Transcripts For SFGTV Environment Commission 11915 20151114

commissioner joanna wald. commissioner sarah wan vice chair here. next item on the agenda welcoming remarks by deborah rafael and discussion item. should thank you, monica and good evening everyone. how is everyone doing tonight? we are beyond excited to be here tonight in the portola. to be with the community. it's something that we really are proud of what we do at the environment commission. one of the things we want to write out of the gate was to introduce some very special folks were providing translation tonight. so, can we please get around warm round of applause for oscar- >>[applause]. >> and monica wong. >>[applause] >> and julie barrios. if you want to give-thank you, joe. if you want to get a quick word maybe starting with oscar here at the microphone. write up here. >>into the microphone. just like that. excellent. so, if anybody needs interpretation in spanish, [foreign language]. >> thank you. monica, where is monica? good evening, monica. >> hi. my name is monica wong, cantonese interpreter. if anyone needs help up the back of the room. [foreign language]. >> thank you, monica and joy. >> good evening. my name is joy audio. i'm the teacher of the filipino teacher at uc berkeley. [foreign language]. >> all right, thank you for everything you do. my name is joshua arce. i have the honor of chairing our commission and on behalf of all of us, we are so excited to be here because we feel that the neighborhood, the portola is a hidden gem environmentalism, of conservation, of neighborhood-based approach to greening communities and cleaning san francisco. for those of us that also care about environmental justice, this is an environmental justice committee. this is a community where we have freeways on two sides. we have the pollutants that happen would be near high traffic areas. and we have people like ruth wallace that are thinking about not only greening their community but think about how we dream our areas around these freeways to mitigate the impacts of this environmental injustice. so, tonight we are going to hear the story of what's happening in the portola. we are going to hear from some neighborhood leaders, portola neighborhood association, greenhouses budget, were going to hear about the portola garden tour and will hear from a lot of folks from the public. i see the san francisco parks alliance is here jack-over there. in a moment, we'll hear from a special guest that joined us very recently, but i want to thank, before we get started universe think him enough, the good folks at sfgtv. give them a big round of applause. >>[applause] >> no pressure, anyone but everything you say and do is going out across the city right now which i think is great for the portola and good to get your practice on tv for folks. without further ado, i want to introduce our fearless leader of the department to share a little bit about what is going on and before we do, i think she would say right out of the gate, let's give a big round of applause for san francisco environment now at an apartment and sunshine for getting the word out. >>[applause] >> so, please give a big round of applause. she's an amazing director for this department. she's has been with us a year and a half now doing amazing work. it is such an honor to work with her. i could have her rate now please give a big round of applause for debbie raphael. >>[applause] >> thank you, joshua pres. arce and my fellow commissioners up here. you will be hearing from our special guest next to me. i want to say what a distinct pleasure it is and humbling it is to be in the portola neighborhood with all of you. it's a neighborhood that is both famous on one level and a little bit invisible on others. when i talked to my colleague, one of the people works in our department was in the portola neighborhood and i asked her, mary, what is your favorite thing about living in this neighborhood? why do love portola so much? she said there were two reasons. one was the incredible diversity of people who are her neighbors that there are people from all over the world here who call this place home, and who have a passion for this neighborhood. the other thing she said was interesting. she said there's no pretension in the portola. were all just potential folks. which is folks. we are just neighbors. were neighbors who care about each other and want the best for each other. in san francisco that's a pretty special thing. so that's a special place to be living in a place called portola we you can say that about the people around you. so, my job tonight and the job of my colleagues who are here, is to be active listeners. you are going to hear some presentations about her work, things you might not know that we are up to in that apartment, and what we are also going to do is hear from you and we will be listening at the same time that we are speaking. because at the end of today, a successful meeting to me will be one where we understand the portola a little better and the portola understands our department a little better. because, together with omega city great. were going to greening the city. were going to greening from the local to the global. we need each other to do so. so, with the help of my fellow commissioners, with my colleagues here, i just want to say thank you for being here tonight and for sharing your wisdom and your perspective so we can do a better job of serving you. thank you. >>[applause] >> now, before we go to our next item, you come out to the neighborhood and people find out and people that want to join in celebrating san francisco's garden district, and one of those people who was our biggest ally when he was a san francisco supervisor indicated that he want to be with us tonight and we said that is phenomenal. because he helped us pass, first, first in the nation legislation around healthy nail salons around banning the use of single use plastic bottles, single use plastic bags, about passing a program called solar a program called solar vision 2022 spread solar panels throughout the city . he has worked with us on urban have a culture, water, community gardens, environmental justice, and that was just when he was here in san francisco. now we have them in sacramento. he's our assembly member. these welcome assembly member david chiu. >>[applause] >> thank you mr. president. good evening, everyone. thank you so much for having me. it is wonderful and always great to be back in san francisco. i have to say, 'this commission. i appreciate the invitation to come back kid we had been talking for a couple months about me joining the moment the commission. this is a commission i worked with very closely when i served on the board of supervisors on and under the leadership of this director in this amazing commission we were able to move a lot of first in the country pieces of environmental legislation that now working in the state legislature i realize how much of a luxury it is to live in a city where san franciscans get it. we know what it means to be good to the environment and really lead the country when it comes to global warming. i was asked to give just a very very brief update on a couple of things we're working on in sacramento and i do want to say word about what we are doing here in the portola around urban gardens. but just so folks know, i'm at the end of my first year in the california state assembly and my office has been focused on a number of areas when it comes to the environment. first and foremost, having to do with public transit which is not something that i'm afraid to say, is supported by all of my colleagues in the state legislature. but, this year we were able to get three bill signed by the governor that i authored with the help of many folks in this room. in part to make sure community is working more efficiently i know that can be seen as a little bit of an irony at times, but we are moving a pilot program to ensure that so-called transit only lanes are protected so that our muni buses move faster than 8 miles an hour. i also make passed a bill cosponsored by the california by coalition to ensure that new electric bikes and other sorts of bicycles, that the rules around how they engage on the road are clear, and that they are able to operate on the roads in ways that are safe good then, i also was able to pass a third law to move forward the electric vehicle industry. san francisco and california has been leading the way, but we know we need over 1 million electric vehicles on our streets truly have a dent at the kind of fuels that we do not want to consume. i was able to pass a law that would move forward charging stations for the electric vehicles because we know that many folks don't like ed because they're worried about the range of battery life as we move them on our streets. i also should mention that, at the moment, the state legislature were having a significant conversation about how we fund transportation and how we fund public transit. in fact, we had about 80 $72 billion hole over the next 10 years when it comes to our lack of planned investment in public transit. we are having the discussion right now about we move this forward. i have proposed to the dismay of those in the diesel fuel industry, a significant diesel fuel tax to make sure that we are bringing in the monies that we need to pay for public transit and that we are disincentive icing less environmentally friendly type fuels. and the conversation will continue. i should also mention this year, this number things are legislature passed was proud to support. in the area of the environment including for example, phasing out so-called microbeads in shampoos, so soon, the state of california will be enforcing a ban in that area. to banning into byproducts that are often used in farm animals so i think many of you who follow the health of what we eat and will be ensuring in the coming years that california is leading the way on that. then, we take a moment to mention the passage of what will likely be the most significant environmental legislation this year, which was a called sp 350. web by gov. brown, led by the democratic leadership. we were able to establish a standard of shooting in the coming years for 50% of all renewable energies to come from energies to come from renewable sources, to see a 50% and increase in commercial building efficiencies. and really move forward a national and international conversation around the environment. i'm really proud that a lot of the impetus for environmental work that we do have come from san francisco because this is a city we pride ourselves on being one of the greenest cities in the world. again, thanks to this amazing department and the community leaders that you see here. by the way, i will say as an aside, i know every member of the commission here not through our work on the bimetal commission, but to work with nancy pelosi's office in the academy and used about my work into the labor movement. you'll wonderfully diverse and competent commission here and i want to thank you for that. but he mention just two more things and then we'll move on with the rest of your program tonight. a few months ago i announced we were kicking off a task force on the topic of nail salons. some of you may know a few years ago san francisco becoming the first city in the country to establish a so-called healthy nail salon program. that your director of the apartment of environment hopes to run to incense some of the hundreds of nail salons in our city to use better practices when it comes to the health of their workers and the customers. we are going to be proposing a package of bills in a few months at the state level to carry this work statewide. there are literally, thousands upon thousands of nail salon workers and obviously millions of customers that attend nail salons and we want to make sure everyone is safe. when he disclose on a topic i care a great deal about. i was with my mother this week and she when i was five years old made me gag in the dirt in a little urban garden in the backyard where i grew up. we grew tomatoes. we grew squash. in part, that was white years later when urban agriculture activist and the city can join office san francisco, we pioneered the way to change our planning code rules allow for more urban garden can do is that which is citywide urban strategy when it comes to how we garden, to great to be the first city in the state to establish a tax incentive when it comes to burden the gardens and i know that urban agriculture is at the top of my residence here in the portola. we've urban gardens and farms that the best, elementary. at the community garden here at elementary schools and the portola library. but i know that there's even more demand for urban agriculture and urban art in that we have the capacity to do. so i want to take a moment and congratulate the portola urban green and steering committee for all the work that they have been doing and i know that we have some of their members who are here. i know that there's some effort to officially recognize the portola as san francisco's garden district and i want to just say here, i know there's other folks that support it, but i'm happy to be a public supporter of that effort. it is something that is going to put a real stamp, a green stamp, on this neighborhood and on san francisco. i very much look forward to the efforts to make that a reality and so, with that, i want to let folks know i'm in office in the state building on the 14th floor. you can find us on the web. this is my first year of representing the southeast neighborhood so i look forward to seeing all of you regularly and with that, return back to your good chairman. thank you all for being here and being part of our san francisco environmental movement. >>[applause] >> thank you family member chu. so, i also want to thank hillary ronan from-for coming. and thank you >>[applause] >> and before we go to the next item, we have the opportunity to moment for members of the public to address the commission on anything that they are working on the things they want to see us tell us about. i know hazel from the san francisco shanghai association i know will hear from during public comment but there's an opportunity to comment on this item here before you do. a big round of applause for i think all this commissioners in particular want to thank our vice president of this commission was nursing a cold, was here under aerobic circumstances to up us make quorum, thank you vice pres. sarah wan. with that public comment on this item? seeing none, recall the consent agenda, monica please. >> consent agenda all matters hereunder constitute a consent agenda are considered to be retained by the commission and will be acted upon by single local vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent agenda and considered as a separate item. the item on the consent agenda for saddam's approval of collected minutes of the may 26, 2015 commission on the environment regular meeting. commissioners in your pocket you have a copy of the corrected draft minutes. discussion and action item. >> all right. commissioners, do we have any you want to pull from the consent agenda where can i get a motion to approve? >> i move >> second >> moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. >> no public comment >> to public comment during the committee hearings. this is a new innovation since your last trip. >> okay. >> so, then i don't have a also all you suspended motion approved. item 5, please monica >> next item is approval corrected guidelines for the use of impound account funds and in your packet is a copy of the corrected guidelines sponsoring speakers debra rafael, director. discussion and action item. >> i apologize if i called three and four together. is there any desire to have a separate discussion on these items about colleagues? if not can we get a motion to approve? can i get a second that emotion from commissioner bermejo. just an abundance of caution does anyone have a public comment on the consent agenda was items three and four? seeing none, public on as a close. all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. it's approve. item 5, please >> public almond. members of the public may adjust the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and not on today's agenda. >> yes. i can exercise the prerogative of the chair we had to supervisor combos hillary ronan to start us off. thank you for coming. >> thank you. supervisor combos semi and to give you an update on what our office has been doing to recognize the unique nature of this amazing neighborhood. i also am a proud resident of the portola and have been extra excited about the project we are working. first of all, we want to let you know that a couple years ago we been working for several years with the portola neighborhood association and the greening committee. we were able to secure funding that led to the staffing and the creation of the amazing portola green plan which i know you will hear more about tonight. that we are very excited about. creating a plan was a feat in and of itself and then except what will be doing over the next couple years is fighting to make sure that every piece of it is a reality. so, were looking for to partnering with you on that. we've also been working very closely with the greenhouse project and so excited about the new staff person who's really joined the greenhouse project. we've been working with the qc and different city departments to make sure that we can find the funding to secure that piece of land so that it is a piece of land for the community to revive the store nature of those greenhouses and have really used it as an experimental space where were going to be able to practice urban agriculture at its best with a lot of community action. so, we are looking extremely forward to making a reality over the next couple years and one carlos and david and all of us are very busy at work on a project. in addition, we received funding to study transportation improvements in the city, and our office has used the entire pot of funding to figure out how to fix the many maze. i don't know about you, if you want to the farmers market on the weekend, it is not only not a pleasant experience walking there, but it's dangerous. that has got to change. we need to be able to connect the communities in our district, connect bruno heights to the portola and make it safe to be able to walk in a pleasant experience to get some exercise on the weekend and get healthy foods. fruits and vegetables. so, we have dedicated all of our pot of funding and are very very focused on making those improvements in the alanine made. then, as you all know, with the incredible success of the pocket-pocket parks, tim bruno avenue starting with [inaudible] we secured funding last year's budget to do the second pocket park on thorton avenue next to access activities there. so, as were waiting in a long line for brunch on the weekends will have a beautiful part part to secure copy but that's the next pocket park and there's no reason we can't do that all along san bruno blvd. and will be doing that over the next few years. finally, this is a little off-topic from today's subject, which is the environment and the greening and the recognition of this neighborhood, but we did secure funding to review the marquee on san bruno ave. as we work to green the neighborhood, we also don't want eyesores on san bruno like that old marquee. so, world working on restoring that this year. finally, we also are the board of supervisors have been working with portola neighborhood association and the greenhouse project to the board of supervisors officially declare portola a garden district and green neighborhood. we expect to introduce that resolution by the end of the year could been drafting it. together with those community organizations. and are looking forward to making that a readout. we've done that on a mission on 24th st. get we declared a historical latino district and that led to other funding investments as well as changing laws to make that designation a reality. so, we really see creating portola into an official garden and green district. as a first step of many to be able to a congress all the other wonderful project. so, thank you for letting me give you an update about the supervisor's office and what we've been doing in this area and was so grateful to the commission for coming to the portola today. it's really really lovely to have you. they so much for being in the district and we look forward to partnering with you to make all this reality as well. so, thank you so much. >>[applause] >> thank you. other members of the public this is a chance to talk about anything that you're working on in the neighborhood, any topic at all. what you want to let us know that the environment commission and the department and if hazel lee, this is a great opportunity but i know we have-would you like to approach the microphone? >> please, go right ahead. >> i want to talk about herbicide use in the city which is totally unacceptable. as you probably know, our ordinance, 895 demanded and drafted in 96 and [inaudible] but our ordinance was done because the public was outraged about the use of herbicides in san francisco. what's happening now, recreation and parks continues to use herbicides. right now this ordinance is amended so the least toxic herbicide is used and toxic herbicides are on this list. as long as it's on the list, use as much as you want. just recently, you probably read the article in the chronicle, like use of the herbicides haven't stopped because neighbors protested. but before that on september 3, it has been used. as you know, [inaudible] was declared carcinogenic, the strain and it continues to be used in san francisco. it's totally unacceptable. i have some numbers for you. in 2014,, san francisco used herbicides 124 times and 79 of those times were [inaudible] in those natural areas. san francisco used herbicides 2002 times and 74 times in natural areas. in 2014, in glen park it was five times. and for those applications they used a herbicide. of course, the rest of those herbicides are not any better.. there just less [inaudible] and it's totally unacceptable that are being used in the parks for any use whatsoever. it has to stop. where also, besides one of them being when of them declared as probably a carcinogen [inaudible] the same herbicide is also linked very well to some health-birth defects. not the amount in [inaudible] but it is. all those herbicides we should use [inaudible] we don't want any in the parks. so, that's what i wanted to say. i hope it will stop because san francisco [inaudible] and is not supposed to use this poison. you know, the amendment for the ordinance presumably was done because it was not practical. there was public health issue. hospitals need to be disinfected. maybe there's infestation but whatever [inaudible] whatever nonnative plants in the part are not a public health hazard. thank you very much. >> thank you. our next speaker is hazel lee, president of the san francisco shanghai association and 20 a resident of the portola never. >> yes. how do you know that? something and president of the environment and all the commissioners, i'm so happy, so much good news. especially assemblymen david chiu, does a lot of things. also, i feel so excited about the environmental degree. we need it. i do for many years about the mediator but it seems the neighborhood has changed. i cannot see my neighbors because every time when they campaign [inaudible] which is too much garbage. would you translate to them or clean it or to do. so i would tell them right away, i'm always the mediator of this area. but i would give a very very little bit idea like at this time i received a fire because yesterday or before yesterday, a time to rush. today is not too much chinese neighborhood. there is more than 50% chinese neighborhood. so, i will give me some suggestions. in the future you can do enough with the radio or the chinese newspaper. we like them to know what you are doing about the environment.. it's so important. also, i would introduce myself a little bit, about san francisco and shanghai association. what i'm doing. my goal is to help the new immigrants and overseas students. because the culture,, everything is different. so, we need to add like a bridge to tell them how to do it and some idea is [inaudible] hazel, you should do something to educate them. yes, that is true. so i feel so happy. i heard about the environmental. in the future i'll really really we can work together to up the new immigrants and overseas students in our neighborhoods in this portola area. thank you. >> >>[applause] >> thank you president week. next her, please. good evening. >> hi. i'm a resident of this neighborhood. i'm not going to pronounce it. 20 year resident. my name is laura. i've never done this before so forgive me if i'm not addressing you appropriately, but what thank you for being here. i wanted to just say today was an incredible day for me. it's public, so it's not just personal but i went on a shopping tour in the bayview district on third ed kennedy's market. i found out about it through next-door and i bring it up because it's relevant to the farmers market accessibility. the residence in the bayview, as i found out today, because they poised this to me, they have little access to the farmers market and as we all know, they very little access to healthy food could there's a lot of porn stores in the bayview that so primarily liquor and other things. it was really very moving experience. i feel very privileged working i work in a health food stores like access to healthy food. however, the bayview, this area less so in this neighborhood. they need a way to get from the bayview to the farmers market on saturday. the farmers market is one of the-it's the oldest in the city. it's an incredible resource, local farmers come to the many farmers market every week with incredible produce. healthy produce. organically grown. at a price that a lot of people can afford. the lack of accessibility is just shameful, and a lot of it is because we have two major freeways blocking our neighborhood. these neighborhoods were once one. we were connected. we were connected via pedestrian access, by school access, other modes of transportation. there's not a bus that goes from the bayview to the alamein he farmers market. there isn't one actually from the portola to the farmers market. not a direct one. so, my request is and if something really that i think is such a-food is a vital necessity. we all need food. we need access to really healthy food. so, i would appreciate if the commission would be mindful of all of the cities of residence, particularly, this residence in the southeast corner of the city am a that we have the right and we deserve to have access to healthy foods. it is there but getting there is very challenging. thank you. >> >>[applause] >> maybe that something we can work on with the good folks at at [inaudible] thanks for coming. other members of the public.. thank you for that, lord. other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is close. thank you again everyone. item number six, monica >> community outreach presentation. how to apply for the department of environment green careers program. you're in your packet is a green jobs program presentation. sponsored by commissioner joshua arce speakers journey green jobs corps nader and jennifer mcpike zero waste event grenade or in separate cisco conservation camps. this is an information presentation and discussion item. >> for those at their first environment commission meeting tonight by show of hands is this your first? welcome. let's not make it the last. we have something that we do which is really exciting for us. we call the community outreach presentation we hear from our amazing department about the different programs that we do. tonight, one of the things we heard from residence most want to hear about jobs. so, that's what it's going to be. karen and jennifer, if you want to take it away tonight community outreach presentation. >> hello commissioners. hello portola committed. thanks for having my name is carol and i managed the environment now program this is jennifer she's a former participants of this program. so we are here tonight because we have jobs. not just one job. we actually have five jobs. we just posted them today. i thought i would provide a brief overview of the environment now program to hopefully entice some folks in the audience or maybe a friend of yours to apply for this amazing opportunity. so, the environment now program is a green careers program that provides participants with the opportunity to break into the environment field. the team, once on the time we provide outreach and education to an the committees that apartment program. we hire from san francisco because we serve san francisco. we actively recruit from existing clean job-training programs such as asian neighborhood designs, goodwill, and san francisco conservation court to name a few. today, we've had over 100 participants come to the program. because most folks are coming to us without the traditional financial education required to break into the environmental field or secure a job we have to provide a very intensive department orientation. with this orientation, folks get the foundation that they need to become their feet on the street. on any given day you might find our team out talking to residents about what to do with her household hazardous waste. in a business talking to business owners and employees about recycling and composting. to help the city achieve its goal of zero setting zero waste to landfills by 2020. we can even be at a neighboring business talking to business owners about energy conservation and through the step up powerdown program. where we could be talking to kids and parents at a school about alternative modes of transportation such as walking, biking and taking public transit. the environment now team is literally everywhere. you may find this at a press conference with the mayor. when we are not out in the field, were usually inputting data that we captured out in the field throughout outreach work and using this data along with the stories that we bring back from the field to strategize how to better engage the public in the department's program. through this work participants in the program gain valuable and transferable skills such as communication, customer service, sales, technical skills, administrative skills. the list goes on. they can choose to apply these to whatever future career after two years of the program, whatever their heart design. with that i like to introduce jennifer-to talk