time triggered >> thank you triggered an -- thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> as someone who worked on analysis, i cannot think of a better and more appropriate use based on funding guidelines for the program than the effort and we are trying to do. i wanted to address supervisor wiener's concerns about when the funds go away, the ability to replace those. that is something we would like to address, but if we looked at some of the projects and programs identified and a transportation plans, it is often the case those projects are started without funds being available, and sometimes we are not able to identify fineunds to

keep those routes going, so that is a concern, but i do not think it should be a barrier to getting the program done. this gives those regional funds. we think there is human capital investment, particularly the size is unique. often with transportation, whether it is through funds, we cannot not show the public what this has been. this has a clear benefit we can show the public how we invest funds and get a clearer outlook. in terms of structural deficit, that goes beyond anything we can throdo, and that is going to ree

new revenue. there are lots of ways to improve muni. thank you. >> good afternoon. i would like to say thank you for talking about the budget and with the idea of making new need free -- making muni free. it has come a long way, and i am excited to see it has come from a resolution to may be becoming a reality. mrs. rosa the document -- this

is a city document that has been released. there are deficits that need to be closed. there are buses that need to be maintained, and i know that is important to consider, but i also believe core values should match the goals as well as prioritizing the needs of our families, all families throughout the city. this budget does fat and makes sure all the families are included -- this budget goedoes that and makes sure all families are included. we want to make sure all young people are prioritized, so i want to thank you for your time, and i want to urge you to

consider making it free for all young people. >> just a few modest waypoints t respond. we appreciate the policy and fiscal rationale for resisting free, maybe discounts for youth, and we are grateful for the collaborative work. gooremain committed to all thin. roathey slip through the cracks.

those are our policy reasons, and we have heard that loud and clear from commissioners, so i want to acknowledge the point that perhaps we do have a difference of opinion, but we do have similar goals, but i am not convinced there is a difference of opinion yet. we want to have as modest an impact as possible. we strongly believe any impact barrier would necessitate costs. it is going to cost money.

thanks for your time, and particularly for these issues, we hope you will consider. and thank you. >> i am the vice chair of the sacramento youth commission. i am here to support free muni for youth. it really creates a signal that prevents low income students from succeeding.

i really hope you support free muni for all youth. thank you. >> ♪ a they like the youth to be nothing from nothing ♪ ♪ nothing from nothing equals nothing at all ♪ ♪ you may have conquered the student world, but one thing students still nameeed ♪ ♪ they need a bus pass right now ♪ >> are there other members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

public comment is closed. i want to take the time to thank ed. we look forward to your budget. can we continue this item to the call of the chair? we will do the without objection. are there any other items? >> that completes the agenda. >> thank you. we are adjourned.

>> i think a lot of times we look a community and we say, there is this one and this one, and we all have our own agenda, when our agenda is to create great work. if you're interested in that, you are part of our community. >> it is a pleasure to have you here tonight. >> we are trying to figure out a way to create a space where theater and presentation of live work is something that you think of, the same way that you think of going to the movies. of course, it has been complex in terms of economics, as it is for everyone. artistically, we have done over 35 projects in four seasons from presenting dance, producing theater, presenting music,

having a full scale education program, and having more than 50,000 visitors in the building almost every year. a lot of our emerging artists generate their first projects here, which is great. then we continue to try to support figuring out where those works can go. we have been blessed to have that were produced in new york, go unto festivals, go on to the warsaw theater festival. to me, those are great things, when you see artists who think there is no or else of someone being interested in me being a woman of color telling her story and getting excited about it. that is our biggest accomplishment. artists becoming better artists. what is great about surely coming back to brava, we have this established, amazing writer who has won a slew of awards and

now she gets an opportunity to direct her work. even though she is an amazing, established writer, the truth is, she is also being nurtured as a director, being given space to create. >> and the play is described as ceremony and theater meet. in the indigenous tradition, when you turn 52, it is that the completion of an epic. the purpose of this ceremony is to celebrate. whenever you have been caring for the first 52 years, it is time to let it go. they have given me carte blanche to do this. it is nice for me in the sense of coming back 25 years later, and seeing my own

evolution as an artist and a thinker. the whole effort even to put the indigenous woman's experience center stage is very radical. because of the state of fear, it is a hard road to hold up an institution. it really is a hard road. i am looking at where we're 25 years later in the bay area and looking at how hard it is for us to struggle, to keep our theaters going. i would like to think that i am not struggling quite as hard personally. what i mean by that is that in tension, that commitment. what i see is that we're here to really produce works of not be produced in other places, and also to really nurture and women of color artists. i think that that is something

that has not shifted for me in 25 years, and it is good to see that brava is still committed to that kind of work. you know? ♪ >> happy birthday to you happy birthday to you ♪ >> windy will talk about the reflection of the community, we can only go with what we have on our staff. south asian managing director. african-american artistic director. latino outreach person. to us, aside from the staff, aside from the artists that we work with him being a reflection of oz, yes, the community is changing, but brava has always tried to be ahead of that, just that sense of a trend. i tried to make about the work that shows the eclecticism of the mission district, as well as serving the mission. that is what i feel brava is

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>> 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