it was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that getse heart of the issue. the san francisco department of environment is the only agencytl team, we go into the schools to helpch children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and

so this legislation today says that for those places, we will have inspectors of the department of environment look at doing audits if there is contamination over a particular percentage, and the department ll detmine that in their regulations. the department of environment now can impose fines on a daily basis of over $1,000. the offenders have the opportunity within 45 days to come up with a plan and that plan can include hiring what we're calling a zero-waste facilitator. that zero-waste facilitator will be the on-site person that will be responsible -- could be a multiple of people -- getting and going through the trash. we have that alrdy in many places, the ferry building, for those that go to the giants' ballgames, they have sorters on site. there are places in our environment right now in our city that are wonderful, wonderful participants and they produce very, very little waste at all. so this is asking that in those instances where there is an opportunity, they have an opportunity to correct where there is contamination and during the time of the fines come up with a plan for workin

i'm the development of community partnerships and carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. i'm a school education team. my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it to remove carbon in the public right-of-way on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. >> if it's a greening grant, 75% of the grant has to go for greening. it has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. >> the dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. it was the seed funding for this whole project. the whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. >> we

jen jackson with san francisco department of environment. thank you for bringing this to all of us. i want to express our support on behalf of the department of environment. it dovetails nicely with the work you have done regarding antibiotics use in food animals. last year the board of supervisors passed the ordinance to understand how the antibiotics are used. we have worked with the department of public health and sheriff to understand how the meats they are purchasing is produced and if antibiotics are used. we are extremely excited the good food purchasing program will help the departments have better environmental profiles for the food they purchase for reducing water consumption and antibiotics use. we are happy to work with the departments as much as we can and to provide information we produced for the antibiotics use ordinance. thank you very much. >> my name is catherine stover i work with food service. i am excited about the resolution. i think that if it is adopted by the department of public health it will be easier to move forward as food service manager at the va hosp

you were there in the department of environment, but particularly tasked with trying to solve what hasssive crisis for iran in terms of its water resource and water management. there simply isn't enough water in iran. and clearly, you must have known that by tackling some of the vested interests in the system, we're talking here now about the water management system, you would be ruffling feathers. you must have thought carefully about whether you had the authority and the power base to take on some of the vested interests in iran? yes, i — and i think when it comes to work and the things i was trying to do, we were pretty successful. i turned my section into one of the most successful and productive, and i would say, efficient sectors. this was on the worksite, talking to people, i was in charge of working with ngos and doing outreach, and those things were going quite well. i don't think they were very nervous about my solutions and the things i was trying to do, what they were nervous about was my connections to the west and being a westerner who's returning home and now becoming po

just been appointed to a very important and senior post inside the government, inside the department of environmentyou understand quite what has gone wrong in the months since then? i was going with optimism but it, i knew that the chance of success might be low. i wa nted chance of success might be low. i wanted to give it a try and i was hoping to be able to create hope in the months to come, in the months afterwards there was a lot happening and what i learned was that there are radicals and hardliners around the world who do not like the people who can break down walls because having walls is essential to their existence and survival, and that includes the hardliners and radicals in iran, at united states, israel, the rest of the world. well, let's stick with alarm. i just want to get a clear picture of the basis upon which you went back. —— iran. you we re which you went back. —— iran. you were aware of the nature of the regime, you are an academic in london but you still follow closely affairs inside iran. you understood that president rohani had made a real effort to reach out to run in the

a decade ago, i know we are going to call up director rafael from the department of the environment. over a decade ago we started this conversation about mandatory recycling and composting. if many of you in the public mb went from one black bin, to then two and then three, where the green and the blue bin was created, and became part of our daily routine for some people. some people ignored it for a long time, and some people still do. but in general, san francisco began to change its culture, and began to be on the cutng edge of what it meant to be environmentally responsible. ba 2002, a the wayack in 2002, 16 years ago, the board of supervisors passed a resolution sng th we would send no more than -- we would be diverting 75% of our waste from landfill. and then one year later, we came out with the goal of having 0 waste by 2020. here we are, unbelievably,s 2018, and it came out and come to our attention that we are not theposur of this riste. today is to talk about how and why we are where we are. how much we no longer use the word diversion, now we talk about tonnage, interesting

so in closing, as i intimated before, the department of the environment does not do this alone. we do this with partners. it is a collective effort and it's going to take all of us and the success depends on all of us. depends on you asking questions, you being engaged, you holding us all accountable and you challenging us to do more. we also collaborate very closely with other city departments, the department of public health and public works are our partners every step of the way. and of course, one of our key partners is recology. and now i would like to introduce john porter. [please stand by, captioning change]. >> supervisor safai: so you talks about policies, you talks about law, you talked about behavior, but i want you to talk about what the role the folks that do the work play. what role does that play in terms of how we have achieved what we have achieved and how can we do better? >> thank you for bringing up the important role of how do we get things in the right bin because sometimes we get things in the right bin just because a person does the right thing? they know

