flexibility and the option to purchase. >> okay >> and then, it looked like we saw a lot of advances from lighting retrofit for the existing buildings and you know, much of the biggest gains can be done from the building, retrofits as opposed to new construction and they can get the great strides and retrofit which is it also very closely and are we exploring opportunities to get the outside funding or looking at ways that we can perhaps do more extensive building retrofit to reduce the emissions. >> i don't know the answer to the funding, and you know, you think that you are referring to the 2007 retrofit where he we from the staff report where we retrofitted the buildings with the light and that was the partnership with the pec and they did an investment trade audit and we were able to make the tremendous strides there and the rest and the two challenges there are going to be the funding and the staff

time, the time that it takes to conduct, inventory of buildings and fixtures with almost 160 buildings that are subject to these kinds of improvements is tremendous and so we will look into that. >> okay. >> and i guess that i was looking at not just the lighting retrofit but actually everything but that is often more costly but we can see pretty significant gains if they are just from insulation and other things. >> the area where we are, working is with the commercial building energy performance ordinance and we have some more work to do on that and a lot of the buildings that are occupied are occupied by tenants and they are in the better position to provide the information that would guide that kind of an investment and we are working with them to try to get that information up to speed so that we have the information to make the decisions. >> okay. >> again, i am sort of thinking out loud and maybe there are some opportunities when you are doing the leasing on the

commercial spacing and they alloweded tis to have them be, at a higher standard in terms of energy efficiency. and i don't know if that is something that we do, but we may want to look into that. >> and we actually do do that and we have been in the process of doing something similar with the solar panels but, also at pier 9 with the auto, and so we are looking at those where we can and on the grants question, traditionally the grants go through the pec and that is how we become participants in them and so we will certainly revisit that and i will just remind us all that we are about to have solar panels working at pier 1 and they have been installed and they are finalizing the details. >> thank you for that. >> good, believe it or not we don't have enough wind for wind generated power. hard to imagine, some days when you are standing down here.

i thank you for all of the information and over all what the port has been doing to date and once again, the colleagues pointed out is setting the stnd ard so that other cities will take a look at what we are doing and follow our lead and our sister ports perhaps might take note of that as well. so thank you. >> okay. item ten, new business? >> is there any public comment? >> seeing none. >> okay. >> commissioner? >> i have just one new business item and just so you are aware, i was actually in hong kong for the holidays. and this was on my own. but, i detected an opportunity to contact some development and some other folks that monique and i had a chance to meet when they were in ocman two years ago in the water front and a

couple of things that we did do and we did come back and because it is always nice to compare what we are doing with the other major cities of the world and so i had a chance to visit the cruise ship terminal. and i also had a chance to meet with their development and i also part of the head of their fund advisory committee and so on that just to let you know, they have the number of cruise ship shows and about 65. and they just spent a billion u.s. dollars on their cruise ship terminal and so you can imagine for a billion dollars you get a larger terminal than what we spent, xh i don't know at the end maybe it is less than 150 million by the time that we get through with phase two. and so i pointed that out to them and they sort of looked at me and it is a beautiful terminal. and it is huge. and i mean that they can accommodate the larger ship and they have three and they had the most intraindicate and i don't know what the docking is

going to be but they have the latest technology of this gang way that moves up and down and it is fancy and they have the cruise ships at once but like i said the cost is staggering. and the moment that it is a very empty building and they have more work to do to put in amendties and it is located in hong kong at the orange old airport. and which is kind of like an island isolated away and so it is not like us, where we are in the middle of the fisherman's wharf where the tourists come off and they are in the area of the city and in the downtown. and so they are going to have the challenge of determining of how to trying to figure out what to do and trying to build the retail within the cruise ship terminal but i think that the challenge will be is these operators to only have 65 accrues ships and what they will do for the rest of the

time and also trying to do the events and probably could do some events and things like that and the challenge getting the retail tenants because it is not close to anything and it is isolated and i think that is an advantage that we have in terms of the location which really struck me and they are trying to figure that out and it seems like some of this planning is now coming in, after they already build the terminal. the architect is the same that built the airport and i remarked to them and because everything that they have build here and they have lines and everything and we have not done that because we have not finished our terminal. >> it looks like just like the airport. and it is the same architect. because it feels like an airport. i don't know if that is the fueling one wants to have but that is what it looks like. and they were gracious and i had three or four people accompany me and showed anywhere some of their water front is now n hong kong it is an island and there is some on