to a little bit about her experience in the program with skills she learned and how she's applying them at the san francisco conservation court in her new role as a coordinator there. >> thank you. hi. hello everyone my name is jennifer. i currently work with the san francisco conservation court as a special liaison coordinator. i work in the san francisco department of the environment with the environment now team. i started back in 2009 and i stayed with the program till about 2014. when i got there i had no experience in the environmental field and i was really nervous because i knew that everyone there had background in environmental studies. but the awesome thing about it is they were so passionate they were willing to teach me. so, i had the opportunity to work on many of the projects that the department had to offer and a couple those were the energy watch program. i went to businesses and spoke to them about efficient lighting and try to get them to switch out there inefficient lighting for efficient lighting. another one of those programs was the instruction construction demolition ordinance. i went around to construction sites talking to contractors about the ordinance and how they can be compliant, stay compliant with the ordinance. with the ordinance states no mixed fee-can go to the landfill.. it must go into a-facility that's proven to [inaudible] 65%. i also have the opportunity work with other environmental groups. i work with the urban force and 50/700 trees around the city which allen rocks because when i go from the city i get to point at the tree and say i planted alan. i plan i planted down. that was to last but not least, passion and commercial and residential zero waste. i hope-i spoke with over thousands of san franciscans about composting and recycling and helping clear up any confusion that they may have about that system. then, i also worked with businesses helping them to implement composting and recycling. so, i just want to say thank you to carrot because if it wasn't for them pressuring me and making me get up and do presentation, which am not comfortable with, i wouldn't have gotten to where i am today. which is working with the san francisco conservation court. on the special then scored nader. that's it. thank you. >>[applause] >> so thanks for having us. if anybody in the audience is interested in applying for this job, you can go to our website at sf if anybody in the audience is interested in applying for this job, you can go to our website@sfgovernment.org or you can reach out to me direct. my e-mail is listed there or you can call me on the phone which is unusual nowadays it also, if maybe someone here is not interested but pass the word along to pass it to your friends and family members might be interested in changing careers. looking for new opportunity. if you have any questions can i get everybody in the audience art of the environment now team please raise your hand. brought back there by the food. if you have any questions we will be around and we can meet with you in the back over there has to not interrupt the meeting and we can talk further about. so, thank you very much. >>[applause] >> thank you so much carrot and thank you jennifer. they're great at it, by the way. don't anybody tell you otherwise. well done. comments, colleagues? commissioners? public commons? anyone not want to offer comments on the presentation? seeing none, -yes, go ahead, lower if you want to,. >> hi. i just want to thank you both.. i'm very excited about hearing about the program. i actually do have a comment regarding the recycling. i think that a lot of neighbors, something i witnessed a lot of neighbors really don't understand how to recycle and with the cost savings. i think, really, emphasizing cost savings is really important because most of us, we want to save money. we have a small black men and the large blue and green bins and i think that's just a comment. more emphasis on that cost savings. thank you. >> before i moved to the next item, someone mentioned food. for those that have not had the chance back great environment now we have food from-we want to thank the portola neighborhood association for the great neighborhood restaurant as well as-catering. if you have not had some make sure you do before you leave. we were presentation coming up from the committee. bush can hear item 7, monica. >> presentation from the portola neighborhood association arts and beautification committee safety and transportation committee. sponsors commissioner joshua arce speakers are chris watling, president portola snowboard association and alex hobbs, cochair of arts and beautification committee get this an informational presentation and discussion item. >> colleagues, as we welcome chris and alex, please, on up and join us. big round of applause. this is where it gets really special because this is where commissioners, you are going to see when you hear from these fine gentleman, all the great work that's happening there really makes the portola the city's undiscovered environmental jewel of the city. please, thank you for joining us tonight, chris and out >> commissioners thank you for having. thank you so much for coming to our neighborhood. when having your event and meeting here. i'm actually going to introduce two of our members. so they'll-is that it's become the safety transportation side of things. alex hobbs is can a procedure by speaking on the arts and beautification. i want to give you a sense of what the portola neighborhood association. on the screen we see our mission really is to revitalize san bruno ave. and it comes a lot of forms. increasing, kniss and pride to our arts and beautification work with property owners to fill storefronts and we help them existing merchants with running the businesses and how they improve their businesses. that helps in doing that we hope other shopping districts good so, overall we try to attract all kinds of resources to provide physical improvements to improve the access and safety through the commercial corridor. so we see we have three different committees on our association can we have our business development committee to arts and beautification and safety and transportation in all three communities committees work together in harmony to make sure make all these things happen. so, i want to introduce alex hobbs, who is cochair of our arts and beautification committee and i think we have two chairs that committee because it is a huge task and it's really a large part of what we do is the arts and beautification. so, how can it go through a few slides on that. then-is our chair of safety and transportation committee. tony rhône alluded to and mentioned earlier, she has some exciting transportation projects that we are working on to improve pedestrian and bicycle access and safety through the corridor. so, alex. >> hi. my name is alex hobbs. i'm a resident of this committee for about two years now. i'm the cochair with-who alike is a lifelong resident of the portola disappeared together, this year we focused on a couple of new initiatives. we have now a san bruno. we have now a san bruno ave. beautification. it's a monthly day we set up with the neighborhood to tackle different beautification projects within the corridor. we will partner sometimes with dpw and other community groups to volunteers and we also get volunteers from within the community. some days will focus on trash cleanup. trash is a huge problem in this neighborhood. we had a lot of illegal dumping that happens. the highways bring in a lot of trash. we spent a lot of time just cleaned up the caltrans abatements along the corridor. so, that's been to-three days in the past year that we focused on that. we also maintain some of our existing infrastructure, so we have a community garden at burroughs pocket part. burroughs pocket part, at one point, was a desolate dead-end street and ruth wallace transformed it along with the community into a beautiful community gathering spot. along the caltrans at embankment where we have a planting community garden. so, this year we used some funds and other community support 12 we stock the garden with drought tolerant plants and natives were we could find them. we also are working with the gateways. as laura i said before, we are trying to make the walk to allegheny and the farmers market more hospitable and several years ago to artist within our community started this project to take a little piece of the alamein e mays and turn it into something that more beautiful as you enter our neighborhood. so they gathered community artist to paint murals they painted a snake mural on one of the support columns for the highway, and some of us of a single snake. now. so with the arts and beautification committee does, we will periodically maintain the area. will replenish plants and water it and clean up graffiti, which is also another problem we have. in addition, we have some new projects that are coming online. we have sort in pocket part as hillary mentioned earlier. that was a little sneak preview site but it's pretty darn. we are right now partnering with architecture for humanity to do schematic design. we have some funding for it. were also partnering with a youth art exchange to have their students create gallery space and help activate the little dead end street. we will be doing some permeable hating, treeplanting, murals and other drought tolerant plants, flooding is also a problem in this area. so, looking forward to the future though, we have a number of projects we want to keep moving in this community. the gateways are really lacking here. the main way you get into this neighborhood are through highway underpasses were under a highway. it's not welcoming. we are trying to beautify these areas as best we can, but because of the complexity of the land situation of multiple orders, of caltrans, city private and private owners we need more help from the city to transform these gateways make movie between our neighborhood and the other neighborhoods a more pleasant experience. so, thank you. >> >>[applause] >> thank you. good evening my name is they'll yank it on the chair of the safety and transportation committee. i want to think the environment commission for coming out. i actually have a been-when you guys did brokaw either complete class backgrounds on the commission. i just want to talk a little bit about what the safety it is the dish committee has been doing in the portola for the last couple you could other than this neighborhood for about 16 years. give or take undergrad years. i just want to say about what's going on. so, first we are working with sfmta took about pedestrian and bicycle safety on so, first we are working with sfmta took about pedestrian and bicycle safety on san so, first we are working with sfmta took about pedestrian and bicycle safety on san bruno ave. sfmta has been working on thinking about what we can do to make san bruno ave. safer for pedestrians and bike and for commuters on transit as well as private cars. they upright rise of prioritizing their vision by really highlighting and spotlighting the places that are-that are collision heavy. they labeled which intersection such as san bruno silver, san bruno and bacon that has a lot of problems with pedestrian safety in terms of moving around the large buses as well as the private cars. the second project that hillary mentioned is that we are working with sfmta and the board of supervisors on focusing on the alamein e interchange or the alamein e-that people are familiar with. a lot if people in the portola walked to the alamein he farmers market or fair market on sunday the largest challenges that we have to walk out of the way to follow what the safe and predesigned root is. so, a lot of folks have kind of market their own way i crossing into areas that are four lanes of traffic not much. crossing a dirt path and try to cross 3-4 lanes of traffic where drivers are trained and can't see. i walked to the farmers market are driven by their. it really is a dangerous situation for both cars and pedestrians, and so with the funding that mta and the board of supervisors has been able to provide for this project, we are thinking about studying the area so that a more better path to be designed and implemented in that area. again, is even lower mentioned, a lot of folks are coming from the neighborhoods are also coming from other neighborhoods such as cesar chavez area and are taking the bus to the portola and walking to the alamein he marketed for using two modes of transit and is more convenient than crossing very unsafe place. also, i don't like myself, but i know bicyclists have talked to us a little about how dangerous it is for them to go both sides on alamein e because these bike lanes and. so we want to have a safer way for bicyclists to go to the alamein he farmers market and also possible to the alamein he mays as well. lastly, one of our biggest priorities on san bruno ave. is a light production. we have some committee members were strong advocates and we work with dpw i'm making that happen. we are through more than halfway through the project in terms of making sure that there's less-more space on the sidewalk for pedestrians to walk through by consolidating the independent newspaper racks that we have currently. so, hopefully, by the end of next year we will have those newsrack consolidated up on san bruno ave. some of our other priorities are graffiti abatement and reducing illegal dumping. we have seen that one of the things i've worked daylighting places with has been illegal activity and illegal dumping to the unfortunate, sometimes that means cutting away trees or shrubs,, but that's kind of the only-one of the most effective ways so far that actually works to really reduce illegal dumping and also activities that might cause the neighborhood to be unsafe. we partnered with dpw another city agencies and really really appreciate all the support they've given us. one of our biggest priorities for the next coming year is think about that tour control. in pigeon cleanup. were hoping we can work with maybe sf environment or dph to do bilingual and trilingual outreach on san bruno ave. to think about how do the merchants and residents can help in reducing that disgusting-you note discussing-really unsanitary site. we also want to acknowledge sf environments work on san bruno ave. to try to recruit now nail salons to try to be as healthy nail salons. we want to especially not code scanner phonons [inaudible] who currently is the only knows long on san bruno ave. was a healthy nail salon and it actually started a third committee business to bauman and city transportation is working with the development to try to get more of a nail salon to sign on because we know that's an important environmentally health issue. that san bruno ave. is going through right now. so, that is what safety interest revision committee is working on. happy to take any questions of the commission has added. >>[applause] >> colleagues, and director rafael before we ask questions and think the committee, we should note me to think the committee for rescheduling your safety and transportation committee meeting to the us be with us guys and thank you again. >>[applause] >> questions, colleagues? thoughts? director rafael >> wow. thank you so much thus read that was so impressive to have a powerpoint presentation