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Conference we cosponsored, the city of crest and Parks Conservancy and many thanks to them for helping out in that effort. Based on the Design Training which is the first of its kind in San Francisco, we had this past year, and every year we have a complete round of annual pesticide safety and ipm trainings for anyone who is remotely involved with pesticides. And, of course, our monthly meetings at the ipm Technical Advisory Committee which its about 10 times a year is what it amounts to. I also wanted to mention we launched a project to turn the pest prevention by Design Guidelines into a lea...

Survey efforts, were seeing that 15 of City Employees report that they actually do use the bikes. So, a lot of departments are getting the bikes and theyre starting to get a good deal of use. 64 of the departments have moved to having some sort of pooled vehicle so individuals arent assigned individual vehicles, and that is a way of obviously reducing the amount of vehicles in the fleet and unnecessary travel. Promotion of teleconferencing and providing equipment for Video Conferencing is another way of, again, encouraging, promoting, pushing people towards not traveling for work purposes, pla...

Yes, thank you. All right, thank you very much. Comments from colleagues . Commissioner wald. Unless commissioner josefowitz wants to go first. Thank you. I was overly enthusiastic. Shes getting a little better than last year. Its been a learning process for everybody. All of the fleet everybody involved with the fleets this has been a learning process, to try and figure out how to get similar types of data and how to make it work. Great. I think, you know, we still below a lot of our targets, i guess. But i mean, its great improvement from where it was before. So, congratulations and keep up ...

That we really cant control. ~ its something that is driven by mosquito outbreaks, west nile virus outbreaks, various Public Health issues, and also those are almost universally very low toxicity products. They are mike robial products that are in storm drains or hormones that are in tiny, tiny amounts ~. So, thats the rationale for not looking at that. These are the top 10 most used hazardous products in the city based on active ingredient, pounds of active ingredient. Youll see most of them are for golf courses. Joining us now is [speaker not understood] which is an herbicide used for the re...

So, in general, i think im sorry, i missed one. I meant to discuss the little statistics at the bottom of this graph. We have overall at this point an 84 reduction in all pesticides since the beginning of the program. Since 2000, which is when we really got our system best organized, its been at 62 . Since 2007, which is fiveyear mark, its been a 6 reduction. As you can see its very bumpy, depending on climate, depending on budget, depending on all sorts of things. Depending on golf as well . And depending on golf. So, we are trying to find other ways other ways to lower that which ill talk ab...