vote to approve adopting reduced risk pesticide list the sponsor is leo chi the speaker integrated pest management program manager and this is for discussion and action. >> thank you very much. today's discussion on the reduced risk pesticide list is the final part of a process our pest management program conduct its make sure we minimize use of the most limited pesticideos city properties and seek safer alternatives san francisco environment to review and update the reduced risk list in august had a public hearing heard departments explain the work including use of tier one the most hazardous pesticides and

any product exemptions that they were. granted. plaintiffs take their work seriously and this is why we are able to maintain low levels of tier one use. i will go ahead and turn it over to the doctor who will share more about our ip m and the changes to the los angeles. thank you. >> wonderful. thank you. >> >> good evening. commissioners. tonight will share information about our integrated pest management program and proposed reduced risk pesticide list. our pest management team to you. on i'm shonaire the program

manager at sf environment i start in the 2022. my teammate gabrielle hernandez and i implement the program. tuesday's action is to review and vote on whether to approve the reduced risk pesticide list for city properties for 2024. note that these are pesticides for use at san francisco municipal properties and the integrated pest management ordinance has no authority over private and commercial uses of registered pesticides. i want to share the ip m program established in 96 it is more than a pesticide monitoring or reduction program. it is more of a harm reduction program that manages risks base said on the pests that need to be dealt with as well as the

pesticide hazzards and amounts used. and the program really involved landscape and structure management. education. and training opportunity for staff. alternatives analysis and invokes precautionary principle encourages caution where there is potential for harm this work involved reducing harmful pesticides and disease spread by vectors and protecting native plants and habitat from invasive vegetation. so, with that here is what i will cover in today's presentation. i will describe the ip m activities in the left year. information about the over all pesticide trends in san francisco and the 2023 calendar year. and tell you the ideas i have for the program over the next year. and i will finish where wouldation on reduced risk list.

i will share a program accomplish am the last year. city departments reduced use by 93.8% from 2010 to 23. tier one the highest hazzard and the highest priority for identifying a replacement with a safer alternative. and herbicide use is interested to the public in past years which is why i'm reporting on tier one use here. the current citywide pest control contract is ending soon. i have been working with office of contract administration over the last few months to create and implement a request for proposals for city pest management service. and the process is under way. a new contract has not been awarded and i will note that all pest management contractors with the city not just the awardee is

subject to the ordinance and choosing products from the reduced risk list. >> also we have secured an alliance grant from the california department of pest side regulation to support ip m and affordable how doing. my colleague ray mannion with environmental justice program is am spearheading this work this project funded by the grant focuses on physically excluding pests from structures that will reduce pest levels and pesticide use for the life of the building. that grant total is 320 thousand dollars and the project began in march of this year. to date over 1200 units in pest proofing inspections and 10 affordable housing properties have been completed. >> i'm congress the accomplish ams the last year. here. we have continued to convene monthly ip m meetings they are

really one of our core activities. most of our meetings held virtual. we were able to convene a hybrid meeting bruit brought the urban foresxeft arborist staff with ip m staff in person. and some of the topics we discuss instead last year include habitat restoration. rodent management and urban pollinator gardens i seen they provide good forums for ip m professionals to farewayed tips on how to manage the problems limning the use of harmful pesticides. . >> we have continued to convene ip m training for city departments. topics were coverd that are relevant to what the city staff are encountering in their jobs. i heard sessions on ip m manageants invasive plant

identification. and mechanical strategies for weed management. and i'm looking forward to continuing the work with city department staff and learning about the work going on on city properties. i'm showing you here a graph of the tier one pesticide use trend within san francisco proper from the baseline year of 2010 to 23. tier one are the highest hazzard and the highest priority for identifying a replacement with a safer alternative. so the horizontal acts of the graphs shows the year and vertical the pesticide applied. the data show that city departments reduced use by 97. 9% since 2010 and over the last 5 years of pest side data we collected tier one use on city owned properties reduced by

