Transcripts For SFGTV Commission On The Environment 20221005

Participant who wish to comment inperson will be asked to come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. Members of the public may comment by calling into the meeting. And entering access code 24846695888. When connected dial star3 to be added to the queue. Best practice is to call from a quiet location and please clearly and slowly and silence any other devices. Members may submit comment by email. I will now call the roll. President han is excused. Vice president. Here. Commissioner veyo. Here. Commissioner hunter. Here. Commissioner sullivan. Here. Next item. Review and vote whether to approve resolution file 77resolution making findings tele conference under code section. This item is for discussion and action. The commission will discuss and[reading resolution]. Commissioners can i get a motion to approve resolution. A second . Commissioner wald. We have a motion by commissioner bermejo and wald. Public comment. Are there any members in the public that wish to speak . If so come to the microphone and proceed to the mic. Seeing none, we will proceed to Public Comment. Members should dial star3 to wait on queue. Seeing no caller on the queue Public Comment on this item is closed. Lets call the roll call vote. President ahn is excused. Commissioner stephen son. Aye. Bermeja. Aye. Commissioner wan. Aye. Next item please. Good evening, commission on the environment acknowledges that we occupy the homeland of ramatoshii people of San Francisco peninsula. We understand that they understand the inter connectedness from all things. We honor the people for their en during commitment to mother earth as the indigenous protecters of this land and in accordance with the traditions. They have never seeded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities. As well for all people to reside in their traditional territory. We recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. As you know invited guest we affirm their soverne rights and pay respect to their relatives of the community. As environmentalist, we must embrace Indigenous People and how we care about the people. Thank you for this acknowledge. Ment. We have a pretty packed agenda. Well cece you later to the department, who well recognize with the service reward. And well meet several new staff who will join us for introductions. And were going to hear a number of presentation. Were going to kickoff with the pesticide list for City Properties for 2022. Well hear a presentation on 2021 annual bi green report. Well continue position on grant making process. Well hear an update on the Racial Equity action plan and will witness the official unveiling including a brand new Department Logo. So we think its going to be a long meeting so were going to get started. Are there any points of discussion commissioners . We begin with Public Comment. Are there any members in the public who wish to speak . If so please come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mike. Seeing none, we will proceed to remotel Public Comment. Members of the public should press star 3 to be added on the queue. For those on the queue please wait until its your turn to speak. It a spears we still have one caller on the queue. Caller, it pears that your audio is not connected to web ex. Well give you an opportunity to connect your audio. Caller youre unmuted, your three minutes begins now. Hold on hold on caller, were getting some feedback through your audio. Please silence that second device. Hello. Im trying to silence. Well try one more time. Caller if you would like you can move to a different location where youre attempting to call. Caller, were going to unmute you and try you one more time. Caller, youre unmuted. Lets test your audio. Can you hear me . There is still a considerable amount of feedback on your line. Is that better. That seems to be better. Speaker okay, i want to say that today marks 60 years since silencing was first[insis certainable] it was in september 27, 19 62. Caller your comments must be about the president s welcome message. If you have on the pesticide list, please save them for item 8 on the agenda. And seeing no additional callers on the queue, Public Comment for this item is now closed. Next item please. Thank you, Vice President stevenson, the next item is approval of minutes on environment meeting, july 26, 2022 meeting submitted. This item is for discussion and action. I move approval. We have a motion for approval from commissioner sullivan, commissioner hunter seconds. Any discussion . Okay, lets open it up for Public Comment for this item. Well begin for Public Comment in this room. Are there any members in the public who wish to speak . If so come to podium and speak clearly. Seeing none, we will proceed to remotel Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to make a comment so press star3 to be on the queue. Please wait your turn to speak. Seeing no callers on the queue, this item is closed. President ahn is excused. Stephenson. Aye. Hunter. Aye. Sullivan. Aye. Clerk commissioner wan. Aye. Motion passes, next item please. Next item is 5, general Public Comment. We will begin with Public Comment here in the room. Once concluded Public Comment will commence. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak . If so, please come forward one by one and speak clearly into the mic. Seeing none, we will proceed to remotel Public Comment. Members should suppress star3 to be held in the queue. Ed we to have one caller in the queue. Youre unmuted your three minutes begins now. Speaker im nastashia i want to bring to the attention of the commission that today marks 60 years of silencing. It was september 27, 1962. The book to the dangers. Caller this is the item for general Public Comment. Items on this item is not for on items not on agenda. If your comment is on pesticides please speak to comment on item 8. Seeing no additional comments, this item is closed. Jackson and healthy ecosystem manager. This item is for discussion. Commissioner wald. Thank you. This tribute to jen jackson was prepared for debbie departments former director and me. Jen jackson is a Warrior Spirit and a healing heart. They is able to tackle issues while never losing site of who she serves. The people and her planet. She will leave a huge hole in the department and on her team. Within the department she has been a fierce advocate but she has not stopped there. Jen understand that sum is bigger than the parts. She has shared her observations and suggestions with her peers outside of the program with the hope of improving the effectiveness and welfare of the entire department. Jen has leaned into the work. The outcomes and design of each program she leads. She has lean across and everyone has known that her heart was always open for problem solving session. Wnl the toxics team, jen has united its members through a shared commitment to rigorous science and deep human compassion. A respect for numbers and skepticism of paralysis of analysis. And how little we understand about impact of human activities on the world in which we live. Jens legacy is far and deep. Ipm, flame retardents and antibiotic and meat, Hazardous Waste collection and also Green Businesses o diversity and urban forestry and the list goes on. But it cant accommodate all of jens accomplishments. Ask experts outside of california and they will tell that you jen has lead local and state governments across the country in standing up to federal shortcomings when it comes to regulating toxic chemicals. Businesses trying to reduce their chemical impact. When leadership is needed, that is both collaborative and technical, everyone knows that jen is the person to call. Thankfully, general is not leaving the world of toxic reduction, she is bringing her skills experience and instincts to the nonprofit sector. We know the world been a better place when she sides. Change is always hard but it can be positive even in a case like this one, at a resent presentation, of course is replacing chris guyinger, pointed out that change can bring, new perspective, new ideas and new talents. But change can bring more than that, in thinking about all the changing facing the department, i realize that work of the department of all of us, is to get people to change the way get other people to change the way they do business. If one works in an unchanging world, its hard to forget how people dislike change even when it makes sense. I hope that jens leaving and all the other changes the department has been undergoing will help all of us in two ways. First by helping us remember how hard it is for people to change the way they do business and then second to use that understanding to become better advocates for the changes that are necessary to save San Francisco and the planet. Thank you, and thank you jen. Commissioners do you have anything to add . I dont know how anybody can improve what commissioner wald just said. What commissioner wald said. I agree with Warrior Spirit heart, thank you, jen. I just want to say in my early time as a commissioner, i had meetings with you and i had no idea what city did or how the green purchasing comes to mind and one thing that i valley so much about you, is no question i ask, you never treated it like a dumb question but you also never dumbed down your response. You never talked to me like be littling, you had to simplify them in some say. You made them understandable but never treated them this is way beyond you. And it helped me how to understand how to navigate the world and how the city approaches these issues. And i thank you so much for your gentle touch on that and your fierce Warrior Spirit, i think that is a beautiful term. Ill a few words before jen comes up and i definitely want to echo everything that commissioner wald already spoke about. And cant do anymore justice to your long legacy of accomplishments here within the department. Personal note, just, how challenging this time has been over the past few months, and how ive personally relied on you in so many different ways, whether in your council or strategy and advise, and how ive admired your fierce loyalty to your team. And how you put them first. That it was not just about the Overall Mission that you were trying to accomplish but that we brought everybody to the table in a collaborative spirit. And thats why everybody who has interactioned with you, jen, it can be in the folks in the grocers, folks internally within the city and the department, everyone speaks to what a gracious spirit you are and how successful youve been able to get things done. And that is echoed across the board. So im deeply saddened that youre going to be leaving us. You leave the team in great hands because thats part of your legacy as well. In addition to all of your environmental accomplishments, its about what you have instilled about in your team. Thank you and congratulations. Thank you commissioner wald and all of you commissioners. Its been a huge honor and pleasure to work for this department. And on the note of change, the decision did not come easily. I guess, i would count myself lucky that the division was very difficult because it is such a phenomenal place to work. I remember the first week and thinking wow im at the right place. And the support ive gotten to be able to do so many things to pass ordinances, to support and pitch the law that you know, is being replicated across the country. Its a huge privilege and the setting of San Francisco and having so much Political Support for these toxins and protecting both people and planet is really unparalleled. How lucky ive gotten to work here and even more so the people that ive worked with are just, incredible. I dont think ive ever been a part of group of people who are so passionate, so tenacious, smart and hard working. And thats a combination, it gets a lot of stuff done. Thank you for the opportunities ive had. [applause] are there any Department Staff that would like to say anything. Good evening im the senior coordinator on the toxic team. Jen has been my manager and coach and cheerleader. Im honored to be here to celebrate jens service to our department and to our world. Jen has vision and the ability to see details to execute. A resent example is all the work that she has done. As arlenes boss likes to say, theyre so good but theyre so bad. Meaning theyre really good at doing their jobs, being stain resist apartment water resistant but so so bad for the environment and human health. And as you know, here in the commission, bpaf is everywhere, carpeting. Jen laokds at the problem and figured out which malets, we can use to attack it. And because of her, bpaf is now banned. And the San Francisco Fire Department is transitioning away from bp a f containing Fire Fighting foam. And because she is jen, she is did not stop there. She got water agencies to Work Together and helped draft and moved forward on transparency so we can better understand where the stuff is coming from. Jen has inspired us, pushed us and listened to us. As a member of her team, i felt like her ideas have been supported and bring my whole self. I felt like i have somebody in my corner, encouraging me and helping me succeed. And i know these sentiments by many others on our team. We are all lucky to have cross paths with jen and lucky that she has chosen to continue her work in service to the public good. Jen, thank you for bringing your heart and talent to sfg. These past years. I wish you best and look forward to our continued Work Together. Thank you. I think we have somebody that would like to comment remotely from the department. Hi there can you hear me. Yes. Speaker resent coordinator for municipal toxic communication. I first want to appreciate commissioner wald and cant match those, i love that the expression were your spirit. All the passion and intelligence and Strategic Thinking that drives her. Her leadership has mentioned, all over the place and nationally. Ill give one quick kham approximately from her work about level of Strategic Thinking and sort of initiative that shes had during her stay with us. The problem is no one more which food ware its been. We dont know which products had nroer natured chemicals. The only way is to know that is if there is a certification that requires some bpaf. And there were no certifications. And so jen, went to one of the certifications bio degradable products institute. And had the arm twisting and collaboration that is needed to make it part of their certification which in turn made it possible for San Francisco to ban products in the city. For me she was not so much a manager as a thought partner and a friend. I miss working with her but im excited what youre going to be doing at spi. Congratulations on this much deserved award. Thank you. Thank you, chris. Are there any other commenters . Lets begin Public Comment then. Well begin with Public Comment in the room. Are there any members of the public who are present who wish to speak if so, come forward and speak clearly into the mic. Seeing none, we will proceed to Public Comment. For those on hold please continue to wait until its your turn to speak. No callers. Okay, lets get a photo with jen and officially present her her award. [applause]. All right, kyle next item please. Next item is item 7, staff instruction. Should have waited for you to be in your seat. Were moving a little faster. So just as were experiencing a bittersweet moment for the departure of jen. Were calling group and if you would not mind coming up and in that order, addressing the commission with a few remarks, that would be wonderful. Ive got iceland who is an Environmental Justice with our climate team. Should ishiwing. Jessica reyes who is part of our out reach ring. Please come up and stereo yourself and welcome. Hi im justin at the department. Some of my focus areas are integrated past management and sites throughout the city. Prior to working at the department i was at a Climate Court fellow. Im excited to be here and happy to be joining the department, thank you. Youre welcome. [applause] hello im with school out reach team with the department. And water waste, so yeah. Im carry im a student at university of San Francisco and the commissioner there intern. So ill be doing the Meeting Minutes for today. [applause] we also have two new employees that are participating remotely. So well call them up, we have calia cruz who is a assistant coordinator with our zero waste team. And chris with zero waste as well. Hes a fellow with that program. So kalia. Hi, im kalia cruz im the assistant coordinator, on zero waste. Before starting sf environment, i was working at tesla focusing on Hazardous Waste. So nice to meet you remotely and thank you. . Ment im construction and comma commission and im i maij order in Environmental Systems in south dakota. San diego. And also drafting draft for bmm work. Thank you. Thank you. And that concludes our new employees. Thank you, commissioners any discussion. Okay, lets open the Public Comment. Well begin with Public Comment here in the room. Once Public Comment has concluded well proceed with remote Public Comment. Are there any members that wish to speak. If so come forward one by one speak clearly to the mic. . Fm members should now dial star3 to be put in the queue. For those holding, please continue to wait until its your turn to speak. Seeing no callers on the. We really appreciate you showing up both remotely and inperson, its great to see your faces. Next item. Next item is item 8, approve resolution file 202206coe adopting the 2022 list for city prortsds. Acting director, the speaker is dr. Shaba. Expand tory documents is the staff memo, resolution file. And the 2022, draft reduce pesticides list. This is for discussion and possible action. As they maintain identifying those pesticides that may be used on City Property. Subject to restrix. Restriction. If you need to leave, feel free to exit, dont feel like youre stuck here until the end. I just want to put that out there. Todays discussion of pesticide list is part of last process to ensure that we continue to minimize the use of pesticides on City Property and we continue to seek safer activities. In june, the department can be in meetings with professionals to review and update the reduced pesticide list. In july, we held a public hearing where they explain the ipm work including the most hazardous pesticides and any exemptions that were granted. The last month the policy commission heard from the department and our City Partners from department of recreation and parks and the public ooh Advertising Commission about the latest pesticides trend on that property. In that meeting this, they approved the reduce risk for City Properties. Youll see from the data, that the use reduction level are similar to last years level. Our city rpi do take their work very seriously, thats why we can maintain very low use of pesticides. Next im going to turn it over to dr. Yabair who will share more on the proposed changes that were going to make to the list. Thank you, hi everybody, good evening commissioner. So after you mentioned, the policy committee met me and heard from me on this topic last month. Im the integrated manager at s a sf environment. A little over 5 months ago. Im in the