item will continue to next week. why do we not now move to the items related to the health care security ordinance? we can call items 44 and 45? >> they can confer with or are receiving advice from the city attorney. this is amendments to the security ordinance. item 45 is something that has been called from the committee that provides only the amounts paid or to revoke a bleak committed to pay to providing health care services shall keep the ordinance. >> item 44 is an item of closed session. do we have a motion to go into closed session? let me see if there is any

public comment about whether we should go into closed session? unless there is any objection, why do we not going to close the session? at this time, we will go into closed session so we can receive advice from our city attorney regarding the health care ordinance. please help clear the room. as soon as we are cleared, we will >> can we have a motion to not disclose the information that we just discussed? without objection, the motion passes. why don't we go to item 45? >> thank you, mr. president. i thought we had a very good

discussion in closed session without going into the details. i think that it would be beneficial given the complexity of the issues involved if we continue this matter for a week. i make a motion to continue this until the next week. "supervisor campos has made a motion to continue until august the second parent to without objection, this will be continued. madam clerk, can you please read in memorium. on behalf of the full board of supervisors, for the late -- >> is there any more business? >> that concludes our business. >> in that case, the meeting is adjourned.

>> good afternoon. thank you so much for being here. it is really an honor to work with the department of environment on the san francisco home improvement program. we hope it becomes they hit this program in the city. we really are here to talk about the financial, as well as the environmental benefits of going green. in san francisco, as well as across the country, what we forget is often our home and the real estate that we own is normally the most valuable piece of wealth that we have in our family. but we also for get that real- estate and buildings also have some of the largest carbon footprint in san francisco, as well as across the country single-family homes are almost

22% of the carbon footprint. in my understanding, we have actually been miscounting the carbon footprint, and we actually undervalued the carbon footprint of real estate in those homes. we're here today to talk about how you can go green with doing some very simple things. some improvement items did you can get a rebate of up to $7,000 just by putting in new water heaters, and doing ventilation, and we have margaret here, who is a homeowner and a contractor, just to tell you really how easy it is. it is so important when we're looking at our home. our home is one of the most valuable things we have to continue to invest in. many of these minor investments will make huge returns on investment and a huge savings down the road. on average -- most of you know that i am a huge solar advocate

and i have solar panels on my home. the return on solar is even more than the return on energy efficiency. energy efficiency often times will return your investment in three years. it is so fast and so easy. we're really here to encourage energy improvement. we want you to be part of this. we did in the assessor's office, we have an annual noticed of the best evaluation that went out to every single property owner in the city and the county. over two hundred thousand letters, and each of them got a brochure. there is a copy of the brochure that we mailed out with this wonderful family here, talking about how you can get $7,000 in rebates just by participating in this, just by going ahead and working with solar city and being a part of this. is it is so important that we take the first step that we can take to become greener in our

own lives, because we forget how big an impact just our small little, as on the environment when you add it up with all the people in san francisco. i am honored to be joined by the director of the department. she is going to walk you through the program and talk about the great things they are doing. >> before i talk about the program, i really wanted to thank phil for is leadership on these issues. he has been a champion for solar in san francisco as well as for energy efficiency. we are excited to have partnered with the assessor's office to get this information to homeowners in san francisco. my name is melanie, the director of the san francisco department of the environment. in an effort to help our city's homeowners afford energy efficiency in their homes, my department has partnered with energy of great california to develop the san francisco home improvement and performance program. this is a program that does

offer financial incentives of up to $7,000 for san francisco homeowners, which is an exce looking to do energy efficiency in their homes. as you all know, making home energy improvements will all to save money on electricity bills, as well as gas bills. doing energy efficiency of grades in a home also makes comes more comfortable as well as more healthy. ultimately, as he said, if you do energy efficiency upgrades in your home, it does increase the value of your home. the first up in terms of participating in the sf hip program is to call one of our specially trained contractors who can come out to do an energy assessment, to basically look at what some of the measures are that you could do in your home to see these types of energy savings. this is an apparent factor in the program, because the more energy that you say, the more money that you can receive, up

to $7,000. it is here with the percentage of energy that you can save, connected to the rebate that you can get. some of the projects that contribute to energy efficiency that could be part of your home energy upgrade includes adding insulation, air sealing around windows, walls and crawlspaces, upgrading or installing high efficiency heating and cooling systems, as well as a grading a water heater or a boiler. i did want to urge homeowners to take a vintage of these savings now. we're offering up to $7,000 in rebates for energy efficiency. after august 21, it will go down by about $1,000, so there really is reasons to participate in the next five weeks. ultimately, by helping homeowners make these upgrades, we're working together with the assessor reporters office to ensure that we can meet our carbon reduction goals here in

san francisco. we are working to reduce their carbon emissions in the city by 20% below 1990 levels by the end of next year. that is one of the reasons to put together this program, to aggressively how to do energy efficiency in homes throughout san francisco. ultimately, this program, sf hip is a great example of our commitment to visionary and burn the to programs that help to promote social equity, to protect human health, and to leave their way towards a sustainable future. we're working very hard -- we have more direct -- very hard to get where we are, but to set our goals, we need to keep pushing the envelopes thef hip -- we need to continue pushing the envelope. sf hip will help us to do that. thank you. >> thank you. my name is margaret wilson. i have been a resident of san francisco for eight years. my husband and i bought a house.

