Thats demanded by a policy like this is im sorry, what kind of bags . I saw you shaking your head. [laughter] i didnt catch what you said. I told you i was dating myself. I didnt know either he. A bod abag. Bod abag. It has a ~ cap and you can fill it up, it comes with strings controlled by your shoulder. [speaker not understood]. You might have seen it in old movies. [laughter] but there are solutions. These kinds of efforts engender some resistance and also a lot of opportunities for solutions and i appreciate the opportunity to speak. Thank you, mr. Berman. I appreciate the work of your department. I also would like to invite up eric higgin from the Public Utilities commission, the puc, not only manages our hetch hetchy tap water system, but in this ordinance along with the department of the environment they are in charge of working with City Departments about the requirements of this ordinance to make sure that this is doable. Good afternoon, supervisors cohen, chiu, [speaker not u
Language that i just described. And city officers and departments as they are trying to decide whether certain events or certain leases would they would permit the allowance of plastic Water Bottles, they would be allowed during that process to use these standards of undue hardship, practical difficulties, other circumstances that warrant granting a waiver, health, safety, welfare, i think the standards are pretty clear here. And that would be, you know, certainly the circumstance that you describe if all of a sudden San Francisco was in desperate need of plastic Water Bottles would fit here. He thank you. Thank you. ~ thank you very much. We have a number of other City Departments. Id like to invite up richard bern ham for the port here . Id like to thank the port because when they proposed their zero event waste policy specifically for the americas cup that is what i think got a number of us thinking about the possibility of being able to do this, given the successes of the americas
Can you just let me know whats happening there . So, in our interior facilities, thats a pretty easy a lot of parks dont have right. In our landscapes, its a little more challenging. I actually have not looked closely at the substudent ordinance, but i believe there is lack wa in there requiring us in Capital Projects over a certain amount to continue to do that ~. It is our goal, as you know from participating in many of our community meetings, there is covering associated with costs, but it is a stated goal for all of our Capital Projects. And, so, in terms of what would rec and park what could we anticipate Going Forward . Do you have a park that doesnt have all of the indoor facilities unless its outdoors, and it gets renovated, what would go in precisely . I think what we have found is the global tap stationseses that we have put in with the help of the puc as aaron mentioned at crocker amazon, the marina greens has a very well used and are anecdotal evidence. Crocker amazon in pa
[speaker not understood] Distribution Services and expanding access to public water is really important. Also wanted to mention that free Water Bottles are the biggest problem weve noticed. Sometimes when free Water Bottles are given out, they dont get consumed fully and we cant even pull the bag out of the bin because its full of water. So, thats just something to keep in mind. Thank you very much. I support it and i appreciate the work. Sir, i have a question. In terms of you said San Francisco is more challenging than other cities in terms of the hookups, and obviously thats something we want to address, can you sort of briefly maybe be a little more specific what those challenges are . Because i know were all commit today trying to address that. A number of events like the street fair, bringing in decompression that we do, try to hook it up and havent had anyplace to hookup. The Parks Department said the water wasnt potable or there wasnt anyway to hookup unless we were to actually
Bod abag. It has a ~ cap and you can fill it up, it comes with strings controlled by your shoulder. [speaker not understood]. You might have seen it in old movies. [laughter] but there are solutions. These kinds of efforts engender some resistance and also a lot of opportunities for solutions and i appreciate the opportunity to speak. Thank you, mr. Berman. I appreciate the work of your department. I also would like to invite up eric higgin from the Public Utilities commission, the puc, not only manages our hetch hetchy tap water system, but in this ordinance along with the department of the environment they are in charge of working with City Departments about the requirements of this ordinance to make sure that this is doable. Good afternoon, supervisors cohen, chiu, [speaker not understood]. Public utilities commission. This legislation [speaker not understood] distribution of bottled water on City Property is in [speaker not understood] and encouraging greater consumption of bottled