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New Environment Director Deborah Raphael outlines priorities: zero waste, staffing and neighborhood outreach
Summary
Deborah Raphael, the newly appointed director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, used her first director's report to highlight program milestones (Environment Now, ROSE adoption), a postal recycling audit that may yield cost savings, and internal priorities including hiring 12 staff and filling a deputy director post.
Deborah Raphael, director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, gave her first director's report to the San Francisco Commission on the Environment on Tuesday, July 22, outlining program highlights and internal priorities.
Raphael said the department's Environment Now workforce program has produced graduates who go on to jobs or second interviews and that the program's public outreach work recently was profiled on local television. "It's pretty amazing when other people tell your story for you," she said, noting the profile demonstrated the program's community reach.
She flagged a postal-service audit broadcast on…
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