70 percent of the emissions from the transportation sector. 92 percent of all onland equipment. So bringing down emissions from that sector is a priority. So in developing the e. V. Road map, the electric Vehicle Working Group formed a subcommittee of city departments and a group of stakeholders that consist of state and regional agency, community members. They collaborated to develop the e. V. Road map. The road map has a vision. And also two interim goals to ensure quickly reducing emissions and over 40 actions to get us to our 2040 vision. The 2040 vision is okay. The slides. The 2040 vision, ill talk about that later. Our goal, the interim goal, the first interim goal is to 2025, 50 percent new vehicles so Francisco Garcia will be electric. And onethird of the commuting done by electric vehicles. Then our 2030 target is 100 percent all new vehicles in van fran will be electric and twothirds of the commuters coming into the city are done electric vehicle. And this goal aligns very well with governor browns goals of having 5 million electric vehicles in california by 2030. And finally, the vision, the 2040 vision is to make all transportation in San Francisco emissionfree, whether its originating in, passing through or ending in San Francisco, it must be emissions free. So how do we get there . There is a subcommittee developed Six Strategies that will, when put together, reach our 2040 vision goal. So ill quickly go over that. So the first is increasing Public Awareness. This is a very important strategy. By 2020, next year, i will come back to report to you whether or not weve been successful at getting the general public all the information necessary to convince them the benefits of electric vehicle. And also choosing electric mobility as the first choice. That includes having a citywide Public Awareness campaign, that includes having an e. V. Help desk. That also includes continuing the great work they are doing through the e. V. 1 workshops, but broadening them so we can speak with more constituent that perhaps even having a testdrive event. Nothing gets better than getting into an e. V. And trying it out. The next strategy is to provide incentives. We will evaluate citywide incentive programs. But this speaks more on how to layer the incentive programs on top of existing incentive programs. So, for example, that could be lane preferences. We can evaluate parking policies that shows a preference towards electric vehicles. And we can also provide other carrots that will inform the automobile purchaser to choose electric. So this is the first time and we are not going to let it happen again. We have to expand the charger infrastructure. And we are going to prioritize that. Multifamily users. So we have to prioritize, publicly accessible charging stations. To that end, we are developing a direct current fast charging map, a master plan where 50 percent of the way there. Theres still work to be done. The work has started, and we will be finishing it. We are also underway, have opened up 48 of our Municipal Parking garages to e. V. Charging providers to provide projects. So we are going to expand the charging infrastructure in Municipal Parking garages. And finally, last month i spoke to you about the commercial charging ordinance. And thats been passed. And so well be underway to expand charging infrastructure and public accessible garages as well. Integrating charging with the electric grid is our fourth strategy. We are going to be working with our Utility Partners to make sure we identify where all the choke points on the grid. More importantly, we will make sure that all the e. V. Chargers going into the ground are powered by greenhouse gasfree electricity or renewable electricity. We are going to work with colleagues to evaluate preference for the electric vehicle charging late schedules. So it will be less expensive to charge at a certain time that also has positive impact on the grid. And finally, how cool would it be if your electric car can back field into the panel of your house, during a Public Safety power shut off, providing you with resiliency. We would like to provide incentives for direct current fast charging providers to also add Battery Storage. The fifth strategy is to increase medium heavy duty vehicle electrifycation. So between 2020 and 2025, we are going to establish lighthouse projects of Early Adoption Technology in all major heavy and medium duty categories. We are going to catalog and support pilots. We tried it with the virginia a resource board. We are going to identify electric solutions to our transportation needs. And finally, the sixth strategy is to encourage mobility. By 2020 we are going to have a straight forward plan on how to electrify the fleets, such as the taxis and the autonomous vehicle. Developing new forms of mobility, it has to be electric. So what do we need from other city departments . Henry ford said no problem is too big if you break it up into small pieces. The electric vehicle road map is a big piece. The reason i have to cut it up into smaller pieces. We dont have to give the pieces to the departments and agencies that are most appropriate. Our vision is to have a comprehensive, Holistic Program for the entire city. We may be sitting in different buildings, but together, we are working on the same agenda with the e. V. Road map as our north star. Next step, implementation. An implemented plan is nothing more than a series of right decisions. We cannot make the decisions in silo. We have been making them with partners