Taking a big look at the way that we are dealing with all of our processes and how we get them down and who we need to involve to make sure that we check all of the boxes and making sure that we are doing it in a way that is efficient and effective and that is a lot of what i have been thinking about in the first month or so. Thank thank you so much and congratulations and commissioners any questions or comments for jennifer or for debbie about the appointment . Yes, commissioner wald . Yes, i will just say that it is a terrific choice and i was thrilled when i heard it and i look forward as i know my colleagues do to working with you, jennifer, in this new role, going forward. Thank you. If there is no objection, can the record show that the commission very much welcomes you to this new position. Thank you. Yeah. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. Deputy, that was great. Before we go any father i just wanted to introduce our commissioner secretary monica fish and also, our d
And today is tuesday november 25th, and it is 5 05, roll call, commissioner arce is excused. Commissioner king is excused. Commissioner gravanis . Here. Stephenson . Here. Commissioner wa ld . Here. Commissioner wan. Here. And as a point of order, arce has appointed gravanis for this meeting due to his absence. And the next item on the ago ahead agenda is jennifer kas, and the director this is a discussion item. This is on, great. Wonderful. Well, good evening, everyone and good evening, all of you. And this is a wonderful opportunity for me to introduce to you somebody you have known perhaps, for years. But she is taking on a whole new level responsibility in the department, jennifer cast has been with the city for 13 years and before that, she has worked for elected officials in a number of Public Service capacities throughout the country. And we are incredibly lucky to have somebody of her caliper at the department of the environment and we have always been lucky. When i thought abo
Generated by burning a gallon of fuel and making environmental findings. And in your packet is a copy of the ordinance and the digest sponsored by the director, and speakers pollock and legislative aid to Supervisor John Avalos and a discussion and a possible action item and we do, and i do have a statement that our Commission President joshua arce asked to be read and he is not able to be with you for the discussion but he did send a statement but that is supervisor avalos ordinance to acquire Greenhouse Gas information labeled for the gas pumps and a strong proposal that we can adopt for the efforts to increase the awareness at the realities of calling the change and move the needle on the Greenhouse Gas emission from the city and i hope that we can get the questions that we may about this proposal answered tonight so that the commission in the environment can take action to support the proposal for a letter of support or supervisors. Director . Thank you. This item is before you at
That i would like to raise today that i am concerned about and im hoping that we can perhaps include it now or at the full Board Meeting which is allowing the under rules and regs. Right now it states that the caos office is going to develop those. I would suggest that being given that responsibility is something they work on day in and day out and the cao praufs approves the final rules and regs and the Advisory Committee praufs approves that. Right now the Advisory Group has very little say in policy issues. I think they should be able to hear some of these issuesch i hear all of these working groups being established and that might be the primary place where you hear these issues. The second thing is onseting guidelines for the Selection Panel that seem to be given the responsibility to set guidelines. Not to pick the individual Panel Members but to certainly to establish the guidelines by which a panel should be developed. And, the last thing as i stated is the lbe. Supervisor lond
This meeting due to his absence. And the next item on the ago ahead agenda is jennifer kas, and the director this is a discussion item. This is on, great. Wonderful. Well, good evening, everyone and good evening, all of you. And this is a wonderful opportunity for me to introduce to you somebody you have known perhaps, for years. But she is taking on a whole new level responsibility in the department, jennifer cast has been with the city for 13 years and before that, she has worked for elected officials in a number of Public Service capacities throughout the country. And we are incredibly lucky to have somebody of her caliper at the department of the environment and we have always been lucky. When i thought about who would make the best fit for a deputy director, in light of the fact that nobody can replace david osmond and that is a given that we know. I thought a lot about the fact that this person needs to compliment me. That really what i am looking for is an executive team. Someon