Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 20240712

The time is 5 00 p. M. The ringing of cell phones, pagers, and similar devices can still have been virtually and is still prohibited. Please turn your devices off. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners, staff and members of the public, commission on the environments meeting room is closed. However, commissioners and Department Staff will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant of the statewide stay at home order and all proceeding and preceding orders, declarations and directives. Commissioners will attend the meeting during videoconference or by telephone if the meeting fails and participate into the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item. We are streaming the number at the top of the screen. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities or opportunities to speak are available by calling 4156550001 and entering access code 146047 0765. One connected, darla start three to be added to the cue. Best practices dial star three to be added to the cue. Speak slowly and clearly and turn down any other devices. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment by email to the Commission Affairs officer through email. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the commissioners and will be included as part of the official file. I will now call the role. Everyone [roll call] we have a quorum. Great, next agenda item, please. The next item is item number two, president s welcome. This item is for discussion. Hello, everybody. To everyone who came out tonight to this meeting on the commission on the environment, let me begin by sharing the best practices for this meeting. I will ask all of the members of the commission to you to yourself to minimize background noise. You will have to remember to unmute yourself to comment when its your turn to do so. You can also signify that you want to speak. You can raise your hand or you can use little hand raise thing in the right to signify when you want to comment. There is staff in the background who will be managing the technological functions during the meeting so we can switch from live presentation to whoever is speaking at the moment. We will ask everyone to be patient as they make this adjustment. This will be our third Virtual Commission meeting. Im excited to see we are getting more efficient and comfortable. We have returned to our regular schedule and we have an Upcoming Committee on october 21st. Our last meeting in july was memorable and we received more than 20 Public Comments. I think we can all agree the comments we received were taken to heart and we incorporated them into the letter that we signed on behalf of the commission and sent to the board of supervisors. The initial issue of natural gas could not be more timely because not only is it a second largest generator of a mission, but a huge threat to public safety. That connection to Climate Change and human health was on full display display last week. Now that the Electricity Supply is approaching zero emissions, eliminating natural gas is the next step forward for San Francisco. I am confident the board of supervisors will move this forward. We are seeing the effects of Climate Change all around us and now its time to act. Is there any Public Comment . Lets open a Public Comment for this item. Great. We will now open for Public Comment. I am going to share my screen with the comment information. If you would like to make a Public Comment please dial the phone number and follow the instructions on the screen. If you are on hold in the queue, please wait until its your turn to speak and we will just pause for a few seconds now to give everyone time to call in case anyone would like to make a comment on this item. It looks like we have one collar with their hand raised. You will need to unmute them. Great. Or you can make me host. I will unmute the collar and start my timer. Your time starts now. My name is susan with the plant society. Im a San Francisco resident and i appreciate everything the department is doing to help make us more Carbon Neutral and more resilient. The department of environment spearheaded the San Francisco biodiversity resolution and im hoping that will turn into [indiscernible] and every part of the city of San Francisco will plant only local native plants to support the biodiversity. With all the emphasis on carbon, please keep in mind we have additional disasters going on. Not just Climate Change. Not just the pandemic, but also biodiversity losses. There are hundreds of thousands of dead birds in new mexico, colorado and texas due to smoke from wildfires pushing them out of their migratory patterns. They died because they starved to death. We can see them, but we need to see them [indiscernible] please continue to push the rest of San Francisco to plant local San Francisco native plants. That concludes my comments. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. I am seeing no other collars in the queue. We will now close Public Comment on this item. Okay. Thank you. Hearing no more callers, Public Comment is closed. Next agenda item, please . The next item is item three. Approval of the minutes of the 2020 commission on the environment meeting. The explanatory document is the 2020 draft minutes and this item is for discussion and action. Commissioners, does anyone have any discussion on the draft minutes . All right. Can i please hear a motion . Public comment, sorry. Can i have a motion to approve the minutes . I move to approve. Is there a second . I second. Is there any Public Comment . We will now open for Public Comment. I will put the comment instructions back on the screen. If youd like to make a Public Comment, press star three if you want to be added to the queue. Please wait until it is your turn to speak. We will pause briefly for anyone to join the queue. It appears nobody has raised their hand. Thank you. In that case, we will close Public Comment on this item. Okay. Seeing no more Public Comment, please call the role. Yes. [roll call] the motion passes. Next item, please. The next item on our agenda is item