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Public comment callin dial 14156550001 access code 2664 232 9116 password sfgov dial star 3 to be added to speak in the queue. In addition to inperson Public Comment, the commission will hear up to 15 minutes of remote Public Comment on each agenda item. The commission will hear remote Public Comment on each item in the order that commenters add themselves to the queue to comment on the item. Because of the 15minute time limit, it is possible that not every person in the queue will have an opportunity to provide remote Public Comment. Remote i will now call roll. [roll call] you have a quorum. Item 2. President s welcome. Well start with the land acknowledgment. Ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement the San Francisco Fire Commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. The welcome to the meeting. I would like to state that we are thinking about those affected by the wildfires. The wildfires pose a threat not just to california but other parts of the country. There are historically marginalized locations and communities that suffer from these effects. We should work harder to support Climate Action plan. We have a packed agenda tonight. We will begin with a presentation on the Climate Action plan. Also hear a pair of updates from the construction and demolition programs on accomplishments from the prior year and their work ahead. Finally, well also hear on our annual report from the Management Team and have a review and vote on the reduced pesticide list. Our annual to do. Before we begin, i would like to welcome our new commissioner angela thompkins. Please introduce yourself. Thank you. I am so pleased to have joined this body and intent with all purpose to look forward to hear from the community here in San Francisco and doing the work of the commission as identified. Thank you and thank you for being welcoming tonight. We are happy to have you. At this point, are there any comments of the commissioners . Seeing none, well go to Public Comment. We will start here in the room, please lineup and come forward. Seeing none, well go to members of the public. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. We do have one caller in the queue. Public speaker hello, my name is here im asking about herbicide spraying done on my yard and spraying should be noticed three days before. Can you hear me . Yes. Okay. Thats about it. Just please, it is not working and only physical signs. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Seeing no additional commenters on the queue, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. Next item, please. The next item. 3. Approval of minutes of the august 29, 2023, commission on the environment special meeting. Explanatory document august 29, 2023, commission on the environment special meeting draft minutes. discussion and action do we have any questions . Seeing none, i will move for approval. A second from ms. Hunter. Lets open up to Public Comment. Are there any members present in the room to comment on this item . Seeing none, well proceed to remote Public Comment. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. Seeing no callers in the queue. [roll call] the item passes. Thank you. Next item, please. Next item is Public Comment. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. 4. General Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Seeing no Public Comment on the queue, this item is now closed. Next item. 5. Presentation of the commission on the environment Environmental Service award to commissioner emerita johanna wald. discussion this honor is mine to introduce this award. It is my pleasure to present the Environmental Service award to johanna wald. Very few people stand out like johanna and i can say this from my working experience with her in the Environmental Commission that she had a long history of knowing it all from her work with american west, and her passion is evident from earlier times. She graduated from Cornell University and Yale Law School and joined the natural defense counsel and served for more than 40 years as an attorney and land director and worked on safeguarding species and the next generation. When she retired in 2015, she did so as one of the leading experts on federal land and Natural Resources management and strong advocate for americas wildlife and wild land. When mayor brown brought her here, she worked on the environment and since no one has served longer than johanna has and for over 40 years, she helped chart a path for the complexity of the programs that have involved. At the Commission Meeting, johanna knew what to ask precisely and what to analyze and cut through the noise. We deal with a lot of Department Policy here at the department and only with johannas expertise we were able to diagnose the problem. And this super skill was her super power. We are grateful to her for that. Johanna had a high expectation of Public Servants and would hold them to the account. If you were part of the commission, you knew you had to be on your toes. Your queue was always webex and you were able to always still apply your rigor as a commissioner that we came to appreciate at our meeting. Above all else, i dont think anybody here has ever doubted how incredibly passionate you are and how you believe in the Public Interest and trying to resolve these difficult issues that we are grappling with today on Climate Change. You are a dear patriot and dear friend of mine and example to us all. Thank you and congratulations. With that, i will open it up. Maybe other commissioners want to comment as well. Kudos to you. I know commissioner has always been knowledgeable on everything related to the environment and the most passionate and committed commissioner. It is my great honor to have been able to serve with you on the commission. I will speak up. The amount of Human Capital that this commission has lost with johannas departure is just staggering. I have been on the commission for just about 25 of her time but its a depth and knowledge that johanna has when it comes to this commission. When ever something tough would come to the commission w eh all had comments but would look to what johanna said because she was always on point and almost always right. Beyond just the knowledge and the commitment to the environment, it was really heartwarming to see johannas connection and affection for the staff and that was reciprocal. Last thing i will say is that johanna and i live in the same neighborhood. We both live in coal valley, and the best part of the meeting is we got to carpool and i got a good 15 minutes at the end of every Commission Meeting to spend time with johanna and i miss that as much as anything. Im so happy to see you here today johanna and looking forward to give you this award. I wont belabor, it was a pleasure serving with you. I know a lot of people talk about your expertise, but your passion and creativity when it came to this commission, asking questions that pushed us forward rather than just asking questions, i think you demonstrated that you served this commission with grace, knowledge and expertise that honestly we will all be striving for as we continue to try to fill your shoes. With that, do we have director on the line. Maybe commissioner wald, if you would like to come up to speak. Director, you are unmuted. I just want to apologize, johanna, for not being there. Im in toronto with cities around the world. This is the first in person Group Meeting since the pandemic since then. Even then virtually i wanted to say a few words. Our ability in San Francisco to be able to participate in organizations to a carbon free city is no small part to be on this mission where you have contributed to so many important initiatives and policies and our citys environmental polls and also had an effect. You have been a mentor to many of us in the department, and it extends even past this department. They would always at the me this, johanna a told me this. Whatever you do in your future endeavor, i hope that you will stay in touch with us. Thank you for your contribution for this city and for the environment. Thank you for everything you have done for this city and for the [ applause ] thank you. Thank you all. Thanks for those wonderful words. Im really touched by what you have said and its a good thing i have my notes. First, can i have more than three minutes . Yeah. [ laughter ] its a first time i have been on this side before this body. Serving on the San Francisco Environment Commission for all of these years has been an extraordinary experience for me. Im grateful to all the mayors who appointed and reappointed me from mayor brown to mayor breed. Im grateful to the commission secretary, monica fish, Anthony Valdes and kyle with whom i have worked over the years. With infinite patience, monica taught me how to have a policy Committee Meeting that was in compliance with San Franciscos complicated rules with great good humor anthony kept me on track for a couple of years, and with kyle help solve all of those myriad technological problems for the commission and the policy Committee Even before the pandemic. Im grateful to all the Commission Members with whom i have served over the years including becky evans who is here and whose seat i took. You all have made significant and unique contributions to the work of the commission and the department and it was an absolute pleasure for me to serve alongside of you. Im grateful to the executive directors who i got to work with and learn from over the years. Gerald blumenfield and betty and kyle. When the department was still relatively new and much smaller than it is now, jared put the department on the map, literally in San Francisco and way beyond with his bold ideas and unwavering determination to bring them to light. Debbie created a culture of excellence and collaboration across the department and forged strong and effective bonds across city agencies facilitating the huge number of substantive accomplishments during her tenure. And tyrone, he inherited a department in turmoil and quickly and effectively moved to raise staff morale and then succeed to get significant funds from the city for the first time ever, not once, but twice. What truly exceptional leaders these people have been and what a privilege its been for me to have a ringside seat as i watched the department grow and mature and change under their leadership. Last but by no means least, im grateful to the department. The