programs. we will try to figure them out in a collaborative way. hopefully not by taxing people or increasing parking. it is already a pretty expensive place to live, so we do not want to make it harder for folks. we are coming up with ideas to generate revenue. we're getting better. each of three or four months, we did our report from how all of our hotels and restaurants and revenue producing businesses are doing. banks and everything else. they're telling us more people are spending money to buy stuff. therefore, we are getting a tax revenue increase. we're not out of the woods yet. we will still try to make sure

we have some discipline in the budget process and that we do not overspend what we do not have. how can the mayor were to create jobs for youth? i think i answered that earlier. with those programs. i would like to work with all of you, your ideas to not only have jobs, but what would make it even fun to work in this city? when i grew up, i had all kinds of jobs. i was working in my dad's restaurant, other people's restaurants, i did everything to make a little bit of money. we even had to pay for the gyms. we had to get money for that. thus there and all the other stuff. -- bus fare and all the other stuff. we have to continue increasing

opportunities for our youth. to be able to afford some of the technology appliances or applications. can you clean up the bums and litter? [laughter] that was somebody's custom. you want me to give them a shower? i think you are saying you see a lot of people on the streets. they're sleeping in doorways. they obviously -- there might be a smelt associated with various in which you walk. -- area in which you walk. we are working on this more and more. there are homeless folks who

refuse to come into the shelters. i just announced a new director of housing opportunities, partnerships, and engagements. he used to be a supervisor in san francisco. he has a strong passion for helping folks get off the streets. it is not a good situation when folks are sleeping in doorways at night. they cannot clean up after themselves. they are using the streets and sidewalks as places for doing their cleaning up. therefore, we are trying to coax them and persuade them to get into our shelters. we have this program called a homeless can act -- connect where you as a whole day and we bring everybody that wants to volunteer. they do dentistry, haircuts, get them some counseling if they

have some mental issues. advice they need. all kinds of things. even helping them find a job. that project is done once every two or three months. we have been trying to get people to make better decisions. they can talk to their families and try to get help. one of these days, if the advocacy they want to connect up, i think that would be a good project. you know, being homeless is a serious situation. i do not want you to ever gets in that situation for yourself. people find themselves doing that because of drug addiction, or because they could not figure out some things. they got into alcoholism or something they cannot get out of. they lost their apartment and they end up getting into the

street life. it could happen. it could happen to anybody. if people do not plan their lives and do not set themselves up for success. i want you to at least spend some time with me to try to be in doubt the world for a moment to help understand what people go through. to try to determine for yourself how you can help change that. i think it is an eye opener. right now, you are just some folks on the street. you might have an attitude, just like i did for many years. did your life in order, do something. it is not that way for a lot of clubs. they went through years of struggle. they could not figure out and we are trying to figure out ways to help them figure that out. hopefully, one of these days, you will join me.

i think you will see the value. how we try to make them get to the right choices. this is not an answer to probe these folks into prison. -- prodi spokes into prison. we have to do other creative ways. i would invite you to work with me on that. what you see on the streets, and you'll understand what we have to do to change that situation together. what are you doing to help our lgbt community as far as marriage goes? we are a city that understands the freedom of marriage. you ought to be able to marry anybody you want and to live your life with anyone you want. we have that kind of freedom here in san francisco. however, we have a state law

that says, that was passed that is now being challenged. the state law restricts marriages as between men and women. allow gay marriages. we tried to modernize that law, and the courts determined that would not be legal, so we are challenging that, and we are awaiting a decision to help make a final decision. while this is going, we will allow people to marry anyone they wish.

california is behind. there are almost 10 states throughout the country that have legalized gay marriages, and hopefully we will do so in the near future. last question, my dad works 2 months out of 12 as an electrician. when will he find work? that is what our work on every single day, making sure we do a good development. i am a big proponent of the electric vehicles.

you have to work with all the different electrical apparatus thoses to charge these cars. the first 35 minutes is purely electric, so we will continue building projects in the city, so there is alon a lot. please have your dad check in early, because we have a lot of projects that need to be approved. we got a lot of projects going, and we are going to have a lot more on-line soon so a electricians will get back to work. i hope i have provided a detailed answers. congratulations.

[applause] >> 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.

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