Food waste particular is a unique challenge within schools. Based on regulations and amount of food tha left over. There are unique challenges that are producing large quantity of leftover. We are working on focusing on how to we connect leftover food. Schools are also in a unique position that School Funding is limited. This grant is doing things to paying money to track and test and donate instead of pilot programs not something that falls within the budget. The ability to have this funding to set something up that we can expand district wide is going to be immeasurable. Thank you. Im im jen from replate. We utilize technology to redistribute edible surplus food to nonlot of servin nonprofits. We operate here in San Francisco. Out our biggest market and were looking to expand our operations even further. One of our Biggest Challenges that we find is edible surplus food possible generators do not know they can donate surplus food. They are worried about food safety liability. We have been able we like to use this funding to continue our outreach and let them know that it is safe to donate their food. It will be helpful with the Upcoming Senate bill 1383 which will require edible surplus foods. It will help us build out our operational processes to be able to streamline that pick up piece for surplus donator to make it easy for them right away so we can pick it up on demand. We do operate here. We work with Amazing Community organizations like glide st. Vincent depaul and with your approval, it would be immensely helpful to continue expanding operations and to get more surplus food to people who need it in the city. Good evening. Im the director of development of tech exchange. Im excited to be here. Were founded in 1995. Our mission is to bridge the Digital Divide across the bay area. Currently here in San Francisco, approximately 120,000 residents actually dont have access or home computer at home. We dont count cell phone access as home access. Approximately 70 of landfill toxic waste is coming from ewaste. We believe that with the Tech Industry booming and all these new startups coming online and people turning over their computers so quickly, we do believe that theres enough computers being discarded that resident can have home access in their home. Last year plan, we actually received 1700 computer donations in the city of San Francisco alone. We received thousands of computers across the bay area. But from San Francisco, 1700. We believe that this grant will allow us to focus and be able to redirect those donated computers directly to residents here in San Francisco and obviously with the city such a forefront in the ewaste and Tech Industry, use to provide the services in the underrepresented communities would be great and provide them with the ability to redirect the cycle of poverty, having access to the needs. We believe this grant will allow us to have that foundation and represent patients here in San Francisco and not just the bay area. Vice president stephenson ln take Public Comment. Do i hear a motion to approve resolution file 201903 c. O. E. . I move. I like to Say Something first. I want to thank each and every one of you for the truly awe inspiring and inspirational and wonderful work that you are doing across the city and in your communities. I wish that i could wave a magic wand to so that all the people in San Francisco would know about the fabulous work that youre doing. That would in and you of itself help all of us reach our mutual goals much quicker. Because cant do that, you im going to vote for this resolution. Which i move. Hopefully the department will be able to figure out some way to make at least some of what youre doing known to our fellow residents. It really is extraordinary and wonderful and thank you and thanks for coming tonight to tell us about it. Vice president stephenson do i hear a second . Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. Any further discussion . All those in favor approving the resolution say aye. Motion passes. [applause] next item. Thank you everybody for coming. I apologize for being late. Its a personal privilege. My niece is graduating from high school. I had to be there. Were going to take a group photo since we have a full commission and were going to continue after the photo with the next item. It will be a little break. President bermejo we welcome our new commissioner tiffany chu. Commissioner stephenson was sworn in. Thank you with that. Our next item . [agenda item read] thank you president. Normally we do this at the very beginning of every meeting. Today we wanted to mix it up a bit because of all the guests. Thank you becca for your patient patience this is way to highlight great work of the department. You have t i have to say i le this one. I was so blown away. Im not going to give it away. Its so clever. Becca . Thats quite an endorsement. I like to talk about our new resident campaign. It was to encourage behavior change in new residents in San Francisco towards Sustainable Transportation and away from single occupancy vehicles. Why new residents . San francisco has historically been shaped by many ways of new residents. Our current wave of techies isnt different. What were seeing is a combination of high salaries and really readily available ubers. Its