beyond our city borders because the 2040 vision is all transportation is zero emissions in San Francisco whether its originating in, passing through or starting from. So we have to cross boundaries to work together, even with the partners in the state like the California Commission and California PublicUtilities Commission which regulate a lot of Energy Distribution policies. The road map was checked out by mayor breed in july. So as i mentioned, we have been working on it. I would like you to pause for a moment to express some gratitude to those that actually work on the electric vehicle road map. First i want to thank my colleagues at sfpc. I also want to thank my colleagues at s fm ca tim dougherty. I also want to thank my team, suzanne and our former colleague zach tomson. His blood and sweat is the ink of the road map. He intervened, took notes, he made sure all the stakeholders are listening, understood and heard. And this document reflects his thoughtfulness and professionalism the entire way. So with that, commissioners, this is our citywide electric vehicle road map. Commissioner stephenson. Kind of a tactical question. That was amazing. Thank you. And i especially loved the story telling at the beginning. Because i think its great to level about where weve been and also learn from the past. I think that the fact that weve been charging throughout the city is a huge piece of your sixpoint plan. So our work in software. And in software you create road maps and plans. And theres a product manager and project managers who help shepherd it through and deliver it. And with all of these different stakeholders across all these different city departments, what is the plan for who is going to hold the sort of tactical pushing forward of the project over these 20 years . Its so ambitious, and its amazing. And i think that without tight reigns Holding Everyone accountable, whats the mechanism through which thats going to happen . Who owns that . I think it begins, i think it begins with us forming that e. V. Task force. I really think the task force can be the body that controls the development of the tactical strategies, the tactical necessities that will be required for each of the strategy. I think the task force will be a very efficient way for decision making. I also think in addition to task force, the concept of having a holistic Clean Transportation Program across departments where we can work together. But more importantly where we can fill gaps. We can quickly identify an hour where it needs more attention. We can deploy resources to do that. So this is a plan in the making. We have a plan. So now we have to figure out a way to, like you said, architect the necessary steps to having it fully implemented and make the right decisions. More of a question for you. Whats the process to get a task force pulled together . Commissioner stephenson, i really appreciate that question. I think it goes into the heart of a plan is only as good as implementation. And so one of the things that we realized we need is we need to bring on the expertise in our department to lead this initiative, that we dont actually have that person yet. Lowell is stretched incredibly thin trying to do all the work hes doing. And so i have been working with the Mayors Office to identify a creative Funding Source to fund this work. Im very hopeful about it. The Mayors Office is very, very supportive, as is the budget office. And we are working very closely with our partners at san fran as well as mta who have a lot at stake as well to see the success of this road map. So the three agencies are looking at presenting to the Mayors Office a Budget Proposal for next fiscal year, and maybe sooner, to fund this work. And then ultimately, i think thats not only that we have the ability to create the task force, we need people to be holding the task force accountable. We need people, perhaps the commission on the environment, perhaps the transportation commission, perhaps the Public Utilities commission. We have other bodies that need to be saying, well, how is it going and what are the roadblocks and why arent you moving faster or great job, you are moving fast. What we found is when we look at whether the strategy what are the big buckets of things we know that have to be done. When you start peeling each one of those back, you see that theres a lot of barriers to implementation and success that actually the Solutions Lie within the city itself. We have some rules for construction and prioritization of resources that actually get in the way of electrifycation. And so for us to be serious about reaching these goals is going to take city agencies collectively solving some of these initiatives. Theres a lot of inertia so that kind of change. And i think what breaks through inertia is transparency and daylight. And im interested in thinking about next year how we had a joint Commission Meeting with the commission on the status of women. It might be interesting towards the end of next year to think about some joint Commission Meetings with other agencies that have a piece of this so that we are all moving in the same direction. I just its an idea. We can think about at a future time. But your point is very well taken. Commissioner sullivan. That was a great presentation. Is that better . Fantastic presentation. As an e. V. Owner, i dont think theres any material that ive gotten as a commissioner that ive read more carefully than this one. So really great work and great presentation. And some really audacious