Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Full Board Of Supervisors 12616 20160127

Let them since in carbon that policy within make its way into the way we apply those pesticides well be applying them less the more will you please theyll sing the carbon more of a balance from what the evasive and some of the considerations i feel your list gets applied with our partners at Different Department and the workers he you dont i dont think if we write that language those National Area plans will super keyed our element for the to say with he cant put guiding promises a great opportunity you know because weve talked about that having the National Areas conversation and the mifgs mifgsz moifgs and certainly ways we address climatic change commissioner wald basically i want to thank you for that comment josh because i think that it is absolutely correct i think that we should sort of strait if i thotify tho weird may not be the right word but the unique things of the department of environment a great many mandates by the city and county of San Francisco and very little of the authority to actually indicator those mandate our work depends on almost entirely working with the city family to achieve the dowels from the board of supervisors has set this is a perfect example of how that comes together what we have i think we have more i think for lack of a better word leadership on what i call the operational issues is that the word you you were using commissioner bermego. I think the implementation. Right we can get a handle on those in a shorter period than maybe get a handle on the other value issues and that we should start with those and then progress to the next set of issues would be my feeling here thank you. And let me say im not adverse and actually as a member of the public has as seven i think ill probably of time to go to the Commission Meeting to the policy Committee Meeting commissioner wald meeting i think that is awhile we had a conversation of the Eucalyptus Program all actually. Was it actually, you misses a meeting and there it goes but make an opportunity to get to the bottom of that i think were getting to that point address maybe a place for us in that you know to internet ourselves both that program we will work with the staff and had a good conversations he be respectful of the working and thinking i think from is as species that may have come latter in the spectrum but here and helping us to doing everything we can to fight climatic change we have a we have to really, really think this introduce so what we unless fallout conversation perhaps we can get a motion to amend our resolution at page 2 line 190 add did words until the march 22, 2016 Commission Meeting after the phrase r rp and semicolon commissioner woo ho and second from commissioner omotalade and mr. Rodriguez. As long as that motion covers the additional amendment it appendix c that commissioner wald originally commented as well agency part ever passage. Significantly i think. Yes. Significant would be my preference but i thought it was serious. And significant about inserting the word reflex after fire hazards it is missing a word. That goes on allowed use tenth. Contrary fire hazard risk okay. So do it by the book can we perhaps can the maker of the motion withdraw and seconded so can question get a motion to ive yes director raphael. I have a question for the commissioners to consider look at page 3 sort of page 2 and 3 the last errors resolve to provide the prelims updated to the commission through the commissions policy committee at it regularly scheduled july 11th to you want to keep that an implementation are change that to february what do you want to do. I was thinking of keeping it as an implementation but easier to say that an update on something at its february 7th and march whatever right whatever march. It is not february 7th. 9. 9 ill move. The next two are february 9th and march 22. Commissioner wan appointment youll want to wait until our march meeting rather than doing it twice. Thats true. Why not say march what was the date . The next policy meeting is march 14 a the viral meeting to march 2. With that will okay. Can we leave it as implementation update. It gets to the crux of it the prelims what is approved along with the elements were talking about but obviously the conversations are happening and with more time were hopeful so can we get a motion to amend the resolution at line 19 to add the words until the march 225, 2016 commission meekly on like this 19 between the semicolon and page 3 line to to replace july with. Mr. President , the typo. Oh, yes, thank you. As well as to make a third change at. Line 16. Line 16 on page one to write kerosine car share allergic rather than car share gunmen and fourth onramp creatinine to add the words significance between a and Public Safety and to add risk after the first instance of fire hazard. I move. Motion by commissioner wan and seconded by commissioner omotalade all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . All right. Welcome to the investment commission. laughter . Great work everybody all right. Next item is review and approval the department of the environment fiscal year 20162017 and 20172018 budget is the sponsor a director raphael and speaker so far the program and finance administrations for discussion and action. Director raphael. Thank you we have a change in speaker mark will be speaking but let me mark brown before mark comes before you oh, my gosh it is hard i have to change gears talked to the change sorry about that so the total budget for the department of the environment is about 22 million and there was a very extensive discussion about the budget the Department Budget and last Operations Committee leave detail and a wonderfully robust conversation and tonight is different so tonight is taking that detail looking much higher level and forecasting where our strengthens and weakens and our streams for moving forward so what youll see together 19 tonight is roughly a balanced budget this budget is not final one more month to working on that brother we turn it into the Mayors Office and in that time well be working around the ends but we will particularly be paying attention to one program area that has right now a deficit and that is our Environmental Justice program it is running about one and 67,000 dollars short for the 20162017 and what is also different about the budgeted a 2 year budget so the things we know this year we dont there are some things we can forecast bigger challenges for the second year the budget for example, the Environmental Justice things gets worse not better so challenges ahead of ourselves we have strategies in place between now and the ends of thirty days from now before we turn this budget in to try to address the gap baptise Environmental Justice that is work we still need to do so im confident that budget will come together at the end of the day around general fund question we can talk about but like to introduce mark brown in our admin team rep his boss unable to be here and walk you through through the budget at as highlevel different than the policy committee youll see clearly where we are in process and where we are in terms of needs and gaps mark. Welcome. Thank you, thank you. Are you going to tell us about pesticides dont. Well, first of all, thanks for your patience. Inch learned a lot. I do want to say thank you to director raphael and members of the board and within the things ill start my presentation will not be as uplifting but i dont have any coffee or coffee cups to offer you okay. Good. So sfgovtv. Sfgov can you turn on the slide. Okay. So again, i am pleased to have this opportunity to present our departments budget i want to piggyback on what director raphael said that you know at this point this is our first year with a fixed two year budget however, you know when you say later on baptise slide youll see over 45 percent of budget comes from Grant Funding that is impossible oh, sorry. Okay 45 percent of our bhubt comes from the Grant Funding that is impossible probation officer predict that far away to 20172018 will be the same as 2014 with 3 percent across the board adjustment to account for it nonsalaries and Cost Increases therefore that budget will be on a highlevel and focused on 20162017 so pretty sure the agenda right now is the highlevel summary a fiscal picture of 20162017 with our expense our revenues for Funding Sources and staff then show you the change in fiscal year 20152016 and key dates where the budget process and the outgoing questions. This slide here. Okay so as director raphael said stated the total draft budget for the for the next fiscal year is 2 sorry 22 Million Dollars grant continue to be the largest source of revenue with 10. 2 million no sorry about that grant to be the largest source of revenue at 10. 2 million followed by the bond and 2. 3 million spent by Program Areas as you can see from the chart below the four largest sf project that Energy Outreach of 3. 9 and the top of 82 percent of departments budget our main Funding Sources are impound and other work orders. Our impound fund first here youll see a breakdown of the fund per programs we still have 39 percent the oasis is thirty percent and other column is 19 percent those are the impound fund. The next one of the grant fund this slide indicates 80 percent of the grant is sported by Energy Related projects those projects include energy watch and step upside down and others our other Development Fund the work orders as you can see many of the programs are receiving some level of work orders from the other development continue to investment from the other city agencies reflect the important work at the illustrate a good Cross Department collaboration. Our staffing f t count remains stable would within fte in 20162017 and thats really to implement the disposalable ordinance almost all guys change in 20152016 from fiscal year 20162017 revenue is projected overall increase with 8 percent coming in grants and city departments so the increase of the 2 percent of impound and 13 percent in grants and increase of 6 percent if wor workn work orders. Budget key data capture of them already january 26th we are discussing and february 22nd of the balance the Department Budget to the mayor may 11 commission Operations Committee budget update and may a San Francisco Budget Hearing and june july 29th the final budget adopt by the board of supervisors and at this point that concludes my presentation. I want to thank you all and ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. That i schizophrenia or have a lifeline to joe. Thank you thank you. All right. Questions commissioner wald. Okay. So im kind of redundant to say this but this budget look very different than the budget we approved in the past unless im missing something. Are you looking for more detailed. Yes. Much nor detailed baptise past so we did. I dont do budgets to you like this better laughter it has to do with with numbers but what happened to the other budget it is this is a two year budget or what. Good point we did present more detailed information at the can you i commissioner stephenson. Yeah. We remember through everybody in everything baptise form baptise past and went through the operations Committee Meeting lashing larry last week with the orientation of the department and why count from one place to another and introduced the time if we covered it in the event we get the recommendations it is approved and forwarded here he feel confident but, yes this looks at dramatic but we saw exactly from the operation Committee Meeting. I will just say, i rely on the Operations Committee to do exactly what you had told me you did ill vote on this with a clear conscious. We have a lot of questions. Director raphael and yeah. We there was a lot of discussion and the people you expect to show up for the meetings were at the those meetings people having asking pointed questions i last week about the format a favor flavor where there is no general fund that we get most of our money from grants and frankly, weve never broke out