Out the importance of planting trees. San francisco has one of the smallest urban canopies of any major city in the United States. And we know this, we have an urban forest plan that called for the planning of trees of 2,500 trees per year. Since we rolled that out, we have failed every year and last year we added a total of one tree to our urban canopy. And part of the problem is the lack of budget. Even in this years fiscal budget, next years budget for this city, we barely have enough money to keep up with the rate of removals, let alone growing our urban canopy. And the only reason that money was put in because of the good work of the board of supervisors and the public outrage when it was discovered that wouldnt be in there. And the department of the environment, it would be wonderful if they would add an f. T. E. Who is actually dedicated to urban forestry. To the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission, in the last 10 years you have removed 475 trees and planted 39. And to the San Francisco rec and park, we say that your rules, and the law that governs how you are in the city has no accountability for your tree removal and planting. Furthermore, rec park doesnt keep any records of tree plantings and removal. And to buildings and planning, i would point out that we dont have the luxury anymore of taking out trees when they dont fit our aesthetic design. Building and planning needs to be doing everything they can to preserve the trees that we already have. Trees eat this polluting carbon that were struggling with and they clean our air from the wildfires and they support the ecology that we need so desperately to in our circle of life. We dont need fancy tech to solve this problem when Mother Nature has gifted us the perfect Climate Change ally and warrior which is our urban forests, thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you, next speaker. I am miel weatherall and i represent generational climate, a Youth Organization whose goal is to combine Environmental Action to protect our future. The Climate Emergency in San Francisco is only going to get worse. All homes built on the landfill will be inundated with sea water. And Greenhouse Gas emissions are a threat to the city and, thus, the city of San Francisco must mitigate Climate Change by reducing the emissions of the city and endorsing the Green New Deal. please stand by . Supervisor mandelman im going to call some more names, so additional people with lineup. Robin cooper, daniel hara. Rachel sullivan, rocky chow, leslie goldberg, michael goldberg, raul aldape, laurie green, martin mackerel, martha harward. Clerk i just want to remind the public that applause is not allowed in the chamber. You may use spirit fingers or the thumb up thing. Supervisor mandelman go ahead. Ive been in San Francisco four years. Im proud to be in a city that leads in Climate Change. Im here because San Franciscos Climate Action plan needs to address the full scope of the Climate Emergency. Currently, it does not address emissions resulting from the food we eat. Its not enough for us to strive for net zero emissions here if a substantial amount of what we import comes from outside the city. We also know that Animal Agriculture extremely sickens animals, the Climate Emergency demands radical change from us. We have under 12 years to keep from warming 1. 3 celsius. For the past decade, the u. N. Has urged us to reduce emissions to keep within safe environmental limits. Germany banned meat in meals served at official government functions. New york city this year passed their Green New Deal which banned meets and slashed beef in meals in industrial and city run facilities. If new york city can do it, San Francisco can do more. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Hello. My name is christopher peterson, resident of district 7. There really is one astonishing admission, which is land use. San francisco by its climate, walkability, that work is one of the most beneficial places, so for San Francisco to perpetuate the exclusionary low density code thats much of the city really is a climate irresponsibility. It effectively forces people to locate in places that have more extreme climate, that are more automobile dependent, so youre effectively driving people in places such as youre doing no favors to the client by driving People Places such as fairfield and fresno. So i encourage the city to significantly increase the amounts of housing, especially Affordable Housing that is provided in the lower density areas of the city that none e nonetheless do have good transit. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. First of all, i want to thank the department of the environment and the supervisors for your resolve about this, and ill speak to you, supervisor mandelman, because they all left, and tell you what to tell them. Were giving you a tall order here. I want to assure you here that youre not alone. You see a room full of everybodys constituents. You would see more of us here if the meeting were not during working hours, hint, hint. We will be back and we will not listening with great interest as you continue with this process. Which means youve got help with this. Youve got every citizen that you can mobilize to help in every step of the development. Youve got cities around the bay working on solutions to this problem. Youve got departments full of experts that can be tapped and united to work on this together. I know sometimes that takes work. Youve got a region, youve got a state, all of which are declaring Climate Emergency, working on the Climate Emergency, and then, theres the money. Its going to cost big bucks. Im thinking a bond issue, but that needs to be worked out. Supervisor mandelman i will say that not all of my colleagues are here in the room, that i guarantee you that this hearing is on in every single office. Some supervisors are watching it, and certainly their aides are. I dont want you to feel like you are talking into the void. Youre talking to me, hello, but youre not just talking to me, either. Good afternoon. Im an organizer with the democratic socialists of america as well as a clean tech advocate. First of all, i want to thank you, supervisor for declaring a Climate Emergency, putting out this report. Im glad you understand the severity of this issue. That said, i do have a couple of concerns with the way this played out. The language on equity in the report was nearly nonexistent. There was some of how the projects planned would be good from an equity lens, but there is no plan to implement these plans from an equity standard. Theres communities that have borne and continue to bear the cost of Climate Change and theyve not benefited, and they must be front and center in this process. I recognize this is an early document and some of this might come out, but this is critical stuff. There must be an open and democratic process to suggest what the next steps are. But in any case, people of color, communities on the front line, labor, they all have to be involved from the beginning and at especially step in the process. My second concern, i dont know if this is under the purview of s. F. Department of the environment, but this is a completely prevention oriented report, and there is no resiliency and impact. We need to put any climate plan resources towards resiliency supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Thank you for sticking around. This year, the u. N. S intergovernmental sign policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystems warned this year, as least 1 million species are at risk of going extinct if we dont save them. Its mainly caused by habitat degradation which is worsened by human caused Climate Change. The current San Francisco street Tree Inventory shows that less than 1 of the citys plantings are native or less than 1 of the citys plantings are native. That means theres about 174,000 nonnative tree here. Well, isnt a tree just a tree . Well, no. Unfortunately to wildlife, nonnative trees are unfortunately just a statue. Our local caterpillars, for instance, cannot overcome the chemical defenses that a nonnative deco tree uses. Due to dozens of years of inappropriate planting, San Francisco is inadvertently starving wildlife. The good news is we can do something. The food web requires planting trees in the right places in San Francisco. Exotic trees are beautiful, but as San Francisco experiences Climate Change supervisor mandelman thank you. My name is lynn butcher. I came here to San Francisco with my exhusband 60 years ago, and raised a couple of children over the years here. I now have grandchildren locally. I am in Senior Housing just at the edges of the tenderloin in public housing. Theres no air conditioning in my building. None of the things like solar panels that i advocated for for many, many years are on the roof. Im going to go buy myself a fan tonight so that i can live a little bit more comfortably in this warming climate but thats what it is when im 80 years old. Thank you so much. I just wish we had rushed into the electric vehicles that i advocated for over the years a little sooner. All the volunteering that ive done here for the sierra club and project open hand and all of those things, you know and then, they stole everything i own. I do not understand your reasoning, i truly do not. There should have been solar panels on a fouryearold building, and i would like to see you take a more active role in instituting those things that would truly make San Francisco an electric city. As it is, my pg e bill says that i dont have electric heat, even though i turned off my heat, and in fact theres an Electrical Appliance in the room. Its illogical, its [inaudible] supervisor mandelman thank you. [inaudible] supervisor mandelman thank you. [inaudible] supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My names ellen, and im here every wednesday morning to strike for the planet. You guys have gotten a lot of stuff from me so im not going to go into great detail. I strongly support. This is a nice start. Drastic when compared to business as usual, but really itty bitty compared to what we need to do. We have ten years catastrophic Climate Crisis. Talking is nice, but action is vital, and its long overdue. Everyone must act in every way possible now, there is no other option. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Im here as a member of extinction rebellion. Theres no mention in this report that it is pg e that has fought and undermined sf clean power while they have gone for a power grab. Now that theyre a business known for 100 deaths and unfathomable loss of pets and homes. People need to know that we are the only city in the United States that is required by federal law to have public power. Under this law called the raker act of 1913, the city of San Francisco is required to use all the water and power from hetch hetchy. If you are not aware that pg e has stolen our rights for over 100 years, you are not alone. At any time, the feds have the right to take back hetch hetchy because pg e continues to steal our power. There has been much talk in these halls to finally abide by the raker act it is up to us to lead the way. To secure clean energy, pg e must go. We need to lead the way and make our entire power grid clean as soon as possible. The cpuc has always ruled in collusion with pg e. Their meeting is this thursday in oakland to address the bailout. Frankly its appalling that the other members of this Committee Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. My name is michael goldberg. Im an organizer with the Grassroots Organization compassionate bay, which is dedicated to the protection of the environment and animals. I am shocked that dealing with animals and water is