I dont know the definitive answer. I think n that yes, you are correct. We need to check that and get back to you. Right, my concern is, given everything we know in the short term, i would hate for San Mateo County to act because of that imperative. And then i guess the question is, is it possible, i guess you cant really pass we vote to pass both. That sounds bizarre. Not to say that you want to change your vote and but it there a way for the City Attorney to pass both measures . We prefer no government structure but if there were government structure positions, we support them. We couldnt do Something Like that. I understand this is very unorthodox. As of our meeting right now, and if they vote the Santa Clara County board of supervisors. That impasse is what will prevent the measure from appearing on the ballot. It wont be the action we take no matter what action we take. Because thats what you might call a preexisting condition. And as i said, i had any number of conversations with members from both of those counties and i really am not optimistic that someone will change their minds and and party. Ok, sorry about that. Hopefully we dont get disconnected. I hope you heard most 6 it. I think thats correct. I mean, how about this, obviously this item did not pass and theres not a will to pass a secondary resolution. I would suggest if the winds change and san mateo comes together to pass Something Different we should schedule a special meeting. The only real question or concern is a timing issue. If they dont notice requirements while we have potentially 24 hours that we still dont have more than that. Madam chair, can i should a question of sheamuss with respect to the santa clara bother of supervisors. When is their meeting scheduled to occur . An tuesday of next week. Thats one more milestone. Im not sure what they might decide to do. I do know when they had this matter before them as an information item at their last meeting, one of their five members indicated his opposition to sales tax at all and another one indicated this conditional approach so at the least theres a publicity of points of view on this sales tax at santa clara board of supervisors so it might be good to have that under our belt before we revisit this question ourselves. Great. The call train board is acting on the 6th and act after all the agency have done so, is that right . They are planning to act on the 6th is vta meets after the call tran board on the sixth so the cal train action would be contingent on v. T. A. Doing the same thing that every other agency would have done by that time. If we havent acted could they take the action is the question . We would have needed to do something for them to take their action . Im trying to figure out ultimately if we should tentatively scheduling a special meeting next week on perhaps wednesday because if the winds change and everyone sings from the same song book, we would because of the noticing requirements we need time to notice the hearing. We can notice a hearing on wednesday if it doesnt if we dont need to have the meeting we cancel it and perhaps we tentative leo look at doing something on the 5th because well know what happened at vta and well know for sure whether or not there can be action taken on the fourth by the powers board based upon what happened before, correct . And so, its more great. So thats more of a scheduling logistics and directors, is there consensus that we would want to if it came to pass that everyone else got on board in the same direction we would want a special meeting and yes theres consensus great. Wonderful. With that, i think unless there are anymore questions or comments on this item it concludes this idea and item on the again da with that theres no additional business before our board so i call this meeting adjourned. Thank you all for your time. Thank you. Thank you. President stephenson good evening everyone. I call this meeting to order. Good evening this is the meeting of the San Francisco commission on the environment. The time is 5 04 p. M. A note that the ringing cell phones and pages is still prohibited. Please turn your devices off. Due dot to the covid19 health emergency, the commission on the environment meeting room is closed. Commissioners and Department Staff will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken per student to the pursuant to the statewide stay at home order. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Sfgov tv. Com is streaming the number at the top of the screen. When connected dial star three to be added to the queue. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment in the following ways. Email to the department of Commission Affairs, if you submit Public Comment via email it will be part of the official file. I will call the roll. [roll call] we have a quorum. President stephenson next agenda item please. Clerk next item is the president s discussion. President stephenson good evening everyone thank you to everyone who made it to this meeting. Let me share some best practices. If they havent already done so i will ask all member of the commission to mute themselves to minimize background noise. You have to remember to unmute yourself in order to comment. There are Staff Members in the background who will be managing the technological functions of the meeting. Again, we ask everyone to be patient as we make these adjustments. Since we expect several Public Comments from the public