Good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Economic Development committee. I am scott wiener, the chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor malia cohen, a member of the committee, and our committee vicechair, supervisor jane kim will be joining us shortly. We are also joined today by supervisor david chiu. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 4th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. And id also like to thank s. F. G. Tv for broadcasting todays hearing, specifically jennifer low and bill jillian. So, madam clerk, will you please call item number 1 . Item number 1 is an ordinance amending the environment code to restrict the sale or distribution on City Property of Drinking Water in plastic b
Supervisor david chiu. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 4th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. And id also like to thank s. F. G. Tv for broadcasting todays hearing, specifically jennifer low and bill jillian. So, madam clerk, will you please call item number 1 . Item number 1 is an ordinance amending the environment code to restrict the sale or distribution on City Property of Drinking Water in plastic bottles of 21 ounces or less, set city policy to increase the availability of Drinking Water in public areas, and bar the use of city funds to purchase bottled water, and making environmental findings. ~ water. And, supervisor chiu is the author of item number 1. Supervisor chiu. Colleagues, thank you. Thank you, colleagues. I
More access to public water. It requires fountains, filling stations, or event water hookups to be installed where there is a Capital Project in a heavily used public park or plaza. In the event of any Capital Projects, our legislation asks the city to investigate solutions that would allow events to hookup to the municipal water infrastructure. When san franciscans enjoy their favorite parks and plazas they should be able to use drinking found tans or refill reusable water bottle. In our research over the past year on this topic we learned there are many costeffective alternatives to plastic Water Bottles that are already available. Vendors can hookup to water lines and sell cups and many options. Let me close my Opening Statements by thanking the many stakeholders we have worked with over the better part of the year including event producers, Small Business advocates, [speaker not understood], large event organizers and the managements of large venues. I also want to thank the many c
The San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Economic Development committee. I am scott wiener, the chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor malia cohen, a member of the committee, and our committee vicechair, supervisor jane kim will be joining us shortly. We are also joined today by supervisor david chiu. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 4th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. And id also like to thank s. F. G. Tv for broadcasting todays hearing, specifically jennifer low and bill jillian. So, madam clerk, will you please call item number 1 . Item number 1 is an ordinance amending the environment code to restrict the sale or distribution on City Property of Drinking Water in plastic bottles of 21 ounces or less
By savings in other projects and that is shown again in table 1. On page 32 of our report we note that the proposed resolution contains a reference to a contract option to extend the term by 2 years. That was inadvertently included. Therefore our recommendation to amend the proposed recommendation to extend the contract by 2 years and we recommend you approve the resolution as amended. Regarding item 8, i should state, on page 35 of our report we note that the peninsula pipelines upgrade total project Budget Approved by the Public Utilities commission is 42 million, 42, 9300 and that is listed on our report. The listed requested funds on page 10 on the Construction Funds in water Revenue Bonds which were previously fwrieptd proerptd by the board of supervisors for that project. Our recommendation supervisors is that you do release the 10. 2 million and that would be consistent with why the committee released the funds in the first place subject to the Environmental Impact report on ite