with such clarity and, for me, as a person learning about your good work, are getting about is yes, our work with you on that and that and that. specifically, we've got a lot of expertise and some of those areas and peoples whose job it is is to work with communities on whether it's pigeons and what we can do on our beach on pigeons. we have vision experts on staff. it such a diverse staff we have. lots of town. suddenly with a nail salons before i came i asked for house portola neighbor doing, so we love to help you recruit more nail salons and i know we have been out here doing that. there some challenges with some of the smaller entities with their bandwidth, we love to keep working with that on it. with respect to the parks, and all the wonderful work you do to activate those places, we have people who are very engaged in urban gardening and biodiversity. it certainly is critical to our cities climate goals that we have and support our open spaces, however small they are, because that's what pulls carbon out of the atmosphere. so, their summary plusses to doing the kind of work you do on the local scale to the global scope. so, thank you for all that and we want to find ways to partner with you. those were all incredibly inspirational. then, the last thing i want to leave you with. i don't know how long you be able to stay but part of my directors comments is a project that we are working on in the bayview to start tackling illegal dumping. there's a really interesting application called emma ivan, which is-it's about reporting-using the neighbors themselves to report on their smart phones when they see examples of light. that is not reported to a black hole but creating a committee that has city-in this case, local state and federal agencies all at the table together, working to respond quickly and deeply to combat the illegal dumping in any other aspects of life. so where you are highlighting in the baby but it's been very successful across california. we know the concept works. give us a few more months in the bayview and it would be really exciting to think about the portola neighborhood as the next spot. especially because you already have such an active community organization with your safety and transportation committee. it might be a real natural place to put that. just so many ideas for me some really excited to work with you guys. >> director rafael, thank you before we turn to public comments, thoughts on the commission, commissioners? commissioner bermejo. >> i just want to thank you all for presenting advert introducing me and the commission to this. the portola neighborhood could also work on the residency i think amazing how everyone steps up in different committees and takes little pieces of it to beautify it. for me it's also gratifying to know. what debbie talked about how we can partner with you. it's very exciting to see just the right revitalization of neighborhoods in different parts of the city. so, i want to thank you and the menu for that look forward to working with you on those projects. >> typically, we have a facebook page that has about- 571 likes it that the metric, and we also have an account next-door that we blast out to. we also have tried with varying success to partner with the san francisco community empowerment center. in reaching out to the chinese language community, and so they have done some work for us in getting our message out we try in turn, get their message out to our constituents. so, we tried very hard to work with other language communities in the neighborhood. >> i was a resident here for eight years. so [inaudible] >> great. thank you >> i actually have a follow-up to that question and sort of to you or answer. this is hugely inspirational and entirely with my fellow commissioners hear that the work that you all do is amazing. i am just wondering whether or not there's a way to share your experiences emma and your ideas, with other neighborhoods in the city so that you can, like, learn from each other about what works for the outreach for example, but also share strategies that have been successful in your neighborhood with other neighborhoods that may be facing the same, or similar problems. i think, that for many neighborhoods, hearing what you are doing would be sort of a galvanizing experience for them and they might want to try to duplicate some of you are work. i am just wondering if there is a vehicle for doing that in the city and maybe potentially, if there isn't, whether that is something that the department could help with because we cross so many neighborhood boundaries in our ongoing activity? >> i don't know if i can answer whether there is a vehicle for that, >> we are not doing it cannot >> i have to say thank you for thinking that we are someone that should be models because to be quite honest, a lot of times making this up as we go along. we do know people, hillary and supervisor compost wicks have an invaluable not only helping us but introducing us to people who can help with good leader you geek and it has been wonderful. they're one of our funders. they hope sylvia-has been amazing in getting us access to people who we can work with in the city. but you are right. there is a need for each community should not be replicating this. on their own. in the bayview, i know several members of the bayview economic development on a third group, and they seem to be doing it on their own. so, it would be great to have some kind of interoperability within the different groups so we can --so not all inventing things as we go along. so i'd love to see some kind of push for that. thank you. >> thank you. >> speaking of oe wg and the investing neighborhoods program, i think we have our deputy director any: and portola resident join us. thank you for joining me. >>[applause] >> maybe we can help be that bridge. it's been great this presentation so if there's no other questions from the commission, comments from the public yee? mr. boutwell >> beginning to speak nutritional try to be measured in my comments. i commit pretty angry and frustrated, over us commissioners, with the administration of this commission. this is the second meeting in a row which i did not get an agenda i did not get back and i did not get the material. i thought today because after a couple times but am incredibly frustrated about it. i think you all know my long interest in this commission. in reviewing materials before. i would've been prepared on this and on several other items to comment. i was interested when i know understand to be a consent agenda. perhaps love a chance to return that will comment further on that. on this particular item, however, i found it difficult to watch the presentation. i'm wondering if the presentation can be put up on the commission's website made available to the public? i'm interested in learning more but the neighborhood is doing. a couple other points. among other things, served on the redistricting has forced the 2011-2012 i made a very high priority to bring the portola together in one supervisor of this. i believe it should been in 11 and ended up being in nine but in any event we were able to bring the entire portola together which is previously split into different supervisory district. i'm very pleased to see the turnout tonight and the presentation that they are working together to working with their supervisor and aid, and things are improving to the extent they can given their resources. an location in the portola. so, i'm hoping that things will continue to get better here. that was early, as i say, i high priority. was he the next round of redistricting after the 2020 census of this area continues to shape in terms of the supervisors districts. finally, times of omission or hyphens commission how the neighborhood can share it success and learn from other neighbors, i would note to think of neighborhood empowerment over which is run by david-at city hall has an opportunity for neighborhood activist work together to learn from each other.. there's an annual one thing but there's more to it to. that would be an idea. the other is a coalition for san francisco neighborhoods which is a federation of neighborhood organizations that works on planning when used transportation, a number of things i don't believe the portola is a member. it would be good to get more involvement from neighborhoods such as that. those are two suggestions i have but very encouraged to give up the good work out you. thank you very much. >> i like to make a point of order. the agenda was mailed friday morning. >> we will figure out and take the comment and work on that. any other members of the public? seeing none, and one other thing as a take away, when director rafael we talked about engaging caltrans around some of the work we learn from the blue greenway with jackie-and work at the parcel lines to engage the governor to get some help on the blue-green rate which is just on the other side of the freeway. then we could wrap that in some of the needs i know we've heard from lucia and some of the folks we on the committee tonight. if we can maybe stay in touch to find out what needs might be required from caltrans that a little talk about that agent. the letter that the rector rafael myself and the commissioner dennison of two gov. brown. we could put in some of the needs on the side of 280 as well as blue green. estimate we can work on for the parks alliance. thank you again, having. monica we can call number eight, please >> committee presentation: portola garden tour and san francisco greenhouse project and review of resolution 2015 joe six in support of the portola green plan and recognition of the portola as san francisco's garden district. in the packet is the copy of the draft resolution sponsor commissioner joshua arce speakers with wallace and lucio common. informational presentation and discussion and discussion on possible action. >> colleagues, this is exciting because i had a chance to go out to the ninth annual portola garden tour that was founded by our next speaker. what i really appreciated was the candor of our speaker, who is amazing, with wallace, because i said i am from the environment commission this is an amazing garden tour to visit and be part of, and she, in the same breath said thank you for coming and two, what is the environment department going to do to support the garden tour on our 10th anniversary next year. i said, i think we have an idea. so, were there alert about this. i think this is something director rafael to the department of environment want to get involved with. were there to learn why it's so special as we go through this item look at a resolution that would put us on the record and recognizing the portola as san francisco's garden district. due to kick off followed by lucia is with wallace to cause all about the portable gardens. please, welcome with wallace. >>[applause] >>so, i want to first thank the commission for coming out here. we don't get to see a lot of san francisco's working out here in the portola. we are a little bit removed from the downtown area and we appreciate when the rest of san francisco tries to make up part of them. >> yes. >> i like to tell you that the portola is san francisco's garden district, and while i appreciate it's now being recognized, it has been since the 1880s. if i can tell you a little bit about that until he was going on now in the portola, and with the portola garden district and what were trying to do as the portola, i appreciate your attention. again, i am telling you this, but it really is the garden district. the reason being is that we have a sunny mild comment on the side of san francisco. our yards are larger than most san francisco's yards so we are able to have our own gardens. we raise our own food and were pretty family place. i found that out when i moved here 14 years ago. i start working on my garden. i ran out of money having a hard scape and started talking to my neighbors they said, well, you should come see my permit i have cuttings you can use. as i do that i start to see more more of the amazing gardens. because in san francisco are houses are so close together we don't even see our backyards. they afford a lot of entertainment and a lot of fun for all of us. i will tell you a little bit are guarding heritage now and to tell you that we do have a new renewed interest in growing one's own food in the portola. so, in the portola, at one time, there were 19 greenhouse concerns. at the moment, we have the ruins of one of those remaining. this is a photo of that part of that , when it was active. these men are growing. their french marigolds, which is a very profitable flower, even today, to grow. they were able to grow them quite quite well here and from the 1880s up until about the 1950s. although, this particular greenhouse was in operation into the 1980s. this is a picture from inside one of the greenhouses that still remains. this is one of the garibaldi. i think his name is she about a them is pronounced that number i will apologize now. but, this is interesting, i think, because they grew roses you good again from another profitable flower, but remains of those roses still remain in the greenhouses here today. this, i think, is one of the most romantic of the photos that i have and this is from the san francisco portola. this is a field of stock which is another profitable floral flower and this is a pretty large flower. very colorful. very fragrant. it almost most like clove. i can imagine walking through the portola on a warm summer or fall evening as knowing all the mixtures of these people. our's all over. even today, there are some remnants of that here. i chose this slide to show you with the greenhouses look like. this is that no longer exist. it was it clove and felton should get it's a full city block. what we have now is the remnants of basically a ruined. if you have not been to the portola and daytime, i would ask that you come visit us again to see the greenhouses and of course our gardens and hopefully will come for the garden tour next year. besides the greenhouses here in the portola emma we actually have dairy cows. cities used to feed themselves. it can happen again. i'm not saying that we could actually graze cattle in the park anymore, but we could certainly make the most use of our land and help us feed ourselves. and keep going with this movement that so popular now. i don't know how many old-timers there are from the portola here, but this is a particularly interesting photo to me because it actually shows there were stables in the park. this is for recreational use and also people who owned horses were able to stable their horses here in mclaren park. some of you from the excelsior might recognize the blue tower, which is sort of the demarcation point but we sort of incorporated the excelsior into the port in this valley is now the [inaudible]. we are holding on. after world war ii were during world war ii, the portola change pretty much like the rest of the world. we changed for us is what we moved away from the floral industry, which is south of the city, and people made their gardens into victory gardens. i think this is apt today and that you can use when you have to grow the food you need. most of us that live here in the portola we do eat out of our garden. it's not as if everything we need is there but we make use of what we are. it doesn't take that much effort, really. it's easy to do. so, after world war ii, the whole city changed, the world changed, really but would change most in the portola is the g.i. bill made it such that people had money to buy homes did so, the land was developed into housing tracts and the people that were the floral concern had a chance to go to university or to different parts of the world and send them didn't come back to a hard-working job like the floral industry. for most of the homes here, there are some older homes here, but most of them are from the 40s into the 50s and 60s. i wanted to show you just a little bit because we had an active greenhouse and which they are pretty still exciting and fun to look at, but they are in ruin. i know it's a hard life to make it as a forest tree man this guy made it look look like he was pretty much fun. i would like to tell you, also, the garden tour, we have been working here in the portola for the last nine years and we've been showing our local gardens and it's been a fundraiser for us. we first started out with raising funds for a new portola library and after that before so into the whole garden tour thing that we kept it going and now we have a scholarship funds and work project funds at city college here in san francisco. we have some funding work projects and so far now, without awarded 13 scholarships this year we awarded to $1000 scholarships and a 1000 or project as well. >>[applause] >> this is that a lot of benefits for. this is a really fancy garden tour. it's non-juried which means this note judgment. there's no price. people just do it pretty much for the fun of doing it. the only requirement to show your garden is that you want to and the gardens range from barely managed to manicured. it's really a fun day to walk around. good to meet people that you might never see and it's been a very good community builder, i think, for the portola. i've met a lot of people this way. it also gives us great ways to get new gardening ideas because you know everything that grows here is can grow in your garden as well. i just wanted to show you a couple of those projects that we've helped fund. one of them is the gross pocket park done on san the gross pocket park done on san bruno ave. it was at the beginning of the interest in that area truly a dumping ground. i would go down there and see toilets just part in the street. so, now luckily, we have a pretty high and coffee shop. i think we've had -we can work with oe wb to get people interested in and it has come to fruition for us i found out recently they renewed their lease for another two years. lucky us. another one that we have been working with, was the alamein the island improvement project. would've our students designed the landscape work there. i'm just going to show you a little bit of the gardens because i want to show them off. these are portola residence, for the most part. this a little bit earlier on. now are tracking people from other parts of the city. i hope you can see the gardens. these are just smatterings but they are really fun and is a great way to spend a day. this is one of our favorites here in the neighborhood. it's actually one of the fancier gardens. it's been in sunset magazine twice. this is a garden on -street. this is all over pretty much the portola from the flats as we call it here up to the hills. one right on silver avenue. this is really a beautiful little retreats. university street, i love this card. you can't really see it in this photo, but it's got the fire pit and there's a little children's playhouse in the back. this family eats from the garden they have tomatoes, all kinds of vegetables and grades, which i've not been very good at growing that. this is one of our port socio-gardens and the next one on the show you is pretty interesting. they might have skin feels the italian or maltese field so many immigrants that came here in the late 1800s added. this one, also very tuscan, has a pizza oven. this is an original pizza oven before it was trendy. this is a beautiful beautiful garden on russell street. another one that's definitely magazine worthy. on wayland street, right across from the greenhouses, this gardener this gardening family has incorporated the neighbors garden and they eat out of the garden pretty much all the time. they have also added rabbits and chickens. another one of our little retreats behind dampier. i leave you with that. i just wanted to tell you to please come see us again could come back to the portola in the daytime. our tour is ari plan for next year. this will be our 10th year and it's for september 24, 2016. we have a pretty extensive e-mail list. we are on facebook of course, next-door. so, hopefully you'll come back and see us again. thank you very much. >>[applause] >> thank you so much, ruth. as you see ruth and her husband floyd, are so generous with presenting being that so great about this tour. thank you for everything. next were going to hear from lucia pohlman and her work with the san francisco greenhouse project the portola green plan. the portola urban greening steering committee and will we go from here. please welcome lucia pohlman. >> thank you. thank you so much for the beautiful presentation and i definitely feel coming into the neighborhood there's somebody fearful projects that are going on. the greenhouse project. we are local nonprofit that works on urban greening, sustainability in urban agriculture and we have a host of things going on. one big update is that the portola greening committee is launching a website this week if we are going to be ill at her communicate with residents of things are going on in the outreach were performing with the community. we did an awesome postcard outreach campaign and we want to make sure that everyone sees that there words that they wrote saying what they wanted for the garden district rashly incorporated into the plan. sore publishing all those postcards online as well as information on our current up-to-date project and your baby to find it on a website which is can be www.portola urban greening ductwork. which will be up this week.. then, to give you an update on portola urban greening plan and the report, the front page is right here. phase 1 successfully created the green plan and this is a result of all the community outreach that we performed with the postcards, and really thinking what is a community want to create together and what kind of resources are important to residence and what are they going to be able to benefit him and how can we support those efforts as the portola urban greening committee. that's really what this plan is and has a bunch of initiatives we are excited about the beginning to begin working on the more dedicated and serious manner. this brings us to our identity which of the san francisco garden district i know we have heard from every organization is presented tonight the weather garden district of san francisco, and it just warms my heart to know their summary organizations that are passionate about supporting this cause. i think the next that is really garnering residential supports because that's where the change we want to see happen in the neighborhood is going to take place. it's going to take place on sunday planting bracken see my neighbors next to me and were growing tomatoes together. that's the real garden district is. to the extent we can create that kind of community vibe were creating this poster campaign week pickup posters were put them off our website and put them in your windows and say, i would have this kind of neighborhood and i support this mission. so, to the extent that is exciting to you, you posters at your disposal. so, this is a map and list of the kind of projects we are working on. one, green walkway to alamein e farmer's market department is a lot of work going. transportation, how can we bike safer? how can we walk saber? which i do bring the green perspective how we can have that walk because this urban force who knows which can be going next to you but that can be a beautiful space that we can walk through. so that's when the projects we are working on. another's healthy food and bike routes throughout . we want to create disagreeing beltway from alamein e farmer's market always down to the clearing and this bunch of projects to create the kind of swoop and walk through the neighborhood and feel that vibe. other things are projects, gardens, walking pedestrian paths and as we slightly heard mention, 770-is the site of 19 abandon old greenhouses that were built in the 20s that are gorgeous ruins and we want to be able to revitalize that history. it's so rich. it's so beautiful and so integral to the history of the garden district. so, what of our main projects is how we can read about the whole site to showcase that history, but also make the future of this neighborhood. how can we showcase the future of urban agriculture and growing things in california on that land. lastly, committee engagement at mclaren park. you have the second-biggest park in san francisco in our backyards. how can we get residence mortgage in that space bring people into that land cannot visit awesome house. so the extent we can grade is no way to connect this farmer's market and the market tax people who all the city to our initial portal to the many different actual resources that is our mission. a quick update on 770-some of you may have heard the last time i spoke at a community meeting we had a perspective buyer but they have now taken themselves out of contract, so again on the market. we are again attempting to purchase it. we are going to be doing some feasibility studies in the near future looking to begin fundraising as soon as we can. to the extent that we are doing these projects at 7070-3 support for us to move forward over gaining momentum going to be will to ask for volunteers and ask for your help and so, if you're interested in getting involved in these kind of projects would ask you to reach out to me and [inaudible] get a coffee and say hello. i'll be more than happy to talk to you and looking forward to getting together. so, moving forward, we have saved the greening committee and were going to be moving forward on the projects i talking about. they're finding funding and see how we can move the projects for. we are the posters, so please come by to grab a poster or shoot me an e-mail and i can either wait to get one to you. lastly, there's going to be a lot of opportunities to get involved in the future with these projects. so, gimme or a copy i'll give you my car. let's exchange information if you want to be involved at can get you on our mailing list. thank you for your time and thank you to the commission the fort of meeting more of you tonight. >>[applause] >> thank you, lucia. now, colleagues, before we talk about the possible action that we have before us, and ethos, discussion comments or questions to which we think, colleagues? great work says commissioner wald. director bermejo and i would talk about the 10th anniversary of september 24, 2016 and i think maybe i want to put our creative thinking to think about how we as a department in the commission could support that. fair to say director rafael cannot >> i wrote down september 24, 2016. it's on my calendar. i can't wait to come and see those gardens. what a fabulous diversity of gardens. i love the way you celebrate the small retreat to the magazine worthy one. that is just so exciting. lucia, that is very inspiring to think of you there with your posters hoping people come by to join you and we will see what we can do as well. i'm truly inspired. as i said in my opening comments tonight, it's an education not just for me but for my colleagues from that apartment were sitting in the audience. we have our grant making person, our outreach person. we have earned our mental person a lot of people in the audience writeup may look like basic people to you, but they're actually department of the environment staff. which is great, because the point is were all listening and while getting inspired and think about ways we can go back and brainstorm together. so, we hope tonight is not the last time you see us. it's the first time. so, great totally inspiring. >> thank you, director. >>[applause] >> so, colleagues, we have a chance to go on the record. there's an interesting thing we can do in putting forth a resolution. something that we had shared with lucia and also luke sprague, who is the new corridor manager for the portola neighborhood association. this is a resolution good folk should have it in their package. this is a resolution san francisco commissioner on the environment resolution in support of the portola green plan in recognition of the portola as san francisco's garden district. it is our efforts at the commission to codify this rich history of greenhouses and community driven environmentalism around urban abaco tour that is a heritage vividly described by bruce wallace tonight. it is an effort to support the work of the portola urban greening steering committee also known as the-and to also endorsed the findings and the recommendations of the portola green plan which is a groundbreaking report that provides both the environmental history in context the neighborhood but it's also a roadmap to promote the portola garden district identity to the education and sharing of its green history with the community and the city. so, the resolution before us would support the green plan, would recommend that the department work with the portola urban green steering committee in efforts to develop a plan for urban cyberculture, and also in the second am a resolve and make it official as far as our shop is concerned with party official anyway as ruth wallace said in recognizing that this is the garden district. so, will take a little bit of thought republic on here on this item but one of the things that we talked about doing is that the portola urban greening samiti is going to be very soon and might be appropriate to take a feedback what we've done here tonight and feedback from the public, director rafael, and put send that over to the pub to they need when they put their stamp on it we can follow up and give it final approval from our shop after we hear from the portola neighborhood association. before we turn for comments on the presentation and resolution any thoughts or comments on any item before us? >> are you asking for motion cannot >> well commissioner wan >> unprepared to make it. you need to be more clear when you speak to me >> my talking in riddles? the riddle is this. i think we should get some feedback from the pub which understand the not quite >> before we vote? >> yes. getting that tonight we have our public. we have our deputy city attorney to provide us fearless guidance on the product and sorts of things. maybe what we do is think about this and take a little feedback from the public. i think what we do commissioner wald is here from the public and put it on our table. here from the pot here one or more of the representatives of the commission could be there with them take the feedback and bring it back to our next commission meeting make it official that the recognition from the commission. members of the public want to comment on this item, the resolution? mr.