speaker: gilmore rodriguez, department of department. i want to walk you through what is in the ordinance and how the department fees are implementing that and serving as its oversight body for the city. the first is the ordinance requires producers who sell products in san francisco to work together to produce collection and disposal programs called store ship plans. to meet the requirements that are stated in the ordinance. producers have several options that they can follow. they can operate one of their own plans, they can join together in a multi party plan or enter into an agreement with a third party referred to as a product stewart organization to operate a plan on their behalf. the department of the environment will review that plan and ask for a four year cycle. as was said before, the important part is an attempt to double the sites available for consumers to a minimum of 55. as you heard and you can see in this slide, district 6 and 7 have no retail pharmacy drop off sites, district 6 only has a police station drop off site,

then when i'm done gilmore rodriguez will talk about the details of the ordinance and he'll talk about this ordinance has been improved and altered because of that incredible level of input we've gotten from stakeholders. after you hear from the department of the environment, i want you to hear from the other city departments that find this to be a very important ordinance to meet their goals as well. that will be the police department and the department of public health. so you'll hear in the next 30 minutes, the tremendous breath of support for this ordinance and how this ordinance fits beautifully into the way we in san francisco work to protect our citizen and protect the environment. so san francisco has a wonderful history of being the first. it has a history of taking brave action and a history of taking good care of the people who live here as well as the environment where we find ourselves and this ordinance sits perfectly within that history. in particular, i want to call attention to something that happened in 2003 that really sets the stage for the philosophy behind this or