goals here. So 50 percent of the cars sold in San Francisco by 2025 will be electric. What is the percentage now . Thats a good question. I defer to suzanne and zach. [off mic] say your name and title. Good evening, commissioners. Tomson, formerly zero emission vehicles. [laughs] right now, the last data that we saw had the San Francisco measurement area at 15 percent of new car sales being e. V. S. But thats for the metro area. We dont know what the most recent dataset specifically about San Francisco. That includes oakland and hayward also. Thank you. I love the idea, director raphael suggested of kind of periodic checkins on our progress. It might be a good idea to pick some metrics that we think are important towards this project. Maybe its what percentage of cars purchased are electric. Maybe its the metric for charging infrastructure and just to see how we are doing as we go along. I also read in the report that the incentives are supposed to be in place by 2020. Thats correct. Five weeks away from 2020. And i suppose we have the full year. Yeah but do you think thats still realistic . I think, like director raphael said, there are some barriers to change but i think with the incentives, theres much more output to receive concepts and further develop them, especially if they are just price signals and dont take a lot of structural changing, i think that might be possible, yes. I will commit to that. I will check in. As an electric vehicle manager, i will definitely update you. I completely think agree with your suggestion of having even more refined, that way we can really check how much progress we are making in a much smaller resolution. I could go on and on. But im going to limit myself to just one more comment, which is i think part of the solution is out of our control. Its electric manufacturers and how expensive and how affordable they are. The part that is within our control, i think, the biggest piece is infrastructure, the charging infrastructure. Yes. And what is the kind of the current thinking about infrastructure . Is it to go to level 3s and try to get level 3s out there as quickly as possible . Or for all the people that dont have a charger or a garage or dont have access at home and work . That is a great question. I think its one of those questions that the master plan is trying to solve for. The fast charger are great. But sometimes its not necessary. But it will take it might take a lot of upgrades to have the fast charger installed. So workbased charging it might make sense to have level 2 because youll be parking your vehicle there for a longer amount of time. But there are other technologies coming out that circumvent this capacity issues. They dont trigger upgrades. They are able to provide charging, but they dont require a giant transform, and they dont require new panels and new services. There is software out there that can actually schedule metro vehicle charging based on needs. And that way its not around its more the amount of electrons passing through based on which car was scheduled first. And again, the solution to avoid upgrades. But the infrastructure is certainly an issue. And fast chargers are definitely great, especially for publiclyaccessible types. Again, if you cant charge at home or work you got to be able to charge somewhere else. Thats one of our big challenges. Thats correct. Thats correct. Commissioner chu hello. Thank you for your presentation. Very exciting work. And i have two questions. The first one is around the definition of a vehicle. Im reviewing your report, and i would like to spend more time in it in more detail. But one thing i want to bring up is in my work, which is very transportation related, one thing that has come up is that in europe, especially the netherlands, i think there were 40 percent more electric bicycles this year than previous years. So i just wanted to raise emerging mobility is one of the categories. I did see a car there. But i wanted to clarify if that was inclusive of bicycles and scooters and whatever else is going to land in our streets. Absolutely, yes. It does include, all transportation has to be electrified. I saw a pricing table about what electric vehicles in terms of cars would cost but it should also align with other sustainable modes. Agreed. My second question is around oh, so the Congestion Pricing Policy Advisory Committee just kicked off last week, which im a part of. Thank you for the opportunity. And i think theres a really, really interesting question, especially as congestion pricing is rearing its head again which is an exciting moment in time for electric vehicles to be alignd with that, so i wanted to stay in close touch about that. Absolutely. Thank you. Any other questions . Any Public Comment on this item . Hearing none, thank you so much for that amazing presentation. Great work. [applause] anthony, next item. The next item is item 8, discussion of two resolutions supporting climaterelated ordinances sponsored by the department of the environment and a vote on whether to adopt each resolution as recommended by the policy committee. The sponsor is deborah raphael, director. The speaker is cyndy comerford, Climate Program manager. Resolution file no. 201908coe regarding ordinance in board supervisors file no. 190972 concerning municipal he electrifycation. File number 190708 concerning electric preferred buildings. Explanatory document resolution file no. 201909coe. Item for discussion and action. Commissioner sullivan is going to do the actual motion. Thank you. Save