Comment for items that arent on the agenda. We ask that you fill out a speaker card and hand them to me and i hand them to the president and the president will call folks in order that we receive them and you have a right to speak anonymously. Well call folks if they like to speak anonymously. With that, well move to item one call to order and roll call. [roll call] theres a quorum. Next item is two 2. This item is for discussion. Good evening and thank you everyone who made it to meeting tonight on commission on the environment. You want to begin by welcoming our newest commissioner, tiffany chu. Commissioner chu is a design and planner and cofounder of the company remix. I was excited. They created a fantastic technology and process for helping cities to figure how how to manage transportation issues. Its wonderful to have her here on the team with us. Did you want to say a couple of words . Commissioner chu im just so pleased to be here. This is my first ever commission that i ever joined. Im so excited to serve the city and county of San Francisco in the capacity that im passionate about. Transportation is obviously is my first love so is urban and planning. Thank you for having mel and im excited to serve. We have an incredible meeting. Highlights the various community partners. That are aligned with the citys Commission Getting to zero waste. 80 sustainable trips around our city being power by 100 Renewable Energy carbon. Were looking forward to hearing about the work of the community partners. You want to recognize commissioner ahn what has an adjournment in memory. Commissioner ahn i like to begin the meeting in tribute to marie harrison. Longtime environmental activist. She passed away may 5th at the age of 71. She was tough. She was effective and she was a tireless advocate for Environmental Justice and equity and justice issues the bay view. Shes known for her work in the bayview. She her story is one of africanamericans in San Francisco. The one different neighborhoods she got to experience and as a result, understand the tragedies involved in displacement as well as the environmental and injustices that apolitical afflt communities of color. She can tell about the rise and fall of community. Which are very rare. In 2001, marie was hired by the organization and Environmental Justice. One of the first ever Environmental Justices granted issued by the department of environment. The purpose of the grant was to conduct outreach on Energy Efficiency issues as well as renewables for the community. She also empowered residents to advocate for the shutdown of the power plant which was a long time in our justice struggle in the bayview. My own personal experience with her was through try to include environmental communities. Marie would hes state t hesitate to put departments and other elected officials on blast despite receiving funding for them. She told the truth as it was. For her, she stoke with credibility as well. Someone with decades of experience and community and experience as an activist. We can only hope to continue here legacy here at the department and we will adjourn in her memory. Rest i in peace marie. Thank you commissioner ahn. Any Public Comment . Next item please. Item 3. [agenda item read] do i hear a motion to approve the draft minutes . Commissioner wald. Is there any discussion or changes commissionerrings . Any Public Comment . All those in favor say aye. All opposed . Motion passes. Next item please. [agenda item read] Vice President stephenson ft not on the agenda in next item. [agenda item read] Vice President stephenson i have the great privilege of presenting an award today. I see some Friendly Faces in the front row. Today its my honor to present commission on environment to San Francisco giants. Here to accept the award is Vice President of Public Affairs also is director of maintenance, and the recycle crew member who will let shanna and roscoe introduce. Reading the list of the San Francisco giants was impressive. The organization has taken initiative over the years and really takes pride in earning their reputation as Greenest Team in major league baseball. The team received mlb for the greenest stadium. We here very happy to know theres at least one team out there thats keeping you guys on your toes. This an exceptional year for the giants. Oracle park received the energy and environmental design, which is the lead status. The lead platinum certification operation and maintenance making it the First Major League ballpark to receive silver, gold and platinum certification for existing buildings. The giants have landfill diversion rate that is hovered around 95 for the past few years. To give a sense of scale, the giants are the single largest contributor to our compost system. They are sweating the small stuff. Their sustain the initiative have led to 75 reduction in commuting trips for employees. In 2012, the giants received the governors environmental and Economic Leadership award. The highest environmental honor in the state. The giants are the recipient Waste Reduction Awards Program administered by the California Department of resources and recyclal known as cal recycle. To many around the world, the San Francisco giants are our citys ambassadors. We here at the San Francisco department the environment are are proud that outrepresenting the need to incorporate and sustainability into your operation and youre leading by example. At the commission were talking about what needs to be done to address our climate crises and its organizations like the San Francisco giants that are great examples how to create solutions. Im pleased to join my colleagues presenting you with the commission on the environment Environmental Service award. [applause] thank you to president bermejo. Shes at our ballpark possibly at graduation. She may not be here