Qualitative view. They did not do a baseline before. What they are finding now is that they can say through survey data, that 90 percent of the time when the person enters a store, they are bringing in a bag. It does delay the need to have some good baseline data. The country of ireland did a similar thing where they started out about, oh gosh, about 21 cents per bag. What was interesting in ireland when they put in their 20 cents per bag they saw a huge change in behavior. Over time people acclimated to that cost of doing business, and there use of Reusable Bags and started to drop off. When they prodded people again with a raise in the fee, they saw the behavior that they wanted again. They saw a drop off of purchase of bags and an increase in using reusable. For our own data in San Francisco. After the ordinance was put in effect after about 2013. We did an informal survey of compliance as well as behavior. We found a rough estimate of about 60 percent. By right to me would be a place that is doing everything correctly from an environmental standpoint. Only 60 percent of the people that come into by right get that five cent discount. They are at about 60 percent uptake. All of that information is feeding into us where we think it is time, we agree with supervisor brown, it is time to revisit this ordinance we had it is time to increase the cost and its also time for us to step back and get the better data ourselves. Before this ordinance goes into effect we will set a baseline, because im not finding baselines in any other city. We will set a baseline and then we will know much more definitively. As i said this is half of what this ordinance does. While we are not the first to increase the fee, or the charge on a bag we are certainly one of these for us to look at these precheckout bags. Anyone that goes into a market today and sees lots of plastic we may see it in the bulk candy section. What this legislation does is it prohibits the distribution of any plaque thick precheckout bag. They cannot be made of plastic. Instead, they need to be compostable, or they need to be paper. Let me just show you the difference here. If they are compostable they need to be green. I went to a grocery store, and this is from whole foods. These are there precheckout bags, they are green, but they are plastic. This is what a compostable checkout bag looks like. It is green, but it feels radically different. It is very important that we do not have green plastic bags, in commerce right now. We want people to do something very specific with this once they got home. People are composting at home and they are putting their food scraps and plastic. They may even put them in bags that were green. Once they get here ecology, that plastic ruins our compost area compost. If they need a produce bag, they take it home, they put their food scraps in it and we have a truly circular economy here, because the food scraps become compost which become food, which comes back to our city. Who is affected . There is a definition of Food Service Establishments and in stores in the ordinance. This will cover Grocery Stores, restaurants, takeouts and food delivery. Produce markets, farmers dockets on specialty stores. This is a fairly wide impact on our local stores. We know that theres going to be a lot of work that needs to be done to educate people. We have our outreach team, our environment now team which already surveyed 1000 stores to understand compliance. They are ready to go out and work with our Small Businesses make sure they understand what is allowed. Reusable bags, which could be reusable produce bag which are really cool and then of course the reusable checkout bags. We are going to be working on developing instore materials. This is a placard that we developed in 2013. So they all have materials that make sense to the people who frequent those doors. We are not stopping there, of course, ultimately we want people to refuse, we want to people to bring in reusable. We dont want people to just pay 25 cents to have a thick plastic bag, or yet another paper bag. So we have a campaign to reach out to make it the thing to do to use reusables. Thank you to the budget process, we have funds now to significantly give out new, Reusable Bags. We will not just be giving them out blindly but asking for pledges and developing positive engagement strategy around the giveaways in the coming year. Ultimately, what we are trying to do is reduce waste generation that is at the heart of what we are trying to do a city. Mayor breed adopted a very bold reduction goals on generation and tackling bags whether they be precheckout or post checkout is a way of bringing to everyones attention the Important Role that each of us as individuals play to have a World Without plastic in a World Without waste. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor safai . Thank you. The thing i am excited about the most. The reducing of the precheckout bags. One of the things particularly with the up tics in the folks shopping with Delivery Services for groceries, and things that would have never been into plastic, because it is easy, i guess it ends up being easier to throw things and plastic. I think it will be good to see, more use of paper, which is a much more controllable source of reusable and recyclable source he had obviously trying to reduce those when possible and hopefully people still do their own shopping. I think, given these choices you will significantly reduce the amount of plastic bags. I am really excited about that, its very similar to when we did our Plastic Straws are there were other components of that legislation that had less tension that will have a Significant Impact on that. We just had 15 whales wash up and die, and all of them had significant amounts of plastic in their bellies and they were open. Whenever you travel around the world, to go to any beat, i challenge you not to find the pellets of plastic that are washing up that have been dumped into the ocean by countries that were many times taking our plastic with the hopes of them being recycled. The key element is the reduction portion. A lot of people forget about that. Sometimes you have to fight with people at the checkout counter and say i dont want to bag, i can actually carry the stuff out. Its going to be okay. I dont need it. Again, i think its a lot of an educational component. It is something that has vexed me for a long time. I appreciate the precheckout portion of it. I think the more we can educate people to use the cloth, i think the more we have the opportunity to give those out, use some of the money that was put aside in our budget process to continue to hand these out as art of the education process and give people the free bags, i think Reusable Bags, i think that is a really good thing, particularly in the areas where we see the least amount of use of those in different neighborhoods and so on. The more we can do that, i think the better it is a good every time you all have an opportunity education, your tabling, youre always out there. Probably one of the first things to go are the cloth Reusable Bags that you have because everyone loves him so much. As much as we can make that a part of this area im in full support. I would say, you know, the one question i have, is on the legislation itself, right now and you mentioned this. Right now you get a credit for using in certain doors. Your own bags. That is voluntary to the store. Okay. I am wondering what your research has shown in terms of the encouragement of people using their own bags as correlate to getting at least a credit or whatever that might be. Our research. There is a lot of social Science Research about what motivates the behavioral change and the loss of something motivates more than the gain of something. I dont know why human beings are wired that way, but we are. In this case, giving someone five cents versus charging them 25 it has been shown that charging them 25, so the loss of money is a bigger motivator. That is part of the reason that we look at some of the things with cups, and you get five cents off your drink. We are not seeing that is a huge motivator for people. Where as a charge for something, and affirmative loss it motivates people more. What we have not done is done a Detailed Survey of who is doing the affirmative. We knew by writers because they share with us we had one of the interesting things that the state did is it prevented cities of requiring retailers to give us information on their charges. We have no ability to read or that of retailers but we can ask. That will be part of our survey of our baseline that we will ask about so that we understand that the ecosystem of San Francisco more. I am in full support. It will be good to get followup information. Its interesting, as you said. If i use this i get 10 cents less. Although sometimes they forget, right . I mean, if you see that additional 25 cents, i get it. Thank you. I definitely appreciate and support the intent of it, and our creativity and trying to make sure that we continue to reduce the numbers to further in terms of people using plastic bags. So i had a couple of questions about that. You mentioned santa cruz, example, thats not actually shown in the presentation in terms of that study, and their survey. Without any actual data, an increase from 10 cents up to 25 cents changes behavior. I understand why we are doing that, and it feels like it may be based on some studies, or some assumption about behavior. Do we actually have any evidence, if you could say a bit more why just increasing the amount of the people are paying from 1025 cents isnt going to address a significant number of people maybe we could, some of them more Creative Things we are doing in terms of making bags more accessible or education, or those kinds of things. Why is the fee part of it such an important piece of it considering that, in any cases this may be something that is being paid by people who do not have a lot of money. Thank you for that question. I would take that question in two parts. One part, how do we deal about the fact that this is regressive. We have a population that 25 cents means more to than everyone else. That is one very important question. The other question which is a little bit, i think a little bit of what supervisor trent eight was saying, where do we have the confidence will change behavior . On the low income parts, that was actually a big concern when this was adopted in 2012. That is why we chose to start it tense and, there was concerns about that unfair cost. What we did and what we will do again is to very much target where we are giving these bags to those communities that need them most. We will also before this goes into effect we will be looking at, this gets a little bit to your second question of the behavior now, in the fact that there is 10 sent requirement through the state of california, not just in San Francisco. Who is using, who is paying for those bags, and why. And that we are going to do by visiting stores in each of the neighborhoods throughout San Francisco to get a feel for our people and different neighborhoods behaving differently and why, and why do we then get in their hands, if we are finding that lower