Courtland kid, so when i hear that Galileo High School is not only the city champs but the state champ, it makes me extra excited. And when president london breed asked me to emcee this event, its clear theres no place i would rather be than right here right now. So we are here to honor you guys. The focus is on you. We are so proud of you, and on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, can we just all say congratulations . Cha yes. Give these young men a standing ovation for all the times you were tired, you wanted to quit, they didnt you couldnt do it, they didnt believe in you. What are these guys from San Francisco going to do . Theyre going to bring home the ship. See, bring home the ship. So we have a lot of people here to celebrate all your success, and it is my pleasure, i would love to bring up our first speaker. We have the incredible Vice President of the school board, stevon cooke, please. It is such an honor to be here to represent the San Francisco Unified School
Legislation now interim to our Charter Amendment that allows or an appeal process on curb management and rightofway. I would encourage you to not approve this and go back to a Better Process and allow all the companies to apply and you still may end up with the same conclusion and that would be more defensible. Thank you, supervisor safai. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam chair. One over arching question while i have you on stationless and station bike share. Insofar as were put premium on the safety. One thing that occurs to me when i see this is none of these stationless or stationed facilities come with helmets. I know we want the bicycles to be safe but no one has a brain bucket that rides them and whats the response to that . In general, we encourage everyone to wear a helmet but the reality is its not required by law. Its a recommendation for your own personal safety and there are a lot of Public Benefits to bicycling regardless of whether youre wearing a helmet. We have Educa
London breed, malia cohen, our former supervisor who first championed this issue, in favor of the full divestment from fossil fuels. I want to start by thanking the Broad Coalition of environmental advocates, Public Health advocates, clean fuel transportation activists, Democratic Party officials, grassroots advocates and retirement Board Members and as of last night, the commission on the environment who have turned out today to demand that San Francisco Employee Retirement system divest now from fossil fuels and were getting to labor, were saving the best for last. And i mean that sincerely and it is in my notes. I want to start by saying that sciu 101 has been the wind at our backs. I cannot thank you enough. To the folks from dapo, i cannot thank you enough. Well hear from all of them. I want to start not with our president , not with our retirement board member but with our former supervisor. We have a lot of great speakers but this started with supervisor john ovolose who first i
Were happen to see that although there were modifications to the program that the tax credits did survive. So weve filed a part 1 and we have a conversation to have with nps. Great. Thank you. Any questions . Commissioner pearlman . Commissioner pearlman do you know the timing related to the orton project . I believe some of theirs will open late this year and others will trail into 2019. Oh, okay. Theyre in advance. Orton has one tenant in today in building 14. Later this month they will have west side of building 13. Later this spring, the east side of 113 occupied. And 104 occupied. So after the spring, what well be waiting for is for Restoration Hardware and anticipating late this year and early next year and then were in discussions with how to get 102 up and ready. Are they doing 20th street improvement snz that will be part of the port city project. Well take Public Comment. Does any member of the public wish to speak . If so, come forward. Seeing and hearing none, well close Pu
Now techknow investigates the problem with plastic. They throw in the street or throw it in the ocean. We have the technology. I cant touch it . No you cant. So why dont we use it . So you dont know what happens to the plastics you recover . Dr shini somara is a mechanical engineer. Dr. Crystal dilworth is a neuroscientist. Were standing by a pipe marked heated sludge. And im phil torres, im an entomologist. Thats our team. It smells very organic. Now lets do some science. Hey guys, welcome to techknow. Im phil torres and today we are going to be talking trash and a ton of it. Joining me with this trash talk dr. Crystal dilworth, dr. Shini somara. Now first up the water bottle, by some estimates here in the u. S. We use 50 billion of these every year and myth number one is that this is going to be recycled. Correct, actually its probably not going to be recycled. A lot of Water Bottles that we think are headed for recycling facilities end up in landfills and those landfills can have so