four, general Public Comment. Members of the comment on the public may address matters which are not on the agenda. With that, we will open once again for Public Comment. I will put the instructions back on the screen. Remember to press star three if you would like to be added to the queue. If you are already on hold, please wait until its your turn to speak. We will pause once more for anyone who like to call in. Nobody has joined the queue. Thank you. Thanks. Next item, please. The next item is item five. Presentation on the citys Economic Recovery Task force and the role for the environment in recovery environment. This item is for discussion. Would you like to introduce the item . Thank you. Tonight, or this time of year marks about six months of shelter in place due to the covid19 pandemic. I think we all remember that day in midmarch when the hammer dropped and the mayor decided that we would be the first city to institute a shelter in place. I dont think any of us had any idea how long it would be and we would be here six months later still with no specific end in sight. And we wanted to paint a bit of a picture for you on the commission in terms of the reality of the state of our economy and what some of the discussions have been around how we are going to both respond to the pandemic and put in place policies and programs that would help us recover from the pandemic. Right now, 54 of our storefronts have been closed. We have about 193,000 unemployment claims. When you think about it city of 800,000, 900,000 people, that is a big number. And, of course, no one on this call or this meeting knows what the future holds, but we as a commission and we as a department want to make sure that whatever that future is is not businesses usual. It is better than ever before. So when we are back to whatever normal is, we are looking through the lens of green and true sustainability. What we want to offer tonight are three views of San Francisco today and some of the voices that are at the table and thinking about how to mark that future, and then we will open it up to questions and a discussion among the commission to get your thinking about how we weave in environment sustainability, equity, as well as a resilience into these discussions. First you will hear from ted egan. He is the chief economist and the Controllers Office and he will give us the reality check on where we are. Then we will hear from heather green who works with [indiscernible] they did a pretty phenomenal effort with the Economic Recovery Task force. That task force was called for by the mayor and mayor and the board of supervisors, but was led by four remarkable people. That San Francisco assessor recorder, the treasurer treasurer, the president and c. E. O. Of the chamber of commerce, and the executive director of the San Francisco labor council. They are at the point now where there is a final report being produced that reflects some pretty heavy lifting and thinking and heather is going to let you know what is probably in that report, as well as what other aspects of the task force. Finally we will end with more shes executive director on the Business Council and Climate Change. Her members are the largest employers of San Francisco. You will get a perspective from the business community, from the larger city family, as well as the businesses working together on the task force, as well as a Controllers Office. We hope that by the end of those three presentations that you will have an idea of where we are and where we might go and then we will open it up for questions after all three speakers are finished. With that, i am so grateful that the three of these people, these incredible professionals said yes to being with us tonight and we will kick it off with ted egan from the Controllers Office. Take it away. Thank you, debbi. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im the chief economist and the Controllers Office. If youre not familiar with my role in the city, i run the office of Economic Analysis in the Controllers Office. We do legislative review of new legislation and we write economic reports on legislation before the board. We also help with the city understanding how the economy is doing and we make number of presentations like this across the city. Im happy to have this opportunity to present to you today. What i will do is share with you the current statistics on how the city is doing and also a perspective on where we are in this particular economic moment. This is not just a Public Health crisis. We are six months into the shutdown. We are also six months into an severe economic recession that will be with us after the public Health Emergency is over. It is also no ordinary recession because of covid. Its really the interaction between those things and the issues. I think they will shape the city s recovery and one of its major priorities coming out. Katie, if you can show the first slide. In april, when the Economic Statistics came out, it became clear that the United States had lost 10 years of job growth in one month. This is the San Francisco Metro Division equivalent of that. You could see we lost 175,000 jobs between march of a march and april of this year. That was really businesses being forced to shut down, people being laid off in that time. Despite the fact that we are still in a deep recession, we have had several months of Economic Growth since then. Since i put the slide together, last friday we got the august appointment statistics and they should moderate growth, and we are now at around 62,000 jobs were covered in the San Mateo County area after losing 175,000 we are roughly a third of the way back. Clearly the recovery, while steady for months and months, is not nearly as fast in a drop and it will take us some time, even if we have no further economic interactions and no further recurrence of the virus. That requires additional shutdowns. And we are still looking at a long recovery. Next slide, please. It is not simply that we lost jobs in San Francisco and our unemployment right went quickly from around 3 to about 12 . But the nature of this recession in San Francisco is we want certain types of jobs. And in particular, jobs that affect lowwage workers in the city. This is a chart of the Economic Situation in the city before the covid crisis. It shows the employment growth right of different injury industries in San Francisco for the five years through 2019, and that is the horizontal axis. The vertical axis is the wage. You can see that the higher up industries, the higher Wage Industries, information, tech activity, financial services, this is the professional services. They were both the highest wages sectors, but also the Fastest Growing sectors. On the other hand, its investors like retail trade, combination and Food Services, because of Age Education and health. And the primary source of employment for lowwage workers. Even before the covid crisis, we had this unbalanced pattern of growth in the city in which there were far more Job Opportunities for high skilled workers and low skilled workers. If we move onto the next page, we can see the covid crisis has exacerbated this. On this chart, the horizontal axis as a percentage of jobs that was lost between february and july of this year. The vertical axis is the same. The high wage industry lost between five to 10 of their jobs. The tech sector lost up to 10 . Some of the median wages sectors are doing job are doing fine. Construction is basically where it was before. Where you really see the loss is in lowwage sectors like the accommodation and Food Services, arts and entertainment and recreation services, and other services which include a lot of neighborhood services. I would put retail trade too onto as a category. These are low Wage Industries infant San Francisco that have been hit the hardest after already having the weakest job recovery in the last five years. It has exacerbated it. Next slide, please. Here is an example of this from not efficient not official government data. It is showing the annual change of the reservations. They are showing it in San Francisco and four other west coast cities. You can see late february and early march. Things were slowing down and then by the 3rd week of march, different cities have recovered two different extents. Of these cities, San Franciscos Restaurant Industry is doing the worst, at least by the standards of having seated desks. And all of all the cities that we have a tract on this, [indiscernible] that is partly due to our continuing limitation of indoor restaurant dining. Next slide, please. Another data source that we are looking at is data from mastercard, which is tracking Small Businesses in particular that use mastercard to process transactions. They work on a business by business basis and they know who was doing transactions and who is not. This is a map showing the percentage of accounts that were not showing any transactions in the last couple of weeks of july unfortunately, we dont have updated data on this. Were trying to get this from a thirdparty source. Its showing you that when things were quite bad in the middle of july, exactly the extent of the shutdown, at least a temporary shutdown across the city. Heavily concentrated. Next slide. We would also like to talk about transportation because i think transportation and the willingness to use certain types of transportation is going to shape the recession and recovery in a way they never have. This is the information from the county. It shows the average freeway speed in San Francisco in rush hour. We have seen big changes in that since the shutdown. Before the shutdown, the average rushhour in the afternoon in San Francisco and highway speed was about 25 miles an hour. That quickly went up to about 60 after the shutdown. As econ really economy gradually reopens, the congestion comes back. By last week, it was only about 10 faster than it was the week of the shutdown. If you had the experience driving, you may sometimes ask yourself, what shutdowns do we still have . It does seem that automobiles are more of a transportation mode of choice during the recovery that we have had in the reopening that we have had then it was prior. And another way you can see that on the next slide is by looking at the bart writers. They have really shown a much more limited recovery. Bart is still down between 80 and 90 compared to last year. The way i am reading this is traffic is back in transit is not back. That has environmental implications if it continues. And we dont expect it to continue forever. Its also a consequence of the fact that this is a recession that is not just leading people to lose their jobs and taking away, you know, there need to commute in some cases, but also it affects their psychology about using public spaces like transit. And the fact that there are more people driving and fewer people taking transit, so i think a consequence of where we are in the moment and in this recession next slide, please. I mentioned that the economy and Food Services sector was the hardest hit sector and also the biggest source of job loss at about 45 to 50 of jobs lost. About half of the hotels in San Francisco are not even open. The Hotel Occupancy is about 20 of what it normally is. The big reason for that is ridership for the San Francisco airport, which is down over 80 yearoveryear for domestic and over 90 for international. If we dont have people riding, travelling by plane to San Francisco, that will put a crimp into the market for hotels and the visitor spending that support so many other industries from transportation, to retail, to restaurants. Any of these are lowWage Industries. And this is a shutdown of tourism. It helps to contribute to the difficulty of many lowwage workers and also Small Businesses. Next slide, please. Finally, the last point that i would mention, and we are tracking this carefully and i am not sure what is underneath these numbers, but i think they are quite significant, is the Housing Market. This is the Apartment List which tracks listings in the city. San francisco is seeing the biggest drop of any big city in the country in terms of its asking price. The drop is accelerating from monthtomonth, even as the job starts recovering. I think it is an open question of trying to get