economist told the round table to see what affects that would have on small business and in the ideas of what would come forth and if there were a change, so we have heard a lot of ideas this evening, and we will be meeting with the controller again, so this is something you will see and hear a lot of over the next few months. they want to have this done by april 15, so if anybody is interested, it will be ready via e-mail. i think getting everybody's impact region we are all small- business owners, and this will affect everybody. >> we are working to get a briefing at the retreat and if

not there then at the april meeting. >> that is all i have for this evening. >> item 11, vice president report. >> i do not have anything at this time. >> item 12, commissioner reports. commissioner riley: as the director mentioned, i attended a workshop with the small business commission, and it was really well-attended. it was almost standing room only, and we have an assemblyman and supervisor david shula -- david shulchu, and it was very

informative. prior to this workshop, i was not too clear on the difference between the benefit corporation, but it is pretty clear the differences between them, and there were small-business owners to talk about how they benefit, so that is one thing, and i also attended a press conference to allow them to invest in the neighborhood strategy work crew. good -- work group. this is item number 10, to invest in a neighborhood initiative for commercial

corridors, so there was a very good reading, and i was off to work on the work group. our first meeting was going to be at 11:00, so i was hoping we'd get them to come to our retreat. i also attended a meeting with the fda advocacy group as well as with the fda and the oriental food association, and as mentioned by the public affairs specialist, there is going to be a lot of new food safety laws coming out, so it is important for us through informs small- business owners, and especially the group that imports food from outside of the country, and some of the members of this association mentioned there are

so many new laws coming out, it would be important for them to be informed, so one of the ways i suggested is for the fda to send information to us, and we can send it out now along with our newsletter so people can be informed of what is coming up, and all they have to do is give us a paragraph in with a link to the new law. >> thank you, commissioner o'riley. commissioner dwight: i just want to report i exchanged a few emails. i was there and chatted about dthe b corps thing. it took awhile to tease out some opportunities that major real impact on him, because he said

he was not really enthused about closing the gap, and the more he had to think about it the more it made sense, and it appears they are recommending in it is reduced from 8% to 4%. it is always nice to know that our discussions appear to have some impact. commissioner dooley: i attended a meeting of the small independent pet store owners, and i invited someone to meet with them, and that was very excited for those members to realize there are groups supporting small business issues, and it was well- received. the pet stores are becoming new members, so i think it was a good hook croup.

commissioner dwight: that reminds me, i went to the meeting at petrero hills, and there were not a lot of people there, but i was there, and the owner of sports baseman, who is very involved, and i learned they are not formally organized, and i wondered if it could be organized in the same way because and made available funding options, so i am going to try to help the organization get organized whatever is the right way, but we are meeting this friday to talk about whether there is an opportunity to be set up in a way that could provide other funding methods, because they have really

struggled to have any staff, and retail isthmus a major regional retail is a major employer -- and retail is a major employer, and if they could organize themselves not as a typical merchant association, but as an economic development force, that would be fantastic, so we will see. they were excited to have some interesting. good >> any other commissioner reports? next item. >> item 13, the general public comment. >> any members of the public wish to speak? seeing none. >> new business.

>> seeing none, next item. >> is there a movement to adjourn? >> all in favor? the meeting is adjourned at 8:43 p.m.

>> which celebrated the electric vehicle charging stations and facilities in san francisco today. i am the deputy general manager for the san francisco public utilities commission and i am joined today by mayor ed lee, fiona maw, mila nutter and barbara hale. this has been sort of a team effort, it has taken quite a while to get here. we are thankful for her help on 631 that paved the way for putting in these stations. as we go through this presentation today, i hope you take a chance to look at some of the electric vehicles today.

