Mandatory composting recycling policy to move our city to a city of zero waste. She helped advance us to be the electric vehicle capital. Shes someone who helped to encourage expansion of our citys outreach efforts to our immigrant populations when it comes to environmental public information. She helped to implement the existing commercial building ordinance with an 82 percent compliance rate. She initiated our citys first Drug Take Back Program which has collected over 16,000 pounds of unwanted medicine. Helped to plan our 2012 Green Economy forum where we are making sure were putting people to work and doing well by the economy. And she helped to support the citys bio initiative. We have known me melanie before she even joined. She has been a long time democratic activist and community leader. We know hopefully why you are leaving the department. We know you will continue to be within our community and look forward to your next leadership role so with that i want to thank you melani
Depressed, i combed craigslist for two weeks and found my ad. For a variety of reasons, including some unique markings from an accident i had on the bike, i assumed it was mine. I called the Police Station afterwards. I assumed id get a voicemail and in fact i got sergeant anderson. Maybe i was lucky, maybe the Police Departments incredible, as i now believe it is. I think it was a combination of both. Sergeant anderson took my call and couldnt have been more helpful. It was a saturday. He told me if i could get the San Francisco here that he would give me the resources for what was effecttively a sting operation. I couldnt believe my luck. A normal citizen like me could engage the Sf Police Department like this. I was truly amazed. Fast forward 12 hours, sting operation happened, my friend jerry jerry and i had sat at a subway with police interrogating them, trying to get answers on where other items might have been, and eventually the Police Officers raiding their house in the east b
People in Public Service and he founded his program, which is now nationally recognized, which has provided over 250 students since 1990 is valuable opportunities to experience hands on work all over muni. Bond yee has helped to bring transportation engineering to the forefront of urban planning and engineering. Because of that on behalf of the board of supervisors, it is my honor to declare today, january 31, 2014 as bond yee day in San Francisco. Thank you bond. Bond, before you speak, we do have another colleague who had come up with her own certificate of honor. Bond, thank you. As you know, he is actually a resident of our sunset district, so prior to this position bond was someone who we could go to to solve problems and so when we had very Angry Community members, he could say with authority as someone who lives in the neighborhood really what he thought was best in terms of improvement. With that, i want to thank you, bond, and hope we will continue to see you in the sunset dis
I am speechless. You know, Public Service is a privilege and its especially so if you get to do it in your hometown so i feel fortunate in that regard. Im honored to be able to serve you and the people of San Francisco and really appreciate all the support and policy guidance youve given me and my colleagues at the sfmta through all these years and thank you very much for the opportunity. Thank you. We look forward to seeing you on muni. [applause] i have a second commendation for another Public Servant who will be departing with us very shortly who has helped to head up for almost four years, department of the environment. Id like to invite up melanie nutter. She has an incredibly long list of accomplishments during her time and ill just highlight a couple of her accomplishments. She helped to successfully implement or mandatory composting recycling policy to move our city to a city of zero waste. She helped advance us to be the electric vehicle capital. Shes someone who helped to enc
Community and public and private sector so we look forward to the next phase of doing what was getting attention nationally to make this an even more robust and less fragmented system. And i appreciate supervisor yee, your support of the new office of early care and education. Really excited about our new director barbara carlson. My staff works really hard on behalf of the public because we really see this as prevention and a way to strengthen families and support the economy of the city. If parents go work if somebodys not taking care of the kids, so we know care and education happens simultaneously, not in separate buckets. Thank you for this honor this morning and we will keep on doing the good work. [applause] im going to make the next two presentations to honor two very distinguished Public Servants for whom this is their last week with city government. First person id like to invite up is someone who id describe in the following way. He was once referred to as a low level bureau