Call them in the order that i receive them. With that, i will go on to item number one, which is roll call. [ roll call] we have a quorum. We will move one to item number two which is approval of minutes of the september 27, 2016 commission on the environment regular meeting. explanatory documents september 27, 2016 draft minutes discussion and action. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. [chorus of ayes] so approval of the minutes has been passed. Clerk, please read item number three. Item number three isPublic Comment members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Seeing no speaker cards we will move on to item number four. Item number four is4. Review and approval of resolution file 201612coe commending tom owen, retiring deputy City Attorney, for service to the department and commission on the environment. explanatory document draft resolution 201612coe sponsor and speakers commissioner jo
[ roll call] we have a quorum. We will move one to item number two which is approval of minutes of the september 27, 2016 commission on the environment regular meeting. explanatory documents september 27, 2016 draft minutes discussion and action. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. [chorus of ayes] so approval of the minutes has been passed. Clerk, please read item number three. Item number three isPublic Comment members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Seeing no speaker cards we will move on to item number four. Item number four is4. Review and approval of resolution file 201612coe commending tom owen, retiring deputy City Attorney, for service to the department and commission on the environment. explanatory document draft resolution 201612coe sponsor and speakers commissioner johanna wald and deborah raphael, director discussion and action thank you for commissioners and thank you pre
To item number one, which is roll call. [ roll call] we have a quorum. We will move one to item number two which is approval of minutes of the september 27, 2016 commission on the environment regular meeting. explanatory documents september 27, 2016 draft minutes discussion and action. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. [chorus of ayes] so approval of the minutes has been passed. Clerk, please read item number three. Item number three isPublic Comment members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Seeing no speaker cards we will move on to item number four. Item number four is4. Review and approval of resolution file 201612coe commending tom owen, retiring deputy City Attorney, for service to the department and commission on the environment. explanatory document draft resolution 201612coe sponsor and speakers commissioner johanna wald and deborah raphael, director discussion and action thank
The community it will see this manifested ina Strategic Plan. We asked our colleagues internally what does that look like to you, and we actually asked everybody to put their thoughts on postit notes and think about what they think the goal of the department was and what they think they would see in the next coming years and we got everything from doodles to long thoughts written very intelligently and we went through all of these and first we looked at our global footprint. So we brought in experts in the Global Market to see how we were doing in our department and what was being done globally. We looked at what we wanted to do and what we needed to do and what was our goals for the department. We put goals down and concepts we could achieve and we wrote these down and we put them in the order of importance for when the funds were available. And not only did we write these down but these were also something we could use to point a pathway for achieving goals. Also i want to point out
This. So we could work through this as a Strategic Plan or we could break this down to gether and see how the community it will see this manifested ina Strategic Plan. We asked our colleagues internally what does that look like to you, and we actually asked everybody to put their thoughts on postit notes and think about what they think the goal of the department was and what they think they would see in the next coming years and we got everything from doodles to long thoughts written very intelligently and we went through all of these and first we looked at our global footprint. So we brought in experts in the Global Market to see how we were doing in our department and what was being done globally. We looked at what we wanted to do and what we needed to do and what was our goals for the department. We put goals down and concepts we could achieve and we wrote these down and we put them in the order of importance for when the funds were available. And not only did we write these down bu