across the world that are using similar energy maps to map out their solar installations. we've paired this bold strategy and leadership with smart economic development strategies that drive the growth of our clean tech industries in san francisco. in fact, march of last year, the clean tech group named san francisco the clean tech capital of north america because we had made our aggressive push in the renewable energy, particularly in solar. (applause) >> thank you. and we want other cities to win that title as well. we're not satisfied being the only city in north america that earns that title. we want other cities to earn that as well because that will up the competition, and we like competition in this area. we also passed a business tax exclusion for clean tech firms in our city. we've taken advantage of our position as being in the center

for business and innovation to become a hub for international clean tech firm. our historic strength and our city has been in finance, and, so, solar firm are moving here to san francisco to be close to their financial partners and to major utilities and government agencies such as pacific gas and electric, our san francisco public utilities commission, our california public utilities commission as well as the environmental protection agencies. we are now home to more than 35 solar companies and five of the top 10 solar module manufacturers in the world have their offices here in san francisco. we're home to energy major developers and installers, including sun run, sun edison, teetion energy, basse electric, [speaker not understood]. so, to the solar companies already here in our great city, thank you for investing in our

great city. ~ teague as those who are not yet located in san francisco, we welcome you. ~ with open arms. (applause) >> please consider joining your great colleagues in being part of the world's most innovative and dynamic solar clusters in the world. we continue to be a great city. we're very proud of our partnerships and our solar companies and our service providers, out of their work. we're not stopping here with these milestones. we're going to heed the call of our governor. we're going to get to goals yet to be imagined, and i thank you for being here in our world class city to kickoff this inter-solar 2013. thank you for being here in san francisco. (applause) ...

>> thank you very much. thank you everyone for those presentations in the beginning. we really appreciate you guys time and taking the time to come to the council. welcome back everyone. let's get started on the second half of our meeting. so next up we have action team number 7 of discussion and possible action item adopt in a resolution regarding guiding principles for the construction and affordable housing for seniors and people with disabilities. and presenting is chip. oh, denise. denise and then chip. >> thank you chair. welcome.

the mayor's disability council throughout the month has some segments on housing and the issues and concern affecting the disability and the senior community. and through public comment we want you to know that, you know, we heard you and the resolution that i'm about to read i hope reflects those issues and concerns and i want to thank you joanna and chip. they're apart of the committee with me and we worked on this and i look forward to the feedback from the public and the council. so i'm going to go ahead and read the resolution now. okay. this is resolution 2013-01. san francisco mayor's disability council resolution recommending guiding principles for the construction and maintenance of affordable and acceptable housing for seniors and people

with disabilities. whereas available affordable and accessible housing has been a prominent issue that affects the disability community in the city of san francisco and whereas the supply and funding of available, affordable and accessible housing have severely diminished due to the recent elimination of redevelopment agencies and whereas providing housing available in the community for people with disabilities is not just an urgent need, but is a -- going onto the second page -- manual civil right as affirmed by the united states state of the supreme court of 1999 and the mayor's disability council have heard from community members with disabilities and from their advocates who share their

frustrations and disan appointment with the state of -- frustrations and disappointments with the state. being resolved that funding resources for affordable and accessible housing be found to help offset the funding gap created by the loss of the city's redevelopment agency and further be resolved that the construction of new, adaptable and accessible housing be a priority over rehabilitating older, existing buildings and it be constructived rather than renewing sor building and further let it be resolved that it be developed by the

maintenance of the features including elevators along with incentives for maintaining accessible features and sro where affordable housing exist and let it be further resolved that a single accessible data base be created with people with various disabilities can be matched with the appropriate housing unit and let it be resolved that low income housing is contracted with feature that promote and enhance mental health of tenants such as the use of natural light, full spectrum lining fixtures, cheerful color schemes and community space and be further resolved that a percentage of existing and new accessible housing be allocated for people with multiple, chemical environmental sensitivities mcs, that will be

smoke free and constructed with environmentally safe materials such as low, voc paints and carpet glue and that housing be dispensed out the city on the community resides in their community with satellite. >> is chip next or public comment first? >> sure. thank you denise for reading and for the contributions you made to the working of this resolution. we did a lot of work with joanna and we believe we have a comprehensive document and some of these things will take years

to get to, some can be done rather in a short period of time, i think. but it covers, i think, very well and develops the core needs of the community. so i'm proud of our work. and i welcome public comment. >> yes. and i did put a little input on that resolution too. okay. so we are going to welcome public comment right now. >> thank you chair. >> we got some cards. i'm sorry. >> it's still public comment. >> charles menstor. >> council members, i'm charles menstor and i'm a member of the city, district one and i'm a member of senior disability action and the california launch of retired americans. i