your voice. Great. So as commissioner sullivan can attest to, we had a really interesting policy Committee Meeting on these issues. And we wanted to ask cyndy our Climate Program manager to give you a brief outline of what was discussed not nearly in the same level of detail. But as lowell said, when you look at our where weve got emissions coming out, its pretty clear theres not a lot of mystery here. Our buildings are a big part of the story. And where those emissions are coming from, cyndy will talk a little bit about that. But more and more, they are coming from natural gas. And while we will be developing a Climate Action strategy that you will hear a lot more about for 2020, we dont wait for that to be finished before we adopt policies along the way. And theres a particular moment in time now that is very important because the Building Code gets updated on a threeyear cycle. And we are and that starts now in 2019, the new cycle. So we wanted to weigh in to be in alignment with that statewide cycle. And im going to let cyndy take it from here. Good evening, commissioners. My name is cyndy comerford. Im the Climate Program manager. And im going to give a brief summary of the presentation that i gave to the policy committee several weeks ago. And so what we are here for today is to ask for your support on two ordinances that anthony mentioned. One ill refer to as our electric preferred code and the second ordinance is our municipal electrifycation ordinance. The municipal ordinance inhabitant has not been scheduled for committee yet. So i just want to start off talking about our Energy Future in San Francisco to kind of set the stage for this brief presentation. I know that our current model of energy in california looks very bleak for the third year in a row, we saw horrific wildfires. And pg e said the shut offs that have been happening could last for ten more years. So i want you to know the city of San Francisco is taking this very seriously. The city has recently put a bid in for pg es assets, infrastructure that serve San Francisco so we can secure our Energy Future and depend less on the rollover grid. Its really important that we start electrifying our buildings. And thats what im going to talk about today. In addition to our electrification, we want to invest in smaller Power Supplies and microgrids and backup Battery Storage and also around smart inverters and expanding solar. These types of measures can help us keep the power on when we have these types of events that weve seen recently. And in addition, its really important that the city leads by example. And that starts with our pal buildings. So at the crux of the two ordinances that im going to talk about today is really about the reduction and elimination of natural gas. And i wont go into all the detail i did in the last presentation, but natural gas has many impacts. As a super greenhouse gas, its mostly methane. And its 86 times stronger or traps more heat than carbon dioxide. Its a combustible and hazardous material. Weve seen explosions all over the united states. In 2010, we saw our neighbors south of us have a massive natural gas explosion where there were eight fatalities. Theres impacts to our health, not only from the extraction of natural gas but the use of it in houses. And the more studies that are connecting natural gas cooking to increases in childhood asthma. In addition, natural gas is just not as reliable or resilient in major disasters as electricity. And so as lowell kind of talked about when we look at the big picture of our emissions, about half come from buildings and the other half comes from transportation. And this slide kind of dives in a little deeper to show the emissions just from our building sector. So in our commercial and residential builds, our natural gas use is mostly from hot water, heating, airconditioning and cooking. And we can see that most of our residential and commercial emissions around natural gas and almost all of our municipal emissions are from natural gas since all of our electricity comes from a carbonfree source. So kind of to achieve our climate goals, the elimination of natural gas is actually critical. And mayor london breed established very Ambitious Goals of achieving net zero emissions in New Buildings by 2030 and all buildings by 2050. In order to achieve these city goals of net zero emissions by 2050 and make sure that we are abiding by our parent agreement to limit temperature increases to 1. 5 degrees celsius, increasing electrification in our new and existing buildings is absolutely necessary. So that brings us to our policy proposal. And as director raphael said, just to give a little bit of background, every three years, the state of california goes through a code cycle. And so we are coming to the end of that code cycle. We are going to adopt new Building Codes. And in california, you have an option to adopt whats called a reach code. So to go above the state standard. And this is mostly done for environmental reasons. And San Francisco has been doing this for years. Weve been a pioneer in this field. And what we are here to show to you today is a new reach code to help with our building electrification and also our climate goals. And so what this slide shows is our policy proposal. And this is for new construction in private buildings. And so what we are looking here, if you build your building to be all electric, you just have to meet the state standards. And if you decide not to build all electric, what this policy does, it makes it more difficult for you. So if you choose to build a mixedfuel building, you have to go above the state standard. And that increase is around energy efficiency. And so this is the policy package thats our electricpreferred code that has been sponsored by supervisor mandelman. And the second ordinance which has been sponsored by supervisor brown is around the municipal buildings. And for municipal buildings its the complete elimination of natural gas. So there will be no more natural gas in the new construction of municipal buildings. So this just shows an array of different buildings in San Francisco from municipal buildings to existing buildings to private construction that have already been built all electric. So we know that the technology is there and that its possible and we are really excited to work with our stakeholders to embark on this next phase of building all electric in San Francisco. And so that concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer any questions about the policy proposals. Okay this is where i jump in. Thank you, cyndy, great presentation. Commissioners, any questions . You dont have to raise your hand because you cant see the commissioner wald. I have a question about the resolution. Thank you. I have a question about the resolution. This one . That i think we are talking about, which is the first one in our packet okay. Which wait a minute is 190972. Requiring new construction in major renovations to exclude natural gas. Okay. That is if one for municipal buildings. Thats the one for municipal buildings . Because it wasnt clear to me whether it applied to all buildings. Thats my question about that. And okay. So on the second one, i am just and i apologize for not being able to make the policy Committee Meeting at which you discussed this. But im just wondering whether it would be possible to give a stronger signal, if you will, to the building industry that this might not work, and if it doesnt, we are going to demand that all buildings are exclusively electric. I think that is a wonderful suggestion. We are just about to launch in coordination with the Mayors Office and supervisor mandelman, zero emission Building Task force. And supervisor mandelman has said within six months that we are going to propose a allelectric for new construction. So that is on our agenda. We have some additional stakeholder outreach. We need to do with our advocates and the Building Community to make sure that we can address the issues around technology, labor, Workforce Development and equity. And so that is our next step. And just to kind of look at some of the other cities, the electric preferred code, that is through the Building Code and to make sure our steps are legally defensible with the city. But our second step is what you mentioned. So hopefully this resolution is the first step signaling that, and then launching the task force and hopefully having another ordinance within six months that does exactly what you suggested. Okay. Thank you. Commissioners . Did you want to amend the resolution or are you okay with the resolution as is . Well [laughter] stronger language i heard its not the time for that. So i will, rather than propose amending it, i will vote for it. But make note on my calendar that in six months, i hope we can lead this issue. Absolutely, me too. Thank you. I have a question. This is probably not the right time. Commissioner heather. This is sort of out of the realm of these resolutions but its maybe the time to say this. I look at the construction thats happening throughout the city, and of course theres tons of new construction happening but theres also tons of renovations happening. Is there a mechanism or any idea of doing this kind of work in three years or as part of the cycling to suggest that renovations also have to move toward all electric . Absolutely. So i should have mentioned as my last come, the zero emission task force for buildings that will be launching is going to have four subsections. One is going to look at all electric for new construction. And then there will be other workgroups that are going to look at existing construction around municipal and commercial and residential buildings. So our goal is within one year to have a road map for existing buildings, how we retrofit them and electrify them. And would that be holding to the threeyear cycle to get it into code that if people are applying for permits for renovation . It makes it easier if you do these updates to the building codon that triannual cycle. But you dont have to. So thats something we are going to have to think about and work with our stakeholders as we go through the process. It makes it easier for the Building Community, but i think that remains to be seen. I would like to just add the municipal is for major renovations as well. So we were looking at renovations that were above a certain threshold would mean because we want to get it when your boiler goes out, when you are doing a lot of work on a building, no, you are not building a brand new building, its the perfect time to be thinking about going all electric. So for municipal it is for major renovations as well as new construction. I have one question or maybe its a comment. I think i read in the last week that the Restaurant Industry sued the city of berkeley on this very issue. And as a city where our restaurants are important, and we have a foody culture, i wonder if it would be possible to stage this process so that commercial restaurants are the last ones to be forced into all electric, just a thought for the future. Thats a great suggestion. And the Golden Gate Restaurant Association will be invited to participate in these conversations and be a really important stakeholder. If i may, commissioner, that is precisely why we arent suggesting an allout ban for every building type as of january 1, because we have not done the work that we think is important to build the support from the community and the understanding. And as we talked a lot about during the policy Committee Meeting, the Contracting Community needs to understand how to do that. They need to understand how do you offer an electric alternative. So we have, for example, in february, we are going to be doing electrification expo in Golden Gate Park at the county fair building where we are going to invite residents and contractors to learn about Heat Pump Technology and understand whats possible. So we are building a socialization. And with the intention as commissioner wald said, to send a strong signal to the marketplace that this is step one and there are more steps to come. Could i add to that that its not only, you know, a city buildings and commercial buildings that are faced with the example that you gave debbie, that your furnace stops working or your heater thing stops working and those are emergencies. And in the absence of having the kind of information that you need or the conversation that you need, people, its already happened to me this year, are going to buy a regular water heater because you need to have a water heater. And we somehow have to figure out i urge you to help us figure out how to get ahead of that problem so that when somebody is faced with this emergency, they can get help from whatever is the appropriate community with a minimum of effort. Like two hours at the most. I couldnt agree with you more. We definitely as director raphael said, we have a lot of work to do in educating our Community Around electrification. And we are going to take that very seriously in the upcoming year. Maybe its a thing that we should think about doing like neighborhood meetings where we can talk about these issues and the options. Once you figure out what they are and what the solutions are. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you for your comments. I appreciate them. Any other commissioner comments or questions . If not, i understand we are going to do Public Comment and vote on these one by one. So first, is there any Public Comment on resolution 201908coe regarding municipal electrification . Seeing none, is there a motion and a second on this matter . I move. Motion by commissioner wald and seconded by commissioner stephenson. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. Motion carries. Our second resolution is resolution 2010909coe regarding electric preferred buildings. Is there any Public Comment on this resolution . Seeing none, we have a motion to approve . President bermejo. Is there a second. Second. Commissioner wan. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. The motion carries. The next item is item 9, directors report, update on the department of the environment administrative and programmatic operations relating to budget planning, Strategic Planning, clean air transportation, climate and Energy Public outreach and education, environmental justice, habitat restoration, green building, zero waste, toxics reduction and urban forestry. The speaker is deborah raphael. Explanatory document is the directors report. This item is for discussion. The next item. I would just say i want to theres so much we could talk about but we have a lot of new staff here who im going to have them introduced in a minute. I want to talk about a couple things that are going on that are really meaningful for us. In order for us to get to a Climate Action strategy that is compliant with the paris climate accords, we need to have a deep and Extensive Community engagement process. And in addition to that, for our mayor to feel comfortable and excited about doing some of the bold policy initiatives we need, she has said to us you need to bring others along. And so we are hearing and we also believe that in our hearts as well. And so we are embarking on some interesting methods for Engaging Community on what can be a very wonky subject, how to get off of natural gas, for example. So what we have Just Launched is something we call the anchor partners initiative. And that is a shorthand for saying rather than the department leading on community outreach, why dont we have trusted Community Partners lead and we pay them to do so. We honor the fact that they cant volunteer. So cyndy and her Team Selected two wonderful anchor partners, Emerald Cities and poder to help us answer the question how are we going to design a system to transfer off of natural gas in the existing residential building stock. Because when we go to our lower income families and say we would like to improve your building and make it all electric, the first answer is, number one, oh my god, how much is that going to cost me. But number two, am i going to get displaced. If you fix up my building, am i not going to be able to afford them anymore because i dont own it. And so we understand that those are big barriers and hurdles to get across and for us to ban natural gas, do such a bold thing, we must do it with people along with us. So we had our first of those anchor partnerled meetings last week. And it was focused on labor, how are we going to work with labor. The next one will be focused on affordable housing. So each one of those anchor partner teams is focused on a particular target audience. So i use that as an example in my directors report, because it speaks to the intentionality of our work to bring people along to an order to get to that statement, we will be banning natural gas. We are not jumping there. But we are going there with a how conversation, not a whether. And that how conversation is how do we do this so that people arent displaced, so people can afford to live here. So we meet our climate and our social needs together. We will also be having conversations about how do we ban natural gas in new construction, not just have electric preferred by bringing along the trades and bringing along the restaurant associations and everyone else as well as how do we get off natural gas in existing municipal. Thats going to be along with the puc. So lots of conversations happening, but cyndy is shepherding because ultimately in november we need our new Climate Action strategy to be adopted, and thats a city wide strategy that needs to have encompassed that feedback. And as i said earlier, we do that attempt that we find opportunities to take action as we go along, Building Code, lets lead by example in municipal. Lets get to electric preferred and send signals that we are serious about going further. I would like to also say that we had a really wonderful hearing on urban forestry between two hearings in front of the board of supervisors. One on biodiversity and one on urban forestry. And what is so important about that is when we talk about our Climate Action strategy, 08100, this is a way to focus on roots explicitly and the board heard loud and clear if need for Additional Resources and the need for city agencies to work with them and the department was part of both central to those conversations. And finally, i would just like to say that on december 4, im going to be doing a field trip to look at what our School District is doing from 10 to 12 30, 10 a. M. So if any of you can join me anthony, did you send out the email. I will tomorrow. He will send oute out an eml tomorrow to see what they are doing in their initiative but also in their school lunch program. We will be going to the high school to look at their new cafeteria and looking at how that promotes the roots part of things, local organic food and also zero waste. So if you can join me, that so if you can join me, that at work and im excited to help push along the environments mission. Thank you. I was with a Strategic Firm that focused on the Energy Sector so i worked with energy utilities. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. My name is minho park and im rounding out my first month with my title is transportation outreach associate so im engaging in outreach measures regarding our Sustainable Transportation measures and initiatives. And providing other support on the projects as need be. Before this, im actually a recent berkeley grad. I graduated in may. In terms of professional experience, i worked with the Natural ResourceDefense Council and Clean Energy Team last summer. Good evening, commissioners. My name is means goldman and i work with the Environmental Education the School Education team within the department of environment. I work as an Environmental Education aide so i go into schools and give presentations on compost, recycling and waste management. Before i joined the department, i joined in Early September and i was working as an educator inhouse for about three years. So thank you. Good evening. My name is Monica Dwight and im an Environmental Education associate for the School Education team and i largely focus on providing water presentations to elementary schoolers and also support in providing zero waste outreach to our schools. And before working for the department of environment, i was teaching english in spain. Good evening, commissioners, i work with the School Education team of an Environmental Education aide. As my colleague said, we go into classrooms and provide field trips to students so they learn more about what their field strips will be about. We also work on outreach in assemblies in schools and we go and show students how to recycle and really talk to them about why its important for us to protect our beautiful world many of before i came to the department before i was welcomed here, i was working at ucmerced. I was doing a fellowship that provided paid internships opportunities undergraduate students in the energy and environmental fields. Hello, my name is adam webber and ive been for six months at the department but its my first time on the meeting so its time i said hello. Im an intern and im doing some work on the antibiotics ordinance that passed a few years ago now and so getting data from Grocery Stores and trying to go through that. I currently also work at a Financial Planning firm so i still do that now. Thank you. Good evening, my name is anna bailey. Im an intern for the toxics reductions and healthy ecosystem team. Ill work on eight variety of projects but im looking at microplastic filters for washing machines and the cost of divvy efficiencies of the filters that exist. Im a grad of the university of michigan. Im very excited to be here. Thank you. Good evening. My name is mintu lay im a graduate from sf state. I work with the toxic reductions team on the healthy nail salon programs. I used to work in a nail salon in about 15 or 16 years so i know a little bit more about that. I also offer a Program Since day one so i have been