Committee resolution in support of proposed San Francisco mta commuter shuttle policy and power program. There was a discussion and possible action. Youre looking at me. Youre the ranking member. Commissioner josefowitz. Were taking it out of order. Im sorry, operations. Did you do operations . Operations Committee Chairs report. Okay. Commissioner king is gone. Im going to give her report on the last meeting. We had a good meeting. You guys should come well, you guys cant come, but public should come to the Operations Committee meeting. We had a Public Meeting on green purchasing, it was great. Spent a lot of time talking about some of the challenges that face us in green purchasing across the city. And also it has a chance to talk about some things i wanted to reiterate for any public that might be watching. Had some feedback on compostable bags and green purchasing around compostable bags. And one of the challenges that we see is that people are using compostable bags to throw away
Around the budget and specifically around some of the Unfunded Mandates that are here with the department. One of the things that came up that i also wanted to ask acting director osman about was we talked about potentially requesting general fund money to support the hacto work that we were doing and i didnt know if that was any progress had been made on that or that was something we were going to do in the future. I had a conversation with our budget analyst this afternoon about that. Its looking difficult. Lets put it that way. We havent given up yet. So, its actually for the Green Transportation team, it is essential for us to keep our existing team to get some support either from the general funds or from mta. Weve also put in a request to the municipal Transportation Authority. We havent heard back from the mta yet and our discussions of the general fund are continuing. Keep us updated. I guess we can absolutely. Great. Those are the main two things we talked about and i would sa
And then that would be were serving on the same committee. That would be a good notice, tom . [speaker not understood]. Anyway, good form would be to do a good notice meeting, whatever we call it. The Ad Hoc Search Committee of the department of environment the Environment Commission seeks Community Input during our search for [speaker not understood] director. We can share that back to the commission. [inaudible]. Thats good, thats a good one. All right. I just want to add that i think, you know, its great that youre taking this on, josh, and i think, you know, we all really appreciate you putting in all this work and interviewing all the search firms and putting together the plan. I mean, god, doing this right now, it is a huge amount of work, so, thank you for taking that on. Thanks, commissioner. And ive just been looking forward to sharing this stuff because we get ideas about how much we can talk and obviously easiest is do notice meetings and have a conversation. Really, david h
Announcement is we hope to finalize our agenda for the joint puc Environment Commission on friday. Meeting should go about up to two hours. The agenda is a joint agenda, so, you go back and forth . How does that work . So, weve been this meeting will help inform thoughts and ive had i think i had heard from maybe commissioner wald had given me some ideas. So, ideas from her and ideas here today i think give a clear sense of what to propose and ive already proposed to the Commission President some of those ideas. They wanted to hear the 100 Renewable Energy discussion, where our rules and responsibilities overlapped. The catalyst from puc, they were talking about look at food waste and someone says, well, turning food waste into energy. And then someone says, hey, lets go talk to the department of environment and the Environment Commission. Theres a whole biofuels component to what they do that overlaps with what we do. That would be worthwhile. Umhm, thats a waste issue as well where t
And then that would be were serving on the same committee. That would be a good notice, tom . [speaker not understood]. Anyway, good form would be to do a good notice meeting, whatever we call it. The Ad Hoc Search Committee of the department of environment the Environment Commission seeks Community Input during our search for [speaker not understood] director. We can share that back to the commission. [inaudible]. Thats good, thats a good one. All right. I just want to add that i think, you know, its great that youre taking this on, josh, and i think, you know, we all really appreciate you putting in all this work and interviewing all the search firms and putting together the plan. I mean, god, doing this right now, it is a huge amount of work, so, thank you for taking that on. Thanks, commissioner. And ive just been looking forward to sharing this stuff because we get ideas about how much we can talk and obviously easiest is do notice meetings and have a conversation. Really, david h