having neighbors upset when you didn't tell them about one event -- i'm a business owner. that would be my worst nightmare. this is extraordinary stuff, not to mention putting people up in hotel rooms, which is way, way above and beyond what the general business owner is required to do to conduct business in san francisco. so i just want to point that out. you know, posting a schedule, that's simple stuff. we hope you're able to do it. you know, this is, like -- this is, like, 101 stuff. you can post the schedule. one person can do it on monday. it's done. i personally feel strongly that commissioner falzon's words, and commissioner thomas's words, i'd feel very comfortable with that. i do actually agree with commissioner lee also that now is the time to see if there's any violations, and i think any violations -- we have the

limits. we've come this long process. if there's any violations now, there's immediate grounds to bring the permit back in here to have a really tough discussion probably about sound limiters. that'll probably be what it'll be about in my mind, but thank you. i think this is a really important conversation. >> i don't think there was a second to the motion, so i'll second it. [roll call] >> all right. it is so moved. thank you very much. you can follow up with our staff if there's any question. but thank you for coming in. thank you for being very open to the continued conversation. >> president bleiman, i need to recuse myself from this next item. >> okay.

all right. next item. >> item ten. >> ten? oh, thank you. that's very helpful. item number ten, review and possible action to change the conditions on the place of entertainment permit, d.b.a. hue located at 447 broadway, specifically reviewing the below listed condition that was amended on sept 18, 2018 at the request of permittee, hours the entertainment limited to 12:00 a.m. on sundays through tuesdays, and 1:00 a.m. on penc wednesdays through sundays. >> i just want to give you a little bit of background.

the last time we had hue on calendar was september 18, 2018. and at that time, you requested a six-month look back. that was originally supposed to be on march 19, but that meeting was cancelled, so here we are this evening. i wanted to call your attention to the enforcement timeline. this really goes back the last two years, and at the very bottom, that's what's most important here is that no complaints have been reported to the entertainment commission regarding hue since our last hearing on september 18. we have not issued any notices of violation or administrative citations since that date, as well. i actually do want to read into record an e-mail that i just received from andrew diamond, who's that immediate neighbor, and this is very positive. it says you're welcome to read this at the meeting.

thank you to hue and thank you to the sfpd. i think it has been the best year on broadway ever. the hue team has worked hard to fix our neighbor issues. i appreciate them taking the bass noise seriously and keeping it under control. hue's security team has been outstanding and is diligent in keeping the area secure. with you really appreciate how hue is helping us in being a good neighbor. not only do we have no complaints, i actually want to give hue my thanks. also a big thanks to sfpd. they have the toughest job, and i appreciate the effort they're putting into broadway, so that's pretty incredible? i did receive feedback from sfpd, as well. unfortunately it's not super organized. it's from officer matthias. when i did speak with him on the phone, he said there was

nothing -- as these were submitted, mind you, there was nothing of regard or concern for the entertainment commission to have to step in. and any of these incidents, they were super minor. so with that, you might want to hear an update from the permit holder, but from the central station, sergeant toomey is here to represent. >> well, let's hear from the permit holder. i think we've heard the nice comments. you can talk as long as you want. >> i'm robert palmer. i have nothing to add. >> thank you. so anything to add? >> just to add that as far as the conditions go, we're just asking for the time. all the other conditions, keeping the same, standard business practices of, you know, checking our decibel

readers in the alley every night, that continues. the nice e-mail that andrew sent that we were able to read. ben here has done a great job communicating with the neighbors, so besides that, there's really nothing to add. >> so just to be clear, you're asking to go till 2:00 a.m. every day of the week? is that what you're asking for? >> yeah. >> okay. thank you. >> and technically, i mean, realistically, not really 2:00 a.m. 1:45 is -- is i guess what we would really be asking for. >> yeah, but you're asking to lift all the conditions around the hours and days. okay. >> please. >> yeah. >> please. i do have a question. >> go ahead. >> i just have a question -- no, you can please have a seat. i think this is for bennett,

but that's an extraordinary e-mail that was just written, given the last, you know, the time that we've seen you up here. can you -- it seems like you've got new management who's a liaison. can you explain how we got here and what steps you've taken and maybe is there anything you've learned about managing neighbors or dealing with neighbors? how did we get that e-mail because that's very promising and -- really promising and very extraordinary. >> i really think just reaching out, open line of communication and reaching out, checking in. instead of waiting for them to reach out to you, saying the music is too loud, periodically reaching out, hey, how is everything going, how's staff been? it's not just noise, as well. we also share an alley. that's something we take very seriously, as well. it's just open communication,

