Diving deeper we look at the transportation, you see 71 of that 46 comes from the private sector, which includes private Passenger Vehicles as well as medium duty vehicles. It is also about health and safety benefits. It is more about meeting a common goal, it is about making San Francisco a more livable city for all of our residents. The map you see before you is air quality and equity map. This shows that the particular matter, 2. 5 microns and smaller, sources of concentration you see are focused around our major highways and byways. The red is greater than 10 concentration. It is is adjacent to some of our more disadvantaged communities. As debbie also addressed, there is a need to address a zero admission future, reduce the number of vehicles on our roads while simultaneously electrifying all of those that remain. Getting our residents out of cars is the core of our transit first policy and the best way to reduce not only emissions but also congestion. Getting people out of cars is a difficult task, but we have achieved this already. 57 take public transit, biking or walking and we are now aiming for 80 . We noted that in addition, we must transition the remaining vehicles, on our roads, away from fossil fuels to Renewable Energy. Its also for our vehicles. As deborah also mentioned, we have performed several initiatives and goals to kickstart emissions Free Transportation system. We are electrifying a fleet, and electrifying our bus fleets. We also have a roadmap that will guide us to certification of the private transportation sector. A key to getting there is providing reliable access to affordable charting infrastructure. Release the San Francisco roadmap in july. Within the roadmap identified six specific areas that we will focus on. Public awareness, incentives, building infrastructure, fortifying the electrical grid so there is enough capacity to support that. Medium and heavyduty vehicles so the class 79 class eight trucks. And then finally autonomous vehicles. Two thirds of our residents also live in dense multiunit dwellings which are more difficult to install charging stations compared to Single Family homes. Those residents will need access to publicly available charging stations to build enough confidence for them to adopt electric vehicles on a we also have the ordinance for new construction and major renovations. This ordinance requires 100 of the Parking Spaces to be ev ready. In combination with the ordinance proposed before you, we are now focusing on the parking facilities. Shifting to the baseline. Here is what we have currently. The map before you shows all of the publicly available charging ports that we have in the city. We have roughly around 750 public charging ports. We have 11,000 electric vehicles registered. The available ports, and the vehicle is registered is. 07. Clearly the map demonstrates our baseline. We have to do better to increase the confidence in charging so more people will have electric vehicles. As also mentioned before, there is a current initiative, it is an ongoing initiative to open up parking structures to private vehicle charging station providers to offer proposals. So far, we have received around nine proposals and the proposals are very robust. Everyone checked pretty much every box. Mta, as well as rack and parker going through the process of filtering these responses and determining what the processes to evaluate which are the best proposals to move forward. Basically, this represents a significant opportunity to geographically expand our public charging network. This is part three. What will the ordinance do . The ordinance will require commercial parking garages with over 100 spaces to set aside 10 of the Parking Spaces for level two vehicle charging. 40kilowatt and below. The other way to comply with the ordinance would be to install direct current, fast charging station equivalent. The compliance is required by 2023. Furthermore, this ordinance really tries to form a dialogue between parking garage owners, operators with the electrical vehicle charging station providers. We will require them to have a safe analysis financial and technical feasibility, and we realize that the electrical vehicle charging station providers, and the process could be complex. We really just want to stimulate a dialogue between these two parties and the permitting process as tied to the San FranciscoPolice Department. We will be working closely with the Police Department to ensure that the sites are being compliant. Of course we recognize not every site of the 300 or so presented affected sites will be able to install level two and fast chargers based on a variety of reasons. Perhaps the capacity is insufficient. Perhaps structurally it is not possible to install the charging stations and requires substantial renovation of the garage such as repaving or raised in ceiling. We really just want to have the garage is to show a good faith effort to demonstrate they have tried to install charging infrastructure in the garage is, and if not there is a waiver process. So, the department of environment will administer the compliant process. Suspend or revoke the operating permits on the department can also choose to administer fines for noncompliance. Finally, what is the impact of the ordinance . As mentioned, currently there are 750 charging ports at approximately 200 locations, just as the map i have shown before. The resulting impact is significant. Combined when combined the ordinance with our Municipal Parking garage initiative, the implication is that we can add up