Good afternoon. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules now we have set up any mileage us to which members can send anything they wish to submit they wish to submit in writing in any of her hearings or markups. Our hearings or markups. Has been provided to staff. The first order of business is consideration of the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. For fiscal year 2021. Captornow recognize this ms. Captor to present the bill. Please let me also add my you for your honorable and dedicated service to our community and nation and for your recognition of the full potential of this bill. You will truly be missed. I am pleased to consider the energy and water bill today. It is a good bill. A bill that captures the spirit of ingenuity and independence of the American People. Are actually able to provide the most important Climate Change bill congress will pass this year. This bill provides the foundation of critical investme
Today is a day of good news. We have one of the lowest hospitalization rates since this lowestnd we have the death rate, down to 35. I have been asking all the experts who will talk to me, what is the lowest that number can go . When it gets this low it is really a question of what they are attributing is the cause of death. In other words you have people who are gravely ill who are going to die of something and if they get covid19, they attribute that to the covid virus. Slow it iss down the really a question of what that hospital certifies as a cause of death. Dieould like to see nobody in the state of new york ever, but this is really, really good news. Were thiso where we is a big sigh of relief. We talked about calibrating the control of the reopening based on the metrics we have seen. We have done this from day one. People knocked me for a lot of things mocked me for a lot of things, but that does not bother me. The reopening of the economy is a valve and you can open it faster o
Diving deeper we look at the transportation, you see 71 of that 46 comes from the private sector, which includes private Passenger Vehicles as well as medium duty vehicles. It is also about health and safety benefits. It is more about meeting a common goal, it is about making San Francisco a more livable city for all of our residents. The map you see before you is air quality and equity map. This shows that the particular matter, 2. 5 microns and smaller, sources of concentration you see are focused around our major highways and byways. The red is greater than 10 concentration. It is is adjacent to some of our more disadvantaged communities. As debbie also addressed, there is a need to address a zero admission future, reduce the number of vehicles on our roads while simultaneously electrifying all of those that remain. Getting our residents out of cars is the core of our transit first policy and the best way to reduce not only emissions but also congestion. Getting people out of cars i
And we used this information from our background screenings of the pesticides along with their information on the ground situations, what works and what doesnt. Are we using the safetiest alternative possible and is it necessary in the first place . In order to gradually improve that list over the years and we have done so for over 20 years now. We take the prevention part of that seriously lately these past few years with prevention guidelines and we now have a draft to for landscapes being reviewed for a large group of professionals and they will be published as a standalone document. This is something that our ipm Technical Advisory Committee is interested in over the years. I dont have a slide for it, but ill take note that we want a grant this year from the department of pesticide regulation, about 160,000 and its before the Board Finance Committee for except and expand to follow up on our previous work in installing perfect prevention measures. So its an overlap with what the ear
Diving deeper we look at the transportation, you see 71 of that 46 comes from the private sector, which includes private Passenger Vehicles as well as medium duty vehicles. It is also about health and safety benefits. It is more about meeting a common goal, it is about making San Francisco a more livable city for all of our residents. The map you see before you is air quality and equity map. This shows that the particular matter, 2. 5 microns and smaller, sources of concentration you see are focused around our major highways and byways. The red is greater than 10 concentration. It is is adjacent to some of our more disadvantaged communities. As debbie also addressed, there is a need to address a zero admission future, reduce the number of vehicles on our roads while simultaneously electrifying all of those that remain. Getting our residents out of cars is the core of our transit first policy and the best way to reduce not only emissions but also congestion. Getting people out of cars i