dedicated talented, committed and very able people from my time on the commission have worked so tirelessly and so hard for me and for the city of San Francisco and their hard work dealing with issues across california and the nation and the lead of the world. The accomplishments over the years i have served on this commission is awe inspiring and the host of landmark measures like the plastic water bottles, the pharmaceuticals legislation and cnd ordinance and amendments and Climate Change to name just a few. As many of you have heard me say many times, all of us who live and work in this city are so lucky that we have everyone in the Department Working on our behalf to protect our Public Health and our environment. Its been an enormous privilege for me to serve on this commission, and i know i leave it and the department in good hands. Welcome, commissioner thompkins. Thank you all. Thank you so very much. Im really grateful. [ applause ] thank you again, commissioner wald. At this time i would like to invite people in the room to come up to speak. Good evening, commissioners, im debbie. As i thought about johanna tonight, i said whats that word im going to look for to describe her. So i looked up the definition for activist. It said a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change. Sounds pretty good. Now i looked at advocate. What about advocate . Thats a person who publicly supports or recommends a cause or policy. But those definitions of activist and advocate, they just dont do it for me. They dont say johanna, because the johanna we all know, she just wants to get shit done. Sorry, kyle. You can wipe that off the minutes. She just wants to get stuff done. When it comes to the city of San Francisco and the department of the environment, johanna wants to be both cheerleader and agitator and by idealist and fragmentist and architect and behindthescenes supporter. Johanna is one that gives honest feedback, difficult truth, missing relationships and new opportunities. As one of the four directors over the course of her tenure on the commission i can say that in addition to these attributes, johanna wald is also a friend. Someone who shares in the sorrows, the frustrations, and the joys of leadership. Honoring her today fills my heart for i know that this acknowledges what we all know to be true, that it has been a privilege to be in the presence of such deep wisdom and love. Wisdom and love in service have this city and the planet. So thank you, my dear friend. Thank you my friend and colleague for all you bring to this world and thank you commission for recognizing someone as truly exceptional as commissioner johanna wald. [ applause ] thats a truly hard act to follow. My name is becky evans before it was the commission and appointed by several departments. I know johanna before she was on the commission because we helped form the league of voters in San Francisco. You really should be giving her a cape, like a super man cape because shes that kind of extraordinary woman, resource, who cares about her city, her environment. I would like to bring her a message from ruth, who was a previous commissioner, unable to come tonight. She would like to say that she was a mentor and such a great leader for the city. I want to know what you are doing for the press. I dont know who does that but i think the environmental groups across the city and will say, unfortunately the sierra club doesnt give you the kind of support that they should, but please reach out to me because we definitely care. Thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you, commissioner evans. Anyone else . I see someone rushing up. Good evening, commissioners, peter i cant speak for the staff but certainly for me, i felt incredibly supported by having johanna on the commission. We are a program of two now, but when the whole time when johanna was on the commission, we did Work Together and im so appreciative of all of support during all of these years. Congratulations on your career and this record of having so many years on the commission. [ applause ] if there is no other comment in the room, we can move to Public Comment. Seeing no additional Public Comment in the room. Well open up to remote Public Comment. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. Seeing no callers in the queue, Public Comment on this item is closed. All right. At this moment, we are going to pose for a portrait with commissioner wald. Will the commissioner join me at our usual wall . 6. Review and vote on the commission on the environment Environmental Service award name. discussion and possible action we have a speaker today. It gives me honor and great pleasure to renew the Environmental Service award and every time we give this award in the future, it reminds us of this irreplaceable colleague. It will be named the johanna wald environmental award. [ applause ] that was a motion. So well need a second. It will be my greatest pleasure to second. Any other discussion . Im happy to say im happy to vote for this as well. We will make sure there is no other discussion. If not, well move to Public Comment. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. Not seeing anyone, well turn to remote Public Comment. Seeing no callers in the queue, Public Comment on this item is closed. Commissioner wald . I think it will be nice if you spoke a few words given that you have been here for 20 years. I will be brief but want to say thank you for incredible and totally unexpected honor. Its beyond my imagination, and i thank you. Thank you, thank you. From the bottom of my heart. Thank you, commissioner wald. [ applause ]. With that, please call the roll. [roll call] with that, the award is renamed. All right. That was the fun part today. [ laughter ] no, im teasing. The staff presentations im really much looking forward to. Next item. The next item is item 7. 7. Review and vote on whether to approve resolution file 202311coe, resolution amending Environment Department Energy Efficiency contract. Speaker cara bautistarao, Senior Energy specialist. Explanatory document resolution file 202311coe. discussion and possible action good evening, commissioners. Im cara rao speaking on this amendment tonight. This runs the program for qualifying efficiency upgrades to commercial buildings. Under the contract the scope of work includes issuing payments and supporting Marketing Research efforts and providing Technical Assistance and other tasks. We received funding for this program and this contract through the bay area Regional Network through the Public Utilities commission. Our contract is 1. 4 million and today we are asking to modify the contract in two ways. The first is to extend the term of the contract by two years from the current end date of october 18, 2023, to a new end date of october 18, 2025. And a second modification is to increase the budget in the contract for incentives by 4,593,000. This will help to ensure the Bay Area Program and to allow to serve more businesses by increasing the budget available for creating incentive payments. With that, im happy to take any questions. What is the current incentive budget. Right now it is 2. 9 million and this will bring it up to 7. 5 million for incentives. Any other questions . This is an action item. Could i have a motion to approve this resolution. I have a motion from commissioner wan, do i have i second . Second from commissioner hunter. With that well open up to Public Comment. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. Seeing none, Public Comment on this item is closed. Roll call, please. [roll call] the resolution passes. Thank you again, cara. Next item, please. Clerk 8. Presentation on the water chapter of the Climate Action plan. Sponsor richard chien, senior environmental specialist, Environment Department. Speakers paula kehoe, director of Water Resources, San Francisco Public Utilities commission; manisha kothari, alternative Water Supply Program manager, San Francisco Public Utilities commission; and julie ortiz, Water Conservation manager, San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Explanatory document 2023 water supply addendum. discussion charles, you are replacing rich today . I am. Rich is sick and cannot join us. I will attempt to fill his big shoes. Since we passed the Climate Action plan and i believe late 2021, we have been hard at work to add a water chapter to the Climate Action plan because as we know the Climate Changes, our water supply is impacted and we have been collaborating with sf puc for a little bit over a year for a certain amount of time and we have been Holding Public workshops from them and exploring their issues from their side, the water side and put them to our processes with the scan and rc tool. Its been a joint collaborative effort to get to this point. So we are pleased that we can present to you the new water addendum chapter of the Climate Action plan. I would like to introduce to you my former colleague because i was at sf puc for nine years. I would like to bring to you manisha kothari. Good evening, commissioners. Director paula kehoe is out sick. So as mentioned water is our Precious Resource and one of our most essential but challenging to maintain a future supply with Climate Change and drought and earthquakes and Natural Disaster and we are an old city with a lot of old pipes, growth, regulatory requirements are all challenges. So given that, our agency has been looking at new ways to ensure our water supply including looking at a one water lens. Rather than the traditional way of viewing water in, we use water that goes out as wastewater. We are looking at weighs to more holistically reuse that water, find Energy Benefits as well and again looking at it through a complete one water lens. So that really also is a broad overlay for our Water Supply Program which is focused on extending and preserving our Water Supplies as much as possible and thats true demand management or conservation using less water as well as finding ways to develop sustainable new Water Supplies through groundwater sources, recycled Water Projects, reusing water within buildings onsite, finding new innovations to come up with new supplies, and also a growing and Robust Program of planning for alternative water supply projects. Our overarching goals for our Water Supply Program are looking at diversifying our supplies both during dry times and nondry times and by diversifying of reliance on a single regional system. Also looking at