to 8200 charging stations. The map you see before you show some gaps. The ordinance is an additional way, a step in the longrange strategy to get our vehicles off of gas and diesel. It focuses on increasing public charging and the denser areas of the cities where many of the multifamily units are located for. For example, 75 of those units in many northeast are 20 units or more. More than 50 of the residential units in many westsouth and southeast neighborhoods are Single Family homes. Finally, the equity piece. This is also very important. Financially we do not want to continue to impact air pollutions from vehicles on communities. The ordinance aims to increase access to charging infrastructure specifically in those areas. Also the roadmap aims to work with entities, estate funding specifically to help these communities. We will continue to work with the city college to train local youth such as vehicle mechanics and charging station technicians. We also realize this has Financial Impact to increase access to charging stations, not just two cars but medium to heavy duty vehicles. I am not charles, but i took this presentation from him. Im sure he would have done a way better job. I hope you gave i gave you a sense of what this ordinance is, where we are, where the ordinance will take us in combination with all of the initiatives through the e. V. Roadmap. I hope you consider the resolution before you and before i finish i want to recognize my colleague, zach thompson. I have been with the department for 12 years, but i just started with the electric Vehicle Group in january i learned so much from zach, and my colleague suzanne. It has been a pleasure. I hope to continue working with his team in that capacity. Thank you. Commissioners, questions . Commissioner sullivan . Thank you for the presentation. I think what is being proposed here is one of the most important things we can do. Its a fantastic program. It was interesting to see the statistics around the number of e. V. s, the ratio of ports to e. V. s. I would like to see that reported to the commission maybe annually so we can see not just a snapshot, but hopefully as this legislation starts to have an impact we can see those numbers grow. One thing that came up in the policy commissions committee was, both the existing dots and the ones that will grow in the future, its really striking how theyre concentrated around downtown, the northeast part of the city and very few in the west on the south. I think that reflects where their i hope we will also not take our eye off of the curbside opportunities, i know they are much more challenging to make progress there. I hope that is something we can make progress on in the future. Thank you. Commissioner stevenson. Thank you i recognize and some of what was being outlined there was enforcement on followup requirements on the department through the ordinance not having read it, i was trying to find it, and i cannot find it. Is there funding associated with that, or is this going to be an ordinance that gives the department more work to do, and may or may not also give them some money to be able to follow up on that. Up on that . We are actively seeking and in the process of applying for fuel standard money to help alleviate some of the work that will be required to do this ordinance enforcement. I would just say that this is not an unfunded mandate. We were very clear about that with the author and the mayors office. We have identified a potential source of funding, and we just need to make sure he gets to us. One of the things i really like about the ordinance is that it seems to have some teeth. There will be, you know, there will be followups and fines levied. You can get your permit taken away. I think that is great, because a lot of times we expect everyone to do the right thing, but the ordinance does not give us the tools to do that. I hope that the money follows the tools. Thank you for the presentation. The pie chart is one of the biggest reasons why i wanted to join this commission and the first place. Thank you for pulling us back to that. I am curious about the partnerships with the private parking. Obviously parking structures are not fully utilized in terms of the most and best utilization of space in an urban setting. What can the department, or the city do to help them, i think in some ways when i think of putting electric charging stations within a parking garage, when the parking garage is not the best use of the spaces. Sometimes it is great to because we are making a better for populations. For the folks that do not drive it all, it is not really huge benefit, what are the ways we are collaborating with the Parking Companies to figure out the best possible use of that space . Sure, i can start with an answer and hopefully zach can add to it. When we were researching for this ordinance, we spoke to many of the private charging infrastructure providers. One provider in particular was interesting, because this provider said that major parking operator in the United States realizes that private vehicle ownership is on the decline. As a result, with less cars there is less need for parking. What that Parking Company had envisioned was a parking structure will be providing services. Electrical vehicle charging was identified as one of their primary services that it can deliver to check high utilization rate for the parking stalls. Is there anything to add, zach . May i . Good evening commissioners, zach thompson. Im from the zero missions vehicle scene. I just want to add onto that i just