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Informational and report and discussion item. Thank you very much. First i need to say that on behalf of commissioner gravanis who i have not actually talked to but she is of course very sorry to miss this meeting. She almost never misses any meetings, and it is only because she is sick and i know that she must be very frustrated because tonight topic is one that she has saved. And she taken the interest in and indeed, was that the Guiding Force for a discussion that the policy committee had on july 8th, regarding the retreat, the upcoming, as yet unschedule, retreat and how it might be schedu...

Discussion, the four of us agreed that an appropriate focus of the upcoming retreat would be on challenges that we are facing both the department and the commission. So that what we sort of envisioned and would recommend for your consideration would be a twopart discussion. One that focused on challenges or opportunities before the commission, and ways in which before the department, i am sorry, and ways in which, the members of the commission or the commission as a whole could help the Department Address those challenges. This is an example of working with the board of supervisor and how we c...

And so, although, the existing ordinance was great, you know, being a progressive city that we are, and realizing the newer technologies are becoming available, we felt that we could maybe, do more. And partially what was pushing us to do more, was through the California Environmental quality act, and that is really where the Planning Department has stepped in and we are often finding out that the public works projects were having to do additional modeling and or do modeling and have to do additional measures, beyond the existing clean construction ordinance to comply with sequa. And so, we di...

That the policy committee had on july 8th, regarding the retreat, the upcoming, as yet unschedule, retreat and how it might be schedule, organized and what topics of the discussion we might address. The conversation that we had then, actually was endorsed by president arce and he was, he participated in it and afterwards, we thought that if we reported on that discussion, tonight, it would spark a discussion among all of the commissioners, here. About how we ought to organizize the retreat. And so let me tell you briefly that discussion or during that discussion, the four of us agreed that an ...

The Emissions Reductions and compared to the other equipment, is a much cleaner, and this is consistent with the sequa and i did not, and and lastly, it provides a greater ability to monitor for compliance, and this picture here, is highlighting these red stickers on the Construction Equipment. And this is now required by the state law, that all Construction Equipment is supposed to have a sticker on each side, and six characters, and you can write down the six characters and go online, so that the Resources Board website and look up the equipment and see if it is actually meeting the ordinanc...