Should point out there are 2 other members of the group from puc may be chiming in on this. A compliance manager with Natural Resources jessica supervising biologist with the same group. So, i am back after quite a lot of discussion on this topic and went on to talk about charlie mercifully brief good i know the hour is late. Im going to go into the specific changes to those restrictions that we have come up with that are before you. Im not that go through the ones you party scene at the last meeting. Ill explain a little bit about what is behind those. Also, heres a summary of the Major Concerns that came out with the public and the various submissions and conversations we had and then im asked major City Partners to join me from the airport Public UtilitiesCommission Parks and recreation and public works. Then finally give you a little idea what sort of timeline lies ahead in our program. We thanks to debbie, we like to talk about things in terms of the why, why were doing this in several pension people mention this. I feel like its aimed for the same one more time. For so were the toxic reduction program. We try to reduce toxics every day. We try to minimize harm every day. Its what we do. His lower devoted to but more poorly i think everyone in this room shares the same why essentially. We once per month better and run until stewardship better management of our lands, safer practices and safer for the environment. I hope we can all agree on that thats good to remember what you agree on. When we get down to over doing and how we do it or do of course is trying to make a plan on better Weed Management minimizing and how we do it, thats where you get into q3 2 expertise we have here tonight and also expertise we speak with every month from other departments in our meetings. So, the existing restrictions as i mentioned im not to go through these except imagine we do anticipate substantial reduction in herbicide use Police Restrictions along no use for fairly cosmetic purposes. Thats a significant thing. Also the 15 foot buffer around any path is also very significant. The additions that weve made after all these conversations, number one, is we are adding a clause that says that we no use on blackberry bushes during berry season do something thats largely been done already but its important to put these codify these things make it clear in our training and conversations with city staff that this is not acceptable and the soweto protect people and wildlife. We are updating our contractor requirements were talked about contractors who work for the departments especially on renovations rebuilding rec centers that sort of thing. To make sure they are on board with the dam and its requirements and their following the policy we put out there. Right now it stated a more general way that there can be retrained and what is required from the relevant hygiene core nader but were working on more specifically language and procedures that we hope to develop with a severe we always talk about this with parks and recreation a couple months back and developed putting into place now on contractors and thats i think its going to be a big improvements. We are requiring the use of blue indicator dye for treatments this is specially important when youre often in the middle where often by hilltop to make it very clear where a pesticide or herbicide application has been made as your are a couple pictures courtesy of parks and recreation the give you an idea whats going on here. The picture on the left you can actually see somehas been treated around a plant there preserving. Thats a plant in the middle that was not sprayed. Is kerry gives you an idea of how specific they get with these treatments. The scene on the right is another spot spraying huge amount of treatments and natural areas have donedo at least will speak to this are these kinds of presurgical events and the guy i think will give an added level of transparency and for warning if anyone happens to be there. I should point out within a few minutes those were not look like anything anyone would ever want to eat. Theyre going to be wilted. Direct supervision by a licensed person this is something that came up as a proposal last time and we have talked to all the relevant departments about this to see if something workable and what this means is having a licensed person the means of pest control Agriculture Pest control advisor qualified applicator on site at the time of these products being used and this serves to provide better oversight and making sure theyre doing things right. It also helps with Worker Protection because Worker Protection is only as good as the worker who is there and putting on what they should be putting on this provides another level of oversight on that. They actually act to reduce herbicide you somewhat tedious having these requirements in place. We dont know that but its likely. In our discussions with the departments theyre going to need some time to reshuffle staff or get ready for this so we proposed a sixmonth buffer. Starting accidents requiring the direct supervision of climate. Another tradition is a requirement to use some sort of barrier for any treatment in the past. Remember, were not allowing people who pass except if its a Public Health and provoke safety issue. And usually its poison oak. You cannot have workers without objection is a Worker Health issue and so in this kind of the case will have some sort of barrier as an example, to make it abundantly clear that this is been treated along with the usual postings before and after. We had a lot of discussion about further clarifying areas frequented by children and i think part of this we realize something in the language that was contradictory that is we were on the one hand saying can use it playgrounds are areas recruited by children and the other hand were saying you can use it for Invasive Species. So, we put