we did it with my daughter and her husband, and we share an old victorian with my husband, daughter, son-in-law, and their three children. since we bought the house, we have had a lot of maintenance just to repair damage and stuff. but we have been also very conscientiously trying to do environmental upgrades. and we had been a solar city customer. we put solar on our house two years ago and were able to do so with almost no out-of-pocket expense. and we have seen, you know, basically not a reduction in our energy bill, but flat on our energy bill, and we know that is from solar. so when i received a flier from solar city that announced the

energy audits, i talked to my daughter and we decided that we would go and do that right away. so we replied and a requested the energy audit. we had a team of solar city people come into our house and go through the whole house, through the heating, you know, the windows, the drafting, how we used heating and stuff like that. and as a result of that audit, they designed a program for us that included ceiling cracks and weather stripping, reducing its draft from a fireplace by putting something in to block the draft. replacing in 1950's vintage heater that i had been told in the past was about 50%

effective. they replaced it with a new height efficiency furnace, and in doing that, it also had the asbestos removed from the house. i was delighted to get rid of the asbestos, too. that heating system also allows us to better modulate the temperature in the house because it is a multi-story house. it is very hard to keep both floors comfortable. but the system that puts in allows us to better modulate the temperature and keep the house comfortable. also, as part of the energy audit, they identified a very hazardous situation we had with an old stove that is leading carbon monoxide. we planned on replacing dead in the future, but we have now budgeted to do an immediate replacement of that stove, so they identified a very hazardous situation, and we now have the opportunity to correct that.

so i have been very thrilled with the work that solar city did. they also completed the work in a timely manner. the people were very pleasant but there was absolutely no mess left. i am delighted in the looking forward to our energy savings. so thank you. >> i will just say a few words about how solar city. it is one of the leading full- service solar energy efficiency and now electrical vehicle charging providers in the united states, and we're delighted to be working with s the environment and energy agreed california, providing homeowners with incentives to make it easier for them to make energy efficiency and upgrades to their home. we have about 2000 energy efficiency customers in the u.s. and 15,000 solar projects completed are underway -- or under way. i think margaret wilson as a prime example of a homeowner who has seen comfort and health benefits, in addition to

environmental and monetary savings. d want to tell us about some of the rebates from the program? >> absolutely. in addition to the san francisco home improvement program, there's a program called the energy agreed california program, and it is designed to help all want -- homeowners make energy efficiency improvements to the home and offset the cost. up to four thousand dollars for pg&e utility customers available for doing things that you might want to do already, adding insulation or reducing traps in your home, replacing the water europe -- water healeheater. not only do you save energy and money and reduce your current footprint, but you'll be much more comfortable in your home. >> grade, thank you. again, in san francisco, we're actually a prime target for this program, because the folks who should consider this program the most are folks who are owning older homes. margaret's home was built in the

1880's. we have a lot of homes built in the 1920's and in 1930's. those homes are prime targets for this program in terms of having a leaky windows and older furnaces and water heaters, all the upgrades we would normally do. in addition to this program, we're also going to be working on a green grade. we are encouraging residents to homeowners to do a certification process through our office, where they can actually get a certification to show that their house has gone green. obviously, when people sell those homes or or refinancing those homes, we anticipate that green homes will obviously be more valuable, just like energy- efficient homes of the more valuable immediately once those improvements are made. let me stop there and see if you have any questions for any of us. >> when do you begin recording

this information? >> i think we're looking at the next few months to do that. >> so they will have to come to the city and that you guys know about the improvements -- collect just like through commercial properties and their certification. we're looking to do something similar for san francisco. >> are other municipalities already doing this or is this considered the best practice? >> i am not aware of that. >> and not just going to be a best practice. no other questions? ok, thank you very much.

mayor lee: thank you, everyone. i wanted to be here to welcome the prime minister from new zealand's. i know he is here. he is on a stopover in preparation for the america's cup, on his way, of course, to meet our president obama and talk about our two countries' mutual support and help. i would like to think that the prime minister was here

primarily co view the competition -- was here primarily to view the competition that will be between us in 2013, with washington being a stop over. i want to welcome him here. i know he is here to not only speak for himself, but knowing that team new zealand has won the america's cup twice before, and in 1995 and 2000. they are going to be a very helpful. i am very excited about the america's cup. it will bring in some 8800 jobs to this city. it will really result in $1.4 billion of economic in come for our city, and that is why we're working very closely with michael thompson, are america's cup authority, as well as the president of our rec and park

