We call this meeting to order. And i apologize for my voice. Please call the roll. Good afternoon. This is the meeting of the San Francisco commission on the environment. The date is monday, november 25, 2019 and it a special meeting. The date is november 25, 2019, and the time is 5 05 p. M. A note to the public that the ringing of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting so please turn your devices off. Theres also going to be Public Comment on every item as well as an opportunity for general Public Comment for items that arent on the agenda. And general Public Comment is item number 4. We ask that you fill out a speaker card at the table there and hand them to me, and ill hand them to the president and the president will call folks in the order we receive them. You have the right to speak anonymously, so well call up folks after we have received the speaker cards if you would like to speak anonymously. Item 1, call to order and roll call. [roll call] commissioner ahn is excused. Theres a quorum. The next item is item 2, presid. This item is for discussion. Good evening, everybody, andn francisco commission on the env. We have two presentations today, performance evaluation of direc. The first presentation is a resd collaboration. To help our city get up to 100. Before we officially get starten manager Anthony Valdez for his e commission and to the commissioe environment. I just cannot say enough about d how he helps us get through theg together. He is leaving us for bakersfield. The office of the city manager, they pretty much do everything. Hes going to be a key member of the team as they retry write bakers fields master plan. Thank you for everything you have done, for your professionalisalism, your friendship. Our loss is bakerfields gain, and you are going to be doing Amazing Things there. I wanted to offer the opportunity to any of the commissioners to add anything to my comments about anthony. Its hard to imagine how we are going to get along without anthony. Really, youve done such a splendid job, not only with the commission but being the face of the commission and to a certain extent, the department, in the community. I absolutely second everything our president said about your professionalism to what she has said already, i would say your calmness, your confidence, your knowledge of the rules and the laws that we operate under has made doing the business of the commission so much easier, because youre there, you have our back in everything that we do. Youve done a splendid, truly wonderful job. And i kind of feel bad for the person who is going to replace you. [laughter] because they are going to have very big shoes and a very big job to feel. I wish you the greatest success in bakersfield. I dont think ill be coming to visit you there, but i hope you have a great start to what is really, i know, going to be a wonderful career in Public Service. And i just wish there were more people like you who are interested and committed to it and as you believe as you are. Good luck, anthony. Commissioner stephenson. Im so excited for you. Im proud that you are going off to do this great work, and im excited to see what happens in your career, because well be following you even from far away. I want to thank you for all of your efforts. You taught me a ton. I was already on the commission when you came on board, but i feel like the work you did here taught me so much about the smooth running of the commission and certainly the way that you helped me run the Operations Committee meetings was just completely invaluable. And during the moments when i would have to step in, you were called off to do big things some place else, i never freaked out even though i tend to get a little nervous around public speaking because i knew that you had my back, and i knew that you, with all of us, made sure we had every bit of information we could ever need to do this job and serve the city in this way. So i thank you so much for your efforts and im excited to watch you in your career. Commissioner sullivan. I want to second everything that came before me. But i would also just say that as weve worked together not only here but also in the urban forestry council, these volunteer boards often, its the staff that has a longer tenure than the members of the commissions and councils. And we roll on and roll off and dont often know what we are doing and we might violate the brown act or forget Public Comment, and its really the folks in your seat that are so important in these councils and commissions. And having seen a few people that sit in your seat, you are right at the top in terms of professionalism, and i totally agree, its bakersfields gain. And maybe youll be back with us down the road at some point. I sure hope so. Director raphael. I want to say, as i think about you, anthony, and ive shared some of these things with you and staff and i would like to say it in this public arena too, that we find ourselves in a time where Public Service is denigrated, and where democracy feels like its only there if its convenient, and that these rules, whether they are the brown act or any of the other rules of engagement, of transparency and ethics feel like they are under siege in our country right now. And that is no one who takes those rules and that role more to heart than you do. And i am i think the world needs more people like you who see that as a higher calling, that being the defender of democracy, being the person to make sure that the public has access to information in a timely manner, that commissioners dont i mean you heard over and over again, you have our back. What that means is theres Good Intention to do the right thing but its not always clear what the right thing and the right way is, and we need someone who we can trust and depend onto hold that vessel for us so that we can be the purveyors of democracy. And you are a person who not only is making us more professional but showing through your own actions what professionalism looks like. So bakersfield, i do want to visit you there. I want to go and see your beautiful new offices. I want to watch you in action, because im going to be there with you, anthony, all the way, to see what is next and to be cheering you on from near and from far. So thank you for your service. And thank you for showing us whats possible. Commissioner wan just very brief, i have to say thank you so much. You saved my life so many times. One meeting entrance, what side off the stage and always ahead of time. So i really want to thank you. Thank you, anthony. Commissioner chu. Im the newest commissioner to ive had the most recent pleasure of being welcomed by you to the commission. Thank you, anthony, for making me feel like part of the family and for me being excited to serve on this commission for many more years to come. Thank you. What they said, anthony, valdez, defender of democracy, had a nice ring to it. [laughter] with that, lets get started. Is there any Public Comment on the president s welcome . [off mic] yes, i can do that. I was forgetting. On behalf of all the commissioners, we want to give you this little token. I want to see it on your wall in bakers field. It says Exceptional Service for the commission, presenting this on the 26th of november, in honor and appreciation of Exceptional Service for the people and the environment of the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you so much. [applause] okay, great. And no Public Comment. Okay, next item. The next item is item 3, approval of the minutes of the september 24, 2019 commission on the environment meeting. The explanatory document is the september 24, 2019 draft minutes. This item is for discussion and action. Great. A motion to approve the draft minutes . So moved moved by commissioner sullivan. Do i have a second . Second second by commissioner wan. We have a motion seconded. Is there any discussion or changes, commissioners . Any Public Comment . Seeing none, no Public Comment or discussion, all those in favor of approving the minutes signified by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed . Motion carries. Thank you. The next item is item 4, general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Okay. No Public Comment on this item . Item 4. The next item. The next item is item 5, presentation of a commission on the environment Environmental Service award to outside lands. This item is for discussion. Commission wan will be introducing our awardey today. Thank you. Its a great honor for me to present the commission on the environments Environmental Service award to outside lands. I actually nominated outside lands after reading a detailed article in the San Francisco chronicle which extolled the lengths to which the organizers of this huge event have made, have taken to make the event sustainable, including further reduction of waste. At the Global Climate action summit last year, right . Yep the mayor signed a pledge to reduce solid waste generation here in San Francisco by 15 percent by 2030, reducing what goes to recycling, composting and trash. Outside lands has been a major partner in that effort. They have greatly reduced the amount of disposables at their event, even as they have increased the number of people who are attending it, thereby generating less waste on material. One way they did this was by selling nearly 11,000 of the new innovative reusable cups. Outside lands installed 150 water monsters around the site of the event to make it possible to refill these cups, other cups and bottles that people brought. Joining us today to receive the award on behalf of outside lands is anny farman. [applause] we want to say thank you so much to the city for helping us, our friends of the department of environment and Public Health department and parks department, they really made it happen for us. And as a team effort was to come together and get it done. So thank you so much. Thank you. Commissioners, any questions for director raphael . I just want to add to what commissioner wald was saying. I think the most exciting thing for me about outside lands just doing this is it becomes a proof of cone september for other events. Yes of concept for other events. You are work out the kinks so it doesnt just stay with outside lands but we look at how reusable cups are going to be an environment for all of our events. A big part of us being able to pass that legislation is when entities like Planet Entertainment and your work as well, say we are going to figure this out because its the right thing to do, not because somebody is making us do it. And look what we learned, you can do it too. So i think that frankly is what makes San Francisco such a special place, because we have city agencies and we have our Business Community as well as our residents all working in the same direction for sustainability. So thank you for being courageous and figuring out how to do it, especially when you didnt have a lot of other models. So we can amplify and scale what you started. Thank you so much. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Okay. Next item. Wait, arent we going to do the presentation . Oh, yes, we are doing to do a photo presentation thank you. Thank you. The next item is item 6, discussion of the 2019 United States department of Energy National clean cities awards to the San Francisco clean coalition. This item is for discussion. Director raphael will introduce this item. Yes. So i am going to introduce suzanne who is our staff member extraordinary who was there when the big awards happened for the department. And she will pass it along and explain to us the wonderful context for this award. So suzanne. Hi, there. Thanks for having us here. So a little bit about clean cities and the two awards that we won. Ive been the clean cities coordinate for the last four years. And clean cities is a u. S. Department of Transportation Program that was established in 1993. And its goal is to place petroleum use. The initial goal we had was im sorry clean cities has been around for 25 years and in that 25 years we have 86 coalitions and have displaced over 8 billiongallons of petroleum. So each coalition in each city works to form Public Private partner chis to make displacement happen. You can see i got off my notes here. And what we do here is focus on electrifycation of lowcarbon fuels. If you are in louisiana you are probably working on propane in school buses so its all different in how we contribute. San francisco established its Clean Cities Coalition in 1994. So the work we are doing here today and talking about today has a 25year lineage within the city of San Francisco. Each year the coalitions gather for a peer exchange. We get together and talk about best practices, what we are working on and the department of energy makes awards. And so this year we received two. One was for the greatest Energy Use Impact for Renewable Diesel. And the second one is and ill talk about them separately. So you know about Renewable Diesel. Weve been using it since 2015. And thats our greatest Energy Use Impact. We are one of the largest municipal users. We use 7 milliongallons a year. Thatthat saves 25,000tons of Greenhouse Gas a here. That credit goes to tom fung who is in the back. They did a lot of the heavy lifting to make this happen in 2015. So tom, thank you very much. [applause] and tom is also on the board of our sister coalition in the east bay. So hes been very involved in the coalition process for a long time. So the second award for us, its an award for an 8101 Educational Program that three of us put together. My colleague sac thompson back here who is also a clean city coordinator until last friday when he left for another organization and elana from bay area. We developed a presentation. She approached us and said lets do something together. Our unique approach is the material is delivered by city staff with policy knowledge and an advocate who uses a car and has practical information and experience about having that car and the dynamics of these two makes for a great presentation. We deliver this in 25 minutes, then we have a full hour to have q a and that usually ends up in a robust conversation among the participants. And they are really fun and often sold out. I think 12 different libraries in San Francisco. And we have recently taken it across the bay. And now the city of berkeley is replicating this program. And we are starting to work with other cities to give them the tools so they can also do the program. So i think thats it. So would you come up and say a few words . Good afternoon. Thank you for the commission is very helpful. Thank you for the partnership between the city families to make this happen. Congratulations. Thank you, tom. Yeah, i just got to put in a plug for San Francisco environment staff. You guys got incredible staff. So working together with them, it really worked out well, because you got an advocate, somebody to drive and youve got staff. And theres a lot of sense that we know that we are doing when we are talking to people, and people trust us. And we have to get the word out. We have to we got to go to it as soon as we can. Its great to have legislation that makes it happen, but talking to the community helps. All of a sudden you see the light goes on in peoples eyes and theyre like, yeah, maybe i can do this. So its a great thing we do. And my colleagues here have been fabulous. So you got great staff. Thank you. Thank you all. And i would just say that tom is very modest. So tom is in charge of our fleet. And it was under his leadership and determination to substitute out Renewable Diesel for traditional diesel in everything from sudans theyre not really diesel but trucks and fire equipment. He has a lot of skeptical people when he says i would like to try something new. The mechanics and drivers are skeptical. So tom is careful when he is asking people in the city to make changes. And we were the first. So this was a brave thing that tom did. And had huge impact because, in fact, mayor lee, when he went to the vatican he told the pope about what tom has been doing. So even the pope knows about tom, which is pretty cool. And i would say to elaina and the work between the city and advocates and nonprofits, no one can do it alone, and this award that department of energy gave to us, whether the secretary of energy wants to admit it or not, there is great power when San Francisco partners with its Nonprofit Sector to change behavior. And these awards that we are giving tonight are really an acknowledgement of Public Service, whether its from inside the city or partnerships from without. Its really important. So thank you. Are there any questions, commissioners . Any Public Comment on this item . We are going to take a photo. That includes anthony. [off mic] congratulations. All right. Th