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or us, but it is also a way of life and a ónlifestyle we're proud to serve our community. and we're w people in any way we can.$! date is monday, december 2nd. the time is 5:01 p.m. please note that the ringing and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar devices is prohibited. please be advised that the chair may similar device. public cavailable item on the agenda. for comments on matters the agenda. there will be an opportunity for general public comment. participants who wbe asked to come forward one by one and speak speaker will be allowed three to speak. alter public comment by email to
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environment at sfgov. org. comments submitted forwarded to the commissioners and will be included as part of the official file. i will now call the roll. presidentane president sullivan here. commissioner an here. commissioner bermejo h. commissioner hunter here. commissioner tompkins. here. president quorum. thank you. next item please. the next item is the consent two through four. item two is the president's welcome. item three is staff introductions. and item four is approval of the minutes of the october 28th, 2024 commission on the environment meeting. the explanatory do 2024. commission on the environment meetes. thank you. alice. the3 e environment acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone peoples, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. we recognize that the ramaytush ohlone and havened harmony with nature for millennia. we honorone peoples for their enduring commitment to europe, mother earth, asnous protectors of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost or
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forgotten their place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. we recognize that we benefit from living and wormking on their traditional homeland asguests. we affirm their sovereign rights as first peoples and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community. as environmentalists, we recognize that we must embrace indigenous san francisco and all its people. commissioners, department staff, and members of the public welcome today's presentation docket includes staff introductions, presentations on recology zero waste refuse rate priorities, and the c charging plaza. an update on the healthy nail salonmpaign a review and potential municipal buy green report for calendar year 2023, and a discussion of sf's five year strategic delivery plan.ith that, let's get started. i think we're going. item
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three commissioners. just two individualoductions. first, we have our new hire. joining our environmental education team is ricardo carrillo. so you want come on up. you don't have to.1 hello. hi. feel free to say whatever you'd like to say or. also. oh okay. all righthi. my ricardo carriion associate with the san francisco environment department, and i'm very happy to be working and serving for the people of san fr and then we have one promotion to announce. so please join me in congratuling stephanie gonzalez, who has been promoted to our mar and digital content assistant coordinator. stephanie&ñ. stephanie gonzalez. my pronouns are she, they and i'm the marketing and digital content assistant coordinato environment
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department. i'm really excited to be here. thank you. thank you, stephanie t thank sinal item on the consent calendar is approval of the minutes. commissioners, any comments on the minutesif not, do i hear a motion to approve? soov second? second. motion by commissioner bermejo and a second. let's open this up to public wish to speak on items two through four of the agenda? vice president sullivan we have no speakers. hearing no public comment. public is now closed. alice, please call the rol president juan is excused. vice president sullivan, high commissioner on high commissioner bermejo i. commissioner huntermmissioner. tompkins i. commissioner yuanasses. next item please. the is item five. general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction, and not on today's agenda. are there any members of
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the publichoish to comment on this item? sullivan, we have speakers. hearing no public comment. public com please. the next item is item six. recol zero waste refuse rate. a guilty residential zero waste senior coordinator. this item is for discussion. item here. good evening commissioners, i'm alexa keilty, reside the e to see you all. i'm going to provide you an update ontl the refuse rate process that we're just starting. we're about to enter a new refuse rate. so it's going to be a the first part is going to provide you a little zero waste status update on where we're at with our numbers.econd !will be our program priorities for recology. so their rate application zfjanuary have some recommendations for them in their rate application. and then
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thee just a quick highlights of some of the programs that we've been working on wiefuse ratepayer money in the last year. so i'll tryly to not bore anyone. sode is basically as you can see, continuously trended down. we were at 900 almost at 900,000 tons in year 2000. and so the work. the reason why we've gotten such a low landfill rate is because we've developed innovative,pi programs with recology and the city an the refuse rates. so i justiculate that in order for us to continue this trend do to our zero waste goals, we need to invest through the refuse rates for with innovative programing. so here's just a quick snapshot of another one of our really progressive programs that we've developed, which is our food scrap composting program that became basically the blueprint for sb 1383, which now requires every city in california to do food scrap, composting. but i really
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just wanted to highlight were doing almost 700 tons per dayc material, was sent to our composting facility, and then you can see drop with covid, that big huge drop. and then we've been rebounding since. rebound mode. we're trying to get to where we were originally and that's going to take new programs and innovation andswb. and this is a quick recology. zero waste goal, as you all knowur chapter nine. and that goal now says that we're going to cut our landfilling rate in half by fro reach our 50% reduction goal by the year 20e just look what recology touches, which is somewhere between 70 and 80% of what we landfill, because there's material that gets landfill that recology does not touch, that means recology needs to recover or reduce oró9 divert over 168,000 tons of material. and i just looked at the numbers more closely today, and that it
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could even be closer to 200,000 210,000 tons of material. and that has to happen in the next five years. so once again, weed new programs to really drive down these numbers real quick on ge gasart linking all of our bac what the total city is. greenhouse gas emissions are coming from the organic material we're sending to landfill. so organics in the landfill produces methane, which i think most of you all know. and that's 72e potent than carbon dioxide. to put that in perspective, that's 45,000 vehicle gas powe do a lot here. and this is accessible to us through new programing and new projects. so switching gears a second part is what are our priorities for recology's rjust wanted to give you guys a little bit of atext because it's so obscure. this rate process because since prop f, but administrator, which are two and ben becker, who sit under the controller's office lead these hearings. and thering already took
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place in september. and these hearings are going to last through the end of june 2025. at the end of that process, the refuse rate board determines what the rate increase will be and that will go into effect 2025 and lasts. we're we're assuming it's going to be a three year rate process, so that hopefully that puts things into context in terms of what we're asking recology to do in this next rate. we were looking at some programs, how do we increase recovery? well, one of them, i personally have been working on is how do we get more reuse through the bulky item collection program? i think you all are familiar with that program. and right now we're doing they're collecting between 8 and 9000 tons of material and i we worked with our consultant to do some ride alongs with recology to analyze the material coming in. and this is a reuse specialist. and what she determined was about 50% of what's being collected could
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potentially be reused through recology's existing partnership wi vincent de paul. so this is something i'm asking. recology put this in the next rate. how can we start a reuse program rather than just the mattresses are getting reused? the appliances are getting recycled, but there's so much more potential. you all see all the furniture out on the curb that actually has a reuse potential. our construction demolition team, james slattery is working on developing a dimensional lumber pilot program with recology. so right now, all the lumber that comes through recology is getting mulched. they pay a tipping charge at the mulching facility, and that that charge gets passed on to the ratepayers. so what we're looking as an alternative is can we set aside that dimensional lumber and partner with the reuse people, which are running
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building resources less than two miles away? so we're setting aside that lumber. and they did a two week pilot and we collected over three tons of dimensional lumber through that. so the hope is that we can continue that program going forward. we are one of the only counties in california that does not have free mattress drop off. and you all, if you haven't bought a there's a recycling fee on every mattress that is sold in the state of california. that recycling fee goes to mrc mattress mattress recycling council, who is the runs the epr program essentially. so this program that we're hoping to develop with recology will actually be subsidized through the mattress recycling council and hopefully right now they're getting0 mattresses dropped off there. it'll probably double. and i'm hoping it's going to reduce the illegal dumping of mattresses, which you all see out on the streets. i'm
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sure we're asking recology to provide adequate funding for outreach needs. so we want annual recycling and composting outreach to the residents and businesses, as well as battery recycling, which we'll talk more about. but that's critical as we see more lithium ion batteries. we are asking recology to increase their contamination monitoring and pilot new camera technology. i think we all tked about the cameras. so the camera technology that they're currently using, i won't mention the company's name, but it has had some bumps and we're asking recology, please pilot some other cameras. there's a lot there's a lot of technology out there. let's let's try something that might move us along more quickly. and these are not just nice to have. the last two outreach and contamination monitoring. those are actually required by law. nowat shot there annually. we have to do co state as well as outreach safer battery collection. so we're as
