arab american grocer's association so i have a lot of relationships with small businesses and we've had interface with the department of environment on several different issues that relate to small businesses. so it is an area of interest for me personally, like i said, but additionally i think it's in line with some of the work i've been involved with, with healthy retail sf and i've sat on the advisory board for conversations around formula retail as well, so i'm getting a broader sense of kind of the specific needs that sole proprietor small businesses need when it comes to, you know, looking for resources to improve their business and i'm really happy to see the city moving in the direction of incentive-based approaches and kind of putting together,

centralizing these resources in a way that is accessible to people that are in their store all the time and don't really have the knowledge or access to look at the city programs. and so i feel like my specialty is in that area of being able to have some policy literacy and then communicate it to a larger constituency who often maybe trust those informal networks a little more than if it was proposed by a city entity. so that's my hope is to be able to bridge that conversation and that effort of small businesses who are looking to improve their energy. i mean, my family alone, our business, we pay an extreme amount per month because of the old equipment and i have worked with sf energy watch and have done a lot of the vetting for our own

business as to, you know, what our, what kind of financing options are there, what's going to make our store a better place. and i think it also, that approach, falls in line with what the city and some of the concerns that supervisors have had around not display -- getting rid of the big coca-cola signs and those fridges alone, those enclosed single use coolers that the coca-cola company lease to vulnerable and busy store owners are some of the most exhaustive machines. they take a lot of energy. just that example alone and maybe looking to reduce or get rid of those examples in small businesses of energy waste is an example of a goal i would have in this process. >> that's great, thank you. in your experience are you used to any model businesses that actually made a strong

conversion from facilities that are actually very wasteful to actually becoming very energy efficient? >> yeah, i have. there's actually a really great trend going on when it comes to the sector that i work in and that is the corner market. we have seen a lot of stores with the help of the city as well move into less -- even liquor and drinks but more equipment that, healthier food that maybe doesn't need the refrigeration or they move into having one large refrigeration unit as opposed to those single and closed entities. i've seen that happen over and over again and i'd like to continue that process. >> thank you. i've actually gone out with the department of environment on their energy efficiency surveys and communication with small businesses, probably a lot of my colleagues have as well.

and what's really unique about san francisco is the diversity of businesses we have here, the languages spoken by store owners, and i think that's an important aspect to have. i think your being part of the american grocers association can help linguistickly so i think you have good experience to be on this committee. >> that's my goal. i have a lot of relationships not obl within the small grocer z community but i have relationships with the department of health, the city attorney, i'd be in a position to relay messages and i'd like to serve further with that. >> thank you very much. i don't believe we have any other applicants, i think there's somebody who applied at the

last minute but i don't think is quite here yet, so what we'll do is go to public comment. i have a couple cards which i'll name and then if your name hasn't been called, you don't have a card, you can also just line up on the side by the wall where the doors are. rebecca evans and josh what arse and anyone else please come forward. >> i'm rebecca evans, i'm here on behalf of the sierra club. i want to say first i really appreciate seeing a young woman who is so well versed and interested in energy efficiency and community service. it's really wonderful because we really need more young people involved in the issues we work on. i'm here to support holly kaufman for seat no. 4. i think she brings a unique background to the potential of working on xh identity , she is

a native, she has strong experience and i think she shares the need to make sure whatever funding is available goes to the place where it will help the most, whether it's the home owner or the business. i also want to applaud the efforts of supervisor mar, your calling to make sure this committee gets off the ground, maybe you will decide it needs to be continued for a year because a year may not be long enough to do all the work they have to do, but i hope you will appoint miss kaufman to this position. >> thank you very much. >> afternoon, supervisors, jashua arse with bright line, also a member of the mayor's work force committee and it's been 6 years working on this with supervisor mar and the board. it all starts when the feds was starting to invest in energy efficiency and we wanted to make sure it happened equitablely, and this idea

supervisor mar had to set up a task force and a steering committee was something we were excited about with a number of other groups so it's great to be here 6 years later and have the dream team in terms of applicants for this. i think it's everybody that we would have wanted, we would have expected, sam moss at mission housing was starting his path to leadership at that time and i think back in that time who would have dreamed to have someone like him apply, for example. james briepblt was with sciu at the time, to know he would take on all this work force work and be recommended by our committee is something really exciting and be avni, of course, what she's doing with emerald cities. everybody is really great. the only thing i wanted to speak to is the complication with respect to mr. bryant's

seat. we were working off the draft of the ordinance up until the past year. up until the past couple days we had a draft that said candidate recommended by oewd late in the stage of the legislation it was added director of oewd and our committee is kind of honed by the city administrator, who may have sent a communication, i know there was a letter sent by the folks of oewd, the director will probably come within the next couple of days, you could even forward mr. bryant's day to the full board without recommendation in expectation of that letter's arrival. >> chair avalos, cis rod rod, department of the environment. i'm not here speaking specifically of any of the

candidates but the ordinance does require the technical support of this committee and i wanted to stress from our perspective the importance of moving forward. we think the bredth and scope of these individuals is really important, having these kind of community experts in the field in support of what our department is doing to try to move forward energy every si in san francisco is really an important thing. that's still an expertise that you heard from all these individuals i think will benefit our department, the work we are doing and trying to bring together a more cohesive program. if you can think about it, energy efficiency in san francisco is managed not only by our department, the puc on the government side, the state of california has funds, the federal government has funds, pg&e has funds and the ability to have this committee to leverage and coordinate all of those activities to move forward to make sure that our

residents, our renters and our businesses have access to these programs is great so we look forward to working with these individuals on this committee. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, chair avalos, supervisors tang and cohen. i have submitted a letter of recommendation for miriam zouzuonis but i also want to be here to speak personally to encourage your approval for miriam zouzuonis for seat 7 on the energy efficiency committee. i have worked with miriam over the past year on a number of policy issues and have been extremely impressed by her ability to really stay focused, be a problem solver. in addition to the fact that just her business experience is really the kind of unique perspective that we really need to see as a small business representative on this seat and as a business who works, who

has many different kinds of machines that consume energy. we do need to have someone who really understands what businesses need to be able to have incentives, outreach communication to help the city achieve its goals. and as she's clearly stated, that, you know, her being on the board of arab american grocers, the south of market business association, which is also part of the council of district merchants, i think it's perfectlifitting that we have a representative who is so attuned to ground floor businesses and has the outreach and understanding to bring that perspective to the city. >> thank you very much. (brief pause in captioning).

. >> for people of all races and incomes and races. when we lose families we are losing diversity. while diversity is a value for it in and of itself, the loss of diversity also threatens the following areas: middle income jobs and workers, environment and sustainability, social integration, social capital and citizen engagement. over the past two months my office has been working with the mayor's office, the school district and a diverse dwruep -- group of stake holders to further specify what this council should look like. so at this moment i'd like to thank the children's funds coalition, the our children and our city stake holders group, the mayor's office, the superintendent's office,

supervisor avalos' ofrs and the youth commission and many other people that were involved. we have made a number of amendments to the composition of the council and to further clarify its functions and duties so we had introduced this over a month ago and been working with all these different people to strengthen the language so we would have a successful council. so let me go through some of the amendments without going through every one of them, but just in general. the most significant change is the size of the council. originally we had the mayor was to appoint up to 18 city members, including himself, 18 and then there were going to be 18 san francisco unified school district members and 18 public members. almost everybody agreed that

this body with 18, 18 and 18 would be way too large. and then even though we're cutting it to 14 we also realize this will be large, but it's to be inclusive. we needed to do this. so we have chosen 14 members and we all agree that the 14 members for city members including the mayor, the superintendent may nominate up to 13 school district staff or division heads to join the council, and the mayor will appoint 14 people to serve as public members of the council. so i know this is going to be a big council. embedded in this is the realization we're going to have to have adequate staffing to really make this work and function. i know there are many other department heads that would have liked to serve on this council. however, there was

consensus to keep the number down as much as possible. other department heads may be invited to be involved through the working groups. for the public seats, we wanted this group to be diverse and most importantly through our discussions there was a general consensus that each of these members should be connected in some way to a larger network or organization so that representation is much broader than just the individuals themselves. so i won't go through all the different seats at this point, but we worked it out with the mayor's office and with the superintendents' office and committee members. the major changes would be basically just renumbering the community

members so that it would make a little more sense. so all the amendments will be -- did i pass this out yet? >> just a quick question. so we are reducing the numbers down to 14. are they all going to be appointees by the mayor? >> yes. >> and then the other potential amendments coming forward. thank you. >> then we also included some language to specify that the board of supervisors, the board of education and superintendent may also recommend members to the mayor just to assure they were inclusive of who could recommend and who could not recommend. we felt this was a

collaborative effort and wanted to provide this opportunity. as far as section 102.5, the government's piece, the council will meet at least 3 times a fiscal year and we added that to the extent feasible that these meetings be spread out through the year. we also, we are also havinging the mayor make appointments by shifting the deadline to june 30, 2015, and on page 9, section 102.6, functions and duties, we made suggestions for initial working groups to cover the areas of education and health, safety and housing. we are also recommending that the working groups consider data driven issues such at closing the achievement gap and pursuing economic mobility, improving transit history and

safety and increasing housing. again, it was important for all of us that we decided that whatever plans or decisions we came up with should be data driven. these decisions were made to help shape the decision of the council, but the council itself will ultimately decide on what working groups they would like to form. then some, real quickly, some additional amendments. upon further review i would like to also make these other ones. on page 10, lines 5 to 7, i would like to propose changing the following: right now it states upon the recommendation of the mayor and the superintendent, the council may invite additional city and school district staff and community members to participate in the working

groups. so just to clarify, we changed it to the mayor may invite additional city and school district staff and community members to participate in the working groups. it's important to include expert advocates and other leaders in the working group level that are not on the council. this will allow a more streamlined way for non-appointed community members or staff to get involved without having to receive full approval of the council. then on page 9, line 4, i would like to propose striking the following language for c and basically that says the mayor's appointment of public members shall take effect 30 days after transmittal of the mayor's notice of appointment to the board of supervisors. the board of supervisors may

hold a public hearing on the public members appointed by the mayor to the council. so i would be asking that we strike that as an amendment. i feel it would be prohibitive for the mayor to make initial appointments. we want to move quickly on this, we're a little behind right now. the intention of this language was to allow for more public balanced appointment approach. however, if we strike this i think we'll be fine. so those are some of the highlights of the amendments and most of it really is about clarification and again to strengthen the notion of what this council should be made of and do. so any questions about that? >> supervisor tang. >> i think you clarified some of the questions i did have,

but i think overall the changes you are making are good, especially when sometimes you have core issues it's good to cut down the number of members. although people want to participate i think it can be good to do that. i think your change on page 9, part c in terms of 30 days i think you probably want to move more quickly on appointments so they can begin to do this work as part of the council. so overall i do feel i am comfortable with these changes. >> thank you. >> i'm fine with the amendments too. if there are no other comments from the committee we can go on to public comment. any member of the public who would like to come forward, please approach the podium. and if you are lining up, please line up behind the gentleman with the hat by the wall.

>> hi supervisors, (inaudible) i'm also representing the children's funding community coalition. we've been really active in the development of this trailing legislation. i really want to thank supervisor yee and jen lo to the proposition of having more seats as part of the public seats of the council. we're disappointed that it came at the expense of some other community seats. we understand there are a limited number of seats. we felt it was really important for there to be a robust youth voice on this council. we're really excited for this body to get started. better coordination among agencies is something that came up repeatedly in our stake holder meetings in the lead up to prop c, so we're really excited that parents, youth, and public officials get to sit at the table