. >> ms. flynn. >> jackie with the institute of san francisco i want to reaffirm the warm welcome and i'm totally impressed with a lot of what i've heard today, i see a new direction coming from the department of environment and in the last several weeks i've spoken with several of the staff that reached out on multiple occasions for the different outreach programs and stoop you've got a community affiliate that's still very much wanting to share information directly with residents in san francisco. and again, i'm totally impressed to looking forward to seeing our work >> thank you. >> thank you. other members of the public wish to speak on the director report seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you if we can hear the next >> update on progress for the coordination of air quality management sponsors raphael director and transportation programs and manager david birch of the principle environmental planner and research air quality management and presentation and discussion item. >> thanks mo

ms. flynn? >>> good afternoon, commissioner. today i brought our blue herron brigade. this is our youth program that we were awarded with the conservation core about a year ago. they're about 4-1/2 weeks into their eight-week program. in addition to just doing landscape maintenance on cargo way, we've also introduced water conservation concepts as well as environmental stewardship. and in another capacity, i came to you guys around the ecocenter in which i ended up partnering with the aquarium of the day. so, we're also running workshops out of the ecocenter and these young kids have also had a chance to not only tour the site but learn about the different features in the building. and, so, i asked them to come today and really just say thank you for the program and share what they've learned so far. so, i'm going to have them come up individually. >>> hi, my name is darlene [speaker not understood] and i thought this opportunity gave me more opportunity, for example, like more openingses to other jobs and college, and also this opportunity helped me get more knowledge