Comment for items that arent on the agenda. We ask that you fill out a speaker card and hand them to me and i hand them to the president and the president will call folks in order that we receive them and you have a right to speak anonymously. Well call folks if they like to speak anonymously. With that, well move to item one call to order and roll call. [roll call] theres a quorum. Next item is two 2. This item is for discussion. Good evening and thank you everyone who made it to meeting tonight on commission on the environment. You want to begin by welcoming our newest commissioner, tiffany chu. Commissioner chu is a design and planner and cofounder of the company remix. I was excited. They created a fantastic technology and process for helping cities to figure how how to manage transportation issues. Its wonderful to have her here on the team with us. Did you want to say a couple of words . Commissioner chu im just so pleased to be here. This is my first ever commission that i ever joined. Im so excited to serve the city and county of San Francisco in the capacity that im passionate about. Transportation is obviously is my first love so is urban and planning. Thank you for having mel and im excited to serve. We have an incredible meeting. Highlights the various community partners. That are aligned with the citys Commission Getting to zero waste. 80 sustainable trips around our city being power by 100 Renewable Energy carbon. Were looking forward to hearing about the work of the community partners. You want to recognize commissioner ahn what has an adjournment in memory. Commissioner ahn i like to begin the meeting in tribute to marie harrison. Longtime environmental activist. She passed away may 5th at the age of 71. She was tough. She was effective and she was a tireless advocate for Environmental Justice and equity and justice issues the bay view. Shes known for her work in the bayview. She her story is one of africanamericans in San Francisco. The one different neighborhoods she got to experience and as a result, understand the tragedies involved in displacement as well as the environmental and injustices that apolitical afflt communities of color. She can tell about the rise and fall of community. Which are very rare. In 2001, marie was hired by the organization and Environmental Justice. One of the first ever Environmental Justices granted issued by the department of environment. The purpose of the grant was to conduct outreach on Energy Efficiency issues as well as renewables for the community. She also empowered residents to advocate for the shutdown of the power plant which was a long time in our justice struggle in the bayview. My own personal experience with her was through try to include environmental communities. Marie would hes state t hesitate to put departments and other elected officials on blast despite receiving funding for them. She told the truth as it was. For her, she stoke with credibility as well. Someone with decades of experience and community and experience as an activist. We can only hope to continue here legacy here at the department and we will adjourn in her memory. Rest i in peace marie. Thank you commissioner ahn. Any Public Comment . Next item please. Item 3. [agenda item read] do i hear a motion to approve the draft minutes . Commissioner wald. Is there any discussion or changes commissionerrings . Any Public Comment . All those in favor say aye. All opposed . Motion passes. Next item please. [agenda item read] Vice President stephenson ft not on the agenda in next item. [agenda item read] Vice President stephenson i have the great privilege of presenting an award today. I see some Friendly Faces in the front row. Today its my honor to present commission on environment to San Francisco giants. Here to accept the award is Vice President of Public Affairs also is director of maintenance, and the recycle crew member who will let shanna and roscoe introduce. Reading the list of the San Francisco giants was impressive. The organization has taken initiative over the years and really takes pride in earning their reputation as Greenest Team in major league baseball. The team received mlb for the greenest stadium. We here very happy to know theres at least one team out there thats keeping you guys on your toes. This an exceptional year for the giants. Oracle park received the energy and environmental design, which is the lead status. The lead platinum certification operation and maintenance making it the First Major League ballpark to receive silver, gold and platinum certification for existing buildings. The giants have landfill diversion rate that is hovered around 95 for the past few years. To give a sense of scale, the giants are the single largest contributor to our compost system. They are sweating the small stuff. Their sustain the initiative have led to 75 reduction in commuting trips for employees. In 2012, the giants received the governors environmental and Economic Leadership award. The highest environmental honor in the state. The giants are the recipient Waste Reduction Awards Program administered by the California Department of resources and recyclal known as cal recycle. To many around the world, the San Francisco giants are our citys ambassadors. We here at the San Francisco department the environment are are proud that outrepresenting the need to incorporate and sustainability into your operation and youre