ways that we can improve the use of new water sources from a demand management through drought management and again including groundwater recycled water sources, onsite reuse water transfers and other efforts. And then lastly really to maintain the fact that we have a gravity driven Regional Water system as our primary source of supply. So working with your staff to add the water supply section include three key strategies and well go over this in the presentation this evening. The first is to vest and implement the Conservation Programs and implement the water supply Augmentation Program and the third is to develop innovative programs to help reduce water use and come up with efficient creative ways for new supplies. So this was my area as Water Conservation manager with sf puc. I outlined strategy one which is invest and implement demand management programs, and the puc rain or shine has long had a comprehensivi Water Conservation program for many decades. We have a mix of incentives and research and education to help customers use water efficiently. We have developed that based on best practices, studies we have done in the field, in you and developing technologies, and it has led and contributed to San Francisco having the lowest amount of per capita water use in california, and we continue that program because we know there is still more water to save. We have a conservation planning process and program thats explained in the water supply chapter, but we develop every year, we developed a master plan to guide our conservation efforts. We formally update that every five years. Its posted and shared online in the form of our Water Conservation plan. But when we update it, we go back through and look at all the assistance measures that we have and forecast the water savings. There is a link on the presentation slide to where you can find that. Well soon be starting the process to creating our 2025 plan. Overall our Conservation Program includes financial incentives to encourage customers and water users to replace and repair water leaks with new systems and a whole host of tools where platforms where customers can view their water use down to the hourly level and we issue leak alerts if there is a leak or water problems. We do a wide range of education outreach and there is a host to mandate and require it. Im going to manisha. Good evening, commissioners. I will talk about strategy two and three. As julie mentioned, our gravity driven water supply, surface water supply is our primary water supply and the backbone of what we deliver to our customers in San Francisco and around the bay area. But as we look at the future and we look at droughts really becoming the new normal as we look at Climate Change in the last 20 years, the droughts have been more frequent than the preceding hundred years. It really behooves us to in order to be resilient for our water supply future to really think about Sustainable Water for drought and existing water supply with and looking at our approach and all the Water Resources we have and using them to their maximum and highest use is really critical. Thats what this strategy hinges on. So taking advantage of water supply that is here and that is local groundwater since 2017 we started pumping small amount of groundwater for drinking again as a local supply source and goes through monitoring and high quality source and matching the right water for the right end use and making it available for drinking. Recycled water. We have irrigation needs and Golden Gate Park is where we use groundwater for irrigation but the perfect water for that could be recycled water and through the construction of the west side recycled Water Project, near way side Treatment Plant for irrigation and golf courses and we already have golf courses using this with our neighboring utilities. We will be starting irrigation of Golden Gate Park soon with our Water Project and really allows us to save on that groundwater use. We have the onsite Water Reuse Program in place since 2012. We have been a pioneer, San Francisco has been a pioneer in this effort, and over time, the ordinance actually had just gotten more stringent. We have been able to save more water with the onsite Water Reuse Program. Now all buildings over 100,000 square feet in San Francisco, new developments are required to have onsite water programs which is really significant for water savings and can save up to 25 of demand from commercial buildings, for example. Then we have the alternative water supply plan which basically this Planning Program is the program that i manage and we are looking out not just in San Francisco, but throughout our service area for new opportunities to work with neighboring water and wastewater utilities for storage and thats above and below ground storage and to reuse more of our water and also looking at desalination. We are looking at ways to secure our Water Supplies for future droughts. The third and final strategy in the water supply chapter is implementing innovative programs to reduce use and develop new supplies. These are some examples on the slide of things that are innovative that we have piloted and identified new ways to save both water and energy. So expanding the Leak Detection program. We have a Water Loss Reduction Program that monitors and reduces water lost from main breaks in our infrastructure. We are also implementing preventative water loss actions to be able to identify and save water through potential leaks and then implementing a Main Replacement program. In the last ten years we have replaced an average of nine miles of pipe per year and that aging infrastructure that julie was talking about trying to make sure that we have efficient pipes. Opportunities to reuse water. We had a partnership with local brewery in San Francisco to reuse processed water. So water that goes through the processing can be reuse for tanks and processed equipment onsite to save a significant amount of water. San francisco developed its own Water Treatment guidelines and this was groundbreaking and we didnt have any path for permitted kinds of uses prior and Anchor Brewing Company was the grant that we awarded to help with this project. I mentioned heat recovery. These onsite systems can use a lot of energy and installing heat Recovery Systems can help with that footprint with these projects and opportunity to recovery thermal energy from this water reuse this process and to incentivize recapturing through the heat of this process. Atmospheric water to produce water doesnt produce much but we had two pilots of atmospheric water panels one at Golden Gate Park and way side park. And this is from two of the wastewater Treatment Plants in San Francisco and we bring that to new Drinking Water standards and in california now that allows that and chart to path forward and that is cutting edge and we are engaging with other utilities around the state and the world to understand that and understand best practices to see whats possible with San Francisco. Thats my last slide and we are happy to answer any questions you might have. I will comment briefly. I was excited to see that you are in partnership with anchor brewery but they are now closed. Are you in partnership with other companies . Yes, we are. I understand there are other places in other counties with cases with big lawns. Does San Francisco have the ability to help manage water use in those places . We own the source of the water. Do we have any control over what other counties are doing . We work very closely with the we have 26 cities besides San Francisco that are served by the hetch hetchy water system and they are represented by an agency called bawsca and we share all of our best practices with them and also other demand management measures. A number of these water supply projects they also partner in and share the cost of and we work very closely with them. I would just add that bawsca runs other Agency Programs on a wholesale basis from us and they have a Conservation Program and we do talk and share best practices. Thank you. Do you have any rough sense of to what percent that hetch hetchy gets consumed in San Francisco as opposed to other places . 1 3 San Francisco, twothirds outside. Thank you. Commissioner thompkins i have a question about the incentive use and the data and how its used, someway to look at that data . Yeah, we do regulate review of who participates in our Water Conservation Incentive Program so we know how many we issue, we know how much has gone out dollar wise. We know if it went to a Single Family home or apartment number or geographically, we know where it went. We do look at that and that factors into considerations when we are making or trying to make improvements to these incentives, how to get, if we see we need more participation or we want more participation from some group or some area thats not participating as much as we had anticipated. So, yes, we do look at that. It would be great to share that information, and then to understand particularly where its under utilized, what those mitigations would be to increase utilization. Yeah, thats a real good point. At a general level, we put out a report and we are currently looking at our annual report for the last fiscal year that includes a summary of the participation of these programs and the conservation plan that i mentioned that well be updating for 2025 and talking about the opportunities and strategies to try to meet those markets. Thank you. Commissioner hunter . Just getting an email that algae is blooming. Im wondering how this will affect water outside of San Francisco . So, with algae blooms, i guess there is two separate things. With the salmon habitat, that is one of the drivers for changing regulations in the state, and requirement to leave more flows for the environment. So really for us its about balancing those needs which are both part of our stewardship is certainly protecting and providing for the environment in our water sheds, but also making sure there is enough water to serve our communities. And so really thats what these plans are about especially augmenting these supplies is how do we do that in a sustainable way. How do we augment our supplies in the future when we may be required to leave more flows, but even with a drier climate, how do we adapt to those changes that we see coming in a sustainable way. The algae bloom issue, it is to some extent nutrient related issue. Its not clear yet whether reuse water will take care of that issue, but it is something we are looking at with new reuse projects, what is the impact on the nutrient load that goes back into gets discharged and in some cases, there are some constituents that will be more concentrated, some that will be taken out during the treatment process and really understanding the relationship between that and algae bloom is something we are still looking at. Thank you. Seeing no other discussion from commissioners, well move to Public Comment. Are there any members of the present who are present in the room today who wish to comment on this item . Seeing none. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. Seeing none, Public Comment on this item is closed. Thank you for your presentation. Next item. Clerk 9. Update on the Energy Efficiency program. Sponsor lowell chu, Energy Program manager. Speakers cara bautistarao, Senior Energy specialist; and ryan ramos, Senior Energy specialist. This item is up for discussion. Take it away. Good evening commissioners. Im the Energy Efficiency program manager. My name is lowell chu. We will speak about some of the accomplishments we had last year and take a look ahead in 2024 on our new programs and the funding opportunities that we are going to be going over. That was the agenda and now the overview part. I will introduce you to the team. I have the honor of working with seven incredible professionals. I work with cara who is on the regional side and ryan is on the residential side. You will hear from them a little bit later. Working with cara would be rena and michael. They have over 20 Years Experience on the environment. On the residential side we have meera and paul. Speak of paul, there he is examining a condenser coil at a grocery store. Before we provide you with the information on the program, i want to provide you with key details on the program. They have their own employees to bring talents to the mission and in language Technical Assistance. They are the driving force behind the success of our programs. When it comes to funding, its important to note that our energy team is funding by work orders from the departments as well as grants. Now, in terms of the work order, we are proud to have a Solid Partnership with key departments Like Department of health, San Francisco Public Utilities commission and city of San Francisco international airport. Their support allows us to continue our vital work in terms of energy. In terms of grants, the bay area Regional Network is an important part which is a ratepayer funds and comprised of local government and takes public funds and channels it into Energy Efficiency electrification programs. You will hear some of that later in the presentation. For the Current Program, both a substantial budget of 8 million of this funding allocation is strategically divided with approximately 5 million earmarked for professional services and rebates. You heard in item no. 7, cara asking for more incentive dollars because we have more to serve. These are to maintain not only ongoing projects but growth and innovation in the field. Commissioners, we exist to implement local and state goals and policies. We exist to implement state goals and policies. The statement serves at the compass guiding our efforts to create this process for all san franciscans. You can see how our Current Program is not only aligned with this but directly instrumental with realizing these goals and policies. So just what are those goals and policies . Well, first and foremost the Climate Action plan in 2021, next we have the mayors priorities on affordability and economic recovery. We are supporting the state and local ambition to save on our natural gas appliances and environmentally harmful refrigerant and state Energy Efficiency and Environmental Justice goals. In addition to implementing state goals and policies, we are also interested in energizing needs. This goes beyond just implementing energy needs but priorities and electrification resources to those that are hard to reach and underserved in both residential and commercial sectors. In essence, we have this sustainability is not a privilege, but a right for all, and our efforts reflect a commitment of ensuring that every san franciscan can benefit from advancing opportunities within our work. So now, i will transition over to my colleague cara, who plays a pivotal role in our program team providing strong leadership and vision and will walk us through this initiative and goals and policies and transformative action. Good evening, again, commissioners. Im cara bautista. In 2018, the San Francisco department has had a work order with the San Francisco international airport. The airport has a goal of achieving net zero emissions. And we have equipment for the airports terminals and nonterminal buildings. This helped to identify their natural gas appliances towards a step of electrification. We also not only identified their Gas Equipment but all electric alternatives for them. This work is going to continue into the next year. Next, i want to notify you that our partnership with pg e ended this year and we ended a strong relationship with pg e. So a little bit more about the partnership. Energy access sf was a three Year Partnership program that conducted outreach to our lowincome and disadvantaged communities. We conducted both electronic and on the ground outreach in the bayview Hunters Point and tenderloin communities and served over 550 residents to pg es great assistance and Energy Efficient programs. For example, the initialing Savings Assistance Program for lowincome residents which help to create support for affordability. We reached over 600 businesses with limiting no cost to reassessment with upgrading those costs. We completed the program june 30th and transitioned to our bay run programs. So michael, rina and i are working on these bay run programs that is an equity centered program for the entire region and Service Local economic recovery and Energy Efficiency. Bay ren provides generous incentives, it uses a unique Program Design that only pays incentives for measured and verified energy savings. The bay ren Business Program opened this summer on june 14th, and since then, we have had 51 projects enrolled which represents about 70 businesses. These businesses are all hard to reach and what that means is that they need a category where they have less than 25 employees, they occupy a leased or rented space and speak a language other than english. All of these businesses are in disadvantaged communities in the bay area. With that, i will pass it over to my colleague ryan. Good evening, commissioners. Im here to speak about the bay ren residential programs. Bay ren has been running the program for Energy Efficiency since 2015 to focus on affordability and we are now prioritizing electrification in residential programming. The residential programming is divide into two categories, multifamily and Single Family. We have erected over 10,000 units and provided over 4 million in incentives. We have developments as the Community Center and mission housing, to name a few. Over half of the units that we have served over the last ten years are considerable affordable. In 2020, weve pivoted to rolling out electrification and roof tops, pumps and more equipment. We are looking to provide more incentives for areas that are considered health burdened communities on the Climate Action plan. The Single Family program has been around also since 2013, retrofitting over 460 homes in San Francisco at that time. The program is in the midst of redesign to focus on serving more equity households from the low and moderateincome communities with weatherization and electrification as a priority. Single Family Program include linking it to the Climate Equity club to enhanced Program Participation in communities. Another program that the energy team implements is a fixed let sf program. My partner paul is working on this program and collaboration with the department of health to reduce lead hazards in residential buildings that contain children. The Program Moves beyond Standard Practice of interim controls and removes the highest risk lead in components of homes such as doors and windows and replaces them with lead free components. Since the program rolled out this year and we have enrolled eight projects within a Pilot Program with three fully completed and two of those with families that needed relocation in order to accommodate the lead remediation activity. The other five projects are on track to finish this year. And in 2024, we plan to have a full launch of the program in the priority neighborhoods that include the mission, excelsior and bayview Hunters Point with equity in mind. Turning it over lowell for the discussion on these programs. Thanks, commissioners. We have talked about the program and who we are and the programs over the last decade and now i will speak about the new program. We are really excited about the bay ren refrigerant program this is the building operation no. 4 transition to Global Warming refrigerant and the states plan to remove local harmful emissions by 2020. The government approved over 18 million over four years to fund to provide rebates through the bay ren. So, this program will target Food Service Sector including restaurants, grocery and convenient stores, bars, warehouses, food pantries and centers and places where food is offered to the hungry for free. We have staff goes out to detect and fix refrigerant leaks and protect from harmful refrigerant at little to no charge. This is a very Important Service that we are doing for Small Businesses in the Food Services sector. In addition to managing the bad refrigerants, we will also provide retrofits and to reuse and Small Businesses to affordability. The second plan is a partnership with cleanpowersf. This partnership aims to compliment brrr where it gets rid of harmful effects and this will change the Energy Efficiency in restaurants and bars and businesses and will support economic recovery and affordability. The teach is looking to launch this program at the First Quarter of next year. So for the final portion of the presentation, we want to share with you some of the funding opportunities we are going after. As we know the team is pursuing opportunities at federal and state levels. These opportunities not only enhance our impacts but also reinforce our commitment to commitment to policy driven change and the implementation on the Energy Efficiency block grant from the u. S. Department