position that chris held. Prior to joining us, i worked worked for about 10 years with the state of california and the office of Health Hazard assessment which is within cali pa. My education and experience are in toxity which is a study of different chemicals and how exposed to them you can be with Adverse Human Health and environmental affect. And what drew me to the field of photo controversy is my understand in toxity so with have the necessary information that can protect the human health. So the passion that i bring to my role to the environment and in addition to working on Pest Management i also work on the bio Green Program more sustainable options and different product categories. And youre going to hear about both programs this evening. So my teammate is there in the room with you, attending the meeting inperson and at the moment, on municipal production is thea and me, and im looking to hire one after jesse and another left last month. Thats my intro for you. Next slide please. To approve risk for City Properties. Of legally pesticide. Now i do want to share that Pest Management, this program is more than a pesticide monitoring or pesticide reduction program. Its more of a Harm Reduction program that manages different risk based on what needs to be dealt with. S well as the amount used. And the program involves landscape and lots of traiping opportunities for staff. Alternative analysis and cautionary principal. So that said, what ill cover on my talk today is on my slide. Ill talk about what happened last year and also San Francisco calendar year. And then ill tell you some period of time ideas that i have for the program over the next year. And ill finish off with recommendations on the reduced risk pesticide slide. Next slide please. The memo that you have and on this slide, so City Department reduced herbicide use by 97. 4 percent from 2010 to 2021. Tier 1 pesticides are the highest hazard for replacing alternative. Pest i have inspections and interviews and ca da at that analysis on 1200 units on Affordable Housing was completed. This was park part of a larger project funded by a grant of pesticide regulation. And just a collaborative effort conducted with the Mayors Office of housing and community development. Toxic reduction and Environmental Justice team and various Property Developers and managers. Accomplishment number 3 here in administrative update. The pest control contract came to an end in 2021. So ipm worked with the office of administration to create and implement a new request for proposal for Pest Management services. Rfp featured rigorous requirements for the bidders including test inspection and a sample ipm plan for a designated facility. This contract was awarded last fall and ill note that all test contract we seer the city not just the city are subject to ipm ordinance. Technical meeting and continuation credits for topic like alternative herbicides and Weed Management in San Francisco. Next slide please. Im showing you a graph of the city wide use trend from the base year of 2010 to 2021. And pier 1 pesticides is highest priority for city alternative. It shows you the year and reduce Pesticide Use since 2010 and that reduction is consistent with 2019 and 2020 numbers. You can see tier 3 or hazard uft reflected by green line. Like i showed in the previous slide, decrease by 97 over the years. Primarily target the two for pesticides for production and use. And youll also see that there is a rise in Pesticide Use in 2021. Food grade product like essential oils and they can also include things like soap and microbials. One reason that we rises alongside reduction of tier 1 and 2 that a larger amount may be required to replace a product. So when i was looking at the data and putting the information together. And increase funding park. There are different standards for golf courses and maintain the greens. Thats what is complaining the situation. Next slide please. Here im showing you some activity for the coming year. Well begin to have discussion with Public Health dph and other City Department with the goal of improve collaboration on effort. And on this point im proud to say that our technical advisory meeting next week will be on a controlled topic and we have a speaker to present on mosquito management. For number 3, of the pesticides use. For number 4, weve been continuing to hold our ipm Committee Meeting on Microsoft Teams this year but i would like to transition to a format so that folks can have that option. And i would like to begin to make some updates on the website. So less talk about the list which involves the different meeting that directors describe earlier. And this shows you a summary, a fun side called reliance. And this product has used limitations. Including those that cause sudden soak death. The product currently on list for the purpose is no longer sold. We removed two tier 2 product from the list, one of those product iscanbus. But we now have a more frequent pruning contract in place so they dont need to depend on this option to use canbusstate. What we learned from the discussion, is ipm professionals were not getting this part affective. Next slide. We have amended the language for 8 products on the reduced pesticides list. We are praning to phase out herbicide over the course of the next year or so. As part of a transition instead which is a tier 2 herbicide. And some examples are things like clarifying the language in the product of the list and updating a my coebial thesis. Next slide. Thank you for your attention. Our Contact Number is here on the slide and i welcome any questions or comments. Thank you, doctor, i appreciate that. I have a couple of questions. The first with the new information that came to light that make us understand that we can use more tier 3 to accomplishing more things, most liv in the last year. Versus the tier 1. Did something come help us understand that. This is from last years data. Thank you and then my other question is, did we have a, just thinking about other presentations that weve had here at the commission level. Do we have an idea how Climate Change may impact our need to use some of these products. I think that is great question and one that i have myself. Im looking forward to learning more about it. In talking with some of the fire diversity experts and the folks who observe, have been in the game long enough to observe some of these changes. I dont know if there are other folks, that may have a comment on that that they can share. Yeah, i think it would be an interesting maybe a presentation or discussion point in the future as we talk about resilient and how that impacts our program. Jen, do you want to answer. I just want to add that one of the activities was to look into some Funding Sources. And thats because the city does not have a vector district, its one of the few counties in the United States that does not. I speak to that, because these issues around Climate Change where theyre going to have more moss quit os are rats, they canClimate Change, well its already here, as we deal with the new challenges then well also have funding to address them. Thank you, i appreciate that. I may add that work that dr. Ria and the commission cant underscore that too much but theyre generalizing what the needs are. That collaboration is what theyre seeing on the ground to allow us to make informed decisions and actions. Commissioners . The observation is that were really happy to maintain this near reduction from the 2010 level some years its 97, some years its close but its a steep reduction that we can be proud of. And i have confidence that the team is looking hard and trying to use the tier that will do job with the least harm to the environment. So thank you for that. Whether we expect the elevated use is something that will continue into future years, was there something about this year that caused the spike . Another great question. What i learned is that there was a tournament this last year that may have been a driver for some of the higher uses. There seems to be spikes when there is tournament. Thank you. I do need a motion. Thank you commissioner. I move that that we approve resolution adopting the 2022 reduced risk pesticides list for City Property. Thank you, we have a motion do we have a second. Commissioner seconds. Any other questions or comments . All right, lets move to Public Comment. Well begin with Public Comment here in the room. Are there any members that wish to speak. Seeing none, we will proceed to remotel Public Comment. Members who wish to make a Public Comment, should now press star3 to be added. Please continue to wait until its your turn to speak. We do have one caller in the queue. . Flt hello caller, youre unmuted your three minutes begins now. Speaker thank you, finally, i reach where im allowed to speak. Im talking about 2011 when i pesticides and then when it i explained, it was and does not go, as you know, feels under use pesticides list. Goes everywhere. Now reduction for 97 . Apart of this reduction which is by having the same herbicides, but labeled dispute, i explained to commissioner on this evening, its the same. Except the ingredients might. So now, you can do the same right as much and reduction in. In tier one. And another thing is that main ingredients, is you pesticides what is it to use from . You dont use much as much. And fcfc facts, they are everywhere. But you cant have [indiscernible] they are needed for the environment. Their play book herbicides is unbelievable. They will use the[indiscernible] thank you. Thank you for your comments. Sd seeing no further comment on the queue, Public Comment is close. Okay