emphasize his point about how we are seeing and hearing from these garage and launch the owner said that they are seeing a decline in the number of vehicles that are parking there, and theyre seeing a decline in revenue. Something that this ordinance can actually help them with is shifting the case from private vehicle parking to vehicle charging as well as particularly with fleets. As we see the shift towards autonomous vehicles, as we see more and more Transportation NetworkCompany Vehicles operating on our roads and we want them to shift over to electric, these are now becoming Opportunity Areas for them to utilize as charging services. That is what i would add onto that. Thank you. Any other questions . Any Public Comment . I think we are ready for the motion. May i have a motion to approve the revolution file 201905coe regarding electric vehicle charging and commercial buildings . I will move approval. Commissioner sullivan has moved. Seconded by commissioner chu. Any discussion or any comments, commissioners . Seeing none. All in favor signaled by saying i forget any opposed . The next item, anthony. Item 12, review and vote on whether to accept the policy Committee Regulation to approve revolution 201906c 0e regarding ordinance 190708 concerning large commercial building Renewable Energy requirements. The explanatory document is resolution file number 201906 cle. This was already discussed on the Committee Approved recommended we approve the ordinance. This is another exciting ordinance. Its a little simpler in its idea and its an implementation. If you go back and think about that was referenced, you might remember that 8 of our emissions come from electricity. While that is not a massive, as massive as transportation fuels it is significant and it is very doable to reduce that even further, especially because we have a clean power sf product. We have a hetch hetchy product so we have 100 that you can get from pg e. When we looked at who was using electricity we decided to tackle the biggest electricity users, and have them be required to procure 100 renewable. They do not have to buy from the city, that they have to buy 100 . That is in a nutshell, charles will give more detail on how we came about with a strategy and what this means, and what our role is. It is very exciting. Again, we are out there, as a first. In away, to me, it is a nobrainer, but it doesnt mean it takes zero brainpower. It is about time, and i am excited about it, it is very doable. I will let charles ask lena further. Thank you. If we can have the slides . Reducing emissions with renewed Usable Energy with large it is very straightforward. Im going to walk you through that. We save the best for last year, so allow me that privilege. [laughter] the city does have ambitious Greenhouse Gas reduction targets by 2017 we want to be 27 below our levels. We are at 36 , we have exceeded that goal. By 2025 we are hoping to be 40 below 1990 levels. Clearly on track for that. By 2050 we want to be 100 below 1990 levels. Probably get to about 90 and then we will sequester the rest. Where we are today, we are 36 below 1990 levels. We did a great job, theyre still a lot more to do. This is to repetitive. Transportation is a big emission generator of 46 . Right in its Rearview Mirror buildings. That is what we are here to talk about today. Lets talk and take a deeper dive starting with commercial buildings. 67 of emissions from commercial buildings are coming from natural gas. We are queuing up policy to address that. More on that to come in the next weeks, months, and years. There is still a substantial amount of emissions coming from electricity of commercial buildings. 20 of their operations are generating emissions from electricity. And a little bit from the combustion of steam there is still a lot of emissions coming from electricity in commercial buildings. I also want to talk about our municipal buildings, because the contrast looks favorably upon the city. We have a supply of Clean Electricity from the hetch hetchy system. There is no electricity emissions from this building. All of the emissions from municipal buildings come from natural gas. Supervisor brown today introduced legislation to eliminate natural gas usage. Again, it is going to be a topic that we will revisit many times over. The city does have a goal of net zero emissions for all buildings by 2050. That was the goal of the Climate Action summit goal. Have a net zero emissions in all New Buildings by 2030. This ordinance will help us get there. How do we do zero emissions . Three easy steps. Energy efficiency, supply renewable electricity, that is what we and electrify appliances. Thats a little bit in the future again. We do have an existing commercial bench marking ordinance which has been promoting Energy Efficiency by measuring what building owners and operators are managing. So, that bench marking ordinance supplies commercial buildings and large multifamily buildings. He was see that row at the top. In addition, commercial buildings are required to for both of those different category sizes. What is new and what we are attacking today, we are requiring commercial buildings, about 50,000 square feet or higher to use renewable electricity. We are building upon our work for buildings. There is a pun there, i probably meant that. It is all sequential. We are starting with Energy Efficiency. As you work through Energy Efficiency goals you want to make sure the electricity that you are still supplying is 100 that is where we are today. Again, just a little bit more