of energy. The block grant is known as Energy Efficiency and conservation block grant earmarked to drive forward our efforts in equity and under scores our dedication to making our Energy Landscape more sustainable and equitable. We have also thrown our hat in for the u. S. Department of Energy Building upgrade challenge. This challenge speaks innovative ideas from across the nation to deploy Energy Efficiency and technology for key pump water here it is. Our submission is ambition and community centric. In this challenge, we aim to install 200 low voltage hot water heat pumps in 200 days right in our citys disadvantaged communities. To service this, in partnership with those opportunities and others to engage in this recruitment. Finally we are working with the sf puc from the redemption act to lowincome and spanish communities. At the same level, we are actively seeking partners from the California Energy Commission Grant that supports market transformation in refrigerant technologies in large food warehouses. We think this will nicely compliment brrr. And this is a commitment to seek out and implement initiatives that will positively impact our communities and moving our goals and objectives. That concludes our presentation and we are happy to take thank you very much for your time. No questions, but i love to congratulate you on your work that you are doing especially on the new opportunities that are coming your way. It would be great to see the grants that you are proposing to be awarded and get a little bit more insight on those. Absolutely, thank you, commissioner. Thank you. One question. You mentioned the end of the pg e program followed immediately about the good news of bay ren, how is it overall to the work and the dollars. Did the bay ren program run at the same time pg e expired . Yes. Thank you, commissioner. The pg e government dollars was about a year. And this program where staff and local Government Partnership transferred into for just the implementation piece is about the same, maybe a little bit more, but is about the equivalent. In terms of timing, you know, the bay ren Business Program has been around since 2018. But, it suffered several set backs including the pandemic. As a result we just got started this year. We had a pilot phase last year towards the end, but we really were more in the regional roll outmode in june. So the pg e contract ended june 30th, and the regional roll out started in midjune. So the timing was very good. Thank you. Seeing no other discussion from commissioners, well take Public Comment. Are there any members from the public wishing to make Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. Well go to remote Public Comment. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. Seeing none, Public Comment on this item is closed. Next item, please. 10. Update on construction and demolition ordinance enforcement. Speaker James Slattery, construction and demolition zero waste senior coordinator. This item is for discussion. Good evening, james. Im James Slattery from the program and with the company for about 11 years now and will explain this program this evening. Just a quick reminder that requirements for debris recovery is in chapter 15 of the code. There is a prohibition ban on direct hauling any discards from a construction project directly to landfill for the purpose of disposal. I was here about a year ago almost exactly to share a project update on some of the new requirements that were adopted unanimously by the board of supervisors in 2021, and i will pick up where we left off with a progress update on how implementation has been going since then. So going beyond just the ban on land filling, the cd discards and the ordinance for transportation and processing of mixed debris. They are hyper focused today because this is the demand and strategy for most construction teams. They will team off and let someone recover the resources that can be recovered. The debris recovery ordinance is in task for monitoring and complying with the requirements as well as green requirements and the San Francisco Green Building code with domestic projects. Aside from the related ecosystem is enormous. Prepandemic, it was not uncommon for the department of building to issue 60,000 Building Permits. 2530,000 of them projected to generate significant quantities of discards. There is hundreds of hauling companies here with thousands of vehicles. This is not a franchise model. Its an open and competitive hauling system and dozens of facilities scattered throughout the region that we are tasked with monitoring. In 20 one, there were some updates to our ordinance that touched on every component of the ecosystem. Some for the Facility Networks, small changes for project, but the most significant change was impacting the transporter network and the most notable one that mandate the requirements for the permits that require for collection and transport mix construction debris. This is the 2023 permit decal that is affixed on a vehicle to transport debris regardless if the truck is on public or private property. Last year the work program called for us to recruit and train staff as the program was expanding and we basically built the program from the ground up and we developed and deployed a campaign to notify the users of these requirements and provided them with Technical Assistance for how to comply and midway we started to build and shift the focus on the ordinance update. What you see here is the outreach flyer for stakeholders informing them that by january 2022, this permit was required to transport mixed debris and this was in different languages and public works who monitor the public way who monitor the construction in demolition and circulated by colleagues at the time of Building Permit issuance. Just a quick reminder, the fees were tiered and increased based on the hauling capacity of each vehicle. The larger the load, the larger the fee. Showing here on the slide on these two images, the chart to the right is showing you the permit revenue generated by tier over the two employment cycles. We are in the 3rd quarter of the permit cycle of the second year. So in calendar year 2022, measured in calendar year because the permit cycle is affixed to a calendar year rather than fiscal. Calendar year 2022, we generated 28,000, in 2023 we have collected so far 148,000. On the chart to the left, you see the breakout for each year and whether they are increasing or decreasing year over year. There may or may not be a story. You are all well aware of the challenges we face with the resources and the funds and this is a strong limitation on where the funds can be spent which are only meant to enforce the environment code. Here is the initial result of the new funding source. This is the team that was recruited, hired and trained in the last year. On the far right hand, you see cat, cat has been with us for a year 1 2 and active Construction Projects, demolition projects, monitoring compliance with these new requirements. And chris is one of our climate corp fellows. We hosted five fellows on this team, five executive years. Chris wright is also a former fellow who was hired on 2019 doing compliance monitoring from the desktop. Next to the right of nicole is pat, hes our 5640. He and nicole are about to hit their one Year Anniversary with us. Chris is on the background. He splits his time from two of our programs, toxic reduction and zero waste team and hes on the zero waste construction and Demolition Team since 2020. So with the key planners hired and trained we were off to developing and enforcing these regulations to chapter 14. And you see the inspection form developed and what cat and arab used to request documentation receipts to demonstrate that debris was delivered to the proper facility and issued warning as well as curable notices of violation. These regulations that were effective as of february 15th were developed in collaboration with a number of agencies. They are listed there. Not just a regulations but the protocols, the citation issuance process, the appeals process, and the fine citation collection process in collaboration with sister agencies and multiple hearings were held about the effective date. A critical strategy not just on our team but to embrace tactics that are rooted in outreach and Stakeholder Engagement and thats also centered in the way we approach enforcement. We provide in language support through the language line, we translate all relevant forms as well as the violation notice packet and there is much more translated into multiple languages. Here are the results speaking for themselves where we presented Stakeholder Engagement Technical Assistance and outreach. Since effective from march to june, we have issued 68 of these inspection reports. Ten of them request for documentation, 30 were official warnings and 28 were curable notices of violation with a cure rate of 93 . We have only issued a small fraction of citations. Thats by design. The important protocols were meant to be a deterrence. Im going to pivot away from chapter 14 and will speak to some of the work our Team Performance with the work order and the department of building inspection. If you noted with the slide, i had a break there that showed how our team is funded. From 2006, to 2021, we were 100 funded by dbi. Thats now 28 of our teams funding. More than 65 are the permit fees and the rest is from its providing a service to our sister agencies that are implementing and modeling compliance and those requirements. The heart of those requirements is projects impacted by cal green must include the plan in order for dbi to issue a permit and they have to submit the documentation, the receipt to show the plan was followed, the material went to the correct facilities and our team is tackled with making sure these plans and notifying dbi to proceed. What im calling out this year, dbi was charged with expanding this program to a sub set of impacted projects that were led in this sector. While this was at the economic point, our agenda was to expand. This is an example of translated materials into spanish and chinese. For us to efficiently implement that work order, we rely on technology. We use an Online Platform called green halo which is fairly ubiquitous in the bay area and they have to figure out how they are going to recapture these recovery plans and most of them are using these platforms which is Critical Infrastructure for the state at the moment. Here is the breakout