>> he pays himself about $10 million a year. we, as employees, are invested. we are invested in our jobs. our patients and our communities that we serve. kaiser wants to replace our drivers using uber and other services. really create kaiser is a nonprofit organization that wants to start outsourcing our jobs, despite worker profits. behind these jobs are real families trying to sustain a decent standard of living here in san francisco.

these represented jobs with united healthcare workers carries a sustainable living wage with quality benefits. i stand before you here today, urging you, the board of supervisors with the support of norman lee and a seven others, including the seven supervisors, to support this resolution and to stop kaiser from outsourcing these jobs before october 5th, 2018. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, my name is stefani. i'm a respiratory care practitioner from kaiser santa rosa and i'm a proud uh w. sciu member, union member. i'm here to support the resolution by supervisor yee to protect our workers from outsourcing. many of those workers are from this very city.

kaiser is operating on a not-for-profit guys and receives substantial tax incentives for such. last quarter, they made close to 4 billion in profits and has $29 billion in reserve. kaiser is bypassing all the formal processes that are labor partnership to expedite this outsourcing, to companies like uber and lyft question mark. as supervisor yee mentioned, inequality is mentioning. please protect our workers and join him from outsourcing our jobs and adopting his resolution put people before profits. our deadline is october 5th and then pink slips will be handed out. if kaiser is not stopped now,

they will not stop in the future my job will be in jeopardy and probably already is in jeopardy. if you give kaiser an inch, they will take a mile. the green light for these companies to be greedy, since this president has taken hold of our country, is off the hook. and not-for-profit doesn't mean corporate executives and board of executives aren't making millions of dollars and kicking back to their bodies. thank you. -- kicking back to their buddies thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is lisa. i am a healthcare worker with kaiser and redwood city. i want to thank supervisor yee for this resolution and this opportunity. i was born and raised here in

san francisco. i actually have both of my children at san francisco kaiser up on cary street when it was just the two buildings up there. i have a long history here. i must say, i am appalled, and very, very frustrated at what is going on. i just have been working for kaiser for ten years. i went to kaiser for the stability and already had to offload the benefits because i come from construction where i got laid off for a time. now kaiser is doing the same thing. i sat wind -- with one of the outsourced workers when they got notified that in 60 days they would lose their jobs. it was quite dramatic. this employee has been there 30 years. again, kaiser is -- i will not give you the numbers. i think you can tell me, at this point that they made $4 billion in profits and they have

$29 billion in reserve. but i will say this. they are enjoying the nonprofit status on san francisco's dime. wow. bernard tyson enjoys $10 million a year. and while the other executives make over a million dollars a year. so let's think about that. supervisor yee, thank you. thank you for this opportunity. please help us. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is tracy. i'm a licensed vocational nurse and i'm a proud member of the union. we are here today to ask your help in a very serious matter. kaiser is a company with 29 billion dollars in reserve in the middle of an outsourcing storm. it is all across the state.

but locally, kaiser is scheduled to outsource 16 parking and shuttle employees on october 5 th, 2018. that a 16 employees who rely on their employer for a living wage , healthcare benefits, and a pension that they earned. in this classification, these members will be hard pressed to find another equitable position outside of kaiser. kaiser has a slogan. that is to thrive. the c.e.o. of the company makes 10 million a year and he is thriving. he is also thriving with eight pensions and we are asking that our 16 employees continue their employment and keep their one pension. why would they not want our 16 parking and shuttle employees to thrive. we don't know. corporate greed, probably. but as a single mom with four kids and a lifeless social life

as a vocational nurse and as hundreds of employees are being laid off or outsourced, those are nurses and i am afraid. i have one child in college at sacramento state and i am paying his tuition. what about these 16 members clearly these are your constituents. please do the right thing. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. thank you for the opportunity. i just want to stay at my name is james ellison. i was born and raised in san francisco. i work for kaiser. i am also a proud member of sciu uh w. i am here to support a protection resolution sponsored by supervisor norman yee to stop outsourcing jobs in the city of san francisco. i want to emphasize that 16 transportation jobs will be outsourced in san francisco by kaiser october 5th, 2018. i have to say, this will be in a

form of right to work in the private sector and will lower the standards of living. wages will be lowered and benefits will be taken away. panel of supervisors, please stop outsourcing by kaiser. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is rebecca. i am a lifetime resident. i am asking you to support the resolution to stop kaiser from outsourcing our jobs. i am an 18 year employee with kaiser. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i am with senior and disability action. let me ask you something. how many of you remember when you were making $15 an hour? if you have ever? do you? i remember. i am a single mom. it was very hard to survive on that.

so we still have workers making $15 an hour. that shouldn't be the case in san francisco when we have people making millions of dollars. like what they were just saying about people in other places. i can say, that isn't it weird times now that we live in times where people get replaced by robots in different industries? please, consider our people first. consider their living wage for the workers. we need them. i know my members would not be able to participate in the community. many of them, seniors and some people with disabilities, would not be able to participate actively in the community without them.

so please, find it in your heart to look better at how you can make the workers to stay in the city. in a city that calls itself, you know, and takes pride in being an aging family city. make it happen. make it friendly for aging people and people with disabilities. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is cindy. i am a 28 year employee of kaiser. i am here in support of the resolution sponsored by supervisor norman yee. the real urgency here is that these 900 jobs that are being outsourced is only the beginning for kaiser. we are seeing a very assertiveness. a very aggressive leadership at

kaiser. norman yee spoke about the 18 employees recently given notice is at kaiser. the union had one hours notice before these folks were getting pink slips. so it not only are these jobs getting contracted out, but they are getting contracted out by someone who is not invested in good quality care. they are there for a paycheck. paycheck to paycheck. kaiser is not paying them benefits. it is not supporting their retirement or their health benefits. so we also want to think about these workers who are getting outsourced. it is not just the workers. it is the families. it is a communities that they live in where they spend their consumable income. thank you. >> my name is linda. i work for kaiser for 20 plus years.

i am asking that you support the resolution by the supervisor, norman yee. i am asking that the outsourcing stops. we are not just looking at outsourcing small things. whatever kaiser decides to outsource is a large thing to us because as employees, people need these positions and need these jobs to support their families. i think it's very wrong to try to take working people and put them in a place where they now have to try and ask for public assistance when they have no intentions of living the life that way. it is a very important to allow people to live their lives the way they choose to live their lives. the working class should stay the working class. they don't want to be placed in a place where they are placed into the system, asking for any type of assistance to keep their homes, keep their families, keep their health care. it is very wrong. i am glad to speak to dense

honourable panel today, because my thought is that you would support this resolution to make life better instead of making it lives a worse and that you will use the authority and power that has been entrusted to you and you will use it in a way to make life better, instead of worse. one thing that has been outsourced by kaiser is the newborn hearing screening. when babies get their hearing test before they leave the hospital to ensure that the mother and father are not taking home a child that cannot hear. that is deaf from birth. this has been outsourced. i have asked that since this was a choice to habit total strangers handle these newborn babies in a nursery, that the families be notified that this is not our kaiser employee that is taking care of these infants. but they are other areas outside of this one.

>> thank you. >> this honorable panel consider making life better instead of wares and that you use your power and authority that you have been given. >> thank you. your time is up. >> making your decision. thank you. >> my name is carl kramer. san francisco living wage coalition. we are in a serious crisis. we have a severe labor shortage all across the country. at the airport, workers -- we are hemorrhaging workers. we are losing experienced workers. there are people that are constantly needing to be retrained. this is a threat to the flying public. you know, this was a message we brought to the board of supervisors prior to september 11th, 2001 when workers they were getting paid $675 -- $6.75

an hour. you cannot scrimp on having -- you know, the best possible for the safety of the flying public. also, with the social infrastructure of the city, you can't fiddle while san francisco burns. we are losing experienced caregivers. people are being displaced out of the city and commuting back and forth from manteca, tracy and stockton. we are at the point just ok, san francisco, you have a higher minimum wage but it is no longer worth our expense and time to come back and take care of the elderly and the infirm. we are losing home care workers. we are losing workers from the homeless shelter. every project that you have is going to be costing more because you are losing experienced workers. you have to take action. you have to bring up the wage. fifty cents per hour does not cut it. we are demanding at least a dollar 86 above the minimal wage

you need to bring up the wage rate and the compensation ordinance and for the airport, for home care workers, nonprofit workers and others. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, police. >> my name is alice. i live in district 11. i am here representing living wage coalition. today, i will read a statement by a woman who is also a member of living wage coalition because she had to leave because she had to pick up her child from childcare. this is what she wrote. my name is tenisha and i am a member of the san francisco living wage coalition. i live in district ten. the amendment to the minimum compensation ordinance are important to me because i used to be in the works program when i was working providing valuable service to the community. i am a single mother of three children. being paid just $50 per hour is not enough to survive in san

francisco. i have been looking to move to the east bay, but a round-trip ticket on part is more than $15 and the community is one hour each way. i support increasing the wage rate and the limited -- limiting wage law to a dollar 86 above the minimum wage. we need more money to stay here instead of being forced out because we can't afford to live here any longer. i have been in san francisco my whole life. it will be difficult to adjust to another city and my kids to adjust to another school. i would like the mayor and supervisors to realize that minimum wage is not enough to raise our children. i have been working on these issues for the past ten years and i will not stop until changes are made. we need to give a better future to our children and to show them that working hard to make some feel good about themselves. and it is fairly compensated. that is the right thing to do. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> good afternoon supervisors. i'm david williams. i am a resident of district seven. on the president of the west bay retirees chapter. adds an original member of the living wage coalition. i am speaking today as a board member. the california reliance for retired americans which represents over a million members around the state and is an organization of organizations that is doing advocacy work and organizing work for seniors issues and legislation. last year at our convention, we passed a resolution saying there is no better investment than investing in the people who do the hard work of taking care of our elderly and disabled, mentoring youth, counselling families, caring for the homeless and serving communities and whereas the san francisco board of supervisors are now considering amendments to these laws that would raise wages of thousands of workers including nonprofit workers and in-home supportive service home care

workers to a dollar 86 above the current minimum wage. we sent a letter to every member of this board and the mayor's office urging that to happen. that was a year ago. it is time. it needs to happen. and needs to happen because as a member of the coalition, and as carl mentioned, it is an urgent issue for seniors and disabled. we are in a crisis. and many home care workers are leaving for better paying jobs in other industries and many are being displaced. it is time to excuse the expression, get off the stick, but time to not amend this thing any farther. everyone is a dollar 86 more now >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, my name is alice i have worked with the living wage coalition from before the ordinance was passed.

i am also an officer of the san francisco chapter of the coalition of labor union women. you know this ordinance affects women largely. i was with the living wage coalition formulae. i interviewed many of the people whose lives were very much improved by the ordinance. but you no kak many have been left out and how expensive the city has. i have gone over the years to meetings to talk to supervisors and the mayor and i have often been told that there are so many things in a budget that there are many good reasons to fund various things and then the living wage won't get funded. but you no kak this is a very good reason to find. this -- i hope you will do this and raise the wages. thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is and. i am also a member of the living wage coalition and a member of church women united, which cooperates with the living wage coalition. we are a coalition of 40 mainline churches. we sent our newsletter to over 100 churches in the city. we support the rewarding of the left out workers with a living wage for their very vile and necessary work that they do for people in this city. i hope that you will reflect upon how importance what these

workers do is and that you will support their efforts to remain in their jobs and remain in the city. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is tom. i will do a lot of seconding here. as a recipient of services, i know it is difficult to find it and i know how important the minimum wage is. that extra dollar. these workers will go somewhere else for another dollar. two years ago, an electrical engineer at a building in town hired an assistant for $20 an hour. after two months, the man, he was hired and went to his boss and said i am leaving.

i can't support myself here on $20 an hour. i'm moving to sacramento. these are pillars, healthy pillars of our community. they need to be protected by their governments. turning the page, i watch a lot of television. last week was the supreme court. a very nice guy. possibly caught in a lying exchange over a -- papers of information that would lead to an intelligent discussion -- decision avoided. road versus wage. i was born in 1950. i remember when i was seven or eight years old. before i knew what sex was, knowing that women, young girls, good girls, died of abortions. we don't need another corporate

pretender. one question i would like to ask him, would be what do you think of global climate change? global warming? we are needing a big effort. a war effort. not in guns and bullets. we need smarts. here in the city to protect these neighbors. with these are our neighbors. just like the part drivers when they went out on strike. they are parts of our healthy communities. we need to protect ourselves. thank you. >> thank you cap next speaker. >> i want to thank the bigotry of the aging folks -- the asian folks that sit on this board against the gay community,

lesbian community, trans community and bisexual community it was evident that another trans phobic, anti- gay, anti- bisexual, anti- lesbian, asian was trying to apply their way with two-faced talk about who they really were. because we found out that the most famous anti- gay person was -- that killed harvey milk was down white. a board member. the second most hateful person to the lgbtq community, is katy tang. when she brought her pacific justice institute and here that advocated for the mental torture with reparative therapy, against , -- homosexuals in the california supreme court. katy tang, i call her catty, she is a witch. i wish she would go back at her

broom closet. >> no name calling. >> it is not name-calling. it is a fact. >> one of the things that i think like eight the asian community can start doing, instead of hating gays and hating trans folks, hating lesbians, hating bisexual folks, is to stop, can i get the overhead, please? is to advocate for the stopping of the slaughter of 30 million dogs in china and korea that are eaten every year, and then at the dog meat eating festival, 70,000 dogs are killed and eaten on that festival, which is coincidentally gay pride month. shame on you for attacking gay people. look at your own house and go back to your own broom closet. >> the time is concluded. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> the mayor and president, cohen, you are the only two who can appoint board appeal members [indiscernible] his members should be knowledgeable and building code regulations and ordinance. court of appeals has four members. but they have no knowledge. only mr fong has the qualifications. but he has been a member since january 30th, 1986. in one of the appeal hearing, the architects pressured the way that people require license. the issued lighters citing the violation. but they support duties architects because they have connections with the city e.a.

diversity antibiotic officials. [indiscernible] we have to put our faith in these professionals [indiscernible] one commissioner say the projects were too complicated. mr fong states the building and planning revealed the dimensions they are satisfied with that. then all members use the rubber rubberstamp to support d.b.i.'s statement. based on the inaccurate amount of plans. they are using the powerful position to hear cases without qualification. we want to no kak are you going to appoint members to have the qualifications and replace the unqualified members? thank you.

the decision is affecting many people's property. thank you. >> thank you, president cohen. good evening ladies and gentlemen. my name is winship. seventeen years ago today, two large airplanes crashed into some skyscrapers in new york. which then mysteriously collapsed. it is helpful to look -- it has been said that this had repercussions that were felt around the world, of course. that is a cliché. but it had repercussions that were felt specifically here in san francisco. why would that be? san francisco is 3,000 miles away. it is on the opposite side of a continent, on the opposite coast while, let's look at the circumstances around that were present at the time, a prominent

psychiatrist said that involuntary outpatient treatment was a lightning rod issue. that is a quotation at the time. a lightning rod issue. and subsequent to it, what happened? the patriot act was passed. among many other things, you changed the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978. it amended it to make -- to take away the requirements that electronic surveillance under the act be conducted for foreign intelligence purposes. electronic surveillance under the act could now be conducted under almost any reason. i don't have enough time. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public would like to address the board during general public comment? madam president. >> thank you very much. thank you. public comment is close at this time. could you please read the items

23, excuse me, 29 and 30 with the adoption without committee reference calendar. >> they were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. a unanimous vote is required for a resolution on first reading today. alternatively, a supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. >> colleagues, are there any members that would like to sever any of these items? all right. seeing none, can we take these the same house, same call? peskin is not here. thank you. i want the record to reflect we do not have the same house. we will need to do a roll call vote. [roll call]

>> there are ten yes, and one absent. >> thank you, very much. these items passed unanimously. is there another item? >> in memoriam. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of supervisor stefani, for the late mr stephen kendrick , and mr michael roberts painter, on behalf of supervisor peskin, for the late mr joe rosenblatt and mr michael wong. and a motion made by president cohen on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late mr joe tattoo we. >> thank you. can we take this without objection? >> thank you. these resolutions are adopted unanimously. is there any other business

before this body? >> that concludes our business for today. >> thank you very much. we are adjourned. >> good afternoon, everyone. i am the mayor of the city and

county of san francisco and i am here to welcome mayors from all over the country, including the u.s. conference of mayors on the centre for climate and energy solutions, to this great city. we are all gathered here today for a common cause. of taking meaningful action to combat climate change. as we all no kak this is an issue that is bigger than one of our cities, one of our regions and this country. climate change is the defining issue of our time. and the choices we make today, the commitment we can agree on and are sustained cooperation, will determine whether or not we rise to the challenge. i am proud that san francisco is one of 150 cities that took part in the survey conducted by the alliance for a sustainable future. writing climate change takes all of our cities working together

to share information, practices and ideas so we can come to -- come up with effective solutions that will protect our environment for generations to come. and san francisco, we are truly proud of the work we have been doing for years it for years to implement sustainable policies that work while growing our economy. since 1990, we reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by 30% and cut our landfill disposal in half, all while growing our economy by 111%. to do this, which champion zero waste policy, advanced clean energy initiatives, reduced emissions from public transportation and our home to some of the most sustainable buildings in the world. but we are not stopping there peerk we are adopting policies to meet our goal of being carbon neutral by 2050. by the year 2013, we have

committed to cutting our landfill waste -- waste in half, to carbon icing all of our new buildings, and achieving -- by the year 2013 -- 30, we want to be more sustainable. we can achieve this by working across our borders as one a global community, to push for strong environmental protections together, we have the ability to create a cleaner and greener sustainable future for generations to come and as we move forward this week, san francisco, as you know, will be hosting the global climate action summit. i'm so excited that jerry brown has chosen the city and county of san francisco, we have been a leader in the effort to combat climate change. as we bring people from not only all over the united states, but all over the world to san

francisco, we will continue to push the envelope and demand action. the whole point of this climate summit his action. it is about coming up with solutions. san francisco, is much as we live in a bubble, we can't do it alone. we need everyone here and the leaders of many of these great cities who are joining us today will help us lead the way. with that's, i would like to introduce the president of the u.s. conference of mayors, from columbia, south carolina, mayor benjamin doshi has been a great leader and a wonderful leader with the u.s. conference of mayors. mayor benjamin. [applause] >> thank you, so much for having us here today. we are honored to be with you and i appreciate your generous hospitality. we are looking forward to working with you in the days

ahead. my name is steve benjamin. i'm the mayor of columbia, south carolina have a privilege of serving as president of the united states conference of mayors. if you grabbed me a brief point of personal privilege, i will go down a line and have our colleagues here, both the mayors and guests and partners introduce themselves and see who is here and talk really loud. please. >> i'm from california. >> mayor rob rankin. >> mayor thomas [indiscernible].

[cheers and applause] >> the united states conference of mayors has long been a proponent of need to address climate change. mayors have been on the front lines, taking action on climate protection efforts and in many cases, launched local energy efficiency programs to reduce our carbon footprint in american cities.

the president's decision to withdraw from the paris agreement was not only shortsighted, it was not representative of our nation process leaders and their communities. the fact is, the nations of mayors have never waited on washington, d.c. to act. you will see, in the next weeks and months and years ahead, mayors continuing to use our collective power to lead the nation on this critical issue, regardless of what happens at the national level. at the same time, it is critical we have a federal government that takes climate protection seriously and is willing to step up the two the plate to deal with this national and global issue. we do call on the administration and on congress to reengage and work with us as we tackle this incredibly challenging issue. our efforts are strengthened by the support of strong partners. that is why we've formed an alliance with sustainable future to help us engage with the

business community. the alliance's purpose is to bring mayors and businesses together to identify ways we can work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, build more resilient communities and create a more sustainable future we had a great session earlier this morning. we heard about what cities and business communities are doing together to reduce our carbon footprint. we discuss how this best practices could be replicated throughout the united states. today, the alliance is releasing a new survey of which cities are doing to advance climate solutions and to meet the challenges ahead. the report demonstrates cities of all sizes are committed to action. in fact, we have 75 smaller cities, those less than 100,000 citizens respond to the survey. this demonstrates there is broad-based support in urban america, suburban america and rural america up for action, if we have access to the right tools and strategies.

shows that climate change impacts all of our communities. collectively, we are making a significant difference. right now, our nation needs thoughtful leaders who care about the environment and care about the world that we have inherited from our ancestors. at you care deeply about their world we are passing on to our children. you need to look no further than america's mayors for this leadership. mayors get things done. fighting climate change is no exception to that rule. i would like to ask my friend, a fantastic leader, the chair of the alliance for sustainable future top our salt lake city mayor to unveil the major findings from our reports. mayor? [applause] >> thank you. thank you, mayor benjamin. i wanted to give you a few brief highlights from the survey.

this is the second year we have conducted this research. with this work, our plan is to continue to monitor the progress so -- cities are making towards achieving their climate change goals and to share this information across the country. we are confident this information exchange will identify ways cities and businesses can match up with one another so that policy and programs can be replicated quickly and efficiently. we need to learn from each other and identify resources to help each other achieve our goals. on the reasons why are abundantly clear. as you can see from the answers of a new question, we asked this year, has your city experience impacts of climate change in the last five years? and the answer is no surprise.

ninety-five% -- 95% of the cities said yes. right here in california, you can see the impact most directly through devastating wildfires and droughts, issues impacting my city as well. it is also important to note that cities are not just experiencing one impact of climate change. they are experiencing several changes all at once. so what are we doing about it? our survey found that more than 70% of the cities have energy efficiency policies for new and existing municipal buildings and more than half have established energy-efficient -- energy

efficiency policies for new and existing commercial and residential buildings. in the area of transportation, nearly 60% of city governments have a green vehicle purchasing policies with an additional 26% considering such action. cities have tremendous purchasing power. with cities purchasing over 13,000 vehicles annually, while gas and diesel vehicle purchases are still prevalent, you can see that with these policies in place, a real shift is not only possible, but is underway. besides municipal fleets cap cities also have options for their residents. with 94% of city respondents having best transit and 92% bike lane policies with

implementation. this scrap -- of this scratches the surface of our findings and i encourage you to take a closer look at the survey and thank you very much for being here today. [applause] >> now i would like to introduce mayor john mitchell, the mayor of new bedford, massachusetts for some remarks. >> thank you, mr president. good afternoon everybody. i want to thank mayor benjamin for your leadership in the space you are one of the mayors he pushed very hard for all the mayors to sign up to the 100% renewable pledge. i want to commend jackie for her leadership as well in promoting this report and making this happen. everyone should take a close

look at it's contents and spread the word. because it is a reminder of two things. that mayors are the big problems facing america and facing the world, americas mayors are meeting the challenge. secondly, those challenges are very real. i want to thank tom cochrane executive director, for being in the space for a long time before it was popular to be that way for america's mayors and the staff is well. america's mayors clock by the very nature of their job, don't have to remove themselves from the abstract and get real. we are where the rubber hits the road and every respect. and it is true of climate change in our particular case, new bedford is the biggest commercial fishing porridge in the united states. we see, over time, in the fish

that come in. a few years ago we are one of the biggest lobster ports in the world his. we are no longer that because the water has gotten warmer at those lobsters back even though they have small legs, have migrated north. they are no longer around in southern new england. it is one example. i see our beaches where -- which are not nearly the size of what they once worked when i was a kid. and we see what happens this week. i just wanted to throw this out there as food for thought about the kinds of things that mayors deal with. mayors on the east coast of the united states have to be mindful of hurricanes. mayors from miami all the way to new bedford. and this week i was asked on an am station, what about the storm , florence that is in the middle of the atlantic? i said, you know, we are keeping an eye on it. we always do. i should probably take a closer look. i had my team take a closer look at it and i did my own google research. i found a washington post case. this is three days ago that said

that the storm, florence, where was the atlantic three days ago was in a place where no storm had hit the united states since 1851. out of 67 identified storms in that time. sixty-seven, not a single one hit the united states. the folks in the carolinas are about to learn clock you will shortly -- and fortune experience in a few days, it will hit the east coast. so the aberrations are becoming the norm. and we see it all the time. that is why a report like this helps us focus on not only what we can do to prevent the problems today, but also, ten years from now, 20 years from now, 50 years from now. the survey reported that cities spend $1.6 billion annually on

electricity, which represents a significant amount of purchasing power and opportunity for cities , as mayor benjamin was alluding to, catch a loop -- use collective influence to make change. so we do. think do it in columbia and they don't salt lake city and across america. fifty-four% of the cities have renewable energy goals another 80% are considering setting a goal. these goals have made real results in cities. they have reduced our electric consumption considerably from fossil fuels. in our particular case, we are at 71% renewable. there are eight cities in america who have hit 100% and more that are rapidly approaching. sixty-five% pure care for municipal operations. and they derives the vast majority of their needs through renewable sources.

i will add these other data points, 37% of cities have set communitywide renewable energy goals with another 19% considering it at 51% of cities have policies or programs that help citizens and businesses cues renewable energy options. these numbers are going to grow in part because of the idea sharing mechanism that is the u.s. conference of mayors. we talked to one another and share ideas. again, this is another place where we are sitting dorsett single standard. as mayor benjamin mentioned, we do not wait for the federal government to act. thank you, everybody. [applause] >> thank you, mayor mitchell. i will invite the trustee of the u.s. conference of mayors and the mayor mayor of des moines, iowa. >> mayor benjamin, all mayors,

we are proud to be her as a mayor of san francisco said. it is a convening of people who are elected, and others to talk about the future of this planet and talk about the future of this country and talk about it from a perspective that is local quite frankly, for all of us, remembered some of the work -- and a look at tom cochrane back here and remembering being in copenhagen. boy, we had some great hopes and thoughts and hopeful outcomes that were going to happen as a result of that convening. but we all know that not everything happens that we wanted to have happen. i will tell you that it is local government leaders like the people that are here before you today whose voices jumped out. after that occasion, all the way to parents, we had to show not only in the united states that local government that this is

where stuff happens. this is where the consequences of actions and inactions on climate change actually manifest themselves. someplace, somewhere. it is not just the mayors here, it is a mayors around the world. i know that we continue, through the conference of mayors, to speak with other mayors around the world and i believe that it is those mayors at the local levels that spoke out and gave the courage to the heads of state to vote for and accept the paris climate agreements. in spite of the fact that there is debate as to whether the united states is still in, i want you to know that there is over 500 mayors that have said we are still in. we are still part of this wasp was to go along with thousands of other mayors around the world , as we celebrate that

moment in knowing that this is also where it happens. this is where we will have to take the actions that are necessary to meet those paris goals. with that, i will say that in des moines, iowa, we sit in the middle of the country and you always wonder, what are they doing here? there is no sea level rise and there's probably not a hurricane there, but you should have been in joint -- des moines on june 30th this year, you would've had a nice day up until about 9:00 and then it started raining by about 1230, there was areas in des moines that received over 10 inches of rain and three and a half hours port i have to tell you, that is like a monsoon. out in the middle of the plains in iowa and the cornfields in the streams on the rivers, they filled up really fast. and those are becoming more normal. we have to decide how we will

work to do it and how we will achieve our goals. i will tell you, it is not only those of us at the local government level, but it is partnering with our businesses, with our residents that are in each and every one of our communities in making a plan and working for a plan and often, those are led by the city. in our case, one of the great accomplishments that has happened in iowa and in des moines, art -- our disc attributed -- our distributed energy provider. started in 2004 when they had two% of their power created by renewables. today, it was just verified by the iowa utility commission, at the end of 2017, mid american energy, through wind, has stepped up now to 50.8% of their

energy that they produce is by renewables. they have also committed -- they have two new projects going along that will boost their investment and went into. as a look at my partner over here from salt lake city, by over $14 billion. by 2020, we are hoping that we will effectually create 100% of the energy produced by mid american energy in iowa through their sources in the energy they provide that will be renewable. that is a kind of gold that we need to reach. that is a kind of partners we need to have. let's hope we can accomplish it and maintain and retain this planet for all of our future generations. thanks. [applause]

>> thank you frank for your comments. we are all available for questions. our president, our chairman, executive director and c.e.o., tom cochrane is here with us as well. he did not introduce themselves earlier but he and bob have been doing fantastic work making sure the business community of mayors have been working together for the last several years. we look forward to watching that partnership grow. questions? i will say this. i am with you -- if you get no questions, you wrap it up really quickly, i do want to congratulate mayor breach, not only taking her leadership role here in city hall, but almost immediately thereafter, she was named a cochair of mayors for the 100% clean and renewable energy partnership that we have with the sierra club. we are ready for 100. this leadership, i want to highlight because mayor bree joins myself and others in a

barbed -- bipartisan, bicoastal commitment to this. this is not d.r. or red or blue issue. this is an issue that seems to protect america's feature and of course, make sure we maintain our rightful place in the world. as you meet people over the next several days, i am going back home to south carolina to deal with the issues presented by hurricane florence. as you meet people, make sure it is clear to them that america's leaders, may be, save one are committed to working on this issue together in a thoughtful, meaningful way. we are stronger when we work together. thank you and god bless you. [applause]

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