>> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic

child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about

four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be

safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a

lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of

that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of

normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy.

how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that

come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all

>> good morning everyone. let's start the celebration of this beautiful amazing building. i'll begin by introducing myself. i serve director of public works for the city and county of san francisco. today, we're going to be celebrating this amazing fire station. how about a big hand for the fire officials. [applause] today is an exciting day. not only for our fire department but for the entire city of san francisco. every time we open a new civic building for our first responders, we are providing a safer san francisco that will be prepared when the disaster strikes. this new fire station, which was

built from ground up, replaced one that failed to meet today's building codes and first responder needs. the new fire station meets national accreditation and seismicresilientcy standards. like to thank our city administrator. i like to thank the public works engineers and architects who designed and managed this project. a special shotout to the project manager. our city architect edgar lopez and roebuck construction, give them a hands. they really had to work hard.

thank you. of course, all of the voters in san francisco that made this possible. this funding was passed in the 2010 earthquake safety emergency bond and this is the first of the full complete fire houses that the city has produced. isn't it beautiful? the bond which funded this upgrade is a voter-backed initiative and aimed to strengthening earthquake resiliency. public works takes great pride in overseeing some of the city's crucial capital and improvement projects. with the support of voters we can componen continue to work on world-class facilities to many diverse neighborhoods. at this time, i now have the

honor of introducing our mayor london breed who has been champion making sure that san francisco is kept safe. join me in welcoming our mayor london breed. [applause] >> mayor breed: good morning. i'm so excited to be here today. it's always a good time when you're able to come to a new place a new an improved place where some of our most important services take place. the people who are first responders, the people who helped to protect the city and county of san francisco, whether it's a disaster, whether it's a fire, what have you, they deserve beautiful space where they also feel safe. today, we are opening up just what is a beautiful fire house. couple of years ago, i was there when we cut the ribbon on fire

station one and also i'm looking forward to finishing the new station 49 where our e. e.t. and paramedics will have a safe space to respond to emergencies in a timely manner. today is just really a commitment by the voters through the issa bond that provided an opportunity to make sure that we have the funding necessary to rebuild this incredible fire station which we all know was not in the best shape. we also know we have other fire stations that we need to repair all over san francisco and i can't wait to cut the ribbon on station five this year. you know, building a resilient city and dealing with the challenges that we know exist

and the possible earthquake and other challenges that are yet to come, we have to think about the future. how do we make sure that our public safety folks are in building where they feel safe so that they can respond to emergencies to help people in need all over our city if the time comes. as our population increases and our city grows, we need to ensure that we have the capacity and the resiliency to survive in the future. i want to thank you for being here today. to thank the chief and the san francisco fire department for their work and also president of the fire commission as well as steve covington who is also joining us here today. thank you to local 798 and members of the fire department. i know the former president is here, thank you tom o'connor for being here and so many others.

this incredible neighborhood, thank you for your patience during the time of construction. last but not least you want to thank the 33 members of the fire department who are actually stationed at station 16. thank you for your patience, thank you for allowing this process to occur and the inconvenience that occurred more importantly, you continue to do your job without complaint during this process and made sure that our city remains safe. we want to thank you all for being here. i'm looking forwardly to cutting this ribbon and opening this fire house and the best is yet to come with so many other opportunities throughout our city. thank you again for the voters of 4 san francisco for investing in our public infrastructure. we'll continue to make sure that we invest endollar wisely and you see the results in places

like this. thank you all so much. >> i will introduce the interview of the district. >> i don't know if any of you have the chance to see state of the city yesterday. you should watch it, it will make you proud to be a san franciscan. mayor breed said something yesterday that nothing wrong with san francisco that can't be fixed what's right about san francisco. today is an example of that. i want to welcome everyone to district one. i want to acknowledge all the people here who's leadership and hard work was vital to it project. thank you to our amazing san francisco fire department and chief joann hayes white and to our fire commission president and fellow fire commissioners to

our service. thank you to public works and our director for delivering this incredible project and doing it on budget. it was definitely worth the wait. finally, i want to thank the residents of district two and san francisco for your support and commitment to prepare a resilient city. we know this project could not have been possible without passing the bond in 2010 and 2014 and your commitment to earthquake safety makes all the difference in the world. it was worth the wait like i said. fire station 16, originally built in 1938 has been a home for the firefighters who proudly served geldengate valley and marina for the last 81 years. it's not just a building.

i lived in this community for 18 years. it means so much to the people who live around here. i'm a mom i have a 14-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter. my son is in boy scout, we've been in this building with the firefighters teaching them about emergency preparedness, teaching them about fires and it means so much to the community. i can't tell you how many times we've dropped off cookies and brownies. i hope they were good and probably not if i made them. there are so many other people that have done that. we are so excited to have this station up and running again. i live just down the street, everyone morning when i'm going to work, i drive by here and i wave to the firefighters. they wave back. it means so much to have this as a part of our community. it's another example of san francisco pushing us to be prepared as possible in the event of an earthquake and we know in san francisco, earthquakes are reality. we continue to have to be prepared over the past several

years, we have made massive investments in our most critical safety and emergency response infrastructure cruing our -- including our new fire station and improvements to emergency firefighter water system. for the safety of all san franciscans, i look forward to continuing to work with mayor breed and all city departments to continue making our city safer and more resilient. i want to introduce my old boss, former boss, naoimi kelly our city administrator who is vital so our city and county of san francisco. >> good morning. this was very exciting for me today to pull up and see this beautiful fire station. as you all heard, the city of san francisco, especially if you group up here and grew up here, we think about resilience all the time.

we think about our private assets. on the public side we have a 10-year capital plan we're looking at all our vital public facilities and the fire faces are vital along with our police stations. we pass earthquake safety response time in 2010 and in 2014. we're looking again for another bond. we have been very thankful to the voters because they see that we accomplished what we're doing. they know that we are not issuing new debt without paying down old debt. we have oversight bond committee that is making sure we deliver on those projects. we're united. we're united with the fire chief, local 798, department of public works, board of supervisors and the mayor-in what are the priorities for this city. not only that as we talked about -- with live in earthquake country. there's 73% chance of 6.7

magnitude earthquake by 2043. the mayor directed us to look at our private assets. as you know, we adopted an ordinance that impacted the marina district to make sure our private asset are strong. we want to make sure not only we survive this earthquake, we reoccupy our buildings and get back into our lives in san francisco. that is why we're all here today and i want to thank all of you for supporting our earthquake safety emergency response bond. it's for the people of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you naoimi. we'll hear from our fire chief who calls me all the time, checking on all the projects. she's a project manager herself in addition to all the work she

does. >> thank you mohammed. i have his number on speed dial. i did want to say, first and foremost, welcome to new station 16. it is something we anticipated for quite some time. the quality is amazing. i want to take a full tour around. this is a public building all of you are welcome. neighbors and anyone from the public will be happy to show you around our new station. good morning to everyone that's gathered. we're very proud to have reopen this station. it's brand new. definitely want to have lot of thanks. i know you heard other people thanks. i want to thank our mayor london breed. she always been a champion for public safety. thank you very much for that. from executive branching to

legislative branch, also champion for public safety. always has been and that -- i wanted to thanks you both. as mentioned three fire commissioners are hear. d.p.w., it's an incredible team. we work with them all the time on projects. edgar is here today as well as charles. thank you very much. roebuck construction, thank you for the work they did. quality craftsmanship. before going on too much

further, support services, that's a division in our department. they get all the work done. under the direction of the assistant deputy chief, this project would not have come to fruition. he was strong advocate on what they wanted. he worked with captain steve. both of them had incredible construction knowledge. i have my command staff here, the neighbors, we want it thank you. we know it's a long process. there was some hardships along the way. thank you very much for your support in public safety. this project in particular but in general the voters on the bonds have been supportive. last but not least, we have our members. there's nine of them working here today. today's officers -- all the members, i looked at the roster today, i hired every single one of you.

as i look forward to your retirement, it's time. i hired all these people that are working here today. thank you very much. you were hugely patient. they kept this neighborhood in mind and kept this neighborhood safe responding from different areas. we made it work. we always do. there's one person in the back, i wasn't going to recognize him. i wasn't sure if he was here. he's amazing to me. that's our chaplain, father john green who recently -- thank you father green for being here. he wouldn't want anyone to know, he was very ill earlier this month and really huge that you're here today. if it fits in the time limit, at the conclusion, i like to have father green to join us to give us a nondenominational blessing.

i like to thank san francisco, mayor and myself and others, native san franciscan, that is president of the fire commission. thank you everyone. >> good morning everybody. thank you very much chief hayes-white. she will retire very soon. 15 years as the first woman chief of the san francisco fire department. i wanted to definitely acknowledge our mayor mayor breed, champion of the fire department. also former fire commissioner, also supervisor from my districting in japantown district five. this is all part of a collaboration from the bond through the voters through the collaboration to the supervisors. we all appreciate that. i wanted to recognize that today. we have the vice president of the fire commission francine

covington. we wanted to acknowledge joseph who's the neighborhood supervisor who remind us constantly that station 16 is his neighborhood. fire station as well. it's very important in 798 is represented as well. we thank you so much. we look forward to the work. this is the greatest example of san francisco which is collaboration and taking care of public safety. we also have mr. kendall coleman. thank you so much for all your contributions. thank you for the neighborhood in terms of your patience. thank you for being part of san

francisco. thank you for this beautiful day. thank you. >> are we ready to cut the ribbon? father grown, will you come up u come up and say a prayer for us. then we'll cut the ribbon. >> we'll pray that the scissors work. i thank chief hayes-white for her kind words. i liking to meet that father grown some day. sounds like a nice guy. for all those who work at station 16, may this house always been a sign of safety and service for this neighborhood.

amen. >> okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

m [gave [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: the meeting will come to order. welcome to the january 28, 2019 meeting of the rules committee. seated to my right is supervisor shamann walton, and seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar. i'd like to thank the staff at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting, and our clerk, mr. victor young. mr. clerk, do you have any

announcements? >> clerk: yes. [agenda item read]. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. can you please call item number one. >> clerk: item number one is a hearing to consider appointing three members, term ending january 1, 2020, and two members, term ending january 1, 2021 to the shelter monitoring committee. we have five seats, six applicants. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. and unless my colleagues have any initial questions or comments, then i would ask if we can hear from our first applicant today, gabriela avalos. and i understand that miss avalos was unable to be here, and has asked gordhoward chin the shelter monitoring committee to read a statement. >> miss gabriela avalos asked

me to tell you that she regrets she cannot be here, but she asked that i read this to you. hello. thank you for allowing me to express my interest in becoming part of the shelter monitoring committee through the tone and voice of another person. my name is gabriela avalos, and i would be proud to be part of the shelter monitoring committee and share work with the board of supervisors. my work is with clients who are housed by often clients share their experience about san francisco shelters while i am processing intake or simply recomme reminiscing about days when they were homeless.

shelters provide lots of resources but not because case workers or case managers may not always be available to support. shelters keep stability, even if it's 30 days, but sometimes not because waiting lists can be longer or the beds are on a first come, first serve basis. as a single mother of a ten-year-old daughter, it is very important to me that everyone in san francisco be housed, but if this is not the case, then a common environment should be provided. during the day, most of the individuals who are homeless get by. children are at schooled, adults are seeking employment and housing. then the night comes, and what happens? this is the part that i want to be a part of. the community needs to be assured that children and adults are rested for the next day. if i was selected to a chair on the shelter monitoring committee, i would love to collaborate and work in

partnership with the public to make san francisco shelters as they can be. a shelter is defined as a place which provides safety, protection and accommodation. i would be grateful to be part of the san francisco sheltering monitoring committee who understands and monitors these believes. thank you for your consideration. regards, gabriela avalos. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. next, i'd like to invite up the second applicant, denise feathers. okay. i do not have her. mr. chin, do you have any information from miss feathers? >> no. we just don't see miss feathers here today. we did not receive any information from her prior to the meeting. >> supervisor ronen: okay. thank you so much. so i'd like to call up the third applicant, dean deanna almanza.

>> clerk: i'd just like to remind the applicants to limit your statements to three minutes. >> good morning. my name is deanna almanza, and i am the director for mission creek health services here in san francisco. prior to that, i was the c.e.o. for the domestic violence and rape crisis center for 20 years, and before that, i became a franciscan worker where i served the homeless. in my current position, i still serve the homeless, and i would consider it a privilege to be a part of the solution. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. any questions? thank you. and then, next, i would like to invite up the fourth applicant, vixen yvonne. good morning, miss yvonne. >> hi. i'm vixen yvonne. ten years ago, if somebody said to me, hey, in a few years, you're going to be homeless, i

would have laughed and told them to go to bellevue. the homeless experience for me was -- on both sides. i see both sides. i have a political science degree, and so i saw the bureaucracy side of it. they're underfunded. it's a nightmare to work there, and it's a nightmare to live there. and i mean, both sides need a voice. i think i can bring that. i think i can bring an impartial voice to the committee. i -- i see a lot of changes that need to have. i mean, the system's broken. i don't know if it was ever whole, so -- and there's just a positive way to do that. i mean, screaming at each other about all the bad things that happen really doesn't do anything, and there's some wonderful things that happen.

there are wonderful people that work in the shelter system. there's wonderful people that live in the shelter system. i was one of them. but we don't talk about those people. we only talk about the bad things, and i think there's just some way to make it better, and i hope that i can be a part of making that better. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. any questions? no? thank you so much. next, is ron summers here? don't see him, so i will lastly invite up the sixth applicant, traci watson. >> good morning, board of supervisors. my name is traci watson, and i'm here for reappointment for seat six on the shelter monitoring committee. i have been working for the homeless community for the past ten years.

i also started also working in in the shelter -- three popular shelters here in san francisco, and i'm currently working with the city of san francisco with the department of public housing with the home ward bound program placing homeless individuals on the street and relocating them back to their friends and their family. what i learned a lot on the committee was the standards of care, which is very important and i really would like to be reappointed to continue working to help with the solution. so thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. any questions, ma'am? thank you so much. with that, i wanted to open this up to public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: colleagues, and mr. young, tell me if i'm doing this correctly. seats two, four, five, and

six -- there's only one applicant for each seat, should i make a motion first, and then consider an applicant for seat three? >> clerk: you can take these one at a time. you wou you -- would you like to make a motion regarding seat six? recommendation of traci watson for seat six? >> supervisor ronen: without objection we recommend tracey watkins -- watson for seat six of the shelter monitoring. committee. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: thank you, miss watson. thank you so much for your service. and then, for seat five, can i entertain a motion to appoint ron summers -- or is there any concern because mr. summers isn't -- >> clerk: there's two

applicants for seat five. it's vixen yvonne and ron summers. and i believe ron summers also applied for seat two. >> supervisor ronen: oh, i see. sorry. given that, maybe -- if we couldn't -- i would like to entertain a motion, then, to appoint vixen summers to seat five. sorry. this is my first time as rules chair. please, please bear with me here. i'm so sorry. vixen yvonne. excuse me, miss yvonne. i'm so sorry about that. without objection, then, we will recommend the appointment of vixen yvonne to seat number five. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: thanks so much, miss yvonne, for your service. okay. got it. moving onto seat number two, then, i wanted to ask my colleagues, given that mr. summers wasn't here and didn't inform us, do you still feel comfortable moving him forward

to seat number two? [inaudible] >> supervisor ronen: sure, that would be great. mr. chin? >> i think at this time we should -- because mr. summers did not previously inform us that he would not be able to attend this meeting today and also had previously notified myself that he would be here, i think we should hold off until we get some more information on finding out what happened to mr. summers here will be formally appointed him to the committee. >> supervisor ronen: okay. can we continue this to the next meeting? >> clerk: there's no need to take action. if we don't appoint someone to seat two, it remains open, and we can take it up at a future time. >> supervisor ronen: okay. and then last but not least, i wants to see if -- i wanted to

see if my colleagues had any questions about seat number two. i note that we have the same situation with miss feathers. maybe we can ask mr. chin if she was in contact with you prior to today's meeting? >> unfortunately we didn't receive any communication from miss feathers prior to this meeting as to whether she would or would not be able to attend? >> supervisor ronen: okay. thank you. i would note that we did receive one letter of support from the deputy director of l.s.s. for california representing gabriela avalos. do either of my colleagues have any comments or want to make a motion regarding seat number three? [inaudible]