commission. and we work as a team and we know that team new zealand will be a tough competitor, but we also know as winners tell much this means to their economy and how much it means to was in san francisco. we enjoyed the prime minister's visit here. we have just discussed what this america's cup means to our bay area. perino it will be a great competition and a friendly supports -- of release sports competition as well. as you know, new zealand has experienced a very devastating earthquake. i want to continue to extend san francisco's support for their immediate recovery. we have joined people in christchurch and all over new zealand to help with their

recovery. just recently, we held an earthquake management seminar here in san francisco that was attended by new zealand's officials to share our expertise and make sure we're doing everything we can, from sending over engineer help to talking to and exchanging the best earthquake management -- earthquake recovery management techniques that we have. we will continue to do that. charlotte shells, our protocol officer knows, we will keep our position as an international city, and the best way to do that is to offer all the help we could to areas lies -- like christ church in new zealand and to be a city that is supportive of their recovery and helping to instigate any ideas for a quick recovery. i know as prime minister key

visits president obama our countries will work together and our mutual cooperation will be cultural and economic, but the city and council of san francisco is also there for new zealand. we look forward to from the competition, but we also look forward to help them recover as well. with that, i wanted to present a proclamation to his occasion to visit us and visit our bay, and by the way, prime minister, every day in san francisco is like this. [laughter] clear, enough when it for the sales. prime minister, if we want to present to you this proclamation, declaring it to be prime minister john key day in san francisco. [applause] prime minister.

>> thank you for welcoming me, mayor lee, and my delegation here to san francisco. we have had a grave -- we have had a great 24 hours in san francisco and the bay area. we are getting a sense of what our team is doing in their san francisco home. yesterday and in the bay area, we've visited some of those very fast-growing companies to get a sense of how rapidly the opportunities are emerging. also, the people of christ church except the good wishes. with had three major earthquakes within the last nine months and

aftershocks. i think the people of san francisco know from their tragic experience of 1996, the challenges that result after an earthquake, the great difficulty of dealing with that situation, and also we can see what a wonderful city you have built from the ruins of that quake in 1996. the people of christ church appreciate the heart and soul of the people on in san francisco. we look forward to competing in need -- in the louis vuitton and ultimately the america's cup. we hope to return that cup. we are up against very tough competition, i expect. obviously, i wish team america luck, but not too much luck. thank you for that. be enjoyed our experience.

we are hosting another cup onion new zealand over the next couple of months, -- in new zealand over the next couple of months. lot of people have come to your city and to your town. finally, i want to congratulate the giants on their tremendous performance in the world series. i took my son here 18 months ago to watch them. at&t stadium has to be the model stadium. a beautiful stadium, packed to the rafters, obviously. we look forward to when football season starts up again later in the year. i am going to take my son to washington after the. we're going to take 48 hours, seeing president obama and a range of other individuals. it is an interesting and

challenging time as far as what is happening in washington at the moment, and we look forward to looking at the challenges that face the united states and also the great opportunities. we thank the united states for its partnership. thank you very much. do you have any quick -- >> [unintelligible] >> absolutely. i think we can learn from each other. that is the significance of these relationships that we have, changing both engineers and professionals. we can definitely learned from christchurch. san francisco has been doing all it can. i have been the head of recovery planning since the last mayor. it takes a lot of partnerships and good planning and a focus on the vulnerable aspects. like we are focusing on our

soft story buildings in the bay area. we will continue to also have a healthy city. a healthy city is one that is not as vulnerable. and economically healthy city. the have to invest in our infrastructure. that is not only a debate in the bay area. is also a debate nationally. how do we make sure of our infrastructure, whether it is bridges or roads. >> [unintelligible] >> you will find it takes a lot longer to rebuild a city? what's it generally does take a lot longer -- >> is generally does take a lot longer to rebuild. you can expedite recovery. you can literally cut it in half. that is what we're trying to also instill in other cities that we talk with, exchanging information. recovery is about preparation.

it is a mind-set that right now, i am actually educating residents of san francisco to think about recovering now, for its people, as well as its communities and the buildings themselves. investing in infrastructure, making sure they are safe is one part. the other part is -- people do not have to leave the city. they can rebuild right away and know that local government is there to want to build. said the investment is important. -- so, the investment is important. i know in new orleans, one of the big criticisms is that no one met with the business community to suggest that they stay and rebuild right there. we learned that lesson, and we are here, right now, suggesting to our businesses, we want them to stay. we want the infrastructure. we want our utilities to recover immediately. >> [unintelligible]

what are the examples? mayor lee: i think at an average it would take at least 10 years to rebuild san francisco after the major earthquake they are predicting. we are working on a plan that would be three to four years maximum. that is what we would like to see. >> [unintelligible] mayor lee: absolutely. otherwise you lose all the other major businesses. may have to know we are working on this right now. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> we certainly have the wind. we have the wind at our back. it is gorgeous. it is amazing. you will display the america's cup to an audience that will pack in on the shores your.