tonight, well be holding each Public Comment on each agenda item to two minutes. I appreciate the diligence of the staff that facilitated the meeting. Each commissioner who gave their full attention to the digital experience. Were Getting Better about each time we do. Another good news were opened up a policy Committee Meeting in september. Please be on the lookout for more information about that. Personal note, over the past weeks and months, i spent lot of time looking for Silver Lining in all of this covid stuff. When i enjoy a walk or bike ride with my family down a busy street that are nearly traffic free, i try to take a moment to notice the slowness, to reflect on it and feel the gratitude that grabs me these days. Each evening when my family dinner we spent few minutes doing what we call are grateful. Even my 4yearold gets into it. Talking about what she was most grateful for during her day. Despite the difficulties of these times there are Silver Linings. That are found that our mild weather let us spend lot of time outside, were able to site in the park 6 feet away from our friend and laugh over picnic and that our hospitals are staffed with some of the greatest talent in the medical world. When i take the time to look for i notice the quietness and lack of traffic and the things we once took for granted. Noticing these things on a personal level made me think before broadly about our city. Other opportunities that exist now that didnt exist before. Conversations that we can have now that were not available to us before. Can we rethink about how we live and work and travel within our city. My challenge to all of us here on this commission is this, are there opportunities to be found specifically in our environmental work for the city. Does this covid slow down give us a chance to do things that we couldnt have imagined before. If it does, what are those things and what are the first steps we need to take that off. I think one of the best examples can be found within the important topic of Environmental Justice. This is a moment where we can ensure all the work we do as a commission and department, helps nose among us who need it the most. Can we ask ourselves every time and for every decision we make, who does this help first . Until we make sure were trying to assist the neediest among us first. We want to improve not only our ecological home but livelihood of our resident the and businesses through our Climate Action initiative. As city continues to focus on racial equality we as a commission need to do likewise. Im very much looking forward to all the presentations and discussions in tonights meeting. Is there any Public Comment on the president s welcome . Lets open up Public Comment for this item. Members of the public who wish to speak, you should now dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line for this matter. Clerk operations can you let us know if there are any callers ready if they have not already, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those already on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until your turn to speak. Operations . We have one caller currently in the queue. Clerk go ahead caller. Hello. My name is barbara im a San Francisco resident in district 6. Its polluting and its dangerous to life property. I work about gas leaks especially in earthquake zones like ours and have experienced of 1989. In addition, i used gas stoves in the past i thought them to be superior to electric. Ive now used an induction stove for several years and its much cleaner and works just as well. Its a fact that electrification reduces Greenhouse Gas emissions by up to 60 compared to mixed fuel construction. It will also result in lower utility bills, something we all want. Finally, eliminating natural gas installations will be safer for families, leaks, fires and associated Health Problems from the pollution. Causes. San francisco will be a leader in driving construction thats all electric across the state. Somebody to be proud of. Im asking the committee to consider the following changes to the ordinance. Eliminate the feasibility exception and make fully electric Ready Construction of flying requirement for new construction. Change the definition of mixed fuel buildings to include commercial and industrial uses of natural gas and make the exception process more transparent through the public and for cases that are strictly in the public interest. Thank you for your consideration and taking up this vital issue for our communitys health, safety and the environment. Clerk thank you. I want to remind callers please keep the substance of your Public Comment to the agenda items thats at hand. This is the president s welcome. Well be commenting on the president s welcome. If you wish to comment on natural gas, i believe that is later on the agenda. Operations are there any other callers in the queue . There are no more callers in the queue. President stephenson thank you. Hearing no callers, Public Comment is now closed. Next agenda item please. Clerk [agenda item read]. President stephenson commiss ioners is there any discussion on the minutes of the june 10th commission on the environment special meeting . All right, do i hear a motion to approve the minutes . Ill move to approve. Second. President stephenson second by commissioner wan. Are there any discussion or changes to the minutes . Is there any Public Comment . Lets open Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to speak on this item can dial star three to be added to the speaker line. Clerk please let us know if there are callers ready. If it they have not already p please press star three to be added in the queue. There are currently no callers in the queue. President stephenson okay. Thank you. Seeing no more Public Comment or discussion, call the roll. [roll call vote] motion passes. President stephenson all right. Next item please. Clerk [agenda item read] next item is general Public Comment. This item is for Public Comment and discussion. President stephenson lets open Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to speak should dial star three to be added to the seeker line for this matter. Clerk please let us know if there are callers ready. We have one caller in the queue. Clerk caller, you have two minutes. Good evening commissioners. Im Richard Rothman im a senior citizen. I have to comment about i worked for the city, communicated with City Department over my lifetime. The staff on the environment is the worst department ever. If you spend a general comment in, if they answer, they dont put their name or the last one i got was from julia, she doesnt give her name or phone. When you call City Department, you should get a Contact Information and somebody to talk to live because these people dont respond to emails. They didnt answer my basic question, which im going to discuss now. Ive been recycling the i use recycle bags when the pandemic started, i started using paper bags and i recycle them to put my dry garbage in. I found out on a newsletter supervisor fewer, that now you have to pay a quarter for a paper bag or take your groceries outside. I did it twice. I went to one large store and where they are set up area was, i was kissing the people coming out. So much for social distancing. The second Corner Grocery store i went to [indiscernible] were in the middle of a pandemic. I think my life is more important than having to pay a quarter for a paper bag. I think this should be suspended for Senior Citizens or suspended period until the mayor says that were going back normal and. [beeping] thank you, caller. Are there any other callers in the cue operation . No more callers in the cue. All right. Thank you, operations. Thank you, charles. The next item is item 5, an update on the departments ongoing Racial Equity hish tive. The speaker is timmy [indiscernible]. This item is for discussion. All right. Director felled, take it away. Thank you. And good evening commissioners and everyone who is listening in. This is really exciting and im excited about todays agenda. And this particular agenda item is near and dear to by heart. You may remember, commissioners, at our last Commission Meeting in june, i stressed the importance of our continued work on Racial Equity in my directors report, i emphasize the work that all of us in the department are doing, in light of the murder of george floyd as well as our ongoing commitment of equity. And clearly, the need for this work is selfevident. Its all around us, covid19 is just the most recent example, traumas that are disproportionately impacting black people, indigenous people, and all people of color. So back in march of tween 18 you may remember that the commission passed a resolution to affirm our commitment to racial inequity. And allot over a year later in october of 2019, the city of San Francisco opened up an office of Racial Equity and also the supervisor, mayor, signed legislation that are mandating changes to City Department and alaska tifts, in order to refine City Departments, on Racial Equity in all the things that they do. In january, we welcomed that feel like hand years ago now but january of this year when, we had our inperson Commission Meeting, we welcomed our Equity Committee leadership and they came to the commission and delivered a presentation. That was talking about the work we were doing to develop a Racial Equity plan. We were vownlded by this critical need right now. And we are committed to examining our role in the department. As staff, and as Community Members of San Francisco so we wanted to bring to you, an update on what we have been doing in the past month and cindy combford, ive asked her to come and present tonight. She manages our climb 8 criminal justice program. Shes going to review with you, some of the work weesk doing on the department, as well as a survey that we have participate in, and qat future of Racial Equity looks like in the next few months for the department. Cindy [indiscernible]. I am the Climate Program manag manager. Debbie, talk about what im going to present today, so im going to start off with some reflection over the last couple of months. Reaffirm our commitment to Racial Equity. Talk about some of our immediate commitments. A survey that we participated in with the office of Racial Equity, and then conclude some next steps. So the San Francisco, department of environment, has reflected on Current Events of covid19 and its disproportionate impacts on American Indian communities, black communities and communities of color. The mores of george floyd, brieona taylor, and countless others, and the under lying government and economic structures that create the platform of these events. We have a responsibility to do better and continue making progress on this critical Racial Equity work. We have also seen an extraordinary mobilization across the country. Every walk of life, every