of the performance. You can see year over year from 2020 until now how our work plan is expanding and even while this permit issue is declining and with all project impact tiers. Whats noteworthy is we did not expand until march 15, 2023. We are still figuring out how to work the work flow and tweaking the platforms and customizing it for automation and we had 16 final plan reviews and the chart on the left is showing you recovery debris and diversion outcome from those plans. The final Stakeholder Group impacted by this patch work of regulatory requirements is the Facility Network that we monitor and inspect. We have 14 registered facilities permitted, authorized by sf to provide mixed debris and we have also issued a regulation in 2013 requiring availability of its performance. This is that result of that requirement. You can see the impacted project teams now know which facility is able to sort through a ton of mixed debris and what the typical outcome would be. We could recover 60 of one, or 39 . Our model has been the Gold Standard for the facilities performance monitoring from the Green Building counsel and the green Credit System and north star point of reference to our neighboring jurisdiction who dont have this type of performance monitoring and they are used by other counties and able to tell their project teams that this is how it performs and currently serving as a statewide policy mandate. Next on our final slide before q and a. Whats coming up in the year ahead is we are developing some new requirements and need to set new regulations that will be targeted at the Facility Network. Well be migrating all of our work of Data Management into sales force. We have to balance the revenue projections and expenditure process. For year one, we had a process and deficit. This is explaining be our program of team funding coming from zero waste impound and new programs and new policies under the Climate Action plan and for the consumption direction, i will direct you to page 106. Finally on that image there whats notable is the two permit decals on that vehicle with two consecutive years with that one operator complying with the new requirement. Thank you very much for your time. Im happy to take any questions you might have. I commend you on the presentation. Great program. Thank you. Great presentation and experience helps. My question is about the incredible success of the 2021 legislation must have had a big impact on cd and looking at the charts up until the right and all of that has generated a lot of stuff and that work and demand on the other side. How has that work in making sure that businesses in construction know that there is material available to purchase and use. How is the demand side working with the supply side . Great question. There is a pretty significant disconnect in the generation of discarded cd materials and products and those that can be recovered. The vast majority cannot. What we are sending to landfill, 25 of what San Francisco sends to landfill is the result of the building industry. I would signal that the primary products that can be recovered are your metals, concrete or inert material, sand and gravel and asphalt are easily recyclable. Clean wood, we direct clean lumber bio mass plants that incinerate it or it gets chipped and into mulch. Clean drywall also makes its way to the amendment market, composting market. After that, its creator in whats recoverable. That is really important why we need to work with the upstream stakeholders which we started to do very closely in 2013. Our team in the zero Waste Program and we formed an Ad Hoc Working Group with the Building Materials Management Team. A lot of that work has found its way into the Climate Action plan of page 1. Where you see path ways to things like a deconstruction ordinance, adaptive reuse of structures. So dont demolish it, use the structure as it is and you can reskin it and change elements internally but demolish it and to answer your question about the supply and demand, its tricky, and those markets really do teeter. The metal market tends to stabilize everything. There is the economics involved there that you usually get paid for the metals, but right now we are seeing extreme volatility in the concrete market because demand and most tell Construction Projects that you have to recycle certain amounts. Concrete has longstanding thriving markets. The demand is overwhelming and many of the facilities have maxed out the permit development that they can stage and they give away concrete and when they cant give it away fast enough, they tell projects you cant build here. So ever region using recycled concrete turn them arbitrated and we are starting to see an effect on where they can store concrete on this recycle. Its the short separation rather than the comingling of these materials and when you comingle these projects that were never meant to be together, they are creating a procedure that the businesses will not take. The permits for rehauling and the incentive there is if your project team separates, you do not have to hire a permanent hauler. So in theory we see a Ripple Effect across the impacts. Thank you. Thanks again. With that, well go to Public Comment. Are there any members pel in the room wishing to comment on this item . Seeing none. Well proceed to Public Comment. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. Seeing none, Public Comment on this item is closed. Thank you again. Next item, please. Clerk next item, 11. Review and vote on whether to approve resolution file 202312coe, resolution adopting the 2023 reduced risk pesticide list for city properties. Speakers dr. Shoba iyer, integrated Pest Management program manager; gabriel hernandez, municipal toxics reduction assistant coordinator. Explanatory documents staff memo, draft 2023 reduced risk pesticide list, and resolution file 202312coe. discussion and possible action under the environment code, the department maintains a reduced risk pesticide list identifying those pesticides that may be used on city property, subject to restrictions. Thank you. Hi, everyone, and good evening commissioners. Let me first introduce our integrated Pest Management. My name is shoba iyer, and my teammate gabriel hernandez. Gabriel joined my team four months ago and was an associate on our toxic team. Its been wonderful working with gabriel these last few months and hes a wonderful addition to our team. Some of the staffing changes on the team, prior to bringing gabriel on the board, we had a variety of changes on the toxic reduction team. For the past year i was the only one on the team and was leaning on my amazing colleagues ricks lozano and i will have one more Program Analyst joining us next month. I look forward to having a full team since i joined the department. Todays action is for you to review and approve the plan for the sf integrated Pest Management list and it has no ordinance over private or commercial uses over pesticides. The program is really a lot more than a pesticide monitoring on pesticide Reduction Program. Its really more of a harm Reduction Program that manages different risks based on the pest problem we are dealing with in San Francisco and the amounts of pesticides use. The Landscape Management and opportunities and the precautionary principle. With that, what well be covering in todays presentation is here. I will first briefly describe some of the ipm activities that have occurred over the last year in the program, then you will hear from gabriel with some of the information on the overall Pesticide Use trends in San Francisco in the 2022 calendar year. Then also some ideas about the Program Next Year and well finish off on the recommendations on the pesticide list. So i will first share our key accomplishments for 2022. By 98. 7 . Tier one pesticides are the highest hazards and usually the highest priorities for identifying a replacement for safer alternatives. Pest inspections, interviews and Data Analysis on 1200 units of Affordable Housing were completed. And this was work that was part of a larger project funded by a grant by the California Department of pesticide regulation. It was a big collaborative effort with the Mayors Office of housing and community development, as well as sf toxic reduction and Environmental Justice teams and Property Developers and managers. I want to give major props to my predecessor for their hard work on leading this project. We recently got the good news that we secured additional Grant Funding from the California Department of pesticide regulation to continue this work and ray, with us, hes the Environmental Justice program that will be spear heading the continued work. Im continuing our key accomplishments from last year here. We are continue to convene our monthly public ipm meetings despite our challenges of being short staffed and we have been holding these meetings virtually and some of the topics we discussed include Invasive Plant management, restoration and enhancement, Aquatic Ecology and vector control. They provide really good forums for ipm professionals to Exchange Tips and guidance while avoiding the use of harmful pesticides. We have also continued to convene annual ipm trainings for city departments and a variety of topics are covered in these trainings and i heard sessions of managing ivies on particular prevention and controls. We also took some opportunities to connect with some of our colleagues in the field and learn about past management issues. And we did a field trip with our pest contractors and we saw vermin and burroughs in some areas and there is pigeon proofing all along the beams on the buses there. More recently gabriel and i visited our recreation and parks colleagues and looked at different considerations like grass types. Im looking forward to continuing these kinds of field trips to look at the pest problems that we are seeing in city properties. At this point, im going to pass it over to gabriel for the next couple slides. Thank you. Good evening. Hello, on the slide is the graph for the Pesticide Use in the city. Tier one is the most hazardous pesticides and we advised the department to use them sparingly. Here on the x axis is the year, the y axis is the active ingredient which corresponds to Pesticide Usage. Here we are displaying 2010 and the four most current years of complete data that we have. So when comparing 2022 to 2010, we observed a 29 reduction in Pesticide Usage. In looking at 2021 and 2022, we see a 36 pound decrease in usage