on the top sector. You can see San Franciscos gdp is growing. At the top left. Top right, the value of our real estate and our commercial buildings is also growing. Employment in the city is growing. In the bottom right, that is the electricity and energy usage that is decreasing. That trend is moving in the right direction. So the proposal today, building upon all of our Energy Efficiency work is to require 100 renewable electricity for our large commercial buildings. Pretty straightforward. As you can see we have a lot of commercial buildings in the city. It is the largest ones in 50,000 square feet up to larger than 500,000 square feet. There is not that many of those buildings. They are responsible for 73 of electricity emissions. That is only 9 of those buildings. That is a total of 156,000 tons of co2 each year. They may not be that many, but those large buildings are our primary emitters. We are going to phase in this ordinance, the requirements for 100 renewable electricity purchase starting in 2022. With the buildings that are 500,000 square feet or higher. We are going to phase in the next category of buildings, 250,000 square feet to 500,000 square feet in 2024. By 2030, it will be the buildings we did that to make sure theyre Clean Power Program can procure the right amount of electricity to meet the right amount of customer demand. And today, if they were to do that, they would find out a little more challenging, because the market is a little bit more can Everyone Wants cleaner electricity in california. Making sure there is adequate supply to meet customer demand. If large buildings switched to hetch hetchy power they would reduce their costs. There are options to increase Clean Electricity the facility is getting while decreasing the cost. Clean power sf option is also very costeffective. There may be some slight increases. And then pg and e Renewable Energy program there is some potential for price increases. There is also potential for slight price decreases. Overall, there isnt too much of a price impact. Unless again you are selecting hetch hetchy power. The cost of electricity will go down. That is a good story and a good outcome for this ordinance. Here is where the buildings of 500,000 square feet or higher are located. No real surprises. The tone of 50,000 square feet, to five, no real surprises, but you start to see some of them in other parts of the city. And then of course 50,000 square feet up to 250,000 square feet, those are more scattered and dispersed throughout the city. [please stand by] [please stand by] were taking them from a very clean place to a purely clean place. I showed you emissions for electricity are still 25 from these buildings and so when we stepped back, weve actually driven down Greenhouse Gas emissions from the Electricity Supply in the city by 80 over the past x number of years. Weve di been doing a good job. We began this remarkable journey to eradicate emission 0 our fror Electricity Supply. We will finish what we started like the end is in sight for electricity. Were moving to national gas and we still have a little work left to do and so were going to get into that 100 renewable hurdle with this ordinance. Lets close that curtain. Any other questions . Charles, does nuclear count towards the standards . It does not count. This city theres a polluting source of electricity for its radiation byproducts. Commissioner steph not son. The natural gas piece of it is that primarily heating in these commercial building this i . Is that what that odd 70 is . Yes. Its building and water. Yeah. Building heating, water heating. Yeah. Any other questions . Do we have any Public Comment . Seeing none. I think were ready to have a motion to approve resolution filed 201906coe regarding large commercial buildings Renewable Energy requirements. May i have a motion. I make a motion. Its been moved by commissioner wan second by. Do we have any discussion . Any questions . All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed . Any abstentions . Motion carries. Thank you. Next item, anthony. Clerk the next item is item 13 directors report the speakers debra and the explanatory document is a directors report. This item is up for discussion. Thank you, president. All right, the hour is getting late and theres a lot of wonderful things to just let you know that are going on. The first is that the president and i will travel to copenhagen in october for c40s annual mayors summit. Its a very exciting. Tyron jew will also be with us and also welcome back mike hymns from puc because the c40 organization is honoring clean water sf with a special award, international award. They are also going to be honoring pucs green bond programs so San Franciscos going to get a lot of love and mike hymns has been approved to travel and accept the award on the citys behalf and c40 will create a cities 100 report where they feature 100 of the mom ambitious Climate Action and we will be featured in that report and its a wonderful is way 20 validate what city agencies. Weak of october 7th, fleet woke. When they think about fleet week my guess is you and most people think about the blue angels. It turns out fleet week from a city family perspective is the time of year when the federal agencies, like fema, and on the army core of engineers and state agencies all come to San Francisco and they do drills. They chose a theme. Last years theme was how are we going to get fuel to San Francisco after an earthquake . Because all of our fuel comes from one operation on the peninsula. And if there are no roads or everyone else is trying to get that fuel and you cant get it any other way how do we get fuel. This year they chose, as the drill, is debris management. So because were talking about debris, our department now comes in and is a central role. Our zero waste team has been at the table for months now planning for this exercise that will happen the week of october 7th. Its very exciting. And we got in fact one of the principles of debris management is going to be diversion. Its to be avoid going to landfills. So were making the case which means we need to think about it intentionally and where we bring things and where we stage items and what kind of equipment we might need. To mark your cal lers, october 7th a monday, theres going to be a mayoral press event at pier 27. So pier 27 is the terminal cruise ship terminal and theyll have all these big dosers and a lot of fun for kids who like Big Equipment to see what kind of earthmoving and debris management equipment looks like but they will be talking about the Important Role of debris management so its great if the commission on the environment someone can be there to answer questions if they come up on the role of zero waste. So thats the weak of october 7th. You can be, as you watch the blue angels later in the week you can think that we are all working inside rooms talking about debris. The civil grand jury meets regularly and selects topics that they want to focus on. Recently they focused on the need for adding saltwater pump stations for the emergency firefighting system. That weve got pump stations on parts of the city but not necessarily on the west side of the city or the marina area and so having the ability to take saltwater in and use it as a way of fire suppression, especially after a major earthquake is interested. Thement department of average was asking you to comment on the impacts of saltwater being used in this manner. What came out of this report was that there nodes to be a deeper study on how the city puts this in place so puc, the Fire Department, and our department were asked to ask how a study would be presented to the board of supervisors. We are not a lead on this and we are in consultation but its really the puc and the Fire Department who will take the lead. I wanted to let you know because we are mentioned in this civil grand jury report. Finally, since were on the subject of the earthquakes, i dont know how many of you were in San Francisco in 1989 or alive in 1989. It was it is the 30th anniversary on october 17th of the earthquake. I myself was on the bay bridge when it happened. I have a traumatic earthquake story but it means a lot to me thinking about 30 years ago and theres going the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team is putting together a resource fair on earthquakes. Well table there as well if you want to come by on october 17th, check it out, support our efforts and think about the 30th anniversary. So with that, that is my directors report. Thank you. Any questions . Any Public Comments . Next item. The next item is item 14 committee reports. This item is up for discussion. Commissioner just briefly because weve discussed most of the items already so august 12th, we recommended the commissioner on the environment adopt of 2019 reduce risk pesticide list and also there was block buster presentation on construction and demolition, the zero Waste Program was very good. So hopefully, staff can provide more details if there are interests or request for information from the commissioner. We ordinance concerning large Renewable Energy requirements and we also recommended that the commissioner adopt the ordinance concerning eb charging. Any Public Comment . Thank you, commissioner. Next item. The next item is item 15 announcements. This item is for discussion. Director rafael. Thank you. One announcement, i would love for alex and cindy to come up if you would and just announce yourselves. Youve made it through this entire meeting. You should let people know who you are because you are new employees to the department. You didnt introduce yourself earlier. What did you for the department and what did you before you came. All right. Hi, im alex bogden, im a member of the department on the outreach program. Im a senior strategist focused on transportation, energy and climate. Previously, i spent a number of Years Software company s. A. P. Doing marketing and Community Engagement as well as internal and external and most recently spent a short stint with j. P. Morgan chase. Why are you excited to be here. I had always been passionate about the environment and i had run a number of sustainable initiatives at s. A. P. And have done things such as volunteer my time and im excited to be here and have an impact. Thank you. I willing overseeing the departments Climate Action strategy that the Environmental Justice program and also the Green Building program. Before joining the department, i was with the city of san jose for a yearandahalf and previous to that i managed policy and planning and districting the departments sustainability initiative. So i am very excited to be back in San Francisco and working with a great group of colleagues that i previously had an opportunity to work with and also working with debbie and the commissioner here. Thank you for having me. Welcome back. Welcome. Any questions . Director rafael. Oh, commissioner haun. First of all thanks to alex for participating in the prior weekend in the mayors battle for the bay environmental clean up. It was great to have such strong