absent from your climate plan, and im talking about Meat Products, turkeys, chicken, fish, and other Meat Products sold in San Francisco. Is it possible that no one creating the report today is aware that Animal Agriculture is a major contributor to Climate Change and to the major destruction of our environment . San francisco is not contained in a bubble. When a san franciscan eats a hamburger that affects the area where that animal was raised. It is important that you understand that Animal Agricultures Global Impact on the climate is more than the impact of Global Transportation according to several he nighted nations reports. The city of San Francisco has pledged to deal with the Climate Emergency by doing what needs to be done to keep the temperature increases below 2 celsius. That cannot be done without dealing with Animal Agriculture. Recently, the temperature in indi can india reached 120, killing multiple people and animals. Species are, like, being wiped out because of Climate Change. Over 1 million californians dont have drinkable water because of Animal Agriculture. This is in the Central Valley. This is a fact. People in the Central Valley are getting asthma because of the pollution from Animal Agriculture that goes into the air. I hope that San Francisco will add Animal Agriculture to what its going to [inaudible] supervisor mandelman thank you. [inaudible] supervisor mandelman next speaker. Amy sullivan rip, a, and id in San Francisco for the past 43 years and served as a teacher for the past 26 years. Ive heard a lot in the plan about Carbon Emissions but nothing about Animal Agriculture. So according to the World Economic forum, the beef and dairy industry is responsible for more Greenhouse Gas emissions than the Worlds Biggest Oil companies. And then, also, i found that many people dont know that methane gas produced by cows is 26 times more damaging to the ozone layer than Carbon Emissions. Meat and Dairy Industries also contribute significantly to land, water, and air pollution, so i think thats really a big piece thats missing from the whole plan. If we are to create a space in which a bold and necessary change can occur, we need to at least attempt educating the public of the extremely negative consequences of eating beef and advocating for a plantbased diet. The question that comes to my mind are why are we continuing to subsidize industries that harm us. Just in summation, i wanted to say reducing beef and dairy might be achieved through education, taxes, subsidies supervisor mandelman thank you very much. Next speaker. Hello and good evening, everyone. My name is rocky, and im part of compassionate bay. In april 2019, San Francisco had passed an emergency climate prediction given the fact that we have less than a decade to mitigate our Greenhouse Gas emissions before affecting changing weather patterns, and especially here in San Francisco where we are susceptible to sea level rising. We have taken steps to curb Carbon Emissions. One example is by cutting carbon emission from the transportation sector by 2040. Although admirable and ambitious, we can do much more. Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 of all Greenhouse Gases. That is more than the transportation sector, so take your cars, buses, planes, boats combined. Despite this mind boggling statistics, we are still not addressing Animal Agriculture in the same light that we are the electric industry. It is also an inherently cruel industry, and as well as subjugaiting people of color and Mental Health due to the nature of slaughter housework. We need to raise awareness of how much Animal Agriculture is tied to Climate Change and our collective wellbeing. Im born and i see raed in San Francisco and as a young person who will be around for a long time well at least i hope to be around for a long time, i would like to live in a world where we not only myself but future generations around the world can live without worrying about sea level rising among other extremes. I want a world where San Francisco [inaudible] [inaudibl supervisor mandelman thank you. Im going to call some more names. Alexander taylor. Tracey seeger. Alana engel. Eric matursh. Josh lee. Molly morabito, and eric with s. F. Transit riders. My name is daniel tejara. Over the past month its become clear to me that we all know what we have to do to reverse Climate Change. We need to cleanup the environment, we need to stop the expansion of natural Gas Infrastructure and replace natural gas appliances with natural ones. All of this costs money, which gives me hope. Its purely the amount of money we need to solve this problem is terrifyingly large. The amount of money well need is large, but none of it compares that well have to pay for our own inaction, so where should we start . First, if we have an effort thats going to be successful, we need to act at a city level. Second, we should move our simplest lever and cleanup our city so the city is powered by Clean Electricity by 2025. And third, id like to ask the board to establish the funding measures to pay for the requirements called for in the report. We all know what we have to do. Its time we put our money where our mouth is. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. My name is robin cooper. Im a psychiatrist here in San Francisco, and i represent Climate Psychiatry Alliance and citizen climate San Francisco and im a member of the coalition before you today. I bring the often unheard voice of the Mental Health community to this discussion, one of the most vulnerable populations that are and will bear the extreme adverse effects of Climate Change. We in the Mental Health and addiction world know that the first step is admitting you have a problem. These represent coming out of denial and facing the gruesome truths and challenges ahead of us. Yet these are just the beginning. Taking the lofty declarations is hard work, and we must balance not losing our side of our commitment to social justice and care for the underserved. Although focus 2030 focuses on the much needed mitigation goals, it does not address the equally necessary adaptation strategies so essential to building resiliency protecting our communities from the already abnormal health impacts. We must have coordinated, collaborative efforts, all much due respect to the experts here, but they must work in collaboration. We cannot tolerate departments working in silos, and the price, we must face the true cost. Massive funding beyond what we are currently imagining. This cannot be done and musting public fund must be public funding. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Im with the sunrise project and you have the joint letter we signed on to in your hearing packet. I want to join on with the people that spoke about food and climate impact, and i think working on wetlands and sinks is a good opportunity, and i think they should be happening in tandem. I appeal to all city departments to cooperate, combine expertise and resources and search for economies of scale among climate solutions. Greenhouse gas emissions do not respect city limits, to coordination and strategy sharing regionally and locally are responsible. Engagement with residents and local businesses is nonnegotiatable. Neither we nor the planet can afford the exploiting of responsibilities outside of city limits. Our future relies on making sure that all people can access and afford 100 Clean Electricity, buildings, and transportation and on regenerating our open spaces and agriculture. We must respond as a team. I also want to say that i was really happy that the speaker from m. P. A. Mentioned the real need for getting people out of their cars and theres no reason able bodied people shouldnt take transit or bicycle, and i hope that all staff does that supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is raul. I live in district 5, and ive been a constituent of this city for five years, and i just want to thank you all for being present . I want to echo the sentiments of my colleagues and friends for compassionate bay. In 2010, former board member Sophie Maxwell passed the first law regarding food. Two years ago, the n. G. O. Partnered with Oakland Unified School district to partner in how a reduction in meat and cheese would help reduce their Greenhouse Gas emissions. It was simply a 30 decrease. Within two years, they saved 42 million gallons of water annually and the savings was then used to increase purchase of healthy fruits, vegetables, and legumes. This study proves that it is possible for children to eat healthy, help the environment, all while saving money. In 2017, new york city announced that 15 brooklyn schools would participate in meatless mondays. Less than two years later it has expanded to include all of Public Schools and this year would be the first year that schools would do this. I want to echo the staff from the department of environment highlighting the racial equality of this. Many students do not digest including African American students, Asian American students do not digest dairy very well. This is a product that was broad over by brought over by supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hi. Im leslie goldberg, and i, too, am a member of compassionate bay. Im a former reporter for the San Francisco examiner. Hamburgers, bacon, ice cream, these are the foods were used to. These are the foods we give our children. How could something that is such a part of our daily lives be doing so much environmental damage . The fact is they are. Animal agriculture is not only responsible for a very significant portion of water and air pollution throughout the state and the country and indeed the world, it is responsible for a significant portion of Greenhouse Gas. According to the United Nations most recent report, animal ag is responsible for 18 of Greenhouse Gas, and that is nitrous oxide, methane, and co2. So how did this happen . These gases come from animal digestion, from manure, and animal respiration. It also comes from deforestation. Im really glad to hear this discussion about how Important Trees are to our own survival. Trees so these trees, particularly in the amazon rain forest have been cut down to create pasture land. Theyve been cut down to grow animal feed, soybeans. And so these are the methods that Animal Agriculture is devastating our climate. And most recently, and lest you think were just part of the lunatic fringe here, corey booker says the tragic reality is cannot [inaudible] supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. As weve already heard from others today, we cannot ignore the part animal ag plays in the global emergency. My name is laurie green and im a researcher in ucsfs microbiology lab. Im also a california native and have lived in San Francisco for 15 years. For this reason, i would like to see s. F. Ban meat in all of its city funded hospitals. Meat today is the new asbestos, more deadly than tobacco. I would like to mention some of the other automatic benefits of such a policy. It takes 50,000 liters of Drinking Water to produce one kiloof beef. One billion people go hungry on this planet and 20 million will die from mal knnutrition. Eliminating meat altogether could end starvation forever. And finally, my specialty, animal ag has externalized the cost of antibiotic resistance and has put the entire population of this planet at risk. Factory farms are hot beds for bacterial and viral evolution, and we have them to thank for bird flu, swine flu, dust from e. Coli, and the spread of antibiotic resistance. By eliminating this from our hospital, San Francisco can take a stance against the meat industry. Get meat out of s. F. Hospitals. Its a winwin, winwin. Supervisor mandelman thank you for your time. Im going to call some more