in 2022. A larger portion of this decrease in usage of these tier one products comes from the department of recreation and parks. Here on this slide displays that all Pesticide Usage in San Francisco. So the different ones here are representing our different tiers. Tier one being the most hazardous and tier 3 being the least hazardous and tier one at the bottom of the graph the least used of the three types. I want to highlight from 2021, to 2022, the cumulative use of pounds of pesticides used have decreased compared to 2021. The slide tier 3 usage of the green dotted one and you can see its quite a bit above the others and that is because often with a tier 3 product which is a safer product, you need more essentially to achieve the desired Pest Management goal opposed to using one that is more toxic which is a safer product. And a large portion of that is coming from fungicide applications at the golf course and two products in particular being used and one is a mineral oil based product and the other is a phospate product. Thank you, gabriel. Here im showing you some activities that i have for the coming year and well continue to building relationships with the ipm staff and continue to tackle pest problems on the field that we manage. Our team is relatively new, so by stepping away from our office and computer and taking a look at whats going on in the field, well get a better understanding of pest problems and well be able to identify pest strategies and get away from using harmful pesticides. We have been holding our monthly ipm meeting virtually and would like to have a hybrid format to have the option to join us in person. Well need to update the supporting database that we manage and this is the database that is used to track all pesticides used on city properties. One of the other things i would like to do is work on the content on our ipm website and will continue to use technological review of the pesticides and this between pest problems that we are seeing in San Francisco that may be led to indicators on Climate Change. Something on my mind that with warm wet weather that allows insects to thrive and the growth of poison ivy increases with Carbon Dioxide levels and with potency as well and the land with alameda water sheds and hetch hetchy and more fire risks. This is something im more interested in learning about with Climate Change and pesticides. Now, in the proposed changes i will summarize here after we have gone through our annual process that our ipm program conducts to ensure we have the most limited use of these products. In summer june and july we convened a meeting to discuss the pesticide list and last month in august, we held a public hearing where we heard city departments explain their ipm worked including tier one and any pesticide product exemptions they were granted. Thats the process we have already gone through and now this brings me to the summary of the pesticide list changes. For anyone that might want to see the proposed details, i will ask you to take a look at the web page and the meeting document for posted agenda item no. 11. So this year we are proposing the addition of four tier two or more hazardous products and one is the plant regulator for Pest Management and where sanitation is not enforceable, one is a rodent bait that can be used to prevent resistance, one is an agivent, one is an organic insecticide prevention and one that is no longer used. One is an insecticide mineral oil, and one is marked for removal and thats lawn ultra and there is success in using an alternative one that was in tier two. They have the same active ingredient that is a safer ingredient and two tier 3 products that are marked for removal and no longer used by city staff and the departments no longer have them in stock. We also clarified and updated the language for 15 products on the reduced pesticide risk list and an example are updating and correcting the product name or registration numbers, and clarifying the use. Thanks for your attention. We have our ipm email address on the slide for anyone to reach out to us. I welcome any questions or comments. Any questions, comments . Yes, one question. The metric that really jumped out to me and the change, but overall it was pretty constant. We hear from advocates on this topic regularly. This seems like there must be a good news story to why the tier one usage drops over 75 from one year to the next. I think gabriel said it was recreation and parks. Yes, there were two main products that seemed to explain a lot of that decrease and it was the use by recreation and parks for that decrease, and one was not to use the lawn ultra and that was removed from the list that was part of it. The other product was an insecticide and i dont know if matt, you want to offer any comments or differences of the insecticide use. I will ask matt to talk about that. Its for parks used intermittently for pest like we have one at the garden and had wood insects like the beetle we had to treat the new wood. Its not always using these insecticides year to year. It will depend on projects and need as well. We may not see another 75 decrease is what you are saying . [ laughter ] well see what the data says. Thank you. Just a fast question. Generally i think we received some Public Comment earlier in this meeting and you mentioned updating the website. Are there any plans to increase notice or availability of notice to when we are using tier one or any herbicide . Yes, the comment related to the posting. Its a good question. Right now, what the ordinance states is that for tier one and tier two pesticide application, a warning sign needs to be posted three days before and four days after. I would like to know information about where they are posted in the city and what we might be able to accomplish from that. I would like to talk to our City Partners to think about that a little bit more. It makes sense. Generally, the program, chris did a fantastic job and now transitioning to you. Its been great to watch this program blossom into something. I dont think Pest Management is a sexy topic, but you are doing great work. Thank you so much. Comments, questions. We need to entertain a motion. This is an action item. We have a resolution today accepting the reduced risk pesticide list. Do i hear a motion. I will move approval. We have a motion for approval from commissioner sullivan. Second. Commissioner wan. With that, well go to Public Comment. Are there any members present in the room that wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, well proceed to remote Public Comment. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. We do have a couple callers in the queue. Just a moment. Hello, caller, we are getting feedback in the room. Please mute the second device. Hello, caller, you are unmuted. We are still getting some feedback. If you are also playing the audio of the meeting on a separate device, please be sure to mute that device. Okay, caller, you have been the unmuted once again. Please begin speaking now. Caller, im afraid we are still getting feedback on our end. We are going to move to the next caller in the queue. Caller, you are unmuted. Your three minutes begin now. Public speaker thank you for taking my call. Thank you for holding this meeting. Can you hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Thank you. My name is dr. Dave. I want to appreciate that you are going in a more concrete exception. There is very little pesticide that is still safe that is infinitely small and to poison our land and water and soil just to say that you are using different combinations or less poisonous substances, is not convincing to us. The u. S. Has already killed 30 of our bird population, and many of our bee populations that pollinate 80 of our flowers, fruits and vegetables have been already decimated. We dont approve of these pesticides anymore. Time is running out for us, for our world and we want you to stop poisoning us and making excuses about how you are reducing Pesticide Use and herbicide use with alternatives that are safe. We dont appreciate the doublespeak of our lives and this is a plan to remove our native plants and they can not survive Climate Change. They need to look in the mirror. Its humanity. We need to quicken our space and show this towards other kingdoms. Its no longer safe for our children to walk barefoot in the park, no longer safe to drink water. They are poisoned with water in 1991 two years before i moved to San Francisco and my husband has never recovered. I dont appreciate the comments of this commission when time is running out. We need to be doing much much more for climate disruption and the chrome active and really would appreciate more policy to take into account this urgency. We could not continue to poison our soil, our water, our air and our food and think we are going to survive as a species. Time is up for that. Thank you for your comment. We are going to return to our initial caller in our queue. Caller, we are still encountering quite a bit of feedback. I believe you commented earlier on item 2. Well give you a moment to resolve your feedback issue. Caller, we are still getting awful feedback on the line. Well try another time to give you a second to resolve the feedback issue. You can also try calling via a difference device. Caller, you are unmuted. You can begin now. For the time being, we are still encountering feedback which means that we could not listen to your comments, unfortunately. We have received your written comments and will try again later on our agenda to hear your verbal comments as well. Is that the end of Public Comment . Thank you. Seeing no additional callers in the queue, that is the end of Public Comment on this item. Again, caller, we can try again at the conclusion of the meeting pursuant to the Public Comment policy for the commission. Thank you, kyle. At this point, please call the roll. [roll call] with that, the motion passes. Thank you again for your work and lets move on to the next item. Clerk next item is 12. Directors report. Speakers leo chyi, deputy director; alexa kielty, residential zero waste senior coordinator; and charles sheehan, chief policy and Public Affairs officer. Explanatory document directors report. discussion a. Update on the refuse ratesetting process. B. Update on a reusable Food Service Ware ordinance to eliminate unnecessary single use Food Service Ware waste. Send this item is up for discussion. Thank you. For those of you that i havent