want to support this resolution. it's a needed step forward in this city where we're getting older and with disabilities and all the things that go with that. i'd like to bring it to this -- therefore it be resolved that funding sources for affordable and accessible housing be found to help offset. we have a mayor and administration that is on their knees in front of the sillicon valley and the real-estate interest giving tax breaks for up to five years for some of these interest. these banking interest released figures of gaining profits that they've seen in their history and they've been bailed out by us. the real-estate interest in this city are seeing a

highest medium price for housing. i don't think they're paying any extra tax or going to support this issue without a fight. and so you should prepare for a fight to gain this money and it's there. it's in the banks. it's in the real-estate interest and in the housing that have stolen billions from us and been supported by this government and like i said, mayor lee is on his knees in front of him. so this is the barriers that you're going to have to deal with and you're going to need allies to do that. so thank you. >> thank you. bill hersh. >> good afternoon. my name is bill hersh and i'm the director of the aids referral panel and i serve on the coordinating council and share their housing committee and been apart of the disability advocates and i've

worked with disability rights organizations for many years, probably too long at this point. but i wanted to thank you for your work on this resolution and offer an opportunity for us to kind of join forces. one of the things that has been frustrating for me over the years is having many of these conversations in smaller venues without having the coordinated city response that we really need in order to address many of these issues. when i saw the list of items in the resolution, it reminded me of many of the items that we included most recently in the living with dignity plan that was done through the department of aging and adult services and we added a couple things that i think totally dub neatly with your work trying to insure that accessible units pows people

who need accessible units layers subsidies on new construction, accessible units so that they are also affordable. often new construction buildings are not subsidized with section 8. they're tax credit buildings so while they're lovely and new and accessible, they're not affordable to the folks at the very lowest income level whopz need those units. we've tried to get funding from a person and could be housed with the mayor's office and you heard about the number of complaints they received, how many of them came from housing situations. we'll love to see an effort to resolve the issues at the lowest conflict level. so i want to offer to join forces. i also want to say that there's a lot of work that unfortunately has gone into many, many, plans over the

years and it's frustrated sometimes to see those plans take a lot of time and energy to develop and sit there on the shelf. most recently there is the latest analysis of impediments of the housing that the mayor's office put out. many of those issues haven't been addressed including more money for fair house outreach to help keep people in their homes. i made copies with "living with dignity." goals. and you can get the recent one with the mayor's house of housing and there's a lot of stuff that i think you would get behind in and i look forward to working with you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next sgl next we

have warren mar. >> warren mar, again. vice president. i didn't plan to stay and speak on this, but when i saw it on the agenda i couldn't resist. we know that low end housing are being lost. i want to echo you and thank you. here's another problem that has come to the inspection building, i know that the city is trying to house homeless folks and house very poor or low income folks, but we are putting them in sro's that do not have access, so this is the irony. we have seen working with senior action network, disabled folks, senior folks being put in some very bad sro's that we don't even want

able body folks in. they're here and senior folks locked in their rooms with no elevator access on the second, third floor. so it's -- with tons of notice of violations from our department, okay. so these are situations. i know that it's touchy politically, but, you know, this is something we have to address because we're using tax money to take these folks off the street, but we're putting them in places that are maybe not even much better than the street. so and paying the rent. so this is something that our department just go crazy and we see this. we don't know what to do either because we don't want to say, they can't live here. we fight with the landlords and fight with them to fix their

elevators and fix whatever the problem is, but that takes a lot of time. so that's all i have to say. good luck in your efforts. again, it's going to take a big coalition, but we want to make sure the money is put to the right use. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tony robles. >> good afternoon council members. my name is tony robles. i work with senior and disability action. we advocate for better housing, better health care and those things that would allow elders to age in place. i want to read something that was said at a recent housing rally that took place on mission street about

two weeks ago. it's about a younger disabled gentleman who live in the tenderloin. he says i'm 25 and never spent a third on my income on rent. for four years, i live on ssi. in san francisco now a market rate department in the tenderloin will rent for $1500 a month. that means there's no way for people with disabilities in san francisco to live in this city without some form of public housing and public housing isn't what the city is building. we have section 8, which is a wait list and hasn't been updated in a decade. we have thousands of people on the streets and yet mayor lee says that san francisco is experiencing an exno, -- economic book. it's a crisis for san francisco

resident. we need the city to focus on addressing the crisis and addressing affordable housing so san francisco maintains a place for all its resident. we know that the crisis in the public housing has been very bad. there are new developments springing up in the mission inn and we know that those developments aren't, you know, for low income people. i think there's one that's where the old new mission theater is and that's going up. i think that's 46 units and i think to get in there you have to make a minimum of $56,000 a year to qualify for a one bedroom. so it's slowly but surely an epidemic and you know, i think this is just a reflection on really the neglect that's been

