room and my thanks to everyone involved in that, the first item on the report is to discuss mayor edwin lee's executive director on water conservation. in the wake of governor jerry brown's declaration related to the drought, the mayor lee issued a directive to the departments and i think that it is important to just review a couple of the attributes of that executive directive. there are five that i would like to mention, the first is that mayor lee has directed all of the departments to further reduce the consumption of water by ten percent. all departments are to develop a water conservation plan by august 1, 2014, all departments are to educate staff and visitors on water conservation practices. all departments are to explore the use of non-potable water for street cleaning and all departments are to develop alternative sources of water supply working for the san francisco public utilities commission. since the directive was issued on february 10, port staff has undertaken a number of measures so far, first and foremost we have established a water conservation task force within all of the

next, we'll hear from mayor edwin lee. when he's not delighting young crime fighters, he's worked tirelessly to make sure that construction is at the heart of every new area in san francisco. it's no surprise that the mayor has been focused on affordable housing. this has been his issue. thanks to mayor lee, no other city is developing as much affordable housing that san francisco is doing right now. thanks to the mayor there is now permanent funding in affordable housing in the affordable housing trust fund. $1.5 billion will be available for construction in affordable housing. mayor lee believes building affordable housing is something to accomplish. mayor's accomplishment includes parks, public safety. ladies and gentlemen, mayor lee. [ applause ] >> thank you, michael. i guess that time capsule is not big enough for me to go in. first of all i have been business an acquainting myself with the family. i'm really happy to not only see you here welcome a great project. this is again another celebration of the presence tha

to direct the department of the environment and provide san francisco's leadership under mayor edwin m. lee and whereas melanie nutter directed the department of the environment of 110 staff for the past 3-1/2 years and helped to make san francisco the greenest city in north america, and whereas melanie nutter helped champion environmental policy achievements in san francisco, including such accomplishments as -- i'll read four of them, but there are many, many accomplishments. successful implementation of the mandatory composting cycling policy that has helped move the city toward the goal of zero waste by 2020 with an 80% diversion rate. successful implementation of the mandatory composting and recycling policy and expansion of the plastic bag ban to all retailers most of which has helped the city toward the goal of zero waste of by 2020 with an 80% diversion rate. working with the america's cup event authority to develop the cup sustainability plan and zero waste help cut to 85% diversion rate elimination of single use plastic bottles at the event as well as carbon neutrality. advancing