Commissioner stephenson is commissioner wald is excused commissioner wan we have a quorum. Thank you friday and please everyone please thank friday for kyle volunteering for serving as our secretary thank you clapping. okay. You called item 2 on the approval of the minutes. Thats what im doing item the approval of the minutes of the may 26, 2015 on the environment regular meeting is there an objection . So any comments discussion from the commission on the minutes if there is none can we get a motion to approval of the minutes. To approval of the minutes commissioner stephenson Public Comment on the minutes. Oh, sorry thats not you. Go. Okay david pilpal good evening just to note on the header on each page it has the previous march 24th date i dont think i have any substantive changes ill let friday know also the address for the meeting is just listed city hall 413 so one carl so on it on the address is clear on the minutes and the agendas Going Forward thanks. Further comment on the minutes seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So can we perhaps ask commissioner to withdraw the motion to make the amendment that david pilpal so kindly pointed out ill withdraw my motion to the approval of the minutes. So can we get a motion to clarify on pages 2, through 10 that the date is may 26, 2015, and not may 12th 2015 and add the address Carlton Place to page one under city hall. Ill move to approval of the minutes as amended by the chair. Second from stephenson all right. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Say no thank you, everyone and thank you, mr. Pill pal arrest item 3 thank you to the person for helping with the agenda wherever they may be on vacation item 3 friday. Item 3. May be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. So we have one speaker card so can i please call that emily from y g fund good evening, commissioners and members of the public im emily i work are for the energy fund the leading finance come we have the clean energy but specifically we provide measures and financing for arrange and commercial properties we also over the charging for this as well ear excited and applaud San Francisco for the existing success of their program and expansion of including the private firms in april and looking to enter that marketplace ive been working with the department to help explain and answer questions and go over the muni features goal that we see there is a clear demand for pass in the marketplace and it is suited to meet that in collaboration with the green finance sf and again, the newer private partners that were brought on particularly with the strength in the multi family we have 50 percent of Housing Market in family and number one in the country for multi family pass we believe that service can benefit an unmet market another particular strength being able to work with the jurisdictions where we enter particularly here in San Francisco we feel like we can work with the sgoer and collaborate on that to maximize results and with the soft Story Building compliance wed like to help with and some of the fortune initiatives with the readies policies that are in progress we believe are uniquely suited to scale those results and finally our robust Contractor Network really brings us as a leader to the pace market ore 25 hundred contractors in the u. S. And 8 hundred and 50 in california specifically percentage focuses on the small to midsize customer seethe and the multi family that will be a benefit to the San Francisco region we work through entering local contractors a fairly robust but extensive and easy Training Program for the new contractors and always recruit locally by the think that helps that the workforce and the Apprenticeship Training use of the property 23 excuse me. We feel there is a lot of existing efforts that makes San Francisco a leader in this space we want to compliment and scale the result for pace i hope we can come back and thanks for hearing me out this evening any questions let me know. Thank you, emily he may be we can followup. Furthermore, members of the public wish to comment during Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed can we hear item 4. Item 4 Community Outreach presentation. Achieving zero waste through the establishments how sf e helps the foods establishments to maximum their participation in the recycling program placer is presenter is here and the presentation will be 5 minutes. Welcome welcome welcome to the Community Outreach presentation club. laughter . Hello thanks for that welcome good evening, commissioners im vernon what the San Francisco apartment of the environment with the Environment Team tonight ill do a roleplay of a typical integration to help them achieve zero waste if you have questions hold them to the end thank you. Hi, good evening. Im vernon with the San Francisco department of department of the environment i was wondering if under is an owner to speak with this evening hi susan im vernon the reason i want to see if you can help your Food Environment to help what environmental waste i have a package and thank you to all the brief i think so and have them signed with some of the stickers we provide we notice what works best to go with customized material i object to help you with those. The customized signs gives the customers easy for the sorting for the customers and staff while we while im talking about the materials in the packet ive provided a vendor list that list is a list of the vendor for the recycle items the reason why that is important we want to recommend you single all the combustible or recycle items it makes it easier to eliminate contamination youll find cutlery and cups and even bags now weve scared away the front of the house well look at your kitchen wow. Your kitchen looks