for little bit and Vice President stephenson, commissioners and director Debbie Raphael and mayor london breed who are committed ensuring with all of us at the city and county of San Francisco is an environmental leader throughout our country and around the world. The giants are grateful for this recognition. When we opened oracle park 19 years ago, we made a commitment to be the greenest ballpark in the country making Enviornmental Stewardship a top priority. Were proud that were able to fulfill that mission. Thanks to my colleagues please stand. I like to introduce each one of them. Im sorr sorry, nick they are recycle team staff. It was only a mistake we didnt as you heard, weve won few other honors thanks to all you. It is the reason were here today. Its because of our industryleading recycling and Composting Program at oracle parm that we received this years certification for existing building, operation and maintenance making us the first sports venue to receive, silver, gold and now platinum. Thank you to what we believe the best recycling team in all of sports. [applause] in keeping with the environmental ambitions, we set, we brought these ideals to mission rock. Together with the port and city family, weve created a platform for district scale Environmental Solutions throughout what will be the new neighborhood of mission rock. Were raising the site including eight achers of park to stand up to 66 inches of sea level rise, we are implementing a sitewide black Water Treatment facility which will allow us to reach zero water waste. We are trying all of the buildings into a central heating and cooling plant for maximum Energy Efficiency and water savings. We believe in partnership with the port, city family, we have the opportunity to create a uniquely sustainable neighborhood. First of its dine kind in the country. We thank you for your partnership. Between oracle park and mission rock, orange, black and green will be the most referenced colors with orange and black representing our great Baseball Team and green the sustainable projects and programs that makes an environmental leader in our city, industry, cannot and world. Thank you very much for this honor. [applause] Vice President stephenson ce rs you like to make any comments . Thank you Vice President. I want to say thank you. Thank you for your dedication and your leadership. What you do is behind the scenes. Most people who come to the park dont know that theres a special room that all of the bins go to and where they are sorted and recovered. I dont believe people understand how hard you work and yet, they know when they come to the giants stadium, its a team with i would say a truly green heart. While orange and black are on the outside, this is a team with green on the inside. Its so deep within the organization that this idea that youve been silver and gold and then platinum its a Continuous Improvement project for the team. You start with silver, you can do that with lead and you try hard and you get to gold and you try harder still you get to platinum. Anybody has the chance to go and get a tour of the sustainability initiatives of the park, youll see that every person understands that they have a that opportunity from the way the field is maintained. Its on the field, its off the field. Then its beyond the field, so with mission rock. I cant say enough how proud i am and impressed i am that the San Francisco giants are such leaders in sustainability. This award couldnt go to a Better Organization and i want to express again my gratitude because its done with leadership and its done with commitment. The commitment in that leadership goes throughout the organization. Thats so clear. Thank you and i celebrate and salute you tonight. Vice president stephenson a . We want to take a photo with all of you. If we can meet up against that wall over there. [applause] Vice President stephenson is there any Public Comment on this item . Come on up. Going commissioners. Im jack macy with the zero waste staff. On behalf the zero Waste Program department of environment staff, i like to express my deep appreciation for this wonderful team. You are zero waste heroes in my mind. I have we worked with the giants and watched the giants since the park was built, evolved over many years. And took on leadership to become zero Waste Program. This current staff really stepped up big time to the plate in shifting the program. Both from the purchasing side but especially with team of people handling the material before it gets collected. Theyre modeling what we call zero waste affects. Facilitation. Really makes a huge impact. In fact, the work that theyre done, every year they are separating almost a thousandtons going into composting. Two Million Pounds into compost that is fertilizing our soils, creating heller healthier food. Its such a great story here of benefit and why were pursuing zero waste and conserving resources and how the team like the giantings can step forward and model for the whole industry. Thank you very much. Im really proud of you. [applause] next item is Consent Agenda item 6. Enhances actio [agenda item r] this item was discussed in the policy committee. The Committee Recommended our approval. This item is on consent theres no discussion. Is there any member that like to pull this item from consent to have a discussion before our vote . Either way we will take Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment on item 6 . All those in favor of approving Consent Agenda say aye. Any opposed . Motion passes. Item passes. Next item is item 7 [agenda item read] this item was discussed at length in the policy committee. Im not going to take time setting lot of context for it. The recommendation from the policy committee was that the full Commission Approved the resolution. I do want to take this moment to thank Juan Carlos Cancino for his wonderful leadership and enthusiasm for taking this over the finish line. Also for supervisor vallie brown and her desire to become a champion for this idea of zero waste early on in her legislative career. Its been something that is near and dear to the heart. Im going to ask our two speakers both juan carlos and alexa to speak. Commissioners, thank you for giving us a few minutes. Supervisor brown wanted to be here tonight. Unfortunately, given the legislative break, long weekend, shes not in the building today. Out in district. She asked me to be here to speak briefly on her behalf. As we just heard, supervisor brown has been a champion of this particular issue for a very long time. She first came to city hall in 2007 to help pass the nations first plastic bag ban. She remains very committed to this usually. She was excited to partner with the department on this legislation. Both Climate Action and plastics are major longterm challenges. To be successful you need to keep working at it. She believes that strongly. Shes been working to continue her work on theft and Energy Benchmarking and all the different areas of change that we sort of continue to lead on in this city and the bag ordinance just another example of the type of initiative that shes committed to. She really believes that this is about culture change and we need to change the way we consume, the way we relate to each other into the future. She really believes that our culture of convenience just isnt sustainable in that as political leaders we need to be focused on changing the conversation around the way we consume. Thats what this is about. She was proud to introduce it, recognizing that our plastic problems continues to balloon. The industry is taking advantage of loopholes in the law and promote the departments position that we need to refuse and reuse more and its not just about recycling. We really believe that this legislation will encourage more San Franciscoians to bring their own bags. Weve seen that in other parts the state. Change from dime to a quarter, its been a long time since the legislation first passed. We think this is just keeping up with the changing Consumer Trends and our own relationship to nickels and dimes. The legislation is also proposing a first of its kind in the nation ban on single use plastic produce bags. If you look at the number of checkout bags that this nation produces or use every year, something on the order of 100 billion. You can imagine how many produce bags must be taking out. Those are even later plastics and get into our water system even more successfully. Thank you again for the positive recommendation coming out the policy committee and to your staff, its been a pleasure and were committed to continuing to work on the outreach and education on this should it pass the full board. Thank you. Hi commissioners. My name is alex that kielty im with the zero Waste Program. You want to give you a background history and why we went down this path. Its been a pleasure to work with supervisor Browns Office and when they had debbie, thank you for all your help. Many of you already know that were in a plastic crises. Last june, National Geographic came out with this article in the front page saying theres 900 million tons of plastic thats dumped in the ocean. Lot of thats coming from terrestrial sources. In San Francisco, we led the effort in reducing our disposables. Were really proud. Just a quick summary, in 2008 we were the first city in the United States to ban single use plastic bags in 2012, we implemented our 10cent check out bag charge. That was followed by our styrofoam bags and plastic straw. This is another continuation of great work. After San Francisco taking the lead in 2016, california became the first state to ban single use plastics. However, these were the thin single ofuse plastic bags. Youll notice theres a proliferation of these you tra thick plasti ultra thick plas. Unfortunately, we realized we were preempted from changing the definition of reusable plastic bags. We wanted to reduce the amount of those bags getting in the environment. Only way we could to reduce that is through an increase in the charging from 10 cents to 25 cents. Our department actually did a survey looking at shops and what are they distributing. Are they paper or plaque . Plastic . They are mostly in compliance. However about 50 of our shops in San Francisco are still giving out the thick plastic. About 50 to paper. You can see about 6 doing either. What were proposing around supervisor browns proposing going from 10cents to 25cents. What weve realized, cost is really what creates behavior change. Talking to peers in santa cruz, they see a 90 reduction in disposable bag use. 90 of their shoppers in santa cruz are using Reusable Bags. In ireland has some fantastic statistics to which i cant remember. The second part of this ordinance is to prohibiting plastic precheck out bags. Which includes produce bags, the meat bags, the bulk bags. Anywhere youre going to get access to a bag prior to checkout. Were calling those precheck out bag. This ordinance would prohibit the plastic ones. It will allow the compostable. The reason why we went down in path, what we found in our research at the department is when particularly apartment dwellers have access to compostable bags are more likely to participate in our Composting Program. Thats why we kind of went down that path. Our program will be accompanied by outreach and education led by our outreach coordinator. We will be doing outreach to the business corridors and updating all the plaquers. So the public, the consumers will see what the price change is. We want we want consumers also to be notified. In addition, well continue our current campaign, which is encouraging consumes to bring their Reusable