the answer the best i can as to whether or not this is tech folks who can work at home and deciding they no longer need to move to San Francisco or want to move away from San Francisco, or how much this is caused by lowwage murk workers who are laid off and cant afford to live in the city this is not our data. Were getting this from thirdparty sources. We need to figure out more about what is actually going on. Its a little bit of both. But it is a worrying trend, particularly because its so much more dramatic. And just lastly, im trying to summarize with what i think are pretty big challenges for the city Going Forward of going through and out of this recession. I would say go to the next slide, please. The economic this is a deep recession. People are not expecting this until the end of next year. The g. D. P. Will be back to where it was until late 2020. [indiscernible] [please stand by] i would also put in this category many Small Businesses. Larger businesses may be able to handle going into hibernation. Theyre Small Business is their job and its difficult to be without businesses and workers to be without income. In the medium term, we can talk about the virus being abated and people being more open. The severe Tourism Industry [indiscernible] there is a primary source of job loss that we have had now. We dont have any reason to think that this wont be an attractive Tourist Destination and all the rest when people are willing to travel again. Its very important. For the longerterm issue, and the greatest uncertainty, is what of the future of the people who are working from home . They are burying the least of the burden of the shutdown, but they have a great role to play in the future of the economy. If it really is true what people are saying then there is less of a role for people and businesses to work remotely. That has got implications for the future of downtown or housing. We are going to be watching that very carefully. Before we get to that point is the transit ridership is a very vital thing for us to recover. We cant really get everyone back to work. We need people to take transit. That is another thing that will need to be brought back. Those are my comments on where we currently are in the economy. Thank you. I will jump in here. I am heather green. I am the director of planning. I have also been staffing the task force. I will be offering a little perspective about what that body has been up to and the ideas there. Next slide . We have already told you who is is leading the task force. I will note that we have a membership of over 100 Community Members. A combination of the larger players and also a ton of Small Business owners, Community Leaders and representatives and a very diverse body as well as to keep city executives and a handful supervisors as well. Next slide. A little of context. This is the kind of information that we have worked with the task force. This is our hospitalization data you can see we are writing a little bit of a roller coaster here. And we have this incremental job gain since april but the disease itself is not linear. We are seeing recurring issues there. There are gaps from when the city chose to close and when the state wouldve told us to do so. Even with that being ahead of the ball, we saw cases climb to the peaks that they did over the summer. We are having to be extremely responsive and the task force has got to offer guidance and expressed challenges in realtime meanwhile, next slide. We have been trying to Pay Attention to the populations most dramatically affected people. We spent a lot of time as a body thinking who is vulnerable to the effects of the disease and also as the economic repercussions. We need to Pay Attention to which sectors need the most help and which populations, again, noticing that there are low income earners. They are taking the largest hit when it comes to their jobs. You can imagine the value can go along with that. We want to make sure we are paying attention. This is the task force that is charged with providing the body to help the city sustain vulnerable businesses and unemployment. We have never really invented something quite like this. When we set out, you know, to be a task force body, we put them together the report and there was a very clear directive from Task Force Members across those Small Group Meetings with Task Force Members. There are challenges and it is the most imperative thing that the task force can do in the short term to facilitate a reopening and help the safety to do that. The task force dug in on that in may and june and you continue to see that work and as new guidance is released in the city his everchanging, [indiscernible] we are trying to follow along. In june, we got going on thinking about our strategies in this city and time with an end date coming up on october 8th. It has been drafting the report that we referred to with august and september. The task force set out i want to highlight that they wanted to deliver concrete and actionable recommendations for the city. There are also aspirations for longterm ideas, a place that we could not get as a body until longterm for the city. [indiscernible] i dont think it is a failing of the task force by any stretch. It speaks to the amount of work and ideas that is needed in the short and medium term. There is still work ahead on the longterm vision. This is by no means the last remark on our recovery. Its really just an opening. Next slide. This is about the community engagement. There has been a ton of outreach continuing. On the next slide, sentiments that we gathered from our Public Survey which gathered over 1,000 responses in the early summer. It is important we believe as a staff and a task force that it is important to hear through engagement like this so we remember that it is important to be culturally competent. Some populations are suffering in extraordinary ways. Im thinking about the disability community. We have heard a lot from Small Businesses. There is extraordinary pressure on them and some of the efforts that they are facing and the investments that we need to make in order to make a difference. Next. The task force