with them about five or six years and also, i work with other projects on non stick cook ware and other projects with the toxic reduction team. Thank you for your work. What an amazing group. [applause] any comments . Any Public Comment on this item . I have a question. What is the significance of the fact that these new people are from just two programs . Are those programs having a big jump in existing staff numbers or do they have an unusually large turnover . I mean, theres only two programs here. I paid attention. [laughter] some of it is timing. You met people from other programs. So theres youve got some interns here who have been with the program for a while that are coming up to say hello now and it is cyclical. So the School Education program has an annual cycle and you will seeing it with or new team and you are seeing something that is significant if that we have had some vacancies in our Outreach Program at the leadership level for quite some time now. You remember luke, he left. You remember margaret. These were people who were there margaret wasnt there for so long but luke was. It takes a while to fill those positions with the right people. Jennifer, were so thrilled that you are here. I mean, shes essentially taking lukes position if you will and then two over from her is alex, who essentially took margarets position. These are very competitive positions and we want to make sure that we get the right person in them and so if asia was here, she would jump up and down in excitement because shes got a full team now where she didnt before. So, on the toxic end, thats just serendipity that you are seeing them all and on the outreach end, its a combination of normal cycles and finally we got through some heavy duty recruitment. So thank you for noticing. Thank you. Next item. Congratulations to you all. Hope to see a lot of you. [applause] the next item is item 10. Committee reports. This item is for discussion. Commissioner walls, would you like to give us an update. Mr. Solomon i dont have the ive been tapped for this. Sorry. My bad. At policy Committee Meeting we heard three presentations. The first was from cindy, Climate Program manager. She gave an expanded presentation on the pro electrification ordinances we heard today and recommend the policy Committee Recommended adoption by the full commission of the resolutions we just adopted. We next had a presentation from dorthy of the California AirResources Board which is a division of the cali approximate a on the emergence of rechargeable landscaping equipment. So i think lawn mowers and weed whackers and it was a nice convergence in the work theyre doing and the work were doing because these things are often used to mechanically deal with plants that you and otherwise need toxics to deal with. And lastly, we had a presentation from Dan Flannigan who is the urban Forestry Council president on the work that the council is doing and especially on the recently completed Strategic Plan which he presented to us just before presenting to the board of supervisors. Commissioners on october 16th, the Operations Committee met and we had four different presentations. Jose lem, who ijoejoe salem gavn update on the Operations Committee. We meet four times a year. Just the nature of how the budgeting process works is that almost every time we have a meeting were having a conversation about the budget either the pre planning, the big show or the update on what happened. The budge set in good shape. He does an amazing job. Its always in good shape. The department came and gave us an update on the Racial Equity initiative. We heard about this a couple of years before. Maybe a year and a half before. We got an update on the departments efforts there. Several members of the department have gone through a training process and the next step for this is theyre going to come and speak to us in january and give the full commission an update on the initiative. Cara gurney of the Outreach Team came ask gave us on the multi family Mailer Campaign it was part of a new zero a system roll out and it was exciting to see all that in action and see the materials the Outreach Team came up with. Cindy has been busy. Shes the Climate Program manager who just spoke with us and the spiel committee so shes been very busy. She came and talked to us about how the department is planning to reach out and engage the community on the revisions to the Climate Action plan that debbie mentioned earlier. Commissioners, any questions . Any Public Comment . On the next item . On the directors report on this item . It is the directors report. Do you want do give comment . Were going to move back. Ok. So we go to announcements. Yeah, is there any objection to moving back to item 9 to take Public Comment . Ok. Without objection, here we go. Susan paradox, california native plant society. Welcome. Im susan with the california native plant society. I wanted to thank the department of environment for your biodiversity resolution. Because you implemented a bio diversity resolution, our local ecosystem have benefited. The urban Forestry Council has added our local native trees to their proved tree lit. The San Francisco department of public works is designing the sunset boulevard improvement to include our local plant communities and local pollenate or plants and rec and Parks Department is designing Francisco Park with local pollenate or plants and rain water caption reuse for irrigation. If you sthank you so much for td work. Please, consider implementing a die ow