maintenance costs. new york has feed for the people who idle more than one minute adjacent to schools and three minutes for the rest of new york city. we in san francisco, don't have an equivalent law. and i happened to use a para transit quite a bit. and no matter how many letters i write to the para transit about their drivers idling their vehicles, and i have given copies to this commission as well. i don't get any response, and they continue, and the drivers continue to idle and i have to continually ask them to please not to do that and so here is one, clever, and one funny little situation. and did, and the one driver

that i had, idling to 20 minutes when he was looking for a passenger, i said will you please turn your motor off? and he said i can't, afford to waste gas. and so, any way, i hope..., we can do something with this, and these cars, and maybe, find baners, like we did in the past, and we had baners, you know, they had baners on mission street, and that is where i found out that you could use toothpaste to shine your silver.

and it works and who news because we need to go back to those. thank you. >> dennis, it is great to see you sister and all of your great work with the labor organizations. and this is in the wheel house, actually. >> this is what? >> this is in the wheel house, it takes a while because the people did not want to wear the helmets on motorcycles, right? and they did not want to do it and they, and it did not make sense to them and now it is automatic seat belts and the same thing and as the city gets more and more congested, you can see that we are painting the lanes green and red and there is no reason why we will not focus on something like this and it is great that you came here and you stayed this long and you talked to us about it and it is great to see you too. >> okay. >> next? >> thank you, >> thank you, president, and commissioners of both bodies, and my name is jed and i am a long time san francisco

resident and environmental scientist and co-coordinator and i want to say that with respect to the efficiency and the programs that you folks have talked about today i am a renter and i have been one for 15 years here and it is hard for me to think of a single landlord who could not terribly be classified as a slum lord who will pretty much not take these actions unless, they are really, really pushed. and so, it is important that you keep in mind, how to target the seemingly sizeable percentage of the land owners in the city, who may not really be interested in making these kinds of improvements or tapping into the city programs at all. >> many of whom do not live here and i want to briefly talk about renewable energy and the clean power sf and obviously, and we have heard, as jason pointed out a lot of climate change related effects and i

want to thank commissioner gravanis for mentioning the goal that so many staff took so long trying to prepare. and we are very happy about go solar sf and we are happy about clean finance sf and the full gamut that the rest of the city family are working on but the simple fact of the matter is that as you heard him say earlier there is no other strategy. and without being able to pool together, the city's energy consumers, and get that revenue stream going, you simply cannot scale big enough to get to 100 percent and we can do the solar sf for many, many years, and be this far towards addressing our climate and impacts. and the clean energy and the sonoma clean power as someone mentioned previously have established at this point that they can provide cleaner power for pg&e for cheaper and that

is what we need to focus on here and shall does not need to be involved, if we can get the adoption of a program that offers the cleaner power, at a cheaper rate, we will have very large buy-in, and with that body of consumers we will be able to ratchet up the ps over time to actually get our city towards 100 percent renewable energy to answer the earlier question, work that is already been done through the puc by a previous contractor has established that with the most aggressive funding, 50 percent of san francisco's load, could be 100 percent renewable and locally generated within ten years of program launch. and so i would just like to say, i really hope that the puc will continue to work with lasco as the feesbility study continues and to get 100 of megawatts of energy and hundreds of local union jobs, thank you very much.

>> any other members of the public? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. any colleagues want president courtney to bring us together and collect the thoughts? >> and the whole thing before we collect our thoughts, and maybe we are only allowed to do this for this reason and the city attorneys will tell me and maybe i have to do it as a member of a public and it came to my attention a day or two, after we put together the agenda, and that the puc controls sort of the larger amount of land in the water shed and south of san francisco. and there is a bunch of folks that i have been talking to who are keen to see the puc open that up to the hikers and the

bikers. and another recreational users and i was just keen to just kind of bring that up in this forum and that is not something directly related to the joint work that the department of the environment does. maybe we are not allowed to talk about this. and i am going to be talking about this and i was talking about this. >> okay. >> there is a lot of easement that we need and we do have the land that is held by the leaseholders. and i would ask, if he is okay with it, could you give us just a 30-second on that? >> he can respond but it is not on the agenda and you should not have a lot of discussion

about it. and i think that the response might be that we could get back to him individually, with a response. >> and i will talk to you after the meeting. >> okay. >> thank you. sir. >> and thank you, commissioner. >> sure. >> for our next joint meeting. >> the idea was that we have had a discussion of opportunities and challenge and potential future collaboration, pursuit of environmental objectives, you know, one thing to throw out and obviously it is a lot of content, and for us on the commissioner on the environment we have to figure out how to approach a two-hour agenda that we had calculated would end in about 20 minutes, but because we wanted to do that, you know, i think that we wanted to know more about the great work of the puc in that environmental kind of lens in that context and hear about