Bags, happy to take any questions. Thank you. Vice president stephenson ce rs do you have questions . Thank you, juan carlos and all your work. This is exciting. As someone whos new, could you share little bit about where those funds will go with the increase in pricing of the bags . The 10cent charge currently, the stores keep that. The businesses keep that charge. Its basically offsetting their expenses that they already have. Cost associated with the bags. Going from 10 to 25 cents. Were thinking because the compostable produce bags are a bit more expensive than the plastic bags, hopefully that will offset some of the cost providing compostable produce bags. Thank you. Vice president stephenson a . I think this is a great idea. I hope in a year well be able to say, like santa cruz, this reduced number of people that are not going to bring their own bags by some percent. We talked about this in the policy committee. Im not sure we have a sure way of doing that. If there was some way we could know so that we can count the results down the road, that would be great. I agree. Do you think thats something we can do . Yes. The survey that you saw up there, actually was from my team. We ren went and we did corridor sweep to gauge how well we were doing with the checkout bag. Thats something we can see ourselves doing in the future. Unfortunately, we didnt ask the question on the last survey around how many people were bringing their own bags. Thank you. Vice president stephenson lc comment. Do i hear a motion to approve resolution 201902 c. O. E. . Commissioner ahn and seconded by commissioner wald. Is there Public Comment on this item . Any further discussion . Commissioner ahn director raphael mentioned this has moved out of committee by recommendation. One of the things i was appreciative of juan carlos, the equity component, making sure this does not affect low income communities and communities that may not have Reusable Bags. In that effort, i would hope the Department Keep us apprised of where for instance Reusable Bags are passed out in the future. I attended a great session where they worked with the koreanamerican community. I love to learn more opportunities to do so. Thank you. Vice president stephenson o. All those in favor of approving the resolution say aye. Aye. Vice president Stephenson Mo n passes. Next item. Item 8. [agenda item read] Vice President stephenson t. Commissioners, i have to say this is one of my favorite items of the year that we do. Its where were very blessed department to have the kind of resources we do through our garbage rate process that allow us to actually give out grants. Not only do we pay for our own work. We build capacity and others. This is very much a celebration of that ability to recognize the leadership that is throughout our community and to challenge them, to come up with innovative ways and to have some longerterm continuing support of community members. Youll hear quite diversity of grantees and i want to say a big thank you to the leadership of sean rosen dos mosmoss and alexy who has been working on this for a number of years. I sheparded this process. Always improving it, always asking the question, are we getting the word out to enough people, how are we helping people in their grant applications and how do we continue to help organizations be successful once we have awarded them a grant. Im tremendously proud of the work of this program and well hear from some of the applicants also. For now, well hear from alexa kielty. Hi again. Unusual i have two agenda items backtoback. We are here to share with you our recommendation for the zero waste grant. Im going to give you little bit of history and quickly go through a Short Description each the grants. Quick history of the zero Waste Grant Program has been around since 1984. Its awarded millions of dollars in nonprofit community, just in San Francisco. Weve created hundreds of green jobs and weve diverted thousands of tons from landfill. Lot of going to reuse. Everything from reuse to book collection through s. F. Public library to edible food recovery. All sorts of Different Things that people dont typically think of as waste. How is it funded . It comes out the rate. It comes out the refuse rate. A small percentage goes to the program funds. Heres the list. We had 19 applicants they were requesting 1. 7 million was the total requested amount. We awarded 14 organizations and we awarding 720,000. Thats over a twoyear period. The exciting thing about this list is seven are recurring grantees and seven are brand new organizations we never worked with. Given how long the Grant Program has been around. We were able it recruit these folks. Other exciting thing is about four of them are working around source reduction. Generation reduction. Not sending stuff to compost. I do think the world is starting to go off. We need to move to resource reduction model. The first one is apacc. Theyre repeat grantee. They focus on working with know immigrants and visitation valley. This grant is really going to be focused on working with sunnydale housing which is our largest Public Housing in San Francisco. Its going through a huge rehab now. This is a great opportunity for us to go in when residents move in the apartment to talk to them about zero waste. Zero Waste Outreach Program in language. Garden city environment is their sponsors s. F. Parks council alliance. Its a longterm grantee of ours. Were funding them to do free backward composting classes for san franciscans. Were funding the gardening composting educator training program. Its residents of San Francisco can get training in organic gardening. Moneys of folks have gone through this program and they maintain our community gardens. Which is a fantastic resource for the city. This is a new grantee, groceries seniofor seniors. Thats