if there is any further comment or discussion, please call the roll. President ahn is excused. Commissioner bermejo. Aye. Aye. Aye. Commissioner wan. Aye. Motion vases. Passes. Move to item number 9. Sponsor shaba and speaker is tara municipal toxic environmental analyst and draft 2021 bio green reports. This motion is for discussion and possible action. Dr. Aire. So its me again, im now wearing my bi green hat. This gives the commission a chance do review and vote. This is a report that goes to the board of supervisors and to the commissioners. Its one of the document posted public. And this year we put a format because we put our energy into developing latest tool. The dashboard and the report are how we allow for transparency and accountability in green purchasing which can be quite challenge to implement this program. And i need to acknowledge that my predecessor, did a lot of heavy lifting in setting this dashboard up. I tell you the longer board that team has in mind for the coming years. One relates to the preferable purchasing ordinance and this ordinance is 17 years old. So were going to be look at it with some fresh eyes and considering ways that we can update it. And we also plan to give our website a update. Today youll be hearing an update from my teammate. Ill turn it over to you. Ill turn it over to tea. Im tea environmental analyst at the San Francisco environment department. Ill be presenting our departments annual bi green update. Next slide. Before we get to the topic, i would like to start by introducing our team. Please feel free to reach out to any of us. Green purchasing also known as preferable purchasing aims to identify products in Manufacturing Processes that minimize risk and harmful impact on human health in the environment compared to manufactured products. Bi o green also saves on cost in the long run. Next slide. Another reason to buy green is because of the law. Requires the city that expenditure are in a manner. Under this ordinance, sse is also required to annually review and report on progress towards full compliance with us. Requires green purchasing through maximizing the procurement in order to divert as much solid waste as possible. This also helps the city 50 requirement. And lastly the Green Building ordinance chapter 7 also requires green purchasing in the context of City Construction and building projects. Next slide. Here we have a buy green products. We also have live and or Virtual Training session specific to individual departments. To find guidelines for repurchasing in sub categories. This website is also accessible and often used by federal public. To see how well their department is doing in green purchasing. The dashboard is based on data that we collect for supplies under city contract. The last major tool highlighted here is a used restricted categories. This allows to only those that are compliant. This platform is one crime example. Next slide. And finally, i want to highlight one more thing to do and that is our buy green award. This award recognizes and honors City Departments who have demonstrated leadership and have gone above and beyond in green purchasing. The 2021 award went to the department at the San Francisco department, represented by laroy sis ne ros. On that note, thank you all for your time and attention. And again please feel free to reach out to our team with any questions or ideas at buy green ss. Gov. Org. Thank you, do i hear a motion . Any questions or comments . All right, moved and second. Aif question. Question first. With the question, with the pandemic, how is this affecting products . Sorry i didnt quite hear the question. In terms of disinfecting product. How has that impacted. This fall under the pesticides category, yeah, so i dont really know the trends on that. So even Hand Sanitizer. What was that. For example, masks . Hand sanitizer those those be under this category or pest fied. Pesticide. The actual Hand Sanitizer those would fall under pesticides. I see. We we did a lot, and we did an expensive page on our website. We showed that nationally. Plus all the other ingredient in the product so that was work that chris and choy did and we published that, and others picked and chose what they could. This was very very difficult. A lot of departments in the city were just buying anything they could. And there was a city wide emergency procurement clause that was en phobeding that allowed City Departments to purchase especially disinfectant and cleaners outside of the requirement of the buy green ordinance because people were having a tough time finding anything. But were back to where we were before. And departments really really queen keen to products. We know that we should not be using them in every location but only in high touch purchase. And that helped the City Department understand that even better. So i think were in a better place than we were before. Thats very helpful, thank you. I have a motion and a second. Lets open up to Public Comment. Well begin with public here in the room. If so please come forward one by one and speak forward into the mic. Is seeing none, we will move on to Public Comment. Members should now dial star 3 to dial hold on the queue. Those already in the queue, please hold until its your turn to speak. And seeing no callers on the queue, Public Comment is closed. All right, lets take a roll call. President ahn is excused. Commissioner bermejo. Aye. Hunter. Aye. Seoul van. Sullivan. Aye. Wald. Aye. Wan. Aye. Next item. Item 10, resolution requiring Commission Approval of department of the environment contracts and grants. The sponsor is tierant ru. This item is for discussion and possible action. Thank you, kyle. So just before he starts, this is i followup to our conversation on july 26. That meeting, we presented on what the current process is for approval of contracts and grants. And then we received feedback for all of your priorities and where what direction you wanted to go. So this next presentation is a followup to that to present to you and represent what we thought would be a possible path for the commission to consider. Also not becoming a bottle neck for the daily management with the department. The commission expressed interest in wanting to have greater oversight and approval overall agreements. And the commissioner expressed a preference for determining, you know, what large contracts and grants mighting a reasonable oversight, mechanism for this commission to consider again with the caveat of not becoming a bottleneck within the process. So what dave is going to present is our attempt to represent what we heard from the commission and what youll note is depending on what feedback we have from the commission, if the commission should like to take a different dollar threshold, the resolution is awarded where those dollars can be amended and considered for action today still. And with that, ill turn it over to david. Thank you, acting director, commissioners, im dave, contracts and grant manager with the department of environment. If youre a call from the presentation, four main areas of commission oversight. Representing some background and use incoming funding in the form of the departments contracts and grants over last five years. The department has done some Additional Research today to present the recommendations to the commission. Next slide please. M. O. Us are not currently reviewed by this commission. Theyre reviewed by the budgeting process. However unbudgeted items are not reviewed by the commission. Krtsz are not reviewed by the commission and grants are presented but there is no requirement to Commission Approval prior to those grants. The commission for the commission is which of those four areas should be brought for approval and if so at what material thresholds. Regarding m. O. U, is to keep the process the same but implement any mou entered into are involving, ricology be brought before the commission. Also in the event of another firm, ward agreement for performed ricology Hazardous Waste agreement. The new firm will have the same requirement to it. Next slide please. Regarding in incoming funding, funding is approved by this commission normally bit state approval. Access of 100,000 are approved by the board of supervisors through expense. So to ensure that all funding has oversight. It did not include the directors report funding under 100,000 that the department receives. Next slide please. Regard being the grant that the department issues, any grant 100,000 or more must obtain Commission Approval before being executed. It should be noted that the department is committed to presenting all grants for oversight and recommendation is to establish a new hard line threshold for requirement of approval. Next slide. To better this recommend a, the 100,000 threshold, represents 42 percent of Grant Funding over past fiscal years. Next slide please. Regarding contracts that the department issues, recommendation to implement a requirement, obtain commissioner approval before being executed. A recommendation is also that each commission the directors report will include information on all contracts awarded regardless of size. The commission will be informed of all contracts awarded as well as additional requirement of presentation before this commission for approval of any contract over one Million Dollars. Next slide please. Represents award funded by fiscal years. Thank you. Next slide. The summary is the summary of recommendations to meaningful material processes that extend an already significant timeline. Establish an oversight over the departments Funding Sources as well as expenditure agreement by implementing requirement and threshold. For m. O. U, the top line, again, we recommend as a recap, rerecommend Commission Approval of any development of rickology or any provider of services to the hazardous program or other services. We believe that this provides additional side given the significant amount of funding to the department and long term commitment tied to the mous. For income funding to be included in the directors report. This is due to the bulk of the funding being a praod through establish protocols. This would assist in heavy acknowledge and funding coming to the department. All new grants, 100,000 and above but also amendments that cumulatively increase the funding by 50 or more and over the 100,000 threshold requirement for execution. And similarly for contracts. And also mimics increased funding by 50 or more. We believe that these threshold, the commission establishes material and oversight of the departments grant and contract commitment further, only awards regardless of size will be included in the directors report to provide additional transparency. Thank you, im here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you for that. Commissioners questions, comments feedback. Go ahead. Commissioner wald. Can you operationalize this for me. So the directors report, we usually receive one of those, once every two months at the Commission Meetings. You think that will be enough time but what about all of these other ones . Is that going to go to a full commission or a committee . If committee, i assume its going to be the policy committee. So the intent the contracts over a Million Dollars will be brought to the full commission. So we would build that to ensure that those requirement and not delay that. We think based on the numbers, representing at 90 between two to five per year, which we can fit within the existing schedule without having to make any changes there. As far as the reporting on directors report this is a report where the commission is not going to have an approval. Theyre being disclosed so there is action being taken place and well be notifying the commission through the update that weve taken a grant action in that in between period. Okay, that is very helpful. Can i ask one more question and that is, who are other people or institutions that the department has m. O. Us with . How ricology is not the only ones, what other mou are excluded. Thats a great question commissioner, it can run the entire gamut of mous. We have a work order and we may have memorandum agreement and understanding with them. Institution too, so lets give you an of the types mous that we typically sign. So i understand why youre including ricology. Usually because they dont have some material financial interests unlike greater over tight is needed for the contracts. The remainer of the mou that ive seen have been mostly agreements to either share information or four quarters in the department that are financially related but obviously governmentally kind of transaction al base which i believe dont require that level of oversight that is something on the outside would. So for our going, will that still be Commission Presentation . What weve done here is draw the hard line of what will be required in the process. First is that we have to the commission because we think its a good thing. Can i get a motion please . Second by commissioner hunter. Public comment thank you. Well begin with Public Comment here in the room. Are there any members in the public who wish to speak . If so, please come forward and speak clearly into the mic. And seeing none, we will open it up to remotel comment. Members wishing to make a comment now, should now dial star3. Seeing no callers, Public Comment is closed. President ahn is excused. Vice stephenson. Aye. Veyejo. Aye. Hunter. Aye. Wald. Aye. Sullivan. Aye. Wan. Aye. Motion passes. Next item is 11, sponsor tie ron jue, acting director and departmental racial Progress Report for 2021, this item is for discussion. Great, thank you commissioners ill do a brief introduction and quickly kurn it over to soko and sraddha. As many know, Racial Equity is a for department. And its important that we Carry Forward all of our environmental work with that equity lens in mind. While, you know, ive been here a brief while some of the things that ive prioritized in termds of implementing the action plan. My focus has been on increasing the diversity of the department of recruitment and attention for advocating for Additional Resources both in staff and budget. So we have good news to report there. And the last is, restructuring our performance process and incorporating Racial Equity into that process to ensure that it becomes incorporated into everything that we do and with all of our evaluations and employees. We made a lot of progress. And im not going to take the thunder from them and allow them to present their findings. Thank you tyrone. Good evening, im the senior coordinator at the San Francisco environment department. And im also one of the departments Racial Equity leaders along with soko made here. Since its been a while that we provided an update. Next slide please kyle. Ill review a key line. In december 2020, we received our equity plan of Racial Equity. And since then weve been implementing actions in the plan. We hired a consultant to have our survey and also submitted our annual Progress Report to the office of Racial Equity last march. The reports and the Progress Report are in your commissioner packets. As explained tory toments but well walk you through smft highlights today. Next slide. So well start with a few high level updates. As you know, funding has always been a challenge for this department. And the work has been ziggy more work that existing staff has been been able to afford. So we will hire a new coordinator as well as additional funding, 125,000 for Racial Equity consulting services. Professional services. So one other update is that Racial Equity work is now a separate goal that is included in the strategic plan. And in 2021, the department was able to send a sub set of staff to a few training hosted by a be a change consulting. These included facilitating racial conversations and culturally responsive supervisor. And these trainings were in addition to our equity 101 training and our train thating soko and i lead. With respect to the use of the tools, one major accomplishment was that our Racial Equity tools were applied to 51 programs and policies of the department including all of the strategies in our Climate Action plan. As i mentioned, department submitted annual Progress Report of our plan to the office of Racial Equity last march. And we also with be the change consulting to administrator 2021, survey. Be the change then put together highlights, the survey findings and some key recommendation and well go through smft highlights which include successes in some areas for improvement and that have largely guided our 2022 priorities which soko will share. Next slide. Our Racial Equity survey was attributed to all staff last november 2021 and they had a response rate. So pretty good response rate. The survey consisted of 32 questions which includes demographic information p close ended and some openended questions as wlt. And the survey tool, included 2 validated scales on racial micro aggressions and every day discrimination. In additional, the consultant conducted interviews, that expressed interest in in their survey response form. Interview consistent of 8 questions which invited participanted to expand on their experience of micro aggressions and variousisms in the work place and other inequity and just their experience with Racial Equity work at the department including barriers and some suggestions for improvement. Next slide. Here is the break down of respond enters by race and gender and supervisory status. Its important to note that these were not categories that were offered in the survey and some of the responses were omitted in accordance with dhr guidelines. Where there was less than 10 individuals or less so we can protect employee privacy. Next slide. Its great that 92 of respond on the strong lea greed or agreed na its valuable for sse to discuss race and impact of race and strife for equity in our internal practices. This percentage really shows the motivation of staff and desire to staff to engage in our equity efforts. We also have a High Percentage of staff that have includes racial training. And we have a few mandatory training next month so this number will increase to 100 very soon. Next slide. We ask staff to rate the effectiveness of a few of our equity efforts. This shows that majority of programs are using, the Racial Equity scan tool. And the effectiveness for the tool is relatively high. Next slide, survey and interview responses show that there is concern around fairness in hiring and promotion practices. Workforce data also show that diverse i in staff creases as classification increases. When asked when there are professional opportunities, do you feel all staff regardless of race have aoek al opportunity . Nearly 22 percent of respond entered said no. So that will be issue. Water empowerment. And aleadism 65 . That Senior Leadership positions are held by white people. Several interviews sited as being uses as the face of the department or to make the department seem more diverse and equity than it is. Several respond enters mention that some lack opportunities to be mentored to higher positions within the department. Its also mentioned that when colored people have less power, they have less power over the empowering department. 