Hearings and please call item 1. Item 1 hearing hearing to consider the release of reserved funds, Arts Commission to build out the secure basement Storage Space and related location costs for the citys civic Art Collection. Great. We have tom mckinney here. Good morning supervisors. As you know it will move to the Veterans Building in september of this year and our request is for the release of reserve funds for 50,000 to complete the move of the Art Collection to the war memorial. We are glad that the Capitol Planning Committee has allocated a historic amount for the Art Collection and afford us to the opportunity to properly store the citys civic Art Collection and by many artists. This is where the documentation for the civic Art Collection is stored as well as any works that are coming through for conservation and care so i have our senior registrar here alice coming to answer questions and we appreciate youre considering this item. Thank you. Mr. Rose can we go to the report on i
Nutter, department of the environment. Approval of resolution commending director Melanie Nutter for her service to the department of the environment and to the city and county of San Francisco. Whereas mayor gavin newsom appointed Melanie Nutter director for the San Francisco department of the environment in august 2010 and whereas melanie nut r has continued to direct the department of the environment and provide San Franciscos leadership under mayor edwin m. Lee and whereas Melanie Nutter directed the department of the environment of 110 staff for the past 31 2 years and helped to make San Francisco the greenest city in north america, and whereas Melanie Nutter helped champion environmental policy achievements in San Francisco, including such accomplishments as ill read four of them, but there are many, many accomplishments. Successful implementation of the mandatory composting cycling policy that has helped move the city toward the goal of zero waste by 2020 with an 80 diversion ra
Magnificent job after all of new business, future agenda these years finding and moving into a new place that reflects items. Commissioner wald . The department and the citys so i have a brief issue, this is in response to comments environmental values and goals and it was really a pleasure to that i received from people in be able to tend and i encourage those of you who have not been my community following our last there yet to go and see it. Meeting, i would just it is so different. Appreciate it if the president and than the old place. Make sure that you bring would clarify for the record your id. Yes, bring your id. And well, and thank you, that at our last meeting, we commissioner for i meant to mention that and we did host over 200 members of the did not adopt a statement of extended sf Environment Community and so thank you to all of the commissioners who any kind, so clean power. Were able to. And so we had other city agency and community, partners, and and i think that after,
That we have. We are a sustainable community, midtown Park Apartments. And i have information here for you. So, we would like to see if you can help us rescind the termination notice from the Mayors Office of housing. Midtown Park Apartments is a diverse community. Its still the bastian of diversity in the mid and western addition. After the 1960s, redevelopment, a lot of people can attest what happened in the 1960s. So, now midtown apartment apartments is like the crown jewel of that and we are still and we are the reason why we want the Mayors Office of housing to rescind the termination notice lease thats coming up january 31st is to negotiate fruitful negotiations. At the moment we are having difficulties and our supervisor breed as well as we just got finished with the collective board to get their help. So, we are asking with if you can to help us to rescind the termination notice and to get back to fruitful negotiations and as a sustainable group, midtown Park Apartments. I want
Tool by which the city has worked on bringing its fleet of vehicles. In 2010 there were some significant amendments to it and it took on its current name of hacto. Primarily some of the bigger changes was it did add a component about transit first and also the whole concept of fleet reduction. Ill mention a bit more about that in a minute. One important thing to realize about hacto is that the way it was established is enacted by the board of supervisors. It applies to light duty vehicles within the fleet. So, its not the entire fleet of vehicles that the city owns, does not include heavy duty vehicles. It is vehicles up to 8500 pounds, gross vehicle weight. So, that means basically passenger vehicle, primarily passenger vehicleses and light duty trucks. And nor does it include because effectively waived by one means or another Public Safety and emergency vehicles. So, the main components, then, of the ordinance as its was adopted by the board of supervisors and as it has been placed w