i would like to thank several people that are here today, especially barbara hale's staff. our colleagues at the metropolitan transportation authority as well as the colleagues had reckoned harper installing these. at the department of public works colleagues. with that, i will turn it over to the mayor lee for a few comments. >> thank you, michael, and a thank-you for your stewardship. you and barbara, ed harrington, you have done a great job. when i was city administrator, asked mayor newsom if i could do the ev's. i liked working with our department of environment, with melanie, with bob and others. they sat down and spend some good time talking about

innovation for the city as to how we can get off of oil. i am glad the day that -- today that the chairman is here. a year ago, we announced that we wanted 100 of these charging stations placed throughout all of the public garages. that was the strongest signal that we could give that we were going to pave the way and be supportive of the national movement and be the bay area leaders of the ev revolution. we have 49 of these stations placed. does a wonderful goal. before the end of this year, we'll have them -- an additional 33. we see that the private sector has also joined in.

we have hotels, parking garages that are privately owned and other public areas where private interests are saying that they would like to install these ev chargers for their customers. in fact, one of my favorite hotels down near chinatown, a have a charger there that is in use. people are proud of driving their vehicles in there for that use as well. the label themselves as a green hotel precisely because of these ev charging stations. these chargers, because of their newness, they had to be introduced to interrupt the culture, i have had the pleasure of working with eight apartments coordinating themselves together from our office of disabilities, public works, mta, puc, fleet managers. and including our own fleets, we

can make sure that we transition. the weather is the chevy volt that i have had the pleasure of writing in or the nissan leaf that is the newest coming out in the market very soon, i believe that these are the cars of the future. while we embrace transit first in the city and it will be forever our number one priority, to the extent that we must use vehicles, at some of us have to to get around in different schedules, that we do so in the most environmentally supportive way. it is a reminder that we can get off of oil. the reason why i think the popularity of these charging stations are coming at such a fast pace is because people like the assemblywoman have done what they can on the legislative

side. she has passed a very valuable law that allows these stations not to be considered as utilities. that incentivizes the private sector to join the public sector. i want to remind everybody, i know that they have this on his mind. hydroelectric power is the cleanest power you can possibly have has a source. for us in the bay area, the strongest source of that has the dam. it is the one that we value the most because it produces clean and efficient energy. it is transmitted throughout the bay area. it preserves and generates the cleanest energy. it is not only the present use for the charging stations, i

believe it will also be considered to be of great part of our future for electric charging. again, there are efforts in and outside of our city that suggest what i have considered to be an insane idea to get rid of our hech hechi dam. i believe that is misleading and false advertising. that is our future. i think that they need to understand the hydroelectric power is the way forward along with solar and the other sources that we are creating and the united states to be independent from oil. i enjoy working with the department of the environment. all of the different entities that have come together to make sure that this works, how to make sure it works not only as an environmentally friendly system, but it has to work for

every day people, persons with disabilities that are parking in our garages and ordinary folks that are trying to use or come to the fantastic art events. it works for a real thing that we do. this is one of my priorities, one that i am very happy to continue working with the various agencies and welcoming the new auto industry, one that complement's transit first. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. it is nice for the mayor to remind us that we have a guess- 3. first, we need to a knowledge -- acknowledge fiona maw. she paved the way for --

>> one of the best part of my job is that i can work on things that i care about. i am on my fourth hybrid, and i am waiting to get an electric vehicle so i can save money on gas. as gas prices rise, i think the pressure is on to try to figure out how to get people around economically. i do want to thank the mayor for his leadership. he has been the head of many departments over the years and he knows how to bring people together to cut through the red tape and get things done. when advocates came to me in the community about 8631 saying that we have a problem, the problem is we don't know how we're going to be regulated as electric vehicle charging stations, if we are going to be subject to the puc and calls to sacramento

every time there is a change in leadership or commissioners or ideas, or whether we can operate like a free market similar to gas stations. we worked very hard for two years, which gives certainty to the electric vehicle charging station market that they will not be regulated as a public utility and will be able to have certainty and invest in these long-term investments. i do want to recognize the city and county as we are working on this bill. he told me about their ambitious project of putting in 100 charging stations in public facilities. they were leading the charge, and the city and county in california that is as aggressive or as visionary as a san francisco. hech hechi power is so

