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afford costly equipment and installation are able to reap the benefits of harnessing free energy. go solar is not just the way for our beautiful city to make our renewable energy goals and create a cleaner san francisco. there is also a significant economic benefit by adding value to homes and creating actual jobs. our young people can aspire to be installers, technicians, salespeople, battery [speaker not understood] engineers and so much more. these careers are created by the solar industry and our kids can aspire to create a brighter more sustainable san francisco. i stand in solidarity with our labor unions, local solar businesses he and community advocates ~ that are all in support of funding the go solar program permanently in establishing a solar vision for 2020. thank you. good afternoon. i'm also going to speak on item 35. my name is joe hernandez and
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i'm the organizer for labor 261. on behalf of our laborers, we believe solar can create good clean energy jobs for solar here in san francisco. thais' why we support the resolution in making go solar a permanent program for funding. it will create more work opportunities in solar installation. we'd like to thank president chiu as well as our solar and community partners for taking the initiative to increase solar work in san francisco and impact climate change at the same time. through community will you havable partnership we will continue to work on solar and other construction projects that make san francisco such a great city. go giants. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon, jeannine coter, i'm with luminalt, local san francisco-based installer. i'm here also in support of item 35. we are building clean solar
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generation on homes and on businesses and on nonprofits. we're doing it with individuals that many of whom have been trained in san francisco through community-based organizations. having an aggressive goal like the 50 megawatts really sends a clear signal to the community-based organizationses and to installers that san francisco means business ~ and is going to transform the way that we deliver energy to our homes, to our businesses, and to our buildings. thank you very much for your consideration. go giants. >> thank you. next speaker. president chiu and members of the board, thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. my name is andy schwartz. i'm here on behalf of solar
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city to speak on item 35. solar city is america's leader installer of solar solutions. we have over 3,000 employees in california alone and i'm excite today report we recently opened a new office in potrero hill, moving some of our headquarter operations to that new location. solar city strongly supports this item that was established solar capacity goal for san francisco rooftops and require all-new construction to offset a portion of the electricity load with clean energy. it makes sense for the city to set an aspirational yet feasible goal consistent with the values of its citizens, the action the board has already taken to assert its leadership on clean energy and the challenge we all face in living and adapting to the risks of climate change. as of last november the solar industry employs [speaker not understood] more than the three investor owned utilities in the state combined. the industry is growing at a rate faster than the statewide ashev and projected to grow 7 times faster than tech and health care sectors. this is a testament to what the industry has done to help san
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francisco and the state to end its he can no, ma'am i recovery by creating good paying jobs that can't be outsourced and importantly must be hired locally. by adopting this resolution the city can elevate its leadership role on [speaker not understood] unrivaled by other california cities of its size. i'd like to especially acknowledge president chiu for your work and supportive leadership to benefit san francisco's diverse community ~. [speaker not understood]. thank you all of you for your consideration. good evening, i'm walker wright with sun land. sun run is a resident solar company that was started here in san francisco in the mission in 2007 with nothing more than two business school classmates and an idea to expand solar across the country and make it financable. today we are on the corner of market street and 2nd street and we have over 1300 employees and are one of the largest
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national solar companies out there right now. our company has looked at go solar s.f. as the beacon for national policy that has create this had epicenter that we are now, the center of the solar conversationment many of our partners are here in san francisco ~. our financing colleagues are here. installation technologies are here. it's here because san francisco has been ahead of the curve. as a policy epicenter for solar. let's keep it that way and continue to move forward with go solar sf and the vision for 2020. thank you very much to president chiu for your support ~. >> next speaker. good afternoon, supervisor. eddie young with defense [speaker not understood]. i'll be even briefer today than last week here to speak in support of solar vision 2020. thanks again to president chiu for introducing this and thanks to supervisor mar as well as for co-sponsoring the resolution. respectfully urge your support. thank you. >> next speakers.