and departmental participation and of course welcome back cindy, its great to have you back and we appreciate your efforts on everything from all the good work that you are going to do for us in the Climate Change program. Any Public Comments . Next item, please. Clerk the next item is item 16 the business feature agenda items. Charles sheen, this item is discussion and possible action. Thank you. The next Operations Committee meeting is october 16th. The policy committee scheduled for october 28th will be canceled. And we are still looking for a date in november. And the next Commission Meeting is november 26th. At that Commission Meeting, one of the key items on the agenda is the directors Performance Review and were also looking to bring you potentially a presentation on the hazard of Climate Resilience plan and the Sea Level Rise vulnerability assessment. Yes, i got that right. And potentially there were two natural gas electricity Building Code updates introduced today, within on municipal side and one on the private sector side so there could be more advocacy resolutions. We may ask you to weigh into show your support for the board and to the mayor. Those may be fourth coming as well. Any discussion . Any questions . Commissioner stevenson. In the past, weve messed around a little bit with the date of the tuesday before thanksgiving having a Commission Meeting during that week since the people making traveling. I wonder if we have any through the president. So both the policy committee falls on veterans day in november and the Commission Meeting falls on the week of thanksgiving. Before thanksgiving or after thanksgiving. So were going to send out a poll to the commissioners. In the meantime if theres any large blocks of vacation that you are going to have to just let us know. Ok. Thank you. Any Public Comment . Next item, please. Clerk the next item is 17 adjournment and the time is 7 46p. M. Thank you. Thank you, everybody who is still here. Oh, yes. Welcome to pricidia middle school. I am emma dunbar and i had the enormous privilege to be the principal in this community. Thank you all for joining us. [ cheering and applause ]. I want to give a very warm welcome to my students, to our staff, to elected officials, Board Members, mayor appliappli and our trusted partners at sales force. I couldnt be happier to host you all on this yard just opened for our new school year after four years in the making. It is a prime example of what investment in our Public Schools can look like. Four years ago, mark benniof, along with the mayors and superintendents from oakland and San Francisco, stood on this very same yard to celebrate the third year of the sales force grant. At that time, there was success to celebrate. Wifi in every middle school, computers and ipads available to every school, the established of the principals innovation fund. We may not have appreciated how much more celebrating there was to come. To date, weve now seen over 40 million invested in the students of San Francisco unified School Districts. [ cheering and applause ]. And 20 million invested in the students at oakland unified. [ cheering and applause ]. This has had incredible results in math, computer science, and College Readiness throughout both of these great cities. What i want to share with you today is what this means for presidio and what i observed seeing these transformations. Not just to our physical environments but to our students lives. Here is an example of what our community has seen since 2013. Increased Student Access to and interest in coding and robotics. Teachers and students collaborating in online environments in every classroom in our school. In addition to our beautiful new space, our community enjoys partnering directly with sales force volunteers who have supported our teachers throughout the school in creating welcoming environments for learning. We know that our students thrive when we can surround them with the support of everyone in the community, from teachers to volunteers to Corporate Partners to parents. Id now like to personally thank and introduce mark benniof coc. E. O. And chairman of sales force who has championed this great, incredible, amazing work for our students. [ cheering and applause ]. Thank you so much for coming today. Its a gorgeous day and always the hottest day when we do these announcements. I just want to say you have an amazing team up hear that i want to call out. We have principal dunbar. Thank you for everything youre doing. [ cheering and applause ]. And we have two of our fabulous mayors here in San Francisco and oakland, mayor breed and mayor shaw. Thank you. [ cheering and applause ]. And we have our amazing team here of our superintendents kyle and vincent, thank you for everything that youre doing. [ applause ]. We have anthony from the Sales Force Foundation too. Thank you, ebony. [ cheering and applause ]. Doing work like this really does take a team. One member of our team is not up here and were thinking a lot about him. That is ed lee. It was really mayor lee that had the vision that we felt so strongly about to work on the 12 middle schools. That was seven years ago and now we can see today here is this incredible manifestation of our middle schools getting rebooted and its in his memory that were doing this work. Lets remember him and lets say thank you as well to all of you for being here. Thank you for your support of our kids. Thank you to the kids also. So thank you guys for coming here. [ cheering and applause ]. One thing about doing this is the kids