so i don't know if you have anything to add, ben. >> pretty much exactly what bennett said, just being -- having the open line of communication, being not only to take the -- willing to take the praise but taking the criticism. when there's something wrong, we took everything they -- they brought to us very seriously in an effort to heal the damage that was done before. >> okay. so you -- you're the one that handles the neighbors, so you're on duty every day the club's open. so when neighborhood stuff comes up, you address that, and then, you talk to head security? >> yeah. whenever there's an issue with anyone, if i'm not at the front, security will call me, and then, i'll speak to them and i'll find a way to solve it right then and there. if it can't be solved at that moment, i take action to figure out what we can do.

>> is your title the g.m. or is it more like neighborhood relations? >> relations manager. >> relations manager. >> i just want to say something. i just want to congratulate you. i got little warm fuzzies just listening to director weiland read mr. diamond's letter. we've been here late nights, and having to just really push hard on you and your staff to just really -- just try, like, a different way of addressing these concerns? i think we were going to be here for maybe another hour, but i'm pretty amazed as just how, you know, we just opened up this item with that letter, and so i just want to give you this massive shout out. >> yeah, i want to echo that. we've seen you, i don't even know, so many times over the

last so many years. if you just look at our staff report, this hue enforcement timeline that goes back just to 2017, though obviously we've seen you here more than that, but i think half the names on here are christine diamond or andrew diamond. you've turned the corner on that. you pled with us to be more lenient on you, that you're doing your best. and we just kept saying you could do better. i hope this is the end of this chapter, and i am actually in full support of lifting the limitations on the time restrictions. so i think there was probably a time we told you that we were going to get there, and we want to get you there, but we couldn't just do it overnight. thank you for putting the work in. this guy deserves a raise. i guess one question that i'm curious about. so aside from the neighbors, i

know we saw, you know, some police or security footage about some incidents that went on and went to the pizza parlor across the street. how are you coordinating with all with any of the your business neighbors about the night life, if at all. >> as far as coordinating and working with them, it's the same thing as far as staggered closing. a big thing over there on broadway is everyone closing at the same time and everyone coming out onto the street, you know, at the same time. also, just checking in on, you know, the two pizzerias and the liquor stores. just showing a presence, we're not able to do anything over there, but just the visual presence does a lot. but besides that, just staying an open line of communication with the staggered closing, as well. >> have you been attending any

of the c.b.d. meetings? >> no, i have not. >> they were speaking out against you for a while. i know your immediate concerns are the neighbors and mr. and mrs. diamond, but aside from that, we want to make sure you're in good relations with all your neighbors, as well. but thank you. congrats. >> i have a couple more questions. there's kind of a chicken and egg question here. i just want to preempt that. you're asking for a later closing time, the 1:45. i'm just curious. how are you going to make sure the issues that were arising before like you said, when

everybody spills out at the same time, and maybe it's not so staggered, what are you going to be doing to address the issues that arise between 1:45 and 2:00. >> keep the standard business practices, but just to keep in mind, as well, that just because the entertainment is stopping at 1:00 or 12:00, depending on the day doesn't necessarily mean that we're closing. we do put on a mix, and surprisingly, patrons really don't tell too much, but i mean still, with the staggered closing, and also with the lighting, and surprisingly, the numbers, as far as patrons have still been the things. i think with the practices it's lighting control and letting them now, we're not just closed, lights on, and everybody pushed out on the

street. >> and commissioner tam alluded to the violent events on camera which were visceral and in some cases traumatic for us to watch. it did seem like there were a couple of groups of people popping up at different incidents. and i'm wondering the fact that you haven't had violence or haven't had any incidents inside if you've done any work who's coming in and identified the people who are problem issues, had any progress on that front? >> we've had one change of the entering process to make it more organized as far as more space in between patrons entering our venue. but we have had some staff changing, as well, to where some regulars that are on the street would have now been not allowed into our space. >> got it. got it.

