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Commissioners, way back in the year 2000, some of us stakeholders used to regularly meet at 77 to discuss our energy issues, and we looked at the regionalwide. At that time, unfortunately, sf puc was intent to putting some combustion turbines, you know, to the detriment of what were talking today. The way i want it look at this is that we seem to be talking in generalities. And really what we should be talking is line item by line item, so that whoever does or pays the bills in the homes, knows ...

Presentation that chris made. First of all, i have a question about whether it really is work putting in so much pesticide into the natural areas. And the fact is that i dont think that the numbers that weve showed on that graph for Pesticide Use are accurate. Going back to what i said in the database, just off the top of my head, there were two months of data missing in 2010. There was at least one month of data missing in 2013. There were three or four different reports that didnt get included...

Difficult to apply a new use restriction on it because the state would look at that as us trying to purposely reduce the value. I think i the reason i asked that question is because i feel the garage parcel adds to the value of the enter social center itself. So if it can be sold to someone who is doing rental on another lot nearby and they choose to buy that garage and then they say this is only for residents or for this particular use, but not necessarily for the heritage center, i think that ...

For moe mosquitox, for example, that we really cant control. ~ its something that is driven by mosquito outbreaks, west nile virus outbreaks, various Public Health issues, and also those are almost universally very low toxicity products. They are mike robial products that are in storm drains or hormones that are in tiny, tiny amounts ~. So, thats the rationale for not looking at that. These are the top 10 most used hazardous products in the city based on active ingredient, pounds of active ingre...

Let me finish the two parts to that question. The first part is the reason i ask the question is because the resolution was because there were some last minute text to say we strongly urge the city to include resident concerns and Community Process in their final disposition plans. Thats part one. Part two is getting back to kind of the commentary that i just had that yes, i do think that we need we here, the commission, obviously here as the community is concerned, we have written commentary th...

Conference we cosponsored, the city of crest and Parks Conservancy and many thanks to them for helping out in that effort. Based on the Design Training which is the first of its kind in San Francisco, we had this past year, and every year we have a complete round of annual pesticide safety and ipm trainings for anyone who is remotely involved with pesticides. And, of course, our monthly meetings at the ipm Technical Advisory Committee which its about 10 times a year is what it amounts to. I also...

Survey efforts, were seeing that 15 of City Employees report that they actually do use the bikes. So, a lot of departments are getting the bikes and theyre starting to get a good deal of use. 64 of the departments have moved to having some sort of pooled vehicle so individuals arent assigned individual vehicles, and that is a way of obviously reducing the amount of vehicles in the fleet and unnecessary travel. Promotion of teleconferencing and providing equipment for Video Conferencing is anothe...

Yes, thank you. All right, thank you very much. Comments from colleagues . Commissioner wald. Unless commissioner josefowitz wants to go first. Thank you. I was overly enthusiastic. Shes getting a little better than last year. Its been a learning process for everybody. All of the fleet everybody involved with the fleets this has been a learning process, to try and figure out how to get similar types of data and how to make it work. Great. I think, you know, we still below a lot of our targets, i...

That we really cant control. ~ its something that is driven by mosquito outbreaks, west nile virus outbreaks, various Public Health issues, and also those are almost universally very low toxicity products. They are mike robial products that are in storm drains or hormones that are in tiny, tiny amounts ~. So, thats the rationale for not looking at that. These are the top 10 most used hazardous products in the city based on active ingredient, pounds of active ingredient. Youll see most of them ar...

So, in general, i think im sorry, i missed one. I meant to discuss the little statistics at the bottom of this graph. We have overall at this point an 84 reduction in all pesticides since the beginning of the program. Since 2000, which is when we really got our system best organized, its been at 62 . Since 2007, which is fiveyear mark, its been a 6 reduction. As you can see its very bumpy, depending on climate, depending on budget, depending on all sorts of things. Depending on golf as well . An...