income neighborhoods are having a less uptake on Reusable Bags. We will be designing our Engagement Campaign to give away those bags get very targeted in those neighborhoods. I would say its very intentional that we are thinking about that disproportionate impact in the whole design. I appreciate the studying that will be happening and the intentionality around the impact. We are doing all of that after we have increased it up to 25 cents. We are not doing this studying in a way that initiate our confidence that this is going to work or the impact is going to be lesser. You mentioned that all of the bags that are going to be given away, etc. I assume we are giving bags away now. Where as we giving them away. Who is using them. I represent the tenderloin. Ive never seen anyone walk into a corner store with one of these bags. What exactly in terms of the folks in my neighborhood, how are we making sure that those folks have access to them, and i appreciate the intentionality around what were going to do moving forward. I assume all of that is going to be done after the fact weve already decided that were in her place where we can use it to 25 cents. I want to be thoughtful in my answer, so im taking a moment to acknowledge the potential impacts on people. This is a challenge in San Francisco constantly. Whenever we make a decision how are we impacting people. When we talk about the tenderloin and we talk about sros, and we have people, my team who are in language, and visiting sros for a number of reasons. We have the ability to distribute bags, we arty have let me do zero waste audits and zero waste work in the tenderloin. I still feel like we are conflating two things. How do we have a confidence this is a worthwhile policy to make and how will it disproportionately impact on how do we mitigate that in the giveaway aspect of it . The how do we know thats going from 10 up to 25 will make a different . We are looking around at cities all over the country come all over the state, and the world who have found a similar place of this. He put in a fee, people acclimate to it or get when they raise it they see a difference. I wish i had for you the delta, the before and after, same with santa cruz. What i have is from the cities that we talk to come is that they feel very strongly that it was this action, this raising of a fee, increasing the consequence of your actions that got peoples attention. I think we see that over and over again in terms of behavior change studies. The question of if we go down that path, what does it mean to people who that 25 cents matters more. It is incumbent on us to make sure we do everything we can to make it as easy on them as possible. I would also say that the legislation exempts people on food stamps, so if you are within those programs of public need. Then you do not get charged. There is some builtin protection for low income families in this. I can see from your expression youre still concerned. I take your increasing the amount paid has made a different. A lot of people have raised their fees it sounds like, where there has been a behavior change, and for him . Is it across the board. What if the behavior change is not happening among folks who are at the lower income level and are just paying more. The other thing, this is related to the impact piece of it. Also Corner Stores and that sort of thing . It does. One of the things that i have seen come up if youre doing all your Grocery Shopping at the corner store, you may need a number of plastic bags and even ones molar reusable bag may not be enough for what you need. Is that something that comes up as well. If you have four or five plastic bags, you should be charged for each one, right . Thats absolutely correct. That might get us to assent where 25 thing 25 cents is one thing. You either bring a bigger bag, and then the last thing, when people pay the fee, who does the fee go to . It goes to the business owner, and part of it is, by state law, part of that money is to go to educating their customers about the need to use reusable bag. It pays for the cost hold on. We will get to Public Comment. Go ahead. Im sorry, i think i answered your question. They use that money on educating customers about using Reusable Bags area are they required to do that. What type of oversight is that . That is the state law that requires that from the citys perspective. We are just allowing them to cover the cost of those bags so they can offer a nice, sturdy paper bag that can be reused. Those bags that they do give out can cover the cost. We said fine, you get to keep the charge that you get, so your made whole. Are going to get more money now because its going to be 25 cents. Theyre getting more money, that they are supposed to be using to do education about the bags, but again of all of the Corner Stores i go around ive never seen a reusable bag given out. I dont know how they are using the honey, but now they can have more money . You are correct they will have more money. Part of the advantage to us for this is the motivation for compliance. For the stores when they had to make a charge and take their time to say its going to be 10 cents or 25 we were afraid that they were just a word. And that enforcement becomes a nightmare because you have so many thousands of stores. If the store has an incentive to be a partner with us to ask for and they get to keep that money. Then the likelihood that they are actually going to say that will be 25 cents, or that will be 10 cents is much higher. I know that i have been ins doors, where they have a customer they like, they dont want to charge the 10 cents. The 25 cents, we are hoping that will be enough that they will feel motivated to join us in the show. It is all the more important that we have a clear eye on what they are doing without money. I agree its a state oversight. We are, by our actions increasing the amount of money. If theyre not doing anything that is helping our goals here. They are now getting additional money that we assume is going to something positive. But maybe not. Listen, when we are done deliberating you have a chance to talk. May i just also say that that is a very good point and i think what that requires us to do when we are doing the implementation is to make it easier on the store owners to do that educating, whether its a corner store or Whole Foods Market that is incumbent on us, heres a way you can communicate with your customer. That is a very good point and one i am taking from this area i just wanted to note that we had discussed this with the office of mall business, the chamber of commerce, the grocers and gg ra. One of the things when we talked about the Small Grocery store on the corner, because i think all of us have those in our district. Many of us sitting here. It was something how can they also educate their customers. A lot of them are much closer to their customers another customers name than someone going to whole foods, right . We talked to them about giving them bags. Providing them with bags to give to their customers. I think that is something that we feel is important to not only educate but to be able to give to their loyal customers. I think thats really important, and the fact that anybody that gets any kind of government assistance, they dont have to pay the bag fee. We do not want to punish people i think it definitely has to have a robust education that so many people do not know about it, and we have to bring in those small grocers and really say, let us help you help your customers also. And, i think that is pretty much it. When we were talking to the different parties, i think that was a main concern is people that do not have bags, and also the larger Grocery Stores like whole foods, its just really disturbing that they have these green bags out there, that everybody thinks you can compost them. And you cant. That is something that i think is unforgivable and we really need to make sure that we are striking the right cord. With the data, i think if, and im not sure how long will that take, was that a year that youre looking at looking at the study. The ordinance is not going to go into effect for year. We have that time to absolutely do our research. I dont think it will take a year to get the research done. I think thats important and the research will guide us, too. If that is something that is just we are saying is going to harm people, especially low income that we are going to have to adjust area that is what we do with legislation, we amend and we adjust. Thank you. Why dont we open this up to Public Comment. If you will line up to your right, my left, go ahead. First here. No members of the public that want to testify on this item i will close Public Comment. Youre talking about educating people, we need to educate you understand me. These bags are the best type of bags he is for the use of the time. For the inside of the bag it dirty, all you have to do is put a bar of soap in the bag, put it under the faucet, shake it around, and rinse it, and let it dry, go on about your business. I have numerous of these bags that i use all the time. Your counter addicting yourself, you want to get rid of the plastic bags, matt wants to give plastic bags to pick up all of the piles of [bleep] on the sidewalk. He wants to pick up stations where you are dispensing plastic bags. Youre always contradicting yourself. You want to charge people 25 cents for a bag that they are using to go to the store, get food with, is outrageous. We need to tax you. You just got a 1500 dollar salary increase. I use these all the time. What im going to the store, they fit right in the back of my back pocket, go to the store and buy what i want and put it in the back, im on my way to take care my business. By the same response, that idea what you said, the only thing i like that you said is that the store gives a person a discount off the product that he bought from the store because he used the bag. If you would have done that, i would have a higher income that i have now by using this bag. About them paperbacks, they rip and tear. They are not the best bag to use. These are the best bags to use. About you spending that money on those bags, that is money that should be spent on getting housing for the homeless people. Youre talking about your leader, you are the leader and piles of [bleep] on the sidewalk throughout San Francisco. People talk about you all the time, talking about human race, the poop and your poop squad cleaning up poop in San Francisco. I think people should be educated on how to reuse those bags. I use the bags, and i purposely sometimes going pay for them, because if you travel, or if you have to pack things that are going to be put away for a long time, plastic keeps those things dry. The worst thing that can happen to things that you store sometimes is for them to get wet. So the first thing i thought about, when you said, stop plastic bags, we will have to start buying those very expensive, those bags that collapse, that you put your blankets in, what you can do the same thing with those plastic bags. You can pack clothing in them and that is one thing i am doing, as a matter of fact now, because i am packing up all of my stuff, because i am dealing with some things and i most certainly waiting for you all to get to that part of the conversation. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. Making San Francisco great again coalition, we are here talking about waste. Garbage bags. Listening to this meeting, for the last couple of hours has been garbage. Absolute garbage. Listening to you talk to these Department Heads has wasted more government time, and resources than anything ive ever seen. You had a conversation with this department head, where she spouted lies, true lies, and autistics. Statistics. You had a backandforth conversation where youre talking about garbage bags, going from 10 up to 25 cents. It goes right in line with the previous item which is about encouraging business, in San Francisco, and yet you are wasting peoples time dealing with this . In a Committee Meeting . I mean, what is going on . You guys are the real garbage we need to get rid of. That is why we dont have businesses and Small Businesses in San Francisco. It is the swamp. You pay to play, to force people to do stuff. Youre not gonna force anybody to do nothing, raising 25 cents from 10 cents, that irish data youre talking about, that is garbage. For you to stand here, and except want people to accept that, that is real garbage, lady. Unbelievable these meetings in the city halls. You talk about the swamp. This is the most thank you. Next speaker, please. Two minutes of my life i when i get back again. My name is miriam gordon, i am the Program Director for upstream. I want to thank supervisor brown for this measure, and the department of the environment for the very factual information that we just heard. I am a veteran of the plastic bag and wars in sacramento. It was extremely disturbing to me that we had to take the poison pill of this definition of film bags becoming characterized as reusable. It has led to this regrettable consequence that in some cases more plastic is being used as a result. This is a very important measure to fix the problem. As usual, San Francisco is one of the cities taking the lead on this. As well as on the produce bags. We want to supports, with great enthusiasm, this measure and just say, i have a few slides from some of the cleanups that our newest staff member has been conducting. You can see that these plastic bags that are supposed to be reusable are also being considered litter. They are easily littered. We do need to get people to have an incentive for people to bring, to switch to the truly Reusable Bags. Thank you very much. Good afternoon chair peskin, supervisor brown and haney. My name is kathy brown and i work for the general manager there, we are a manufacturer of the supermarket packaging, the reusable bag as well as the precheckout bag. I am here in support of supervisor browns ordinance, much to probably my surprise and others. We manufacturer Sustainable Packaging items including compostable precheckout bags. We can work with your department of environment to ensure that the bags fit in the compost pile and to ensure there is an Education Program so that consumers know how to properly use and dispose of the compostable produce back. We have worked with the city of seattle to change the green color to blue so that is not mistaken with compostable. Happy to work with you on all kinds of options in order to move forward with moving towards zero waste solution. I wont debate the merits of the plastic reusable bag. I think there is a lot of merits to them. I also know the number that certainly the heavy plastic reusable bag has reduced the number of bag, as a bag manufacturer i can certainly testify it has reduced the number of bags. I am here in support of the ordinance. Thank you very much for your time. Any other members of the public here for item number four . Seeing none. We will close close Public Comment. I was here for around one, back in the days and i am ready for behavior modification in round two. Lets send this to the full board with recommendation without objection . That would be the order. Read items five and six together. The resolution declaring the intent of the board of supervisors to order the street vacation for the entirety of seawall lot 337, and portions of terry a francois boulevard along with Public Service easements in connection with a mission rock project, and setting a hearing date for the board of supervisors to sit as a committee of the whole on september three, 2019 at three p. M. Item number six is ordinance ordering the street vacation of the entirety of seawall lot 337 and portions of terry a francois boulevard along the Public Service easements in connection with a mission rock project reserving various temporary rights and official acts. Supervisor haney you have brought these items to this committee. The floor is yours we had thank you. I am a cosponsor of this legislation which we have agreed, this is in relation to a part of San Francisco project in partnership with the San Francisco giant, mission rock. It is a mixed use development that has been in the planning process for over 10 years. This is street vacation legislation. I think chair peskin, you are familiar about this project. I want to move the resolution of intent forward to the board with a positive recommendation, and move the ordinance which is item 6 forward without recommendation to the board for the september three meeting which is the technical process for street vacation legislation. I believe there is still some folks here from the port if we have any questions . I dont think we have any questions from anybody else. Is there any Public Comment on items five and or 6 . Untran glad you are here. This is your chance to make some points of me. I want you to understand this mission rock, first of all before you throw it to further dispute, you have a problem. This mission rock is supposed to be Affordable Housing, 40 percent, for low income are very low Income Project people. That big bank of information says to the subdivision, section 3 three four one three of the Community Redevelopment law, at least 15 percent of all brandnew rehabilitative dwellings, units, developments within the plan area to the public or private entities and persons other than the agency shall be available Affordable Housing costs for families a very low, and low and moderate income not less than families, 40 percent, very low and low to moderate income shall be available, Affordable Housing costs to very low income households. You violated that in the contract that you and San Francisco giant, and can put together by pricefixing and making the low income to be a tenant in the building at 36,300 dollars per year, its only two percent of the 40 percent pot. 10 percent is at 44,400 dollars. And then 17 percent is 96,050 dollars per year, 70 percent of the 40 percent that is supposed to be for very low and income people is at one 21,000 dollars per year. You are violating your own instructions pertaining to mission rock. To say you go any further talking about a vacation spot, you need to put this on the agenda and correct that [bleep] up. That intentional scandalous procedure. If you could try to keep your language, in these chambers all right. Your time is up. Is there any other Public Comment on items 5 or 6 . Public comment is closed. When any departmental staff like to add anything to the cosponsors presentation . No. All right, we will send these items, item 5 to the full board with recommendation, item 6 without recommendation, that will be the order of this committee. Madame clerk read item number 7, please . To specify the date for the ordinance to september three. Tuesday, september three. Yes. Ordinance amending the planning code to enable the use of Development Project sites during the project approval and entitlement process by authorizing the Planning Department to authorize certain interim activities at Development Project sites as temporary uses for up to 36 month, subject to extension at the discretion of the planning director in increments for up to a maximum possible total of 36 additional month; adopting findings. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Development project you are talking about on this item, the same demonstration that i put before you before. All developments and government private buildings are supposed to be 15 percent for very low and low income that is not what this item is about, mr. Rice. Talking about development. It is interim uses, but go ahead. Are talking about uses of properties. Not her housing. Interim uses while sites are under the permit process. Will i still want to highlight all my other issues. With this time that i got related, i believe you should address that issue, because youve got a problem. It is discrimination in housing. Youre not following your own rules and regulations pertaining to that Redevelopment Agency rules and then have other situations where you use parts of the same administrative code and try to pertaining to redevelopment. Using regulations that you favor for high income bracket people. When you get a situation that favors the low income bracket people, he refused to use it. I want to highlight that to you, to make sure that you correct this problem. Heres your chance to have that heard, this hearing coming up pertaining to mission rock and the rest of the building complexes that are being in the pipeline and the past Apartment Building complex that is being built. Now that my demonstration has finally come to the light. Now you want to just, for low income brackets and Senior Citizens that have not been afforded the housing opportunity. Like i said, what i call this to your problem years ago, though Senior Citizens while they were younger, should have been included in the housing opportunity would be vulnerable and at this condition at this stage in their life. It is up to you to make a lot of points and correct this. This should be heard on the hearing that is coming up pertaining to mission rock. All right. We will close Public Comment. You are a member of the public by not speaking as a member of the public. You are speaking in official capacity. Public comment is closed on items 7. We are working with the Mayors Office on some amendments. We will continue this, but you may say whatever you and your department want to say. Thank you. I wanted to give, and Case Planning is not able to be here for the continued item, the recommendation from the commission. This item was heard on april 25, in order to approve with modifications they recommended modifications were to amend the requirements to increase residential density to instead require an increase in residential density only if there is insisting residential onsite and to clarify the language in section 205 point five about interim activities stating a should be retail sales and service for industrial uses rather than just retail or industrial uses. That was the recommendation of the planning commission. Thank you. So, i will make a motion to continue this item until after the summer recess given our handful of meetings that are left before the summer recess. I will make a motion to continue this to september nine. We will take that without objection. Madame clerk, i would like to make a motion to rescind the vote on item number four, and