Evening everyone. Welcome to the commission meeting. Anthony, roll call. This is the meeting of the tran04 tran02. It is tuesday, september 24, 2019 and the time is 5 01 p. M. A note and the ringing and use of cell phone and Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Plea please be advised that any person may be removed for the ringing of any electronic device. A note to the public, there is a Public Comment on every item on the agenda, as well as an opportunity for general public, for items that are not on the agenda. Also an opportunity for general public, that is during item five. We ask that you fill out a speaker card and handed to me and ill hand them to you also have a right to speak anonymously. After we call all the speaker card, i will call up folks if they want to speak anonymously. I one, call to order and. [roll call] there is a quorum. Item 2, president s welcome and items for discussion. Good evening everyone, and thank you for being here tonight on this very warm evening. We at least two appear to have some air conditioning. We have a very full agenda, and we will looking at an issue that is key to our environmental success. Electrification. We will consider two resolutions from the policy committee. How the city is going to electrify its buildings and Transportation Systems . As we consider electrification initiatives, efficiency must always be the Guiding Force that moves us forward tonight we will hear recommendations from the Energy Efficiency coordinating committee report. Additionally we will consider this years reduced risk list. Finally, they are also looking forward to hearing about the work of our City Department partners. One of our most important roles, as commissioners on the environment, is to help other City Departments realize their environmental goals. We also have some Staff Recognition before we move forward. We want to recognize the new staff from the environment now team. Please come up until tell us your name, and what you are most passionate about in your new roles. As you come forward to introduce yourselves, these are our boots on the ground, our ambassadors as they are in the community. Please step forward. Who wants to start . Hello everyone. My name is wendy. Im on the environment now team. What i most passionate about is going door to door outreach with the residents and businesses. The most interesting is how to educate people, and how to use. [inaudible] that is the most interesting for me so far. Thank you. I am most excited about mostly getting into the community and talking to everyday people about the ways they can reduce their waste, and best practices for zero waste. Thank you. Hi. My name is kalin. The most passionate thing or the thing i most passionate about is getting people to be more aware about the consumption , and like really creating that environment for them. You know, getting them in touch with the nature around them and everything. Thank you. Hi everyone. My name is ken,. [inaudible] i can educate residents how to use, reduce, to keep our environment sustainable. Now i am looking at several projects such as residential impact. [inaudible] i am on the team of environment now. My passion is to be one of the first to implement the messages from the department on the new ordinance. Also, do the best practice messages to businesses and residents. Thank you. My name is allison, im working with the policy on public affairs. I am passionate about working on legislation that makes sustainability equitable for everyone. Anyone else . Some applause for our ambassadors and our boots on the ground. [applause] before we move into tonights business, i thought it would be remiss of us not to acknowledge last weeks Global Climate strikes that was organized and led by young people. Young courageous people, and of course most notably greta. On behalf of the commission on the environment, im going to give a short statement of our supported solidarity with the youth. As commissioners committed to address other Global Climate crisis, we know that young people are inheriting a world that is racing towards climate catastrophe. Last week we watched as young people, from around the world, stepped up with a massive coordinated School Strike to protect government and business and action on Climate Change. To protest rather. Millions of students from over 120 countries took to the streets for what some are calling the largest environmental protest was on the history. The truth is, young people have the largest reshaped by Climate Change. The worst consequences of unchecked Climate Change falls to future generations. That is why strikers are demanding that the policy response the Climate Crisis centers on the issue of justice. It is the people who contribute the least to the problem who stand to suffer the most. We agree with the calls for immediate and accelerated action to stop burning fossil fuels, and to ensure a rapid transition to a Clean Energy Economy that prioritizes equity and justice. The commission on the environment stands in solidarity with the millions of young people, around the world, who are raising their voices organized in their communities, and calling to make addressing the Climate Crisis a top priority. Before i ask for Public Comment, i want to ask if any of my fellow commissioners would like to add to this message . Commissioners . Commissioners stephenson . Thank you for that, that was wonderful. I spent last week watching the tv and crying my way through outs, being elated, and overwhelmed and slightly embarrassed to be perfectly honest that it takes a bunch of kids to get out there and protest to get people to stand up and take note. But it also made me incredibly proud to be in San Francisco specifically. This city consistently leads on this issue, and i think for those of you that dont know, one of the reasons i set up here , years ago i started a company that published a little tip every single day and told people how to be more environmentally friendly. Things they could do in choices they could make that would be different. I think as time goes on it has become more and more obvious to all of us that while the small changes that people make will add up, they are not going to add up fast enough. The things that we have to do are going to be policies by both cities and countries around the world, and it is going to be technologies that are going to help lead us forward into the future. For both of those reasons i am proud to be where i sit, not only appear on the commission, but also in this area where we support both technologies and bold visions. It was a very strange thing to be embarrassed and elated at the same time. That is what i was. I wholeheartedly support the students who were striking. Thank you. Anyone else . If not, do we have Public Comment on the president ial welcome . Okay. Public comment after every item. If there arent any, we can go onto the next item. The next item is item three, approval of minutes on the may 208th meeting,. Do i hear a motion to approve the draft minutes for may 28, 2019 . Moved by commissioner ambrose. Any discussions or any changes commissioners . Public comment on this item the approval of the minutes of . All in favor of approving the minutes . Motion passes. Next item. Item four, approval of minutes on the august 5, 2019 commission on the environmental meeting. This item is for discussion and action. This was a special meeting which took place at aarons head park echo center. May have a motion to approve the minutes of the august 5, 2019 commission on the environmental meeting . Moved by commissioner sullivan and seconded by commissioner stephenson. Any Public Comment on this item . Hearing none. All of those in favor signal by saying i. Any opposed . Motion carries. Next item. Item five, general Public Comment. Embers of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. You have a Public Comment . My name is connie cobbs. I showcased in tri valley come and ran trying to get municipalities with my Business Model. My Business Model is Reusable Bags and it has been and will be for a long time. I wanted to try to offset like unfunded liabilities, just as we do our lottery system. I wanted to enhance the lottery. I dont want to take away from the lottery. They started as lotto bags and lotto bag tags that can scan the bags. Competitions where you might have one city try to have more bag return done another city. Try to buy bags in support of causes. For instance, our cabdrivers. Maybe cancer. Maybe charitable organizations. I have pitched this to tran04 back in 2,006. The mayor should be on board with it, newsome should know about it. I forget her name, but anyhow, i am very interested in getting this off of the ground, and i want to get back to the corporations and the major stores and organizations that i spoke with before. I dont know who i would present to, because it is. I know i dont want it too upset too much. I wanted to enhance the friendly competition. I think it will happen. I left my business cards in the car, my number is 9254491658. There should also be some paperwork with my name on it from a past meeting that i have been to down at the board of supervisors as well as, you know the communications i have. I will be in touch with you shortly, if you have any brainstorms on how to make this right, again i dont want to upset other interests, i want to enhance and i want to make money as well. Call me. 9254491658. Use a bag, a lotto bags. Thank you so much. Anyone else . The next item is item six, presentation of a commission on the environment Environmental Service award to the San FranciscoInternational Airport. Commissioner chu has a great privilege of presenting our awards today. Environmental Service Award to the San FranciscoInternational Airport. Commissioner chu wrote a great piece on Greater Public and private partnerships when it comes to transportation solutions. Thank you for doing that. Thank you. Today it is my great honor to present the commission on the environmental environment Environmental Service award to San FranciscoInternational Airport where i was just at 45 minutes ago. [laughter] here to accept the award is aaron cook. Excellent. Our partner of the chief Administration Policy office department, excellent. Even better. Among the major International Airports come of the world has established itself as a climate pioneer in the their accomplishments include; sourcing Greenhouse Gas free electricity, long before most of their per competitors were thinking about this contributing to the airports Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction by 39 this past year. Reducing water usage for passengers 20 below 2013 levels. Becoming the first airport to ban single use plastic Water Bottles in august of 2019, and plastic food where and accessories in march. 