>> so we have been on top of that, as well. >> it did seem like a couple of groups of people were giving you a bad rap overall. and then, the last thing i would say is you've done the work to now. you've done something that's really extraordinary which is getting the main neighbors who have been having problems with you -- who seemed very reasonable, for the record, but you had them convert to kind of being supportive of you. and i would just say if we were to change things, don't stop. as a business owner -- i've got 11 bars in san francisco. you stop for a month, you go back three years. you can never, ever, ever stop managing relationships with the people that you're affecting, so i would just really encourage that. other questions?

okay. i do have a questi you can have a seat. i do want to hear from law enforcement. i apologize to make you wait. >> good evening. my name aways bill twomey with the -- name's bill twomey with the san francisco police department. the police department is in full agreement that hue has done a great job. in reviewing the past six months, we've only found two police reports of note. one wasn't even at our station. it was a report regarding a minor battery that occurred at the establishment, but so minor that the person who wanted to file the report went to the police station closer to their residence to make that report. the second was to document a rather large crowd that was placed out in front of the establishment, to the point where the senior sergeant for

the evening noticed the overcrowding on the sidewalks and wanted to have it noted based on the prior history of the establishment. not to go straight to the chicken and the egg, six months has been wonderful, but it's been a very wet six months. it's been a horribly -- i'm a golfer, and i haven't been able to swing my sticks. i would love to see six months of good weather and the rules that they have in place right now in getting the results that we have once we know that the crowds are going to get larger, and then, the roll into good weather comes, summertime, coming into the city. so that's one of our major concerns is we're going to lift these restrictions right at a time where we know there's going to be an influx of people coming into the broadway corridor. the last note i wanted to make

a point about is this concept of staggered closing that we see at broadway that totally works. we were kind of looking at it. this might be staggered closing more broadly in the central police district. having hue closing a little bit earlier allows us to then start pushing resources to areas that are harder hit. this allows us to start pushing our resources from broadway further down into the wharf as the evening and the morning hours progresses. so our recommendations that we requested these restrictions still remain in place possibly for another six months so that we may be able to examine how weather and resources being allocated to other areas might be affected. >> thank you.

>> thank you. >> sergeant, you said they had some personnel changes. do you do the night beat on a regular basis? >> i'm leaving as they're closing, so i see the early build up to what the evening could be, but then, i don't personally see what the spillover is should there be an incident. mind you, i worked broadway in 2005, when we were parking the sheriff's bus there. we're nowhere that anymore, which is amazing. >> so do you notice a change in personnel where they're more responsive? not closing, but in general, because you're there when the crowd's coming in, right? >> to be honest, when you can say that there's only been one documented police report with crowd management on the exterior, which is always our biggest things, a lot of times, our problems are outside the club or after -- or people are not getting in or they're at capacity, or there's somebody that doesn't see something that

they don't like where they're waiting. they've doing a great job of managing the streets, to the point where we're only documenting it once. so that's a positive, but again, we haven't had the opportunity to see the amount of documenting that we're going to be doing when there's large crowds. >> i'm just asking if you notice any change of personnel, you know, when we were seeing the tapes before, they didn't have identification, you know, proper uniforms. >> oh, they're moving in the right direction. the reason these restricted hours help is yes, they continue to operate, but they're moving from what they can do during these restricted hours. some people stick around, but other people definitely funneling out, and they're

finding ending their night a little earlier. as people leave, problems go away. >> i know. okay. thank you. >> more questions? thank you very much. really appreciate it. i'm sorry you had to sit through everything. i know you probably have a lot of -- perfect. thank you. i do want to have some public comment on this item. i do see some members of the public, so please, you have two minutes, and state your name into the microphone. >> good evening. my name is francesca valdez. i've been a neighbor to bennett since he opened. i manage and operate broadway studios in the same venue at 445 and 443 broadway. unfortunately, last saturday, march 30, at 11:00, bennett was open. there were about 30 or 40 people standing in line in front of our building, in front

of fame's door and broadway studio's doors, and we were closed, and he did not have any security guards. while we were driving out of the parking lot to go home, we saw there was a fight in front of the building by the fire hydrant. unfortunately, i do not have the video now but i will forward it to you. i have our technician duplicating it now. i have three concerns. one is he said he spoke to the neighbors, but he did not speak to us. he never spoke to us to talk to us about his problems or correct what the problem or our problem is, so he needs to come to us and talk to us. number two is -- my concern is also he's lying. if he's -- if he's in the alley and he's in front of the building, he has to have at least two security guard's per the good neighbor policy. number three, my concern is after 2:00, 3:00, he needs to

cleanup his mess, that pee and also trash and empty bottles in front of our building. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> good evening. i'm the business owner and operator on 445 broadway and 443 broadway. i'm in the neighborhood for the last 20 years plus. francesca's been with me for the last 30 years. bennett's clients bring to the establishment a lot of alcohol. they go down all the way to the building -- i'm going to give you those pictures -- and when they came, you know, all those little bottles left after that.

there's so many, i have whole boxes that i collected over the last two, three, maybe four months. and then, of course, last saturday, after the part, sunday morning, this is front of our building, and we have clients, who is cleaning the things? me, because we have clients coming at 6:00. last sunday when we were leaving to las vegas to the night club and bar convention, again a lot of bottles, a lot of vomits in front of my building. not one, but two separate. i have to clean it again, but i've been busy, so i have -- because we have a right to go to airport. but he is letting people drunk -- i'm talking drunk

drunk, and there is that vomit and urination in front of our doors all the time. all this is working right now. do not extend his hours. it's working. let him work even more. thank you so much. this is a picture if you want it. >> thank you. >> this is seven pictures. >> conversation? >> can we actually bring mr. montoya back up, and remember, we applied a whole bunch of new security conditions on you, being written and really clear, also, there's no less than six

security guards patrolling the venue in pairs? are you following all of those? i don't know if we've actually gone in to try to check on compliance for this long list of conditions, but can you just tell me if you've been following them and how that's been working out? >> yes, we've been following them. >> and i don't know where this gentleman lives, but part of the good neighbor policy is to keep 100 feet from your doorway -- from your business -- not your doorway, sorry -- clean and sanitary and safe. so are you checking for vomit? are you checking for broken bottles and things like that? >> yes, i just addressed that. i mean, yes, we do. at 2:30, we do a round and clean everything up. just to let you know, i personally myself and staff come and cleanup human feces

and vomit. at 6:00 a.m., there are human parties that start. yes, we cleanup as much as we can, but that doesn't mean we can cleanup after the 26 a.m. parties that start. >> can i make a suggestion? buy a power washer, and have your cleaning person power wash thursday, friday, saturday night. we have done that at bars where we were taking a lot of flak from neighbors where they were not our customers, and we felt like unfairly accused or blamed about something that wasn't ours. when you start power washing your neighbors, and you create a buffer zone, and you can see the difference on the sidewalk between where you stopped washing and you started, it's impossible for people to

complain. you literally have this shining area that's about 100 feet from your doors that people cannot help but be like wow, i wish i was a neighbor of them. it only costs a couple hundred bucks, and you teach your cleaning staff to do it. it's incredibly effective. just incredible. >> yeah. >> are you doing it now? are you doing it at least once a month? >> yeah. we're doing it, and the c.b.d. that we're a part of also, as well, but i have no problem starting pressure washing in front of their place, as well. >> so is your neighborhood liaison in communication with them, as well? they're your neighbors. you share a driveway. i mean, obviously, nobody's going anywhere. you're not going anywhere, they're not going anywhere. they come up with the security footage. they're tired of it, but is there any way that your liaisons can have more communication with them and

make sure your place is picked up. we don't expect you to have it all clean at 3:00 a.m., but after you close, if you do a walk-through, and you pick up bottles and you do what you can -- i remember one time, the a.b.c. told me as long as you have a procedure, and you're sticking to your procedure, there's not much government regulators can do to you as long as you're making after effort. if the neighbor's not saying you're making an effort, it makes a big difference. so since you have a neighborhood liaison to address these things, don't you think they should be talking to your neighbor next door, as well? >> yes. the relationship with them doesn't need to improve. what we do, every night, we take a picture of the alley every night, so what we can do is take a picture of their

venue, as well just to document that it's clean there. we can definitely add these to it so we don't have these discussions. >> and let me tell you, it actually flips it. it stops it from not having these discussions to people being like wow, you're amazing, right? it's not like so that won't happen anymore, it's all of a sudden, you're cleaning all your neighbor's doorsteps, and they can't help but say oh, my gosh, this neighbor's awesome, he cleaned my doorstep for four years straight, which is exactly what we had to do. it flips the script. >> i did that, you know, a my place -- my old place -- i did it from bryant street all the way to brandon street, and the neighbors were happy i did that at closing. >> it works very well. we haven't belabor it, but it -- we shouldn't belabor it, but it really is helpful. >> any other comments? >> no. i mean, i'm just so impressed

by how different both the previous agenda item and this one -- i think it's a good way for inspector burke to go out? >> it was all inspector burke. >> so i just want to thank you for all the work that you've done and for hiring staff. i really appreciate the different context in which we find ourselves. and i -- you know, i certainly heard the police concerns and the -- you know, the chicken and egg, if we change this, what happens. but you know, i am also -- i am impressed by how many change has been made in the -- since you were here last, and i think my preference is to go ahead and lift the restrictions on the hours and keep a close eye on what happens and maybe come back again in six months and see? and so obviously, you will know

you're going to be under scrutiny from your neighbors as well as the police, but i'd certainly like to be able to recognize all of the positive work that's happened and move forward and trust that he's going to continue in this positive direction. >> i just -- i mean, i've been there where he's been before, and i know the police, and i know when it's raining, it's been raining a lot, it does tend to damper things. i'm more inclined to go to 1:30, you know -- >> you can have a seat. thank you. >> thank you. >> yeah. and he can come back in six months ago, but just to be a little more communication with the next-door neighbors, maybe. it's not over, and it's true. you know, spring break just passed, but summer's coming, school's going to be out, things are going to be different. and like you said, 1:30, he

still has his ipod playing. people don't really know the difference, but it helps stagger closure. we could give him 1:45, but maybe 15 minutes, or if you'd like, 1:30 on the weekdays and 1:45 on the weekends. that's up to you, but just to be kind of level field with the police and the neighbors. >> i mean, i trust you as the person who's run the club, but i'm not sure, does 1:45 versus 2:00 make a difference in terms of letting them manage their club? >> it depends, how the promotion goes, how the clubs are going. and if there's another fight there, whether it's there fault or not, could be monroe, they're all coming out at the same time. >> they may be all coming out at the same time, any way.

when the d.j. stops, everybody doesn't flood out. the d.j. keeping playing music, people stay until the end. i guess what you're saying, commissioner lee, and i understand. i can't get over the e-mail that we got from the diamonds. to me, that's tangible evidence that what we've done is making progress and also that the entertainment license holder has done an incredible reversal to dealing with the neighbors. for me, i'm personally okay. i think the entertainment owner, the permit holder knows that any violation -- we said it to the last one -- any violation is ground for immediate return here and probably take a look at these conditions because it comes do you object to us, right? it -- it comes down to us.

we're putting ourselves out there, and if there's an issue, we're going to feel compelled to act immediately and take back what we said. i don't know if 1:30, 1:45 makes a difference. i don't know, maybe not street to 2:00. >> -- straight to 2:00. >> it doesn't matter to me. you know if something happens, they're going to point the finger at him, so i'm just trying to say hey, let's try to ping it back, get the security up to speed. i'm okay, 1:30 or 1:45. it takes a lot of time for them to come out and for us to hear all this. 15 minutes, they still can serve alcohol. it's just the d.j. that stops at 1:30. maybe that's just my opinion. >> i just want to add as a neighborhood rep, i was really impressed by mr. diamond's just -- i mean, he felt a call

to action to actually submit that letter and ask that it be read on record. i think we've made a lot of improvements in terms -- gains in terms of improving relations between neighbors and night life. the issues between these two venues, you know, we're really moving -- we're shifting the narrative from bad actors to good actors, and i believe that 1:30, 1:45 doesn't make that big of a difference. i say 1:45, and let's keep a watch. you know if anything happens, you're going to be back here and probably here till 10:00 at night. i'm willing to do just this good investment and say, you know, let's give them till 1:45 on weekdays and weekends, so -- >> all right. is that a motion? >> yes.

>> so the motion is to remove the conditions that we put on the license and to add a condition that they will discontinue entertainment by 1:45 nightly. >> yeah, or just restrict entertainment to, yeah. mm-hmm. >> is there a second? i'll second it. [roll call] >> all right, your conditions have been amended thank you very much. please follow us -- up with our staff for your next steps, but thank you very much for coming in, and we appreciate your time. and thanks again to the san francisco police department for

coming in. all right. final agenda item, am i correct, or do we have ten more? >> that's it. >> final agenda item are commissioner comments and questions. >> i have a question, is inspector burke going to return if we have problems with these two institutions? >> well, i've started a consulting firm called decibel specialists, you can reach me at decibelspecialists@gmail.com. >> are we having any of the other inspectors come to our meetings before we find a replacement for -- >> so sure. we can talk about this for a second. so i'm actually reorganizing a bit, and i'm going to have deputy director acevedo head up the enforcement division. that was essentially the intention for the deputy

director to hold that space all along? i think i did that as deputy, as well, but we're reformulating a lot of our processes, and she's going to manage whoever we place in sean's position, so it'll be her managing that at the hearings moving forward, but we're hoping to hire someone really quickly. it's actually an exempt position, so it shouldn't have to be quite as challenging, and i do have five people who are interested and have already sent resumes, so i'm hoping to start conducting interviews in the next ten days or two weeks. sorry. i know, sean, they're not going to be you. >> it's very sad. >> yeah. >> you might come close. >> i don't know. but any ways, so katelyn will be filling in sean's beautiful spreadsheet, which is kind of a pain just for formatting

purposes, but she's got you covered. give her a break for the first couple of hearings. >> great. thanks for taking that on. i know we sometimes have questions, what's the history. i just don't want to catch anyone off guard and feeling off spot. thanks for that. >> yeah, because otherwise, we're going to be texting sean during the hearing. >> can we skype him in? >> i do want to close this meeting in the loving memory of sean burke. but before i do, i have a story to tell. sean burke -- now, i remember, yeah. he's been gone for so long. i do want to tell a story that has nothing to do with it, and i think it's really important. it has nothing to do with sean burke. a couple of weeks ago, the

whole oew legislation came wf the planning commission -- before the planning commission, and commissioner richards stated that he lived near a problem bar and that had outdoor space, and he only got results when he threatened their c.u. that's what he said on record, and i quote, "who am i going to call? the entertainment commission?" to me, the fact that he would say that is extraordinarily disheartening, and insulting to me. it just shows we have a lot of work to do as our commission to make sure that people understand what we do and how we do it, and i think tonight was a really good indication that what we do is extraordinarily effective and actually has real progress. i do want to say to the staff that what he said in no way reflects on the hard work that you guys do every day, and i think it's really, really

rewarding and important, the work that you do. and i think that what he said hurt the staff and that hurts me, and it discounts your work. and the final things i would say to the final thing, who am i going to call? the entertainment commission? hell yes, that's who you're going to call when you have a permit or a problem with someone. with that, i would like to close this meeting in loving memory of our former associate, sean burke. >> sean burke, out. >> sean burke, almost not here anymore. go.

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those are really bold commitments, but in san francisco, over the years, we have built up all of our talk with a lot of action, and in the city, we work to power our businesses and our homes with renewable energy through our clean power s.f. program. i was so happy and excited to lead to those efforts when i served on the board of supervisors, and now, seeing the incredible progress that this program has made as mayor. provides cleaner, greener electricity at competitive rates and starting this month, we will begin the largest and last major enrolment of our clean power s.f. program. by the end of the earth month which starts today, we will have enrolled over 250,000 new customers. [cheers and applause] >> it will bring our grand total

to 360,000 customers for our clean power s.f. program. [applause] some of those folks will be in our agreement programs which provide nearly 50% renewable energy, and other friends like here at the new will will choose to be model citizens by joining our super green program. thank you both so much. for just a few more dollars, as i said earlier, you can be a super green hero for the environment. [applause] when you combine all of these new residents and businesses being empowered by clean power s.f. with places like city hall, the airport, who already have 100% greenhouse gas, the city will meet its 80% of the electricity demand in san francisco. that's 80% of the city receiving

clean, renewable energy from a local motility -- utility with public oversight. how amazing is that? no just as important, we are taking the revenue from the clean power s.f. program and reinvesting it into our communities, meaning more renewable energy projects in our city, and more well-paying jobs for san franciscans. we are already seeing the real-life impact of clean power s.f. and the positive benefits that everyone can realize because of programs like clean power s.f., i'm proud to announce that san francisco has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 36 below 1990 levels. thirty 6%. [applause]. >> the most amazing part about that is we made a commitment to reduce it by 25%, and we have

exceeded that. this reduction, i am losing my voice, excuse me. this reduction has exceeded -- [laughter] >> this reduction has exceeded expectations and it is happening even at the same time that the city's population has increased over 22%, and our economy has increased by at 160 6%. how amazing is that? you can be a global, incredible economically viable city and increase the population while still reducing greenhouse gas emissions. we have proven that you can do that. now we have accomplished so much , but we are just getting started.

today we are launching san francisco's inaugural month of climate action during able because taking care of our planet is not just about signing up for clean power s.f. and other great policies, it is also during the great work to take care of our environments. the san francisco department of the environment has put together a website and volunteer opportunities and programs that will be taking place throughout the month of april. you can visit us online, or just go and google it. san francisco department of environment. this website will make participating in earth month activities more accessible to the public and help everyone get involved in some capacity and get excited about doing something about the environments let me tell you, it can be done. i have made a conscious effort to reduce the amount of trash by

paying close attention to what i produce. i hardly empty anything in the black garbage can now because of composting, because of recycling , i mean, it is absolutely amazing what you can do when you make changes to how you get rid of waste. putting together a great earth month team has been a team effort, and i want to thank the leaders at the public utilities commission, and we know that some of our commissioners are here today, as well as i want to thank the department of environment for the work that they continue to do, and i also would like to thank the clean power s.f. director. thank you so much. and our commissioner, francesca, and i think others who were former commissioners but has worked really hard on the lot of

this work. and of course, those individuals , and now i would like to turn over at the podium. thank you so much. i hope i'm saying your name right. but the fact is, they doing some great work and i am sorry i am butchering your name, but this incredible place, the new will, we are so grateful for their commitment to the environment by leading by example. come on up and tell us a little bit about the amazing work that you are doing right here. [applause] >> thank you. my name is karen. i am co-owner of the new wheel in san francisco and i wanted to first and foremost thank you for choosing to be here on this day.

we are really, truly honored. and honored to be able to use this moment to tell you and to help share the vision for the way that we can take all of the thoughts about the importance of how we use our resources and the worries about our earth, and put them into action in ways that are really, really super meaningful. here at the new wheel, we are mission driven, but mission with lots of solutions, and that has been important to us the whole time. we know that electric bicycles change san francisco for san franciscans because they flatten this city. the city we know as a hilly place where you have to have a car to be able to get to school or go to work, or get to the gym that is no longer the case. you can get yourself in your suit, leave the house from anywhere, and get to work in good style on an electric bike. best of all, commuting for two

weeks, you will use the same amount of power as you would taking a ten minute hot shower. that means that when you sign up to be a super green customer, you are using that 100% renewable cleaner power and the cleanest way you possibly can to get from point a to point b and you will have a really good time doing it, so thank you for being here. we really are so optimistic about the future of san francisco and the future of our earth because we know that the choices that we make make a big difference. the decisions that we make make a big difference in our actions make a difference. thank you. i would like to introduce -- did i get your name wrong, too. [laughter] >> no worries. >> it is a trend. >> hi there. [laughter] and my tradition, we are taught to respect and revere mother

earth. we learned that water and earth are sacred, and we learned we must do whatever we can to reduce our impact on the earth. that is why i was enthusiastic when i heard about becoming a super green power of power s.f., a super green customer of clean power s.f. that's why i signed up my household before the major rollout. this is also why i'm proud to live in a city that leads the nation and providing renewable energy for customers. the policy choices that we make not only aligned with my values, it also -- they also help to address environmental injustices that have been created by our antiquated power system. san francisco's push for 100% renewable energy not only improves our environment but improves the health and quality of life of residents in san francisco and i hope others take a step to do what they can to sign up, by upgrading to become super green customers of clean power s.f. to continue that

downward trend of emissions that the mayor spoke about. thank you. [applause] >> all right. make sure you sign up for our super green program at your earliest convenience. thank you all so much for being here, thank you to our customers and those who are taking the extra step for being super green heroes for the environments. this is a few of the things that we are doing in san francisco. there's so much more work that we know needs to be done, not just in our city, but with cities all over the world. if we are going to make sure that we protect the environment, and our planet for generations to come, and it starts with s. thank you all so much for being here and for being heroes for the environment. [cheers and applause]

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