leading by example. At the commission were talking about what needs to be done to address our climate crises and its organizations like the San Francisco giants that are great examples how to create solutions. Im pleased to join my colleagues presenting you with the commission on the environment Environmental Service award. [applause] thank you to president bermejo. Shes at our ballpark possibly at graduation. She may not be here for little bit and Vice President stephenson, commissioners and director Debbie Raphael and mayor london breed who are committed ensuring with all of us at the city and county of San Francisco is an environmental leader throughout our country and around the world. The giants are grateful for this recognition. When we opened oracle park 19 years ago, we made a commitment to be the greenest ballpark in the country making Enviornmental Stewardship a top priority. Were proud that were able to fulfill that mission. Thanks to my colleagues please stand. I like to introduce each one of them. Im sorr sorry, nick they are recycle team staff. It was only a mistake we didnt as you heard, weve won few other honors thanks to all you. It is the reason were here today. Its because of our industryleading recycling and Composting Program at oracle parm that we received this years certification for existing building, operation and maintenance making us the first sports venue to receive, silver, gold and now platinum. Thank you to what we believe the best recycling team in all of sports. [applause] in keeping with the environmental ambitions, we set, we brought these ideals to mission rock. Together with the port and city family, weve created a platform for district scale Environmental Solutions throughout what will be the new neighborhood of mission rock. Were raising the site including eight achers of park to stand up to 66 inches of sea level rise, we are implementing a sitewide black Water Treatment facility which will allow us to reach zero water waste. We are trying all of the buildings into a central heating and cooling plant for maximum Energy Efficiency and water savings. We believe in partnership with the port, city family, we have the opportunity to create a uniquely sustainable neighborhood. First of its dine kind in the country. We thank you for your partnership. Between oracle park and mission rock, orange, black and green will be the most referenced colors with orange and black representing our great Baseball Team and green the sustainable projects and programs that makes an environmental leader in our city, industry, cannot and world. Thank you very much for this honor. [applause] Vice President stephenson ce rs you like to make any comments . Thank you Vice President. I want to say thank you. Thank you for your dedication and your leadership. What you do is behind the scenes. Most people who come to the park dont know that theres a special room that all of the bins go to and where they are sorted and recovered. I dont believe people understand how hard you work and yet, they know when they come to the giants stadium, its a team with i would say a truly green heart. While orange and black are on the outside, this is a team with green on the inside. Its so deep within the organization that this idea that youve been silver and gold and then platinum its a Continuous Improvement project for the team. You start with silver, you can do that with lead and you try hard and you get to gold and you try harder still you get to platinum. Anybody has the chance to go and get a tour of the sustainability initiatives of the park, youll see that every person understands that they have a that opportunity from the way the field is maintained. Its on the field, its off the field. Then its beyond the field, so with mission rock. I cant say enough how proud i am and impressed i am that the San Francisco giants are such leaders in sustainability. This award couldnt go to a Better Organization and i want to express again my gratitude because its done with leadership and its done with commitment. The commitment in that leadership goes throughout the organization. Thats so clear. Thank you and i celebrate and salute you tonight. Vice president stephenson a . We want to take a photo with all of you. If we can meet up against that wall over there. [applause] Vice President stephenson is there any Public Comment on this item . Come on up. Going commissioners. Im jack macy with the zero waste staff. On behalf the zero Waste Program department of environment staff, i like to express my deep appreciation for this wonderful team. You are zero waste heroes in my mind. I have we worked with the giants and watched the giants since the park was built, evolved over many years. And took on leadership to become zero Waste Program. This current staff really stepped up big time to the plate in shifting the program. Both from the purchasing side but especially with team of people handling the material before it gets collected. Theyre modeling what we call zero waste affects. Facilitation. Really makes a huge impact. In fact, the work that theyre done, every year they are separating almost a thousandtons going into composting. Two Million Pounds into compost that is fertilizing our soils, creating heller healthier food. Its such a great story here of benefit and why were pursuing zero waste and conserving resources and how the team like the giantings can step forward and