the other side and there is water front everywhere. and they have a harbor front advisory commitment with the chair, and so, the first is to define what is the water front? >> right now all of the pieces belong to the government in terms of the agency and not all of it is private or public. and in fact if it is you know what the pla is, and just the people lib vasing army, and prc, china, and actually, owns the buildings right on the water front and so there is a lot of different interesting and amendies around and so they are trying to define whether it is the water front, and should they have they are trying to figure out the space and we have been trying to do both at the same time and i think that it is important to recognize what san francisco has

accomplished in terms of doing this in a balanced way and they are going back and retrofitting and trying to figure out whether the public wants the water front and they don't have it and now that is the issue in hong kong and the good thing is that they have a lot of money. and i guess that they did not borrow that one million, they just spent it and so that was just, you know, came out of nowhere, and so they are trying to decide, whether they should have the water front authority or independent authority with their own staff. and the head of the committee, and generally and he asked me what i said. they have freeways that go around and make the

transportation work and so what they want to do is develop what they jokingly said would be the blue line and they will have to do something interesting below the freeway to make it more interesting for their public. because they want to build the things that will bring the people to the water front and the restaurant and retail, and promanade and the open space and that is what is something that they are grapling with and i think that what i walked away with is what i am saying here today is because sometimes we get caught up with our own debates about what we should do here in san francisco and all of the issues that we have and i think that explaining what we do in san francisco to the head of the commission and he was going, that is great i wish that we were there. sometimes you have to remember where you are and what we should be grateful for and i think that we have the balanced development here and i think that we have a clearer

structure and a process of how we are going forward with this and of course it is much hard ner hong kong to define what the water front is because they do have a much wider area and so you know, they don't know how far there is not a sea wall or a state lands commission that defined this a long time ago and so they didn't have a big debate on what belongs and what does not and what agency gets to manage and where the funding and the staff and etc.. and right now it is just mingled with a lot of the board and the development and the department, and the various entities in the hong kong government and so it will be interesting to watch them. and i think that we felt, that you know, there was a lot of things that they were interested in understanding how we approach things in san francisco and so, i did volunteer your name monique that they should keep in contact with you and touch with the commission. and in terms of what we could learn from each other and i just wanted to report that because i think that also is a credit to what we do here in san francisco. and they were all eager to hear how we are approaching what we

are doing here with the water front and how they could learn from us and as i said, i think that there are some things that we can learn from them, as well going forward. so that is just wanted to give that brief report thank you. >> thank you. >> informative. >> and any other new business? >> just want to take a very quick moment to thank sue hester who has joined us many and people often i think wonder whether public comment has an impact and the last item that we had on the calendar, 9 a, in large part i called for periodic ep dates on what we are doing in terms of climate change in part due to comments that sue hester made at one of our prior meetings, yes, those that do come and speak we do appreciate it and do listen and want to thank you for public comment. so, any other new business? >> seeing none, have a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second. >> meeting i

>> thank you for coming again on i think just another momentum occasion for our good friend jose (clapping) and i know this is the third time i believe that the city is - is it the fourth. fourth swearing in that's right and the reason why lieutenant governor knows that because he appointed jose in 2004 so thank

you. visionary. of course, besides lieutenant governor i want to thank members of our family board of supervisors our da and assessor record and department heads and chiefs all the other departments our controller and others are here and really a sincere appreciation for the work that jose has demonstrated. i want to say he's been such a great partner and i've had the privilege of working with him as a colleague but when i had the special chance of being the mayor here and wonder how to brag about san francisco i want to talk about more than the

warriors something beyond supportship. look at what jose doing. so when we starting bragging about our chirnd program boy did you get a lot of attention from the other mafrz in the city. we brought him to a time when there was signature interest generated from the hard work jose has put together. i know we were appointing someone who was going to go beyond the collection do side of that office. in those years as gavin will recall this city and a country faced itself down in horrible financial times and coming out of those years we asked ourselves what can we do better for the residents and the

diverse community in the arena of financial planning and a allotcy and a sense from day one. and so the very creative idea came out and certainly i want to thank lieutenant mayor gavin newsom we're noting now nationally renowned for our san francisco program our kindergarten to college program. i get to brag about that constantly and not 57 the burden of how that works and smart money and network and curtains in san francisco joining and leading cities on financial empowerment all over this country. those are some of the programs jose has put together gone beyond what we perceive he's

helping us to educate the public and a businesses l about financial responsibility. it's sounds boring to everyone outside the room it's financial stuff but i'll tell you if the cities don't do this and cities dodo this they'll be in trouble trouble. jose thank you and now you're going to work closely with me and many in the city and a entertain our businesses as and transform from a payroll tax to another tax system and low encourage job creation. he will be asked to step out of the traditional you've got to get it done and how do we help