important. it was the vision of our forefathers, the engineering marvel that created that our system. it powers many or all of our city services in the city buildings, and i want to thank the mayor's leadership for not charging the public for a whole year for using these charging stations in the public facilities. he said it is going to be free until 2013 to encourage people to try at and to get used to it and demand more. i want to thank the mayor for his leadership and applaud the city team for working together on this very visionary and aggressive project. >> last but not least, my colleague from the department of the environment. i would also like to recognize

that staff person for their involvement as well. >> i was really pleased to be standing with the assemblywoman almost a year ago today to announce the city report. as you heard, this really is a critical piece of legislation for the state of california to enable electric vehicle infrastructure. that is what you need to address with legislation and that is exactly what assemblywoman maw did. in san francisco, it is a really critical project for environmental protection. about 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon emissions come from cars and trucks. finding an alternative for people that need to use a single occupancy vehicles is a critical project. i am hoping to get people out of

the cars, walking or biking. having an electric vehicle was a great option. all of our city chargers are powered through carbon-free power. mirren newsom did set a goal of our city being 100% renewable power in the next 10 years, and mayor li has in forethought with the task force looking at how we are going to get there. goomaking sure that is part of r system is going to help reach that goal. good when other elements i wanted to mention, the electric vehicle chargers, this is also another critical element of our

infrastructure, and the cars and plugged in are also helping reduce our gas emissions. statewide is becoming cleaner and cleaner, so cars are helping me the carbon emission reduction goals. i want to thank all the departments who have participated. i want to thank bob hayden, who has been essential as well as many of the conditions today, dpw, rec and park, the airport, all of those who have seized this opportunity, so i wanted to thank the assemblywoman as well as the leadership to see that we become the electric vehicle

capital in the u.s. >> that concludes our event for today. we're going to be available for questions, so thank you for coming. >> when stephen de staebler died, he was working on one of the biggest shows of his career, matter and spirit. it is a retrospective look at the many faces and faces of the life of an innovative artist from the california clay movement. stephen de staebler's developed in an area dominated by

abstract expression. even his peers saw his form. >> he was able to find a middle ground in which he balanced the ideas of human figuration and representation with abstraction and found it even more meaningful to negotiate that duality. >> another challenge was to create art from a meeting that was typically viewed as kraft material. his transforming moment was an accident in the studio. an oversized vertical sculpture began to collapse under its own weight and spread onto the floor. he sought a new tradition before him, landscape sculpture. >> you feel this extended human form underneath the surface of the earth struggling to emerge. eventually, it does. it articulates his idea that the earth is like flesh, and the

archaeology and geology in the earth are like the bones, the structure of the earth. this tied in with his idea of mother earth, with the sense that we are all tied to nature and the earth. >> a half dozen bay area museums and private collectors loan the massive sculptures to the museum for its matter and spirit retrospective. but the most unusual contributions came from stephen himself. a wall of autobiographical masks and hence from the early decades of his private study. >> he had one of the most beautiful studios i have ever been in. when you walk in, your first impression is of these monumental figures that you see in the exhibition, but if you went into the back corner of his studio, there was a series of shells with these diminutive figures. he told me, these are the heart of my studio. these little, and held intimate

study is that he referred to as his sketchbook. a painter might make drawings. stephen de staebler made miniature sculptures. >> during the 1970's, he was inspired by the monuments of egypt. he assembled a large rocks of clay into figures that resembled the ancient kings and queens. he credited a weathered appearance by rubbing glazes' into the clay while still wet. the misfires from his killed were brought in his backyard in his berkeley home. he called it his boneyard. in the last year of his life, he dug up the artifacts from his own history, and the bones were rearranged, in the were slimmer figures with wings. >> even if you knew nothing about his life or career, you sensed there was an artist dealing with this fundamental issue of life and death, the cake, netting back together, and you feel there is an attempt to deal with mortality and

immortality. there is a seeking of spiritual meaning in an existential stage. >> during his 50-year career, stephen de staebler worked to form and out of the clay of the ground and give it a breath of life. matter and spirit gathers the many expressions of his meditations. and gives the viewer and insight into the artist's life. learn more about the retrospective on line at