People are shocked when they realize whats happening. We ask for no tier 1 or tier 2 pesticides to be used in natural areas. Our second comment is about plant mixes in general. In tracking the use of herbicides in San Francisco, we found that the original source documents show no way to identify [speaker not understood] mixes of chemicals. Were not talking about adjuvants, but [speaker not understood]. Little results exist about synergistic effects. So, we ask all departments start to identify mixes and s. F. Department of environment consider plants with special case and automatically tier 1. Our third comment is about Second Generation [speaker not understood]. I dont know if youre aware, but another owl has been found dead in the glenn canyon area. Last year there was a great owl killed. This year its [speaker not understood]. The neighbors got proxy results. Those owls have died of rat poison eating rodents with Second Generation [speaker not understood]. We under the department of
Commission on the environment. Today is tuesday, january 28th. It is 5 10 p. M. First item on the agenda is roll call. Commission president joshua arce . Here. Commission Vice President [speaker not understood] is excused. Commissioner ruth gravanis . Here. Commissioner [speaker not understood] . Here. Commissioner Heather Stephenson . Here. Commissioner heather wall . Here. [speaker not understood] . Here. Next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes of the november 12, 2013 commission on the environment special meeting retreat and december 3, 2013 rescheduled meeting. Commissioners, in your packet you have november 12 and december 3rd draft minutes. This is a discussion and action item. ~ colleagues, unless there is any discussion, can i get a motion to approve the minutes . Motion. So moved. Seconded. By commissioner wan [speaker not understood]. All those in favor say aye 2a aye. It is approved. [speaker not understood]. Next item on the agenda there is [speaker not understoo
That not many people were familiar with, frankly until fairly recently. The healthy air and clean transportation ordinance, is what the acronym stands for, it and similarly named but little bit differently named versions of the ordinance have been in effect since the early 1990s and it has long been the main the platform, the policy tool by which the city has worked on bringing its fleet of vehicles. In 2010 there were some significant amendments to it and it took on its current name of hacto. Primarily some of the bigger changes was it did add a component about transit first and also the whole concept of fleet reduction. Ill mention a bit more about that in a minute. One important thing to realize about hacto is that the way it was established is enacted by the board of supervisors. It applies to light duty vehicles within the fleet. So, its not the entire fleet of vehicles that the city owns, does not include heavy duty vehicles. It is vehicles up to 8500 pounds, gross vehicle weight
Commissioner ruth gravanis . Here. Commissioner [speaker not understood] . Here. Commissioner Heather Stephenson . Here. Commissioner heather wall . Here. [speaker not understood] . Here. Next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes of the november 12, 2013 commission on the environment special meeting retreat and december 3, 2013 rescheduled meeting. Commissioners, in your packet you have november 12 and december 3rd draft minutes. This is a discussion and action item. ~ colleagues, unless there is any discussion, can i get a motion to approve the minutes . Motion. So moved. Seconded. By commissioner wan [speaker not understood]. All those in favor say aye 2a aye. It is approved. [speaker not understood]. Next item on the agenda there is [speaker not understood]. On the Meeting Minutes . [speaker not understood] Public Comment . Very soon. Thats the next item. My apologies for the confusion. Okay. Next item is Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on i
On a ban where we dont have an available supply of water that Public Health and hydration remain very important to us. Other commissioners . Any other discussion . All right. A motion is on the floor to approve and can we hear all those in favor please say aye . Aye. Those opposed please say nay. Ayes have it. Thank you. [gavel] department of the environment director search process and candidate qualifications. This is a discussion item. Colleagues, can we get a motion to move item 9 to come after we hear item 13 on the agenda . Motion to do that. A second . Second. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right. So move item 9 to after number 13. [gavel] thanks, colleagues. Briefing on the previous years implementation of the healthy air and clean transportation ordinance. Speakers are robert hayden, manager of commutesmart and clean vehicle, and william zeller, Clean Vehicle Program coordinator. This is a discussion item. Thank you so much for coming to talk to us