you do get under and city maintain and create jobs in the city. i'm here to say thank you jose to really let everybody you know how appreciative i've been 0 o and lucky to have you as a leader in our financial literacy captain. ooip i've been lucky to inherit a movement gavin was there before me and a visionary and i still get his council as he goes across california doing great things in education. gavin i say thank you that f in your new really as lieutenant governor everything we've accomplished we get a national and state audience because of the work you've done. with that our visiony and former

mayor now lieutenant governor gavin newsom. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. obviously, we have the same speech writer i have nothing else to say about jose wonderful work and thank you for covering the base is. i ran over to college and wondered what happened to terminate limits that's been 10 damn years you're not over this yet, huh? . i was thinking what was the world would it be like. but it is remarkable to go back in time as the mayor was

reflecting on some of the great work. i was thinking jose the other day when jaevent got sworn in how much time we spent that jeanette and she was celebrating at the time the only local no objection create that was initiated by jose and his team and the great work that was being done that was ahead of of its time. resay respectfully they have a role to play but we could counter balance some of the work they remember doing with regards to those businesses. the mayor is not exaggerating i was at a meeting and bank of d.c. all coming out of the work

from jose. success leaves clues and this is a successful city that leaves an remarkable amount of clues. we don't intimate because we're a model and mayor you should be proud of the leadership and everyone here. it's an honor to be welcomed back to the extent i was weekday waiting for the opportunity to swear jose in i haven't done this in a long time. but payroll a carmen forgot about me i didn't know she was sworn in i'm okay about this this is only on tv this is okay we'll talk later. so jose he lets get you sworn

back in for four more years. everybody ready. anybody have any reservation >> all right. i'll say i you state your name. >> do solemnly prestige to defend the sfuks is go and the institution of the state of california against all enemies for an and domestic that i bear true faith and alliance to the same and i will well and a faifl discharge the duties upon which i'm about to enter and during some time as i hold the position as treasurer for the city and

county of san francisco. >> so easy (clapping.) thank you (clapping.) let's hope you remembered that right. close enough; right? thank you for being here i'm privileged and proud to you to be here the fourth time around and gavin it's an honor to have you here. the first time we did this in september 8th of 2004, i was very appreciative of the trust you put in me to take this position to lead this office and to handle this important 0 responsibility for the city and county of san francisco.

i hope you and everyone feels we've done a great job. before i go too far i want to recognize my partner mark for being here (clapping) you all know how partner of an elected official needs to be so i want to put that out there. mayor ed lee thank you for being here and our kind kind words to continue to grow the words 0 both from the clerkors office. i believe it's important work we're doing for the city and county and we're creating a model for many places around the country and with our support we're able to do that. thank you. again. i want to thank ail the elected officials i see a number of the

board of supervisors thank you all of you for believing in us and supporting us i'm not going to name names. george thank you. carmen chiu the newly sworn in assessor and recorders. thank you. again my partner in so much important work we do for the city. i want to call ben roman fold for the hard work between the three of us we handle the lions share for the city and we're proud what we're able to do for the city it's important work but, you know, i don't stand here alone and do the job alone i do it with over 2 hundred folks in the tax collectors

office. i want to run detain the great seconds of our office. i want to recognize florence mar who is going to be implementing our gross receipts tax. our bureaucracy of tax she is incredible she's bringing in over $100 million a major to make sure everybody pace what they on the other hand, and sonya thank you for your work. we process numerous transactions through the mail on line and over the phone and it's our cashiers that bring in the money. our office of financial empowerment mayor we're doing

great work. our gross receipts project is led by jenny and that's an exciting project the biggest change to our tax system in the city and we're stepping up. our it groping group is led by richard. our investment portfolio is managed by michelle the average daily processing is round $1100 million. our project group is lead by rebecca thank you for your hard work here doing a grow job. our property tax group led by

phil and thank you for your work. our tax paper group the first line of defense is led by grace and our banking group that's handling the transactions is led by janet. that's the team of managers that run the incredibly important jobs and i sincerely want to thank those folks for they're hard work. i want to recognize my senior management team let me introduce our tax collector david arguing steno thank you for being here (clapping) our cohesive assistant treasurer pauline (clapping.) our policy and ledge manager greg thank you for your great work. and our deputy director i t and

about half of everything we did thank you. (clapping.) i get to stand in front of all of you and get some praise and a attention but honestly, i want to share all of that with this incredible team. many work on the first floor of the city hall that means the world to me. i want to take a minute to help the folks that helped me with my re-election campaign it was tough thank you folks for sticking with me the guy who (clapping) third time around didn't have an on the but still you put together a great race. i'll bring this to an end but i

thank you each and everyone for your energy mr. mayor and a lieutenant governor thank you. i want to invite everyone to stick around and have a bit and thanks to everyonee and thanks to everyone