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Know that supervisor cohen has been more active and has taken the leadership in this whole issue in the first place, but i still dont necessarily see other than holding this hearing, what i can do as a member of the board of supervisors, to help push legislation, to help push support, or to help make the necessary changes in order for it to be successful. So that is what i am looking for. What i want to get out of the hearing today. The last two items, at the end of october i am due to present t...

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The skills and workforce for the future, since you heard of lot of this during the may commission update, i am going to provide a brief reminder of the Youth Employment ad back funding strategy and update you on the learning grants that you approved at the may 8th Commission Meeting and most of the time allowing you to hear from the youth and the Program Leaders themselves because they have such a unique perspective and rich stories to share with you. I also want to thank all of the Program Lead...

Bottled water as an environmental concern, but the concern that that raises sometimes has been that makes water not available and what are the other options that can be sold in a small package and offer something with added sugar. Looking at those policies, unexpected consequences of what that are. And then lastly, continuing to do outreach and awareness, particularly with populations that we want to do more outreach to. As i mentioned earlier, there is National Data showing that lower income po...

Water once they understood where it comes from. But also as people had Water Quality concerns, some of the concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact it was safe to drink. We also do tours of our water system. So, Community Residents...

Able to ensure that we are our team is on that edge, as well as its a public presentation series so the public is invited to bring the public into that as well. And to date, much of our work has been with the city family. And right now, were about to embark and engage the community. So weve got a couple of outreach efforts. One is our type three ecodistrict through the living neighborhoods, and our central corridor, were going to start a Central Corridor Task force shortly to help inform the sus...

One outcome of that is anecdotally, people told us that they started to drink more water once they understood where it comes from. But also as people had Water Quality concerns, some of the concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact ...

Help monitor potential contaminants in the water supply, but there was also a Public Education component to the grant. And, so, what we did is launched a Education Program that was really about what people should do if they were concerned about the water, concerned about Water Quality issues, is to call 311. But it also began to be a vehicle to talk about where, you know, our pristine hetch hetchy water. It was a really successful a successful Education Program. We saw the signs on muni bus stat...

So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact it was safe to drink. We also do tours of our water system. So, Community Residents and organization has an opportunity to go up to hetch hetchy to see the water system at work. Supervisor cohen has been a big supporter of the Youth Internship Program we do in the summer for aro...

And what actually happened as one outcome of that is anecdotally, people told us that they started to drink more water once they understood where it comes from. But also as people had Water Quality concerns, some of the concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure...