this is already suffered delays. really today's action is adding the remaining core projects. which is 19 ave. accessible to pedestrian signals coming countdown signals, and sonic avenue upgrade. i will discuss briefly the mta staff here. attachment two shows the proposed amended 5y pp. and men and three shows how each of the scores. -- amendment 3 shows how each of these scores. if you approve the amendment this month, during the course of this fiscal year, mta expects to come back for allocation request for each of these projects. this covers planning through construction. this is a complementary project. it has to do with replacement of the signal infrastructure along

from mission to lombard. it is transit signal party hardware all along the corridor insignificant corridors throughout the city. it is very good leveraging due in part to the executive director and prior commissioner. it has climate initiatives that we created last funding cycle. our main concern is we're working closely to make sure it is constructed and designed in tandem with the project. the 19th avenue pedestrian signal as part of the 19th ave. signal project, we evaluated 34 traffic signals and identified 18 of them as either a high or medium-priority for installation signals for this. this is the remaining 14 locations. on sunset boulevard pedestrian countdown signal project, the

commissioner carmen chiu is familiar with this. this would be installed as part of the contract. lastly masonic avenue signal upgrade would install signals at six intersections. this includes things like cut down indicators. i will note this is part of the larger multi-agency masonic a bid avenue project . we can provide more information on this. at one of our meetings whenever members felt strongly that the city need to to move quickly to address safety issues for cyclists and this quarter. -- in this corridor. mta staff has indicated at this point the project is not constitute any bicycle treatments. with that, i would be happy to answer any questions, and i will

let you know in september you will have a major amendment to the state the category to consider. >> thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. any questions from staff? why don't we open it up to the public. if anyone from the public wishes to speak, please come forward. >> supervisors, and for those at home, the city has had many people die because of lack of pedestrian safety. one of the things when we discussed -- discussed up like this and plush a little bit against traffic signals, we need to tell people at home if the signals are put in in hefour

places, how much they cost. if i draw up a figure like $100,000, that is more or less a ballpark figure. this is delivering a mechanism that works with $25,000. having said that, oftentimes when i come here -- i do not want to come here too many times, but when i come here i like to study any issue with the empirical data. so fluff is one thing, but we need to go and find out exactly what we have done in a given time linked to traffic signals, and what we have not done and maybe by putting other types of signals, and i say that because on my trips to australia, australia is pretty big.

you see things, and when you see things, you want those things to happen in our great city. so what i am saying plainly is this, while the impending very expensive traffic signals that take a lot of time to get the permits and so on, in the interim it is good to contact our senior citizens. we have a large population of senior citizens. it is good to contact schools and asked how children and their parents, the difficulties they have on san jose avenue, san bruno ave, which one of you supervisors know what happens there. something like putting uthis

there will save many lives. so with this type of deliberation is giving to you about the flight in technology which takes years and years to be put in practice, we need to know in the interim what really has been done to save lives, because no price can be put on a life, especially a child like. thank you very much. -- especially a child's life. supervisor campos: thank you. colleagues, this is an action item. we have a motion. motion by commissioner wiener. second by commissioner avalos. can we go back to item number three, please? >> citizens advisory committee report. supervisor campos: great.

>> the chair informed us he would not be able to make it today, but on page 11 of your packet are the draft minutes, and they did approve the motions, although there was some discussion. >supervisor campos: i would like to send a formal request to make sure they do have a representative here present at the meeting. i think it is important for us to hear directly from them come into the extent there are any questions about the report. i do not think it does the committee justice to simply have a written report. i think there has to be someone present as well. >> absolutely. i agree. isupervisor campos: madam clerk, can you call item no. 8. any new items for introduction?

any member of the public that would like to speak on item 8? seeing none, public comment is closed. seeing no new items, which to call item 9. >> 9, public comment. supervisor campos: any member from the public that would like to speak on an item not within the agenda? >> i was here some time ago at the land use committee, and one of the issues that we were talking about was the light rail. nobody from the citizens' advisory committee was present. let me say something. i hope they say it for the final time, and i hope i am not

required to take legal action, because i will. when we have these representatives for the citizens' advisory to renee -- committee, just like you were supposed to represent, they are supposed to represent. district 10 has very, very, serious issues with transportation. very very serious issues with transportation. iwhen we talk about spending millions of dollars on this project and that project, we look forward to our citizens advisory committee. we also look forward to the unions, for the unions to get some report. there is a transportation union that is pretty powerful that deals with you.

we need to hear from them. some of you are aspiring to be my ears, so it is good for you all to no that the deliberations that take place here, hopefully when you are the major you will do the right thing. -- some of you are aspiring to be mayors, so it is good for you all to know that the deliberations that take place here, hopefully when you are the mayor, you will do the right thing. i want to make good use of my time, so i can tell you exactly what people at home field. when i walked to see it -- streets of san francisco, they come up to me and say thank you. they say thank you because i put myself in their shoes. i really do not need to come

here. i am retired. i could go spend a lot of time in the bahamas or what ever. but what i see when it comes to transportation, and that is linked with -- for example they are saying this and that in the newspaper, but they do not have a good transportation document. the cac must deliberate on that issue. thank you very much. supervisor campos: i think the executive director wanted to add something. >> just a quick note, to say that i will personally contact the chair and asked him to make a report next month that covers both this month's activities and the next. i also want to promise you for the next month a quick report that will show and the last decade we probably have not had

on just one occasion when you have not had a report from the cac chair or vice chair. i would also like to simply acknowledge the stellar performance and dedication to the transportation in the city for many years. we not only meet monthly come up but we spend tremendous amounts of time debating each item individually, sometimes well beyond the proposed committee meetings. as i know you appreciate, they do a tremendous service to the city, and they deserve to be recognized for that. i wanted to make sure that i made a statement about that

today. i apologize to you for the fact that we did not have the report today. as i said before, we will cover it next time. supervisor campos: commissioner carmen chiu. supervisor chiu: we have seen them come time and time again, so i think it probably is just unusual circumstance. supervisor campos: thank you. madam clerk. next item. >> item 10, adjournment. thank you very much. meeting adjourned.

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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.