16 leed certified projects on their campus with ten more registered to be certified under its current 7. 4 billion ascent program. Being one of the first users of blue planet concrete in the world during terminal one construction, which uses carbon aggregates to significantly reduce embodied carbons. The list goes on and on. Among City Departments and facilities, it is unique and that it is the first place the city can make a great environmental First Impression on visitors. Visitors that are just transiting, and the only chance to make an environmental impression. That makes s. F. O. The ideal pace to demonstrate our stewardship to all corners of the world. Whether it is seeing solar panels from the air train, or buying aluminum water bottle for reuse instead of single use plastic Water Bottles. Those policies can drive awareness, and behavior change and shift cultural paradigm. Because they are a travel hub, cultural diffusion in the most modern sense. People expands on there and here they can take flight to the routine travel that happens every day at San FranciscoInternational Airport. Without i am pleased to join my colleagues and resenting you with the commission on the environment Environmental Service award. [applause] on behalf of our airport director we are honored to receive this award. We love working as part of our city and county family. Thank you. It is a really great honor. We are thrilled to be here amongst other awardees. Thank you for the recognition. Commissioners, are there any comments . Questions . We are going to do a Group Photo Im sorry. Yes. We are going to do a group photo, but i think there comments first. Okay. Great. We will do a photo, we would just do it probably after the second award. Then we will all come down at the same time. S. F. O. Aaron, you personally, i just have to say are such an amazing contributor to the city family. We scored so big when you decided to leave your previous job and lead the sustainability efforts of s. F. O. She is a force to be reckoned with, she leaves the best meeting i think ive ever been in. She could lead any meeting that i have to go to. They are so productive, and she does such hard work to be prepared so that everyone get something out of it. Youre just amazing. She is lucky, too, because she works in an organization that is a small city. Ed has made a decision to leave the world truly in realizing what the potential is for an airport to do. There is no Green Airport on the planet, and i am so grateful for everything you do. As commissioner. Five said, you are a test bed for things, sometimes they work well, sometimes it not work well but the airport is going to try. To share what you learn so that everyone can follow in your footsteps. S. F. O. Any comments . Any Public Comment on this item . We can do a quick photo. The next item, anthony. Item seven, presentation of a commission on the environment Environmental Service award to the severance go department of. This will be presented by Commission Commissioner wan. This is a long list of accomplishments, please be prepared. It is my great honor to present the San Francisco department of Human Resources unaware. Mickey callahan, the director the initiatives are what we need. Specifically we need to generate and create less waste. Indeed, this was one of our goals. To reduce waste by 15 . Its only been a year since the summit, city agencies like the Human Resources department are already stepping up. Heres a list of what they are doing. 35 million in Employee Benefit payments, 80 will be converted from paper checks to Electronic Fund transfers resulting in the elimination of 26,000 paper checks to employees. An estimated 4400 checks will be eliminated. The final phase, of this project, will be in 2021 creating a System Interface tempe medical providers electronically which will replace approximately 33388 checks annually. That is less waste generation, reducing consumption also reducing carbon emissions. This particular instance we are saving trees. Many around the country, the world, San FranciscoCity Departments are the cities best environmental ambassadors. We hear, at commission on the environment, are proud cooperating with sustainability into aspects of your operation that most people think about from a sustainable perspective. You are, and that shows dedication. The commission, we are often talking about about what needs to be done that are leading the way. [inaudible] i want to express my thanks for agreeing to send our transportation survey to all City Employees so we can find out which modes of transportation City Employees are using on a daily basis. Therefore, how we can best assist them in moving to more sustainable modes. With that, i am pleased to also join my colleagues in presenting you with the commission on the environment Environmental Service award. [applause] it is a great honor to be here. I want to highlight, this really follow something we did a couple of years ago which was to move all City Employees to direct deposit. It was a lot more complex due to Workers Compensation because of Regulatory Environment it sending checks. Prior to this initiative we had been send