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i mentioned, the lithium ion batteries, as you all see in our consumer goods, are proliferating proliferating, and they're ending up in our recycling bins. and they're have potential to create fires. and san mateo actually had a big huge fire at the recycling facility. so our toxics team is rolling out a comprehensive safer battery collection outreach to apartment buildings that have battery buckets, as well as to all multifamily residents. they'll get a postcard on how to properly manage their batteries. so these in order for recology to meet those goals that i o@$utlined for you, that 168 to 210,000 tons they're going to have to improve source separation compliance and investigate trash processing options. so i'm going to talk about that. so this is really where we can move a lot of material. in the last rate we the rate board approved a
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$50,000 expenditure to do trash processing pilots. i think we've talked a little bit with you all about that. we've completed one with green waste in san jose and t engineers, we had a third party observer hdr, did the analysis for us. so nobody is swayed. and what they told us is basically that green waste facility has potential to recover 39% of our landfill bound material, and think. it could go much higher. so that was just material straight out of the pit and it was brought to a facility. the recyclables were pulled off and then the organics were pulled off. organics were brought to another facility where it was then composted. so we think that number could be much higher more like 45%. if we send them more organics rich loads, which we know are coming from commercial and the multifamily properties. we also met with thejúfirmed he can market the compost that came out of it. so we were very excited to hear that. this is
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just the breakdown of the numbers from hdr, the engineering firm that did the analysis, and now i'm going to just switch gears one last time and just give you some top highlights of how our rate payer funding has been funding our department and some of the high level achievements. we got a $400,000 expenditure to do our waste characterization study and that is a comprehensive study to look into all our revenue streams down to is there donated, donated food going into our landfill? that's how detailed this this study is. it's incredible. and that study is going to help inform how we will do our capital investments, our policies and our program programing for recology and the city going forward. our toxics team has been very busy in the last year certifying 97 businesses, and they've all met incredibly high environmental standards, including toxics
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reduction, diversion, high diversion rates, as well as adopting reusables, getting off of the disposables, i mentioned the battery collection program, the postcards went out this year and they're going to be every multifamily resident will receive one about proper$k. we procured a new operator at building resources. if you haven't gone down there please go check it out. it's 701 amador in the bayview and the new operator is called the reuse people. so they've already done 600 tons of building material reuse. so anyone could go there. it's open to the public. it's all reuse building materials. our commercial team has been busy swapping, working with the commercial businesses to get off the disposables. so over 100 businesses in the last year have swapped over from disposables to reusables. they receive a subsidy from our department and this is really a key program
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because this is reuse is how we reduce turn the faucet down. right. so less material into our refuse streams. and this helps the ratepayers. right. so there's less. and not to mention the 67% of litter on city streets is coming from food service. so that helps with litter as well. we've been busy implementing sb 1383. one component of that state bill. it requires all medium to large food generating business donate their food. we worked really closely with department of publicealth to do 450 inspections, and the last full year that we have data, we've done 4600 tons of food were donated. and that's and usually when we talk food, we talk pounds. so that's i think i did the math. it's 9.2 million pounds of food and a million of those pounds came from the wholesale produce terminal. and then last up we hosted 13 fixit clinics this past year. this was
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brand new kind of program that we've i think you've been hearing about, but it we're able to repair 346 items, bikes and clothing and worked with 330 residents. happy to take any questions. thank you. thank you alexa. commissioners, any questions for alexa? if not, i have one. all right. i wanted to ask about the pilot with green waste. yes. because when i, when i looked at the slide that showed the 50% reduction by 30 everything going down. and then i looked at the actual results going up. i thought we're never going to meet that. so is this is the green waste pilot about taking the everything that goes in the black bin. and then sending it percent reduction would be organics that would then go into compost. is that. yeah. i mean the goal here and thank you for asking because in this next rate
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application, we're asking recology to continue the pilot. so we want them to do is send up to trash processing facility that they determine what works for them and then it would get processed and we think from that 40,000 tons of material that would norm roughly 40% would could be recovered. and then hopefully after this next rate process the three year rate cycle all of their landfill bound material. and are there other cities or jurisdictions that are doing something similar? yeah. san jose, santa clara, i think cupertino martinez has a trash processing. i mean, there's quite a few. the issue we're running into is capacity. a lot of them, haven't they? they're not permitted to take a lot more material but they're growing because of sb 1383. so for zero waste, this is a big deal. this is in my mind, this this is probably the next real frontier for us. thank you. yeah you're
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welcome commissioner tompkins, i do have just one question. relative to your mattress and that recycling that happens there. is there sanitation costs that works to ensure that those mattresses use? or when you're talking about doin yeah, they're not reused. yeah. so i agree that would be tricky and probably not attainable. they're dismantled. so th work with a contractor. they're called doctor three and they actually do job training. and they pull all the polyurethane foam which is recyclable. all the springs are metal. but yet no, no reuse happening there. and some are so dirty that they they can't even recycle because it requires a lot of manual management. so. the side of the bulky item pickup for reuse is that also occurring with the items that are reported using three one, one or the dpw is picking up or that is not? so this would just be the program
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we're looking at now. i mean, i'd love to maybe down the line, but this would just be for folks calling and requesting a pickup. and hopefully what i'd like is for folks to be able to identify what they believe is reusable because i want to engage the public, right, so that they know what what could be reused, and then they would ideally label it because trying to triage can get quite tricky for recology. you know what percentage is like bulky item versus just picked up off the street that people leave out there? isni don't know that number. yeah. because 311 is now, to my knowledge, is serviced by both rec and i don't know if we have a number maybe. no, no we don't i don't know somebody i can look that up though. that is a very good question. i could check that out. anything else? all right. so seeing no other discussion, alexa thanks for a great presentation. thank you. and let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who want
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to comment on this item? vice president sullivan, we have no speakers. thank you. alice. let's go to the next item. next item is item seven. update on healthy nail salon program and marketing campaign. the sponsor for this item is poly toxics reduction and healthy communities programspeakers are matthew lee commercial commercial toxics reduction assistant coordinator. jennifer tsang, senior marketing and communication specialist. this item is for discussion. do i just press enter here to go to the next one? press the start button. okay. sorry, we actually do have a meeting to do this. just announce it. okay okay. and then just okay. two microphones
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here. good evening commissioners. my name is paul d.o.j. and i'm the program manager for the toxics communities team. nice to see you all. i'm excited to be here today to talk to you all about our healthy nail salon program, the healthy nail salon program is a recognition program and has been running this since 2012. we were the first city in the nation to start a healthy nail salon program. there's four other municipalities now infoia that have one, and the state through the department of toxic substances control. a few years ago adopted our guidelines and they have a certification as well. so it's grown from this city. and the program addresses the health of people working in salons, in specifically nail salons and their customers, by reducing exposure to harmful chemicals found in nail products. if you've ever gone to a salon for a mani pedi, you that it can smell a lot, right? there's some strong chemical smells that
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are coming out of those small spaces. and now picture space for ten hours a day, 6 to 7 days a week, the way most nail technicians work. program is to make those spaces, and the people who work in them a little healthier. so my colleague mintu lee is going to talk to you a little bit about the program itself. and then jennifer sung will talk with you about a marketing campaign that we recently launched this spring that ran into the summer. so now mintu.ame is mintu lee and i'm the assistant coordinator for the healthy salon program. and tonight we'll introduce you briefly about the healthy nail salon program. so when you walk into a nail salon, the first thing you normally see is the full shelves of colorful nail polishes.ere's a nail polish remover nail polish
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thinner, artificial nail service products, and also others. many of these have many of your products have harmful chemicals that have been linked to many health problems. those chemicals affect the health of nail salon workers who are exposed to them day to day. in short term, they might have dry or cracked skin on the eyes and coughing, itchy eyes and long term could be asthma. reproductive problems such as infertility, birth defects. also, study shows that link to cancer. by the end of 2018, there were more than 54,000 nail salons in the country, and above, and more than 395,000 workers. the most impactful is not how many they
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are, but who they are. more than 90% of them are women at childbearing age. they work long hours and also low wages. about 75% of them have average income around 34,000 a year. also especially in cor of them are vietnamese. so our partnering with other organizations to program to help these salon workers. when the salons sign up for the program, we help them to adopt safer products, safer practices, andw better ventilation. safer products mean the products have no toxic trio, which is toluene, dibutyl phthalate, formaldehyde, and methyl ethyl ketone. several practice means they use ppe like gloves, masks, goggles when
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transferri chemicals. and also we help them better ventilation with help them with general ventilation and localized ventilation. we also provide a training sessions on these salons for everyone at the most convenient time. so mostly before or after business hours on the week. once the salon recognized that when once they meet all the criteria, they get recognized. all the staff that everyone that attended the training sessions will have a certificate with their name on it. the salons will have a window decal and also an award plaque. besides those three items, we also advertise salons on our department website and we list them by the neighborhoods and we place them on the google maps as well. so currently we have 62 out of a little bit over 200
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salons francisco. recently we have a few healthy nail salons, also joined the green business program to take advantage of the rebate and rebate offers to change out their lightingter heater switch out their cleaning products for a safer to change to create an environmentally friendly for everyone. currently, we have seven salons that are also green business and four more are in the process. another way that we support these nail salons marketing campaign san franciscans to support our salons. and i'll let jennifer talk to you more in detail about our spring campaign earlier this year. thank you for the tion, menta and good
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evening, commissioners. as mintu mentioned, i'll cover the details of the latest healthy nail salon marketing campaign. our primary goal was our primary goal was to encourage san francisco residents to choose a healthy y goal was to encourage patrons to convince their existing salons to become a healthy nail salon. our target audience was san francisco residents that received nail salon services at a san francisco salon. specifically, we targeted targeted women living in san francisco between the ages of 25 and 54 that are employed speak english, spanish or chinese, and had interests in beauty treatments and products. our secondary audience were people who work in or own a nail salon in san francisco. month campaign from may through july, so it would some seasonal events and holidays where nail salons were more frequented
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including mother's day prom, summer sandal season, amongst others.a modest budget of about $230,000, which included discovery and research, creative development, media strategy, planning buying and management, production, pre and post surveys and translations. during the discovery phase, we use research from various sources, including consumer insights, data industry magazine and marketplace data and previous s.f. research and cs. in summary these discovery findings inform the campaign strategy that included highlighting healthy nail salon program copywriting and visuals, and taking healthy nail salon locations work found that although survey participants thought environmental and sustainable practices are important, they ranked how nail salons treated their workers as the most important visiting a
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salon. therefore, when we were brainstorming creativecampaign we took these findings into consideration. we started wi. the first concept is similar to a previous successful healthy nail salon campaign called pretty shouldn't stink. something fresh and new. the third concept used a play on words to highlight the potential harmful chemicals in the nail polish but the play on words did not translate well to chinese and spanish. we decided to move forward with the second concept, which focused on the well-being of the salon workers, and we could use emotional copywriting and visuals. this concept again applied the findings from our discovery and our pre survey work and further developing and refining the an open call to san francisco salon workers to be campaign ad models. and those that compensated for their time. i'd like to take this opportunity to to mintu, who, because of her extremely strong relationships
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with nail salon owners and employees, we were able to move quickly because of existing trusted relationships, and this was also a way of continuing to keep salon owners and employees involved with the campaign. you'll see in the next few slides that i'll quickly go through the final look and feel of the campaign and the channels they were displayed. please note that all english, chinese, and spanish unless otherwise noted. and for our media strategy, wherever possible, we concentrated media exposure in the zip codes with the mo san francisco. this included banner ads, print. muni bus cards. posters. videos. digital out of home social media, user generated content, style ads and spanish digital ads. a major
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takeaway from our campaign is thatdf w successfully used compelling messaging. the target audience really took to the focus on salon employees and their health. i'll go over a few highlights over a three month period from our online channels. digital digital creati three and a half times benchmark numbers with 57,000 landing page visits across all three languages. we had daily landing page traffic jumping from three visitors a day to 63 0 a day, and we had over 5 million ove and 74,000 clicks. the cost per click was a very efficient $0.33. offline, we had a total of over 2 million impressions, with over 1400 people manually entering the url, spending an average of 10s 15 seconds for the site average showing high engagement with the offline campaign and strong interest in the site content. the campaign was
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very strong. the two strongest awareness building taglines were treat yourself right and me too and love your manicure. love your manicurist. with survey participants having an above average recall of the taglines after being shown the ad. and 76% of survey participants, more were more likely to visit a healthy nail salon after seeing an ad from the campaign. in successfully delivered a multi-platform, multi-language campaign providing more than 7 million impressions within a modest budget. the performance of the online program showed improvement over the three month schedule, ending with a click through rate that was three and a half times the benchmark, and the campaign integrated online and offline media to reinforce the healthy nail salon message and to reach thosess digitally connected. so with that i'll turn it over to pauly to provide some closing thoughts. thank you
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jennifer. so as you heard, the campaign was very successful and it's something that we'dike to continue running to the extent possible. so maybe smaller media buys or social marketing, social media marketing, especially during key times of year when people are looking for a salon beyond the marketing that we're doing, we're also continuing to recruit salons. we're always providing the technical assistance that's also another shout out to mintu, who does all of that work for us. a we are also, as you heard mintu say bringing some of our healthy nail salons into the green business program so they can expand what they're already doing to do the energy efficient lighting and the water retrofits and the safer cleaning and making sure they're doing asng and composting as possible. so that will continue.
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and something exciting that we're going to do next year. public health to apply for a grant where we would of ventilation units toee how different ones compare, how effective they are in hopes that these results will one be a little more fuel for the fire to adopt the ventilation units, but that might they might like better that m smaller, not as loud, etc. so we're really q[excited about that. and hopefully we'll get that grant. and then i mean, that that's really all that we have. you know, we'll we have time for questions. but thank you for your time and our website again if you want to check it out. sf healthy nails.org. please tell your friends, tell your family. if you go to a salon now and you don't see that sticker on their window and you don't see talk to them about the program and send them our way. thank you so much for your time. thank you polly, and
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to mintu and jennifer. commissioners questions the staff. first off, the logo is like a plus with the little nail salon. but what's the total addressable market like? how many total nail salons are there? it's about 210. so we've got almost 30% of the salons in san francisco in this move to like hair salons too. is that you bring that up because we are working to do some research on greener products in hair salons with a lot of these types of products, as you might imagine, there's a lot of greenwashing and there's not a lot o certifications that tell us you know, yes, we've screened to look for the safer products, but there is some possibility and we're we're trying to move in that direction. and we would we would like to bring hair salons into our green business program. and so we're working on it. it's
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definitely a challenge because there's just lack of regulation and a lot of greenwashing. seeing no further commissioner comment, commissioner, on quick comment, i do appreciate looking at the website, the map, the searas well as the listing of different salons by neighborhood. i think that's a. all right. thank. thanks so much. let's open it up to public comment. are there anyho wish to comment on this item? vice president sullivan we have no speakers. a public comment is now closed. next item please. the next item is item eight presentation on csc fast charging plaza and community outreach. speaker i appenzeller, senior clean transportation specialist. this item is. okay,
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okay, great. does this one work? okay, great. good evening commissioners. my name is nicole appenzeller and i'm a senior clean transportation specialist at the environment department. i also serve as the city's electric vehicle ombudsperson, and my mission is to increase public electvecle charging access in san francisco. today, i'm excited to provide an update on our california energy commission fast charging plaza. and community outreach work. this project was developed in response to an existing challenge that san francisco and a lot of other cities are experiencing. the communities that are impacted by the highest rates of pollution are being left behind as electric vehicle adoption and charging expands electric vehicle charging service providers are not prioritizing these communities forrging projects, as ev adoption rates are typically lower in these areas, so providers see less opportunities for charger use and revenue. the
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problem is that without public chargers, a lot of drivers may not feel ready to convert to electric vehicles and ev adoption rates may not increase. so we have this ongoing chicken and egg problem. one such community is bayview hunters . bayview hunters point has some of the highest pollution rangs in the city. historically, the site of industrial land uses poor air quality in bayview, hunters point is exacerbated by freeway due to limited access to public transit, there's little available charging to serve residents, and while the map indicates that there are three charging sites in bayview hunters point, our recent outreach indicates that these sites are either not operational or they're behind closed gates so from the public from having access 24 hours a day. so given this existing challenge, our department looked for funding to bring charging to underserved areas like bayview hunters point ourselves. we applied for and were awarded funding from the california energy commission to conduct community outreach and select and install a new