the overarching principles as you see before us this year is clear and easy it almost looks to good to be true that is in Great Respect because jennifer our new Deputy Director wants to make this more clear and getting david to come and help working with joe and mark and the team to clarify so it is simple and clear and i think that allows us to as a commission to have an appropriated level of discussion as a full commission over the priorities and our gaps and strengths where we want to focus our attendance as a department. Wounding one thing ill add i know we went into detail at operation probable between many meeting followup meeting with the portal urban greening Steering Committee a scam with a conversation and a lot of conversation about Community Gardens there is the model for Community Garden it is written up for who knows how many times called alderman i didnt farms i met another founder and executive director of farms put her on the spot the great alice great round of applause clapping. and if this is going to be part of kind of the conversation in partnering within the permanently and the other side is 280 to build up the model i embarrass myself with i met alice i said were proud to support you and support alderman i didnt farms and shes to the point she said you dont anywhere i was surprised as far as i know the farms we were worki farms how we might consider you can within the realm of the different programs reentering the person not just urban augmentation thinking about this conversation but jobs and it is education for seniors and youth and Environmental Justice and a community i want to talk about the items in Public Housing converting alamany the city and our department have a important part ill curiosities when is the last time we worked with alamany farms how we are thinking about partnering in urban i dont know we have the answers but ill suggest it would be lovely to have the director to come to a policy meeting and talk about the Community Gardens and how it fits in with more information on that project rodriquez for the record in a in addition to the Financial Information about the Development Support well provide the policy Commission Members the board of supervisors passed legislation that consolidated the citys approach to imagining farms an urban garden in rec and park theyve been the lead agency on behalf of all of us hired an individual we invited them to the policy committee and updated the commission on the work theyre doing we could loop that conversation the city is trying to take a holistic approach with engagement so our response will be both from the departments prospective and our financial contributions from the program as well as looping in rec and park that is taking the lead on behalf of the city on this. Okay. Thank you. I would like to add to that i have i do a lot with urban and have seen the work that rec and park has done but also to our credit in the southeast pretty much ive seen the department of environment i want to acknowledge that and also say, i really want to hear and the public to hear the work were doing around this as well. Thank you commissioner omotalade and guessing how Relentless Team has to do with commission on a different point shall you wait. No commission do you have a point. Direction please tell me a different time regarding the budget im on the operation i understand one has this is having enough money for the grant like Maternity Leave and how is that being addressed and can we do anything to be helpful i was told perhaps an effort to go to the city at some point for coverage for those kind of hr dices. Thank you for that question yes, thats under the circumstances not rescued baptise budget document for where our target when we did our Risk Assessment we talked about that last year at this time we look at structural problems with the fact we are heavily i didnt granted fund and grants dont coffer those kickoff overhead costs like Maternity Leave a potential challenge so our intention to revisit and have those conversations baptise Mayors Office and as to how you can help stay tuned. Aptise Mayors Office and as to how you can help stay tuned. Ptise Mayors Office and as to how you can help stay tuned. Tise Mayors Office and as to how you can help stay tuned. Ise Mayors Office and as to how you can help stay tuned. Se Mayors Office and as to how you can help stay tuned. E Mayors Office and as to how you can help stay tuned. Mayors office and as to how you can help stay tuned. I Mayors Office and as to how you can help stay tuned. N Mayors Office and as to how you can help stay tuned. 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As some of us have relationship with these funders baptise bay area and some beyond and he would encourage you to think about the possibility of having sort of the well, not third party but were cereal part of operation but as valid oversees and advocates as predicament thats it a wonderful idea commission it involved the community that is a great example how to take advantage of you and like to invite you many of you work in nonprofits analytic im looking around almost everybody but one works in nonprofit if you have ideas for grants and think of projects that are out there that the department can at that particular time in so great point thank you. Commissioner wald you just spoke thank you commissioner bermego where do the grant come from are they federal or state or what grants. So if you look at the grant fund there is no numbers on each page im afraid scroll through for the grant funds youll see that 80 percent the grants are given to the Energy Program so those are a combination of what the past the pg e money not ours automatically we have to apply and a lot of the grantdz are department of Emergency Services so government federal and state in the says case of energy theyre coming on the local level theyre coming from the state California Energy commission and from the department of energy with you look at the other grants 20 percent the transportation grants are generally government grants. As you may know especially you work in nonprofits many foundations have invitation to give money to public agencies is the actual dollars from foundations while we treasure them theyre small in terms of the overall percent and the areas you see the Foundation Grants radio like Environmental Justice and building where we are able to harness the foundation. Expiration. Two questions first do we have any prospects i know the Environmental Justice and second youll probable talk about it later what the the general fund to make the same things the structural deficit is there is questions where the people to City Attorneys Office also on the tackles table. Your second question we are working on this right now that is what were going to spend next week month hammering out to see where we got rejected and what case how can we learn when g didnt happen last year so in the case the attorneys fees comments are worth every penny. And the structural were may look at Environmental Justice were looking at where our holes are basically baptise budget that is in process and that one we may very well come to you for advise in terms of for combranls for Environmental Justice im sorry that annie is not here probably didnt think the meeting would be late stayed for as long as she could the Environmental Program is asking about value the most important thing for a Small Program in terms of numbers of people that have the biggest impact right now working on pesticides and Public Housing and working o on the legal dump their grant making and look at it at energy and Energy Efficiency in solar and electric revokes it is an exciting time for the Environmental Justice program the broadening the prosecutes periodic historically is making staff 13 million from a grant settlement he over time they are a grants writing staff and now the beautiful thing about that transition is that theyre not restricted to the bay area but all Environmental Justice in their grant making it is a great time to be in that program the opportunities and challenges other questions . This is an action item were requested to approve the budget and then before we do lets hear in the Public Public comment on item 7 mr. Brooks. San francisco clean power advocates for California Energy choose your city and county of San Francisco green party is first of all, want to second the increasing alamany farm that is important and wanted to raise and specific on the pg e public i i dont think that is called the public charge but a new but especially from you commissioners staff probably is aware. On top of that but the San Francisco public works has worked hard for years and maybe should have worked harder on getting the public works to allow communities to get assess it all of the energy funds that pg e collects on their bill for the states for those purposes instead of part of those funds if you were able to work with the sfpuc to get awe hold to push the puc youll have more money to work would be aware of that for the future. Thank you. Other comments. Executive director alice contractor im executive director of Management Corporation for 3 seven years and been the executive director for alamany farms for 3 seven years i want to tell you guys since 2008 no support with the department of environment dont get me wrong i love the department but had support and help you can say that annie we talk all the time and annie was here earlier and was glad annie came out and supported me with any youth and teaching classes and helped me out teaching class on wednesday with my youth so i came across 50,000 and with supervisor campos i said annie i need you and she came out and helped me out i was busy one person with one owe 68 unit so i needed annies help so shes been a big support to me. Thank you for all you do clapping. all right. Other Public Comment on the budget seeing none, Public Comment is closed all right. Can we get a motion to approve commissioner stephenson months and commissioner wan i did see the Commission Motion by sxhooech and seconded by commissioner wan. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you item 8 a nomination and election of the president and department for discussion and action. So colleagues that is the twofold we have elections that have to honor the president for past 3 years and i will no longer be on the commission as of close of this meeting and we have talked about i think last time the kind of making sure that were grooming leaders and cult elevating leadership and making sure we have leadership opportunity for everyone to grow in this commission i was fortunate to start in a leadership really in transition at the commission and we have a lot of opportunities for lead and committee shares and officers here at the commission but i would like to as president nominate someone i had the chance to work with as department and wanting during the search for a director that was a National Search and fortunate led us to the best candidate our director debbie reaping and been able to work on the zero waste Pilot Program this was her idea when we had tea to download and talk about ideas and she said to push i saw the potential she could do in terms of our efforts to have sustainable funding through did general fund in our efforts to do that last year so id like to nominate department sarah with an to be the president of the commission and the rule is we have it somewhere if youre nominated to let us know my great honor to serve on the commission i definitely really thankfully to work with president that has a strong vision and mission to make sure that we serve the communities and bring meaning to the community and definitely had Great Initiative mind and great leader a great honor you nominated me to be the president which is very hard to follow, however, i happily decline the nomination it is will be a lot of traveling work related and family related, and, secondly, the organization that i am at executive director going through a major transition we actually got a granted through a lot of reorganization and also a lot of strengthening sfrar infrastructure and Practices Research our organization that will take you a lot of time so i dont feel if i cant put in 100 percent for this commission it is definitely any Due Diligence that i cant take the leadership role 0, however, i thank you for the nomination to serve as the Vice President and i have to say with the comment i want to encourage the share leadership that is what brought me to be Vice President it opened any eyes and spiefrtd beme as a commission and as Vice President with that said, i hope that a new commission is also the Commission Step up to consider this position as well but thank you seniors ill miss you. Ill nominate smoking gun commissioner bermego to consider the position. First of all, im still in denial that commissioner arce is leaving so if i have to deal an honor to serve on the commission and though i believe in stepping up and know that there are so many challenges with youre a Public Servant ive worked in Public Service and certainly the work is critical i think the chair requires a lot of time and contempt i dont feel confident i can provide but happy for part of leadership by the chair requires a commission we are dealing with a lot of struggles barry any other commissioner i know we have commissioner wan and commissioner stephenson i think the next person baptise ordered ive worked with them i would you know nominate city of oakland to consider. Commissioner omotalade youve been nominated. clapping. thats awful wow. laughter you have me choking on water ill be happy to entertain that in commissioner bermego will consider joining as Vice President. Youre on. With that said, thats a little known rule a joint nomination so actually so the commissioner omotalade do you accept the nomination. I think it is there wasnt the first. Okay so following in josh. The crazy thing i was size 13 but baptise past year size 14 shall i see a doctor regarding shoes. Commissioner omotalade as someone baptise area of where i think we had about 5 nomination that lands on me relay lishdz the opportunity ive seen the idea we have chairs and leadership positions i know you will work and i guess do i still get to say have a say City Attorney i have i think you can do a great job and you know one of the things that we talked about is that our engagement of historically disfranchised with the environmental work and creating of jobs isnt that your Job Description with the blue green. It absolutely is. Commission discuses so a nominee maybe we can take i dont think we have the ability for joint nomination commissioner bermego discussion on our nominee other nominations discussions . I see a stack of no body anybody thoughts . Commissioner wald i dont think we should a discussion but vote for the nominated individuals and thank her very much. Accepting this position is there a second. Second if commissioner hoyos i see Anthony Visitacion valley did he see. Yes. Already seeing none, so all in favor, say i. I. Electing our new president the gavel is yours. I like over seat over thyo theover seat over thereuover seat over thererover seat over therever seat over therer seat over there seat over the there. This is definitely does help. laughter okay. So now were open inform nomination for Vice President and i had a nomination i does that stand. Id like to make a nomination of commissioner bermego. Will you accept. I accept. So the motion is made and accepted. All in favor, say i. I. Oh, Public Comment discuss and. Okay all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . We have a new Vice President clapping . Next item on the agenda au naturel. Directors report updates on the development of assignment so far the problematic operations Strategy Plan and clean air and energy and Public Outreach and had been its and green and zero waste and toxic and urban forestry with director raphael this item for discussion. Dont worry about that im not going through that you have the directors report if our in box only just a couple of things i want to calling your attention to an february 10th i would like you to put on the calendar we have you are Green Business awards our annual green busy at autodesk starts at a 5 30 the meeting happens at subsection id like for you to be there honoring 71 businesses with designation it is a very wonderful event a way to celebrate Small Business baptise community we expect to have members of the board of supervisors there and Department Heads a way for all of us to share in that celebration i want to just say under those is another milestone that happened that was buried in interest but very important that our last ton of materials went to al tampa landfill if so important it marks the ends of a very link contract and the beginning of a new one a landfill contract that took a lot of time and effort of staff and was fairly contest but most of those objections have fallen by the way side and a strong contract that will encourage zero waste and encourage us not to send things to landfill so ill excited about that i do want to call out the Energy Watch Program within the staff was at a merging and left hand to commission from the California Public Utilities Commission peter man give a talk about and our staff person was motivated she went to up to the commission and love to tell you about our program and said, of course, and took her on a tour that i think pretty much blew the commissioners mind that is possible to do with Energy Efficiency and helping lowerincome neighborhoods taken to an Affordable Housing facility and a local market that and the ordinances and is project sponsors gave tare testimony of appreciation that was powerful for that commission to understand that public goods charge money or whatever is in good hands the other milestone ill give you a head up supervisor mar and the board of supervisors adapted or put in place a Energy Efficiency coordinating committee run by the sfpuc with us providing the Technical Assistance nothing has happened for various reasons we step up to the plate and now anthony here and now well have capability and told supervisor mar we will take it so the first meeting is in march we cant do that all the time but this case we found a way so im excited so you know thats enough for now ill say a lot going on in Affordable Housing in Public Housing and this is something that is a real focus of ours as we bring environmentalist into san franciscans and i encourage to look the directors report youll see example of our staff going into neighborhoods to bring affordability and sustainability to all the neighborhoods so thank you. Correct id like to commend overseeing efforts one thing i will say that i feel like every event i go to you all are always interest there i applaud that i think one of the vooichltd has got away from the communities of color i applaud the commission to meet people and connect environmentalist to the reaching symmost of communities are suffering to thank you. So the next item is for the im supposed to talk so i will laura commissioner arce. Thank you, madam chair the thing i want to say is really great to hear the energy Steering Committee maybe moving forward i feel this is 90 in our hands as anthony it is an say, i started working on this thing i remember eric was there and others 2007 i think that is what that started maybe 2008 and came out our money and supervisor mar wanted to make sure that the equality and environment around the Energy Efficiency i remember seeing supervisor mar saying one year less than a year on the board of supervisors that committee as all the seats filled baptise years it will be a real kind of thing to help him build out his legacy for strong Environmental Justice baptise beginning of his career to be able to side that bring home the department and convene that meeting and have him there and share the history would be a great thing to have happen so this good news director raphael. Any duration Public Comment. Yes good evening. Im make that quick eric brooks San Francisco Clean Energy Advocate time to highlight on the criterion energy the aspect of clean energy we now have reached a momentum of reached a momentous day of battling clean power on may 1st and the two things that i want to impress on the environment and commission about the nun is that were doing the groorts organizers and the advocates and your staff and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Staff are going to be doing a lot of strong outreach to get people to sign up for cleanpowersf which if you choose bariatric green theo percent less than penguin and 100 percent complaen if you want to spend for money and watching sfgov go to clean power sf. Org one word and. Com and sign up if youre a pg e customer one thing we want you to be conscious there is a partnership between our staff and unstuck and public to do outreach to get lots of people to sign up the first customers will be a lot of them in district 10 in that community of opportunities and commercial customers so thats an opportunity we need to amplify to get that district engaged in kind of leapfrogging the environmental problems and getting into a new paradigm the other issue even though we are exist to the program is st. Paul for clean energy probably a million jobs the within drawback a couple of weeks ago it is current the sfpuc staff has sort of the conservative view of build out in San Francisco and not projected starting a comprehensive build out until if you look at the climatic crisis started working on it and building it in San Francisco is too long of a water we need the development of environmentalist to use the Pilot Program and other ideas to flush out financing ideas that gets those things and strategies that gets the build out happening faster than 2020 so, please work towards are towards that. Any further Public Comment Public Comment is closed. And we will move on to did next item of the agendas the policy committee report. In the absence of commissioner wald i wanted to mention the policy Committee Reports on december fingerprinting we were joined by former commissioner arce and commissioner honda the items discussed we have the new draft of the resolution in support of recollection of port of the Garden District and this United States of america was discussed and the policy commissioner lee meeting of january 11, 2016, we also received an update on prelims of the disposal shipyard of 2015 and staff will come as major milestones are achieved and the commission will vote on the fees of the administration of that program the other item the last item the community discussed the departments annual report the staff requested we move towards an unanimous report that reflect the fiscal year instead of the calendar year and staff is working on a timeline and will report back to the community that is from the policy Committee Meeting thank you. Thank you. Any discussion commissioners hearing on a discussion move for Public Comment. This is the last one and short eric brooks with i volunteer and help folks that are commenting on pesticides we met baptise haul after you, your determination and i think i might have the item number wrong the point is item 6 on pesticides we would ask that the policy committee agendize this for february and march to have a preliminarily discussion and set a march meeting things will get nailed down but folks want that to discuss that thanks. Is there any additional Public Comment . Discussion largely nun public discussion is closed anthony next item. The operation highlights of january 2016 for discussion we met last week it was commissioner hoyos first meeting great to have her spent the bulk of the times on two things one was amazing and one was technical we went over the budget and dove into one of the things the fact that as we discussed baptise full commission there was an assessment of the department to look at restructuring a little bit to see which Development Areas were covering and which didnt and moved the personnel around and asked to have a followup presentation in either our next meeting are possible a full Commission Meeting to talk about what that looks like we also had a presentation by donny and his staff an outreach and one of my favorite things and got to see with the data what happened last year with the outreach efforts specifically effecting that campaign and a insight how theyll expand and great event had a presentation on environment now and emigrate to see Success Stories of the wonderful Environment Program and pair laid that into careers from energy to things at the department of the environment we have committed people if youre out there and listening come to the operations meeting. Thank you, commissioner for that report is there anything discussion amongst the Commission Hearing none Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed and move to the next item. Item 12 announcements for discussion. Are there any announcements . Commissioner arce thank you, madam chair so you know, i have two one is i would like to get together when i become a civilian with mr. Brooks about an initiative that i brought to any union as a Community Liaison at local 261 we seek to early enroll our members in the clean power and a challenge that the members baptise communities where we want to enroll our are impacted by the Digital Divide to coming up with strategies would be a good thing to do and look forward to that and second it is my last meeting cant say building it kind of crept up you know and assume as bring back commissioners i mean, ill be here and someone will be making jokes like i did moorng but honor to be on this commission and then when i was begin the opportunities and the trust of colleagues to lead being a new commissioners, i know what it feels like for commissioners holiday dont want to dissent the core leadership and stewardship of that Great Department a shining beacon across the world and especially those of us who are taken a nontraditional path with Environmental Justice or clean energy with good jobs it sustained the communities when you put the summon of those things together with all the amazing Environmental Stewardship and truly the environmental work must look like and engage the communities historically and must talk about creating jobs it hurts me all the time on the labor side trying to force the partnerships when folks within the labor environmentalists dont know how to work we quantify the program at the Department Im proud we have be able to get out button community and people we met and hoping that something is a lot of work but got a hard work chair and vice chair that is hard working and outlet be happy to share as president and Vice President as we allow the City Attorney tom were without a commission we can talk about that that laughter thats right and so it is yes. Thats right a good points prop c im looking forward to stepping back too i know when i was and commissioner, i was a fairly assertive that personality i loved to get together and that with every commission and incorporated it into my role as president and deliver that to the director and talk about how the commission and the departments sync up that was with an the things that struck us when the director said to utility the capability ofless the challenges challenges ive seen her do that and the deficit of the men and women coming out the Department One of the first things and request of our good friend dr. Espanola jackson we wrote up a report that hesitate a black human right i bet you if you look at the diversity of the department it outstanding we talk about the hire it is diverse crossed race and gender and everything that i think those of us from the social justice and civil rights side of Environmental Movement we think should be happening and work with the folks jennifer and others need to see that happen im looking forward to look at this from the outside and being able to step back and see how you put it together i wont be far away and be there from time to time more often than you think or like but the last thing i want to say which is for me kind of full circle when with our new commission wanting when i met her he was starting to do the work a Perfect Blend of Environmental Stewardship people think about the environment that connecting the communities on the saets segment from the parish and open space with the green and everyone with economic status the thing that was interesting when i met her showing she intoxicate took on the work and the first person she talked to she sought out in Hunters Point what thinking about how to connect the jobs and quality of life and were all equal and all entitled baptise the right the environmental right the first person was amazing environmentalist home to talk with and listen to for hours on end was dr. Espanola jackson so for me that was a great place to end and step away working her spirit fills this room and continues to influence everything at the Commission Im happy about that thank you. clapping . Commissioners discussion . Well, ill jump in first and say that josh been a pleasure working with you on so many levels both technologically our meeting you came to one Committee Meeting our commitment to diverse and inclusion to building bridges to the actual departments to the community and neighborhoods people live and work is just unpraerldz i thank you for passion and dedication for on so many levels building bridges and removing barriers culture barriers to create change and thank you for that and i must say im a little bit nervous so fill the big shoes now move to study. Josh is makes me sad to think of you leaving and i know that we will invite you back baptise way we invited monique back to say good by youll have a lot more to hear in all of us at 915 but suffice to say your skilled at seeing the complex situation is a skill and i love watching you in action how. Articulate the problem statement and find a path forward that is a gift i know that will serve you in whatever you do and the world will be a better place because of that thank you for demonstrating leadership. Next commissioner bermego. I first met josh kwhifs other than the boards of latino issues he was doing some work for that organization i thought ive known him and it is a great look his commitment then to the work the program i think worked with primarily Latino Community on Environmental Justice none was talk about that baptise Latino Community and the environment and the policy papers and getting people in sacramento to that about that in hair policies and so four years old get in fabulous proinlt and get to come back to San Francisco and reconnect with josh and now talked about his work baptise community and so committed to his family and everything it is so a full package of a person not just caring about the community. Family and everything we know we will continue to work and see you but it has been a true honor to work with you and debbie and my fellow commissioners leads the way that no other commissions on the environment are doing so baptise rest of the country is is beacon for attract the fight for making not the usual suspects thats what i love about this commission. Commissioner hoyos well, im sad any very first Commission Meeting is not lasting but it is an honor what was echoed your orientation our just lens that you bring to everything and also your replacement for the complunts leaders that have trained you in a way i feel like you have modest i didnt and appreciation from the labors laborers you thank you. We feel there are new things ahead for you and love to continue to work with you as a civilian and possible as an elected official baptise future i love kind of like debbie said navigate the discussion tonight not easy he feel like really rooted in what is right here i think when elected officials and Public Officials and appointed officials are motivated by what is right it is special thank you. Any Public Comment . Can i say one thing your Family Supports you and making it so against the work you realize my wife lisa is at home with our fouryearold son and 11 monthold baby i have to remember that family connecting and something unfortunately, we cant forgot but having the Family Support that allows you to do this is key and has really been something for me to have a great family that helped and thanks again for all the very gracious and kind things that everybody said. Youll be missed were going to open up for Public Comment now. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And next item president s announcements. Ill decline do we have to open up for open up for Public Comment. Open for discussion Public Comment . Hearing Public Comment is closed. And move to the next item Commission Manager written report for the Commission Manager report for the dissemination notice the speaker a anthony and manager this is more quickly commissioners the conversation and correspondence in your packet including a discrepancy notice we are required to send to the folk that concludes my report subscribed to our mailing list and this also for a few commissioners who were here last year, i have our w twos dont let me forget to gives to you this item an open for discussion commissioners commissioner stephenson. The only thing if there is an m l u for people to opt into the mailing. Sure so folks can email me my name is address is on the agenda thats one way to gets on the list the other way by going to the website with this agenda one of the attachments for the documents is the discrepancy form they can fill out environment sf environment. Org slash commission. Thank you. Any further discussion commissioners seeing none, open for public discussion seeing none, no one Public Comment is closed. The next item is new business for discussion and polk action. Commissioners any new business or future agenda items hearing none open up for Public Comment hearing no Public Comment Public Comment is closed. We will move to the next item. The next is Public Comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items. Public comment is now open and closed what about our gavel. Next item Public Comment on all matters tattoos closed session on Public Employees performance and appraisal property any Public Comment . Hearing none just a yes eric brooks just a question it this expected to be a long item can staff answer that question or. Does anyone know. Okay yes what can we say. It depends upon on what the definition of long is pardon me. Being 20 minutes. Okay our lawyer has spoken. Is there any further Public Comment hearing Public Comment is closed. We will move to the next item on the agenda anthony the vote to that who to hold closed session phenomenon the employee elevation. A motion to close the session. To move into closed session. Motion is made. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The that item passes well move now into closeinto closednow in he 00 owe 0 you, you so you see sees we rekneecap to open the session moving out of closed session does that require a motion okay. Were back in open session the next item is to rotate whether im entertain a motion to vote whether or not to disclosures items out in closed session. Move to not disclose anything a second to that motion. All in favor, say i. I. Any opposition hearing none the motion passes. Can i say one beginning or thing before we adjourn really glad to do this never forgot to attention. Deputy superintendent tom owen for all the work he does and never forget i often do, of course, anthony and his great work but one unsung hero the mainstream of sfgovtv their, their unsung heros my parting word ever advise madam chair commissioners, i want anyone to remind me. Perfect. So anthony move to the last item adjournment the time is 1023. Does that require a motion. I think we move hit the gavel someone make a motion all in favor, say i. I. This meeting is officially adjourned power its all around us in the sun and the winds and caves waves power that lights our homes while protecting our Natural Resources clean power will provide power to san franciscans how about works right now our power is from pg e from nonrenewable systems that comes over pg e maintained lines with clean power your energy about think generated by caesarean more renewable sources come to our home e. R. Businesses to the pg e lines all right. On 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 you innovation on or was on over 200 years they went through extensive innovations to the existing green new metal gates were installed our the perimeter 9 project is funded inform there are no 9 Community Opportunity and our Capital Improvement plan to the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood it allows the residents and park advocates like san franciscans to make the matching of the few minutes through the philanthropic dungeons and finished and finally able to pull on play on the number one green a celebration on october 7, 1901, a skoovlt for the st. Anthonys formed a club and john then the superintendent the Golden Gate Park laid out the Bowling Green are here sharing meditates a permanent green now and then was opened in 1902 during the course the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that citywide much the city the greens were left that with an ellen surface and not readers necessarily 1911 it had the blowing e bowling that was formed in 1912 the Parks Commission paid laying down down green number 2 the San Francisco lawn club was the first opened in the United States and the oldest on the west their registered as San Francisco lark one 101 and ti it is not all fierce competition food and good ole friend of mine drive it members les lecturely challenge the stories some may be true some not memories of past winners is reversed presbyterian on the wall of champions. Make sure you see the one in to the corner thats me and. No . Not bingo or scrabble but the pare of todays competition two doreen and christen and beginninger against robert and others easing our opponents for the stair down is a pregame strategy even in lawn bowling. Play ball. Yes. Almost. clapping . The size of tennis ball the object of the game our control to so when the players on both sides are bold at any rate the complete ends you do do scoring it is youll get within point lead for this bonus first of all, a jack can be moved and a or picked up to some other point or move the jack with i have a goal behind the just a second a lot of elements to the game. Were about a yard long. Aim a were not player ill play any weighed see on the inside in the goal is a minimum the latter side will make that arc in im righthand side i play my for hand and to my left if i wanted to acre my respect i extend so it is arced to the right have to be able to pray both hands. clapping. who one. Nice try and hi, im been play lawn bowling affair 10 years after he retired i needed something to do so i picked up this paper and in this paper i see in there play lawn bowling in San Francisco Golden Gate Park ever since then ive been trying to bowl i enjoy bowling a very good support and good experience most of you have of of all love the peoples and have a lot of have a lot of few minutes in mr. Mayor the San Francisco play lawn bowling is in Golden Gate Park were sharing meadow for more information about the club including free lessons log. A lot of water heater in San Francisco look like this may be yours doesnt too do you know it is the post earthquake problems well show you to brace our water heater hi, everybody im patrick director of quarter safety for the city and county of San Francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe today, well talk about bracing water heaters water heater failure is a leading problem with earthquake fires you have a a Single Source youll have in our home. How are you. So what are we looking here. This is a water heater 3 weighs from 200 to nine hundred pound during an earthquake that weight will try to move sideways we need to secure is. Well brace the water heater our model home in south of market well use a simple kit interest the Hardware Stores from 20 it the the clean up itself single thing to do what necessary look like. This is what youll find in our kit a inch and a half wide strap to attach to the wall around the water heater and so you want to compare this in some garages around the city and state which is called plumbers tape innovate as strong and we need to brace the water heater if you find this youll want to replace it with a streetscaping kit. Weve put blocking so that way we streetscape the water heater a nice fit it is important and important probation officer mention you need to move our water heater to strap is it talk about to a license plumber theyll come out with a firm once we streetscape those obviously we want to follow the manufactures instructions. Typically the instructions will require the strap one strap be installed to fit the top third of the water heater and the bottom on the bottom 1 3rd away from the controls if it is above a certain size 50 gallons a third train e streetscape in the middle of the water heater. A lot of time i see older water heaters on the ground obviously explain why this is required and the mr. Chairman is required if you pa a water are hereto in the garage gas fumes can accommodate and the pilot light will ignite the fumes so you want to above the grouped level. So why not go ahead and he get started with the bracing. Were joined with peter from construction hell help us there you have it for not a lot of 340e7b in a short time we were able to reduce the risks as you can see secure and even in a big rumble bell not going to come losses thank you for watching well give is one more big push as you can see with all right. So first of all, i want to welcome everybody who is here the press, all our communities partners are here come on matt we have matt right there are for the School District thank you for making it this press conference happen that is probable one of the month crucial and important issues and topics that is going on about gun violence you know taking into consideration what is happening all around the world and country and city were here as a Community Everybody is one to eradicate gun violence im rudy the ed of the analyzing an organization that has been standing and fighting against gun violence for the last 21 years im here with my people my community and everybody that is here who is serious about this issue we we want to make sure we eradicate gun voipgsz that we are here you take this issue serious one of the most important protections is dealing with the mothers the mothers have lost their sons to gun violence we want to make sure we let them know that also theyre being heard and theyre being dealt with prove or disprove so me being involved in the violence field for 21 years we tale with youth kids from all over the community all over the city with the help of brothers like brother rich from project and from the vip team in the building and so without further ado, i want to invite mayor ed lee to come on up weve got to put him on pause the president of the United States we have to put on mayor ed lee lets welcome the ferry rosz robber mayor the city mayor ed lee clapping. rudy thank you to you and your staff for making your house available to cohost this Important Press event that announces our intention to join you youre police chief and mothers, people who really want to embrace nonviolence to do this gun buy back this start saturday in the morning i want to emphasize now working with united playaz and others communitybased organizations and important as education is to us i know we have a School Board Member matt haney as important we want good jobs and everyone it this room that wants better paying jobs in this city we want training, we want Economic Development and other nonprofits to be on their own buildings like the united playaz all of that becomes nearly enforceable inform you got violence violence distracts you from everybody and the trauma lasts for generation unfortunately for families and the communities that are involved and so it is our attempt with this gun buy back to reduce the opportunity for violence people can have disagreements purely disagreement between me and the board of supervisors sometimes can create some Good Solutions but if people resort to violence to resolve their it didnt make any difference to make their presence known or try to get something that is not going to solve anything that worsens the situation for everyone so i want to take a big that, of course, because this country as rudy indicated with the call from the president there is a lot of violence under our entire country and the bay area is no different and we got to reach out to more young people reach out to not so i dont know people that resort to violence we cant that that as an alternative well do our best working with the Police Department and along with the Community Groups and along with mothers and victims of violence that i know have every right to say what we need to say in front of the city hall or the Mayors Office e. R. Community groups i support that you mean at the end the message is less violence and embrace each other find a way to communicate with less violence if we do so youll see advancements in education and advancements in jobs and more enhancement in community Economic Development that is what were doing in our housing Public Housing that is the site of so many violence were trying to champion that with Community Policing pea new techniques and 0 investing in our community and people and make sure we educate our kids it is no, no good answer and solution if you use violence and if we use good afternoon. Welcome so getting the guns it is effective over the years i think we gotten over worsening one how guns off the streets month of them not properly purchased if doesnt matter their illegally purchased that violence didnt mean if you purchased that illegal or legally it is the use of goes on to prevent violence we come together im united of the united playaz and their friends and communities and groups and individuals that want to change their lives would hope that others would just put the guns down and lets talk through this city got resources not like were not offering anything we have making the go bhith investment in the history of the country but trying to get jobs for everyone including those who have a questionable background well help you to erase those background and train you in all the industries that the city has been successful we have so many promise as a city question shouldnt have to resort to violence we stand with the united playaz and the officers and Community Groups and everything that from out of youre prison system we need to do better and need to find alternatives to prison to get people jobs to raise their families and get people where we need to be this is a great city we will be better if we reduce the violence thank you, rudy and everyone for making sure well do this and continue to do this we will be joining next year oakland and doing gun buy backs crime knows no boundary well be more successful by embracing this thank you clapping. thank you, mayor ed lee give a hand one more time for mayor ed lee. clapping. i also want to say were here to eradicate gun violence all of the city one or more gun we can get off the streets is that gun that may save youre life or childs you dont know when the bullet leaves the chamber it does not discriminate no name be 0 the bullet that we can get rid of guns we can i guarantee that one gun that save everybody this this room lets continue to support each other we can agree or sgraur like the mayor said at the end of the day, well have each others back the next person is also is doing an amazing job of stopping the violence in San Francisco he is the police chief of San Francisco he plays a major roll in get rid ofing of guns give it up for greg suhr clapping. i want to thank rudy and the analyzing for the buy back as the mayor said the focus has been on gun violence as standing to applying manipulate left is ms. Paulette brown lost here son to gun violence aubrey brown shes working tireless at any very often that speaks to the reduction of gun violence in 201498 people were killed many by firearms and working with organizations like united playaz and other communities groups and the leadership of our mayor and doesnt to the young people and education and jobs weve been able to better have those numbers last year, we had 46 homicides but still thirty of these were by firearms every year year in and out the selfemployed takes over one thousand dwnz off the streets of San Francisco gun buy backs have taken over nine hundred guns and im confident this saturday will be over one thousand any guns as rudy spoke to any gun that comes off the is are streets of San Francisco, california have no harm if you have a firearm in the house and knows of someone in the house with a firearm please think about thank you for the opportunity is in on saturday and pick up a little bit of Holiday Shopping money and it will go a long way to keep San Francisco safe and the children of those mothers might be here today and not have to have mothers hurting please turn the guns in clapping. thank you excessive greg suhr and tmc thank you to matt we have mothers that have lost a son to gun violence the wall are all unsolved murders we want to make sure we acknowledge them and try to find solutions theyre part of Solutions Major and so just to move on we have two more speakers and waiting is our supervisor jane kim but the next gentleman i want to bring up hes also an employee of the united playaz and someone that say was a monster now a mentor my brother damn i dont think so share also thank you. clapping . I want to thank everyone for coming out today i want to implore and touch the hearts of people that might be watching many seller to the hood to the mothers to the grandmothers to the brothers and sisters if you got guns in our home come out december 12, 8 to 12 tenth street and turn them in ive been on both sides shot ten times and 10 years in prison i changed my life and here with united playaz and doing working everyday on gun violence along with the mothers beside me to get the guns off the street to make it safer for the children like rudy said you dont know when that gun will hurt you or someone you love ive stolen guns out of peoples houses it is so the people i dont know what happened to them that want to get get rid of get rid of of the guns a little boy killed his own brother he found his gun there are other ways so all the community of the People Matters what youre race or color or creed and economic level gun buy back youll be surprised it, the people the camera man a was thinking about turning in his gun i implore him and everyone if you have guns if in youre home not locked up you never know when youre own gun might be used against you i implore from the body o my body from the mothers children i ask you to come in and turn in the guns and find a better way thank you very much clapping. thank you damon ive been a victim of gun violence myself see this right here . This is for real you talking about real front line soldier in the battlefield an ground zero come up here boo my brother from new york this brother foster back here youre talking about reentry youre talking about helping brothers from the penitentiary he did 45 years before foster g did a gang of time and new york back there the guy at front door did one and 50 years total but talk about solutions the moms and brothers who been there deny that and the mayor; right . You got the community and the police chief and youve got to School District what other part is missing in the evaluation we have our supporters who helped us fund this gun buy back ron conway that people dont know he do not to the cause the brothers from the medical marijuana the grassroots from barbary coast, hal even and brendon do that donates resources to make this all happen one of the main guys who we have to address who oriented the gun buy back is name a eon; right . His father got killed was a young kid the perpetrator stole the gun out of a home and we dont want to see this we want to get the guns now so this brother who is helping us he said some incredible things we forgot to mention no questions asked they ask you nothing you turn them in and get our money you can leave so this is a serious serious irk right here you turn on the tv you dont see something about gun voijsz what is the solution right here not wait until the camera is in front of you and you know what i want to be on this side because it aint about a color or gender or National Outlet or gaze some when someone pulls the trigger you cant stop i know look this is saved any envelopes life we all got shot at one of the guys any son get hit 5 times may he rest in peace that would have been my life im still here i want to bring up someone from our community that loves and cares about our people whos heart in is in the hood and lives in the hood i want to have our District Supervisor jane kim come up and share thank you clapping. thank you all so much for being are here today and also to the media for helping us with the outreach and education it is important on saturday, i got to participate in the gun buy back and a lot of the residents come out to volunteer this is one of the best and direct ways to reduce gun violence on the street on a weekly basis we have a massive gun violence kroisz when you see where we have less gun violence 1942 where we have a stronger gun control laws and less guns on the street this is one of the ways with we do that without obstructs and any questions asked this is the time to turn them in and brings less violence on the street so it is so important south of market but here in San Francisco and most importantly i know to acknowledge and thank the amazing donors to contribute money again with no questions asked so i want to thank rudy and the united playaz for this program and well have gun buy backs all the time but not a little bring you you mention the fruition you want to see and the outreach and education so i hope everyone is able to get the word out and volunteer with the organization but you thank you to all the donors for making this possible so we have a success thank you. clapping. thank you. Thank you jane kim after we complete the press conference he have people that want to share but im going to read you alarming statistics one in 3 homes with children have guns many left urban locked or loaded you didnt hear me one in 3 homes with children have homes many left unlocked and loaded im sure never been the same 80 percent of unintentional firearm deaths of kids under 1 occur in their home with this this is the holidays hospitals and suicide by gun increases during the holiday so you want to be involved in helping out here it is right here the great matt scott we want to go to graduations not funneled and able or be part of the solution not the pollution were involved well not wait until things happen we dont want to go to funnels or hospital where a person is Walking Around with a bag once you get shot and die you aint never coming back those brothers it theyll be standing with us but it needs to be heard im not against people that have guns, you know who responsible knows how to do it or the safety behind guns we live in a real world but people with 34b9 issues people shot reck also no questions asked and make sure we honor the mayor the police chief, the medical marijuana store, the community people, the vip and project level and most important the mothers youre fierce District Supervisor jane kim love you girl and the School District right here matt haney our capita of our neighborhood sherry right and the leader the rest of you guys and brothers and sisters who came home from prison whos out here doing good okay shout outs to mike and the rest of the guys please ask questions thank you for coming behalf of all th the staff at st. Anthonys it is great to have your here this morning. [applause] here at st. Anteanys work with people who are homeless and those on the virj of becomes homeless and what we have sheen more aunch unforchfootly than not is people that feel isolated and excluded so very happy to see when the mayor has something to say about the homeless pop ylgds he comes to the tenderloin and st. Ancyanys. We insisted those we serve the homeless in particular are not the problem, they are brothers and sisters. The problem has to boo with us and the way we structure our liferb jz cities and thijsss like that see great to see when we want to do something about homelessness the mayor is coming forward and making good proposals for how we can solve our problem, not fix the homeless. [applause] there are a lot of people here working for years on that problem. It is a problem for the whole community but it is also one we need to thitsy to step forward to help us do so we welcome the mayor in his remarks today. Without further ado, i would like to recognize a couple people here that have come and been long involved ing these issue. Angela alota is here today. From the San Francisco interfaith counsel we have mikem pops and rita chimal. Supervisor marc farrell is here. Supervisor jewel jewel yechristensen and all the Department Heads here of the city and all the Community Based organizations that are represent. Thank you for coming and welcome to st. Anthonys good morning everyone. Thank you all for being here. Let me begin with just comment about some things that have occurred in the last 48 hours that i know are on peoples minds and want to address that right off before i get fl to had body of the speech. But i want start out with some words about the officer involved shooting that occurred yesterday in the bay view and rutted in the death of a man. Let me first say that any time, any time, there is a officer involved shooting i take that extremely seriously and so does our chief. I have seen the video too you know, you look at the video and you justbefore my words came out, we were yelling drop the dam knife. I already spoken to the chief and there will be a thorough and transparent investigation of this incident without delay and know the public deserves this and expect it and i expect it as well and will make sure the Community Knows all the details about this. I also want to take a moment of silence with all of you to remember the victims of the tragic and sensely shootings in san Dern Bernardino yesterday. Our thoughts are with the victims and families and the people of San Francisco grieve with them. But you know, you know what they really deserve . Those families deserve action. Deserve the congress that will stop this madness, stop and by enacting sensible limit ozen deadly fire arms and they need to do that now. [applause] we cannot just accept this. We cannot just accept this. Thank you. Thank you. And again, good morning everybody and thank you for being here. First again i want to say thank you to the [inaudible] and barry for hosting us this morningism barry you and the staff for helping the needy and velinable throughout the city is a inspiration to me and it is never tiring to cut turkey with you bury. I also want to say thank you to our elected and appointed officials and Community Leaders and pleny of the nonprofits providers are here this morning, thank you for joinsing us today. Im very proud for being reelected your mayor. This is a wonderful city and want to say thank you to the voters of San Francisco who believe in our Solutions Oriented and collaborative approach to solving problems and have asked us to return to do more. Thaupg for placing your trust in me for the next 4 years. This is the greatest city in the world and im honored and humbleed as the mayor to serve another term. You know, i often said and will continue saying i love the city, i love it as much of any of you and also with you. I love that we never run from the challenges. We confront them with our progressive optimism and something that has come to define our city in all of us. We tackleed a whole lot this last 5 years and some the most complicated and intractable challenges remain and i ran for a second term so we can work on them together. Foremost among the challenges wrun we struggled with for decades is homelessness. Let there be more doubt, the collective best effort like Service Providers like all you in the room today have certainly made a difference. I