97.3% or better. compared to 2010. i want to say a thank you tot city departments for ip m work that result negligence limitation of the harmful pest sides. >> this is a graph of pesticide use on city properties within san francisco from tier 3 or least hazardous use the dotted green line. the tier two or more are reflected the dashed pink line and tier one or most hazardous are reflected by the solid purple line. i showed in the previous sloo rid tier worn at city properties decreased then.9% over the years. we target the tore worns for reduction in use. you will see that there was a rise in tier 3 pesticide use

around 2020. tier threes are food grade products like essential oils and they can include soap. and a reason we see a tier 3 pesticide use increase along side reduction of tier one and two product system that often times we need a large are amount of safer tier 3 product in order to replace a tier one product. >> so, relative to 2022, pesticide use we see that in 23. tier one use increased slightly. tier 2 use decreased slightly and tier 3 use increased. here i'm showing activities i have in mind for the coming year. we will build and maintaining our relationships with city ip m staff and expandingor knowledge on san francisco's pest problems. and so we want to do more field

visits and seeing the spaces where pests are manage said. with our improved knowing of the pest problems will be positioned to identify solution strategies. that will help us limit or avoid the use of harmful pest siesd. like to continue offering a hybrid format for the meeting so they have the option of joining person. we need to make update to the pesticide use reporting system data base we manage. this is the data base we use to track the pesticides used on city properties and rely on to generate the graphs i show you. data base updates are under way now. we like to work occupanting the content of the website. and will. conduct the toxilogical reviews of pesticides useod san francisco municipal properties. okay. so. now talk about the reduced risk

list or rrpl. the proposed changes come as after we gone throughout process. . that our program conducts to make sure we are minizing the use of the limited pesticideos properties and seek safer alternatives. we convened the work groups with ip m professionals to review and update the reduced list and last month we hel a hearing where we heard departments explain their ip m work including use of the tier one and pesticide product exemptions they were granted. so that's the process we have gone through that brings me to the summary here of the proposed risk pesticide list changes and for anyone who wants to see all the specifics of the changes here in the audience you can see those in the attachments we have for agenda item 8. posted on the page for this

meeting. we are propotion the addition of one tier two or more hazardous product for vegetation management. proposing addition of one tier three least hazzard us insecticide intended to replace a different tier 3 no longer available for purchase. there is one tier one or most hazzard us marked for removal. the golf course fungicide that is no longer made and there are three tier 2 products and one tier 3 product we marked for removal. they are no longer used by city departmentsor departments no longer have them in stock for use. we updated the language for 16 productos reduced risk list. examples are things like updating the product name.

updating or correct the registration numbers. updating the ingredients and clarifying instructions and limitations. thank you very much for your attention. were our e mail address is here that will reach us on the team and i'm happy to address questions or comments thank you for the presentation. anyone have discussion and comments? >> yes, commissioner hunter? one of my irrelevant faprograms thank you. a few questions/comments. the grant for pest proofing fascinating would like an update but upon excite busy that work. the second thing is we have seen pesticide use for tier one go down since 2017 and just level out a bit. i'm curious your thoughts establishing a guard rail for tier one?

rather than at the current baseline? saying hey, we want to establish a threshold we should not pass over or alternatives how the structure does not stay measurement style. i'm curious if the department vs thoughts or something the department has >> you know that a great suggestion i have not considered that before. it has not come up in the discussions i participated in thus far. you are right. you knowledge the tier one use is really dropped and stayed within a samish range for a few years now. i think what i like to do is get more information on where are we using the most tier one and what are with the pest problems that are being addressed by them. and gauge you know with the stake holders what that might look like? how feedfeasible the idea is a

cap or you are proposing. >> again, guard rail never a cap. we don't live in a perfect world. right >> generally, i think i would be curious to see based off if we are using on the golf course acknowledge that is where it happen and where it will stay. our public park may want to consider alternatives. my last of question a few marked prior to find alternatives the previous year and i think some years before that. how are we doing on finding alternatives. >> thank you for that question. in some case we need to invest more research inform figuring out are there market priority availabilities for those -- products. are there alternatives available on the market and seeing what solutions there are, so, yes we need to take a look at those.

will they have been on the list for a time. so we need to look and figure out where we can make changes. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. other questions? >> comments? >> okay. do we go to public comment and sorry. do we have a motion to approve? okay. i will second. >> all right. motion by commissioner bermejo and second by south american hunter. open for public comment.

publicity sxhent closed wrochl president wan >> aye >> commissioner ahn >> aye >> commissioner bermejo >> aye >> commissioner hunter. aye >> commissioner thompkins. >> aye >> commissioner yuen >> aye >> next item. >> item upon 9 presentation on the virtual warehouse program the experience is socko city government senior cord narrator. speaker is ahn wan and this is for discussion. >> good evening. i'm socko and i manage the city government zero waste team here to talk about the san francisco virtual warehouse program. >> so, city employees are responsible for a wide variety of facilities and operation bunkham. we have everything from parks to

venues to wastewater treatment and as you imagine produce and manage many deficient materials. and each operation has unique needs and opportunity for improve am. however, every department is opinion to follow our zero waste hierarchy and today we will show you how city gentleman is implementing the reuse part of that hierarchy. >> so. the ware how was program is governed by the surplus disposal ordinance under chapter 21 of the code. . . therapy chapter establishes a hierarchy for the redistribution of surplus city owned equipment. in the hierarchy starts with reuse amongst departments and high value materials. donations to nonprofit and schools and proper recycling and or disposal of materials the end

of the life. >> so. before there was a virtual warehouse there was a physical warehouse operated by the surplus disposal manager under the city add administrator's office. that warehouse was closed down in 2004 and in 2005 the platform was established. when the surplus disposal manager retired environment department agreed to take on the program it aline with thes ordinance which requires the city departments to recover resources as much as possible. >> society virtual ware how was is a base program to facilitate city furniture. computers and other equip temperature helps prevent items for going in the land fill and saveos disposal costs and helps

reach our goal. we have gone through two iterations of the warehouse. when i started with the city i was the virtual associate. i will talk about that. but some of the requirements of warehouse are to have all city owned items submit federal they are surplus. all items theory in good condition are required to be posted for a minimum of 30-days that is a minimum not the max if city departments hold on to the items longer then that is great. it has more time for people to look on the virtual warehouse to see if there is anything they need. items not used for personal use. city departments cannot decide to take that item home. >> so the first platform was internal. created by d. technology for the

city. it required somebody going out with paper form. take measure ams of the different departments and coming become and on the website. and addition we does not have a platform nonprofits and schools could see. we had to post them on the external platform as well. in 2010, we updated the platform using google. this works better in the sense that everybody could look at items on the virtual warehouse at the same time. we did nohave to post on two different plat forms. it was more administratively intensive. the add administratoreen though materials are turned in electronically the add administrator has to post them online and facilitate the departments for pick up or

nonprofits. for pick up. so, we are going through an evolutionil turn it over to my colleague to tell you about that. >> thank you. good evening. xhshs i'm annie wan i'm administrating the virtual warehouse program. we wanted to focus on stream lining the process. cut down the time and for city departments to have more ownership. we researchd and locked in website platform options. >> which listed you to the current on line version with [inaudible]. base in the chicago and online management system. this is an opportunity started from another zero waste initiative for managing building materials. received the neutral city alliance, game change are fund grant to pilot building product

suppliers post reclaimed products to connect people to development market for building products. we enter immediate a pilot contract for the warehouse to serve as a prove of concept. >> in the first naz conducted interview sessions with user on the current version. they wanted understand when was working and what weekend be improved. we worked test out the platform and made adjustments based on feedback. really explaining why needs based on our requirements. leading ump to the lunch we informed city departments on the new update. we planned on boarding sessions where we wanted being informative and interactive. we invited user, zero waste to send 3 sessions. users got to create accounts and test out posting items and had a

first preview of the platform. this was really good opportunity top reiterate our goal of zero waste and promoting reuse. >> we are happy to say that we officially launch in the june of 23 and we started with the city departments. and we opened up to external organization in number of 23. users up load photoos the items. and through this function users finds items based on the category. there is a direct message feature allow owners to answer questions the dimension or the color and over all saved time to coordinate the peck ups. and key functions the platform

history reporting capabilities. >> so here other statistics to daed date when the program de began. 213,000 items reused. the total cost replacement which means what would have cost if we purchased a new item was 12 million dollars. and total weight recover side 1, 788 tons. >> throughout platform there has been tremendous improvements there are areas of growth here are considerations for next steps. >> we would like to address challenges based on the feedback from users and stroll line the process ensuring all city departments will turn in the items through the platform. want to make sure it user friendly and thinking about

creating videos and want to continue to expand our out leech and messaging. >> with that, that's an over view of virtual warehouse. thank you for your time and we are happy to answer quests you may have. >> thank you. impressive. fellow commissioner, anyone have comments or questions? >> commissioner hunter? >> cool program. you guys are doing great work. keep up >> i continuing is impressive. i wanted echo that. what a great program and other cities also doing this work in and something that is the government as well. >> so we have two different counties. alameda as a program and san mateo. we presented at the california resource and recovery association conference to talk about ways to learn from each county to improve our programs.

