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would be doing it with a different generation of patients who would be more trained or skilled in accessing these kinds of technologies. i think the transition is this is where the transition is wlt with the older baby boomers not part of the technology era and how do we mitigate some of those barriers. we'd be interested to continue to find out. >> i'm one of those baby boomers. one thing that's been interesting is there was a sense the younger people would have a facility around technology the older folks might have a time
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with. it's noteworthy it's not totally true. like all chinese grandmothers are not afraid of video because they talk to their family every week. our assumption was the young people can do this but what about these parts of the community. we're finding as technology begins soon to transform our lives, some of those old assumptions are starting to give way. >> i have one more question about the interpreter service. since there's so many languages we're providing services for, are there any cultural barriers in terms of like different cultures have different approaches and gender
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engagement. do those come up at all? the gender issues for some culture something we're confronted with where people need an interpreter but there's also another cultural considerations in terms of the gender of that interpreter. the system is not that facile in shifting genders like that. the other interesting thing is on a more humorous side, when you give an interpreter, you give people a voice so sometimes it extends the visit. once they have an interpreter
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and they may have more questions and things what your sister said to use and things like that. >> i'd like to commend you on the team work and the breadth of what you presented. it's fantastic. in particular it's very useful to see the number of patients we need to affect some of the red lines on the graph. it's such a small number of people. i think there's better work here than some of the red lines indicate. this very helpful to see. i did have a question about the telehealth. i know the program was one of
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the first published with the potential of telehealth. another accomplishment but i was wondering in light of a lot of legislation that's pending in the state to reimburse telehealth and higher levels of reimbursed services and whether that's being taken into consideration, apropos what you say about resource constraint and whether there's disease states or other areas you might want to look at especially if there's potential state funding to allow to you enter the area. >> our director has been following the reimbursement changes and it will affect our medicare patients and we're capitated there. we are getting credit through our medicare waiver program for
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all the consults and non-traditional ways of interacting with patients. >> one of the things we stress a lot is at this stage, more work flow issues. we're watching the revenue streams. they're low in coming but we're focussed on the work flow integration. a lot of times telehealth projects have this contradiction where there's a piece of it that's now elegant and it's very nice and then you get to the next stage and then someone goes and tries to find a fax machine. we have tried not to do that and try to figure out the minutia much the work flow issues. >> when you think strategically
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about revenue or cost impact of telehealth is why we're focussed on the jail. the jail program has been a wonderful collaboration between the groups and our experiment care director looking at the opportunities to decrease transportation and increase access. we spend a lot of money on sheriffs transporting people to hospital and sometimes they don't low because the sheriffs don't show and there's a loss so those are the kinds of opportunities we're looking at not just reimbursement from a pair and medicare and medicaid. can i say one thing about the digital divide. we have researchers on this and we published around our patients and primary care and clinics. what's interesting is the age gap is real but the poverty and
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low function of health literacy gap is very real. people who have low functional health literacy which is about 50% of our patients and when we watch them complete tasks in a patient portal, two minutes longer, unable to find visits, real tangible gaps that our teams have been trying to fix by en caging our library staff in terms of training. we're developing training and the other piece and this is a huge issue. patient portals are typically only in english and maybe spanish. we have been asked about chinese in san francisco and it doesn't look like it's coming. in the near future. if people can advocate in other forms, that would be great. >> commissioner bernal. >> first, i'd like to thank
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director pickens and we'd like to have the division spotlight because it brings it to the abstract to concrete when we see how the work is impacting the patients and the different divisions within the department. and i do have a question. you're the perfect person to answer these questions and you mentioned the challenge the dermatology and retinalopathy, is that making them fit? >> we did years of work to have
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it go smoothly and all the work is behind the scenes. as any good utility it's supposed to stay invisible but it took a big effort to make it look easy. and now the standards have been raised. we're trying to figure out all those things. for example, with retinopathy how the images can go smoothly from the camera into the system. how the specialist can get them up and a work list and they feel are fast enough and can work with. otherwise thai -- they feel it's
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too clunky and not much efficiency. then after the report how they just hit submit and it appears back in the right place in epic. not that you have to search and dig and stuff. that's the level that i think we're proud of. so the way we're approaching telehealth is one scaling so we don't want some clinics have neat telehealth and others don't. the other thing is we pay attention to work flow. the minutia of the next step and how we get there and we're still in the process of making that transition to epic as smooth and unnoticeable to providers and specialists as we can make it. >> thank you. >> i have several comments. first of all, having been the guy that keeps looking at
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scorecards, going back to the network. this is no easy feat and the idea that even within a grant you have a large number of managers but at least now they're in buckets and we're able to see what we're all working for and able to see how you are performing. for someone who likes trends, i'll have to get out my magnifying glass. on the other hand, with the colors and all, i think we're getting there. we're getting uniform and as we look to jail health, even as you get down to their metrics, we all learn how to be able to read
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the errors and colors we can focus on the next steps and we can get them all green and commend you quickly and move on to the next one. if they were all read you can expect a longer discussion why they're red but at least we're discussing outcomes and the questions of outcomes. i think that's where all of us were going and dr. sanchez would see this as a culmination much what we've been looking for since we started clinics and perhaps even before as we were trying to understand what were the metrics that all of our different divisions were using in order to measure the work they were doing and it wasn't just certain widgets got produced but what happened?
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today we saw that in reading the contract. though we did ask for it, they actually came up with outcomes in terms of for example, a program for psychiatric peer-to-peer program. and it's seeing where they're going and in the case of our delivery system, it's what the delivery system believes. goals we have all set and agreed and then we're able to track them.
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and i feel the department can after all the time i keep asking you, i think you are really on the road to doing it and i want to thank you for doing that. >> thank you for saying that. i will point out we're very hard on ourselves and it's either black or white. even though a lot of those were red were this close to meeting the target. we don't give ourself credit for the attempt only men we meet it. in the next report we'll be further advanced and more green than red. >> i think we're doing our report cards. it would be interesting in half a year where we can come to the quarter and that will show we're on our way as ache network and you're making use of the data.
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and as you add them all into the epic system, we should be able to see that we're going to make use of this system not just put it in and then build it but as we start the use of epic, it will then able to move us forward on the journey we're going on. i'd like to ask your staff to get this far and we're looking forward to the next report. >> thank you. >> any further questions? was there any public comment? >> no public comment. >> we wan move on to the next item.
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>> item 10 is sfdph fy2018-19 scoreboard quarter revenue and expenditure projection report. greg wagner. i'll go through this quickly this is the quarterly report. we normally would have done this at the prior march meeting so we're a little behind schedule but we're presenting it today. the current year projection has
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us projected with a surplus of $31.1 million. so that is overall good news. there's a number of moving parts in projections and you had some of the detailed notes and the written document presented in your commission pact. -- packet. zuckerberg san francisco is our variance. the sfg predicted a surplus. the bulk of that comes from our g.p.p. prime program. those the reimbursement programs under the waiver and there's a few things happening there. we've exceeded some of our targets but we also did project in the budget some reduction from the scheduled reductions to the dish funding that did not
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come to pass in the prior year. so we have some good news there. we have modest good news in our capitation revenues. you'll note we have projected over spending in our salary and fringe benefits. it goes to those at j.c.c. have seen for some time now we're operating at high census. that means additional staffing to meet those ratios. in the budget approved by the commission and adopted by the board for this current year, we had set aside a fund of $6.6 million that would be available to cover at least that much cost if we went over our budget at ken sus and have applied -- census and we applied those to be $3.2 million. that's an extension on our
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hospital side and it's active on monitoring salary expenditures and trying to manage those costs bit there's continuing pressure. at laguna honda hospital. $14.4 million service projected. the bulk is on patient revenue due to the fact each year we make an assumption about what the increase in our medical per diem rate is going to be and we got a more favorable projection. that's good news on our rate. there's some salary fringe shortfall at laguna hospital and the hospital is on top of working on that expenditure. in primary care, we have a short fall in our capitation revenue due to enrollment below
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projection. behavioral health. the two largest are shortfalls due to the delivery system i think you heard about last month and the program has ramped up more slowly than we projected and budgeted. there's an amendment that was approved and this has been in the process going back eight or nine years. it was approved and we budgeted the revenue this year. we received it at the end of last physical year and there was a timing miss match. the shortfalls on the current
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year income and we did that because we knew they were disabiliti disabilities. we put dollars in the contingency and we can work with the controller's office to cover she shortfalls. we have some modest contract savings in health network that is primarily driven by payments to providers under the healthy san francisco program. again, we've seen a reduction in the program and there's surpluses in the payments going out to the providers. and the public health division, there are some salary and fringe benefit savings projected. a lot of those are due to delays in hiring in environmental health division and in new positions we budgeted for ems and other programs over the last
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few years. we're still working to catch up on the speed of hiring for those. public health administration. we have modest surpluses in our medical administrative activities and our salary and fringe benefit costs for $1.8 million surplus. so just a couple of notes on this in perspective. as always, the controller's office at the six-month time frame or a little bit we come to you with this projection they do a city wide projection and include these various projections we're showing to you in our report and balance the ups and downs across the city for the general fund. the balance projected here the $31 million is folded into larger city wide balance and it's used to offset the projected deficit for the coming two years. the city sees the benefits from
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that surplus but we also see the benefit because we're the city's largest general fund department and when there's a city wide deficit we bear a large share of the burden to help do our responsibility to close that. on expenditures. the hospitals in particular there are some pressures on our expenditures. we're still within projected to be within our expenditure budget but it's projected to be very close as a percentage of our total expenditures. so that's one of the areas we're watching very carefully. we don't want to get ourselves in a situation where we over spend our appropriation and need appropriation authority. we put in a number of processes in place to clamp down a little bit on hiring on expenditures that are going out the door and
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have additional reviews so that we're holding that tighter given we're so close to our appropriation. the management reserve established under the budget ordinance has a balance of $80.8 million. that's the current balance in that reserve. the reason is there was a repayment of significant amount of federal funds for multiple years worth of patients we received under sp1128 which help draw federal funds to pay on the laguna honda rebuild. there was recruitment of funds and there was guidance that turned out to be inaccurate guidance. we'll have to repay that.
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we've known about this for multiple years and have been planning for it. i think it's one of the reasons we can show this reserve that we have created is a great value to the department because it helps to weather these without creating a crises you have to manage over the course of the year. we've been able to cover circumstances like these though we are not happy about them. we do not project 1991 state realignment funds in this report. the office does that centrally and they get allocated out to multiple departments and for that reason there's a slight variance in what we're showing you today and what will be included in the controller's six month report about $6.8 million in line with the allocations. that's the ends of my slides.
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overall there's good news to have a projected pros tif year-end balance and that helps our position in the current year and budget. we'll continue to watch on the expenditure side in particular since we are approaching our projected appropriation. >> any questions? i think as we move toward our officer election i want to take credit. >> i'd like to thank the administration that created a way out of transparency in the expenditure report submission.
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i remember a number of years ago when before you had started being able to align and use a more une norm way and finally with the new system being able to separate properly administration from public health and other areas, it was not as clear the system didn't allow it and we've had all kinds of data coming in and of course it didn't help we were running [indiscernible]. i think i can say the same thing to the future officers. i do want to say as we're looking backwards today and looking at our accomplishments, one of our other major accomplishments is really that
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your department has actually been able to provide the commission data we can look at in a detail, because we don't question you because it's there and if you start taking it out, we'll start asking. i think it gives our new director the foundation on which then he can continue to build for the different areas and programs that we have. these are the best that we have certainly looked at over these years. really sound numbers and mr. wagner and the department has been able to build reserves, we've asked for for many years to avoid the ups and downs we experienced for many years when you were first here. those are the dramatic years of
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hours of hearings. we need to go through that if we actually use the business-like approach. you and the city having taken that approach to allow it is to be commended so we could without further question accept your second quarterly report for us. >> great. thank you. >> further comments? >> i have not received public comment requests for the item. >> going to the next item. business. >> item 11 is the health commission officer elections. >> i have the privilege of being able to hold elections and i do want to take a moment to thank the commissioners for the opportunity for having served you as your president for the past five years and during that
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period of time as we've pre -- reflected today good work and the competent administration and as dr. sanchez says, it's really the crew who runs things. we merely watch the ship as it goes along and hope it stays on path. as we move forward, i'm pleased to say i'm not eligible to run again nor would i accept if that were to happen again. it has been my privilege to serve one of the finest public health departments. i think dr. koufax will find that's true.
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there remains much work to be done and there's many challenges for all of us and i'm pleased we have such a fine group of commissioners who will help us strive for any even healthier san francisco. with that, i would accept nominations for president of the commission. commissioner chung. >> thank you, commissioner ciao. -- commissioner chow. >> i'd like to nominate commissioner loyce. >> further nominations? seeing none, we'll proceed with the vote. for all those in favor of james loyce as president say aye. opposed? i'll complete the meeting and then hand the gavel over. is there a nomination for vice
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president? >> commissioner chow i'd like to nominate commissioner bernal as the new vice president. >> is there a second? are there further nominations? seeing none, we'll proceed with the emention all those in favor commissioner bernal as vice president say aye. congratulations and congratulations to president loyce. >> i'd like to thank my colleagues for nominating and voting for me for this important role. in addition, i'd like to comment on commissioner chow and one thing i want to say about commissioner chow is he has held
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us accountable nor services we deliver to san francisco. he's asked us poignant and direct questions and they've improved the health of san francisco people and improved the policies of the health department and has pushed us to be successful in the ability to manage dollars and cents. thank you and i also want to make sure commissioner chow knows i have his telephone number and will use it with great regularity. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. i wanted to thank commissioner chung for the confidence to serve as vice chair. dr. chow i've been a long admirer of your humor and the high standards you hold us to.
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i associate myself with the remarks of our new president loyce. sfdph staff to the facility staff and frontline clinicians inspire us and thank you for the work you do with the partner organizations in the community. again, i hope to able to serve following the example of dr. ciao as our president as well as dr. sanchez who left the commission today. i'm looking forward to working with you, president loyce. we worked together over the years and i'm excited for the opportunity. thank you. >> i'll finish.
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there being no other comments on this, we'll move it on the next item, please. >> clerk: item 12 is other business. >> commissioners, you might note the calendar and we will have additions if you all like and so please let us know. otherwise, let's move on to the next item. >> clerk: item 13 is a report back from the march 26, 2019jcc meeting. >> so i'll make that brief also. we did review at the zsfg reviewed an open session with regulatory affairs and an update on the ahr readiness and received the report and human resources report and the medical staff report. we approved rules and regulations for ap --
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ophthalmology and we looked at emergency medicine privileges were updated to add addiction medicine because it's now being practiced in the different departments as well as in the department of pediatrics and addiction medicine privileges. within closed session we approved the credentials report and the minutes. are there any questions on those? otherwise you will receive a set of minutes with more detail. if there are no other questions, then president loyce has asked and i will then ask if there is a motion for adjournment? >> second. >> all in favor, please say aye. >> aye. >> this meeting is now adjourned.
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>> okay. , here we go. hi, everyone. thank you for being here. i'm london breed, mayor of the city and county of san francisco i'm so excited to be here today to kick off birth month in san francisco. [applause] >> we are joined by the owners of the new will. thank you so much for opening up this incredible place which has 100% renewable energy.
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how exciting is that? [applause]. >> they are a participant in our green business program. they are super green it customers customers, anyone can be a super green customer for just a few more dollars a month. we are gathered here today because we know that climate change is real and one of the most pressing issues of our time it affects every person in every community all over the world. from the devastating forest fires throughout our estate to the historic flooding affecting our friends in the north, we know that climate change has real life and tragic consequences that will only get worse if we don't act. we know, unfortunately, we are not getting a lot of help these days to address issues around climate change from washington, d.c., which makes the work that we do locally and cities all over the world, even more
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important than ever. at last year's global climate action summit held right here in san francisco, i was proud to become the newest cochair of the sierra club mayor for 100% clean energy program. and at the summit, i doubled down on san francisco's commitment to using 100% renewable energy by 2050. 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
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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]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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] >> when i open up the paper every day i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about the planet i
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want to leave for my children and other generation, i think of what contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. ♪ clean power sf is san francisco's key way of fighting climate change by renewable energy and offering it to san francisco customers. i'm from the san francisco public utilities commission. the program came about with state wide legislation in 2002 to enable people to take more control over supplies. i first heard of the program when the organization was advocating to launch clean power sf. what i'm most excited about, it's going to bring 100% renewable energy to my home and
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reinvest into renewable energy infrastructure and jobs. i had gone to a lot of street fairs and heard from the staff at the san francisco public utilities commission to sign up for clean power sf even before it launched. >> we learned about clean power sf because our sustainability team is always looking for clean operations. linkedin is the largest online network. there are about 530 million members using our site. in this san francisco office there's about 1400 employees working in roughly 400,000 square feet. >> after signing up for the program we heard about the san francisco program and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. i'm the co-owner of the new
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wheel electric bike shop. we opened this store in 2012 and the new wheel sells and services electric bikes. 11 people work here in san francisco and our store is about 2,000 square feet. electric bikes are fantastic for transportation in the city, they're clean and green and you get places faster than any other form of transportation. it amplifies the power, it doesn't replace it. it makes it easier to get places by bicycle and it's so enjoyable and environmentally friendly way to go and more convenient in san francisco. >> clean power sf requires two products, green, 40% renewable and competitively priced with pg and e. for those who want to fight climate change more, 100% renewable at $0.02 per kilawatt.
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>> i decided to go with the super greens, after finding it only to cost about $5 more a month to have super green, that's a no-brainer, i can do that. >> we were pleased that clean power sf offers the super green 100% for commercial entities like ours and residents for the city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services for linkedin and now encouraging our employees who have a residence in san francisco to sign on as well. >> clean power sf buys its power from renewable plants that feed the energy directly into the grid. >> there's a commitment to sustainability throughout the entire organization and this
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clean power opportunity reflects that. >> one of the wind farms we use is the shilo wind farm and that is large enough to be able to provide energy for up to 200,000 homes. >> our mission is sustainability, even though our bikes are minimal energy use, it still matters where the energy comes from and part of our mission in sustainability is how we run everything -- run our business. having the lights come on with clean energy is very important. >> the sunset reservoir has solar panels that take up about four city blocks covering the reservoir and the solar power generates energy for city resources and clean power sf for residents participating in the program. >> it was easy to sign up for the program, i went online to cleanpowersf.org and i started
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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
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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
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that you're doing your part in your household to help the environment. ♪ ♪
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