itself works in four policy groups. Im thinking about jobs and businesses, the vulnerable populations, economic development, arts, culture, hospitality, an entertainment. The last one speaks to the last slide from ted that i love so much. We need to make sure we Pay Attention to the needs that people have. And the others line up with the condition of the task force itself. Here are some of the things we heard in comments across them. I will just say things like supporting businesses, affording Affordable Housing, thinking about our workforce [indiscernible] we heard the multiple times. We have been thinking of staff and the task force and integrated priority areas. You can see here the priorities that will be going through each of the strategies. You dont have to commit those to memory. Here are strategies around supporting businesses and organizations, making sure that Small Business can survive. As i mentioned before, acknowledging our needs to communicate clearly so businesses know the options available to them thinking about how to stimulate economic recovery. We hear a lot of clambering in our group. It is important to get the virus under control for the economic recovery to be sustainable, with these businesses are in danger of going under now. The strategy is getting people back so people can spend money at neighborhood businesses. Need to keep our foot on the gas is much as we can. It is a delicate balance. Here at the bottom is an important one. Keep on acknowledging that we need to invest in infrastructure San Francisco has such good rules on the books. Next slide. Thinking about our workers. We need to look at strategies about our workforce and Workforce Development and making sure that we have a Clear Pathway for people. And at the backbone of that, make sure people can go to work. And we needed childcare system that meets the needs of our workforce. Protecting in meeting basic needs. There are a couple of strategies with the third and the fourth. It is on the health and wellbeing of all, and especially in low income communities. If you look on the c. D. C. Website, for example, those who arent as high risk, it is a limited number of preexisting conditions. Department the department of Public Health in San Francisco acknowledges this is a vulnerability by demography and living conditions. [indiscernible] things like that and making sure we have trusted Community Members that people will trust and help deliver the equipment and protection that people need and help the environment to succeed under number of other basic needs to accomplish. This is a San Francisco document we will talk about housing. Ted has a slide about affordability that has been a challenge for the city. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] there are a lot of strategies here that are in the spirit of what San Francisco has been endeavouring endeavouring to do to make more Affordable Housing and prevent addictions and misplacement. There is an even greater urgency and even more room to Pay Attention to these things. [indiscernible] next. Pursuing Economic Justice is another one of our goals. [indiscernible] we are thinking about fines and fees and making sure the city does not push people are key people in a cycle of poverty. This is about the Digital Divide of that and seeking the extraordinary needs of the arts, culture, and hospitality sector. And trying to identify new Revenue Services so they can survive. We want them to make sure they dont expire through their time. We need to make these things easier to deliver. And we are continuing to plan collaboratively for San Franciscos future and related investments. [indiscernible] the Housing Element is off. There are so many efforts going on at the same time. We need to make sure we Work Together as a city to think about how we can deliver asked for the future of San Francisco. Next. This shows where we are at. We have brackets to report. It has been circulated to the task force for a short comment. I think that is my last. I will be here for the questions at the end. Many cities globally are taking steps to put together plans for bold recovery that prioritize the climate goals while building more equitable economies. I think that is a lot of what the conversation has been about today. On june of this year, we launched the Climate Smart recovery recovery initiative. I will talk about that today. I want to start by bringing in some of the things that our members are doing so you have some contacts before i dive in to this. I also want to say, is absolutely i have been talking to debbie about this. Its great that the task force is opening and making it possible. It is clear to me that when is the right time for that . It has been clear just listening from all of you that the time to focus right now is getting our city safely reopened as soon as possible. Maybe some of what i will talk about today is some next steps of opportunity for when the time is right. It isnt opening. There are a lot of techs that will come after that. Next slide, please. Its a little bit about our organization. I was invited to come and give a quick talk when i came on board a couple of years ago in 2018. It was a very long time ago now. The Business Council on Climate Change was founded in 2007. The department of environment put out the first very the very first Climate Action plan. They knew they couldnt do it alone. We are now a standalone standalone and nonprofit organization. The department of the environment is a member of our organization. Our members listed here are collectively employing more than 750,000 people. The representative within our membership that come to the table with us and come to our meetings and engage across companies are mainly the leading sustainability people at their organization. They are the ones that are setting Global Climate goals for the organization and they are the ones that need to figure out how to meet those goals. Very similar to the department of the environment and the work that they do. It is also a small and mighty team of three. Its how we work and how we operate. When he defined opportunities for these companies and organizations