what our departments do together. and learn, and so now in that way, it was, at least for myself and others about the information sharing and getting to know one another. and in brain storming, i mean to me, we had a long conversation, but to me one of the most right kind of opportunities for the collaboration might have been in the beginning in some ways and we talked about the linkages between how there can be shared approaches to reduce the need for pesticides and the need for water at some of these places where we have heard, certainly for us that commission on the environment where they do the golf courses and the golf tournaments is that is something that vexes our department and to me that seemed to be a ripe kind of an area for a collaboration when they were standing there together and of course, in the other things that are obviously we are going to have the longer conversation about the 100 percent renewable energy, and i think that we learned a lot of the stuff tonight, both recently and we have learned

about go solar and a lot about the clean power sf and a lot of things to digest and think through. and the path on 100 percent, clean energy. and certainly, there is new stuff about the clean power sf for some of us never knew about a half hour ago is the first time that i heard that shell was out of the picture for sure. >> and that is probably harold as something sort of positive by a lot of folks and that is just my thoughts and i saw a lot of opportunity for the collaboration around the integrated management team and the puc water team maybe in a pilot project that kind of shows how you can have an approach to the type of use in the open space that decreases the need for these pesticide applications and brings down the need to water, and you know, supports the local communities and workers, and there might be something right for the collaboration around that. okay. >> and okay, so in my just to

kind of hone in on some topics, that are of real interest to me. and i think that everybody has, and there is a lot of talent in the room and i am really happy to be here and i was enthusiastic about having this conversation because when we went to the environment commission, when my organization went to the environment commission, you recognized the workers and you recognized the people and sometimes we get caught up in the policy, and the practice and procedure, and that is why i wanted to see some people here and i wanted to see some field staff here, because that is what excites me and that is what excites them, and there are a lot of people and you know a lot of families and a lot of local residents and josh's great work on the local hire with john avalos and i think that when you recognize that the program, and when the department, and the environment commission recognized the apprenticeship program and it kind of got the president and i talking a little bit about there really is incredible amount of common ground,

although you don't have all of the staff that like the recreation and parks department and the department of public works and the puc has and they are working for the department of the environment because it is all intermingled and jake used to call the recreation and the parks department the health department and he is right about that and i want to figure out a way where we can joinly move something forward and a lot of opportunities, to introduce local youth to the ipm program. and to introduce local youth to what we are doing in the sewers, and we do a lot of good video, work and we do a lot of that good, electronic work and we reach out to the kids, and but, i mean, that the youth, that are looking for the employment, and the youth that are looking for the career and that kind of and that is what gets our juices flowing and we can come up with some kind of an idea, where we don't have to reenvent the wheel but we jointly put something together

for the commission and the commission on the environment and to actually set the ball rolling for some kind of a program where we introduce actual workers and perspective workers, to some of these task and some of these careers because, if we don't do it, you know, we miss a big opportunity, to kind of reach out into the communitis in need and the under served communities and i think that i, and just based on what i know about most of the people in this room is that i think that it is just about getting that ball rolling and that is one of the things that excited me the most about today and i am grateful that president, and the rest of you, will be willing to sit here and go through this because it is a long meeting but i don't imagine that the next couple of meetings and they should happen, routinely, would take quite as long and that is when we can really get in and dive in and make some decisions and policy decisions for sure. >> thoughts? colleagues? >> commissioner? >> just to add to that, i was

truly impressed about the amount of joint work and commonality and overlap between the two departments, that is already going on. i think that we should try to have more than one joint initiative. and not just settle for one, and i would like to suggest that the other initiative we at least start out by thinking about how we could work together to get the city to 100 percent renewable because the climate challenge is such a huge threat to everything else that we are all committed to. and believe in. but i certainly look forward to the future meetings and i am very heartened president courtney by hearing you say that they should be routine and regular, i certainly endorse that.

>> and i think that if we, when we got to the last item, if we had the what do you call it? the vigor and everything that you have in the start, of the meeting we probably would have more brain storms too, about how to do that but i think that we have to. i think that you are right. commissioner wald? >> and other thoughts? and commissioners? >> i would like to make a motion that we adjourn. >> all right. >> we are adjourned, thanks, everybody. (clapping.) >> we are thrilled thrilled

thrilled to be here so good morning and thanks for your patience and so we're here to kickoff our 2014 summer jobs plus program say yeah. (clapping) so i'm eric mcdonald the chief of police operating officer we're thrilled to be partnering with mayor ed lee it takes each one of us to effect the kind of changes in our community across our country we're thrilled our here your presence here represents we create a community and environment with our young people have the opportunity to grow and thrive and become their own leader in our community so we know that a summer job is

more than a custodial kind of babysitting opportunity i was told you two weeks ago by a national fund we're not name who actually has a general disdain for the mayors youth program across the country they believe they're only custodian but those 0 transitional opportunity i know i have one of the jobs so we know it is possible and so again in addition to joining with the mayor to reach our goals but trying to have a national furnished to understand this opportunity. last year, we set a goal of 6 thousand summer jobs and interning for the young people

and 17 to be exact yeah. (clapping) and you'll be hearing more about our plans and goals from the mayor shortly but before we go there let me pause and thank a number of people and partners who to make this possible first thanks to the mayor's office who's represented the leadership team by hydra mcdonald. yeah. (clapping) the department of youth and families represented by maria sue yeah. (clapping) the office of economic workforce development represented on the leadership team by todd and ronda and thomas meyer's yeah. (clapping) and also our san francisco