why they have their vest on. They volunteered with them during earth month. This Group Provides a thousand seniors groceries weekly. Right now theyre relying on distributing with using plastic bags. Well provide them Technical Assistance and look for a reasonable alternative. They dont need to be using a plastic bag. The 10,000 small grant to look for an alternative. This organization, used to be called girls 2000. Weve never funded them before. Were excited to partner with them. This funding is going to go to youth stipens to do door to door outreach and also revitalizing the composting systems. One is rogers garden and other is alex griffith. The other organization well be funding hopefully with the approval is replate. This is nonprofit version and provides technology to help connect edible food donations to folks who need it. They want to launch and expand in San Francisco and this funding will help them do advertising and make those connections here in San Francisco. Scrap, longtime grantee. They do creative reuse. Theyre in the bay Hunters Point. Supports artists, students and teachers. They collect everything from fabric, to beads, metal and carpet and teachers get access to this. San francisco conservation, another longterm grantee of ours. Theyve been employing and educating youth since 1983. This funding will allow them to continue their work in providing green activities. Any large event in San Francisco, they hire conservation core. Our grant will subsidize that work. We can make sure the events in San Francisco are zero waste and youth in San Francisco gets employment. San Francisco State university, this is the second time were funding them. Theyre looking into 15,000pcv banners that you see in city streets, advertising from asian art, those are all getting landfill. Theyre looking at taking those through their Fashion Merchandising Program to refabricating them in bags and selling them. Its innovative. This is the type of thing we need to put some resources in to create innovation. San francisco Unified School District. This is one of my favorite. Theyre looking to go all reusable. Installing dishwashers and through another project, were hoping to install some food tracking software. This high school will be a model for all other Public Schools in San Francisco, hopefully. Theyre goal is to divert 500 tons of unwanted junk mail from San Francisco. Which is huge. Theyre really will be focusing working with seniors and seniors are targeted. They have huge amounts of junk mail. Tech exchange, theyre if the audience. Brand new grantee of ours. Theyre looking to take 5000 San Francisco computers destineed to dis card, refurbish them, working with youth and get them out to folks in San Francisco that dont have internet access. We still have a Digital Divide in the city. This was one of the best written proposals hands down. I was impressed how that was written. Ucsf. They want to continue their great work mission bay campuses. This time theyre going to utilize new tracking software to see what people are discarding and take that reporting and create a feedback to the staff and residents of ucsf both at mission bay. Im exciteed to see how this goes. Upstream. Theyre looking to launch a reusable cup model for coffee shops. Its getting really big in europe. Hopefully well be partnering one of the companies that launched. They have codes in their cups. When you go to a coffee shup, you get your cup to go. Theyll be deposed or you can drop them off. Well move away from disposable to go cup model. Similar to car sharing and bike sharing. Hopefully that network will plug into the bay area. Last one is urban strategies. They are working already doing zero Waste Program at alice griffith. Their plan is to educate Hundred House holds. Our recommendations are really nice mix as our director mentioned of innovation, old time grantees that we funded for many years and also social equity and neighborhood type of grassroots programming. Thank you very much. Happy to take questions. Vice president stephenson t. So rewarding to see all these Amazing Companies and nonprofit organizations who come out here and do the great work theyre doing out in the communities and helping us reach our goal. Its not just the city trying to enact policies but everybody on the street doing all the great work. Were really happy to see that. Commissioners any questions or comments . I understand you say told funding 720,000. Thats there been an increase . It varies. It goes up and down little bit every year. I think thats a slight crest. Increase. I was interested in the ucsf kind of tracking whats going into the garbage. Is that something wed inform our ideas citywide. Is there something unique about ucsf garbage . Can we use that to be improved citywide . Potentially. Its an auditing tool. It would allow Property Managers to audit their own stream and take more responsibilities. You can use the software to identify which tenant in your building needs additional outreach. Potentially, i think the Software Maker is in the audience, you want him to come up . No. Okay. Well hold off on that. I wanted to invite before we go to Public Comment if i may, i may invite people at this moment. Many of yousare here because you are named. If you like to say a few words. Please come on up. Make a line and introduce yourself and tell us what organization youre from and if you want to have a short comment about your grant, that would be great. Good evening commissionerrings. Im tom beaver im the Program Director for grocery for seniors. Our organization is moving our 20th year this year. I began the Program Director april 2015. We taken lot of steps and lot of good directions. When you got there, we were all of th everything was going landfill. Immediately we worked on a program to recycle and compost. Were do you