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Commissioner Heather Stephenson is excused. Commissioner johanna walled . Here. [speaker not understood]. Here. Next item is the approval of the minutes. [speaker not understood]. This is a discussion and action item. Commission colleagues, any discussion on the minutes . Do we have any Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing no public speakers, Public Comment is closed. Could i get a motion to approve, colleagues . I move to approve the minutes. I second. Can all those in favor please signify by saying aye . Aye. The minutes a approved. Next item. Public comment on the Meeting Minutes . Minute...

Of the work to be done and also getting the curriculum covered at the city college of San Francisco. And i am honored to be here and honored to represent 261 but i do have to admit that it was actually oscar before him that worked with the mayor, and ed lee at the time who was the head of dpw, and they put together the first Public Sector Apprenticeship Program and it was the first of its kind, a public, private partnership and we were able to capture a lot of local residents and create these Job Opportunities for them. What i was able to do was simply, dot the eyes and cross the ts and so i a...

Location that even a moderately able computer able individual could find . We submit an annual report, and it is sfenvironment. Org, and it is there, i believe. I would like to encourage us to think about other sort of easier ways that we can make the remarkable success of this program and other programs at the department more easily known residents of the city. So they know what value they are getting from the great work that you all do. But in other words, did not have the packet from the annual report. But you know, maybe then the rolling thingy on the face of the website that said, did you...

Apprenticeship graduates and city departments announced the plans to extend the Program Going forward, and an opportunity to serve even more members of the community and forcing the potential for the environment and the environment now graduate and now, therefore be it resolved that the San Francisco on the environment and come mend the labor union and the first class on this historic occasion and which the Program Continued Success going forward. Okay. Thank you very much. [ applause ]. Courtney, john and others from 261. All right. Thank you. I want to thank the commission for taking the tim...

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...