are always like, this is boring, when is it over . Its going to get worse before it gets better. [ laughter ]. I apologize. No, its okay . Youre interested in this . All right. All right. Then lets do it. Thank you, principal dunbar for welcoming us to this beautiful Presidio Middle School and to you and all the staff at presidio that make a difference for our kids. Thanks to our great partners and all of our leaders and great principals here. If youre a principal in San Francisco or oakland, would you just stand up and be recognized. [ cheering and applause ]. You know, these principals who are on the frontlines every single day in these schools and with these kids doing this leadership work. They have our best hopes with them. As part of our program, as our principal innovation program, gets 100,000 a year over the last seven years to do what they think they need to do for their schools. I admire their creativity and desire to improve the education of each school, but i just want to thank them for their hard work and dedication to the schools. Its so powerful. And i also want to thank the kids. Thank you for all of your hard work too and everything youre doing to have a great education. Because ill tell you, the best ideas for our schools come from our kids. As weve been working with the schools, of course we have ideas and our visions and we remember when we were in school or when we were in middle school, but what it means to be in middle school today is different than what i was when i was in middle school. Thank you to you guys for keeping us in touch with whats important and using your voices and also speaking your truth and saying what you really want for your school. Its the kids actually before you who have graduated and over there at George Washington high school who said that they wanted a new playground, that that was very important to them. You can thank them because they used their voices and said thats what they wanted. Thats why were here very much today. Keep in mind as you go forward that we want to hear from you, what youre doing. Were all here because of you. Were all here because we believe in each and every one of you. We believe in your future and we believe that you are going to create an amazing future. Weve had our chance. Our chance is over. [ laughter ]. Now its your chance. So were looking for you to be the leaders and to take us forward and hope fulfully. Im here as your neighbor, not just a c. E. O. When it comes to our Public Schools, a lot of people say they want to help but they dont know how to. Well, a few years ago ago, some of you heard this story before, i came over here, walked through the door, and i said to the principal, how can i help . What can i do . Thats a message for each and every one of us. The principal is the local c. O. Of that school. All we have to do is knock on that door and say, how can we help you . Every c. O. Can adopt a public school. Every company can adopt a district. Every one of us can do something. I think that that is what is so powerful. Ultimately, its the connection with the principal thats so important the more work that weve done in the Public Schools, we just get reminded of that over and over again. In my mind, i always say how do i make presidio the best school on the planet . Each of us wants the best for our kids and make these the best schools that we can. So often its the principal that knows how to make that happen. Thank you to our principals. Thank you for what youre doing. This has been an amazing process for me. As ive been working on Presidio Middle School, ive had a lot of friends who have gone through this school and i didnt know that when i started the process. Ill tell them this story. Ive adopted this school and this is what were doing and so forth. Different friends of mine have said, i have went there, did you know i went there, one of our Board Members went there. The amazing thing happened is my mom came to me and said she was here for one year. [ laughter ]. Isnt that amazing . So my mom was here for one year. I dont know how she did that. I dont even know how that happened, but luckily i got some kudos from my mom when i said were working on Presidio Middle School. So we so stronger believe at sales force that were here for all of our stakeholders, not just the shareholders. Were here to serve communities, Public Schools, everyone who is part of San Francisco, oakland, or anywhere were doing business. Were thinking about the bigger picture. That is how we guide our companys management and our leadership. This is part of our mission. Thats who we are at sales force. Thats very much why for the last seven years sales force has forged really an unprecedented collaboration with the School Districts of San Francisco and oakland. We are happy to be their largest b benefactors to support them. Our journey has only started. We are at the beginning of what we can do with the schools. We are committed to the long term for our schools. We are there for our districts and for all of you. Its why we adopt Public Schools at sales force, 34 of them in the bay area. 100 around the world that have the same spotlight on them that presidio does. Here we have a commitment that every one of our Senior Vice President s at sales force has a adopt a public school. Its part of their responsibility. This school is my school, so they lucked out. [ laughter ]. But a lot of the schools have the same level of attention and support. Our colleagues who i want to thank and who are here have given 4 million hours in volunteerism since wert