next up will be the environment. department of the environment. are you guys ready? >> supervisor yee: madam chair? i wanted to ask you, did you accept the recommendations on both the port and the library? i know you did on the airport erviuphen: te por and the library? >> the departments both agreed with those recommendations, and i'm not sure if the committee -- budget recommendations concerning the port budget and the budget recommendations concerning the library budget. ite>> 4 is tibrary -- >> this is items 1, 2, and -- >> supervisor cohen: i see what you are saying. we have, i don't think we took action on that, correct me if i'm wrong. >> that's my understanding that you did accept the recommendations regarding the airport budget. >> supervisor cohen: but did not take a vote. >> you did on the airport. >> clerk: the vote was rescinded. no actions at this time. >> my question was, the same thing on the library and the -- >> supervisor cohen: no, that was not done for the library and the port. that's incorrect. ok. all right. department of the environment, welco

of your concerns, questions, things that we can pose to both supervisor tang's offers and department of environment would be super helpful in getting the big picture of concerns here. >> yes. echo that. and i will send you guys tonight before i leave the link to the legislation. so you can see it. >> thank you. >> commissioner perez looks like he has one more comment. >> with regards to the community calendar that you are doing, ho events? just like when we submit our own description and event? >> right now we are getting information from permit entities for the calendar. and we're also looking on some of the websites that will -- the free event websites to find out if there is an event that is in the public right-of-way or impacts public right-of-way that might not be on the radar of m.t.a. or rec and park. so there is no real publicly facing way to receive the data. it's all through,aga, these entities that permit and if we find it on facebook, for example, that in the parking lot which is technically a private property space, there could be an event that maybe police doesn't know about. >> thank

range of department of hazard mitigation and climate adaptation efforts to a city wide umbrella or framework. we are work in close partnership and the department of the planning of the environment. and we consider departments as key partners in the planned update and provided staff with klee knowledge of hazards and with the city services to participate in bimonthly meetings and a community engagement strategy with key stakeholders. we are planning to submit this plan in july of 2018. we are happy to provide future updates at other meetings. >> that is the large effort that we will be understood taking and updating the 10-year plan and 50% have traditionally gone toward earthquakes. that will include another important function in the next year. and finally, a few other things that were listed in the handout here. the soft story program is moving forward very well right now tier three which was the largest of the tiers if you recall the earthquake split into four different categories. and that has about 3400 buildings. and currently at 97% compliance and 97% are in clines with the law. this is surpassing other plans in the country for this work. >> i heard a story that something

working with peter summerville from our staff and peter brastow and other members of the department of environment. on the night of june 21st into the morning of june 22nd caltrans will be closing the westbound on and offramps. the newly constructed on and off ramps on the east side for maintenance. the westbound onramp on the west side of treasure island will still be available. over the last month, we had a suggestion box at the ship shape and an online survey we circulated to residents through next door to get suggestions from residents about possible improvements we would like to see in the residential neighborhood and we are evaluating some of those for implementation over the next year or two. we also will be having a project poll intern this summer. they start next week. and we will bring them to the july board meeting to introduce them to the board. in the field with construction, the improvements to the forest road detour alignment en slowed by encountering of the utilities but that detour is expected to be completed so the mccullough road closure could occur in august. the contractors ar

i am jack macy with the department of environment. i am going to give you an overview. i would like to start off with the picture from june national geographic, a sign of the times of the profusion of plastic debris going to the ocean at 9 million-tons a area. at the rate we are going it will be more plastic than fish by 2050. this is an out-of-control problem, and one of ways to deal with it is to reduce the use of single use plastic. this single use plastic food wear we find increasingly as litter on the streets, particularly beverage straws, and we are also seeing a lot of it ending up on the beaches and going to the bay and the ocean. plastic straws in particular have been found on beach cleanups in california to be in the top 10 pieces of litter on the beaches, ocean conserve see finds number 5. it is a growing problem. there have been studies done that show that two-thirds of the litter flows to the bay are from food and beverage packaging. what we deal with here is a key component of that with straws and other accessories. they say what is the problem if we recyc

colleagues, do you have any other questions for the department of the environment? all right. thank you. we can take public comment -- actually, no. we'll move on, already taken public comment. >> clerk: public comment has been taken on these items already. >> supervisor cohen: mr. rose. >> you want to hear our report on the environment? >> supervisor cohen: yep, waiting to hear it. >> on page 25, our recommended reductions to the budget total 194754, and 18-19. of that amount, 94,300 ongoing savings, 100,454, 1-time savings, and for 19-20, recommended reductions total 94300, and all of those are ongoing savings. and as i understand it, the department does concur with the recommended reductions. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i have a question for the director. it has to do with the solid waste contract. specific, what does the solid waste contract recommended for reduction do? >> specifically, illegal? dumping-related? >> i'm just trying to find that particular item in here. i apologize for that. the solid waste contract, i do not -- what is the dollar amount on that, and th