met, im the officer for San Francisco environment and representing the department for director that is not here today. I will keep it brief. I know we have had a lot of information updating you on the program that is happening and update on the other groups from the directors report thats available to you. I consulted director and he wanted me to highlight on the apex economic report and highlight the work that they are doing as Climate Technology businesses and weve gotten ten responses from companies who are interested in showcasing their work. That may be possibly integrated as part of a place for participants to visitor it may be connected to press events and we should have more detail on that in october. We are happy that is moving forward. Additionally, i wanted to share, some of you may have seen in the press that is imagining and the California Academy of science have done a lot of great work on this initiative and the goal to bring together San Franciscos cbos and organizations to Work Together to increasing nature to ensure that we have biodiverse green space and looking at the ecosystem and the benefits that biodiverse corridors have on our communities and neighborhood wildlife and animals. Related to that, our mayor breed is one of five mayors participating on the Global Commission on nature positive cities and this is an International Community that is convened by the World Economic forum and its from former mayors from different continents from coastal cities engaging in just some really interesting collaborations that will be happening in the upcoming months. Their kickoff meeting is on the third of october that is a Virtual Meeting where they will get to share their visions about how we can bring more nature and have more nature positive environments in cities and what we can learn from one another and im interested to learning about this going forward. With that, im going to my colleague alexa to share. Good evening, commissioners. My name is alexa. I was on the last committee and i came back and to let you know the refuse rate has been completed. There is a small, the rate increase, 1. 33 rate increase on your garbage rates which includes composting and recycling. 1. 33 and next year will be at 2. 55 rate increase. I realize its cumulative why you cant add the cumulative why the total adds and this is the ready that the board advised which is slightly different. The main environmental pieces that we got are the contamination charges that will be reinstated. We talked about cameras. They are testing six cameras on the trucks that monitor contamination. Well be instituting some preprocessing technology, our organic, and composting stream has been very contaminated. We are exercising some technology at the transfer station to pull off a lot of plastic is our main contaminant. Our district clean up, that used to be called the gigantic three are coming back. Each district will have one clean up once a year. We really advocated for a three stream system and will be composting at the clean ups. I kind of mentioned this for preprocessing. Ecology will get a new staffing person to monitor the preprocessing and the equipment to make sure its up to par and will advocate for different cameras if that works. My most favorite part of the rate process is the trash processing pilot. We are moving ahead with that and taking in 1300 tons of trash and bringing in to san lleandro management facility where we will start this processing and will begin smoothly and the pilot will start in october. We want it to happen before the rain starts because we dont want the holidays and the rain to affect the analysis, and the goal is to pull out as much recycling and compost of the organic residuals. Im very excited. Once we have that data, i will be sure to come back and that will be paid for with our new rate. Im happy to answer any questions. All right. Would the chair like to hear from charles on the reasonable food service. Lets pause for questions on this rate setting. Thank you. Next presenter. We have charles who will give us an update on the Food Service Ordinance to eliminate unnecessary single use Food Service Ware waste. Hi. If you recall months ago you passed a resolution after hearing from our zero waste advocates calling on a resolution on the board to eliminate the use of reusables at our restaurants, large stadiums to promote the idea of mandating that restaurant, places like starbucks must accept byo. Bring your own, you bring your mug and they give it back to you so you eliminate that trash. So restaurants, byo for usables at the large stadiums and that resolution, i believe was further strengthening laws that we have on our books, laws that states have on their books that instruct the uber eats and grubhubs of the world to make sure that customers that are ordering to those websites can specify what condiments and what use they dont want so you avoid them throwing ten knives and forks when you just order for yourself. So you pass that resolution and ask the board to work on it. Im here to say that we as staff with members of the, with the Mayors Office and potential members of the board have been working on that and we are close to kind of finalizing something and moving that to the board. So its an update, and also a stay tuned and i wanted to give you a progress update on that. Im available for any questions. Questions . Whats the timeline again . I know you say its at the final process, but what would that timeline be like . I think we are going to be final sometime in the next month. Oh good. Okay. After you. Deputy director. Is there anything else . No, thats the full update. Please let me know if there is any questions or anything we need to followup. Okay, any other comments . Seeing none. Public comments then. There are any persons in the room wishing to comment on this item . Seeing none, well proceed to outside Public Comment. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. Seeing no callers in the queue, Public Comment is closed. Next item. 13. New business future agenda items. Speaker charles sheehan, chief policy and Public Affairs officer. This item is for discussion. Thank you, commissioners. Charles shehan, chief policy and Public Affairs officer. We have all of next year in front of us that not only is this an opportunity for me to talk about what staff has planned and what we need to have come in front of the commission, but its also an opportunity for you to suggest things that you would like to come before the commission that you are thinking about that say staff may want to work on and come back to you again through the commission. So, its kind of a two way conversation if you will. So thats kind of an intro to what this agenda item is. But also in 2024, its just around the corner and we typically end the year with a large blank slate for next year that we need to fill. Your help in filling that slate is very much appreciated. So on that note and i will give you the opportunity to ask questions and ideas. The next Commission Meeting is october 30th. And we are planning on bringing an update to our Healthy Eating eco chapter and our Business Plan that we have been working on and potentially dealing with the electrification of vehicles in the city. We are hoping that will be ready. And potentially if its ready, the directors performance evaluation, if not the next Commission Meeting december 4th. I will pause for any questions to see if anyone wants to add anything. Yes, one suggestion or request which is that we at some point here get a presentation on electricity storage and how San Francisco compares to the rest of the state and the Fire Departments concerns about storage and whether its limiting residents of San Francisco contributing to the solution of the climate crisis. Sure. We are working on that issue right now and will have an update on that shortly. I want to make an announcement that im taking a sabbatical leave from midoctober to january 20th. After five years, i finally got a three months sabbatical. We are very happy for you. Im sorry im going to miss the meeting. Please, take the sabbatical. Any other questions or comments or announcements on future business . Seeing none. Lets take Public Comment on this item. Seeing no members in the room lining up to speak, well go virtual public members. Members of the public wishing to make comment to the item, should press star 3 to be added into the queue. Members wishing to speak, please wait until it is your turn to speak. We do have a caller in the queue. Hello, caller, you are unmuted. Can you hear me . Yes. Finally. Thank you. I want to know everything is off. Anyway. I will tell you a personal story. I dont know if you are hear it or not. Yes. I have cancer. A friend tested for cancer. Two people down the block have cancer. They are all working on my dog died of cancer. Now poisoned with herbicide. Im sure that this contributed to this thing. It was a comment on next door and this was generally ignored. And she has lymphoma and her dog now has lymphoma and this was a regular spray. Its toxic. It should not be used. And we are only talking about herbicide. Just take it out. To synthetic herbicide off the list and stop using it. Its really unconscionable. If you go to tier one and tier two, this is not so great. Its not going down. Is all the same. This is the main thing. Genetic and continuation. And you are contaminating the environment. And saying that it projects a little bit is not good. Saying that one is better than the other one is not better. And spraying ground and all the time and vernal heights. Its just impossible. The more insecticide you spray, the more in the environment it becomes. Thank you. Thank you for your comment and thank you for your cooperation in resolving the technical issue. Seeing no further Public Comment in the queue, Public Comment for this item is closed. Thank you. The next item. 14. Adjournment. The meeting is adjourned. The time is 7 33 p. M. Thank you for joining us. Thank [ end of realtime captioning ] in the bay area as a whole, thinking about environmental sustainability. We have been a leader in the country across industries in terms of what you can do and we have a learn approach. That is what allows us to be successful. Whats wonderful is you have so many people who come here and they are what i call policy innovators and whether its banning plastic bags, recycling, composting, all the Different Things that we can do to improve the environment. We really champion