This show, could you please call item number two . Approve the minutes of the july 9, 2013 meeting this is an action item. Thank you. And colleagues . Is there any Public Comment . Okay, seeing no Public Comment on item number two, this item is closed. A motion to approve . Okay, by commissioner tang and without objection this passes. Item three, state and federal legislative update, this is an information action item. This is the good stuff what we come for. Thank you very much and good to see you. Thank you, chair, mark watts and i am here to give you an update on what is going on in sacramento. And starting first with your matrix and there are two new bills that are added to the matrix that emerged over the summer time, and one is 8401 on page 5 of the matrix, and this relates to design build to be used by cmas and other entities around the state, and current block expires at the end of this year, and was used and five local slots were unused. Original county was trying to seek a st
Not responsible and a thats correct. I want to be clear a sue anonymous or the all the wildfires. Thats right we that didnt stepdaughters what happens after the fire in terms of the erosion. All right. Is there a motion and a moved and second. Any Public Comments that is the motion carries. Item number ten. Public hearing on the 2013 inform the San Francisco water system. Good afternoon Water Quality description of director. Were here today to conduct the hearing we have to do this ever 3 years. Their ideal levels of Drinking Water that dont take into accountant the Public Health goals and thats because the technology is not there. Could i have the slides please. Our requirements are that we have to compare our results and we submit a report. We have to solicits the reports and we have to submit a letter to the state Health Department that we held this particular meeting. This chart is meant to give you a prospective where the system is operated. The red line at the top is the lc l the
Organizations. And working to find any entity to do a presentation to. We do have our monthly workshops at the library, the first thursday from 24. And an announcement has been dropped to all 95 entities that have Business Registrations, that includes nonprofits and things of that sort. So hopefully you have seen it, and you have received it. Our office continually announces this in our ee news bulletin, because the big key thing that is happening come april, when businesses at the end of april, when they send out the Business Registration renewals, businesses will see an increase in their Business Registration fee. So that is the key thing that we are trying to really highlight, advertise, get out there and educate businesses on. Biz portal update, partners have delivered their wire frames and simultaneously im in discussion with jane how to best line up the permitting mapping process with the discussion that you had at the retreat. Identifying what it will take to develop a physical
Taking well, it will never be single occupancy vehicles if you are taking a child to school, but trying to combine trips so we are more efficient in terms of getting children to school. So 11 schools, i mean there are 250 schools in the city, it may seem like a drop in the bucket but it was an initial attempt and i would assume that we will have a lot larger participation the next time we do it. Great. Yeah. Its one of these things its one of many, many ways to try to encourage efficiency in transportation and its a step in the process. Then the other thing that i was interested about was the zero waste enforcement. Uhhuh. I think weve spoken a bit about this before. What happens if buildings dont comply with sort of their zero waste obligations . Ultimately fines are an option. We have not gone down that road yet but we certainly have that as a part of our tool kit to try to get those buildings that are not participating to comply. So far voluntary efforts have been successful. Great.
Aye. Motion passes, unanimously. Thank you, colleagues, thank you advocates, thank you chief. And thank you poa and everyone this is, and it is really important the moments when you do something when no one is watching and not m response because it is the right thing to do. We did it in october. And the giants are in the world. , they are in the National League championship series. I got ahead of myself. And that is all right. Line item 8, Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item ten below, closed session, including Public Comment on vote whether to hold item ten in closed session. Ladies and gentlemen, we will go into closed session to deal with matters that are protected by the provisions of the california law, is there any Public Comment on that. Hearing none, we will go into closed session, thank you everyone. Thank you, everybody and i know that it is late. Thank you so much. I need a vote. Could i get a motion. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. I need to call it. Okay.