impacting our transportation sector in a way thats lasting. This is a very important audience to engage. We have thousands of new residents coming to San Francisco every year. They tend to be younger, tech savvy but not familiar with the Transportation Options available in San Francisco. What they are bringing is their transportation habits from home. That tends to be single occupancy vehicles and using lyft and uberer. Another one is working with them why they are still new in the city. Behavioral change when we thought to engage the audience, with wanted to make share theyre aware of Sustainable Transportation option and they have enough information to use them. The grant on this project require that we send something in the mail. We also aware this audience like things to be digital. In order to meet this requirement, we decided that what it should be was not to contain all at information but to be a bridge. To be something that a piece of inspiration to get a new resident to then go look up the Additional Information they need digitally. After a lot of thought, we came up with these three postcards in a mailer with the welcome card. On the surface, its like a simple idea. There was a lot of reasons behind it. First of all, we needed to ensure that residents actually opened their mail and its rare that a city reaches out and welcomes new residents. This mailer stood out as a unique experience. Which made it lot more likely to be opened. These cards pointed to digital resources, they didnt use that much paper, there was lotles los paper waste. They are really easy to update if we sent out printed maps, they wouldnt be. Postcards have a modest value. They wont be immediate thrown away. Theyll end up on fridge or counter top. Thats the additional exposure to the messaging. Their postcards so they are shareable. If you take the time to sit down and write one, thats additional exposure to the messaging. The messaging is very succinct. That aligns with the Communication Style of the twitter generation. It also makes sure that were really calling out the why behind Public Transit before just flooding someone with information. This is the front the welcome card. Theres lot of thought into how the language is crafted. This is the back of the card. We really wanted to frame the appeal and really underline the es of using Sustainable Transportation in San Francisco. One principle we look to was communitybased social marketing principle that peer to peer are most effective way. We encourage that with phrases, share your adventures, ask a coworker. We look to principles of social norming with phraseses like join the pack. We wanted to make sure that were framing Sustainable Transportation in a really possible light. One suggestion we made was to try out muni for a day. The principle here is, take a day off and youre on an adventure, you get off on the wrong stop, thats fine. Its a new neighborhood to explore. If youre late for a meeting and this stop is a different experience. We suggested that a resident as their coworker their favorite way to get to work. We really wanted to underline two new residents that San Francisco is their city now and highlight, heres how san franciscans get around. Phrases like welcome to your city, San Francisco is yours to discover, the real s. F. Experience and become an insider. The imagery features public transportation, biking and walking and youll see that the images are instagram like in style. One of the reasons is to create that bridge between overly familiar digital platform and a physical mailer and also these are postcards. Its a reminder these images are physically shareable too. New residents come from really diverse backgrounds. We have 28 new residents come from another state and 20 from another country. We wanted to make sure that our images welcoming and inclusive. One the reasons why you dont see any people in the images is we didnt want to limit them to a specific demographic. With wanted image that anyone can look at and see themselves in it. For that same reason, we use gender neutral shoes and gender neutral bike. All of them are set in San Francisco. The scenes themselves are culturally universal. You can relate to them no matter where youre from. In terms of delivery, we sent out 27,000 mailers to new residents across San Francisco. This is heat map with red being the highest concentration where new residents are living. We wanted to measure some of the impact of this mailer. We did two surveys. One of our first findings, we did reach our target audience. 73 of the people we surveyed had moved to San Francisco within the past six months and 99 have moved within the past year. Our hunch that new residents tend to be younger was accurate. 80 are under age 40. We sent these surveys at least two weeks after a resident received a mailer. I dont know but, if i think to a piece unsolicited mail i got two weeks ago, literally nothing comes to mind. 79 of those surveyed recalls this mailer. More importantly, everyone who recalled the mailer, 78 received it positively. This is a piece of junk mail. This positive reception cut across age, ethnic and gender demographics. I think that shows us that were effective being inclusive. We had surprising finding around car ownership. 73 of those who didnt recall mailer owned a clipper card. 88 of those who did are call a mailer owned a clipper card. The difference is interesting. Its also if you combine these, thats four out of five new residents who own clipper card. The reason that this is an important finding is that for a while, big barrier between new residents and using Sustainable Transportation was that how would they know how to get a clipper card. You dont get a welcome packet exempexempt for except for t. It can get residents it use clipper cards that they apparently already have. One barrier we do know using Sustainable Transportation is whether its perceived easy to do or difficult. About half of those who did not recall receiving a mailer thought it was easy getting around San Francisco without a car. For those who recalled the mailer, we saw almost three quarters felt that it was easy to get around San Francisco without a car. Seeing perception shift is an important step in behavior change. I think with this campaign, we really understood our audience. As we approached it creatively, we did implement the principles of social marketing and made sure that we used really clear, simple language that connected with emotions and i think that led us really approach Sustainable Transportation from a new viewpoint in a way that its not often communicated. Also in way thats welcoming and inclusive. [applause] one question before i ask the commissioners. President bermejo are the welcome cards in other languages other than english . They are only in english. President bermejo commissio . Commissioner stephenson. Vice president stephenson t. That was fantastic. Exciting. Was there any digital backup to it . Did any digital stuff go out as well as the postcards . Not along with the postcards. The postcard pointed to digital resources. It was like the briefest summary of the exact digital resources that you need. We wanted to keep things streamlined. Vice president stephenson d . Can can you track a list those areas. Unfortunately, we relied on our partners website as opposed to our own. We do not have the data on whether theyhad bump in that. Vice president stephenson we can have one of the cards come back to us as a mechanism to maybe reach more people. Im so glad you did the survey. Its one the things it the department is doing extraordinarily well. Making sure we have pre and post data. Having an opportunity to catch them while theyre in it, its interesting as well. Thank you. President bermejo director raphael . Did you bring any physical copies . Did not. President bermejo do we have some . Yes. President bermejo we are going to send them to you because they are so beautiful and they are things that you will enjoy. On one side the postcard, is that Beautiful Image but on the other side, theres very fun text that you would send to 2 just moved here and youre sending it home. The idea is that youre owning this San Francisco thing to do. Theres some clever text on the other side as well. They are real experiences. Commissioner chu i want to commend you for such an incredible campaign. Its quite emotional on lot of levels as someone who moved to San Francisco about 5. 5 years ago. I think one of the things thats most interesting to me is seeing that the quality of the brand and the style that you all chose, i think actually elevates lot of the typical branding of lot of the options that are provided to us in a more general way. Its a real way to speak to that audience. You want to say congrats. Thank you. President bermejo commissioe r sullivan. Commissioner sullivan im really impressed 80 of our newest residents used clipper cards. It gives me hope that theyll get to that 80 . More and more people join the city and join the clipper card revolution. Absolutely. Our next survey, i i want to know how they found out. We are surprised and curious and encouraged by that. Theres a report. I will send it out. President bermejo any other questions . If not is there any Public Comment on item 9 . Next item. [agenda item read] thank you. Well, it is now may, almost end of may and since we only meet every other month, i need to acknowledge that april was earth month. It was final. Yophenomenal. You want to thank e commissioners on all the volunteering and events. We had 200 events listed on our special website that we designed for earth month. There were lot of firsts for the department in the city. It was tau our month of Climate Action. The mayor had her evening of reception. She doesnt have to have a breakfast which she was so excited about not having. We did the first mayoral Environmental Service award. That brought of of us to tears. It was incredible with green street. The mayor was on fire. Im very excited. Not only did we have Environmental Service and reception, we had significant announcements about Renewable Energy requirements for large commercial buildings, about decarbonizing our building through a target force and about full sign ups for clean power, about bike protected bike paths. There were lot of announcements that went on from the mayor during the month of april. For some reason the last two months feels to be very heavy on foreign delegations. You dont usually talk. This. As i was making a note all the different delegations weve had, china, norway, zurich, france, ireland. Theyve all been very highlevel. These are parliamentary committees on environment. We had ireland, we had the Environmental Protection agency been w we had delegation from france. They published that incredibly depressing report about million species going extinct. The french delegation is here to talk about biodiversity. The city of zurich was here talk about their Incredible Energy initiatives that theyve done. On and on, its been a very busy six weeks. Reminder of how much that we do in San Francisco doesnt stay in San Francisco and how curious the rest of the world is about learning from us. You want to call out that we not only give out money but we apply for money and the zero Waste Program received a 500,000 grant from cal recycle to do a Big Initiative on food waste prevention. That is going to be using interesting new tools well be contracting with ngos to accelerate. Our food waste. As you may remember, one of the big commitments that came out of the Climate Action, the governors Climate Action summit was to reduce our generation 15 . Were very much trying to figure out how do we reduce generation. Thats why some of the grants were about reducing generation. We just applied for a big grant to look at reducing generation. That is what i want to say in terms of my Going Forward two items budget season is upon us. We are not a general fund department. Continue to not be. Our budget looks pretty solid for this fiscal year. Well see about next fiscal year. I dont anticipate drama around our budget. One never knows. We go before the Budget Committee in june. Its very late this year. We will let you know at our next Commission Meeting how that went. Finally, we cut our meeting rather short tonight because we wanted to go downstairs and be a part of a special celebration to honor the late mayor lee. Were little bit late to it. As we adjourn we can go down and join the community and the Mayors Office who are putting together a book in his memory of all of his accomplishments. I hope you will join me and us as we go downstairs once we adjourn. Thank you. Thank you director. Any questions commissioners . President bermejo is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. Next item. Item 11 is committee reports. This item is for discussion. Vice president stephenson we will have our Operations Committee meeting this thursday may 30th in city hall room 421. Well hear presentation on the implementation of the Financial Systems project and possibilities from incorporating green purchasing. Which im excited about. Thats one the first things that i got all energized about. Also theres going to be a presentation on the implementation of sales force Customer Relationship management. At the department of the environment. Come join us if you want to geek out about tech stuff on thursday. Commissioner ahn on april 10, 2019 we talked about the refuse separation compliance ordinance as well as San FranciscoBusiness Program on may 13, 2019. Talked about the resolution around check out on precheck out bag fees that we just voted on. More to come. Well have a meeting in june. President bermejo thank you. Any questions or comments . Vice president stephenson at the next meeting in june, are you going to do more of a dive into the ecology challenges . Commissioner ahn we discussed it. Vice president stephenson i. Im starting to get lot of questions about it personally. Im not sure how to answer when theyre asking questions about things like, am i supposed to put my throwaway coffee cup, put that in the recycling bin. Would it be better in compost. Commissioner ahn one things that was discussed was possibility of another site visit. It was repeated in the presentation that colleges adopting new technologies to help improve recycling rates. That will be great for us to experience. When was the last site visit . President bermejo about two years ago. Any other comments . Is there any Public Comment . Were going on to the next item. Item 12 is announcements and items for discussion. President bermejo any announcements, next item. Item 13 new business. [agenda item read]. Thank you commissioners. As commissioner stephenson noted the Operations Committee is meeting thursday of this week. After that, the policy Committee Meeting is june 10th. Then for the full commission, the next meeting is july 23rd. That is the commission retreat. I believe we have a few words to say about that, anthony will comment on that in terms of agenda and few other logistics. One other update, we are entering the approval of our reduced risk pesticide season that processes beginning. The policy committee and the full commission will be hearing about that coming up over the next several months. Ill turn it over to anthony who will discuss few items as it pertains to the retreat. I want to get another site visit just for youre your ongoig list. It will be interesting to go to the giants and see their sustainability operation after tonight. I love going to the recycling place. I want to do both. Good suggestion. Anything else . Anthony, you want to talk about the retreat . Assure. At the request the commissioners, this is something commissioners requested. The department is going to be host a retreat for the commission. July 23rd is the regular Commission Meeting. Thats not the date of the retreat will be sending out the idea is to have half day retreat. Around 9 00 to 1 30 at a location to be determined. Were hoping to do it at location where there cob a tour there could be a tour to follow the morning retreat. We have couple of places in mind. We want to see if you have any thoughts on locations that would be both suitable for a meeting and a tour. Thats publicly accessible. We have some ideas about what the framework what the retreat could look like but first you commissioners if you have any ideas. The initial thoughts that director raphael, charles and i had was to have a discussion around what youre looking forward to as a commissioner and have one large deep dive into one the major issues that the department and city trying to tackle. Three issue we came up with were one of our justice, getting to 100 electricity and reducing consumption. If you have any ideas or preference on those topics, please email me or director raphael what your ideas are. We really appreciate it. Keep an eye out for an email from me with a few dates to get your preference. Could repeat the list . Environmental justice was one, the department as you got a presentation on, the department has very Strong Equity program and team and the team is developed Racial Equity tool to evaluate programs and policy. One of the things we would do. Other is discussion getting to 100. In terms of 100 electricity. Third is addressing consumption to get to the zero waste total. Those are the three. Well probably pick one. Those are the three that came up. Big ticket items. President bermejo questions on this item . Director raphael. Anthony just to be clear on your ask of the commissioners, youre asking if if they have opinions about those three . We need to set up the date. Thats one thing. The second is if you have ideas for locations to have a retreat and there might be a tour thats of interest, we have some ideas. Then third, thinking about the subject matter. Those are when you get sent the doodle pole well ask you those questions. Its very important to us if you give us feedback so we design this in a way that is most compelling to you. Vice president stephenson on the future agenda, one of the things that i keep seeing is that theres so many great organizations, companies out there that are doing really heavy lift toward getting to zero waste themselves. One the things we see in our daytoday life are all those companies that arent doing the right thing to get toaste to zeo waste. As we talk about the influx of new comers to the city and weve gone through the San Francisco thing to do campaigns in the past for newcomers to the city. Specifically in the tech world, i would be really interested to see if we can do some sort of an assessment or evaluation. In the same way that we can do some of those collaborative kinds of work to help different organizations move the needle and get better and better. Im wondering if we can potentially out the conversations. I know theres significant amount of openness to that amongst some of the companies. Some of the employees in the companies. I personally would love to see Something Like that agendized. Commissioner wan commission. They have a learning centre which possibly accompany the meeting site. President bermejo anything else . Any other questions . Any Public Comment . I wasnt here when we talked about marie harrison. I want to appreciate that was raised. Thank you very much. Next item next item is item 14 adjournment. This meeting is adjourned in memory of marie harrison, the time is 6 46 p. M. Thank you. Sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very Minimal Energy use. It Still Matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. So having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. We heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. It was super easy to sign up. Our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. Nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. Its an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around Climate Change and its so easy that its hard to not want to do it, and it doesnt really add anything to the bill. Better. San Francisco Department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. We know that we dont have all the answers. We need to support our local champions, our local community to find Creative Solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. Zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. The Grant Program is a Grant Program specifically for nonprofits in San Francisco to divert material from landfill. Its important to find the San FranciscoProduce Market because theres a lot of edible food that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. San francisco Produce Market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. I think its a basic human right to have access to healthy foods, and all of this food here is available. Its a matter of creating the infrastructure, creating jobs, and the system whereby none of this goes to waste. Since the beginning of our program in july 2016 to date, weve donated over 1 Million Pounds of produce to our community partners, and thats resulted in over 900,000 meals to people in our community, which were very proud of. Carolyn at the San FranciscoProduce Market texts with old