- >> david took out a give you appreciate your approach to present it tonight and vote on the next week i think that will give an opportunity to review it if there's anything that needs between good was again appreciate the presentation. affect me made available on the website and link to in minutes. the plan that was referenced in a resolution wasn't actually provided to this part of your packet. so perhaps a link to the plan the recommendation that you summarized. so brings it together. maybe there's an opportunity at the next meeting which presumably will be back at city hall to invite other city departments that could help effectuate this. the real estate division, mta, recreation and parks, planning department, others? on eshleman is it today's urban agriculture at reparation parts i don't think she's here but she should be with the probe. this really is an opportunity to do the right thing. i did mention in particular tube using. if we can get the puc help which kind of makes sense, apologize having served under cc where were able to move that in time, but i know arlen and naomi kelly without in this part of the world if we could get there supports, that would be critical to making this happen. really the extent to which we can bring the city family together and help not just save but promote and in hands when is here. the point was well made. this is the sunny side of town. i live in a sunset when it's foggy. it's harder to raise things there. but overhear it works very well and this is something we should all be supported. so i hope with those comments, you be able to make it happen. thank you. >> thank you. >> other members of the public? >> beginning my name is david-resident in the portola and member of the portola urban steering committee both in the first round and want to say thank you to the fish were considering the resolution and also thank you for giving us a little bit of time to intermingle some of our thoughts as well. the urban greening committee is definitely thinking about this resolution and excited about it. we would love to at some of our thoughts to its before it makes it to the final desk. thank you all for seeing us in the way that you do. thank you for working with us to bring this resolution for. it's really exciting. >> thank you. i am run this. this is item 8 of course and we have even speaker cards. i want to thank veronica and kiana for filling out speaker cards and whoever wants to go first can please approach. >> hi. i'm veronica and currently a sfs state environmental study under grad student right now. i think this my first meeting-i think it's really cool you guys have this occasionally have the community all come together to work on environmental subjects like it. i think-i've an idea to throw out to. to help make the 10 year celebration for the garden tour thing more of a bigger project. maybe open it up and offered to sf students, especially the environmental program. we always have-were eager to about the committee anyway we can just to kind of get our feet wet and see how it is in the environmental careers and stuff like that. so, i think if it opening up to us making a bigger deal it will hopefully have a bigger turnout and help you guys out a lot. that's it. >> thank you. >> all right, next >> hi. i'm not up your muscle from the s of state and run until studies program. i just want to say but the garden movement. i think it's amazing that they're getting the city to have that status with current people that were gardens encourage other people within san francisco in general to more gardens. encourage people to eat healthier and it's much better for the environment to eat locally. >> thank you. >> hi. my name is amanda and him also and sfc student and i just want to say that i didn't really know how passionate people were about gardening in this part of town and really interested to learn more. personally my friend i'm going to the garden tour. i think that's really cool and i encourage all of you guys to reach out to sfc state students because we have a real food challenge on campus and it would be very interested in taking part of this. maybe we can volunteer and get involved and also part of the student one initiative called-and i know that some of my colleagues would be very interested in being active in this program. so, thank you for that information am glad i came. >> thank you. yes, welcome >> hello. my name is tom hayden get my family neither the runway would suggest over the way. i just want to say thank you to the commissioners for being here in our neighborhood. thank you to my neighbors but incredible work you have all been doing. it just fantastic to see. i would like to emphasize the importance of the 77 woolsey greenhouse sites. this neighborhood has a lot to offer a lot that's quite unique within san francisco, but that particular site, i think is the real jewel in the crown of the garden district. so, i would really like to just emphasize how crucial during that site will be to making these beautiful visions a reality. thank you. >> all right. any other members of the public to want to speak on this item? seeing none, bubble, and is closed. another director rafael had a comment >> i just want to say just three as of state students, we love sf state. love the fact they are by mental studies majors and we hope you will intersect with our debarment in many way. we have lots of opportunities. we are people in our department lecture at san francisco state. volunteer corps nader,-can you raise your hand. she's in the very back. so, if you want to engage with us a little bit more in your clubs and other ways, talk to sunshine. also, note we are there and we are so appreciative of the fact that you chose this as a major and you chose to come tonight. so, thank you. >> all right. okay so commissioner wald i think that david said it better than me. there's enough-there's an upcoming of the portola urban greening steering committee maybe in a couple weeks. maybe? november 18 so with a comment, which i think were excellent from mr. koval, the resolution will go into the pug. it will be vetted. my come back with some ideas were working on a resolution that may be synthesized and then, we come back either your shop at the policy committee when we next week in the we can make it final then. summative plan? yes? good to go. we got support for the policy committee chairmen right there and that's a good thing to have. any other comments? commissioner bermejo commissioner wan? so we look for to hearing from the pug and were on board. so it's a long time overdue, i think to get city government to step up and recognize the garden district but it's always been. so, thank you again at big round of applause for our presentation. >>[applause] >> monitor, doing call item 9, please >> update and discussion: seven cisco department of environment zero waste community council pilot program. sponsored by commissioner joshua arce speakers are done the all of the era a reach and communities managers and kevin to senior residential and special project zero waste. it's an informational presentation and discussion item. >> thank you, monica. though quick setup and maybe commissioner wan do want to take it-go ahead. as president wan had an idea which was to pilot an approach that is done in the neighborhoods around violence prevention. it's committee-based approach of creating a council of folks in different languages, different stakeholders from different sectors to move an agenda to really solve for violence prevention. she said when we do something like that with the 20 waste. six months later, eight months later, it was funded as a pilot initiative to lunch zero waste committee counsel that will learn more about. it just launched in chinatown community very recently. it's very excited it's going to rollout with johnny oliveira amazing donnie and his team were going to hear some more about that with donnie and kevin . please welcome and tell us about the zero waste community council. >> thanks for having us commissioners that they committee. community. good evening. i'm kevin drew of the residential zero waste coordinator could then work with donnie and the commissioners on the committee counsel could we have as you say, for our first rollout actually were in the neighborhood with the mayor the other day. we have been ready to create a structure progress can actually work out. but what i want to talk about was on the ground part of it. what were looking for from the zero waste perspective. i was just in chinatown earlier today with some of the supervisors and directors from ecology looking at the specific individual difficult situations we have in multifamily situations. is not just in chinatown. it's all over the sick. we are trying to figure out is how to get the very last most difficult spaces to offer recycling and composting but then also how to get those compost and recycling bins use. i think that something that's very interesting question for all of us. certainly we have the zero wasting to think about it but i know folks in their home i think about it as well. as well as property managers, building owners, shopkeepers and commercial folks. so, this is i hope to bring the community together around these kinds of conversations just the conversations i had today the ecology folks and some of our staff, and the orders of the buildings they are looking at the space with us, you know you can start to see the ideas pop. the question is how do we find the good ones, weed them out for the balance and five some things we can go forward on. so that's my hope for this effort and i hope around the city were going to learn a lot eventually. over we could put it into place quickly because we need to be moving on our goals as fast as possible. >> thank you, kevin. >> thank you. don oliveira. so when the commissioner wan came to us and said they want us up by counsel in chinatown it really fit into some of the strategies that are communities and steam are looking at and how we reach all san francisco that's really say programming. the child is in chinatown range from infrastructure to service providing from our partner ecology to protect people participate were thoroughly in our programs. so the idea of the council is to bring together right if stakeholder started with building owners, property managers, cbo's, residents, businesses address the question what's working for you and what's not. we honest and very challenging question. to put yourself out there like that but i think it's important for the apartment is the city goes to zero waste by 2020 that we start to unpack the barriers preventing people from engaging in of programs more thoroughly. so were working with the supervisor's office, commission to really put together really the chinatown community to start to solve those questions force. i honestly say i don't know what the solution is going to be because were asking the question really for the first time that's pretty exciting for us. so, over the next couple weeks will be finalizing the how people get on the council, and it looks like there's going to be robust conversation several times over about chinatown zero waste program. >> thank you. and thank you kevin. commissioner wan what you think you met >> thank you. when refers were brainstorming about this zero waste counsel we were thinking the whole city. because of capacity issues we have to start with one neighborhood in chinatown is not an easy input to start with. so i really appreciate the courage that everybody has to take that difficult. i definitely look forward to it and i do believe the solution should be coming from the community. that's a lot of counsel that occludes residents from chinatown from their own culture and how we can come to the solution together. so thank you for all your great work and thank you president, forgiven this great states to do. >> thank you commissioner wan. director rafael, g1 data, and? >> yes. i didn't alleges eight ivan looking at trask shoots recently going to multifamily and try to understand the barriers to participation in our zero waste program and they are it's a real challenge when you get to multifamily highly dense neighborhoods on how to make the service convenience for people, and also to-how to get people interested in it. we got phenomenal compliance in the sense that it will have the three bin systems but get them to use them as something else. if we are going to meet our zero waste goal by 2020, we are going to have to get smarter and we are going to have to get really hyper local in our solutions. i think that's the strength of these community councils. it's a way of getting hyper local because one size does not fit all. we all know that in our heads, but as bureaucrats we tend to go the easier route and design programs that are citywide programs, so with the committee counsel will do is it will give us the year of the community for two-way dialogue because our expectation is not that we just get instruction from the community. it's that we make and ask the community as well. to step up and help us with their networks and give information outward as well as inward. so with kevin and donnie we are in great hands to get going and i really want to thank commissioner wan for your participation and leadership on this. we need you and we really appreciate you taking the time with us. so, thank you. >> hill, dir. rafael, but we are together to make the announcement we had our policy director gitmo rodriguez there as well is been working hard on this. in fact he's in china right now and he's talking about the work that we do and i think that is probably part of the conversation about what we are trying to do in our communities and an oak yarmulke is a big part of helping make sure we got here tonight to have this meeting. so, just when we think about it the way we think about things that department of environment and that the commission is that we have a goal that 1% of all our waste lee going away from landfill should be going to the blueprint. to the green bin. right now, 80% is going away. we are only 20% is going to landfill. getting to zero, we talked about getting to zero is going to create these ideas of innovation. so, it's going to be things like this community council. it's going to be about deeper partnerships limiting the non-english-speaking committees worked with local small businesses and that's what i think is so exciting. i look forward to it. other comments from the commission cannot if not public comment on this item? item 90 waste committee counsel? mr. bebout >> david novello again. we talked about this twice before the commission could that mother discussions off on. i look forward to this pilot in child chinatown. i'm hoping this informs future citywide efforts to look at what we need to do systematically, and also what we do at a micro level in neighborhoods. we need-i appreciate the analogy to violence prevention because really wasting resources is doing violence to the planet and our ultimate sustainability. is your take away. we also need to bear in mind it's not garbage. weather here on the next item about textiles that being a great example. i don't want to take their thunder away. looking forward to hearing more about that but we need to think about what we no longer need and calling them discards or materials and how to we use those. if it's a container made we can reuse the container not have it get reprocess. that's clothing, we should be with to get to someone else who can use it. if it's food it should not be automatically go to compost it was good food we can eat we should give it to somebody who can't even need to rethink these thing. i hope the council not just look at the technical issues of this issue work or they getting the right program materials the right language but really how to rethink what we traditionally thought of as waste and discards. that requires a lot of different thinking. it's about difficult materials. it's not just textiles and hazardous waste but it's when people move and recycle my junk which will hear about i think a little bit as well. but the other aspects, too. i'm looking forward to this. please keep me informed and i hope we can do this and other neighbors and ultimately citywide race and otherwise work not going to do it in five years. >> all right. next speaker, please. >> my name is shelley and i have a question about zero waste goals for 22. i think it's really exciting. i wondered where cigarette butts fit in there? they can be recycled through the terrace cycle program and i think they be more manufacturers are to be doing that now but i think that's a real pervasive problem here in the city. i work with the surf rider foundation. the program that we call hold onto your but which aims to reduce cigarette but waste but because of the advent of all the new smoking in buildings and no smoking 15 feet from buildings come nobody has ashtrays anymore and there's no education and no talk about what earlier and about this real problem i believe there's cigarette litter abatement be out there. i've been talking to my supervisor scott wiener's office about this. the china figure out where the money is going. nobody knows right now. i'm wondering it seems like a great kind of full circle way to use those funds if they're available to actually be able to pick up these butts and have some in dispose of them and recycle them through terrace cycle. huge win for the city. for zero waste because they become recycled into other types of plastic material because the filters are actually plastic. the rest of their means are composted. so i'd love to hear anybody's thoughts at any time working to do to address that issue and how we can help. >> thank you. yes? thank you. >> i would like to address the speakers and i appreciate all the work you're trying to do, but i also think we need to stop it at the source. way to get rid of waste is to stop the waste from even being created in the first place. part of the problem is our convenient lifestyle that we live. as someone who works in the health food store will be actually promote bulk buying, other shutout to rainbow grocery cooperative-40 year anniversary this year. we actually offer incentives for using recycling and that is we give a five cent credit and i want this to be all about window but i think we do deserve some credit for initiating. we give a five cent credit if you bring your own bag in or your own container by purchasing bulk and we have a huge bulk food buying area, and also really great produce. but that's really i think where-if to take this on as a personal challenge as well-but we need to really think about our purchases. why do we buy something in a packet for example if there's another alternative? that's really what i'd like to offer. a challenge to us all. >> thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is close. can we hear item 10, please monica >> presentation of symptoms is zero waste textile initiative and recall it is textile collection pilot. his manager document is textile initiative commission presentation. sponsor is debra rafael, director speakers are alexa does the zero waste specialist and paul-community and government affairs manager recalled. this is an informational presentation and discussion item. >> some very excited to introduce this item and to have our very own alexa kildee and paul-from-to present. ever going to get to zero the last 20% of as a mission or arce was talked about, we need to take a look not only at community by community but also item by item. qualitatively and quantitatively. when you look at what is in the black been or what are people not knowing what to do with with big areas is textiles. so alexa has been charged with tackling this and she could talk tonight about what they found and where we are going from you. so, alexa >> thank you very much. it's been a confusing which direction to look. i guess i'll stand somewhere in between can you see the screen okay? good evening, commission. good evening portola resident. great to be up today on the talk about a little bit of background about or zero waste textile initiative, handoff to paul-zero from ecology's long chart pilot program. so, as our director mentioned, we are trying to get to zero waste by the year 2020. we are still sending over four and 20,000 tons of trash to the landfill. that's actually going up slightly, unfortunately. so those numbers that's alluded old we are 80% which is great in san francisco is doing a great job with a long way to go still. so keep up the good work and that's why were looking at textiles. textiles-wide textiles? textiles make of about 20,000 tons of that 420,000 tons. we do wait restriction study a while back and what we found was if you look at textiles which is clothing, shoes, linens, curtains anything fabric related, plus apparel, so belts, backpacks, purses and that sort of thing, combined with looking at 20,000 pounds. so with the goal of our campaign? we want to build awareness around this issue for the general public. we want san franciscans to know that this is a real issue. a lot of people think this is going to goodwill but that's not the case. last year we worked with an artist in american apparel to build this visual installation to depict the amount of tons going to landfill. it's 4537 pounds per hour is getting landfill. it's pretty phenomenal amount. i have one of the towers in our office if you come by you can take a look at building awareness is goal number one. goal number two is to build awareness about existing top-level though. san francisco already has over 100 drop-off location. goodwill, salvation army, crossroads, and they're all put on recycle.org. if you go there i should try to look it up for the portola district i think your 934 trying to find the nearest one but there is unlimited pick up through-which bill talk about. if you textiles even get free pickup from your home as well as the goodwill. dylan recycle and look for the nearest drop-off to your home. we had a grant last grant site. weaver zero waste grant program for the folks in the room that don't know. kevin and i work on a program. we awarded a grant to goodwill for over $100,000 to build the go being. the goal here is to really increase community so goal number three of the campaign convenience for the rest it hardly make it as convenient as possible for people for people to landfill the textiles. the goal is to get these collection bins in all permanent buildings particularly high-rise apartments in san francisco. so this was created by goodwill. we did a press event. president arce thank you for going. we launch it at-properties this is not office buildings correct? sore tried to build awareness and as you know anybody was in a high-rise apartment you can get one of these buildings. we really another priority another goal of the program is to keep as much of these textiles as local as possible as we want to create local jobs. we want local reuse as much as possible. unfortunately, not everything we consume in san francisco can be reused or resold in san francisco so there has to be other external markets but is a huge priority. we want to create local jobs. goodwill crates local jobs and that's another goal of our department. we worked with i go with the for-profit company that's partnered with a number of clothing retailers including h&m collection bins in store. doug discount on your next purchase is if you bring in clothing. for heiko, this is actually their facility in fresno peered they sell a lot of overseas for the reuse market but also of a secondary market where they have their facility in fresno with a shred the clothing that's not reusable. they make with a called shot he-which goes into carpet padding and other installations. so the other we were trying to build awareness, this year, we did a competition with business council and climate change one of our partners. all these visits competed against each other to see who could collect the most textiles and actually new resource bank and salvation army won the competition and we got [inaudible] in the middle begin to our awards ceremony. so, going forward with the future for textiles? are grant, we have a new cycle coming up. right now were awarding goodwill and other printed us citywide textile collection campaign it will be telling people to go to your nearest textile collection location beyond goodwill. were also worked with her cycle for change, which is going to increase the number of collection bins that the city. really, the next piece of it is trying to identify what is the biggest bang for our buck in terms of collection. what is it going to take? our theory is that it's going to be collecting textiles curbside through the next to the recycling bins on your regular second. how would i get that 20,000 tons. that's a perfect segue to paul who's going to talk about our pilots. so we are starting to test those theories out and we also want to see on the collection line, can we be taking textiles off the collection line where we sort the recyclables. it's an interesting study and thank you. >> thank you. before you begin, paul, past director rafael, if i could say that about the progress we in the apartment were getting to zero and getting. it doesn't happen without the phenomenal partner that we have and that is-so thank you, paul please welcome paul-from- >> good evening. i get to talk about what my favorite things. operations. recycling textiles. this is a fun new pilot program for us. for about the last year as alexa was saying, we have been advertising in our newsletters about having textiles picked up through the bulky item program. you know, textiles we talk about textiles and what are textiles, people think about just the clothing the goes to goodwill, but it's things like shoes and things like purses. one out that towels. anything like that we can get it recycle. so, we had it as a top story in our customer newsletter last year. about using the bulky item collection program. then, this is the cycle newsletter we put there about how you can book an online appointment to get the textiles picked up kid that doesn't count against you to pick ups to pickups per year for bulky item. will come as a times as we need for the textiles. so, the first task we are doing is increasing outreach. there's about 1000 customers that we are testing increasing outreach to. they -mailing postcards and letting folks know about the free textile pick up through the bulky item program to see that increases participation. this is a sample of one of those postcards. this is another sample. we thought we would use the holidays and people tend to get too close during the holidays. so the old ones, clean out the closet making room for those close, we love to get the textile. so, test number two is a residential test and like alexa was saying, putting a clear bag or a cardboard box with textiles written on it next to the recycling bins and it'll get picked up. this can be a dedicated route. there is a dedicated route that tries to those taken by those recycling bins on recycling day and except those textiles that the driver sees next to the blue bin. we sent letters to homes letting them know about the new program that rate on this pilot valve. here is another postcard that went out and it says put the bag next to and this was sent out the week before the pilot started. then, the third test is actually putting the clear bag inside of the blue bin. we thought this might be easier for folks to do . less chance for things to get torn open or letter. the way that will work-here is the outreach for that mother postcard-then when the truck dumps its recycling load at pier 96 at the recycling facility, workers would basically sort those bags out. as long as it was in a clear bag they could see that and pull it out. here is a picture of the sort line. if the bags, the conveyor belt the workers can see it there and pull the bags out on the sort line. then the fourth test is collecting at apartment buildings. so, we did outreach and i think we right now have almost 100 buildings online today. 96, i think. we're using the catchphrase can is for textiles and you see here the two different types of containers we are using. when is a cardboard box on the left and on the right is a coat like you have a chore house except that it's a tan colored and has textiles on it. this is a letter or this is our website. we actually got the url can is for textiles. so we set up a website and we have it on there, all the information about the different platforms and how to recycle textiles. there's the close up of the cardboard box and i thought it was clever design because you see the top is shaped like a t-shirt, cut out wicked t-shirt to show the text. basically anybody in the building can call the phone number there when the bin. the driver will stop by and pick it up. same here. this is a tote that we use. this is probably the more popular one. it's tending to be the more popular option. it just more durable. the apartment buildings are putting them in the laundry rooms, which makes the most sense to me . that's probably working to see the box of boxer shorts with a hole in it to throw in there. so this is a postcard that we sent to the building managers, letting them know and also in e-mail that can go out to the tenants or residence of apartment buildings. that is actually our route drug. this is's bout now. pick up the textiles and there is servicing one of the containers in apartment building in the laundry room. this is the poster. you see around here, in fact, some the recycling bins- [inaudible] so we made a poster up for textiles. this is the e-mail that goes out to residence in the buildings. this is a picture of the truck with the toters in. the dropout often empty one and pick up a phone. here they are loading a sack is what it's called. renting the tote of textiles into those sacks by getting ready versus cycling. there's a full one there. the currently, almost 1000 going to goodwill. so goodwill swerved through them and primary use courses they can use them for reuse or for resale in the thrift shops. that is the best highest and best use for the chariot if not, it'll go to the secondary market shredded for other things. here is the driver studying his map. you should have a computerized routing system. i do not have that when i was a driver. he has his route all laid out for him. sequenced the most efficient way to do it. so here is studying his map in the morning without worries can pick up the apartment buildings. here's a shot of goodwill. it's the local reuse market. this is a great use of textiles we purposed into other misfit that this was pretty cool. bags, purses, other things are being made from textiles then of course carpet padding and carpeting is another use for textiles. so, that's it. thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much. questions, comments