65 witnessed micro aggression. Over half of the respond enters experienced micro aggressions. And when looking at the presence by race and gender, 65 of white people experience micro aggressions. With 50 of each group compared to 36 of white men. Over a 10th of all respondents experience racism more than once at the work place. Next slide. Our workforce analysis for calendar year 2021, shows similar results to the one that was completed in 2019 and that was shared with the commission then. And this is also reflected in the wage disparity. In the survey its 78 per dollar. And 34 of white staff strong lea agree that they feel theyre being fairly come pen sated for the work theyre performing. So thats a few highlights from our workforce analysis. And im going to turn it over to soko and she will share how this relates to our equity priority for 2022. Thank you. Ed thank you, good evening, im soko the senior coordinator at the department and im also one of the coleader with sh ada here. The findings from the survey and workforce analysis relate to all 7 sections of our action plan and have helped us identify specific parties for for these sections. Next slide, Progress Report. The section is hiring and recruitment. Retention and promotion, discipline and separatation, validity and professional Development Organizational sector and boards and commissions. Now ill briefly go through parties in the next few slides fm the first is hiring and recruitment. So well be looking at a hiring and recruitment policy which will promote standardization looking to promote being insteaded in how we do our recruitment and transparency, expand recruitment efforts including engaging civil Rights Groups and community of organizations, representing under represented and revising minimum qualification to eliminate any unnecessary requirement that could limit the applicant pool. And then of course measure progress through Data Collection and tracking. Next slide. The second is, retention and promotion. Were looking to promote criteria and ensure that promotion are standardize and transparent. We want to focus on Employee Retention including exit and stay interviews. And then of course measuring progress through Data Collection and tracking. Next slide. The third is discipline and separations, there were 42 employees in exempt positions and 39 in permanent position. So our priority in this position is to go to permanent sifg servant and were happy to say that were work oning this action and well see a change in the Civil Service in the department. Next slide. Okay, diverse and equity leadership. So some of our priority include identifying strategies to improve leadership position. Having Racial Equity training and coaching including training on facilitating equity and conversations. Racial equity klt ant will soon be conducting a few training and will also begin coaching our Program Managers and any other supervisors. We also want to institutionalize the youth of the Racial Equity tools and track changes that have been made through this use. And increase Racial Equity and ensure that Racial Equity work is well structured and well resourced. Next slide. Okay. So mobility and professional development. Were currently working with Racial Equity leaders from other city agencies and the Racial Equity consultant to develop guidelines for inhouse mentor ship program. And we want to standard inclusion, we are standardizing inclusion of professional objectives in our work plan and Performance Plan and appraisal reports, p pars. Next slide. So this section has a lot of priority in it but shana was great enough to summarize them into the three that you see on the slide. Essentially, we want to engage with buy pox stuff to understand low effectiveness ratings f training and coaching to better meet their needs. We want to expand capacity to implement plan and improve accountability for all and reduce the burden on staff of color. We also need to educate to report a grievance complaint or any form of work place bias or discrimination and harassment and finally teach yourself how to interrupt when witnessed whether theyre essentially involved or not. Next slide and finally boards and commissions. Currently were collecting buy annual Demographic Data from both commission and urban councilmembers and we are wanting to integrate more Racial Equity agenda items at the Commission Meetings. We anticipate more activity when we embark on developing our phase 2 of the he quit action plan. We are currently been asked by race of equity to focus on our faith one, because we dont have a template yet but thats not stopping us to stop us by using our rairnl equity tools. Next slide. So our next steps, will include, having stoppedsorry, staff will be included in Racial Equity goal into their Performance Plan and appraisal reports which is awesome. We will have two training done by consultants. One on racial foundations and the other on micro racings. We will also be conducting a Racial Equity for youth staff and any other staff that need a fresher. And as mentioned we already made progress on several priorities and our stirring committee leading on the implementation of those priorities. And im happy to note that we have six of our racial equities during equity liasons today. Next slide, thats it from us, thank you so much for your time and ill be happy too answer any questions that you may have. That was a great report, thank you. First of all im happy to see funding for the position because the lift that you have been undertaking over the last years of work has been amazing. And also its a fulltime job. And its not what you do on your daytoday so im thrilled to see that. And its a big difference stating and putting resource and time behind it. And im really really pleased behind that. Its testament to the work that youve been doing. I have a question about, whether you feel supported in the work in terms of sharing data across departments. I know initially there was a working group. Is all of this work being undertaken with help from everybodys short of sharing information inside . Or is it something that you feel siloed in doing. I think there is a little bit of both. There is some data that we can get city wide and then its going to vary based on what we need. I also know its a challenge city wide and we brought it up to the office of equity and thats something that theyre looking to see if we can get more data that is city wide. And also department of Human Resources. Thats helpful. And then, i think in a future presentation, it would be great to report on the new positions from overall totals so we can see what the work were doing bringing new people on board and making sure that promotions are happening. Yes, thats something that we can do. Commissioners any questions or discussions . All right commissioner wald . Clearly smft information that you provided was concerning in terms of how people are feeling about their place in the department and their position in this work. And sort of it is a follow toup what president stephenson asked . Is that part of what youre shaying . Yes, we have monthly meeting as city wide Racial Equity lead group. And they also help a retreat with racially leaders across all the departments where were able to talk about some of these issues. And i do feel that theyre common across park. I think these are i dont know challenges. And part of not being part of Pa Work Group is some of these charges that we can tackle together. We need to be addressed in that way rather than individually by department. So work with other city agencies and they have also created smaller working groups around specific subjects so for example various a working group and focusing on minimum information. So there are to kind of focus on that issue together. Thank you. Yes, commissioner . Yes, thank you for presentation. Now just wondering with the new funding what scope of work will professional servers cover . Helping to support a green year. Right now were working with oning for our department. Later, i think starting in move, they will star doing and leadership. And then down the road we may look at other services that they can spob our place with. Yes, you can check to see if i say ip view with staff fm for right now, its training and coaching crime airily. Primarily. All right, thank you for the presentation, lets open it up to the opinion comment. We will begin with Public Comment here in the room. Once Public Comment has concluded well proceed to remotel Public Comment. Are there any members who wish to speak . Seeing none, we will proceed to remotel Public Comment. Members of public who wish to make a Public Comment, press star 3 to continue to hold. And seeing no callers on the queue, Public Comment on this item is closed. Thank you for your work we really do appreciate it and its exciting to see this all come to fraou ix. Next item please. Next item is item 12 update on development branding. Speakers mark nick luce, Graphic Designer. This item is up for discussion. Please, you know, having a communication background for myself, brandon is very important for an everything with how the public tronds and also branding is accessible to park hat fm this what makes of funding of any organization. This work actually began prior to me starting year. I want to acknowledge that. And im thanks to our leadership of our Graphic Designer mark luce that is going to giver a presentation on this design. Mark . Thank you commission for letting me speak today. Its a light and im delighted to share with you. Ill start with myself. Ive been with the department for ten years as Graphic Designer. And a big part of what i do is which is how the world sees the department. And as