Start promoting green gas. So, the replacing the 100 renewable in our plan is going to be difficult. Now, there are some things that we can do around the edges. One of the slices there is bart 100 renewable by 2030. We can get them to go green, thats great. We have another 11 of the electricity that are direct Access Commercial customers where they could decide as businesses that the right thing for them to do is to go 100 green. So, if we can convince them, and that would be a voluntary activity on their part, that we might be able to reach another piece of the market. The question is how are we going to get to the rest of it. And thats a challenge thats been discussed at this commission and i know will be discussed in the future. So, im not going to go through each one of these parts. I will point out that urban forest is the light blue wedge at the top. Be great to see that expanded, or expanding any of these wedges. Some of them are under influence from the department of the enviro
Colleagues, before we hear some thoughts from our director, any thought, expressions from colleagues . Commissioner stephenson. I just want to say thank you so much for all the work youve done over the last years and especially how ably and beautifully created your team. I think youve done a really wonderful job working with the team and you have left for whoever is going to step into your shoes a very solid working group and i appreciate all the work you did. Commissioner josefowitz. Im not sure ill be able to speak for four pages about your accomplishments. So, but i think thats just like the sort of length of the motion, its just a testament to the impact that youve left on the department and on the city. And i dont know if i could maybe offer a little friendly amendment, but in the result i think we should thank melanie, maybe not only for her contributions to the city and county of San Francisco, but also maybe to the environment. Already did. Our impact is felt beyond the city. A
Nutter, department of the environment. Approval of resolution commending director Melanie Nutter for her service to the department of the environment and to the city and county of San Francisco. Whereas mayor gavin newsom appointed Melanie Nutter director for the San Francisco department of the environment in august 2010 and whereas melanie nut r has continued to direct the department of the environment and provide San Franciscos leadership under mayor edwin m. Lee and whereas Melanie Nutter directed the department of the environment of 110 staff for the past 31 2 years and helped to make San Francisco the greenest city in north america, and whereas Melanie Nutter helped champion environmental policy achievements in San Francisco, including such accomplishments as ill read four of them, but there are many, many accomplishments. Successful implementation of the mandatory composting cycling policy that has helped move the city toward the goal of zero waste by 2020 with an 80 diversion ra
Motion to approve the minutes . Motion. So moved. Seconded. By commissioner wan [speaker not understood]. All those in favor say aye 2a aye. It is approved. [speaker not understood]. Next item on the agenda there is [speaker not understood]. On the Meeting Minutes . [speaker not understood] Public Comment . Very soon. Thats the next item. My apologies for the confusion. Okay. Next item is Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on items not on todays agenda. All right. We have one card, and that is from rupa bose. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment. And thank you for all that you do for the environment, in particular the reduction of pesticide [speaker not understood]. Im here today representing the San Francisco Forest Alliance and wed like to make three comments. The first is on the natural areas Pesticide Use. Natural areas has been using a great amount of herbicides by whatever measure n. 2013 it used more tier 1 herbicides than San Francisc
People in Public Service and he founded his program, which is now nationally recognized, which has provided over 250 students since 1990 is valuable opportunities to experience hands on work all over muni. Bond yee has helped to bring transportation engineering to the forefront of urban planning and engineering. Because of that on behalf of the board of supervisors, it is my honor to declare today, january 31, 2014 as bond yee day in San Francisco. Thank you bond. Bond, before you speak, we do have another colleague who had come up with her own certificate of honor. Bond, thank you. As you know, he is actually a resident of our sunset district, so prior to this position bond was someone who we could go to to solve problems and so when we had very Angry Community members, he could say with authority as someone who lives in the neighborhood really what he thought was best in terms of improvement. With that, i want to thank you, bond, and hope we will continue to see you in the sunset dis