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
Thats demanded by a policy like this is im sorry, what kind of bags . I saw you shaking your head. [laughter] i didnt catch what you said. I told you i was dating myself. I didnt know either he. A bod abag. Bod abag. It has a ~ cap and you can fill it up, it comes with strings controlled by your shoulder. [speaker not understood]. You might have seen it in old movies. [laughter] but there are solutions. These kinds of efforts engender some resistance and also a lot of opportunities for solutions and i appreciate the opportunity to speak. Thank you, mr. Berman. I appreciate the work of your department. I also would like to invite up eric higgin from the Public Utilities commission, the puc, not only manages our hetch hetchy tap water system, but in this ordinance along with the department of the environment they are in charge of working with City Departments about the requirements of this ordinance to make sure that this is doable. Good afternoon, supervisors cohen, chiu, [speaker not u
Language that i just described. And city officers and departments as they are trying to decide whether certain events or certain leases would they would permit the allowance of plastic Water Bottles, they would be allowed during that process to use these standards of undue hardship, practical difficulties, other circumstances that warrant granting a waiver, health, safety, welfare, i think the standards are pretty clear here. And that would be, you know, certainly the circumstance that you describe if all of a sudden San Francisco was in desperate need of plastic Water Bottles would fit here. He thank you. Thank you. ~ thank you very much. We have a number of other City Departments. Id like to invite up richard bern ham for the port here . Id like to thank the port because when they proposed their zero event waste policy specifically for the americas cup that is what i think got a number of us thinking about the possibility of being able to do this, given the successes of the americas
Bod abag. It has a ~ cap and you can fill it up, it comes with strings controlled by your shoulder. [speaker not understood]. You might have seen it in old movies. [laughter] but there are solutions. These kinds of efforts engender some resistance and also a lot of opportunities for solutions and i appreciate the opportunity to speak. Thank you, mr. Berman. I appreciate the work of your department. I also would like to invite up eric higgin from the Public Utilities commission, the puc, not only manages our hetch hetchy tap water system, but in this ordinance along with the department of the environment they are in charge of working with City Departments about the requirements of this ordinance to make sure that this is doable. Good afternoon, supervisors cohen, chiu, [speaker not understood]. Public utilities commission. This legislation [speaker not understood] distribution of bottled water on City Property is in [speaker not understood] and encouraging greater consumption of bottled
Environmental impact. From expirectiontionv, we can provide resources to help find yee ate i have ways to implement Environmental Policies and have successful profitable fun events and support our excellent Drinking Water, municipal Drinking Water system ~. For all these reasons i urge you to support this ordinance. Its one small easy step to move our city toward zero waste, zero litter and protect our natural precious environment. Thank you. Thank you. I have a question for staff. [speaker not understood]. Thank you, mr. Chair. Staff or the sponsor. Allow me to [speaker not understood]. In recent history, recently actually, last month, there was an emergency that required North Carolina and virginia to bring in several bottles of water because their water source was compromised. What happens in the event or what are the longterm planning, Say Something happens to hetch hetchy, there is some kind of terrorist attack or there is some kind of chemical agent that is sprayed over our water