an extra clause just to make this abundantly clear that, no, we cannot treat playgrounds. So we put the prohibited in the section to clarify that. So, those are the additional requirements we have much more to do. Im going to talk just a little bit about some other cities experiences since this is something that some of these submitters have provided you some information about other areas that are banning they sorts of bands on herbicides or pesticides in general. We checked in with a lot of these but particularly the ones that were more comparable in size to San Francisco and the diversity of their landscapes. Boulder was one of them and it was in the media they had been wound up and this is back in 2012. As a matter fact boulder was part of a series of meetings this summer about this whole topic to try to find a way to this topic susan the media elite band a product they did not ban the active ingredient thats in round appeared to have a system thats similar to ours with a limited particular uses. Top blanket bans but its illuminating uses which allows us to be much more informed and gives us a chance to do some problem solving on what are the early the problems and we do without treatment or are there alternative treatments and are they safer. These are the same thing that boulder asked in their programs. An extensive natural areas. Uses similar array of products as a last resort as we do and these are always ashes 1 million times every day but is a last resort and we prefer to do manual heating or other techniques before doing chemicals. As it boulder. San jose give a lot in your packet about demonstration garden in san jose and these folks in san jose were part of our process this summer. The series of 3 meetings with 14 public agencies about the subject that we convenes. Those are very productive discussions. This particular report thats in your packet has a lot of great techniques, alternatives to herbicides and i look through this closely good im happy to say that we do just about all of them or have done what doing it is just about all those approaches weathered sheet mulching were replanting or regular mulching and so forth. It also unfortunatelywell unfortunately for the title of this actually was not herbicide. They did use herbicides in this project for been muted grass. I confirmed all this with their coordinator. The bands in encinitas were specially interested and interesting because they have a series of overlapping general bands on the kinds of herbicides. I spoke with them i was told that there were kind of the series of unintended consequences from this. One of which is to have an organic part proposal as part of their plan and they realize that because of the way the bands were done they cannot use any of the organically survived product is that too high of acute toxicity that is skin and eye. The thing i discovered there still using preemergent herbicides in encinitas which is now because they fell through the cracks in those bands. We band those are probably in debbies, since ive been here weve never had except for one at the airport. On the airfields could never use that are more hostages did so thats an example what happens you try to do it the general ban set up specifically mandating uses. Finally theres richmond. Were watching very closely what happens over there. They have kind of a blanket ban in place on herbicide use it unfortunately they didnt provide any Additional Resources for manual move will and its pretty clear that you need to do that if you take away runup in particular those kinds of products i spoke to current and past corner of the program this in a lot of challenges and Landscape Management were waiting for report from them on how things are going very much looking forward to our meetings to report on. I think the interesting to compare notes. Meanwhile, we have successfully used our to reduce overall parks and recreation combined to one Pesticide Use all pesticides not just herbicides and in the longterm you seen this before but weve had 76 reduction which is generally much more toxic humans. Along the line you have to narrow that we have effectively removed eliminative use of a long long list of really bad stuff. Most recentlyfungicide use puts on the golf course in large quantities up until 2 years ago. These are big times but the kind of there notwe dont know what these things are and would rather not send some cases. Weve had a long history of success in taking these products away. Without having an impact on her ability to manage that. A lot of comments about Worker Health and the need to and run it was determined the apollo personage in a year ago we take this very seriously. Youre very different opinion of roundup now than we did a year ago and that is why we embarked on this whole series of meetings and discussions on ways we can check this out. The people most of those in any herbicide Pesticide Use are always the workers and so there are multiple agencies regulate protective equipment. This was questions down in the house section of that circle. This gets for a detail. We have the dept. Of pesticide regulation and the epa, us epa bittorrent labeling language oconnor personal protective equipment is required. We also have our own Environmental Health and safety officers were trained industrial hygienists should we rely on them to decide what they need to wear and to do the fitting of the respirators and what not but we can do as a primitive environment is first of all to direct supervision requirements as a mention is going to have an impact on worker compliance and ppe. But also this is going to be part of spring training this year, next month as a matter fact which is something we do every year where we willwe be talking about the new status of roundup as a relates to their personal protective equipment. So, i think maybe some of the departments will have some more to say about this. Finally, transparency was another big topic that came up in the Public Comment and in the question bbq in with. Were really proud of conspiracy. In general. We have the posting requirements for every application. The database of every pesticide application has been made on City Properties with a lot of detailed information that very few other cities have. We have this back from 1996. It is a huge challenge to keep that do Quality Control on these things when your people from all over the state submitting data and one of the things we can definitely do better were going to be working on is to make to do that work quickly and to get the data out there more quickly and more readily accessible way. So, that is something we have on our list absolutely and i should say theres some interesting public suggestions on this like having a way to tax people who want to know about application to the so something worth looking into. I guess another element of transparency is just having Public Meetings like this like these. Heres the timeline from last april. We had 9 meetings on the subject. Since last about 6 of them Public Meetings. A lot of time and effort put into the use and i think its worth it in the end if we get a good product to make some restrictions that make some reductions in harm or risk for our workers and public. What i would highly recommend doing tonight is that you approve this set of restrictions, which is a package with the less. The 2016 reduce pesticide list of intersections are part of that. As one package and we can work on some of these things until the process starts over again next november. We can have more discussions. So, im going to stop now and turn it over to my colleague from San Francisco airport. Given unit is the court, nader out there i want to thank all these folks for coming and joining us today. Testifier my name is tina newman testifier my name is tina newman court, nader for San Francisco airport. We got some pictures here. Im here to talk about the ban on the herbicides especiallyit would have significant revocations on the airport. His has written records for the tall whites can interfere with the tower pilots signs releaser taxiways. We can use people in your field and pouring weed eating or mulching or using open flames around moving planes out there. They would not last very long. Its a hazard to everybody. This maintains safety and health and security on the airfields surrounding buildings. The landside maintenance motorcycle people side, lakers is the firehouse. We dont use roundup in our landscapes and a longer and it taken out a lot of our bonds and a lot of our plants that use a lot of water and would cause a lot of weed problems also using a lot of water. And we substitute a lot of cactuses and c france and in need of friends who also start collecting water. This arraigned arrow and using that for the cactuses because honestly we dont need a lot. So we been able to reduce roundup a lock. The governor is also theres some more of our plants. Heres some sheet molding to do a lot of sheep mulching. The dude of regular mulching. And they can pull weeds in the use burners. This all very laborintensive. The public does not roam to our landscaping serviceare to them. We do have to do a renovation project the workers are all licensed and educated on chemical use and have the proper ppe in order. We need to be of use to one herbicides to ensure the safety of our workers especially guardrail work and medians were workers in public can be potentially seriously hurt by automobile supplying to prepatient mechanical methods were handling. Its a safety and health issue keep roads has sent personally to strike the weeds a way to keep the past way. The report is a vast expanse of land and human herbicide is the only way we can do this in a timely manner and safety for workers and public and air traffic. Thank you. Testifier next up with kilometers from the Public Utilities commission. Testifier good evening. Thanks for your patience. Its been a long night for you im sure. But it was too limited Division Matters for Natural Resources and lands management. I want to first say thank you for the opportunity. So to recognize the capable staff. Is been a very thorough and robust process to bring us to this point in time we are to support the staff recommendation also a figure staff of the pc was for proof here tonight but spices them one people speaking for a lot of people. Only give a glimpse of how we do our work under the ipm process overregulated. She was sense of what this means for us. The first slide which is give you a bit of a map and the map shows the areas that are owned in fee and San Francisco in the area. In rough numbers the city spoke 47 mi. 2 in properties in the city my group has organism that to peninsula watershed which was referenced earlier in the alameda watershed. The alameda watershed is about 58 mi. 2. Just bigger than San Francisco and self. Its a large spaces. The blue lines are the right one in the pipelines in between and i didnt one make it more complicated each other right away of the high sierra and the National Park and national force. Suffice to say all the work we do throughout the system is under the ipm ordinance and consistent with the program here and chris does an amazing job bringing the city together in each year to do more on this case to use less. So, we have Environmental Stewardship policy of separate is a pure heart policies the city the qc for the water and price which made the list. So it sort of begs the question why we want to move vegetation river stewardship program. We do for a couple reasons. These are really the Public Safety utility reasons we do work throughout the system. We have the rightofway Vegetation Management guideline to protect the pipelines in the transitive industries and the roots are not great for pipelines widow tried to keep trees author rightly.