Name is supervisor ferrel. I will be chairing the meeting joined by john avalos and scott wiener and Supervisor Malia Cohen many i would like to thank sfgtv for covering this meeting. Any announcements . The clerk yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Items for today will appear on the 2013 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. We have a number of items 19 and a hearing which is scheduled as item no. 10. We are taking that first. Please call item no. 10. The clerk item 130946 agenda[hearing impact of sugar sweetened beverages to the san franciscans health and health care sector]13094610. Sponsors mar; wiener and avaloshearing on the impacts that sugar sweetened beverages have on san franciscans health and the health care sector. 9 24 13; received and assigned to the Neighborhood Services and safety committee. 12 2 13; transferred to the budget the clerk sf 101234 thank you very much. This hearing was sponsored by supervisor mar and wiener and
Well be happy to answer any questions. Any questions . Thank you. The next speaker is Robert Vargas with ucfs with the policy program. They have advised on the Health Impacts and hes here to respond to the report. Good morning. Thanks for having the budget and legislative office prepare this report. We are happy to be a part of gathering this data and helping it to be more accessible to the rest of the folks in the city. We really think its important that folks are wear of the Health Impacts of this particular product. We are also very interested in partnering with the city and the university to inform policy decisions and Public Health approaches and take a look at the most Current Research and we believe that we have some highly qualified researchers at our university to help with that information. I think this is a really important report for presenting what is a very difficult issue without having all of this information is difficult to understand. This information is really helpfu
Bottled water as an environmental concern, but the concern that that raises sometimes has been that makes water not available and what are the other options that can be sold in a small package and offer something with added sugar. Looking at those policies, unexpected consequences of what that are. And then lastly, continuing to do outreach and awareness, particularly with populations that we want to do more outreach to. As i mentioned earlier, there is National Data showing that lower income populations tend to buy bottled water. We dont want them to. For so many reasons. But if there are issues with cavities, then theyre not getting the fluoride. We dont want them to spend money on bottled water when they dont need to be. If their pipes are good, they should be Drinking Water from the tap for all kinds of reasons. So, we know that immigrant populations also tend to buy more bottled water. So, ultimately what you know, im here to be an advocate for Drinking Water, an advocate for the
Stations i think is a really important issue. On equity and maintenance of the drink tap stations and the existing water fountains, i think thats a rec park and a puc issue. If people are fearful that it will be dirty or they wont work, i think they will not use them. So, Broad Community outreach and education about where the new stations are, where existing ones are, and clear focus on maintenance and cleanliness, especially in the lowest income neighborhoods, too, i wanted to say that president chiu has important legislation that some of us are supporting as well. I think we should be advocating for and more funding for more equitable access for drink tap stations as theyre implemented through our city. The last thing i just wanted to say was i think new technology and app are being use ford all kinds of purposes. Often you cant find the stations and maybe having use the technology to know where drink tap stations are might be a helpful advance as well. And lastly, i think the cultur
Water once they understood where it comes from. But also as people had Water Quality concerns, some of the concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact it was safe to drink. We also do tours of our water system. So, Community Residents and organization has an opportunity to go up to hetch hetchy to see the water system at work. Supervisor cohen has been a big supporter of the Youth Internship Program we do in the summer for around the sewer system. So, actually right now we have a number of young people from the bayview Hunters Point who participated this summer at hetch hetchy right now. So, it was a great end to their summer. And then our Communications Team [speaker not understood] regional event from, you know, sunday str