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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday september 20, 2016. Madam clerk please call the roll. Thank you madam president. Avalos, present. Breed, here. Campos, present. Cohen, here. Farrell, present. Kim, not present. Mar, not present. Peskin, present. Tang, not present. Wiener, present. Yee, present. Kim, present. Madam president yoi have a quorum. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Alright. Madam clerk are there any communication . None to report. Okay. Can we goto regular agenda. Idem 1 is ordinance to order the conditional vacation of portions of streets and public serveish easementsthality exist within sub ....
Getting on the agenda, im going to work with vicepresident caen to see that it does. The committee is counting on us to vet these things out. Donna, would you be kind enough to provide me a bullet point list of the items that i have requested under this line item, but also under the line item that comes immediately following the closed session. I will. Thank you very much. Commissioners, anything else . Are there any Public Comments on my comments . Public comment is close. Thank you francisco. Commissioners, what if i share one thing in common and that is that we worked as Union Members and represented the community. What you have stated and what some of the employees do not seem to fathom is this when we are talking about workforce development, we are talking about career jobs. You had a career job, i had a career job. The career jobs come benefits. When they play the youth ....
Speak and do events and be able to speak about whats going on in the community. So, we had an event a Community Event which they had their families and themselves take a pledge of how they were going to save water. We had over 100 people who took the pledge. We also had is surveys where they were finding out what people new about conserving water and the recycling and in the process, mostly girls and one boy, they got to really read a Job Description, understand what a Job Description means and then when they were going through project, what it means if you miss a meeting. What does it mean if you are not calling in, if you are showing up late and not dressed appropriately for a meeting. It was a great Successful Program for us. Now the project is scheduled t ....
Focus around land use and alternatives to lawns and do workshops to teach people how to cheat mulch and they have done great programs in the spring last year. As steve mentioned, weve seen a continued reduction in water use. That has been phenomenal, every week when those reports come out we get very excited in our office. But its important that that is sustained so we are taking this opportunity to create this message as much as possible to talk about this is a great opportunity for everybody to be weary about what they are doing about landscaping. I got calls about droughts and water and they say why do we want to save water today, isnt it going to agriculture . I said no, absolutely not. You are in a Single Source system in a system that these customers have paid for and used and San Francisco owns and operates for you and every drop of water that you save today is available ....
Young people as well as others were able to tour the hech tch hetchy facility this summer and we that had clean up and the young people helped facilitate that event. Demand closing lifting up the engagement of the work of the young people did. We did a much better job this summer of creating opportunities for the young people to talk about their final work product. So we did an event of the San FranciscoPublic Library where the young people showed these documentaries that they made over the summer that we had a great turnout that we made over the summer and this Advisory Committee toond show case their good work. The truth is when you hear them talking around our content whether its biogas and the system and talk about what Civil Engineers do, i give some of th ....