going on for many years. whose folks that are forming these -- this policy, their values do not reflect ours as all. as bill from arlp said, getting an coordinating efforts, and we're not duplicating our times but managing our resources to work together to get a list of affordable housing to get more affordable housing and to get folks who are in need of accessible housing, getting them into newer developments and layering the funding. those are the things that can be done and we've tried to get those things done in years past, but it has gotten to an unprecedented situation that that's going to have to be done. fda is happy to work

with mayor's council man on disability's act and we look forward to meeting minds and trying to solve these situations and circumstances. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there other public comment? >> madam chair and members of the council, my name is peter mendosa and i'm with the force center in san francisco. access to housing is an important issue for our

consumers that we serve. i want to urge -- first of all i want to commend this -- moving this resolution forward. i think this will bring the city together to work on this issue. i don't want to echo what has been said but i want to strongly urge that as we develop housing, we develop housing for people would are very law income -- people who are low income. the maximum rent that i believe a person who receives section 8 can rent for is around 1850 roughly. i may be off by a little bit, but the average rent in san francisco as we all know, it's

higher than $1850. people with -- that are on housing on section 8 public housing, when they do get assistant through section 8, often have to move out of the city in order to find housing. that means we're losing san francisco residents who want to live here but can't live here because there's no housing available. i also would like to remind everyone that if someone moves in to housing that's an accessible or physical access, that's a civil rights issue so i feel and i know we feel that the agents -- that it's important to address these issues. again i want to commend you for your work on this resolution and -- i hope

the stakeholders revolve this issue and we look forward to this being the catalyst to make changes happen. >> thank you. any further comment? >> my name is dw johnson. i want to say are you trying to explore cities that had to do with the loss of development and what they're doing about housing? i think that's one thing that should be explored and how the other cities are dealing with the situation. and two, housing is needed. i'm disabled myself and i've been here over 25 years. i finally got a chance to move to a studio apt on 1/3 of my income for a very small place

and i get a chance to move and i find that every penny i have is spent toward rent and bills. so i really -- i rather get to go out and hangout with my friends. i can't take myself to a movie because i'm watching every pen sxee -- penny. me quality of my place got better but the quality of my life didn't get better. we need to advocate how quality of place and quality of life goes hand and hand. thank you. >> thank you. other comments? >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is walter park. i live here and i've been doing disability work for 30 years and i have become my own client. thank you for this resolution. i think these are excellent issues and i'm glad to see them brought to

light in a disability way. i would like to make a couple of suggestions. i could like to concur with the first speaker. we do have a lot of money in this country and in this state and in this city and it's not being spent on the people we care about. i wouldn't leave the term "on his knees" but the reality is it's still working. you say in your -- we heard from community members, i hope you can strengthen that by saying that you have accepted public testimony. this was more than just a conversation on the sidewalk. this was official testimony and i'd like to see that stated as strongly as possible. in the resolutions, you ask for additional funding sources. i don't know how to set the bar

because obviously it will need to be negotiated if it's taken seriously in city government. something like a ten percent increase and what's being done and the tens of millions of dollars that's being done. i hope that six months from now and again a year from now, you will come back and read this resolution again to yourselves and invite those who would be involved in implementing it and say what has happened. i think a one time year frame is more than an enough even though this is an ambitious program. but if you don't set the bar, how do you know if it will succeed. on the question on rehabilitating older buildings instead of new construction accident of course new construction is expensive. we have to do both and i'm glad to see you ask for a new construction because it's easier and cheaper to make

accessible. accessible features are cheaper but the housing cost more. in the first resolution or the next paragraph of resolution you ask for stricter enforcement but you're not specific. do you mean on the expenditure of moh money, how would that happen? i don't know how to change this language during this hear, but i like to hear more guidance so the people who you're expecting something from know who they are. this is too vague in my opinion. and finally i think the suggestion to have an accessible data base is a great idea. the company i ran with had state funding and that meant that we had a half time staff person every month to call all the lower income

private and subsidized sources and see what was out there and put it on data base and make it available to people. that can be done but it does take money and it has to be low cated some where. where are you suggestion that it's located. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. is there anyone on the bridge line? >> no. >> any council members. >> chip. >> thank you sarah. i think that i would like to suggest that we take some time to incorporate some of these suggestions and comments into the document and come back in

september. in that time also we can reach out to other people which is bill and the otc and others to collaborate on a document that is truly comprehensive. so that's my suggestion. >> i just wanted to say something too. thank the three of you on working on resolution. i want to say that i cold hardedly support it. everyday my job -- my day job is to support individuals with develop mental disabilities to live in their home but to find housing most importantly. i can't find any for them. they are living on ssi and there's not a lot you can afford with ssi. forget section 8, those are closed and to ech