>> supervisor ronen: without objection, this committee will recommend gabriela avalos appointment to seat three with a positive recommendation to the full board. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: and then lastly, can i recommend deanna almanza to seat four? >> clerk: just to recommend, we have gabriela avalos to seat three, deanna almanza to seat

four, and vixen yvonne to seat six. >> supervisor ronen: yes. thank you very much. can you call item number two? [agenda item read]. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. any comments from my colleagues? seeing none, i'll open this item up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: you want to make a motion? without objection, this committee recommends the appointment of supervisor kathrin stefani to the bay conservation development commissi commission. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: can you please read item three. >> clerk: item three is a motion appointing shamann walton, term ending january 31, 2021 to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors.

>> supervisor ronen: i'm assuming that we need to excuse supervisor walton? >> clerk: yes. we need a motion. >> supervisor ronen: i'd like to make a motion to excuse supervisor walton from this item. >> clerk: do we have a second? >> supervisor mar: second. [gavel]. >> clerk: the motion to excuse passes. >> supervisor ronen: would you like to make a motion? >> clerk: public comment first. >> supervisor ronen: oh, i'd like to open this item up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. [inaudible] >> supervisor ronen: without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: can you please read item number four. >> clerk: item number four is a motion appointing matt haney, term ending june 30, 2020, to the association of bay area government executive board. >> supervisor ronen: like to open this item up for public

comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] [inaudible] >> supervisor ronen: without objection, this item passes. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: can you please call item number five. >> clerk: yes. i just had a reminder from our friends down at sfgtv to please pull your microphones close. they're having a little trouble hearing you. item number five is a motion appointing supervisor matt haney to an indefinite term to the transbay joint powers authority. >> supervisor walton: motion to move supervisor haney's name forward. >> supervisor ronen: i'd like to open this up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor walton: i'd like to make a motion to move supervisor haney's name

forward. >> supervisor ronen: seeing no objection, this motion passes. [gavel] [agenda item read]. >> supervisor mar: make a motion to appoint supervisor haney to the location agency formation commission. >> supervisor ronen: seeing no objection, item passes. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: please call the next item. [agenda item read]. >> supervisor ronen: i'd like to make a motion to excuse supervisor mar. without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> supervisor ronen: i'd like to open this up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> supervisor walton: i'd like to make a motion to appoint

supervisor mar. >> supervisor ronen: without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> clerk: with that, supervisors, there are no further items on the agenda

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residents participating in the program. >> it was easy to sign up for the program, i went online to cleanpowersf.org and i started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going to be switched over and it just happened. when i pay my bill, i still go to pg and e and i don't see any difference between now and a year ago. >> sign up online, just have your account number ready and it takes about two minutes and there's nothing to install. no lines are getting connected to your home. all the power goes through the existed power grid. >> we haven't had any problems with the switch over to clean power. >> it's super easy to sign up. our book keeper signed up online, it took about 15 minutes. nothing changed but now we have cleaner energy. >> we see clean power sf as a

key strategy to meet renewable energy goal, we have a goal of 50% renewable energy by 2020. currently we have enrolled about 86,000 customers across the city. about 20% of what we hope to serve in the future and in the next two years we'll offer service to all san francisco electricity customers. >> an easy way to align your environmental responsibilities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it and it doesn't really add anything to the bill. >> joining clean power sf is one of the easiest ways to fight climate change, receiving cleaner energy at low and stable rates, you're helping to support a not for profit that helps influence the energy grid and produce more production. >> i would encourage any

business to seriously convert to the clean sf service. it's good for environment, business and the community. >> you can sign up online our call and the great thing is, you'll have the peace of mind that you're doing your part in your household to help the environment. ♪ ♪ . >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite

district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is

ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person

people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung

out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd get