A series of things. Go online and get a map and printed out. What came next was the standalone gps devices. They told you where to go. After that, the smartphone killed off everything. How . You have the device, the network in place, you are paying for it, you have the app stores were software can be automatically downloaded and google realize they had the mapping data, they had the gps data, they had the Government Data and they said there is no reason why we cant put that together and use this existing network and offer our own navigation app. They did. Mapscreated google navigation, downloaded it to android devices, and suddenly everyone had a free, better, cheaper, and more customized navigation tool on their phone. They did not and that they did not need maps. They did not need maps. That was helped by a decision by president clinton, wasnt it . The decision was to declassify gps data. It was out there for intelligence purposes. Clinton they realize clinton realized they could kee
Items a through e at president arce request. Thank you. Can we start with item a city clerk tock ikz reduction and environmental safety. Chris gooiger. Thank you. Im not going to give you a n if you is you is survey of what the Toxic Program does. I have been asked to talk about the program which is a long standing successful collaboration with puc and other departments. And with apologizes to the commission on environment who have heard this several times in the past years. Let me tell you what i mean by integrated pest management. Its not just pesticide reduction. Pest management is all about using the best available scientific information to manage pest in a way that possess a least risk to the environment. There is a huge overlap as to what puc does. We are using prevention first and saving pesticides until the last resort. Using pesticides we have a very intricate way of screening and what we allow on properties. The important point sure since moving from the bad old days with car
Helps to meet our goals. Those are layers where we should cooperate and staff will give a lot more depth to these topics,. There is a lot of opportunities to Work Together and commonality to build our respective strengths. Thank you. Thank you very much, michael and david for being here and giving us those important reports. Im going to ask that the secretary for the commission on the environment go ahead and call items a through e at president arce request. Thank you. Can we start with item a city clerk tock ikz reduction and environmental safety. Chris gooiger. Thank you. Im not going to give you a n if you is you is survey of what the Toxic Program does. I have been asked to talk about the program which is a long standing successful collaboration with puc and other departments. And with apologizes to the commission on environment who have heard this several times in the past years. Let me tell you what i mean by integrated pest management. Its not just pesticide reduction. Pest mana
Environmental goals in toxics reduction and environmental safety, Water Conservation, wastewater management, clean vehicle adoption and Renewable Generation and Energy Efficiency including a discussion of opportunities, challenges and potential future collaboration in pursuit of environmental objectives. Speakers for toxic production and safety. Not yet. You can jump ahead, thats fine with me. Im michael carl in the chief operating officer for the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to give you a level of what we do and david will be presenting some unifying point and we want to get into discussion with the staff because thats where the real meat is. This is education for those who dont understand what we do. We are a water and power and sewer agency. We are about 1800 employees spread out over 160 miles. Our primary businesses you will hear a lot about today. Our water system, a lot of people talk about the hetch hetchy system. When you look at it, its not just hetch hetchy rese
Standing successful collaboration with puc and other departments. And with apologizes to the commission on environment who have heard this several times in the past years. Let me tell you what i mean by integrated pest management. Its not just pesticide reduction. Pest management is all about using the best available scientific information to manage pest in a way that possess a least risk to the environment. There is a huge overlap as to what puc does. We are using prevention first and saving pesticides until the last resort. Using pesticides we have a very intricate way of screening and what we allow on properties. The important point sure since moving from the bad old days with carpet bombing with pesticides, we are using science and information almost as a substitute, really as the substitute for all that chemical use and for a lot of that chemical use. It takes an increased level of knowledge about these issues and increased level of professional qualifications. So, when im talking