at great all 3 binds and color coded in the location next to our dish washer the only recollection o recommendation for the back of the house to use some the signs in the page to give our staff a quick view of what going where in case you have any employees speaking of new employees we offer free staffer training in many lacks languages what would you like to schedule one the trainings before a before we pick a date is there any language spanish and russian i have a spanish and russian speaking coworker we can breakdown them into 3 groups or over the course of a couple of days whatever works best for the business i also noticed susan you have a one station for your cooks washing their hands and we have paper tolls paper shouldnt go into the landfill please put a sign there and we have information about the ecology id like to bring back one of those now i know weve gone overlook susan i appreciate our time before i leave one items it cant go into binds like paint and light bubbles well accept all those items call this number and theyll set you up with an appointment thank you for your time id like to recap some of the best services we recommend through the establishment to help you achieve your make sure the binds are together and color coded and customized signs and we recommend regular staff training well come back out and train for free in any language and in case you need a refresher or new employees wed like come back and strive for a single stream system like i said the vendor list has items that are custom unbelievable or otherwise feel free to call on the department of the environment for any issues and a quick we are about idols go to sf investment back slash. Org thank you clapping. all right. Good job vernon that was great. We also have a packet some of the packet we give but to the businesses this is another Outreach Campaign we worked on. Thank you. Questions from colleagues thanks friday. Director raphael. Yeah. Vernon thank you very much you the a good job im susan and im very i have one question for you so you told me about the services i know i have my monthly recycling bill and trash bill but that Hazardous Waste stuff do i have to pay extra whats the story. Actually call the number and it is a free appointment you can take down our materials every other wednesday you have to call ecology member and theyll explain the process theyll tell you which ones will be accepting the materials you can take them down. All right. Commissioner stephenson. How many inaudible oh, sorry that was great it up how many businesses do we hit given a week or month normally with this presentation. I believe we visited one thousand businesses that was about and before that we visited a couple hundred businesses to test out our poach. Do at the go as smoothly has your conversation with susan. We the a role plays with an sgaks some goes smooth than others and some dont but we get a positive feedback from the business were able to make recommends as well as some changes. Thank you all right. Thank you very much another a round of applause for mr. Hastening thank you, mr. Hastening. clapping. Public Comment on item 4 our Community Outreach presentation today seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we hear item 5 directors report friday item 5 directors report updates on department of the environment administrative and pragmatic operations for budget and strategy and clean air and climate and energy and Public Outreach and education and Habitat Restoration and Green Building zero waste and toxic production and urban forest as director raphael. Thank you, commissioners thank you friday so the first picture im going to highlight some of the things that are in the directors report i want to call out more specific to them it is a very busy couple of months there was an image i was hoping to have up lowest there we go so the image before you is a pilot we the of a coffee pop up the idea here is we were offering free coffee if you brought your own mug if you didnt you could earner a mug ill visit you all to earn a mug this is mason jars with things that is a zero wasting hash tag the thing to do to get a mug visit the station and engage in facebook or instagram or twitter youre feeling about the zero waste we had hundreds of of visitors and gave auto 6 hundred mugs we documented the kind of information this was a pilot in herman plaza for 3 days will be doing it 3 more times well let you know i dont have the dates or location i want to invite you bring your own mug but if you like those engage in social media and have fun that was a great pilot built from boxes that had cups wisp making a statement about bring your own mug thank you friday youve heard from vernon about the Environment Campaign i want to read you a specifically was accurate they visited this program this Participation Campaign one thousand hundred 75 businesses with multi level training to 3 thousand plus employees i want to thank everyone who is here and not here and kera for their leadership on the effort as you can see the kind of hearts they came with on a very different note the department is engaging in a very difficult conversation right now on the use of a particular herbicide it is an active ingredient in round up throughout the United States the city as decreased its round up used by 90 percent we use it sparingly, however, a tool in the toolbox a debate about the use of this because the cyber agency on cancer classified it recently as a probably human carrageenan there is a lot of concern yet it has a place in the tool kit in the bio diversity and particular locations to hand pulling or wed whauk is more dangerous than straying it we reduced it to 10 percent of our use and now looking at the last 10 percent and ask the question is if necessary are under safer alternatives we hosted that discussion with agencies from across the bay area who are struggling with the same things 40 people in the department talking about the science and the alternatives chris did a fantastic job on overseeing it and jen jackson stepped in with a wonderful job thank you, chris on the legislative front finally good news the healthy air and clean transportation was adapted by the board of supervisors the amended ordinance from our that, of course, that did two very important things one thing it transferred responsibilities in the department over to the Zoning Administrator that became for the staffing in the last budget year was moved from the will department to the Zoning Administrator so we didnt have the staffing it moved the responsibility went with that also important instead of being a strict reduction in revoke ordinance it was a reduction in green house ordinance you want cars that dont emit it might be fine to have more electric cars than gasguzzlers you want to reduce the green house not just the number of vegetables it was stronger because of that we have two ordinances that are were working on you heard from one of the y green already theres two were working on youll hear more about one the electrical vehicle rideness and solar those p are ordinances youll hear more about one of those the other thing that happened in the two months and recently was that i signed finally the agreement with ecology for the landfill you received by email on july 22nd a memo explaining what happened with the contract the contract two significant changes to the contract that i signed one was the term was shortened to 9 years with the potential of a 6 year extension the original contract was not minded only an amount of 5 year funds that would take 15 years shortened to 9 years with an extension of 6 and reduced the amounts per piece 3. 4 mill tons and 6 for the extension we put lack in the contract that capped the number of trucks that ecology could send to the landfill to insure that the Environmental Review that was done by planning is not exceeded were two things that changes to the contract we signed it last week were not done the next thing that has to happen the final ceqa hearing the Planning Department approved what we call a negative declaration when they the the analysis that determination was appealed to the Planning Department the Planning Department reviewed it and unanimously upheld it the appellants can appeal to the board of supervisors which they will do september 29th as scheduled it is thirty days after the action and the action is signing of the contract september 29th a hearing before the full board to look at the Environmental Review if all goes as planned well implement the contract at the end of our expected contract with Waste Management at the end of this calendar year things are moving well the other thing that happened many of you know, we hosted the 83 conference of marries that was a fantastic opportunity for our department to engage with the Mayors Office and engage with the larger Mayoral Community from across the country we hosted the mayors action dialog and reception many of you came as a wonderful huge success we had more than 18 marries participating from other than the country and white house staff and prosecute the private and public world and participation from the local businesses to all come together and think about zero 51 go hundred roots and action at the city level we had fun we culminated our ugliest yard know if there is a photograph but that was a competition that we actually had a selfnomination people could nominate themselves to the ugliest yard 79 people nominated every city was represented and multi thousands of people vote on the ugliest yard we had a win and wilson gets a total yard make over a Wonderful Community event thank you luke and herman can you raise your hand there you are and peter also for their incredible work pulling that together they were phenomenal on a very moving note the mayor last week im sure youre aware of spent quite an interesting couple of days in the vatican with the pope he and roger kim were there to talk about 9 zero 51 hundred and also think about the intersection between climatic change and Human Trafficking for the mayor drawing that parallel and that connection speaks to the environmental and social justice im told by roger kim that was a phenomenally moving experience to be in the room with the pope and hearing the pope calling on all cities across the world to embattle the suffering of the planet and humanity it was very, very powerful so finally i want to acknowledge we have a summer it is summer when it is summer we have interns we have a wonderful host of sdrirn so first, i want to point a bryan can you stand up bryan is fairly new working with the climate team and he is phenomenally wellrounded human being with many, many talents and one is being getting at the inventories and interesting in working in cambodia with youth if youre interested in learning more about are bryans talents hell be available too thank you, brian welcome clapping. keith are you keith great so keith is a familiar face yet has a new role so he started with environment and went over to toxics and now has a position with the zero Waste Program in the zero waste team hes been he knows the program and know how to deal with all sorts of audience and comfortable talking to anyone he was compelling and passionate keating were thrilled youre going to be with us longer clapping. i want to point out one more person herman yee i called you out before i want you to stand up herman as a volunteer is extraordinary his dedication with the you go lit yard to getting the permits and 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