know that because i have been paying a attention to this for many years. While i may be a little silent sometimes, i watch, i talk to people, i engage and once in a while i might be lucky enough to hand out a key. You are the ones, everyone in the room, you are the ones giving the hor heroic rfts at front line staff on a midnight shift at the shet ers and do the outreach and are case managers with a challenging loud. Or you may be the one cleaning up the streets so people might have a cleaner street to be on because that is the only place they have. The best evidence of all of the work collaboratively is the over 20,000 formally Homeless People living indoors. Living independently and with the social and emotional support that they need and that the needs that are met with our City Services or they might be back in their home towns. But, despite this we havent eliminated homelessness. As we house and serve thousands, they are replaced by new thousands. People, people who fall in homelessness here, people sent from other states or people who arrive every day seeking a better life in our city. As a result we continue to have People Living on the street, under the freeway, in tents on the sidewalk and some even without tents. All together, more than 3500 people are street homeless in San Francisco. Human beings. Human beings with hopes, with fears, susceptible to cold and rainy weather. Human being who deserve or compassion. We know there are nearly the same number of people without homes that are living in our shelter, treatment programs or temporary situations. Friends , this isnt a healthy way to live, you know that and i know that, especially if children are a part of that family. It is not just a growing problem here in San Francisco by the way and we all know that as well. Major cities across our country, la, new york, honolulu, seattle and more and the state and federal governments offer us too little assistance. Thats why next week ill join at least 5 other mayors on the west coast and our federal government representatives to explore federal funding opportunities and policy changes in the area of homelessness. I know we look at the streets sometimes and the encampments and the depth and complexity the problem jz to some it all might feel hopeless, but as your may frr the next 4 years im optimistic because today in San Francisco all of the ingreedgents of success are here to end homeless for thousands of our fellow citizens. Thanks to a historically Strong Economy we do have resources. We certainly have creativity and know we got the passion. For our serviceers providers and city staff, we have the energy that is required. We have public support to try new more effective approaches. But you know what is missing . What is missing is the ingredient lacking for generations, it is what we call, real cooperation. We cant solve street homelessness, but it will if we want to , it will require cooperation. We have seen this cooperation at the place called, the Navigation Center at 1950 mission street. When Community Providers work with city departments, when the private sector in the surrounding community all come together with us, we actually are creating a National Model for ending homelessness. So, next year we are going to do something bold that skills up the cooperation and coordination this requires and we see at the Navigation Center all of that happening across the board on homelessness. I will call apauss all the departments to Work Together with our Community Based organizations, advocate and National Expert to ert change and reform or government and other, and will create a department with a mission to end homelessness here in San Francisco. [applause] i begin by not just makingi know people have worked on this for years and want to acknowledge first the great work of our past mayors, feinstein and agnos, mayor jordan and willie brown, of course gaveen newsome. I want to build on each of their legacies for addressing homelessness. Of course our former supervisor alota talks about passion. She dedicated a life time to the work and want to say thank you for being here and thank you for being a trusted advisor and advocate and one that reminds everybody we got to get to better solutions. I want to also acknowledge the good work of our former supervisor bevan dufty and director of hope for the last years for tireless work with Service Providers and client to move people into better lives. I learned a lot with bevan, but i felt his passion avenue day he has been on the job. And today, building on the work that came before we begin a new agency, a agency with a budget and mandate to solve homelessness. Well bring together under one roof the multitude of homeless outreach, housing, shelter and Supportive Services that exist across many Different Departments. Over the last 20 years, we increased our spending on homelessness because the crisis got worse. But because we didnt have a Central Department for homelessness we layered program upon program across a dozen Different Department said and then we expected the better outcome. No one agencyies mission was homelessness and today we fix that. With greater coordination we expect better results, more efficiencys and deep er accountability. To make this new department a realty next year ill be calling upon the leadership of barbarager seea director of public ehealth, trent roar director of human sunchss and [inaudible] director of hope. Together we have aurltd r already implemented some the most forward thinking progressive homeless policies in the country. We created the nations first Navigation Center, which is just 9 months that we have successfully moved more than 250 people off the streets into healthier settings. Great progress towards ending chronic veterans homelessness is done these last few years tackling family homelessness we made great progess. A new investment in Supportive Housing of 29,000,000 this year. I want to saw they think to tren, barbara and sam and all your team said for pourer your hearts in this work and thank you for joins forces with us to take it to the next level vlt i want to say a special thank you to public works. I know that department. You kept our streets and have done your best and for always having a positive interaction with the Homeless People and compassion and thank you for taking on the smelliest dirtgist jobs in town. I also want to say thank you to all of the people who are own Single Room Occupancy Hotels in the city thmpt hotels that are cooperating and working with us to make these Units Available for people transitioning out of homelessness. That is stock of housing. We never thought through our past loousts and insistence to get code enforcement, we didnt realize how valuable they are to us and a valuable assess they can be. I know some people will say, a department to solve homlessness mayor. 93 eve. We cant solve homelessness in San Francisco. I know that will will be peoples comments. I say we will end homelessness every every single day for least one person. For at least one family. For at least a veteran every single day. I know because i have felt the power of giving keys to people exactly in those situations. We will end it for every 1 for every day for someone who suffers on our street. That is what the purpose of creating this department is about. I want a staff at this new department, each person on the staff will come to work every morning with a single minded focus on ending homelessness for people on the streets. I want the measure of the work of this department and my office to be answering this question, what did i do to end homelessness on our city streets today and what did i do to give people a stable shelter, a home and a path to a healthier life. That is what i want them to ask themselves every single day. I want that to be the question that they ask of themselves. You know, ending homelessness in a very simple way is a matter of priorities. To get there we have to double down on programs that truly work. We have to coordinate with partners, federal, state and other cities. We have to share and do the best practices and we have to also share our challenges with each other. And you know, i always am focused and concerned about congress and as you know, congress is largely abandoned homelessness in the country and we in San Francisco cant wait frathe politics of waug wash dc to arrive, we have tolead and we lead with values. Our San Francisco values. That is what being a san franciscan is all about, isnt it . It is our values. To be fully able to achieve this vision im inviting a group of National Experts to advise how to create and set the mandate for this new department. I have spoken to president obamas point person on homelessness, matthew dorty and he agreed to come out and advise and has the expertise of looking at programs across the country to see what works. We want to be egressive on this but want to be practical at the same time. How will we define sausking street homelessness . What are the investments we are making and how can we double down on this . Is there something that we can be doing that we are not already doing . I aults want to invite the local homeless coordinating board to serve as a formal advisory body during the process. We convened San Franciscos best and brightest on that commission and definitely need your input. I invite all of you here, every one of you, the people working hard every day day in and out to join in defining the new effort as well because ill present this plan with the budget this coming year. Foremost among the efforts of the department are expanding the successful Navigation Center program. We learned that by removing barrier tooz entry into the Shelter Program and pairing ever Navigation Center with a housing exist we are making a difference. We already committed the funding in the budget this year to double our capacity at the Navigation Center and the department will significantly increase to this model. Well coordinate outreach and build more centers and secure more housing exists. Certainly this requires serious funding. Since i took office we have spent all most 100 mil yen more every year on Homeless Services and housing and my commitment today is this, to never let our city slip backwards on our funding priorities. That means movering forward well spend at threes 250 million a year on outreach and housing for 10s of thousands of people. We know success isnt mesered by how much money we spend, you know that. Accountability matters. We are measured by the number of human beings we lep off our streets and into a better life and by conditions on our streets also improving at the same time. So, im setting a ambishish but i believe an achievable goal for the second term. By the time i leave office we will move at least 8 thousand people out of homelessness and well remove them out of homelessness forever. [applause] and well build a system that ends a persons homelessness before it becomes chronic. That is another thing we learned from the Navigation Center and well do this and achieve this all together. Well do this by housing families, veterans long term homeless to Homeward Bound Program and Long Term Care for the seriously mentally ill. I also need cooperation for the private sector and philanthropic partner tooz participate as well. I already conversation with San Franciscos Business Leaders on this particular goal. Business leaders, big and small, about a Multiyear Partnership to add additional Navigation Centers to the cities portfolio. To them across the board i say thank you and begin by saying a personal thank you to our first anonymous private donor to the the first Navigation Center. Im excited for our partnerships to develop more in the coming months just like the way we started our first Navigation Center. It was a partnership with faith and Funding Sources and community in the mission and then everybody else. We need more Partnership Models like our effort to end family homelessness in the Elementary Schools which is the focus of [inaudible] 2 great civic leaders. No less different than our Technology Leaders like nob nub who also became a partner to end veterans homelessness by funding a viable new housing for them in mission bay. Letting people live on our streets exposed to violence and whether that isnt compassion. It isnt healthy, it isnt safe and it does want represent who we are as San Francisco and it is not our San Francisco values. You know, im also proud of our city coming together over something that used to be controversial and im talking about lauras law. Thank you for visor marc farrell, thank you for your leadership in this effort on a issue that used to divide a lot of us, now it units us with a comma causs because we are figuring it out. Since we launched our consensus program just last month we have already received 28 referals from ern concerned family members and Service Providers. Some of the most severely mentally ill they are finally getting help. Lauras law is one the many compassionate programs we should be doing in partnership with our courts and District Attorney and Justice System. San francisco values means we wont lock people up or persecute them just for being mentally ill. That wont happen and wont happen as long as im mayor, but we can use the resources our Justice System to make sure people are Getting Better heltier outcomes. I want to challenge the courts, our public defender and District Attorney and Health Provider tooz come together in the same spirit of collaboration that i proposed today. Coming together with your diverse responsibilities and your legal mandates to better serve those desperately in need of our help because i will challenge you with the same outcome im calling upon everyone else. Lets talk about not just our legal mandates, lets also talk about outcomes for people. [applause] it is not compassionate and you will agree with me on this to let people suffer silently, to medicate with drugs and call and live an unhealthy life on our streets, that is not compassion and we are empowered to help the seriously mentally ill people but first have to agree to coperate. In a new year ill invite all our gurchlt stakeholders and Mental Health and criminal justice to convene with me. I bring this group together to get past the reasons we cannot do things and figure out a way we can do it. Lets say for example, you take this program, some of you in the room know what the 51 50 program is. It is a program with people in personal crisis and danger to themselves we take them to the hospital for 72 hours, but you know what is the challenging part of that 51 50 program . Once they come out they go right back on the streets and into the same unhealthy situation that they were literally 48 hours ago. We pulled them out and bring them right back in. That is 51 50. Lets redesignthality program for a better outcome, a sustained outcome for those individuals. Lets redesign conservativeship programs to serve the intended populations while respecting their civil liberty. We can have a better outcome on that as well. The seriously mentally ill deserve our best efforts. It is complicated and thats why we take that challenge up. As we focus on getting people into healthier settings, we also need to refocus on the people who are not homeless. The people who prey on our homeless. Drug dealers who target the addicted and mentally ill contributing to Serious Health problems. Im calling y i am calling for stepped up enforcement for predatory drug dealing around our Navigation Centers and shelter and Homeless Service locations and every place we house our homeless. [applause] we need to clean up drug dealing around the buildings where Homeless People are trying to clean up their lives. We are not criminalizing drug addictions, we are enforcing existing laws to protect the most vulnerable. I want to thank supervisor and president of the board of supervisors president london breed for being a leader on the reforms. She is a strong voice the quality of life and reforming our treatment of the mentally ill. Thats why friend i am optimistic. A new department, ambitious goal, a will in our city to succeed on this. We can make homelessness rare. We can make it brief. We can make it a one time event in peoples lives. We can move at least 8 thousand people out of homelessness forever. For too long deeply held and ideological differences divided all of us. Some say we are not tough enough. Others say we are not compalgzinate enough. Some say we spend too much money and others say we havent spent enough. It is time to reconcile these disagroogruments not to set them aside but work through them. If we can cooperate to solve homelessness the sky is the limit on what else we can achieve together. I want to say to you again, we can end homelessness for each individual that we touch, for each family, for each child, we can do that for them. Thats what we can define as ending homelessness. If we do it together, we will have demonstrated that collaboration and cooperation is the best way to move forward. So, i want to end by saying thank you to all of you for taking time out of your busy day to listen to me. Im excited to work with you, this will give a struck chur to work effectively with all of us. We can do better and will do better, im excited and we are San Francisco. Thank you very much. Much. [applause] working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city thats on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. Our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. 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There were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and its different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and thats part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. So one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. Thats what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people dont like it and some people do were concerned about that. Its about thirty something out there thats risky. You know, disliked by someone torn apart and thats the whole point of what were drying to do you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. Hi everybody, we down here at the ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. We were going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about San Francisco. How are you doing kelly . Very well, thank you for having us here. In front of us, we have a typical soft story building. When i see this, i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. A lot of people dont know these are problematic buildings. Why dont you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings . Soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. When we talk about the soft story, what were talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. So were looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. Now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in San Francisco look like. And the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. They have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea its significantly less country srabl in those stories. Now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this ground story. That very often not only has a whole lot less perimeter wall but it often has little or no wall on the interior. That wall is the earthquake bracing and so he see very significant bracing in the top floor and very little on the bottom. When the earthquake comes and hits, it tries to push that ground floor over and theres very little that keeps it from moving and degrading and eventually paoerblly keeping it from a collapse occurring. So we know theyre vulnerable because of this ground story collapsing is this only a problem we see in sentence france . San francisco . No, this is certainly a national problem. More acute in western but more up to california, washington, moving out into other states. This kind of building exist and this kind of building is vulnerable. When youre involved with the community safety, this is a different way of thinking about these types of things. We had a Community Group of over 100 people involved and upper 1 of them. Tell us about how that conversation went. Why did we decide as a city or a community to start fixing these types of buildings . There were a lot of aspects that were considered well beyond just the engineering answer that these are vulnerable. And that effort brought in a lot of people from different aspects of the community that looked at the importance of these buildings to the Housing Stock and the possible ramifications of losing this houbgs in the case of an earthquake. The financial implications, the historic preserve vacation s implication as you mentioned, these are very handsome looking buildings that are importance to the tourist city ask which make San Francisco something that people are interested from outside in coming and visiting. Its such animation story when you think about the 10 years that the community spent talking about this seurb but we actually did something about it. Now we have an order unanimouses put in place to protect 100,000 residents in San Francisco and retrospective in 2020. So on behalf of residents and employees in San Francisco, we want to say thank you for the work youve done in pushing this forward and making people more aware of these issues. And it was a fantastic community effort. So in an earth quake, what happens in these kinds of buildings . What happens when an earthquake comes along is it moves the ground both horizontally and vertically. Its mostly the horizontal that were worried about. It starts moving the Building Back and forth and pushing on it. When you see im pushing on it, the upper stiff of the wall stay straight up but the lower floors, they actually collapse just like i did there. Luckily, we can put this building right back up where it came from so its a lot easier. Now kelly, obviously these arent real frame walls here but when you talk about buildings, what makes the property for stiff . The easiest and most costeffective type of bracing you can put in is either put in a brand new wall or to potentially go in and strengthen a wall thats already there where you dont need to have an opening is where you maybe have a garage door or access to commercial space, you might go to a steel frame or other types of bracing systems that provides the strength and stiff if necessary but at the same time, allows continued use of that area. But some combination of walls or frames or other tools that are in the tool kit that can bring the building up to the strength thats required in order to remove the vulnerability from the building so that when ground shaking comes, it in fact is a whole lot more resistant and less vulnerable. Ideally, this story down here would be made as strong and stiff as the floors above. If im a property owner, what is the first thing i should do . The first thing you should do is find professional that can come in and help you evaluate your building in order to, 1, figure out that indeed it does need to be retro fitted and 2, give you some idea of what that retro fit might look like. And third, evaluation and design to help you determine the retro fit requirement. Well kelly, i cant thank you enough for being here today. Thank you so much for your wealth of information on how we can take care of our soft story problem in San Francisco. And you the viewer, if you have any questions, please feel free to visit our website this coffee memory i remember having coffee with any grappled. In the old days myelogram ma get together i was six or seven i made a faces a good face. When i was younger i know it did something to my body. Ive been Drinking Coffee since i was 17 really the only thing im good at i was trying to find out what i was good at i got a job at the coffee shop i decided to do that the rest of my life. 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I have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and lets have a cup of coffee and talk about it. Good afternoon, i would like to call the meeting of puc to order. Secretary, can you call the roll . [roll call vote] commissioners