thinwere down to. The big thing are the plastic bags. To have an option like this, we work also with Grocery Store owners. We pick up foods thats outdated. We marry that with the food bank and put together big grocery bags. We go to the same buildings every week. Thousands communit thousand. I want to thank you very much should this go forward. Its going to be huge for us. Were happy to be more part of the solution and allow us to continue to do what we do for the seniors. Thank you so much. [applause] good evening. Im with the San Francisco conservation core. Out interesting to see ucsf. It was this grant where we did seed project with them. They took two young people and employ them. Its like the circle of life. Also we participate with the peer groups to help gather the food from restaurants and feed our young people at the end of the day. Lastly, the grant also is we have incline with the state. Department of resources, we have significant resources where we actually advocate for the city of San Francisco working with kevin drew, he just left. Were representing were working on pilot programs and under sb458. This grant goes such a long way for us and for the city and also awallthe partnering we do. I want to say thank you and that each year, we innovate and we take those funds and we expand them extra use, three to four extra what we get. Thank you. Good evening. Following conservation core who we did work with three years ago to set up institutionalized sorting program for ucsf. It was massive success. We were able to get three fulltime sorters for the university. It gets harder to get zero waste for the university. Were a large producer of waste in general. Were trying to find innovative ways to continue our waste reduction as well as sorting as a solution. Were trying to take researchbased approach. We have done that through paper logs for a long time. That information transferred to making realtime decision to help influence behavior change is slow. This grant listen go a lon wo a long way. Were at 78 . We appreciate everything you do to help us continue our effort towards zero waste. Thank you. Im from San Francisco state university. I would be very appreciative if we can get this grant this year. Last year was our first grant. I have to tell you that what the grant does, we were collecting clothing in from people and giving them out to people. What youre doing with this grant is educating the next generation about the fact that just because i dont have a button, doesnt mean i throw it out. Just because something has a stain on it for my coffee, doesnt mean it has to be washed. I can take a towel. The education that we did and the students that came back and reeducated was phenomenal. The current grant, if we are permitted to work with the people that create these Marketing Tools for many organizations, actually i had the idea maybe we should look at making a bag from banners for i was sitting there saying, these banners are pvc. They are water resistant. Weve done some experimenting. Thank you for the past and the future. Im from Hunters Point family. Im the Program Director and Environmental Program department. I want to thank you guys for this opportunity for us to apply. Were really excited to be considered for the grant. If we are awarded the grant it will help our young people in Environmental Program departments go out into the community and teach people at Hunters Point about composting and it will help us revitalize two composting systems. We hope that we get it and we appreciate the opportunity. Thank you. Im the Program Director for upstream. Were an organization whos mission is to end our throw away culture and our vision is to work in communities and make throwaway a thing of the past. Just the way we have smoke free inflations we all take that for granted. We want to have a future where people are taking for granted if you walk in restaurant and youre not served on disposable singleused silverware. If we are successful and awarded this grant, it will be one of several pilot projects that we are working to achieve around the San Francisco bay for reusable take out cups. Our vision is to link these pilots around bay into one yunel iunified bay area. Much like bike sharing. You can pick up your Morning Coffee in reusable in San Francisco. If you travel around the bay, youll be able to drop it off at no cost. Thats the vision. If San Francisco follows berkeleys lead and add 25cent charge, the engagement level will be much higher. We are looking forward to an opportunity to make that happen in San Francisco. Thank you. Good evening. Im eyim anita green. Working with urban strategyings we havstrategies, weve been x griffith training people how to do recycling and come posing. One of the major responses we get, whats in it for me . The foundation has funded a small stipen for people for the last few months and with the grant, were hoping to encourage people to take on more responsibility, one of the biggest problems that were encountering is that people arent in the program continually pollute the different chutes that they have available to separate the recycling from the composting from the waste. Instead, they constantly mix it or they throw their garbage bags into the room and dont even bother sorting. Were hoping to create more interest in residents in taking on that job of sorting the materials. Myself personally inspired by the award you gave to the giants today. I felt like, okay, its possible. You can turn it around. Im hoping to go back and inspire the group to take a tour at the giants facility or have the giants come and speak to our group to sniper them. They nee inspirethem. They need some inspiration. They had some tough time. Good evening my name is lauren. Im the assistant innovation manager at the San Francisco Unified School District at student