Like we are down to one of two dates and we have great ideas from donny and some insight tonight and is sounds like there is a direction to find the resources to do this and the support from the public and unless there is any other discussion, i dont know that there is any action to be taken. Seeing no further discussion, thank you, everyone. Could we look at item 11. Discussion and options for the commission of the environment annual retreat and policy Committee Input and continued from the august 6th meeting and sponsor and speaker gravanis and wald and it is a informational and report and discussion item. Thank you very much. First i need to say that on behalf of commissioner gravanis who i have not actually talked to but she is of course very sorry to miss this meeting. She almost never misses any meetings, and it is only because she is sick and i know that she must be very frustrated because tonight topic is one that she has saved. And she taken the interest in and indeed, was tha
Then, actually was endorsed by president arce and he was, he participated in it and afterwards, we thought that if we reported on that discussion, tonight, it would spark a discussion among all of the commissioners, here. About how we ought to organizize the retreat. And so let me tell you briefly that discussion or during that discussion, the four of us agreed that an appropriate focus of the upcoming retreat would be on challenges that we are facing both the department and the commission. So that what we sort of envisioned and would recommend for your consideration would be a twopart discussion. One that focused on challenges or opportunities before the commission, and ways in which before the department, i am sorry, and ways in which, the members of the commission or the commission as a whole could help the Department Address those challenges. This is an example of working with the board of supervisor and how we can get more members of the commission to go to the board or to individ
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Policy committee report. Commissioner wald . On august 12th. I am sorry. Could i get what is the move to make . I did not take Public Comment on that item. I know that we have watch dogs in the audience and i dont want to make that mistake. Deputy city . You can recind the vote. Could i get a motion to recind. All those in aye. Item 12, Public Comment on item 12 . Could i get a motion to continue this item to the next meeting. Move to continue. All of those in favor, a aye. Item 13, policy committee report. Thank you. And at our august 12th, i first have to correct what i said before, we actually talked about the agenda at the staff retreat at our july 8th meeting not our august 12th meeting and at the august 12th meeting we had lively discussions for information and the discussions sessions that were addressed first to supervisor david chius legislation, to reduce plastic water bottle sales on city property. We vaoefd a written staff report on the cities and the department of the envi
Would be on challenges that we are facing both the department and the commission. So that what we sort of envisioned and would recommend for your consideration would be a twopart discussion. One that focused on challenges or opportunities before the commission, and ways in which before the department, i am sorry, and ways in which, the members of the commission or the commission as a whole could help the Department Address those challenges. This is an example of working with the board of supervisor and how we can get more members of the commission to go to the board or to individuals supervisors, and when there were matters of concern to the department before and to me, that is kind of technical but those were, that was one topic that we thought would be a useful discussion. The Strategic Plan actually is a better example and that is one that we discussed in that category and the other part of the retreat, we felt could be well spent deciding how we might prioritize our work as commiss