produce thats available. The produce is always excellent. We get things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, bell peppers. Everything that we use is nice and fresh, so when our clients get it, they really enjoy it, and its important to me to feel good about what i do, and working in programs such as this really provides that for me. Its helping people. Thats what its really about, and i really enjoy that. The work at the Produce Market for me representing the intersection between environment and community, and when we are working at that intersection, when we are using our resources and our passion and our energy to heal the planet and feed the people, nothing gets better than good morning and thank you for being here. Today has been a Long Time Coming and it is certainly a cause for celebration. Im glad to see so much support for our animals. We are joined today by some of our adoption partners, including sonoma reptile rescue, wonder dog, mutts ville, pause, as well as our largest partner, the San Francisco spca. [applause] it takes a village to care for the 10,000 animals we taken every year, so we all worked closely together to save as many as we can, also joining us are our coworkers from across the city who help the shelter function. We are animal experts, so we are very dependent on our counterparts at city hall who keep us on the straight and narrow and pitch in from everything from accounting, to human resources, to legal advice , building management, Everything Else that keeps the shelter afloat. Nearly all of the walks and cuddles our animals receive every day come courtesy of our volunteers, who last year, devoted 27,000 hours of time to our shelter. [cheers and applause] we couldnt survive without them. We also have a very special group of volunteers, the board of friends of acc works tirelessly to develop partnerships between the shelters, the community, the business community, and helps raise funds to help support our efforts. Last but not least, there is the a. C. C. Staff, you every day take in stray pets, injured wildlife abused animals, and heal them as best they can. [applause] in addition to animals, our team helps many people in the city, often on the saddest days of their lives as they look for a lost pet or grieve for a companion who has just died. Today, we are breaking ground on a new home for all of the citys animals and the people who love them. We will no longer have a building that works against quality care. Each animal will have some place to stretch. We will have forever outdoor play stations which means that bunnies will no longer have to share with the dogs. [laughter]. Which is no fun for anyone, especially the bunnies. We will have ventilation systems that help fight the spread of disease, we will have isolation rooms so we no longer have to house nervous birds with sick cats. As we approach the departments 40 it 30th anniversary, we can anticipate moving into a shelter worthy of the city of st. Francis. The building would not have big become a reality without the efforts of many, including the board of supervisors, city administrator naomi kelly, the architects, engineers, and project managers at the department of public works who probably redesigned this Building Three times, sfmta, who agreed to trade buildings with us, and first and foremost, our mayor, please welcome, maryland and breed please welcome mayor london breed. [applause]. Thank you, virginia, and thank you all for being here. Believe it or not, i owned a lot of cats a long time ago. Kitty one, kitty two, kitty three, kitty four, kitty five, and jojo. It is Something Special about animals, and this is why we are all here today. We definitely get really attached to our pets, and honestly, i cry when my grandmother i cried when my grandmother wouldnt take wouldnt let me take kitty five to college. I think about our shared experiences of how animals make us feel, the love, the comfort, the excitement, and especially when you teach them new tricks, but we also know there are a number of challenges in our city sometimes, if an owner passes away, they have a pet, and there is no place for that pet to go. Sometimes when we see animals that are stray and out on our streets, and they are injured, we have to make sure that they have a place to go, and animal care and control has been that place for over 30 years here in the city and county of San Francisco, and in fact, because of the work and the support, and the fundraising from the friends of the animal care and control, the ability to have so many incredible volunteers, and Additional Resources is why people care about making sure that we have a better facility so that we can accommodate so many animals, so many requests, and do what we know we can do better, and that is take care of animals here in San Francisco when they cant take care of themselves. [applause] part of building a resilient city is making sure that our assets are seismically safe, and we know that the current building at 15th and harrison is efficient. It is cramped, and it may not survive the next earthquake, and we know it is not a matter of if there will be an earthquake in San Francisco, it is a matter of when. When you look all around the country at the number of disasters that occur, and how pets have been separated from owners, and what happens during that time, it is important that we are not concerned about the structure, that we are able to do the work, that people know that there animal, if found, will be brought to animal care and control, because we will have a seismically sound facility so the employees, the amazing staff of animal care and control can focus on doing their job and not necessarily on whether or not the rueful cave in. That is what this is about, and i want to thank everyone for being here today, but i also want to think the person who spearheaded this entire project and was really aggressive on the board of supervisors with ensuring that we invested the dollars necessary to get this project done sooner rather than later. Supervisor, former supervisor katy tang. [cheers and applause] who went on during her time on the board of supervisors , she would always, especially during the holidays, bring in a lot of cats, and i would go in there and be tempted to adopt, and then i would think , okay, i have to be able to feed the cat every day, can i feed the cat every day, but helps with adoption, helps with advocacy for animals in San Francisco, and thank you for your really steadfast commitment on supporting this project, and now in two and a half years when you come back to cut the ribbon, you will see the fruits of your labor with all of the incredible people here today. Thank you supervisor tang. And thank you to naomi kelly kelly, thank you to mohammed knew rue, and all the people who have played a Critical Role in making this project happen, but a special thanks to the community, to the volunteers who have spent over 30,000 hours taking care of over 10,000 animals year after year after year, and the friends who continue to raise money, and raise awareness for this amazing project. This will be an absolute incredible facility, and i just wanted to acknowledge our new fire chief, janine nicholson, thank you so much for being here as well. [applause] please know that we are increasing the capacities of the fire marshal does not have to shut down the new space. We will have plenty of room and places for people to be. Thank you everyone for being here today and your support for this amazing project. [applause] i almost forgot, also i forgot to thank the leader of animal care and control, thank you so much, virginia, for your hard work and your commitment. [cheers and applause] and your steadfast leadership [applause]. And at this time, i want to bring forth our city administrator naomi kelly. [applause]. Good morning. Our mayor and director of a. C. C. , virginia don who basically said it all. This project is so important. It was one of the first projects i worked on when i became city administrator in 2012. I instantly realized when i went on a right along with one of the animal care control officers that a. C. C. , the staff, the volunteers, they are all of the Unsung Heroes of the city. Is the mayor mentioned, as virginia mentioned, animal care and control is truly First Responders when it comes to getting animals off the streets, and then they have communicable communicable diseases, you dont hear about these diseases going from pets to humans, because they do great work. When there is an emergency, theyre the ones making sure folks are evacuating in a safe way, especially if you have many people who are pet lovers, and they dont want to leave without their pets. They have emergency plans around that. When their incidents with police and fire, and their people and buildings you dont want to leave because animals are there, or they are that are homeless encampments, and folks want to leave without their animals. Animal care and control is there as the mayor mentioned, they are moving from just down the street , so they will still be in proximity with other animal agencies, and theyre moving right here to build a building that is seismically safe. This is important to our capital plan because we are looking at all of our seismic safety of all of the building and as a reminder, the capital plan is a fiscally constrained document that looks at all of our infrastructure in a way that we prioritize what is seismically safe, what is sustainable, what will help with our city to make it vibrant and resilient. I want to thank, as the mayor did katy tang, and your leadership on this. Public works director, virginia donohue, and ed risk in from the sfmta. I also want to give a special thanks to our friends at a. C. C. Who are doing so much and making sure we raise funds for behavior and training, Foster Program support, medical emergency fund, rabies and microchip supplies, marketing and outreach, food supplies, rescue partner grants, senior cat, baby cat supplements , and much more, and also the furniture fixtures and Equipment Center going into this building. I want to thank the board treasurer, volunteer dianne davis and christopher davis, a board member Christina Christina kizer, and dr. Sue wong. Your generosity extends past the groundbreaking in this official opening. With that, i would also one last thing, i need to give a special thank you to park construction. They are the contractors working with public works on this. And in phase one, they have awarded contracted 24 Business Enterprises in the amount of 12. 5 million, that is