from the commission? commissioner wan >> iva? the pilot project that is how long is it going to last ? when are you going to decide what you're going to do next and when we alert about that? >> so the pilot will last a minimum of a year. what really will be the deciding factor within a need to look at when we are done how much material to be collect, how effective will be collecting it, and what did it end up costing time to recycle that material? it has to be cost-effective also. so that'll be the deciding factor. just from what i've seen the stars it's really taking off and i think it seems to be a popular program. an effective program. so, i think were going to keep going with it. that would be my personal guess. >> we like you. if there is no other questions, commissioner bermejo >> what part of the city are lucky enough to have this pilot project. it's very exciting. >> anybody in the city can use it to the bulky item program where you can just call. anybody can do that. right now, diamond heights area and the lee valley is where i think were doing the extra outreach about that. then, i don't know exactly what areas on the recycle routes. >> kick[inaudible] >> apartment somewhere, yes. richmond district is where the recycling routes are being done and the apartments are kind of the south of market area. >> director bermejo >> i just want point out that when i hear this presentation, what i take away from it with tremendous pride, and i hope everyone in the audience picks up on this-is the record of which we approach our task. so, we understand in the city we are using public funds and we understand that we have a passion for our goal of being effective at our work. so, in order to make good use of public funds to maximize effectiveness, we don't know going and what is the most effective mechanism to do this collection. i think the thing that i hear when i hear this and that impresses me and warms my heart is the fact that were asking the question in doing a pilot and learning from it and waiting until we have the data in to decide what is the best policy direction for the city. i can tell you, cities across the world look to san francisco and this program and is because of this approach we can stand out any city in the world is a we know it works. we know it's cost-effective and this is why. because we've done the testing and we approached it with this kind of record. so, i want to say to-and my colleagues in the zero waste program, well done. >> yes. >>[applause] >> all right. with that we can turn to public comments. >> i agree i think that's an amazing program. one other question. would it be possible to see if there are away to [inaudible] entirely natural fibers? npc can be reused instead of going into carpet padding and might be able to be composted? have a separate bag for compost? thank you very much >> will see if we can get an answer by the end of public comment. ruth. >> iva cummins or maybe an idea instead of maybe a bag is most of us don't use our button so maybe we can have an insert, can insert so we can put that right into. that way there's not what looks like trash on the streets. there's no other bad. then the second thing is a question that it's been on my mind for years and i just since i have a person here,, where does the lint from the dryer go ? tobacco in the green one? where does that go? >> that's a good question. you know i'm tempted to say compost but since it's been made of nylon and fibers in their that are not natural, it probably is the black bin. >> killing outputted in with her textiles? >> i don't see why not. if nothing else it'll go to the secondary markets for carpet padding. >> thank you. now we know. other questions, comments from the public? >> hi. my name is nancy on the student at san francisco sentences who stated that i also major in environmental psychic bulimic or comment about the zero waste program and that as someone who is had to throw close away before the past always thought it felt wrong and some glad that the city is addressing it nicely doing something important about that because it is wrong. also, i want to point out that not only should we recycle and donate are close, we should also make an effort to buy secondhand clothing because i think, in any way that we as consumers can reduce the use of new materials and new resources is important to the and should be acknowledged. >> thank you. hello. i'm in sf state student as well. as for the zero waste project, i've been a frequent textile-either no recycle asked. we come together and we have a box in our apartments were we throw open a close we don't use often and once a month we take it to goodwill but i live in a high-rise complex, so the amount of textile that is wasted is really insane. i was wondering if there is a been can anybody get that? >> [inaudible] >> okay. thank you. >> good evening. my name is been doing on the executive director of scrap which one of your local resource. i like to think the commission for addressing this topic which is one of the toughest recycling issues. alexa and john and i talked about this a number of occasions. i just want to let everyone know that scrap at 801: street accepts fabric. we are working to develop a recycling and reuse program and i just wanted to thank-and the commission and sf environment for addressing this absolutely toughest recycling issues. so, thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you for all the work you do, then. mr. boutwell >> david duval. you accept textiles but you take a look. very interesting that i'll follow-up with alexa and followed some technical questions on how this relates to the sink test and constraints are going different places it sounds like. which is good. this also suggest to me that the public disposal and reuse area where alexa did a previous study a couple years ago, there's another opportunity to take-to open bags and break guides when materials come in to see what is there anywhere could be diverted to. i know the pra or he has a pretty good recycling rate they could do better. again sort of unpacking within a black bag, which is harder than what's in the clear bag is sort of the next step for all of us i think. i think the students-i'm sorry i did not catch her name-we need to not just give to goodwill but by a goodwill and crossroads and other nonprofit and for-profit stores. it's not just buying macy's nordstrom's and coles. it shopping at these places that are in our neighborhoods. and supports local economy keeps a local, etc. thank you. >> thanks. any comments from the public? seeing none, of the common is close. if we go on to our directors reported unless there's a quick comment for mr. donnie oliveira. >> weave a hard stop at 9 pm so when we go straight to 12 so we can hear our environment carbon fund grant awards. if college we okay to hear adam 12 out of order? >> review and approval of resolution 2015 05 approving funding recommendations for the department of the environmental carbon fund grant awards for the 2015-16 funding cycle. the sponsor is director rafael and speaker sean wilson must. senior environmental specialist to bauman at three partnerships. discussion and action item. >> in the interest of time i'm going to let sean introduce this. this an action item we need to get through. >> hi i'm sean wilson must and development for the community environment and were going to be giving out some money tonight. favorite part of my job. we just flip i'm going to go so far. have no questions. so the san francisco carbon fund is in ordinance a law that was passed by the board of supervisors in 2009 and basically they said we want you the department of the about to set up a fund that mitigates and sequesters carbon in the way were going to fund this is that 13% of air travel that city employees take to do city business will go into the carbon fund and in addition, you cannot see seek other money to go into the carbon fund. here is the mayor. i don't know the visit of the public about months ago. we have a little brochure. i several of them if you want. it looks really big but this is literally like an inch and half by 2 inches. about the carbon fund that would give to conferences and conventions and meetings to mitigate the effects of the carbon emissions. they can invest in the carbon funds. the attraction of the carbon fund is that all the projects are local. so, that was written into the legislation. so, in many ways the legislation is very broad in many ways it's very narrow. it's not sequestering and mitigating carbon. within that, we want to have a lot of co-benefits. so we issue grant--rvs looking for projects the first day. we give out $14,000 to do a bio diesel the subject and inexorably as we did urban orchards and urban weaning and i don't know if you can read, $41,000 went to neighborhood groups. they planted 240 fruit trees which are now sequestering about 180 metric tons of carbon dioxide. so, two years ago we gave out funding, $223,000, 10 projects 635 trees, 17,000 plants, 24,000,000 gallons of water doesn't run off into our sewer system now and we're sequestering 690 metric tons of carbon. so this is really great and really fun. here's where they are in the city. so that was all of our project. i'm sorry. it's all trees. it's all green and here is our bio diesel fueling the subject we are sick and do a lot of stuff with this fun. we can do trees. we love to do trees and greening. much like our zero waste grant funding, very limited with the funding is for diverging ways. this funding is for sequestering carbon. however, we are looking at projects that really are all about the co-benefits. so, we will go over who's going to get funding if the commission approves. if you kind of read between the lines you'll see some the co-benefits our youth development, stem education, workforce development, food security, creating safe green open space and so many of these projects will land volunteers to get the work done. huge huge community capacity open. neighbors getting out and knowing one another. so, when doing work all over the city. our partners much like every program we got our partners are doing work all over the city hoping the city meet its zero [inaudible] go. that said, we would like to recognize from a funding climate action now for $2000. to plant garden at schools in san francisco. friends of the urban force $63,000 to do sidewalk gardening and planting trees all over the city. berkeley national lab to do some interesting stuff around compost and investigated whether we can use compost to actually-whether we call it-get rid of pharmaceutical waste instead of incinerating it. so, that is a very interesting one. not that they're not all interesting but literacy for environmental justice, $42,000 to greening work reprinted at candlestick point in preparation for setting up campsites for school use to go visit. so, ultimately, this, right here will look like that there. it's really beautiful. so, from a culture institute in buena vista park another hugely interesting composting research project, if you. so they'll be spraying compost in various types of projects in san francisco to see whether the carbon sequestration benefits of using this as a soil amendment in urban agriculture. similar work has been done on rangeland but we want to look at what can happen if we did this in the city. pomeroy recreation and rehabilitation center, $14,000. pomeroy works with the mentally delayed adults, children, and use. evan enabled gardener program. this is training people to be gardeners and they will plant trees expanded garden and be with to serve more people. open space in-hills and that is part of a big project that will take out this dilapidated road that people ride motorcycles down or whatever they do. take it all out. plan beautiful plans and have an even more spectacular space at the top of the hills that will serve the neighborhood and the school across the street and the people live in the housing developers around the corner. i think that's it. urban sprouts, of course. they get up hardback pavement so that their garden works better. it's extremely difficult to get funding to dig up pavement. if we can do that were excited to be will to do that and move them onto the next phase of their garden. so that is the last five. >> think. thank you. most of the grantees are here so he of questions if you want them to get up and say something, thank you guys so much for coming >> china maybe finance our grantees to stand so we can give you a big round of applause for all your great work. >>[applause] >> yes. we are excited. >> this guy has a new form. >> all right. thank you. any public comment on grantees? mr. pocock >> david the elegant. this presentation also was an inner pockets hopefully there'll be available and linked is a lot more information than what shani discussed than was in writing. again since i do not have the information before this difficult informed questions or comments. i think the most important thing to me assuming you're going to pass the resolution and work these grants, in addition to the requirements laid out if you could get a report from each of the grantees. i do not see that in the program guidelines. of what they were able to use the money for and what they actually compost. this is one of their idea sometimes things turn out a little differently. where there is a change to this space if they could have before and after photos so we could see what actually changed as a result of the investment. what i've suggested before, with alexis zero waste grant program is to bring some of the grantees back afterwards and talk not just about what they're planning to do but give us a success story. that would be good to be whatever it is a year or two from now. i think some of these were three-year projects. anyway, it would be could have follow up on where this money is going and these i hope worthwhile project. >> thank you. good ideas. other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is good. if no further discussion to get a motion to approve the grantees? commissioner wald approves and second from commissioner wan. all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. the grants are proved. thank you very much. >> that is only briefly. i want to say that i personally really appreciate all of you who approve up five for these grants and come tonight to hopefully introduce yourselves to us and i'm sorry because were running out of time were not going to be able to do that, but maybe you all will be the first group of people come back to the commission and show us what you have accomplished with the funds that we have provided you. this all looks like great work. my fingers are crossed that will be totally successful and i look forward to hearing your efforts. >> colleagues, i talk with director rafael and policy about continuing items are 11-13 due to limitations around our time in this pupil community space. can i get a motion to continue items 11 and 13? moved and seconded. all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. item 14, monica, please check the announcements. information and discussion. >> colleagues, i want to offer as we close here, this is been for us such a rich and rewarding night to be here with you. one of the things i think that special is we got a big as

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