we will take that without objection. The item has been already read, i dont think you need to read it again. I believe supervisor brown wanted to make a number of amendment that are relatively de minimis that she passed out. But she did not ask the committee to adopt. I would like to do that now and make a motion at page 3, line 1719 to delete the finding that is under letter k and reletter the remaining findings accordingly. And then to modify the finding on page 4, lines 46, sub oh two read at the Global Climate action summit in september of 2010, mayor breed updated the zero waste goal by [inaudible]. Finally, on page 4, line 16 through 24, relative to the definition of compostable precheck out bags, change the definition to read, means a precheck out back that conforms to minimum standards of the california labeling law and Public Resources code, as may be amended meets current astm d 6400 standard specs for compost ability and is labeled as needing the standards by recognized thirdparty independent verification entity such as biodegradable product institute, is green and color throughout and has a minimum 15 inch mouth to fit most kitchen compost pails and is clearly labeled compostable in a highly visible manner on the outside of the bag and meets all of the requirements the department may set forth. 60 days notice based on environmental events, because the market availability. Without objection, we will make those amendments and send the item as amended to the full board with recommendation, without objection and we are adjourned. My name is alan schumer. I am a fourth generation san franciscan. In december, this building will be 103 years of age. It is an incredibly rich, rich history. [ ] my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. I am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. I have two ways of looking at my life. I want it to be i wanted to be a Fashion Designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. I ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. The work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the Garment Industry. I had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. It is almost like an extended family. I have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. She was a dressmaker of the first order. I would go visit her, and it was a special treat. I was a tiny little girl. I would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. The Garment Industry had the at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. You will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. Women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. There was a woman by the name of diana. She was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. She classified it as a third i. Will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of San Francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. I believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. The board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. Jeffrey heller, the city and county of San Francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. To impart to the history of this building is remarkable. To see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you Start Talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. With children, and i do mainly all of the childrens tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can Start Talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of San Francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. At times, my clothes make me feel powerful. Powerful in a different sense. I am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. Usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. I have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit . Retirement to me is a very strange words. I dont really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the peoples palace. You want a longterm career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something youre then yourself. Follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. Usf donates 100120 pounds of food a night. For the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. Im maggie. Im nick. Were coechairs of the national led organization. What food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. The moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didnt recover it the next day. I want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, its one of the largest emitters of Greenhouse Gases in the world. If it was a nation, it would be the Third Largest nation behind china and the united states. America wastes about 40 of the food we create every year, 160 billion worth and thats made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. No matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. Access edible food that we have throughout our Lunch Program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and ill cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day ill heat it and ready for delivery. Its really natural for me, i love it, im passionate about it and its just been great. I believe its such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. No food should go wasted. Theres someone who wants to eat, we have food, its definitely hand in hand and it shouldnt be looked at as work or a task, were feeding people and it really means so much to me. I come to work and theyre like nora do you want this, do you want that . And its so great and everyone is truly involved. Every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. They dont even think