unified school district yeah. (clapping) now we also rely on a network of nonprofit partners that are workforce development entities so they're our door ways if you're representative of a doorway where young people are knocking on - (clapping) thank each you good for your leadership in this partnership and thank our corporate sponsors so our premier sponsors in 2012 pg&e and jcpenney morgan chases and bank of america and starbucks thing them (clapping.) you would you have seen on the

billboards a number of silver partners that the enterprise and all of the partners thank all of them (clapping) and then a special shout out one of the things we've built into the program and continue is we've asked companies to become champions when you're a champion we ask you commit to hire young people and provide the financing finances but the other thing importantly is to reach out to other employers and tell them how wonderful to have the young people in their space wow. okay sorry >> my phone is calling someone. okay, here we go sorry. and so the opportunity to have

to have employers reach out to other employers shout out to 3 that did it jimmy john by a juice and the hotel and starbucks thank you for your leading the charge (clapping) so as i said three years ago president obama issued a challenge and mayor ed lee took it to a new level 5 thousand the first sum and 6 thousand the next summer and we've reached 78 hundred none of this happens but without the u knitted ways no other mayor does it like our mayor so, please welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee >> thank you, eric (clapping)

welcome to san francisco employers city hall. well, you looked at what's happening in our city when it comes to job we got news our unemployment rate went inton down to 4.4 percent thanks to all of you working together we brought one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state, in fact, we're just above our marina and san mateo i swear because of the san francisco they've got lower rates we've got the airport in san mateo and we buy the wine. thank you to everyone that is here today and again, thank you to eric and ann and u knitted way and to all our corporate sponsors here as well ginly

thank you for me as mayor this is one of the most important things to do in our urban centers we can help our youths get jobs we enjoy the 4 approximately 4 percent unemployment they're probably the youth at 10 to 12 percent unemployment to make sure we do everything we can to get the youth to earn their way it allows them to get the money net to help their families and get experience in our corporate settings and thank you to all the youth that are here as well that are peppered thought the audience we'll hear in them and thank you to kim she began and

she'll talk later i want to give a shout out she's a rising star and she'll end up managing one the hotel and if not ownership it as she graduates from sf state and thank you to another hero on the stage that someone who's interception viewed ran it down to the other side of the field and when i saw him my breath was about as short as his was when he jumped into the end zone that's mr. 49ers and he's going to speak (clapping) let me begin by saying this thank you to the departments that are with us today they're a great help. we're focused on the most challenged youth in our city and

that's what makes our program special because yeah. it could be easy for kids that are successful and have jobs we're reaching into our public housing and the sectors of the city that hardly ever get touched and asking our employers to step up and whether hiring of slots lib starbucks is doing or giving money so the resources are there or whether doing both with the combination of starbucks and the pastry shops. or whether jcpenney morgan chase or bank of america all the employers are funding this with the nonprofits. i want to ask you for a moment every year i'll tried to do this

and third time i get a little bit better just recall for the next thirty seconds who helped you get our first job oftentimes we only think about that we realize someone helped you those are the times when you look at 70 thousand youth of san francisco that will never forget the moment that someone helped them get they're first job and lout them to get the skills and turn from an interview they have their head down to how can i help our company be more expensive with my skills those are transitional periods of time like eric said and their transitional for our city i want

to signal to the next generation of youth your future is here in the city and the best jobs exist in the city of san francisco and we're going to link you up to present you in the best way and allow you and your family to succeed so think about that for a moment who helped you get our first job because oftentimes you're going to do that extra more to hire the youth in san francisco. finally, i want to say this in san francisco the other thing we do besides hire people when the door has been opened to us we keep the door open for everyone else this is about opportunity it's but also the suggestion that we are a community of people that care for each other this is a compassionate city and

also not the economic success we all want but the ability to taller than and say who's next and who can i bring through the door you doorkeepers are there to keep the door open and we're going to use that door to bring success to other families. thank you for being here and in anticipation for helping us to create 7 thousand jobs this summer for youth i appreciate it very much this city is going to be on fire for everyone. thank you (clapping.) thank you mr. mayor so for those who remember the first opportunity how many got it right the first time? yeah. we're creating opportunity to learn and grow.

but with that it's a pleasure to introduce the ceo of the u knitted way of the bay area >> thank you very much (clapping) thanks mr. mayor and partners i want to add an extra note of what on exiled city this room is gathered and, yes the third year and a and just as much love and excitement as the first day that we started 24 program together. and the keyword is together. across the city our nonprofits you can our employers and the city government working towards the opportunity for our young people. i want to give a special shout out two weeks ago the youth resource fair was held and over 4 hundred young people showed

you up and got coaching for resumes and get ready for those who pledge jobs the nonprofits who work with the young people and create the pipeline of kurmentd who are there to encourage our young people to step forward and raise their hands and come for the first job into you to get them prepared. a big shout out to our divining are partners this is not a one-time deal they work with the young people all summer long to be successful and add value to our company as they grow and learn. you know, i've seen a lot of phones go up and pictures taken into consideration this is the moment do is celibacy and pos