also, talk about our facilities. they happen to be in brisbane. they are in brisbane because they were built there beginning in 1952 after about 17 years of using that property as a dump site. the location in brisbane -- i will tell you over the years, brisbane has taken a lot of abuse from san francisco's garbage. in 1965 or 1966, they got an injunction to prevent us from dumping their any more. as a result of that injunction in 1965, 1966, we build a transfer station. it opened in november 1970. it still sits there, and it is still a model that people from all around the world come to see almost every day. that facility is in san francisco. we have added some other processing capacity. it is in san francisco with one minor exception, and that is we had at one end of the transfer station that have been too sick -- and add-on building that happens to sit in the city of brisbane. we got their permission a few years ago as we were expanding the food waste compost program to utilize that building to transload organic materials and to transfer trucks

the brisbane facility has existed because of ratepayer costs, and i think the city should have some equity in that. please look at the one-stop complex at the port. barging from the port recologyport now is on a cost- plus contract. this is very unusual. not a fixed price per ton. it is difficult to monitor, difficult to articulate and difficult to really have an overview of any kind of financial problems. recology and department of environment -- i am troubled that they would say because they have this wonderful relationship that we should not have a competitive contract overview. i work for the city and county of san francisco. i had to deal with contracts every year. i had to deal with the budget analyst. that is nothing new. why shouldn't recology? they have had a non-competitive process for 80 years, and it needs to be reviewed. commissioner campos: thank you very much. next speaker please. >> executive director of the san francisco labor council. we represent over 100 unions in san francisco, including the workers who actually work for recology and make a living wage with good health

there is no host the in this brisbane regionfee -- fee in this brisbane facility. there has not been a single public hearing. there has been no input. all we have to go by is the word of the department of the environment. at the last budget financing committee, the supervisor s staff who owned the transfer station. it is embarrassing that you heard that they did not know who owned it. the rate payers have paid billions for a private asset and the staff to your department did not know the answer. you have a fiduciary duty to look for the answers. to do the right thing. to hold public hearings. is not just these contracts. this is actually the future of how we contract for public services in san francisco hanging in the balance. i appreciate all your doing the right thing. thank you. supervisor chu: i do not see any other speakers in the center aisle. if you have not yet spoken but would like to, please come up. seeing that we have no other public speakers, i will close public comment. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. first, i would like to thank everybody. recology

we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone th

on the measure that is potentially being proposed for brisbane, that is being negotiated as we speak. that is not a done deal. we certainly do need to and would recommend that we engage with the city of brisbane to look at what the terms of that measure would be and have been in touch with city hall about that. commissioner mirkarimi: and we get that, but i know through a lot of the meetings, which i do appreciate, the feedback we have been getting from your department as well as recology itself, and that recology has got to do what recology has got to do. but in the conversation you just had with share -- chair campos, i want to make sure it is clear that for us to benefit from their growth and expansion is the question that we are trying to prime, and that is -- how does san francisco and san franciscans benefit from this as well? that goes to the purpose of what is being discussed here, based on past practice and future, i think, observation. is exactly what i think is driving some of this discussion. when i and others tried to insert ourselves in the discussion, it was only on the

i did not know about pier 80, of brisbane. i would like to see the citizens of san francisco benefit. i'm not hearing that. recology does not have any barging facilities in place. they do not even have any landfills. it is not really cost-effective for them if they do not have a place to barge. as i said, there is no doubt they are a good company that does good work, worker-owned and all that. but we deserve to get the best possible deal for the ratepayers moving forward. thank you. commissioner campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> good morning, commissioners. i do not mean to repeat what was said about the positions there. i also as a resident of excelsior district said that i am also in the same position, opposing a recommendation. i am concerned about if the question is really about the open competitive bid, looking at how much the fee is because so many questions are related to that. that is really beside the point. most of the union members and working people and all the residents are really concerned about the qual

we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have.