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good evening. this is an old man's suggestions or observations. i'm 84. i've an old man. number one, [speaker not understood] beauty, i can't always describe it but i know it when i see he it. number two, strive for happiness but know contentment. number three, adjust to reality but with a higher goal in mind. number four, have mutual respect for yourself and others. number five, don't sacrifice the advancement for comfort and conformity. number 7, strive for survival that fits the times. number 8, some try to make time stand still by making everything alike. that's a philosophical comment. got to think about that. number 8, [speaker not
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understood] is our brain instincts and harmony with our evolutionary instincts. for example, to develop a brown instincts by experiencing through time and [speaker not understood] instincts by physically evolving through time. and my question he is have we turned love into a commercial success in this country yet? thank you for listening. >> thanks. next speaker. hello, my name is dana rosea. i live in the mission. the bay area had extremely high rates of breast cancer. marin county had the highest rates of breast cancer in the entire world. studies show that hormone replacement therapy played a major role in half the cases of breast cancer in marin. hormone replacement therapy should have never been put on
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the market until it was thoroughly tested. it was a known carcinogen for decades and editorial in the journal of the medical association by the ama in 1939 says plainly, the possibility of carcinoma induced by estrogen cannot be ignored. we need to do a thorough investigation of this product until it's prescribed for routine therapy. i go to marin and talk about these issues regularly and about how cancer is largely preventable. and i'm getting a great deal of harassment for doing this. i've spoken regularly with supervisor kim about this ongoing harassment. but last night some high-tech means were used to tighten the
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muscles in my back so badly that i was virtually immobilized. i was able to stretch for about an hour or so and amazingly my back got somewhat better. the same high- >>experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by tech technology is also used to prevent me from going to sleep at night ~. i've also discussed this matter with supervisor kim frequently. i'd like the community to under i work in cancer prevention and disease prevention and that i'm getting extreme harassment for doing so. cancer is big business [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. good evening, supervisors. my name is jessica [speaker not understood]. i'm an organizer with unite here local 2 with the hotel
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worker union and i think that worker came and visited your office last week to ask you to support the resolution that was introduced by supervisor campos to support the chesapeake nonunion chesapeake workers who have been fighting for many, many years to win a fair process to organize. many of you on the board have been supporting these chesapeake workers, the worker at the shore man's wharf at le meridien since day one and i want to reiterate how much it mean for the workers and our deep appreciation for the support that so many of you have shown. and thank you, supervisor campos, for introducing this important resolution. as you probably know, workers at these two hotels have been organizing for a fair process since 2008 and the new owner has recently taken over. both those hoe he tells,
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workers have seen the conditions continue to deteriorate at work. ~ hotels and we also delivered this petition that was signed by a very strong majority of the 300 workers in the two hotels, calling on the owner and the operator of their hotels to agree to a fair and neutral process for workers to organize. there are a few workers who are going to speak today, but i really want to urge you to continue the support that this board has shown for these workers in this really, really difficult struggle. we know we're going to win and workers are commit today keep fighting. your support mean a lot to the workers. thank you. ~ >> thank you. next speaker. ~ committed to good afternoon, my name is nancy lee.
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i have been hired at fisherman's wharf almost 19 years. i'm the server in the restaurant. i have two sons, one that's attending u.c. davis. the other has been service the military two years. he just returned home from afghanistan. six months ago, fisherman's wharf was [speaker not understood]. we face many changes for the worst -- for the worst. before i worked 8 hours five days a week. now i have no hours no days. this week i got lucky. i had one day work because one of my coworkers asked the day off. otherwise, i have none.
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our hotel is just as busy as ever. [speaker not understood] only to save money. i am a cancer patient, too. i need insurance, but for this situation how can i meet the requirement to keep my insurance go on? and how can i pay for my mortgage, my insurance, my son's tuition? this is not only my problem. many of my coworkers facing the same as me. we are the one who are suffering and struggling for this problem. myself put my 19 years life into this hotel. now i'm going to the [speaker not understood] end. i have nowhere to go without your support, supervisors. >> thank you very much.
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next speaker, please. my name is [speaker not understood]. it is true that there has been a very great improvement in market street. it was kind of an extraordinary -- i viewed it as an extraordinary thing to do attacks deduction for those companies, you know. it's kind of nonlinear if you want to get revenues. and the basis for that was that it was claimed to be the most lighted neighborhood in the tenderloin. i mean, entire city. well, everything you say is true. in fact, it's more than that. that status changed two years ago, not now. it became a much improved city neighborhood very, very quickly. and i know that we cannot -- ask also, you know, there are negative effects from that. we've had the complaints about the buses, the displacement, all of that is a product of
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that. so, it seemed to me that i know we cannot change that benefit to the companies that we've already given it to. but it's always seemed to me we could have cut that benefit off to new companies coming in and i don't know why that there is anything legal stampeding in the way of that, you know. ~ standing whichever one of you -- however many of you are going to stagnate and still not be in this body [speaker not understood]. i'd also like to offer that up as a possibility, something we ought to get done. >> thank you. next speaker. hello, my name is larry edmonds. i want to say go giants first. and i'm here to speak for philadelphia, the city of philadelphia has decriminalized cannabis and saving the city $350 million. also you know [speaker not understood] you always hear the black widow is [speaker not understood].
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[speaker not understood] cannabis club in alaska that sells all the good white winter cannabis. i hope you'll be able to pick this article up and read it called edibles. also, we're here to talk about why we need good housing and jobs in this city. i hope that smart people get out and vote because the mayor in ferguson, the men in the bayview, the lgbt men in tl and we are joining along the band tomorrow to speak at glide about what is really going on in america, you know, when it comes to housing. just like the troops [speaker not understood] they said they are not going to take back just the nurses to treaty bowl ~ ebola patients [speaker not understood]. ebola has been out 38 years ago
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in [speaker not understood]. we noe bowl a is connected to aids and to the civil us [speaker not understood]. ~ know ebola [speaker not understood]. i do know [speaker not understood] black soldiers who refuse to kill the women and the children during the war in the philippines, and that's why i understand when [speaker not understood] the mayflower and they made houses available at the bayou hotel. we have a great history. you can't have a history without african-american men who have been serving this country. and i hope house can bring back president jimmy carter [speaker not understood]. it will be a better world. vote. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> either one will work for you.
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yes, i hope you can hear me all right. listen, sorry. mr. president, jane kim, on behalf of [speaker not understood]. my question is about the sros [speaker not understood] s-r-os and we have ~ infestation going on where i live and we clean it up a little bit more. [speaker not understood] clean up our job, but the [speaker not understood]. and when the park opens up i think we should have more security around the area. the park, outside the park, inside the park and not finance
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s-r-os because s-r-os are going to be [speaker not understood]. i think security should cover the whole area to make it safe for senior citizens and old people in the area and they need to clean up the drug dealing at the -- at 216 hotel because we had an incident [speaker not understood] saying a resident where i live at got hit in the face with a bottle saturday night. so, we need to clean this place up a little bit. and it's going to be dangerous over there. well, we have an investigation going on with the cameras, too, i heard. we don't need any drug dealing over there with infern owe hotel because [speaker not understood] with the hotel --
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the trouble in front of the hotel -- >> thank you very much, sir. are there any other members of the public who wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, let's go to our adoption calendar. madam clerk? >> items 34 through 43 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. single roll call vote may enact these item. if a member objects a matter can be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these item? supervisor campos? >> 34. >> and i'd like to sever items 35 and 36. madam clerk, let's take the roll on items 37 through 43. >> on 37 through 43, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang?
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tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> those resolution are adopted and motions approved. [gavel] >> and item 34. >> item 34 is a resolution urging the city and county of san francisco to support the rights of worker to unionize and boycott the le meridien san francisco and hyatt fisherman's wharf. >> thank you, colleague. just briefly, i want to thank the workers from member of local 2 and the workers at these two hotels who have been working very hard to protect the very basic right that every worker should have to decide for themselves whether or not to form a union. i think it's important for us to support their efforts. these are sometime lowest pay workers and they're working under the toughest conditions
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and i think it's really important for us to send a very clear message that we're not going to tolerate this kind of mistreatment by this company of these workers. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor campos. can we take this item same house same call? this item is adopted. thank you. [gavel] >> next item, madam clerk. >> item 35 is a resolution urging the city and county of san francisco to make go solar sf a permanent program, to require solar installation on all new construction or substantial retro fits in the city, establishing solar vision goals for 2020, and establishing an overall megawatt solar energy goal for the city. >> thank you. president chiu. >> first i want to thank all the leaders of our local solar movement here in san francisco that have been really leading the country in how we as a city embrace solar energies in these new sustainable source he. colleagues, i ask for your support today on this resolution to take our city's leadership in solar to the next level. in 2008 san francisco launched go solar s.f., and we received $65 million in private investment, the headquartering of major solar leaders in san francisco in the bay area, and
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over 120 solar jobs for many diverse residents who otherwise would have faced significant employment barriers. our city has seen firsthand the benefits of solar energy, keeping housing affordable, increasing property values, creating jobs, and promoting environmental justice. the question that is in froth of us today is how do we expand and sustain these efforts ~ as we aspire to reach a greenhouse gas-free electric system by 2030. the resolution we have in front of us lays out a solar vision 2020, a road map of how we get there. this vision has three components. first, it propose he he the permanent establishment and funding of $5 million a year annually to go solar s.f.'s incentive program after the program's previous funding expires in 2018. secondly, it establishes a 50 megawatt solar panel goal for san francisco with at least two megawatts for existing tenant occupied residences annually. and thirdly, it supports a
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requirement that our roofs be sustainable, that solar panels and rooftop gardenses be installed on all-new construction or substantial retrofit where feasible. and for the department of the environmental to convene stakeholders to work on this implementation. solar vision 2020 will help san francisco uphold our reputation as a leader in the solar movement and again i want to thank the san francisco department of the environment as well as the commission. i want to thank members of the industry, members of labor, our nonprofit organizations, our solar industry worker and advocates who have really come together to move this forward. with that, colleague, i ask for your support. >> thank you, president chiu. colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? this item is adopted. thank you. [gavel] >> madam clerk, please call the next item. >> item 36 is a resolution standing with muslim and arab communities in the face of anti-arab and anti-muslim bus advertisements. >> president chiu. >> thank you, colleagues. you may remember a few years ago unfortunately there were
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too many antimuslim bus advertisements on our muni buses that were put in our city. we at that point announced to this body that i have a resolution to do that again with the most recent round. colleagues, i have circulated an amendment of the whole with a couple of techv any cal clean-up amendments and i would ask that we amend it and that we continue this item for one week. there are a number of community members that did wish to speak about this and hope to do this next week. >> thank you. so, there is a motion to continue this for one week. colleagues? >> and to amend. >> and to amend as well. so, can we take the amendments without objection, colleagues? same house same call. [gavel] >> >> that will be to november 4, mr. president? >> and can we do that without objection? [gavel] >> thank you. please call the next item. >> mr. president, would you like me to call the closed session item, item 31? >> yes, if we could call the two item related to jpa. >> item 31 is a motion that the
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board of supervisors convene in closed session on october 28, 2014, for the purpose of conferring with or receiving advice from the city attorney regarding anticipated litigation relating to the potential negotiation or adoption of a joint power agreement with the city of richmond to establish a homeownership stabilization authority to assist homeowners with troubled mortgages, in which the city is a potential defendant; pursuant to california government code, section 54956.9(a), and san francisco administrative code, section 67.10(d)(2), which permit this closed session because discussion in open session concerning this matter would likely and unavoidably prejudice the position of the city in anticipated litigation. as it pertains to item 32, a resolution authorizing negotiation of a joint power agreement with the city of richmond to establish a homeownership stabilization authority to assist homeowners with troubled mortgages. ~ stabilization authority. >> so, colleague, at this time do we need to go into closed session? supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i've actually hoping that we don't have to go into closed session and through some discussion that we had here on the board of supervisors, i think there might be a pathway to resolution that could be supported by everyone. i really hope that could be the case. i still think it helps to move the city forward on an issue that's affecting a lot of middle class, working class households that are struggling with their mortgages even in our economic boom that we're experiencing here in san francisco today.
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colleagues, for many years i have been talking about the need to support household that are struggling with mortgages, a lot of household that are under water, a lot of household that have mortgages that are not ideal in order to maintain your wealth. some of them are based on predatory practices, some of them are held in private labels, securitization trusts that are really hard to get at when you want to do loan modifications. in the past we've actually, up until the present, what we've done is we've resourced a number of community-based organizations to assist households and counseling and looking at how to modify loans and the track record haant been all that great in terms of really able to provide a large number of households to present the need to modify their loans with actual loan modifications. and then also when you get a loan modification you have a reduction in your interest rate that's temporary and then it
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balloons up in years to come and your mortgage is extended another ten years or so. they aren't ideal situationses. they aren't one that take into reality the longevity people have and maintaining a steady income well into their 70s. i don't believe that they work well for san francisco and we need to re-look at what our programs are providing as a city to city residents around supporting distressed mortgages. i have talked a number of times with the mayor's office of housing. i've actually talked to the controller's office about this as well, this issue of distressed mortgageses and trying to come up with a plan for it ~. i even put language into the housing trust fund prop c in 2012 that would address the need to support households in the seventh part of san francisco where you have single-family homes, where you have household that are working to maintain their mortgages.
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at the last minute, the housing trust fund section that was called homeowner stabilization fund was changed to the housing stabilization fund and the idea that we had around supporting struggling homeowners with mortgages was really alleviated with that language and taken out. and, you know, the mayor's office of housing gets a lot of credit from me for their work around affordable housing, development, and working with numerous communities across san francisco in trying to maximize local dollars. i give them a lot of credit for that. but there's a real blind spot when it come to providing support for households that are struggling with their mortgages. and, so, i think -- i actually believe -- i haven't been doing the best work i can in trying to move this forward. i have talked till i was blue in the face. but i wanted to move towards
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action. one of the problems we have in our loan modificationses why they're so difficult to achieve, because there's a lot of resistance from the banks that help make them happen and we need some tools to have leverage over the banks to actually negotiate with a stronger presence so we can get better results. i looked at the s.f. care's program, joining jpa with the city of richmond to get us in that direction. i don't believe there is support to get there today on the spot, but i do believe it's possible to get the city to look at this issue more deeply, to invest in possibly this approach, the sdsf cares approach [speaker not understood], using private investors who can negotiate the purchase of mortgages with the eminent domain as a a
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