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community supported electric vehicle fast charging plaza and a charging plaza is a has multiple fast chargers, and for this grant, we received funding for working with three partners on this project and two action is a local community based organization and is the community engagement lead and two action organized, promoted and hosted community meetings to collect community feedback and to identify a list of potential sites that the community supported. strategiesd communications firm, is the survey lead and conducted a community survey to collect input on electric vehicles, chargers, and site preferences and finally evgo, a national ev charging service provider, is our charging station lead. evgo evaluated the potential sites and determined if sites met technical requirements and spoke to property owners to help choose a final site. the first outreach conducted was the the purpose of the survey was to collect community input on electric vehicles, charging traffic, and
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considerations for a new charging site. strategies 360 developed the site with inputs from sfe and into action, and in february 2024, 400 residents in southeast san francisco were surveyed, including 141 bayview hunters point residents. the survey was conducted via landline cell phone and online via text message invites. all focus today's presentation on survey results for bayview-hunters point respondents only. and as you can see here, respondents represented a variety of age groups and ethnicities. the survey found that car ownership is high in bayview-hunters point, with 88% of respondents owning or leasing at least one car. when asked how likely is it that your next car will be an electricn hybrid car? almost half of respondents said it was likely, with 37% saying 14% being unsure. we found that the main reason respondents would consider an ev is to save money on gas and vehicle maintenance. the second most popular reason was to reduce vehicle emissions
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and pollution, and these results can help us inform our future outreach messaging to focus that messaging around economic and environmental benefits. we also wanted to understand what the hesitations were the number one hesitation was the lack of reliable public chargid hassle of charging, andsts were also significant. hesitations. lastly, we asked residents what their preferences were for future public charging sites. residents thought it would be best to install chargers in commercial areas such as on third street, and preferred having charging statstations and grocery stores close to amenities. residents also highlighted that they want to feel safe while charging. they want spots to be well lit to prevent vandalism and they want to avoid displacing too many parking spots. the survey results helped the project team plan the agenda for our community meetings, and were considered as we develop the
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final list of candidates for the new charging site. after the survey was completed and two action organized three spring 2020, four meetings were held at the southeast community center, bayview opera house, and true hope church, and during those community meetings, sfe and into action provided historical context on neighborhood emissions information on electric vehicle benefits and incentives, and we collected feedback on where community members would like to see future public ev charging attendees used maps of the neighborhood to favorite sites and rank them and $25 stipends and dinner were offered to all residents for their participation. several community meeting participants were unaware of the economic benefits of electric vehicle ownership, such as lower fuel and maintenance costs. the available incentives to reduce the upfront cost of evs, and they also shared misconceptions around the environmental impact of ev evs, illustrating the need for more engagement and lesk
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collected, sfe developed a list of community supported charging sites and we asked evgo to assess the sites for sites to be feasible for this project. they needed to meet technical requirements like having sufficient electrical capacity. they needed to be accessible to the public 24 over seven, be large enough to fit multiple chargers and receive approval from the property owner. community members showed high interest in having public chargiters, parks community centers, places of worship and parking lots. while funding is limited for this project, sfe plans to use this list of community supported sites to apply for future funding, and we've already applied for state funds for a few of these sites of all these factors, sfe and ev go identified bayview plaza at 3800 one third street as the site for the new fast charging plaza. the site will include six new public fast chargers and include two ada accessible spots. this shopping center has a grocery store bank, coffee shop, and other businesses making it a popular destination. site construction
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is estimated to begins month, and the site is expected to be open in the first half of 2025. last month, sfe launched a new project webpage outlining project process and announcing the site. residents can sign up through the webpage to receive future project updates or submit their feedback. and since grant funding is available for eight total chargers now, sfe is reviewing another site to fund two addial fast chargers. we're also currently exploring funding opportunities to continue community engagement inhunters point and other san francisco underserved neighborhoods on so that we can collect post-installation feedback. new potential charger sites in the community, and complete further engagement on electric vehicle benefits and incentives. and just want to thank you for your time today and i can't wait to invite all of you to the ribbon cutting for this site next year. thank you. nicole. questions. nicole would
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you mind going back to the slide with the san francisco map charger distribution? yesky. the comment i would have is i'm still struck since roughly now i feel like we've had this conversation since 2019, 2020. so bayview-hunters point, first of all i'm really glad that this process has happened and that it's into it i think there's a lot of value to it. there are two kind of levels of this discussion that do worry me in terms of the scale of what's needed to happen. so it's not just the six chargers you mentioned. there are additional chargers coming, which is great but the geographic area i also want to highlight that we discussed, gosh, it's like 4 or 5 years ago now was the west side. and as you can see it's really sparse. and then the second vel of the discussion is really the definition that's used to try to define and go after these grants. and i notice it's again the disadvantaged communities
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definition, the dacs definition and callum virus screen in particular, which as an environmental justice mapping tool has had a lot of limitations in mapping san francisco generally. i'm wondering maybe this is like a hyper specific question that you won't know off the top of your head is the ab 1550 definition of low income communities even available for this kind of grant, or is it very specifically limited to dacs calenviroscreen to begin with? so it depends on the funder for the grant. so we are seeso. and also within san francisco we know that we have our san francisco equity priority communitiesso we're doing our best to compile all of that information into tools that we can use across our city family and across our applications so that we can increase our chances to secure funding, but also make sure that we're filling in any additional gaps. so, as you mentioned, onide, we're not having a lot of distribution there. so thinking about other ways that we can meet that need and assess what
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the charging gap is based off of the different audiences, whether they be single family homeowners that might not have knowledge of residential charging or multi-unit dwellers that lack access to overnight charging and parking. maybe to clarify the grants that are used right now for the bayview-hunters point chargers, those are california energy commission grants, correct dc grants. are we looking at any carb grants by chance, which would probably use a more expansive definition? yes. we are open to any types of grants, and we're cstantly applying. so we use the definitions for the project funders. in this case it was a disadvantaged community. definition that was applied by the california energy commission. but we apply for carb grants as well as are also working with entities like uc berkeley to develop mapping tools that can apply those layers of different equity definitions so that we can identify what those priority populati. so i guess for
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fellow commissioners, what i'd like us to consider in the future is this focus on the southeast is really important. i don't there need. but that the west side still remains unserved in many ways, as we saw in that map, is of also very big concern to me, especially because of the history of development in the city, how car driven, you know, the west side is to begin with. i justs like a very natural area to develop public charging systen again, do ev #1 education out there as well. so ideally we can do both at the same for instance, commissioners signing doing an advocacy letter to the state to argue for a more expansive definition. i'm open to something like that. i'm also open to any kind of alternative advocacy pathways. you see, for us to essentially keep on pushing this conversation. so i'm hoping li fast forward to five years from now. again the map won't be as spars seeing on the, you know, outer edges, essentially of the city. definitely. and i think the
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charging mapping tool i referenced is going to be a really useful tool as it becomes available to the public next year. and i'd love to do a demonstrat that with the commission and think about how we can, youw, publicize those workshops as well, so that we can get that tool into the hands of not only city agencies, but ev charging service providers to help fill those gaps. thank you. other questions? if not, nicole knows i wouldn't let this topic go by without a question following up on commissioner anne's comment, i think we want chargers to go. we want there to be equity ross the city but we also want chargers to go where people need them. so i wonder just putting aside other issues, do we have a way to tell where there's a the imbalance between where evs exist and where the chargers exist? is there a way to just to
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say, just look at that map and you see the west side's kind of kind of blank, but there may be the distribution of electric vehicles is also not you know consistent across the city. so do we have a way to sense that out? yes:n. we have a study that was conducted by the international council on clea helped us research in 2020. what are projected charging needs were to meet our 2030 goals. so we have a zip codeevel map that outlines how many level two chargers and how many dc fast chargers, as well as how many home chargers we're going to need in order to meet our very aggressive electrification goals for 2030, and takes into account those things like vehicle registration. so we can kind of currently registered within our county, where can we expect them% conversion to be and where those gaps. so as yould see from that map, you know, maybe in our downtown corridor, we feel like that need is met. but again there are these gaps on a zip code leveldentify using that study. and wenumbers