model for the whole industry. Thank you very much. Im really proud of you. [applause] next item is Consent Agenda item 6. Enhances actio [agenda item r] this item was discussed in the policy committee. The Committee Recommended our approval. This item is on consent theres no discussion. Is there any member that like to pull this item from consent to have a discussion before our vote . Either way we will take Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment on item 6 . All those in favor of approving Consent Agenda say aye. Any opposed . Motion passes. Item passes. Next item is item 7 [agenda item read] this item was discussed at length in the policy committee. Im not going to take time setting lot of context for it. The recommendation from the policy committee was that the full Commission Approved the resolution. I do want to take this moment to thank Juan Carlos Cancino for his wonderful leadership and enthusiasm for taking this over the finish line. Also for supervisor vallie brown and her desire to become a champion for this idea of zero waste early on in her legislative career. Its been something that is near and dear to the heart. Im going to ask our two speakers both juan carlos and alexa to speak. Commissioners, thank you for giving us a few minutes. Supervisor brown wanted to be here tonight. Unfortunately, given the legislative break, long weekend, shes not in the building today. Out in district. She asked me to be here to speak briefly on her behalf. As we just heard, supervisor brown has been a champion of this particular issue for a very long time. She first came to city hall in 2007 to help pass the nations first plastic bag ban. She remains very committed to this usually. She was excited to partner with the department on this legislation. Both Climate Action and plastics are major longterm challenges. To be successful you need to keep working at it. She believes that strongly. Shes been working to continue her work on theft and Energy Benchmarking and all the different areas of change that we sort of continue to lead on in this city and the bag ordinance just another example of the type of initiative that shes committed to. She really believes that this is about culture change and we need to change the way we consume, the way we relate to each other into the future. She really believes that our culture of convenience just isnt sustainable in that as political leaders we need to be focused on changing the conversation around the way we consume. Thats what this is about. She was proud to introduce it, recognizing that our plastic problems continues to balloon. The industry is taking advantage of loopholes in the law and promote the departments position that we need to refuse and reuse more and its not just about recycling. We really believe that this legislation will encourage more San Franciscoians to bring their own bags. Weve seen that in other parts the state. Change from dime to a quarter, its been a long time since the legislation first passed. We think this is just keeping up with the changing Consumer Trends and our own relationship to nickels and dimes. The legislation is also proposing a first of its kind in the nation ban on single use plastic produce bags. If you look at the number of checkout bags that this nation produces or use every year, something on the order of 100 billion. You can imagine how many produce bags must be taking out. Those are even later plastics and get into our water system even more successfully. Thank you again for the positive recommendation coming out the policy committee and to your staff, its been a pleasure and were committed to continuing to work on the outreach and education on this should it pass the full board. Thank you. Hi commissioners. My name is alex that kielty im with the zero Waste Program. You want to give you a background history and why we went down this path. Its been a pleasure to work with supervisor Browns Office and when they had debbie, thank you for all your help. Many of you already know that were in a plastic crises. Last june, National Geographic came out with this article in the front page saying theres 900 million tons of plastic thats dumped in the ocean. Lot of thats coming from terrestrial sources. In San Francisco, we led the effort in reducing our disposables. Were really proud. Just a quick summary, in 2008 we were the first city in the United States to ban single use plastic bags in 2012, we implemented our 10cent check out bag charge. That was followed by our styrofoam bags and plastic straw. This is another continuation of great work. After San Francisco taking the lead in 2016, california became the first state to ban single use plastics. However, these were the thin single ofuse plastic bags. Youll notice theres a proliferation of these you tra thick plasti ultra thick plas. Unfortunately, we realized we were preempted from changing the definition of reusable plastic bags. We wanted to reduce the amount of those bags getting in the environment. Only way we could to reduce that is through an increase in the charging from 10 cents to 25 cents. Our department actually did a survey looking at shops and what are they distributing. Are they paper or plaque . Plastic . They are mostly in compliance. However about 50 of our shops in San Francisco are still giving out the thick plastic. About 50 to paper. You can see about 6 doing either. What were proposing around s