to work across companies and to work across sectors. The goal is we want to try and incubate and share ideas that have the potential to address Climate Change. That is our main mission. Next slide. So just two concrete examples of the collective action that we do with our membership. In 2019, a few of our members came together around the project and they joined forces to Purchase Renewable Energy together. It is a virtual power purchase agreement. It is a technical solar term. Is the first time that multiple companies of moderate sizes had come together on a large deal together. They all signed the same contract. Their lawyers all worked together. It was a really heavy lift. They purchased 42 megawatts of a farm together collectively. In doing so, they created a blueprint for how other companies could join forces and make a bigger impact and offset their footprint, but also get more energy out. And another example is to create a pilot grant. They were testing out the issues the goal is overtime that there might be a carbon market. They are trying to make that happen. It is very early stages. Early days are messy. Our members got together to fund the research. They are trying to send a signal to say that if the market can figure those out, then we have funds to buy these. We are still tracking that market. Members are still interested in that question and the opportunity for this in the marketplace. Next slide. Many of our Member Companies have set ambitious climate goals many of you are engaged in the Climate Action summit that happened in 2018. If you have argues that a big goal, guess what, jury brown was trying to tell you that not everyone was big enough. They are hosting a lot of great events during that. It really did help elevate the ambition. I think it is a great example of saying, we dont know how we will do it, but the goals need to be bigger. They need to be more ambitious. That coming together will get a lot of our companies. It is. Pressure. Many of our members are already doing this. A lot of them are talking about trying to find strategies to deal with their legacy emissions they are looking backwards. Some of them are doing big efforts on that front. A handful of our companies have already instituted internal Carbon Pricing mechanisms so they can help to regulate the emissions from different business departments within the company, but also they are charging those departments. They have a budget to play with. Which is really interesting. If youre talking but a big company like google or microsoft , that carbon budget is substantial enough. What could we invest in with the funds we are generating . There is a lot of creativity involved. Google Just Announced last week that they will be investing 5. 7 billion as part of their new third decade investment. Theyre investing in technology and other solutions to invest in carbon. Next slide. This is the most interesting slide in my personal opinion. There arent that many examples right now in the corporate space there are a few inspiring and exciting. There was a huge announcement many months ago. They talking about 50 times over the next 30 years. Some companies are coming forward and making gigantic commitments that they dont know how to meet. They think it is really exciting two examples of this are these two companies that have set 2030 goals, which is less than 10 years from now. They Just Announced it again last week. They are trying to get to operating on what what they are calling 24 7 Carbon Free Energy by 2030. I barely know what that means. I couldnt tell you what that means. You could google it. You should google this term. If they figure it out in 10 years, it will be a game changer for safe companies, utilities, so that is super exciting for me they could have a roadmap of ideas. They will problemsolving over the next decade. It will be potentially transforming of the space. I want to highlight that lincoln and microsoft are going carbon negative. Lincoln is a company of microsoft now. They have committed to going carbon negative by 2030. Which means they will deal with all the legacy emissions. And all those emissions, they will be spending that Million Dollars and trying to get the markets going. I will be really excited to launch these over time. We have these numbers sharing with each other. What could they learn from each other over this. They have conversations a lot over Carbon Pricing and how to make it most effective. Members who are just launching these in the organization can talk about talk to microsoft and skip over the first five years of pain. There is no more time to work independently anymore. Next slide. I think, speaking of this, we talked about this meeting today earlier. Now is the time for bold action. Everyone here is experienced. The day the sunshine didnt fully come out [indiscernible] my sincere hope is that locally we have support for the masses but we will start doing things that we dont know how to do. We launched our Climate Smart recovery initiative. Next slide. I dont think i need to tell you all, but as a reminder, everything about the way we live and work is different. Planes are grounded. The percentage of people taking air flights, there are companies that have multibilliondollar multi milliondollar trial budgets. Those budgets are not being used for Airline Travel anymore. These companies are actually thinking like they are saying things like, find a way to not dip to air travel at 60 . They are challenging teams to plan now for when they get into recovery and how to keep emissions though. A lot of interesting conversations are happening in the company right now. This has an impact on the future of cities. Next slide. We are seeing a way of them to demonstrate this and calling for racial justice. What a moment we are living in. From my seat and the conversations we have been having, it is really interesting it is interesting that the word of systemic change, racial justice, intersectionality. I see these words every week. Everyone is grappling with the interconnectedness of it all. And the people who used to just sit in the silo of sustainability are now being asked, what is working . They are trying to figure it out they need to answer those questions and they are coming up with new ideas and proposals telling that. Conversations are happening at that level. But i think we know its his it is really hard. Dont try this at home by yourself. We cannot do it alone. Next slide. This gets into the future that we envision. We had it all sink for couple of minutes of what comes to mind. They just shared openly with popcorn words. Its really interesting what people were sharing. We cannot just start planning the way that we plan. We have to do everything differently. This is the great resizing. We need to do it in a more equitable manner. Ultimately, with our recovery initiative, our membership and the practitioners believe it is economic recovery that moves it towards our broader plan goals. We need to build a more resilient economy. In addition it will improve the health and quality of life. That is our belief. Its one of the cooler things that we are hoping as we move forward with the recovery initiative. The real question is, what is that future that we are envisioning and are we ready to start the process of designing it . For the next great disaster, its not the best time. They need to get back to that place. It is a space between this disaster is it will be another bookend. There will be a magic space for disasters where we have the ability to do the longterm envisioning and planning together. That is why starting these conversations now as we start to get our feedback on the ground, now is the time in between for the next disaster. Next slide. The good news here, and i just want to say, props. Early on this year they came out with their principles for covid19 recovery. And tonnes of mayors across the globe signed onto this. Im really proud of the mayor and excited that she planned on early on. It shows her courage to be part of this as it moves forward. These are the principles when they release them, but they can help accelerate economic recovery. It will drive wider benefits for everyone. Next slide. In terms of the Climate Smart recovery initiative, we have really launched this and these two tracks. We need to show up for our members right now. They are in crisis. They already have big jobs in their world to achieve through ambitious and bold climate goals they were struggling in their own silos. It is its our work to help them meet their climate goals. We have these added pressures of figuring out the intersectionality. The first track for the initiative is to bring members together. We need to show up for San Francisco. That is the other big part of the initiative. How can our membership work collaboratively with the city . With the Economic Task force and what will come out of that . How can these be recovered . Thats why i want to talk about this at the end here. We have hosted three forms. We held a forum on zero waste and covid. There are tonnes of questions if you are all aware. We had a big discussion with people around that. We pull together a lot of resources from the Member Companies themselves so folks can have the tools they need. Thank you to ted for participating. [indiscernible] in addition to these forums, we signed onto a letter of support for recovery pathway Feasibility Study to evaluate a temporary emergency bike lane on the bridge. We are gauging the ways to support studies being done to look at ways to get people back to work in cars. We also have a strong Employment Engagement platform. We watched it in january of this year before everyone went home to work forever for the shortterm. We have a tool and a manager who is running this with our members to reach these employees out there. We are in the middle of our campaign and looking to get those out to our Member Companies. The Campaign Encourages adoption of residential solar and battery that has opened it up. We are testing out a campaign this year to show clean energy across our members to get the word out to our employees to encourage them to ask us about clean energy right now. Maybe hopefully to offset the energy while working from home. They also trying to find ways to find ways for the companies to work from home. Can they also encourage [indiscernible] the companies create things like take your health and wellness benefits because people are not going to the gym. They say you could use that 500 this year to go towards a battery for your home or solar system or an air purifier. We are looking at trying to have them do these things in the shortterm that will make a difference for employees, but also for our grid. Those are some of the things we are working on. In general, we have the membership. The companies are committing to doing these three key things. They will pursue these strategies. We want to share out is much as we can with businesses of all sizes and what is working. We also commit to collaborating and identify Climate Smart recovery opportunities when the time is right. When the time is right, we would invite any and all ideas to bring this to the table. And finally, members are working closely with the city to address the impact and the opportunity of this changing workplace. There will be economic impacts, but huge emissions impacts of all of these decisions a company has made over the next six to 12 , to 24 months. And how many people will go back to work. Workforce shifts and impacts on the local economy so our members are interested and concerned in the transportation issue as i am sure you all can imagine. They are curious and want to be part of the experience. [indiscernible] there might be away locally. Many of these companies are headquartered in San Francisco. Theres a lot of interesting conversation to have as we move forward. In addition, i will wrap up by saying that we have been in touch. Thank you for your generous time we are also in touch with the Governors Task force. They have a committee on climate as part of the task force. Were looking for opportunities to convene when the time is right. In closing, we are all ears. If anyone is a commissioner [indiscernible] we want to have small conversations about opportunities to collaborate. We can help with