times. Sheela, colette, joe, steven, whitney larson, kathy, anastasia, charles whitfield, and michelle pierce. Thank you to the department of environment, thank you, thank you to the supervisors, and thank you most of all to the public whos come today. We have a lot to do and weve got to do it fast. My name is martha hawthorne. Im a member of seiu 1021, and we want to support you, we want to be a part of this, but we have to have a voice. We need to be clear that all these changes that have to be made cannot be made on the backs of city workers, cannot be made on the backs of working people, working families, and the marginalized communities that have done close to nothing to cause this problem. We need to recognize and to hear that the acknowledgement that our current reality is yes, theres a Climate Crisis, but we have a crisis in wage d disparity, and a crisis in housing. We need to Work Together and work with your constituency to get this going, but we realize this is going to cost a mon lo money, and the billionaires are going to have to pay. We accomplished free city college. Lets accomplish free muni. You want to get people out of cars . People cant afford the price of a make upuni ticket. Weve got to look to bold solutions, and the people that come up with these bold solutions. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. I wanted to kind of look at this at a higher level, and i want to thank everybody that was involved in this work and in many ways, this is ambitious, but in many other ways this is actually wildly unambitious and does not match the scope of the challenges faced. The report is i forget the name, but its 2030, but then, theres all these references to 2050. Everywhere you have 2050 in the report, lets replace that with 2030. L lets try to have that ambition. We should compress all of these time scales. There are other things for example, the report mentions well if we implement zero emissions in housing, we could do it in 2030, 2023 or 2020. Berkeley just last week implemented those rules starting january 1, 2020, so lets do that. Theres also a lot of other things in the report, we dont use the powers that we already have. For example, we should have no more permits for parking lots or parking structures. Theres no mention of the airport. San francisco has control of the airport. We need a detailed plan of managed decline of the airport. We also have we could talk about shutting down gas stations and also things like electrifying this is out of the scope of the city but also encouraging all of the Delivery Systems to electrify their delivery vehicles. We should encourage the public to do these things, and if not, we should be putting our bodies out there and not allowing them to do their jobs until they electrify. Any way, thank you very much. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Eric brooks, San Francisco spois and San Francisco clean energy advocates. Thank you, supervisor mandelman for finally bringing this forward with the word emergency and making it a real discussion about that. What youve done is crucial, but just to echo what the previous speaker said, the report is nice and shiny and talks about bad things that are happening and maybe some disorganized steps to do something about them, but its not to the level of what we need, and since 2009 when it was clear that cleanpowersf would startup, our coalition has been strongly advocating for a citywide planned Renewable Energy and efficiency buildout for the entire city. If you look in your email boxes and if your staff looks, i emailed all the members of the staff plus supervisor mandelman a copy of the sydney, Australia Green Energy plan. Weve been peddling that around in order to get in front of supervisors what needs to be done next. That plan is amazing, and please help us get it off the ground in the next year. What weve found thats a barrier to us is because the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission is an Enterprise Energy they are pretty much mandated to be conservative and protect the rate payers, they are not going to take on a project with that boldness. It needs to be done by the board of supervisors. Help lafco and help all of us as advocates to get this thing going. Thanks. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Thanks for having me. My names yvonne. I teach at u. C. Berkeley and volunteer at compassionate bay . We need to prioritize Animal Agriculture into the plan . Every year, Animal Agriculture contributes 9 of co dl2 emissions . But thats nothing because methane emissions are 20 times more terrible than co2 emissions, and 30 of methane emissions are caused by animal ag. And 65 of no2 emissions are caused from animal ag. First steps that we can take are eliminating dairy, eggs, and meat from government, schools, and hospitals, as new york city has started to go towards that direction. You know, San Francisco can, too, and we can be the kpamping for the world. Thank you. Example for the world. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is Cecelia Marquez and thank you for holding this public hearing today and for taking Climate Change so seriously. The food and Agriculture Organization of the u. N. Has recognized that Animal Agriculture is a top contributor in environmental degradation and its been putting out reports for more than a decade saying that the world needs to decrease its meat consumption. Many places are addressing this problem. Germany has banned meat in public facilities. I believe San Francisco can take on these moves and go even further by reducing the subside eyes that the meat and dairy subbidize that the meat and dairy industry has. I hope the current s. F. Climate action plan will take into account that the way that Animal Agriculture contributes to Greenhouse Gases and is a significant component to environmental degradation today. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hi. Im joshua largenesse from trivalley. I want to propose research into understanding pre understanding peoples attitudes towards not paying for or working towards climate reversal and ultimately drive up economic demand for environment perpetuating services. That environment includes you. Secondly, im looking for people to crunch numbers for me for a long wave length energy baysed transportation project to based transportation project to cool the earth directly. Please meet with me afterwards to get my info. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. My name is eric and im an organizer with s. F. Transit riders. Thank you for holding this space today. While the recent proposal to fully electrify transit, it seems like an after thought. We know that traffic is at a standstill, and adding e. V. Charging stations to parking lots wont fix the citys parking lot streets, and its not going to bring us closer to our vision zero goals. If San Francisco is to meet its goal of having 80 of all trips be sustainable by 2030, we need to have that prioritized. Laws arent implemented anywhere near fast enough to meet the 2030 timeline. We know that cars and trucks carry became number of people at peak periods. Were also aware that e. V. S are a part of the solution towards curbing Climate Change but prioritizing Public Transit and making it a system that is fast, efficient, reliable and accessible will generate benefits on all fronts. It is the most efficient way to move people in the city. It drastically reduces co2 emissions, and it is anywhere from 15 times to 30 times safer than riding in a private vehicle. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is alexander taylor. Ive lived in San Francisco for five years, and i live in matt haneys district. I appreciate that Everybody Knows that incremental changes arent working and that we need to make big, innovative changes to catch up to the harm that were doing our planet, but i was also surprised that it wasnt mentioned in the presentations that Animal Agriculture is doing a lot of damage. And i dont know if its just not very well known, but i also think its possible, a lot of people just think its too hard to, you know, eat less meat or give up meat or we cant do it, but im really worried what will happen to our planet if we think that way. We need to ask people to make some real personal sacrifices. I think a small way to do that is ask the government to change the purchases we make in city hall, hospitals, and schools. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. My name is annemarie, and im a resident of district 7 and a professor at ucsf. I hope you recognize that this project i think needs its own time and not be number nine on an agenda with other things. I think it also needs transparency and includes the voices of everybody in the city so that it gets the backing of all the people in the city which should turn into support for funding, so i think thats really an essential part, and it promotes creativity. I think that cooled wiperation other departments are eventual, and i think that the city needs to make sure that they work with all these other large employers to also make sure that there is not job loss. But im very grateful that mayor breed has increased the increased the number of bike lanes that are coming. There are a lot of things that are going ahead that are very beneficial to everyone. The fingers that havent been things that havent been mentioned are ways to make this a carfree city or a much greater freedom for pedestrians or bicycles. Thats going on all over the world. Just take a look. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is tracey and im with jobs for justice in San Francisco. This is truly a sobering reality check on how immediately and assertively we must ask. We cant choose between the Strategic Priorities here. We must do them all, and we must do them quickly. First, the work is to achieve a concrete policy set representing the policies in the strategic priority areas. So we want to have 80 of the trips being sustainable in the next 11 years . Great. Lets talk about making transportation free and reining in Companies Like reigning in Companies Like uber and lyft Just Transition also means that the jobs created as we implement these policies are good jobs with living wages, benefits, and union contracts. Theres so much work to be done. There are also so many people in this city who need good jobs, so lets implement the universal jobs guarantee. Lets train people through city college and Union Apprenticeship programs. Of course its going to be expensive, but we cant afford to not implement these programs and more. We must create new mechanisms like public banks to achieve this. When we do all this, San Francisco can be a global leader, showing how cities can reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions alongside reducing wealth and racial inequality. All are necessary for survival. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is eric leyvas. We want to congratulate the vision and the urgency that have been brought to bear with the writing of this report. We want to thank supervisor mandelmans office and the activists who brought us to this point. We believe that the first step can only be achieved by not doing more than [inaudible] we urge the department to write strong, definitive language to ensure that our response to the Climate Crisis uplifted traditionally marginalized communities. We have two suggestions, as well. First, the department should propose Adequate Funding streams. If the city pursues congestion reduction and eliminating natural gas from new buildings, if it those things are pursued through taxes and unfunded mandates, were worried that the people who pay for it will be the most marginalized and poorest communities, and they will pay with the destruction of