. >> supervisor safai: and i will just say, i appreciate the work the department of environment did. thank you to recology coming out. i think they are a wonderful partner. thank you to the teamsters and the janitors for coming out today. i think we've learned quite a bit. we will continue to work -- we've already started some things working with your office, drar -- director rafael, and i think we will continue in that motion. i think it's interesting to hear the teamsters say they're doing it in south city and other places and they're looking at the black stream. so maybe that's a conversation we can have with recology, and looking at these large property owners, we've already started a conversation with you. we will reach out to them and the janitors and keep this conversation. thank you -- i guess what do we need to do, make a motion to file this? >> yes. >> supervisor safai: make a motion to file the hearing. >> supervisor ronen: yes. thank you. before i ask you to call item number four, mr. clerk -- i'll wait for one sec. i just wanted to acknowledge and welcome supervisor mar

i know, for example, department of environment, the assessor's office, they have done that. the mayor's office has required all employees to take the online implicit bias training, which is more of an introductory module. we plan to work with the new mayor to ask how they would like to roll this out, it's not legally required but it's a good practice and we want to talk about how to do that citywide. looking at implicit bias data, we have had 76 sessions. i can't tell you how many in this building or city hall have had the training. but certainly departments within the city hall have participated. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. supervisor yee has a question. >> supervisor yee: thank you, supervisor cohen. you mentioned one of the programs you operate to connect people with disabilities to departments, or city jobs. >> yes. >> supervisor yee: i want to thank you for that program. i see it's moving along and hopefully will be further successful in the future. i had a question about staff around some of these opportunities. we had been focusing on employing seniors because man

corps doesn't help to defend the nation will stay where they belong which is at the department of defense. environment, what they do deals with the environment, they deal with environmental mitigation, so forth, that goes over to the department of the interior. y'all are really good at that. similarly, ports, deep water ports, our lock system, that's not -- it used to be a military thing 100 years ago. now it's department of transportation because it's a transportation item. we think it's a much more efficient layout. it ties in what you talked about. streamline our permitting process and goes along with what mr. zinke is doing at the d.o.i. to try to centralize so there's ne point of contact. you want a permit, go to one federal agency. down here, we talked about that one food safety thing. right now it's f.d.a., usda, couple of places. we move all that into the usda. why? because they are really good at it. it's not to say f.d.a. isn't. wouldn't it be good for people to go to one area? in all fairness, secretary purdue will tell you, there's things usda does that others can't do well. housing compon

corps doesn't help to defend the nation will stay where they belong which is at the department of defense. environment, what what they do deals with the environment, they deal with environmental mitigation, so forth, that goes over to the department of the interior. y'all are really good at that. similarly, ports, deep water ports, our lock system, that's not -- it used to be a military thing 100 years ago. now it's department of transportation because it's a transportation item. we think it's a much more efficient layout. it ties in what you talked about. streamline our permitting process and goes along with what mr. zinke is doing at the d.o.i. to try to centralize so there's one point of contact. you want a permit, go to one federal agency. down here, we talked about that one food safety thing. right now it's f.d.a., usda, couple of places. we move all that into the usda. why? because they are really good at it. it's not to say f.d.a. isn't. wouldn't it be good for people to go to one area? in all fairness, secretary urdue will tell you, there's things usda does that others can't do well. housing c

that you have in order to expand your outreach program, strategic partnerships with the department of the environment and the department of children and youth and family. i want you to add h.r.c. i don't know if you heard their presentation today and they're rooted in particularly in the communities of color and in the southeast and i know that just from my work with the commissioner and the members of the executive leadership staff. just making sure that we're able to reach all neighborhoods. i know that the effort is there but i want to make sure that the returns are there and that we're not just trying but that we're actually succeeding with that effort. i think that h.r.c. might be a good strategic partner to get you connected to help to open up the world. i grew up here in san francisco and i grew up attending -- obviously, not this version, because this is updated, but attending the aquarium, and as well as just the entire science museum. so it's a real resource. and i want to make sure that we're able to offer it to everyone and in every corner of san francisco. so i hope that you will heed my