that. [indiscernible] we are all ears for any ideas. Next slide. This is my contact information. I want to thank everyone. Thank you so much for that. It was really informative and fantastic. Every time i get to hear the smart folks in our public bodies and in our partners and the work that they are doing, im constantly proud to live in the city and be part of these organizations and the different people who are thinking about these important questions. I am sure the question commissioners probably have questions. I will take a look over at the hand raising list. Lets take advantage of the time that we have while these people are here for questions. Go ahead. Commissioner sullivan . I need to unmute myself. A couple of observations. One is that i have been pleasantly surprised at some of the changes that cobit has forced on us from this perspective and how it relates to the environment. With the shared spaces, it has been a big success. I find myself walking to my local restaurants as opposed to driving to other places. There is a new bike lane along the street next to the panhandle that happened with very little fanfare and very little process. And the old days, most of these things would have taken years of process and a few meetings. They happened quickly because of emergency powers. Maybe we can learn from that and we can make some of these things permanent. And the Second Thought i had is we have all been talking about how on a global level, emissions are down this year. Is a little bit of a silver lining. Emissions are down. And curious to see if the city can calculate the impact of the pandemic on San Francisco to see how we are doing. Those are my thoughts. This is my very myopic worldview. Do we see it in a largescale, or are we seeing a trend in that direction . Its a great question. The information that we are getting at this point largely is anecdotal. There is a lot of concern from cities like new york and others. You are seeing a temporary outflow. The Housing Market in the bay area is showing a great deal of weakness in the city. The brokers i am hearing from is that people are looking at who would ordinarily bought. People are looking at the suburbs. The marketing of real estate is showing the advantage of low density [indiscernible] whether or not this is real or worth focusing on [indiscernible] i think it is an open question. Im not worried about the people moving to the suburbs as i am with people moving to they are not going to come back. It has always been true that companies and jobs and people have effectively priced out of San Francisco and have moved to lower cost locations. If we see that supercharged, because this moment in technology, and the virus, and peoples psychology means it is a longerterm shot for the city s economy. The only piece of information comes from [indiscernible] they are tracking people who are searching for apartments, which they summed up on the website. They are suggesting that what we are seeing is nobody is moving to San Francisco as opposed to everyone is moving out of San Francisco. That also makes sense because as recently as 2019, for example, the Tech Industry and employment in San Francisco went down 10 . If that flow stops, it will look like a big slowdown in the rental market. It is slightly better than anecdotal. I am eager to learn more about this. You read stories from the work at home people who are casting off the shackles of living in San Francisco. And year or two ago, you are seeing people who are living in San Francisco. I frankly worry more about so low income workers. They dont have the access to draw on this to pay rent. [indiscernible] thank you. How are they inserting themselves into these conversations . This is part of the reason i want to get this topic to you because i would like it to be a collective brain form on all of these parts in the various ways we insert ourselves. The department is involved in two levels. One is in the work we do and making sure that our that we are thinking about economic recovery in our work. So whether it is focusing Energy Efficiency work and a Small Grant Program 20 waste, to Small Businesses and focusing our energy laser on the Small Businesses that are hurt the most and supporting the nail salon so that one so when they are ready to open, we make it easier for them to reopen. The other area we are participating in is a larger discussion area. That falls to me mostly. I was appointed to the Economic Recovery Task force. I was one of the executives that heather talked about and was on working groups. It has been a phenomenally useful experience for me because i got to be on working groups with people who i never would interact with and others that i didnt know that doing so now i do know. The president of the Small Business commission and i were on a working group together and now we are working together. Heather and i have had long talks about and same with professor chiu and i, about how we what is the right way that was fascinating. Sorry. We have had long discussions about the difference between the medium and short term that is happening now and the longrange of how we insert the green. What came out of it for me was what heather was saying to all of you that it isnt a shortcoming of the Economic Recovery Task force. It is a sign of what the members and where their heads are at. So the question then becomes, how do we make sure that sustainability is part of those longrange discussions . Where are those happening now . Theyre happening there happening in a number of places. There is the Housing Element of the general plan. Its an interesting moment for this commission to be thinking about how we dont do land use as a commission. There is a bright line there. Yet there is a big discussion in the Housing Element on resiliency and sustainability, as well as affordability and types of housing and the amount of housing. Our ears are open. We are looking for ways to insert and be part of the conversation. I would say, honestly, i havent found a good entry point yet. I wanted tonight to be with you and it be a launching of that. I ask is all of you commissioners [indiscernible]. [please stand by]