hard of that work, i think its important to step lack and how affective is. And how we can improve. So with that, look to serve as a background for this project fm and next slide. So if i didnt have which is of course one of the maij or the part of the grand, most recognition work. And we began with a goal and that was to be more definitely and tainment. That we had, that recommendation and trust. And we were looking at the, the last updates of the brand was 2008. That also included a style guide. And all the other components of the brand. So were looking not only the logo but designed element comprised of brand. Next slide. We wanted to step back at this moment and time to really assess our audiences and how they access information. Next slide action we recognize an opportunity. So much has changed since 2008. Next slide. We also recognize the big opportunity and incorporating the latest standards for accessibility in our design system. And that will make us more affective in reaching a browder audience, people that have various abilities and various ways of getting our information. Next slide. So all the work, really starts with a research phase. Next slide. And what we wanted to do is really start with from my perspective as keeper of the style guide. What kind of issues was i finding . What was mia is hesment. So i wrote a report on that topic and that is available some anybody want to read that. What do people on social think of of brand . What do the staff think . So we put together a survey with many different questions. We really cast a wide net just to find out essentially what the people think about of our department now. And how they look at us going into the future. And all the answers were really interesting and in the next slide, where did they have delight, where was their confusion and where were their pin points when people engaged our brand . Next slide. All the results of the surveys and that inquiry are in a report that was published in april of 2021. Thats available should anybody want to read it. We have amazing quotes from openended questions that we ask the public, how they think about us now and going into the future. So it was a real good lens with this point to think about a point where are we going . And how can the brand really support that journey . Next slide. Really great thing was that that polling and survey, survey results really validated the hypotheses that we have. The event had strong positives but considered dis. There was confusion about the government identity of the organization. Next slide. And interestingly there was a lot of confusion about the actual name of the organization. Some of the different ways that we have people referring to us. September small so that we can make a decision about all of this research. And we came wup recommendations. Next slide. About we want to refresh the brand by simplifying the logo. He enforce and adapt for small screens. And brand elements must meet standards for accessibility as we mentioned it before. So that lead us to the design phase. What does adapt and refresh look like . Lets start with the some of the pin points of the original logo. As many people said, it was too busy. Its updated and found. The believe was also cliche and some brought bridge could be a cliche. Overall logo does not reduce well especially on mobile devices. So were looking at changes and technology and how that is driving this process. We shared those with staff in a Brown Bag Lunch just to collaboratively workshop the ideas. We showed them four Different Directions that were different and reactions to all four. Next slide. And after refinement of all these, they selected one and this is what we arrived at. Will thes see what that means. We wanted to emphasize that word and now we have four words and removed floating motif on the left. And we also changed the font, its universally accessible and license free google font. And i would note the font that was the previous font was one that we had to pay license for per staff. , we also went to all caps, seeing us as a bold way. We wanted to emphasize that, this is well which makes it more mobile friendly. And we kept the same green. Environment in a more direct way than the old logo. In that person that way. Logo and important work. there are other designers as well color topography and numerous others. We have one that is and it will make it easier to adopt the style guided self. For external partners. Next slide. Were turning to our materials and some are fact sheets, something that all the teams are generating for education for the public. So well have a new template style for that. And a new letter head, next slide. So well have a new avatar to the left of our name. Next slide. And that brings us to the current status. What we did in july was finalize, august was about the creating the marketing plan and updating existing materials and that brings us to now, presenting today to you our work. And geteding feedback on it today. With that, thank you. Real pleasure to be able to present this to you. Thank you, mark, its great. I know its been a ton of work. Im excited about this specifically, in dwa it, i had a trio which puts into perspective with people here at blackberry, which puts the perspective need to up tate. Commissioners do you have any questions . Thoughts . It begs question whether or not we need to be clear with commission. Do i say im the commission on the environment, San Francisco Environment Commission . There is the same kind of i think, problem that we see here is youve been seeing in the department is that there may be an opportunity to see a change and be more consistent about how youre talking about yourself now, i think its great work. Congratulations. Thank you mark for a great presentation. One question relating to Vice President stephensons comment. Does the city charter sort of dictate the name of the department and or the name of the commission . Of the differ to, i think we did investigate that. I can address that question, thank you for the question commissioner. So the city charter and what is in the city charter does dictate what the official name is for the department. And that is the department of the environment. That does not change not even with the branding refresh, this is the public facing on how were connecting to the public. Were not changing the official name. For city purposes and all of that, and that this is stylist take. And also a Reference Point on how we talk about ourselves within staff. I like the new name better than the name in the charter so i would support from a recommendation to the board of supervisors, to make that change. The other, comment i have is, i wish you had gone one step further in the change and not kept the old color. Its not a color that i can see in nature. Maybe its any tree sort of interest, but that would be my soul knit pick. Emotional connections, its fascinating and something that came up in our research to and talking with fellow staff, of course and what we found is that that the staff was evenly split keeping the logo exactly what it was and stepping into something new. And it was a 50 50 split which, you know the responsibilities then becomes like how do we maintain that trust . That is feeling of it. So we were looking at some levels to push and pull. So we arrived on the idea that the color would be through line. When you think about our tabling how we layout all of our materials and one way that it all sorts of hangs together, so we kind of realize the importance that have and maybe there was some nostalgia to it as well. Its a good point. Just a couple of quick questions, so our name does not change, does that mean, the department doso do the commission do the same name . The Commission Name is also in charter also. But i think, to Vice President stephensons point if you want to refer to as environmental, you didnt do it officially so you would have to reference in any official documentation that youre voting. There is no law that says, i want to start calling myself the Environment Commission, you just cant formerly change name of the bond. Im thinking the department for all extended materials become sfe, is there an external name for the commissioner representing externally how we are going to call ourselves. In the business world, youre db a somebody is incorporated you know, personal name but at the front theyve got the name that they have out there. I think we can take the same kind of queues. The other question, i saw the simple material on the website also Golden Gate Bridge and also the graphic, is it part of the branding. No social media that was one place that we thought was nice that we thought the bridge coming as a cameo. The idea na its not loss. But were using the bridge in a new way. Is it only did i sign element . Just curious. We have a short district, kind f like the informing. And the idea is that it will be evolving and refreshing, and we have the decision to move more nibblely. I think do more of this research and polling. So we hope this is a more of a living and breathing brand. We start with a small set of design elements. Last question, i see. Sorry the last question is will the Department Logo could be in other languages as well . Typically we found that in our research logos are not translated. I saw that logo environment department, would that be transcribe in different languages. Its an interesting question its one that we have not discussed. And ill be interested to find uh the answer of that. . Fm commissioner wan, let us get back into that and get back to you. Having that four words instead of 18, let us explore that and well be happy to bring that to you. Great question. All right, thank you so much for the presentation and all the hard work. Thank you so much. Next item please. Oh sorry, Public Comment. Well proceed to Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak. Seeing none, we will proceed to remotel Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to make a Public Comment, should now dial star3. Please continue to wait until its your turn to speak. And seeing none, Public Comment on this item is closed. Now next item please. Thank you. The next item is item 18, directors report, speaker is tyrone. In the interest of time, im going to keep my report pretty brief. You have a comprehensive report that you can refer to. Couple i want to pull out for the commission and public benefit. One we did complete our review of the audit done by the office, within our department. This is a pretty standard review by Controllers Office to make sure that our practices are up to snuff. They did identify four areas of improvement. One was around voucher processing, compliance with closed schedule, grant administrative and approval. We already addressed all of those issues already. So were already moving forward to changes that are forthcoming or changes that have been implemented. So no issues with the auditor any of the findings. The second relates to the commissions desire to get an update on our add back and how were doing to expand the add back resources and doing it within the fiscal year. So there is a de tailed memo prepared by ms. Commonford in your packet. Couple of things to pull out. Were well under way with hiring and making progress with all the hiring. We had mentioned in the last meetings. Were either in interviews or second interviews or offers for six of our positions with one still pending. In addition, we have our grants rfp which is slated to go out in the next two weeks. A lot of work has gone into that from every single part of our department pull together this grant and were really excited about that. Another interesting thing to pull out is a memo regarding reduction act. As we know, we have a federal administration that now believe in Climate Change and its going to fund Climate Action. There is a significant amount of resources that were anticipate will help with Climate Action with cities and San Francisco. What weve done is mapped out the categories for Inflation Reduction Act to see what the potential opportunities might be. So thats included within the packet. I encourage to you take a look at that. We dont know all the details how theyre going to rollout the program so there is still some information lacking. Things are looking good for the amount of money that we try to advocate for the city. Lastly just a couple of events, weve been doing a out reach campaign. Weve been tabling a number of Community Events throughout the city. There are two upcoming that i want to make sure that the commission was aware about. One is at the castro street fair and 2 is the block party. And the reason i want to make sure the commission is aware of this is part of the campaign is having a professional shopper and taking photos individuals with, bottles, different garments and knock yourself out on how they want to look but there is a professional photo. And we would love the commission to take your professional photo there. For those that are not shy. And then finally, we did, i did want to highlight our garment repair project that were doing at San Francisco state fm this is a great collaboration, Stewardship Council and yeah, its going to be happening tomorrow at 10 00 am for those that missed it and we get to check some of the vendors. With that ill conclude my report and answer any questions. Thank you very much. Any questions, commissioner. Just a quick comment its a big hit at moon festival. So thank you so much. Thank you. I was also very happy to read that ford final lea proved the electric cord changes so i was happy about that. And i was happy about the gasoline power leaf blower finally. All right, lets open up to Public Comment. Well begin with Public Comment here in the room. Once Public Comment has concluded well go to remotel public. Is there anybody that wants to speak. Seeing none, well proceed to remotel Public Comment. Members of the public should now dial star3 to be added to the speaker queue. Seeing none, this Public Comment item is close closed. Next item please. Next item is 14. Committee report. Can we have a report on the policy. Absolutely. Policy Committee Last met on september 12. Committee heard three presentation including first an update of efrtsds to collect data by the anti buy oikt. We also heard a presentation on the draft buy green report as we heard tonight. Again as we heard tonight. And then finally a presentation from little chu on the bay run refrigeration program. Policy committee met before that on august 8 and Committee Heard two presentation, including Pest Management program and 2022 reduce pesticide list. Christopher from the department of recreation and park and kevin and joy malera of the fpc. And also from climate equity. Next meeting is scheduled for monday october 3. Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner wan, please give us report on operations. Sure, the the Operations Committee has not met since july 20th. Next is scheduled for wednesday october 19. Commissioner wald, can we get a report on the Search Committee. Thank you, the Search Committee met on august 22, during that meet ing, the committee reviewed a proposal that was submitted by cpshr consulting and we approved a motion to retain this firm. The firm anticipates a process 12 to 14 weeks. Upon confirmation of executed agreement between department of Human Resources and cprhr consulting, the committee will convene to discuss priority for the profile and the schedule of subsequent meetings. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Well begin with Public Comment here in the room. Once Public Comment has concluded well move to remotel public. Seeing none, well proceed to remotel Public Comment. Members should star 3 to be added to the queue. Thez in the queue, should wait until its your turn to speak. Seeing none, Public Comment on this item is closed. Next item please. The next item is item 15, new business, future agenda items. Officer this item is for discussion. Good evening commissioner, we have a policy scheduled for october 3, we have an Operations Committee scheduled for october 19th and full Commission Meeting scheduled for december 6. For the policy Committee Meeting well hear presentation on cnd requirement and thick sled program. For the operations well hear presentations on mission go program and Affordable Housing. And potentially a presentation on the Green Business program. And for the full Commission Meeting, we anticipate for the Climate Action plan and a presentation from the reason of seth coalition and im happy to take any questions. Any questions or comments . All right, lets open up Public Comment on this item. We will begin with Public Comment here in the room. Once inperson Public Comment has concluded well go to remotel Public Comment. Is there anybody that wish to speak . Seeing one, we will proceed to remotel Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to make a Public Comment on this item, should now press star3 to be added to the queue. For those on the queue, wait until its your turn to speak. And seeing none, Public Comment on this item is closed. Thank you, kyle, next item please. The next item is item 16, adjournment. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. My name is holly doudiet. H2 firefighter with the San Franciscowired. What inspired me to be a firefighter was in 2008 i graduated college. The recession had happened so there werent any jobs. I was having troublefinding a job. And i was kind of looking around. My dad was a firefighter and i thought what a great career he had. So i asked my dad, never thinking about it at first before. I said dad, what you think about me being afirefighter and he goes yeah, thatwould be a good idea. I took some classes, i ended up loving it. I grew up and actually and i think it was a good fit for me because its a physical job and its enjoyable. You never know whatyoure going to get and its a team effort. I first realized i was part of the Lgbt Community in sixth grade. I looked on the other side of the classroom and i sawthis girl i thought was really attractive and i thought i want to be her boyfriend. Though my experiences in the city growing up in the city and countyof San Francisco were always verypositive. I came out in high school. I actually ended up being prom king my senior year in high school and a lot of peoplewere very supportive. Myparents were very supportive. They just let me do my thing and my dad knew of a lot of lesbian women in the Fire Departmentthe time because he was a San Francisco firefighter. For me its very important to be part of a community and organization and an agency that supports my lgbtq status because if youre not yourself, how can you perform to the best of your abilities . Youre always holding back in some way whether its your personality or your abilities or your overall skills and with agency that supports me being a lesbian i can truly be myself. I can be happy. I can be social with other people. It makes me want to work as a team and we all work Better Together when we are happier and we can be ourselves. [music] president Katherine Feinstein this is the fire Commission Meeting of september 28, 2022. At 5 00. The mayors emergency proclamation. Side understandable that some members may participate the meeting virtually