At 4. 00, the burden of that additional cost to the individual that is coming from a low Income Community. The other is, while i may be very interested in sustainable practices, does not mean my coworkers are as well. I am concerned that while we are going to put a burden on the businesses to charge 25 cents, i am concerned there will be a counter act of not going after not compostables that are more expensive because they will be charging the people for them until they would just find a cheaper method of charging, because it is no longer seen as a positive thing that we are offering a compostable as an alternative. Thank you. Thank you. My name is moses. I am the ice cream business. I believe you all know that i volunteer. The only thing i have a problem is that, how can i tell the tourists to bring your own cup . It is ice cream. How are we going to give them a reusable cup . If we want to charge them 25 cents because it is a tourist area. This is a tourist trap. Trap. Trap. I dont t
From customers bringing in their own food web. We encourage extensive Educational Outreach programs to be provided especially considering high tourist areas. Up to 90 of those visitors are tourist. We would urge you to consider the need to balance environmental and economic sustainable, so our local businesses that are struggling to survive are not pushed out of the city by lack of flexibility and closed by these type of regulations. Thank you so much. Hello. Thank you. My name is john borg. We are a Small Business based here that makes and supplies custom foodgrade, stainless steel, reusable food wear and drink where alternatives instead a Single Use Plastics or compostables. We are a wholesale supplier who sells to venues and restaurants in bulk for them to set up their own reusable programs. We have been operating over a decade supplying venues, businesses of all kinds, schools, nonprofits events, restaurants with stainless steel cups, bottles, food containers, utensils and straws i
Ordinance. In closing, i want to reiterate, this policy will save businesses money they will not be spending as much on disposables they will be recouping their costs with the charge, and they will save money with onsite dining. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am the policy organizer for upstream as well as a Small Business owner here in San Francisco. I am going to talk dirty to you, thats a horrible joke. I have a bunch of data on neighborhood cleanups that we have compiled with recent events here in San Francisco that i wanted to share with you as well as a little bit of information about how much of the city is spending on cleaning up litter right now. This year Data Collected during each cleanups, at baker beach included 86 of the total collected. During a Mission District cleanup clean up come on and around four blocks on september 28, 12 volunteers picked up three a items, 298 of which were single use beverage rap or containers. That is 74 . [reading notes] s this is o
Soaked. He was nervous. The murderer is on the train with us now. And everyone is a suspect. Todays morning minute is sponsored by pen medicines Abramson Cancer Center the number one Cancer Center in the region. See that move. I murder on the Orient Express debuted over the weekend. Brought in 28 million. Took third place at the box office. Turning to the forecast, katie , weaver chilly monday ahead, maybe even rainy . So maybe stay inside and watch if you happen to have a three day weekend, first laugh of the day good idea to stay inside. Raining inside, just rain, here is he Broadcast Center pretty much everywhere else, if you do far enough north what you will find is what looks anyway like snow coming down. Now, there had been Winter Weather advisory posted thats actually been allowed to be canceled by the National Weather service because the conditions just arent support that. But heres what i will a say. If you are traveling into the areas where you have purple showing up on radar
Opposed . We are now in executive session. Session . Madam secretary. All right. I move to revine in open session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Next item madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I would like to disclose that in close session on february 14, 2017 the Port Commission meeting the commission unanimously approved the appointment of cathy pouchony as the Deputy Director and finance and administration and i would like to disclose anything ulc discussed. Thank you. Second. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Next item madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advice the cell phones and sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Please be advised that the chair can remove anyone for the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing