And Climate Impact, and i think working on wetlands and sinks is a good opportunity, and i think they should be happening in tandem. I appeal to all City Departments to cooperate, combine expertise and resources and search for economies of scale among climate solutions. Greenhouse gas emissions do not respect city limits, to coordination and strategy sharing regionally and locally are responsible. Engagement with residents and local businesses is nonnegotiatable. Neither we nor the planet can afford the exploiting of responsibilities outside of city limits. Our future relies on making sure that all people can access and afford 100 clean electricity, buildings, and transportation and on regenerating our open spaces and agriculture. We must respond as a team. I also want to say that i was really happy that the speaker from m. P. A. Mentioned the real need for getting people out of their cars and theres no reason able bodied people shouldnt take transit or bicycle, and i hope that all staff does that supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is raul. I live in district 5, and ive been a constituent of this city for five years, and i just want to thank you all for being present . I want to echo the sentiments of my colleagues and friends for compassionate bay. In 2010, former board member Sophie Maxwell passed the first law regarding food. Two years ago, the n. G. O. Partnered with Oakland Unified School district to partner in how a reduction in meat and cheese would help reduce their Greenhouse Gas emissions. It was simply a 30 decrease. Within two years, they saved 42 million gallons of water annually and the savings was then used to increase purchase of healthy fruits, vegetables, and legumes. This study proves that it is possible for children to eat healthy, help the environment, all while saving money. In 2017, new york city announced that 15 brooklyn schools would participate in meatless mondays. Less than two years later it has expanded to include all of Public Schools and this year would be the first year that schools would do this. I want to echo the staff from the department of environment highlighting the racial equality of this. Many students do not digest including African American students, Asian American students do not digest dairy very well. This is a product that was broad over by brought over by supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hi. Im leslie goldberg, and i, too, am a member of compassionate bay. Im a former reporter for the San Francisco examiner. Hamburgers, bacon, ice cream, these are the foods were used to. These are the foods we give our children. How could something that is such a part of our daily lives be doing so much environmental damage . The fact is they are. Animal agriculture is not only responsible for a very significant portion of water and air pollution throughout the state and the country and indeed the world, it is responsible for a significant portion of Greenhouse Gas. According to the United Nations most recent report, animal ag is responsible for 18 of Greenhouse Gas, and that is nitrous oxide, methane, and co2. So how did this happen . These gases come from animal digestion, from manure, and animal respiration. It also comes from deforestation. Im really glad to hear this discussion about how Important Trees are to our own survival. Trees so these trees, particularly in the amazon rain forest have been cut down to create pasture land. Theyve been cut down to grow animal feed, soybeans. And so these are the methods that Animal Agriculture is devastating our climate. And most recently, and lest you think were just part of the lunatic fringe here, corey booker says the tragic reality is cannot [inaudible] supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. As weve already heard from others today, we cannot ignore the part animal ag plays in the global emergency. My name is laurie green and im a researcher in ucsfs microbiology lab. Im also a california native and have lived in San Francisco for 15 years. For this reason, i would like to see s. F. Ban meat in all of its city funded hospitals. Meat today is the new asbestos, more deadly than tobacco. I would like to mention some of the other automatic benefits of such a policy. It takes 50,000 liters of Drinking Water to produce one kiloof beef. One billion people go hungry on this planet and 20 million will die from mal knnutrition. Eliminating meat altogether could end starvation forever. And finally, my specialty, animal ag has externalized the cost of antibiotic resistance and has put the entire population of this planet at risk. Factory farms are hot beds for bacterial and viral evolution, and we have them to thank for bird flu, swine flu, dust from e. Coli, and the spread of antibiotic resistance. By eliminating this from our hospital, San Francisco can take a stance against the meat industry. Get meat out of s. F. Hospitals. Its a winwin, winwin. Supervisor mandelman thank you for your time. Im going to call some more times. Sheela, colette, joe, steven, whitney larson, kathy, anastasia, charles whitfield, and michelle pierce. Thank you to the department of environment, thank you, thank you to the supervisors, and thank you most of all to the public whos come today. We have a lot to do and weve got to do it fast. My name is martha hawthorne. Im a member of seiu 1021, and we want to support you, we want to be a part of this, but we have to have a voice. We need to be clear that all these changes that have to be made cannot be made on the backs of city workers, cannot be made on the backs of working people, working families, and the marginalized communities that have done close to nothing to cause this problem. We need to recognize and to hear that the acknowledgement that our current reality is yes, theres a Climate Crisis, but we have a crisis in wage d disparity, and a crisis in housing. We need to Work Together and work with your constituency to get this going, but we realize this is going to cost a mon lo money, and the billionaires are going to have to pay. We accomplished free city college. Lets accomplish free muni. You want to get people out of cars . People cant afford the price of a make upuni ticket. Weve got to look to bold solutions, and the people that come up with these bold solutions. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. I wanted to kind of look at this at a higher level, and i want to thank everybody that was involved in this work and in many ways, this is ambitious, but in many other ways this is actually wildly unambitious and does not match the scope of the challenges faced. The report is i forget the name, but its 2030, but then, theres all these references to 2050. Everywhere you have 2050 in the report, lets replace that with 2030. L lets try to have that ambition. We should compress all of these time scales. There are other things for example, the report mentions well if we implement zero emissions in housing, we could do it in 2030, 2023 or 2020. Berkeley just last week implemented those rules starting january 1, 2020, so lets do that. Theres also a lot of other things in the report, we dont use the powers that we already have. For example, we should have no more permits for parking lots or parking structures. Theres no mention of the airport. San francisco has control of the airport. We need a detailed plan of managed decline of the airport. We also have we could talk about shutting down gas stations and also things like electrifying this is out of the scope of the city but also encouraging all of the Delivery Systems to electrify their delivery vehicles. We should encourage the public to do these things, and if not, we should be putting our bodies out there and not allowing them to do their jobs until they electrify. Any way, thank you very much. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Eric brooks, San Francisco spois and San Francisco clean energy advocates. Thank you, supervisor mandelman for finally bringing this forward with the word emergency and making it a real discussion about that. What youve done is crucial, but just to echo what the previous speaker said, the report is nice and shiny and talks about bad things that are happening and maybe some disorganized steps to do something about them, but its not to the level of what we need, and since 2009 when it was clear that cleanpowersf would startup, our coalition has been strongly advocating for a citywide planned Renewable Energy and efficiency buildout for the entire city. If you look in your email boxes and if your staff looks, i emailed all the members of the staff plus supervisor mandelman a copy of the sydney, Australia Green Energy plan. Weve been peddling that around in order to get in front of supervisors what needs to be done next. That plan is amazing, and please help us get it off the ground in the next year. What weve found thats a barrier to us is because the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission is an Enterprise Energy they are pretty much mandated to be conservative and protect the rate payers, they are not going to take on a project with that boldness. It needs to be done by the board of supervisors. Help lafco and help all of us as advocates to get this thing going. Thanks. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Thanks for having me. My names yvonne. I teach at u. C. Berkeley and volunteer at compassionate bay . We need to prioritize Animal Agriculture into the plan . Every year, Animal Agriculture contributes 9 of co dl2 emissions . But thats nothing because methane emissions are 20 times more terrible than co2 emissions, and 30 of methane emissions are caused by animal ag. And 65 of no2 emissions are caused from animal ag. First steps that we can take are eliminating dairy, eggs, and meat from government, schools, and hospitals, as new york city has started to go towards that direction. You know, San Francisco can, too, and we can be the kpamping for the world. Thank you. Example for the world. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is Cecelia Marquez and thank you for holding this public hearing today and for taking Climate Change so seriously. The food and Agriculture Organization of the u. N. Has recognized that Animal Agriculture is a top contributor in environmental degradation and its been putting out reports for more than a decade saying that the world needs to decrease its meat consumption. Many places are addressing this problem. Germany has banned meat in public facilities. I believe San Francisco can take on these moves and go even further by reducing the subside eyes that the meat and dairy subbidize that the meat and dairy industry has. I hope the current s. F. Climate action plan will take into account that the way that Animal Agriculture contributes to Greenhouse Gases and is a significant component to environmental degradation today. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hi. Im joshua largenesse from trivalley. I want to propose research into understanding pre understanding peoples attitudes towards not paying for or working towards climate reversal and ultimately drive up economic demand for environment perpetuating services. That environment includes you. Secondly, im looking for people to crunch numbers for me for a long wave length energy baysed transportation project to based transportation project to cool the earth directly. Please meet with me afterwards to get my info. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. My name is eric and im an organizer with s. F. Transit riders. Thank you for holding this space today. While the recent proposal to fully electrify transit, it seems like an after thought. We know that traffic is at a standstill, and adding e. V. Charging stations to parking lots wont fix the citys parking lot streets, and its not going to bring us closer to our vision zero goals. If San Francisco is to meet its goal of having 80 of all trips be sustainable by 2030, we need to have that prioritized. Laws arent implemented anywhere near fast enough to meet the 2030 timeline. We know that cars and trucks carry became number of people at peak periods. Were also aware that e. V. S are a part of the solution towards curbing Climate Change but prioritizing Public Transit and making it a system that is fast, efficient, reliable and accessible will generate benefits on all fronts. It is the most efficient way to move people in the city. It drastically reduces co2 emissions, and it is anywhere from 15 times to 30 times safer than riding in a private vehicle. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is alexander taylor. Ive lived in San Francisco for five years, and i live in matt haneys district. I appreciate that Everybody Knows that incremental changes arent working and that we need to make big, innovative changes to catch up to the harm that were doing our planet, but i was also surprised that it wasnt mentioned in the presentations that Animal Agriculture is doing a lot of damage. And i dont know if its just not very well known, but i also think its possible, a lot of people just think its too hard to, you know, eat less meat or give up meat or we cant do it, but im really worried what will happen to our planet if we think that way. We need to ask people to make some real personal sacrifices. I think a small way to do that is ask the government to change the purchases we make in city hall, hospitals, and schools. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. My name is annemarie, and im a resident of district 7 and a professor at ucsf. I hope you recognize that this project i think needs its own time and not be number nine on an agenda with other things. I think it also needs transparency and includes the voices of everybody in the city so that it gets the backing of all the people in the city which should turn into support for funding, so i think thats really an essential part, and it promotes creativity. I think that cooled wiperation other departments are eventual, and i think that the city needs to make sure that they work with all these other large employers to also make sure that there is not job loss. But im very grateful that mayor breed has increased the increased the number of bike lanes that are coming. There are a lot of things that are going ahead that are very beneficial to everyone. The fingers that havent been things that havent been mentioned are ways to make this a carfree city or a much greater freedom for pedestrians or bicycles. Thats going on all over the world. Just take a look. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is tracey and im with jobs for justice in San Francisco. This is truly a sobering reality check on how immediately and assertively we must ask. We cant choose between the Strategic Priorities here. We must do them all, and we must do them quickly. First, the work is to achieve a concrete policy set representing the policies in the strategic priority areas. So we want to have 80 of the trips being sustainable in the next 11 years . Great. Lets talk about making transportation free and reining in Companies Like reigning in Companies Like uber and lyft Just Transition also means that the jobs created as we implement these policies are good jobs with living wages, benefits, and union contracts. Theres so much work to be done. There are also so many people in this city who need good jobs, so lets implement the universal jobs guarantee. Lets train people through city college and Union Apprenticeship programs. Of course its going to be expensive, but we cant afford to not implement these programs and more. We must create new mechanisms like public banks to achieve this. When we do all this, San Francisco can be a global leader, showing how cities can reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions alongside reducing wealth and racial inequality. All are necessary for survival. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is eric leyvas. We want to congratulate the vision and the urgency that have been brought to bear with the writing of this report. We want to thank supervisor mandelmans office and the activists who brought us to this point. We believe that the first step can only be achieved by not doing more than [inaudible] we urge the department to write strong, definitive language to ensure that our response to the Climate Crisis uplifted traditionally marginalized communities. We have two suggestions, as well. First, the department should propose Adequate Funding streams. If the city pursues congestion reduction and eliminating natural gas from new buildings, if it those things are pursued through taxes and unfunded mandates, were worried that the people who pay for it will be th