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based off of quarterly dmv registration totals. and i use that as a tool as i work with ev charging service providers. so as they're looking for new sites within the city, i'm pointing back to that map so i can point them to the areas that have gaps. so we don't continue to saturate the same places. thank you. and kind of a wonky question about the type of fast chargers. so i think you know that the whole world is going towards the tesla type of charger. and i can't remember what that's called. cec, what's it called? but are we chargers. what kind of fast chargers are they. and as people as gm and ford andthers kind of move to the tesla approach with initially with adapters but eventually without them. are these chargers going to be that. yeah. so the goal is to make sure that we're future proofing any new installation, especially one that's kind of city sponsored. so these will have a mix of ccs and chademo connectors. but are
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also forward looking to make sure that any future standardized connector i going to be integrated so we can make it as accessible as possible and hopefully relieve people from just using adapters. got it. so be what type ccs and chademo okay. got it. i have a practical or maintenance question regarding these chargers, because sometimes i hear they're vandalized. so what. how can we ensure that those i mean it's going to cost money with the funding, the upkeep to makee who are in need of that can be able to use it in that is there a way to safeguard against who are, e in electric vehicles or anything like that? do you take that into consideration? yes. of course, not only do we want to put these into play and install these
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chargersbut to make sure that they're, well maintained. so that includes you know, including really strong equipment and making sure that there's not access to anything that's going to be kind of open that could maybe collect trash. and also making sure that they're in well-lit locations. so with our charging provider and what we find on a lot of sites that are hosted is that there is an operations and maintenance contract, so that that charging provider is chargers, or they have, you know, a company that they sub that out to. and on each charger there's information so that they can contact if the charger is down and experiencing any problems or if it needs a cleanup around the site so that we cancc make sure that that charger can be updated or cleaned as necessary supporting as much uptime as can be in use. and something that
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we'rrequirg is, you know, we want to see that uptime above 95%. so we also make making sure that the charging provider is fixing that charger. so if there's an electric problem, for example, that they'reng out and fixing that quickly so that we're not having a charging space that can't be utilized. yeah. one other thought, i have a sense that the ride sharing community isy kind of ahead of the general community in terms of ev adoption. i was took an uber from the airport home just a couple days ago and was quizzing the driver about how he gets, how he charges. and i think a lot of these drivers are don't live so they're driving sometimes long distances on freeways to get here. and they also do a lot of airport rides. so kind of pr thing if we're really trying to get the most co2 out of the system. so the the bayview-hunters point that's probably pretty close to
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101. i would guess. yes. and that fast charger helps, you know those those drivers up their car quickly and continue with their work. so a o charging service providers are also providing discounts to those they're putting a lot of miles on on their cars and incentivizing them to use that public charging. got it. well keep up the good work. great. thank you all. thank you, thank you nicole. so seeing no further questions, let's open it up to public comment. are there anylic who wish to comment on this item? vice president sullivan we have no spea. thank you. public comment is now closed. next item please. the next item is item nine. review and vote on whether to a]fpprove the annual municipal buy green report for calendar year 2023. the speakers are doctor shobha iyer by green program manager and gabriel hernandez, municipal toxics reduction assistant coordinator.
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the explanatory document is the annual municipal buy green report. draft for discussion and possible action hi everyone. good evening commissioners. so like we heard tonight will be sharing some updates about our buy green program activities. and let me first introduce our buy green team to you. my name is shobha iyer and i'm a toxics reduction environmental specialist here at sfe. and gabriel hernandez is an environmental analyst on my team. our buy green team also includes soco ma chris otoshi and annie wong who are on the cityt me give you some background information here. so the environmentally preferable purchasing ordinance is chapter
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two of the san francisco environment code. and it requires the city of san francisco to ensure that purchases of commodities and expenditures of public money are made in aistent policies. and i mentioned in our last slide that our municipal toxics reduction team partners with the city government. zero waste team to implement this program and that's because of the role of the resource conservation ordinance, which requires city departments to minimize consumption, maximize resource recovery, and purchase products with recycled one of our mandates and report on city departments progress towards full compliance with theen ordinance. and another of our mandates is to produce an annual buy green report, and this report is one of the meeting documents available on t this meeting. note thatr the document with updated in the file title is the one to be looking at. we noticed a small correction that we made earlier
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today. okay, let me shareof our key program accomplishments over the last year, our team delivered a presentation to the city's technology procurement forum about green it equipment purchases. our buy green team began a training series delivered by the responsible purchasing network, which is one of our contractors and this was one we had identified last year. given that our team is made up of fairly new staff, and so we wanted to benefit from the many years of green purchasing experience held by the responsible purchasing network staff from both our buy from the office of contract administration. participated in a green rfp bootcamp earlier this year that was offered by the harvard kennedy school's government performance lab, and i'll now turn the mic over to my teammate gabriel hernandez, who will tell you about our data analysis on selected municipal in the 2023 calendar year. hello
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everyone. thank you for that intro. so today i'm going to talk a little bit about hand sanitizers. so this year we chose to analyze hand sanitizers for a few reasons. firstly it hasn't been evaluated and additionally we had sales data for it. so the perfect opportunity for us to analyze it this year as well as there's a toxic chemical exposure issue we're concerned about with hand sanitizers, especially given that they're personal care products that everyone's applying to their skins. and the popularity in the recent years. so with hand sanitizer chemistries or categories of hand sanitizers. so that's alcohol based. and non-alcohol based. and we're concerned about the non alcohol based hand sanitizers because they often have a chemical in them called benzalkonium chloride as their active ingredient. and benzalkonium chloride can negatively impact the respiratory system as well as contribute to skin sensitization. is. additionally
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it is also a quaternary ammonium compound, which is a class of chemicals we're concerned about and regular use can contribute toimicrobial resistance. so to prevent the harmful impacts associated with these non alcohol based hand sanitizers our requirement is for these products to be alcohol based which is the safer option for human health. and here on this slide the hand sanitizer purchases by city departments of our staples supply contracts. so these are city wide term contracts administered by the office of contract administration or oca. and i'll note that we collaborate with oca to incorporate different environmental requirements into the requirements into these contracts. so what we have here on the x axis is the dollar spent. the y axis is the departments who have spent more than $300 on this product category. so it's showing the
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top spenders here. and again we're assessing the compliance of the purchases with the requirement that the hand sanitizers must be alcohol based. so overall what we see is 83% of hand sanitizers purchased by the city were's by total monetary value. and 25 of the 29 departments who purchased from these contracts had 100% compliance. so doingmentioned, we did uncover data processing error that we corrected this morning. so that is this new slide deck has two updated numbers on it. and that is the percent compliance for the airport and the puc. so just something to note. that's a difference from the previous version and overall non-compliant purchases were tended to be these hand sanitizer wipes containing benzalkonium chloride and per their contracts, non-compliant products shouldn't be offered for sale by these vendors. but given that the reality, it's
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important that we collaborate and educate the city staff that are purchasing these products, as well as the suppliers to increase environmental compliance with thesef- standards that are set to safeguard human health and the environment. and the last thing i'll add is if you want more detail on the data, there is data dashboard which houses all this information in the report. so thank you. and with that i'll pass it back over to shoba. thank you gabriel okay so here i'm showing you some activitiesave in mind for the coming year. we'll continue to work on building andwith city staff who make or influence purchasing decisions. we've done some really great networking in this last year, and we'll continue to do better define who our folks are, that we want to make sure we're working with and discussing our environmental requirements with, and learn about green purchasing barriers that departments may be facing
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and ultimately so we can consider solutions that limit or avoid the inclusion of harmful chemicals in municipal purchases. gabriel came up with the great idea for us to host buy green office hours withso we'll implement these with the goal of building up to regular buy green committee meetings with city staff, and our team will also explore alternative approaches to collecting and analyzing municipal purchasing data. this is an ongoing both on identifying how we can leverage the city's procurement well as learning how other jurisdictions leverage . okay, i'll switch gears a bit and provide you with a crash course on a toxics issue as a prelude to this year's big greenw award. and that issue is bisphenol chemicals and thermal receipt paper. so conventional thermal receipt paper or bpa bisphenol s oreos or other
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structurally related chemicals. and these chemicals function as developers that assist in heat activated printing. and why do we care about these chemicals? well, bpa and ps are listed as reproductive toxicants under california's proposition 65, and another endpoint we're concerned about is endocrine disruption, which is the alteration of and this can be an upstream toxicity common to various chronic diseases. there are additional bisphenol chemicals aside from bpa and ps that have been linked with this adverse heal studies that have demonstrated that workers, like cashiers who regularly handle thermal receipt paper, are exposed to significantly more bpa and ps than the general population. so with thatd, we are really excited to give this year's by green award to ruben juarez from the san francisco public library. ruben has demonstrated initiative and leadership in helping transition the library system's receipts to
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phenol free paper. this paper is used for due date receipts, hold slips, and for payment transactions. ruben works on the library's health and safety committee, which was pivotal in the execution of this endeavor. his hard wwork and persistence in identifying and working towards the implementation of phenol free receipt paper is really paying off because it's protecting both library staff and patrons from preventable exposures to harmful bisphenols. so i have a real life award here. we virtually presented ruben with this award several weeks ago, and it is my pleasure to present you with it in person today. thank you so much. yes absolutely. thank you so much. what i want to start by saying is any recognition is super flattering and much appreciated,
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but it's incomplete if i don't part of the process in the san francisco public library, we have the health and safety committee, and i'm one of the members. i'm the union representative on the health and safety committee. that was really great. and. there's a number members on the health and safety committee, and some of the names. nancy terranova is our chair of the committee. wonderf worker. she came from the department of public health and joined us a few months ago. shirley has worked with the financial aspect of making this happen. winnie as well as winnie, a delivery services, and stanley and kim and everybody at the stockroom made this happen. what i want to say about this process is that it took a long time for it to happen. it started initially in
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2000. actually, it was in 2018 when it began as an idea. but i think all of you understand when something doesn't have legs. and so it died initially, but in later it was a patron who complained about the receipt paper, and from there began a process of us finding the proper paper that would work. and it was a matter of we understood who was the vendor, who free, and then and then goingut identifying the paper, making the phone call and asking for it to be sent, and then making sure it worked in the receipt printer. the self-checkout machine, and the. so it was this long process that finds itself here. i just wanted,o's sitting in the back with my wife tonight, the depth and breadth of everything that happened this evening with all
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theresentations was, was a fantastic. i'm sitting there i'm like, wow, just the things that we're learning. but i have to just sise;soko and annie because i am a when we're talking about or sharing about all these pieces of things happen and working with community partners at the public library, obviously we're interacting with a lot of people, and i can always turn to annie. she's such apful person. soko is the same. her presentation at the public library is still one of the best ever. shobha and chris and everybody else in the team. so i just wanted to say thank you. and lastly, justally my great privilege as being the union rep on the health and safety committee, that the workers bring their concerns to me and that i'm able to prioritize them for the library and the common good, because i think that'sing to do
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especially with the climate change climate crisis such an existential threat as we're going forward. so thank you so very much. thank you. okay. thank you for your attention. we've got our green email address here on the wishes to reach out to us. and i welcome any questions or comments. commissioners commissioner, when our seats are near and dear to my heart because i pick up so many of them on the street, so i would encourage you, we tried to figure out if we could make printing receipts by request only. so i encourage you to explore that. i don't know, you know, phil ting tried to push but i don't think it ever got out of committee. but i don't know what the steps are, but there's no need for paper receipts, really, unless someone needs it for an expense report. but all of that's done digitally. so we've always thought, you know, some of these
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local tech companies like square or i think it's called block now, could be sponsors of this because it's like in their own interest or, or some of these e-commerce point of sale platforms. so if we can dot. and then it seems like to other departments that are using these kind of like thesel the, you know, parking tickets they're printing. i'm. assuming it's probably those same, you know, materials as well. so i don't know if there's other departments that's going to move to using the library as like the standard. right. so i just÷ sorry, when you were mentioning it, the library has a paperless. you don't have to get a receipt. so at the self-check machine there's that option. just i wanted to throw that in, but i'm thinking like trader e's and safeway and oh i see greens. yeah. thanks for the comment. i know i've definitely gotten less paper receipts in the last few years compared to
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the years before but we can, i think as we getconnect more with other city departments, it who else is using thermal receipt paper regularly. other questions for siobhan or team? just a quick question on the hand sanitizer and the gap at the airport, because that's the largest 1 to 100% compliance. what's the mitigation to drive that forward to 100%? it's a good question. i think it's really identifying. okay well is it it was the hand sanitizer non-compliant purchases. so i think connecting with well first identifying who are the key folks at the airport since connecting with doing some education around that and also connecting with the city suppliers to make sure that our requirements are reflected in what's purchasable by departments. yeah. thank you.
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and i noticed that as well. and thank you for getting that number right that the that the department that uses of the sanitizers is also by far the worst of any of the 12 departments in terms of compliance. so hopefully that will improve. yeah. other questions. if not this is an action item. so we need a motion and a second to approve the report to make it more clear. can we update the motion to approve the updated report? yes. let's let's do that. so on seconds okay. thank you. motion by commissioner tompkins and a second by commissioner on. let's go to public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? have no speakers. okay. thank you. alice, please call the roll. president juan is excused. vice president sullivan i commissioner on i. commissioner
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bermejo i commissioner hunter i commissioner tompkins. i commissioner yuan i the motion passes. next item please. the next item is item ten. discussion on five year sfp strategic delivery plan. the sponsor is tyrone jude, director. speakers are leo chief deputy director and cindy comerford climate program manager. this item is for discussion. so commissioners, we wanted to you an update. as you're aware, working through our own internal processes of mapping out terms of resources, in terms of io get to our climate action plan goals in 2030. and so we wanted to take this look ahead. so even of going through our budget process and all of our different refuse rate processes, we were pushing to see how far ahead could we look just over the next five years to start organizing our activities so on top of all the amazing workheard about today all of the team has been involved in this effort in terms of crafting and prioritizing their work and identifying areas gaps in terms of
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funding or resources or o needed to hit our 2030 mark. and so we're going to have a presentation, a brief presentation and i'll be joined by our ief administrative officer, leo chee and climate program manager cindy comerford, who have been part of the organizing group, i shall say, kind of corralling all of this data and input. this is not the final conversation. this is really just to give all of you an update as far as what work has been done, where we are, and it has been a lot of work over this past few months. and so we're really excited to share it with you so we can jump to the presentation. all right leo, i think you're gonna have to control as we move forward. all right. sounds go. ties kind of given us the high level picture of what we're going to be talking about during this item. we've got the agenda up so we've got some background that's been provided and then i
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will briefly talk about the budget history and the timeline going forward. then i'll hand it off to cindy to talk about the climate action plan updateg, as well as funding priorities and then i and the team will address any next steps. and i will note this is because there's so much detail involved. i would advise kind o as we're going along just because you're going to see numbers and charts and things and i'm sure there might be questions as we're going. than ty. yeah, there's a ton of material and i'll also try to keep us moving. so just highlighting here that the some of the thinking behind why we needed to develop this five year plan to really focus on our strategies and how we're going to deliver the work that's needed in the city to achieve our cap and other environmental goals. so we wanted to have a clear vision and objectives for the next five years. we want to understand strategic resource allocation. we want to have accountability and measu benchmarks. we want to make sure
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we have stakeholder confidence and we want to be sure we have adaptability to change. so we've got a little bit of budget background here. just some highlights that i wanted to pull out. so in 2022 the department secured the largest board of supervisors add back in department history to support climate action plan implementation. so thanks to the commission and ty and everyone who worked to make that happen in 2023, the department secured ongoing funding through the mayor's budget as well as through the add back process. and that was also the year where the new refuse rate process was going forward, where two years of funding were programed. and then in 2024, this last process we did secure an ongoing commitment through the mayor's budget to support cap positions. and so that was very important as well. so i rushed us through the timeline. last time i was here talking to you, but i
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wanted to just take us briefly through this graphic and just pick some of the key items that i wanted to purple, i'm showing us the refuse rate process. and i saw in one of alexa's slides that she had put in the detailed refuse rate timeline. and you can also see it on their website. for all of you, i think the key to note is that they have a commitment to come to the commission on the environment two times, and we're in conversations with them about whether they should come to the january or february meeting. it's likely to be february because we'll have more detail in substance for us to work with by then. but i think that, you knowls that alexa provided in her presentation highlighting what's happening with our advocacy for components of their budget are really important. andn i think there will also be a focus on our department's budget in these hearings. but i did confirm with the refuse rate administrator that it's pretty general. so
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it's a fairly open ended meeirement that they have so likely to be our february meeting, which is the usual february date. and then they'll likely come back in april. they'll have a series of meetings with the public as the refuse rate administrator. then they have a number of meetings with their board, and that will run potentially until july. so in parallel with that, we have the city's overall process in black below the line. and so we are actually going to get budget instructions from the mayor's office tomorrow afternoon at 1:00. so they had promised it in november. they were close but didn't make it. so we'll be getting that information and we'll hear what their instructions will be for two hearings with all of you before presenting our budget, which is due february 22nd by charter. so we're planning to come to the january meeting as well as the february meeting. and those
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dates have been finalized and set. so we're looking forward to that after we propose our budget the mayor's office has their time to work with our proposal and propose a citywide budget on june 1st. there's no may 1st budget this year, so they're proposing everyone for june 1st. so that's the timeline that i wanted to share with all that you can see visually just some of the key dates. and they do go in parallel. they're not perfect, but it can make for a reasonably coordinated process. and i'll do my best to make sure that there's as much consistency across the processes as possible, as well as if there's any key discrepancies or issues that we think need to be highlighted. thanks. so now i'm going to hand off to cindy to talk about the climate action plan and some of our priorities. there are any questions of what you heard so far, one, one question, which is we have doet that would
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process would have been initiated by mayor breed changing, evolving under a new mayor. that's a really good question that, you know, a number of staff have been asking as well the shortfalls that are trying to be addressed by the mayor's budget office and the is a number that they agree upon in conjunction with the board of supervisors. so the reality is that there is a significant structural deficit. i think there's clear agreement on that. so i would still expect that regardless of the change inr, that there will still be an instruction coming from the mayor's budget office for us to reduce spending, even the kind of midyear recommendation which wasn't exactly an instruction, was for us to try to hold back 3.5% of our salary spending as a department. and so i would expect something similar to that. and maybe a similar to last year's general fund reduction, just purely based on
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my judgment and history. i would guess that the there might be a little bit moreeveryone's proposals as recommendations or suggestionsqy versus like across the board cuts. and so i could see the new mayor potentially weighing the different choices and trying to move it forward in some kind of different timeline or process. maybe they'll try to resolve certain departments sooner or they'll or he'll identify specific priorities that he wants to accelerate and kind of disregard any cuts for those areas. but the reality is, there's only so many departments receiving general fund. and so it's he'll be bounded by whats are. so i think it will move forward relatively similar to what. but you never know. thankou. yeah. and that process would be the same whether it was the incumbent mayor or new mayor. so the budget process and the dates that we have, we would nd then began conversations with the mayor's office during that
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time. and in this case, it will be a new administration. into my computer. i hope you're all doing well. so in this next section of the presentation i'm going to share a very brief update on our climate action plan. i'm going to recap some of our previous discussions we had around climate action plan funding. and then i'm going to walk you through our strategic planning process to understand our current funding priorities. okay, so in june, staff came and presented to this commission and we gave an update on the progress of our 2021 climate action plan. and at that time we looked at the progress. as of december 31st, 2023. and we saw that of our cap actions have been completed 42% were on track, and there were about 17% that face delays barriers. we saw that our emissions had
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dropped 48% from 1990 levels. in our 2022 greenhouse gasy in the process of updating our climate action plan. and t for the end of 2025. so all of the department staff are now meeting. they're reviewing all of the actions and we're planning to do public outreach early next year. so we'll havnd give a more comprehensive update on that process in january and february of next year. so after we released the cap and the end of 2021, we came in 2022 and gave report that was developed by uc berkeley center for law, energy and environment about the climate action plan funding and finance. this study estimated the cost ofting the cap was $22
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billion. this probably an underestimate of the totalsu cost of the cap, considering all of the very capital intensive projects like public transportation. the study recommended strategies around public revenue to finance the cap, which included general obligation bonds, parcel taxes and gross receipts taxes, among some other funding options. the report also made some additional expanding staff to implement the climate action plan. it recommended establishing a formal cross-cutting department employee committee. it recommended providing more funds for nonprofits fund that private donors could contribute to for educational and outreach needs around the cap. so next, i'm kind of segue
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into talking about how we're looking as a department about our current strategic planning process and how wwant to look at what our funding needs are within our off, this process in the spring of 2024, we launched what was called our five year delivery plan. so essentially this was a department needs the required resources that our department needed to hit our goals in our 2021 climate action plan and also address some other key priorities of the department. this process will also allow us to operationalize some of the recommendations outlined in the uc berkeley report. and so during the
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strategic planning process, we developed a clear prioritization funding assessment to do five things. first, we had we developed a five year strategic delivery plans. so all of together to outline their program goals their objectives, and their required resources for five years. then they developed a line item budget. so managers took all theline items, and then also back to all of thections within the climate action plan. and then finally we took all of those requests. we reviewed them and we ranked them. so we had a small team that looked at all of the budget requests from our program managers, and we used a specific prioritization criteria, which i'm going to go over. and i just want to note as i'm going through this presentation and i use the term budget request this is all internal.sically we're having working with all of our staff and my
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colleagues to assess their internal budget requests. none of this has been shared externally. so here is the prioritization criteria that we use to eof the budget requests. so each budget line item was reviewed based on its impact to economic security and growth, quality of life, public health and also the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. we didn't have a separate criteria for equity. we see equity embedded into all of our work and into all of these criteria. so we'll come back and revisit this prioritization in a couple of slides. so some of the trends and highlights of this strategic planning process. we saw a lot of need for additional staffing. we saw the need for more public awareness and marketing campaigns. we saw more requests for outgoing grants to
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our partners. and lastly, we saw a need for incentive programs to help both businesses and our residents transition to low carbon and environmentally friendly products and equipment. so this highlights the internal budget request by program. so including a proposal for a new program, building material management, which is and so this was our initial pass of getting all the requests. so this is actually before we went through the prioritization ranking. so the total internal budget request for over a five year period was close to $96 million.ple were going to be alarmed, but no one seems to think that was that bad. i'll keep going. and so this slide kind of depicts the budget request in a different
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way. so it's broken down by budget subsector. so we can see grants and incentives. we can see the largest share is for professional services, whiccant allocation for marketing. so next i'm going to talk about how we prioritize all these requests. so there was 85 different requests that totaled $96 million. and so given the scale of this request we used the criteria, the prioritization criteria that i mentioned a couple slides ago to kind of rank each budget item on their potential impact. so we scored each budget item on its contribution to economic security, public health, quality of life, and greenhouse gas reduction factors. and then we evaluated all of the scores and kind of based on the natural distribution. we looked at the top 20% of the scores. and so that's what this first slide here is depictin that ranked the highest through our prioritization process. so i
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understand this slide is pretty difficult to read, but it's just here to really demonstrate the process. we went through. and to give you a snapshot of some of the budget items that ranked towards the top. so we also decided to look at the budget request in another way. so oneof key prioritization criteria was the greenhouse gas emissions. last year we had developed a climate model that looked at so we were able to assign most of our budget items kind of a greenhouse gas reduction potential ranking. however, we weren't able to model all of the budget requests. so there were some inferences made. and also the greenhouse gas reduction model only looked at sector basedmissions. so we weren't life cycle emissions. so to ensure that we weren't missingi3qp any important requests, we alsouse gas criteria. and this really
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broadened our perspective and highlighted some additional priorities. and they are shown on the slide. they're the ones that are highlighted. so after we went through this prioritization process, we met with all of the program managers to discuss our findings and really have a discussion to sure this process represented their priorities in general. it did. there's opportunities for us to merge some other priorities and take, you know, a couple of iterations of this process to end u with what will be our our budget priorities for our department over the next five years. so what did our prioritization process kind of result in? so the process resulted in funding that really prioritized building and transportation electrification support for small businesses and workforce development, public awareness campaigns, and for our
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department to continue to invest in communities most impacted by climate chan. so this total prioritization came to a budget request that was about $50 million, or about $10 million a year. so this is my last slide. that i'm going to go through. we took that process and we aligned our prioritieses that have emerged through the city over the past year. and we organized our priorities into these key categories that are shown on the slide here. so this slide really shows an alignment department budget priorities and some of the thematic goals of the city. so these categories are what the city could potential advance over the coming years. so t include continuing for us to lead on climate action to support small businesses, to foster innovation through climate to streamline permit processing. and also, last to continue to invest
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in our communities hardest hit by climate change. so with that i'm going to turn it back to leo to talk about next steps. thank you. so i think that in terms of next steps, we are going to our budget instructions tomorrow. and i think that will be a part of really guiding how we move forward. i mean, the department's intention is, is generally to comply with the instructions that were given and to kind of share the context of what the overall implications would be. and alternatives are and advocate for funding whenever it's possible. and of course, we'll continue to also be applying for external grants. and we've been busy in the weeks and will be busy over the next few weeks making sure impound account funded proposals that are our priorities, that we're identifying those so that they can be considered in that process, since that's a concrete
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source that could potentially be available. so i think that will continue t updated on what those next steps look like. but it is really dependent on kind of the guidance going forward. and what we see asible and reasonable for us to do as a department. it's going to be a time of cut back, so it's going to be tricky for us to deal with the fact that you know we have some priority needs that total 10 million a year for five years. and that's small. when you compare it to 22 billion, but is ait to being asked to reduce ourk that that's just something that we'll have to keep tabs on and keep all of you informed about. so that we can have like direct honest conversations about it and see what next. thank you. leo. any discussion or questions from commissioners? leo, can you remind us what this is? so the
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budget portion of our budget from the general fund. is that but it does requir budget. so there's the most interest in our general fund, because that's where the city's trying to balance. but there have been instructions in the past where there are global instructions that affect everyone, re. so when i was in the mayor's office, there were cuts to managers source. so someone decided that you were going to cut managers and that there was goingcolor of money. other times people have said, we want to reduce fees and so they've, you know, forced that upon people. and so if we were told we had to reduce our fees, that could have someon our fee funded work. so there's always the possibility thathat has a real significant interaction with the rest of our budget. but but really the main focus for those driving the process is the general fund. thank you.gq sure. see, no other
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questions. and discussion is that is there anything further for the presentation or is that that's the full presentation? yeah. we'll continue the conversation next month during the budget process with all of you. okay. let's let's go to public comment then. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? vice president sullivan, we have no speakers. okay. public comment is closed. next item please. the next item is item 11. director's report with speaker tyrone june, director commissioner. just a few items and updates that are relevant given this is already december the 1st, as we're all well aware, there's a new presidential administration taking office on january 20th. so the climate team in particular has been working on executing and getting the
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contract and agreement signed with our federal partner that issued us the grant. before that deadline. and so we're working through that process right now just as a reminder, that was roughly $20 million award. twas issued to both us san francisco and berkeley to do our building performance standard work over the next few years. and so we're well on our way of moving and fast tracking that we're also engaged with the mayor's office and others on how we kind of all of these various grants that the city has potentially in limbo or at different stages of negotiation, so that we can get those over the finish line before january just in case anything happens on november 15th. the clean transportation team did give an e-bike delivery pilot project update over to lafco, and the pilot highlighted several barriers to widespread adoption for e-bike for those delivery workers, including infrastructure, secure storage charging challenges. and i thinkis
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setting us up for that next round of e-bike delivery pilot project participants that will be ramping up going into next year. we mentioned at the last meeting that there was an e-bike incentive ordinance that was proposed by supervisor peskin that did pass the board of supervisors and was approved and signed by mayor breed on november 1 and so now there is a dedicated fund. there is no funding attached to it but there is a fund of which both private funders and the city can fund an e-bike incentive program to expand that market. on the grant side, at our last meeting we talked about the carbon fund and our grant process from melissa and shraddha. we had an amazing community based organization networking event on november 14th, and it was a chance for us to sit down with all of our community based partners that we've been about this upcoming grant cycle that we're going to be releasing from the department. we had more than 50 attendees representing a variety
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of organizations, and we had a survey that we conducted also to get a better sense of what their interest is and where they want to learn more about our work for a few more grants. we're trying to get a few grants over the submission line to we submitted for the clean cities grant proposal to hire for our community engagement liaison for vehicle electrification and charging and we're still awaiting the results for three federal grants. and so these are grants that we've submitted for we have not yet heard back about scoring or whether we've received the grants. so there are even more in a state of potential limbo come january 20th. so we're crossing our fingers that a number of those grants will get pushed through by the federal agencies, as that is word and direction that has been given by the current president on the policy front, i want to commend alice. i think i talked about the direct payh the inflation
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reduction act and so just a small update. file our filing for to reimbursements through the direct pay mechanism, through the inflation reduction act. and this basically reimburses the city for solar projects and electric vehicle purchases. and so want to really thank alice and the policy team. they worked with the mayor's office, controller's office, city administrator's office public utilities commission, our external consultants, and deloitte to get this year's filing over. it was a mad rush to get that filing in, and now we're going to be reconvening everyone in out going forward, how do we make it not so rushed and more organized for next year's filing? a couple of highlights on the press side, cbs featured our climate equity hub in late october, highlighting a family that received a new heat pump water heater through our direct install pr any of you that are interested, we have our annual tree chipping event that's going to be taking place on thursont of city hall in the civic
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center plaza area. so if you've ever wanted to throw a christmas tree in a chipper, this is your to do so. it'll be my first time doing so. i'm really excited to do it. and with that i'll take any questions and that concludes my update. thank you. ty. commissioners, question regarding the federal agencies where grants are pending. you mentioned that there were three federal agencies or three grants. i don't know if it's that same federal agency. could which ones are those? federal agencies? they are through department of energy, i think department of transportation for the vehicle charging infrastructure. so there's the clean fueling infrastructure grant, which is about 1.7 million for vehicle charging. and that actually ties to some of the conversation earlier around you know, part of that proposal actually was looking a little bit more broadly around curbside charging and providing charging in the west side and other areas of the city that don't have a lot of charging. but as was mentioned by nicole, you know, we're caught in this
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state of like, we don't have the funding to ihe charging. so we're trying to match together, available funding restrictions on the funding and then tryg to broaden the definition to meet the need of the city. and so that's one funding sour,000 for equitable building decarbonization through the you've heard about that from lowell's team before. and so we're crossing our fingers that that too, will will get moved forward in the next week or so. we're very optimistic about that one. and then there w 655,000 for a curbside charging pilot planning grant, i think through ddot, as well. is that t. yeah it is. and so those are the agencies and entities. and those are where we are crossing our fingers.other questions. and if not thank you. ty. let's move to public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? vice president sullivan, we have no
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speakers. thank you. public comment is now closed. next item please. the next item is item 12. new business and future agenda items. speaker is charles sheehan, chief policy this item is for discussion. thank you commissioners. so next commission meeting is going to be a special meeting. i believe it's scheduled for january 7th. that is our first of second budgetked about it a couple of times. leo mentioned it today. so again that meeting is special meeting january 7th. i believe we have a full commission meeting. sometimes it's the operations, but we're doing a full commission meeting. then the meeting after that is scheduled forebruary 3rd. but on that meeting, i believe we do not have a room confirmed yet. so at the end of the year looking for rooms for the next year, and we're doing that. and we don't have a room for february 3rd. so stay tuned on that. and that will be in feature. the final presentation
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on our budget. and ideally it will be offered forw/ approval to and then also as leo mentioned, looking to have the refuse rate administrator staff come in and present to us, guess hasn't been fully scheduled for january, february, but just noting that that we don't have a room for february yet. so those are the main items coming up for january. and february. i'll pause to see if anyone has any questions, commissioners, any questions. questions. okay. thank you. thank you charles. let's go to public comment there any members of the public who wish to comment on this item? vice president sullivan, we have no speakers. thank you. public closed. next item please. the next item is item 13. adjournment. the meeting is adjourned. the time is 6:55 p.m. th you for joining us.
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