Are grateful of the process to go through to be added to the registry in addition to the financial benefits. I have advocated that the commission should have the authority to nominate worthy businesses to circumvent some of the delays we see when we encounter the Supervisors Offices who are disinterested in the program and simply dont have time. I get that we have competing agendas but to make multiple requests to an office and be ignored is something that i just find real estatingly aggravating and something really aggravating and something that i wish we could be empowered. We cant just do it ourselves and it requires the supervisors and potentially the voters to change what was a voter initiative. The legacy business registry was approved by the voters. The supervisors have an obligation to the citizens to support the program as best they can. All businesses that are nominated by a with the outstanding job of insuring that the businesses meet that experience. And very disappointed and it seems to me that the supervisor is putting process ahead of outcomes. We are all living in the city together. We deserve a government that works together to achieve outcomes that are in all of interest and i dont think theres any doubt to anybody that is in the city the contribution that anchor steam brewery has made to the city. With the indelible mark and what i was drinking with my wife when i have proposed and i am disappointed to hear the stance that supervisor walton has taken with respect to this nomination. I have supported the supervisor on other matters. This is not what i want to hear at all. To end on a more positive note, i would like to congratulate well, premature to congratulate. You can go ahead and congratulate them. For the nomination. All of nominees are wonderful businesses and i heard they spend a lot of time in comix experience with my sons and i have yet to visit hockey haven, but heaven haven . Haven. But that sounds like a must visit. The castro is where my kids go to Elementary School and you have a wonderful business there and is always a pleasure and honor to a Tourism Business who has survived more than six months. We are happy and honored to support you. Just one more comment and not to single out anchor brewery, but i have to say as a fan of the product that anchor is a quintessential legacy business in this city. It is one of the oldest businesses in the dog patch neighborhood and historic business and fritz maytag who was the c. E. O. For 40some years, he was very instrumental in helping me start sf made, another very Important Program in the city, so anchor has played an essential role not only in being a legacy business but start programs that have benefitted manufacturing businesses in the city, and so i cant think of a company that is anymore deserving than they are and all the candidates are equally deserving. Great. Thank you. Through the president normally i dont comments but for the Joe Goode Performance Group, i was on the board for 10 years in the 90s and think its both fitting for both cruising the castro and the Joe Goode Performance Group we havent taken action yet, but being nominated for the legacy business registry in june and that have this potential for closing out our june with celebrating these two very lgbt focused organizations and want to just acknowledge that joes work early on was very he stayed true to himself being a gay man and also the experience of the aids crisis emotional, sorry. And so i am real excited that were going to still be on the registry. Soon. Thank you. Commissioner ortiz. I want to say i want to give a shout out to all my friends that work there at anchor brewery. The union cap now and all them. And we grew up together with free samples, so you got to give us some. And another is el toreador. We were discussing the traffic woes and no excuse and i got to get out there for the kids to get out there. Commissioner yeeriley. El toreador is one of my faif favorite restaurants and i enjoy the atmosphere and decor and the friendly servers. I am happy that this is going to be nominated for the legacy business. In keeping with the drinking theme, a couple to, too, many margarita pitcher there is and my family and i enjoy the restaurant very much. To think you are in the transportation business. And i wanted to give a shot out to anchor brewery and the favorite beer is the california lagger. You hit a homerun with that one. And everything you have done, i know you have opened up the tap room to a lot of Community Events and people and with the tours and the neighborhood groups in the area. But the big shout out is kathy amondola. I knew trevor very well. When i joined castro per chants in 1996, trevor took me under her wings and i know we have a member and president of the former harvey milk board is here, and there is a connection between you. That big rainbow flag that you see at the end of market street, market goes up the hill. And that was trevors doing. She fought. Her and Gilbert Baker fought for that, but it was trevors yand he was, like, we got to get a big flag up and contacted gilbert maker and the harvey milk democratic club, trevor contacted them to be a fiscal sponsor and they jumped in and we got between gilbert, harvey milk democratic club, and that flag and took over when trevor retired. And there were a lot for free. The kid that comes and you want our parents to know what the community is about, you send them on kathys tour. My parents went on that tour with trevor to learn about the castro and it changed their attitudes. And kathys tours, every saturday i see her and give her a shout out and she always has a big crowd and they charge, but she probably gives the best neighborhood tour in the city and all over the place in the contributions to the astro merchants and sf travel, and trevor is looking down and she is very, very proud of