>>clerk: the next item is new business, future agenda items, charles sheehan, chief policy and public affairs officer. the explanatory document is the 2019 commission on the environment meeting schedule. this item is for discussion and possible action. >> and anthony will do the report in the -- in charles's absence. >> thank you. good afternoon -- good evening, commissioners. in your packet is the list of meetings for the commission and the committees in 2019, so please mark your calendars for those dates. the next commission meeting is tuesday, january 22nd, at 5:00 p.m. here in room 416. the commission will be hearing the recommendation from the operations committee about the department budget. the commission will also be reviewing its annual report. just one note on that, as i work with the department to develop the annual report, all of you had gone to 18 events during the global climate action summit, and i wish we could have been at all of them to take pictures, but if you have any photos from gcas, if you can actually send them to me so we can add them to the annual report or

of what led to the inception of this piece of legislation and then i also have jack macy and charles sheehan for the department of environment you are here with me to answer any other questions that you may have. very briefly, in 2003, san francisco embarked on a endeavour get to 20 waste by 2020. earlier this year, unfortunately we learned that not only would the city not be meeting its lofty goal, it was not -- it was , in fact, behind. specifically, 60% of waste is not be diverted from our waste stream and is being sent to a landfill. this -- i have the slide here by the department of the environment director. >> overhead. >> overhead, please? there you go. >> the 60%, when she announced we are only diverting 40% of our waste stream. so it was this backdrop that govern iced supervisor safai into action and what led to the inception of this legislation. we have lead on other environmental endeavours before. for example, we had the banning of recyclable take-out containers in 2007. the styrofoam band, also 2007 and revisited and expanded in 2016. it went into effect in 2017. we have the man

of what led to the inception of this piece of legislation and then i also have jack macy and charles sheehan for the department of environment you are here with me to answer any other questions that you may have. very briefly, in 2003, san francisco embarked on a endeavour get to 20 waste by 2020. earlier this year, unfortunately we learned that not only would the city not be meeting its lofty goal, it was not

we have charles sheehan from the department of the environment making the presentation today and we have jack macy on deck as well from the department of the environment. all right. police, present. thank you. >> thank you. thank you for the opportunity to present today on hours they were -- zero waste facilitator ordinance. i want to introduce jack macy who is pulling up the screen. he will be the primary presenter today. he is our lead senior analyst for zero waste and he will be going through the ordinance and giving you an overview as well as talking about some of the amendments that we have been working with supervisors on. >> one more thing, we also have been from the department of economic workforce development. where are you? ok. after these two gentlemen present, we will hear from you. i thank you have some amendments you want us to consider. >> madam chair? >> ladies and gentlemen, look who is here. >> i will borrow some energy from president cohen. who is ready to talk trash? [laughter] >> yes. >> come on, raise your hands. all right! what have you all been waiting for? all ri