>> thank you. >> is there potential to expand this program outside offeen -- our government may be suppliers or partners, grown there is room. >> it is like the next version of that. now we are trying to get city departments to use the platform as designed. but there is language in the ordinance saying that we can w with public organizations. we have to work with the purchasing department to understands how we can coincide that. this is something we are looking into in the next 5 years or so. yes. >> what is the most popular item? >> [laughter] it depends sometimes there are it is like tron tricks. if a good computer or i pad that will go quickly. you can imagine what does not move like file cabinets.

and sometimes nice turn furniture and desks. think burglar logistics of picking up and coordinating the items >> pick up it was in city departmentful whop is responsible like to pick it up? the one that donate? or receive. we made it clear that the party that are is requesting the equips are in charge of the transportation. we do make sure the ordinance of the items communities if there is logistics like a loading dock or hours to pick up the items. that's the director messaging is great they can communicate with each other. >> thank you. >> other questions? impressive. open up for public comment. thank you. are there members who wish to commentom this item?

we have no speakers. okay public comment is closed. next item j. the next is 10 director's report. speaker is deputy director. thank you very much. i have search key update it is for you. the first relates the climate action plan 2025. so staff are preparing the cap update and getting ready to launch the 25 cap process. the commission will have the opportunity to review and prosecute void input on aspects of the 25 climate action plan at planning retreat next year. regarding staff development? i wanted highlight thattan why from community partner ships team is or yenlting sf e learning cohort of new hires on racial work at the department. additionally, after staff engage am last year on qualifications related hiring staff, san francisco environment has alined

itself with drh department of human resources and looking forward to cleaningum questions of law ifkdzs for the 56 soorz which is our core series we use to ensure weave gift a diverse of applicants with the level of experience for irrelevants at our department. that is an exciting development. one grant related update san francisco environment collaborated with sfmt remarks. puc and competitively selected vendors 'go and connected k erb to submit a grant pole to the u.s. dot charging and fuelling infrastructure program. the project proposes to install up to 270, level two and 30 fast charging ports. we are hopeful for that. regarding policy. on september 10, the policy on

public, farce teams introduced accept and extend resolution at the board of supervisors to work with the consults the city can dive in what projects are available for the director pay program. the prosigdz vision in the inflation reduction act claim tax credits and receive full have you refundses for varying clean energy projects and purchases. so we are looking forward to getting that -- through the board so we can accelerate that work. >> i want to highlight key press mentions that happened. one, i'm excite body san francisco has been awarded 14. 3 million dollars part of a grant to transform and modernize buildings moving the bay to a resilient all electric future.

the director quoted press reles on this grant. next if, in an article recall director praised ricology's pilot for the first hydrogen powered refuse truck. congratulations on that. and both he and i have the chance to roadway in the hydrogen powered truck to watch them do a sample route. it was interesting to see that technology in action. next i wanted share the yes sf headquarters grand opening on september 12. and director jue was respondent long with the mayor. this space in downtown part of revitalation effort in climate/technology space and serve a hub for sustainable start ups by the 14 top of sf

first urban sustainability challenge. worn suspect that the will kelsie civic center one of c40 cities winners is slated for early 25 opening. and this project is the 112 unit inclusive housing development in the heart of san francisco around the corn frer city hall that features design choices at intersection of sustain abltd, resilience, assessable and affordable. finally, i think you all were sent know invitations for this. san francisco environment host two efforts part of the of life better electric campaign. the first is on saturday. september 28. that is this saturday. and will offer san francisco residents a free opportunity to learn about home electrification. receive tips on how to e eliminate harmful gas from homes.

on sunday, september twineth residents tower homes seeing how neighborers improving air quality special safer living. >> so there is, lot going on and i'm thrilled share the updates with you. thanks. >> thank you. the director. do we have questions or comments? open up public comment. member of the public who wish to comment on this item? >> madam we have no speakers >> public comment is now closed. next item >> next is item 11 new business. this is for discussion. >> hello commissioner charles policy and public affairs for the environment department the next meeting is monday october

28. and for this commission meeting, we have a lot. we have a lot for the last two meetings of year. but we are going to try to bring you an update on the curb side charging program that mean for december if not ready but a lot of activity on curb side charging and want to bring it to you >> and the prizes that we won from the federal government. left year, i believe. called our building upgrade prize. want to bring that information to you at the next meetings to talk about how we are -- going to work with the government to replace appliances. make them electric and low income home and targeted communities in san francisco. and to follow up one offer conversations on grant making

that we had a couple of months ago as pertained to environmental justice grants. we hope to bring to you and get feedback on draft community and grants rfp. we want to bring that before we releases that and get feedback that is something we hope to bring forward to you. over all, we got a busy agenda planned for the end of the year. we are looking forward to t. i will see if anyone has any questions >> when do you expect budget instructions? >> they will be december or january. >> they are usually early december. like after thanksgiving. late november and. i then and there we are getting preview information from the budget office asking you to be thoughtful about new initiatives and whether they should forward.

they are already preparing us for that. so,il keep an eye out before thanks give and expect them early december. >> thank you >> one thing, i forgot to mention regarding a thing thatlyo had and noted the 14.3 million dollars grant the city and submitted the application for learning buildings when that is foible we will also bring an update upon about that grant. that might be forth coming. >> thank you. any questions? >> fellow commissioners? we will have a packed agenda next two meetings. open for public comment. >> are there members of public who wish to commentom this item? >> we have no speakers. >> public comment is closed. next item

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♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> the two largest bridges in the road, symbolizing pioneer and courage in the conquest of space and time. between these two great bridges, in historic san francisco bay, here's tribute to the achievements of our time. he's a dream come true, golden gate international exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern

sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945, treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an

airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in 1997, the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their

environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city, both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at treasure island. >> the development facility and (indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master plan to make sure that the master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and

adopted by the city and after meeting, that's plan that the city approved. the members of the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] >> the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island, looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island, but also making sure that there is an ongoing of development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure island and the buena island. >> materials used during the

construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here, it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new

structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the

ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. once the compassion and tapping is done, it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build on. >> i think that every city when they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as treasure island because treasure island is five hundred acres and it depends on their needs at

that time and in 2011 to now, the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest addition to the park system in san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in

san francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for treasure island. >> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that could be converted for private use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't

allowed at all because treasure island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the plan we have now. >> planting strategies for

treasure island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub, i mentioned we're trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down the middle of the neighborhoods. it's a curbless street, cars are

allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's defensive architecture that's trying to keep people off it. this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come

and inhabit it at its base. >> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands, which are designed to factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea level rise to come onto the island to create future tidal

wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the

urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. this garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay area. >> whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you know, it lands on the streets, it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often

collects a lot of heavy metals and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so it's treated here in the storm water basin and then it's sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through

the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket species. this is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so it's kind of our backbone species. this one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help

treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value for stormwater. >> this is super tiny. >> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for

the development of the island. it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s that's trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we identified a number of species of native plants that seem

applicable to the ecology that we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge, l-e-g- which is literacy for environmental justice. they grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was inundated with invasive plant species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island and treasure island. literacy for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational

program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind

of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up, divide them, hold them, of the

50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant habitats at hunters point and we used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics was a two-year process. and then it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species.

>> this is the infamous -- it's a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another thing that's unique about this plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline

swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline

butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. recently, the state of

california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island and make this place even a

better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island, it

sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to

access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the

parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will also provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry. >> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build

out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan, it will -- time will tell, but i

think that the last ten years, we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition..

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>> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small

spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san

francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry

building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to

hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really

wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center

for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san

francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble

so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918

but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry

and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down

including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human

services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store.

>> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to

surface. >> (music). >> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse

business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible).

>> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the

phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one

of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the

>> [music] what's this for? i will have nile firefighter friends bring me a bench to explain the cool things. joy want to see. >> this is cool marbles up here. a, appliance and hose and this is a y >> why? >> why is it called a y, that's a great question this . is a y. you see it looks like a y. we use it for yellow in the fight we use it to take 2 different hoses from one hose. that way in a big building like a high rise, and we have a large

piece of hose connect here, we are able to take two more hoses in different directions to help put a fire out in a floor that is well above the street level. >> okay. >> fire engines carry 4 firefighters and firefighter paramedics. firefighters should not be considered strangers. firefighters are your friends. >> uh-huh. >> you are in need of help you need to make sure it is okay to go up to the firefighter. firefighters utilize many of the tools we discuss in the a fire engine. such as a fire extinguisher >> what's that for. >> they can be used to put out fires the size. a waste basket and squirts water. >> oh , >> that is cool. >> yea! >> we have other tools a chain saw. they help us get through the many obstacles we encounter while we are trialing to put out

a fire or save somebody's life. >> nice >> that is cool if you see a firefighter like this in a fire the firefighters are friends and this firefighter will save your life. it is okay to go to the firefighter. >> hum. good to know. [music] ♪♪

my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal

interactions with the other employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san francisco. we work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property

with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that.

i had a tiny desk. i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. >> i am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. i oversee all of the lab operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you

don't hear the result. once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in

law enforcement. i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides. i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. i am intrigued with those types of calls. i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day. i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i

may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. what do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the enough and -- with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body.

sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to go into this? i loved science growing up but i didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations.

let's face it, we aren't hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a hollywood television show. >> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job. if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of san francisco. >> preston, the owner of cafe alma and-- [music] the cafe started as a temporary

project and made it permanent projecktd. project. the building is slated to be demolished probably in 5 to 10 years. it u.s.ed to be a awning manufacturing and i decided to turn it into a cafe. it also served as a incubator for small businesses in the area. we also do a food bank from the location. it has been an amazing community experience to have it, because we are [indiscernible] we like to [indiscernible] everything as much as possible from different vendors in the area, different producers. we like-other people as well. sometimes we have a pop up from a local maker. we also do a marketplace with another local business. definitely a lot of collaboration and local products. we have been in san francisco about 25 years. when i first came here i was in the

restaurant, cafe, hospitality world and it is what i love to do and being in this neighborhood i have been in bayview about 20 years, but definitely knew i wanted to be a small business owner and do something here lovely in my community. [music] since the opening on third and mission in 2010 the grove is a epicenter. tis is part of the community. we bring tourist, we bring convention ears and have a huge group of locers who live here. we are their living room and love to see them on a regular basis and seek newcomers to the city of san francisco and serve them a good dose of san

francisco hospitality. we make everything in house from scratch every dape we vahand carved [indiscernible] the chicken pot pie we serve probably a hundred thousand if not more. roasted chicken, prime rib, salad[indiscernible] coffee cake and [indiscernible] all the pies are fresh baked. the home made cookies are done, once, twice a day, depending how fast they go. we believe in goold old fashion home cooked food. we want to be a welcoming, warm hospitable place for everyone to come and hang out. respond time with friends and family, meet new people. have important conversation. relax and enjoy, rejuvenate, get restored, enjoy one another and the at mus sphere the growth. the grove is over 730 to 830, 7

days a week, breakfast, lunch and dinner. >> in the bay area as a whole, thinking about environmental sustainability. we have been a leader in the country across industries in terms of what you can do and we have a learn approach. that is what allows us to be successful. >> what's wonderful is you have so many people who come here and they are what i call policy innovators and whether it's banning plastic bags, recycling, composting, all the different things that we can do to improve the environment. we really champion.

we are at recycle central, a large recycle fail on san francisco pier 96. every day the neighborhood trucks that pick up recycling from the blue bins bring 50 # o tons of bottles, cans and paper here to this facility and unload it. and inside recology, san francisco's recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. san francisco is making efforts to send less materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. other cities are observing this and are envious of san francisco's robust recycling program. it is good for the environment. but there is a lot of low

quality plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. it is low quality material. in most cities that goes to landfill. >> looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. and as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isn't recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. with the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we can recycle again and again and again. but plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. and that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. >> it is cheaper for the oil industry to create new plastics and so they have been producing

more and more plastics so with our ab793, we have a bill that really has a goal of getting our beverage bottles to be made of more recycled content so by the time 2030 rolls around t recycle content in a coke bottle, pepsi bottle, water bottle, will be up to 50% which is higher thatten the percentage in the european union and the highest percentage in the world. and that way you can actually feel confident that what you're drinking will actually become recycled. now, our recommendation is don't use to plastic bottle to begin w but if you do, they are committing to 50% recycled content. >> the test thing we can do is vote with our consumer dollars when we're shopping. if you can die something with no packaging and find loose fruits and vegetables, that is the best.

find in packaging and glass, metal and pap rer all easily recycled. we don't want plastic. we want less plastic. awe what you we do locally is we have the program to think disposable and work one on one to provide technical assistance to swap out the disposable food service to reusables and we have funding available to support businesses to do that so that is a way to get them off there. and i believe now is the time we will see a lot of the solutions come on the market and come on the scene. >> and is really logistics company and what we offer to restaurants is reasonable containers that they can order just like they would so we came from about a pain point that a lot of customers feel which wills a lot of waste with takeout and deliver, even

transitioning from styrofoam to plastic, it is still wasteful. and to dream about reusing this one to be re-implemented and cost delivery and food takeout. we didn't have throwaway culture always. most people used to get delivered to people's homes and then the empty milk containers were put back out when fresh milk came. customers are so excited that we have this available in our restaurant and came back and asked and were so excited about it and rolled it out as customers gain awareness understanding what it is and how it works and how they can integrate it into their life. >> and they have always done it and usually that is a way of being sustainable and long-term

change to what makes good financial sense especially as there are shipping issues and material issues and we see that will potentially be a way that we can save money as well. and so i think making that case to other restaurateurs will really help people adopt this. >> one restaurant we converted 2,000 packages and the impact and impact they have in the community with one switch. and we have been really encouraged to see more and more restaurants cooperate this. we are big fans of what re-ecology does in terms of

adopting new systems and understanding why the current system is broken. when people come to the facility, they are shocked by how much waste they see and the volume of the operations and how much technology we have dedicated to sort correctly and we led 25 tours and for students to reach about 1100 students. and this is sorting in the waste stream they do every single day and they can take ownership of and make a difference with. >> an i feel very, very fortunate that i get to represent san francisco in the

legislature and allows me to push the envelope and it is because of the people the city attracts and is because of the eco system of policy thinking that goes on in san francisco that we are constantly seeing san francisco leading the way. >> kids know there's a lot of environmental issues that they are facing. and that they will be impacted by the impact of climate change. they will have the opportunity to be in charge and make change and make the decisions in the future. >> we are re-inventing the way the planet does garbage founded in the environmental ethic and hunger to send less to landfills. this is so many wonderful things happening in san francisco. i feel very fortunate and very humble to live here and to be part of this wonderful place.

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>> my family's starts in mexico in a small town. my parents are from a very, very small town. so small, that my dad's brother is married to one of my mom's sisters. it's that small. a lot of folks from that town are here in the city. like most immigrant families, my parents wanted a better life for

us. my dad came out here first. i think i was almost two-years-old when he sent for us. my mom and myself came out here. we moved to san francisco early on. in the mission district and moved out to daily city and bounced back to san francisco. we lived across the street from the ups building. for me, when my earliest memories were the big brown trucks driving up and down the street keeping us awake at night. when i was seven-years-old and i'm in charge of making sure we get on the bus on time to get to school. i have to make sure that we do our homework. it's a lot of responsibility for a kid. the weekends were always for family. we used to get together and whether we used to go watch a movie at the new mission theater and then afterwards going to kentucky fried chicken. that was big for us. we get kentucky fried chicken on sunday. whoa! go crazy! so for me, home is having something where you are all

together. whether it's just together for dinner or whether it's together for breakfast or sharing a special moment at the holidays. whether it's thanksgiving or christmas or birthdays. that is home. being so close to berkley and oakland and san francisco, there's a line. here you don't see a line. even though you see someone that's different from you, they're equal. you've always seen that. a rainbow of colors, a ryan bow of personalities. when you think about it you are supposed to be protecting the kids. they have dreams. they have aspirations. they have goals. and you are take that away from them. right now, the price is a hard fight. they're determined. i mean, these kids, you have to applaud them. their heart is in the right place. there's hope. i mean, out here with the things

changing everyday, you just hope the next administration makes a change that makes things right. right now there's a lot of changes on a lot of different levels. the only thing you hope for is for the future of these young kids and young folks that are getting into politics to make the right move and for the folks who can't speak. >> dy mind motion. >> even though we have a lot of fighters, there's a lot of voice less folks and their voiceless because they're scared. 5, 4, three, 2, 1. >> all right. good morning. >>