what you have done with her business. So i just want to say thank you. Do we have a motion . Move to approve all the legacy business no, maam niece. Seconded. Motion by commissioner dwight to approve all six resolutions to be added to the legacy business registry and seconded by commissioner laguana. Roll call vote. Motion passes 60 with one absent. Great. Congratulations. Next item please. Item four, board of supervisors file number 190417, environmental code, check out bag charge, recyclable or compostable precheck out bags and to raise the amendment stores must charge from 10 cents to 25 cents to require that precheck out bags be provided to customers before they reach the point of sale and affirming the determination under the Environmental Quality act and legislative aide to supervisor brown and the department of environment. And yeah. Supervisor brown desperately wanted to be here to speak on this subject and i will say a little bit more about why she was so interested and passionate about being here. She currently is in Land Use Committee to work on getting the Small Business streamlined there and thank you for the unanimous support for that legislation. We are sort of doing our best to keep it in tact as possible in the face of some opposition to important changes there. As an update, we should know more and i will be running back downstairs to continue to support her in that hear. But wanted to be here to say a little bit about why we brought this legislation forward and why so important to supervisor brown and the city. Very quickly, supervisor brown first came to work at city hall to work on Environmental Issues and street violence. Those were her two passions as an activist more than 10 years ago when she first came into the building. She with respect to the environment, she was particularly passionate about Climate Change and plastic and environmental pollution. She came to work for then supervisor ross and together they did some of the very earliest work on clean power sf and climate based initiatives as well as on plastic bags and addressing the issue of plastic bags. They also passed the first plastic bag charge which is really one half of the legislation that were considering here today. We are looking at increasing that fee back in 2012, 2014 forgive me, i dont have my notes in front of me, but the idea there was that these create incredible cost to the environment. To help sort of build Awareness Among consumers about the degradation and pollution that comes from plastic bags, we wanted to put a fee into place and it had great effect by all accounts. I think the department of the environment will speak more directly to that. But since that time we have seen a number of other 12 different local jurisdictions in the bay area pass their own charges and keep, so a dime is paid to the per chant. The per chant uses it to support the merchant uses it to support its work. So a number of these other jurisdictions have higher fees than us because time passes and things become the value of money changes and so theyre now charges of a quarter in santa cruz and a number of other jurisdictions and started a dime when they first passed their legislation and what we have seen is by making that change, increasing the amount of the charge, we see another very significant bump in Consumer Awareness and the number of people bringing Reusable Bags into the shop. So we avoid this plastic bag pollution. Something on the order of 90 plus percent of plastic bags never make it into recycling and just straight up waste or into the oceans or environment. Americans are using Something Like 100 billion plastic bags annually. These are new plastic bags every year. I mean, thats a lot of plastic bags. So you can imagine the type of waste we are seeing. As a city surrounded by water and both our oceans and our bay, we know this sort of impacts on the waterways and the environment particularly intimately. So just to speak to the legislation, the other piece of the legislation now is first of its kind as far as we know in the country to take on plastic bags in the produce aisle and primarily the produce bags that we use to slow loose bulk items and jalapenos and loose leaves and there are alternatives and we have bet earn alternatives than the single use disposable plastic bags. Because of the traditional check out back, plastic bags were never use and you Better Believe these sort of produce bags mainly make it into our waste stream and into the environment. And so were excited about the opportunity to take that challenge on and continue supervisor browns work on this issue. And just as a final note, just last month a study, Peer Reviewed study, has shown the connection between plastics and Climate Change. This is Petroleum Industry is only growing the amount of plastic which is a waste stream of our oil industry and growing that sector of the market. And theyre looking to increase by another 75 the amount of plastic they produce in this country. And in between now and 2030 and this is a booming market and were headed in exactly the wrong direction in terms of how were producing plastics. Given sort of our challenges of the Climate Change and this sort of environmental waste. We have done our best to think carefully about the Small Business community and to talk with folks and the first we regina was probably the first meeting and really wanted to make sure that we were taking the lessons from the first piece of legislation on the bag charge and taking the best practices and continuing to do that so weve, again, proposed to leave the charge in the hand of the merchants. And were also very focused on the department will speak to this on outreach and getting outreach into the right sort of merchant communities and also doing a lot of Consumer Education and awareness. Both in the press and sort of traditional marketing exercise. So that people dont show up to the register and take an extra three or five minutes asking the merchant about, what do you mean, it is a quarter. Its a dime. We will do our best to avoid that scenario and to make sure that the changes dont have impacts on communities and minority language communities. So that is our commitment and were also i would say working on a reusable bag giveaway campaign which we are really excited about to support the outreach efforts both into the merchant communities and to consumers hoping to give something on the order of 10,000 or more Reusable Bags away to people. These are bags they will keep and continue to use. So ill stick around for questions. But i want to turn it over to the department. I have a quick question. Please. You have where have you been the last few years . I dont know anybody who doesnt use their own bags. Like, i went to the Diamond Heights safeway and there was not one person in the checkout line that everybody was bringing their own bags. Yes. Why do we need this legislation . I mean, i love the supervisor. I think what she is i think what this stuff with requiring businesses to have cash businesses, love it, love it, love it. I dont like this. Okay. And 25 cents, this is San Francisco. There is a lot of people who 25 cents it wont be a big thing to them. Where i worry about is low and poor income people who do bring a bag, for whatever reason, and if they forget, a quarter is a quarter and four quarters is a dollar. And sorry, just with my banker, and this is what the way you just spoke to me about this law is like, in San Francisco were not paying attention. And i think in San Francisco because of vallie and ross and that legislation that they passed five years ago, i think its in everybodys mindset that you bring a bag to check out. I mean, even when i go shopping in downtown in the big stores, i bring my own bag. I think and i almost feel like were being punished for doing the right thing. And i just this is how i feel. And like i said, i like everything you do, but on this one, and the way it was just described, i am not doing my job, and in fact, looking in the back of the car and i have a stack of bags. My company gave out you said 10,000 bags. My company has given out more than 100,000 bags in this town at street fairs and whatever. All right. So this is i am just trying to comprehend all this in my mind because this is keeping me awake for the last week. Its like, why are we doing this . Because we are environmentally correct in this town. And we are doing the right thing. So why are we being punished . Thank you, commissioner. Im sorry that this has kept you up the past week. I appreciate it. And the quick answer to your question is, i would say we wish you we wish everyone in San Francisco were as conscientious as you and your company. Unfortunately, thats not the case. And i think the department can speak more directly to some of what we are seeing, but we have seen slippage in the sort of usage or rather, an increase in the amount of plastic bags that are coming back into our businesses. The state passed legislation and unfortunately left a loophole wherein thicker plastic bags were allowed to come back in. And i think awareness also. And here we are seven years later and five years later, and people and that dime is sort of the people who are going to sort of catch on because of a dime, theyve caught on at this point. Like you, they are bringing the Reusable Bags. So we saw Great Success in the first iteration. And we believe that theres still a significant number of San Francisco residents who are not doing as you are and bringing Reusable Bags. We want to get their attention. With respect to the equity issue that you raised, it is foremost on supervisor browns mind and really sort of one of the primary concerns along with Small Businesses and the impact on them that this legislation would have. And were one, if you are shopping with snap benefits, you are already excluded from this charge. So our lowest income folks who are shopping on food stamps and the like, they are not going to see a bag charge ever. And the other, we ransom quick numbers back of napkin for how many times we expect and i think the department can speak to this we are talking like 40 a year even for the if you are yeah. Even the precheckout bags and that i support and i have supported that. But just that 25 cents is just i im sorry, just be im sorry. But i will let the department of environment speak. Thank you. Ill stick around. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is alexa kelty with department of the environment and i thank you for listening to this item. Peter, our policy person s going to load the presentation for me. And i also wanted to thank supervisor Browns Office for their leadership on bags and all their other Environmental Policies that they are working on. We really appreciate it. So its going to be a bit of a review from what juan carlos already covered. So i will breeze through this quickly. But essentially last Year National geographic and many of you know there is a plastic crisis. Were producing too much plastic. And National Geographic last year on the cover came out with an article and the front page article on the plastic crisis. And there is 700 million tons of plastics going into our ocean annually. The only way to get to this issue is by turning off the faucet. Recycling ourselves out of this issue is not going to work. 9 of all the plastic ever produced on the planet is recycled. The rest is landfilled or ending up in the environment. We need to look at how can we really reduce plastic from being produced to begin with. Juan carlos mentioned the proliferation of the thick plastic bags. The state legislation allows for reusable plastic bags, so even though we have banned the tshirt bags, the thin, cheap plastic bags, there