>> it clearly shows that one firms have an understanding of the corporate social responsibility to communities they are working in, it behooves them to work with local community-based organizations like young community for developers. in order to do so without any resources or guidance coming from the s.f. p.u.c. we have worked closely with many over the past eight summers, i look forward to continue working with them, but you all don't want to hear from you, you want to hear from some of these young adults that i have behind me who have all gone through city works , all have graduated from four your institutions at our back working in the city. that is the goal of the program, and they are living proof it is working and we will continue to work.

our future is bright. without further at do i will present to you mr. phillips who graduated from morehouse university, which is a historically black college in atlanta, georgia. [applause] >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. i am a san francisco native and a recent college graduate. i have had the privilege on the opportunity to work and learn about government relations policy, water, power, sumer, i had an amazing experience and i once had the chance to take multiple trips, once as a intern and once as a program assistant and so for me, i was able to rotate this was extremely beneficial i'm interested in the

public policy and i plan on transitioning to the public sector soon. without this program, i don't believe much of my ask success would be with -- i would be the person i am today. i appreciate this program. thank you so much. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm also a native in the bayview i'm here to attest to the brilliance of the city works. it has completely enriched. it maybe competitive -- it made me very competitive. i was able to intern at facebook for my professional experience working at the s.f. p.u.c. and community benefits and so i just

wanted to say, i recently graduated, i studied business management in french and now i am working -- [applause]. >> thank you, thank you. thank you city works. [applause] >> hello, commissioners. my name is elijah and i'm a graduate of the university of hawaii. i am pursuing a master his degree at the university of san francisco. one of the things i wanted to mention is a gave us a very good opportunity to develop a network and i'm not speaking unjust behalf of myself, but my peers who have joined the program as well. not only have we developed in that work, but we have also been forced to ask ourselves a question of, you know, what are we going to do after this program? in doing so, you develop skills that you want to have for the working world and you start to

think about pinpointing what you want to do with your career, and i think that is one of the most valuable things and it even bleeds over to issues of displacement and post- college opportunities in the employment field. i want to say thank you for the opportunity and we appreciate it , and even past that, we have been able to take part in the fellowship program which allows us to get our foot in the door for that specific focus, and for that we are truly grateful. thank you. [applause] >> i want to make one comment before a commissioner walks through the door, i had the opportunity to walk through it commissioner proctor at why c.d. a couple of weeks ago, i think i love most about this partnership between the two you pee -- p.u.c. and all the big corporations is that you guys have a solution, they provide the support, i look at how your

team is empowered and you are bringing stars back to san francisco, and if the city won't take you, the california academy of sciences will take you. i just want to log your work. you give them an open solution. and congratulations to each of you on graduating. a great job and keep it up, this is fantastic. lastly, if i made, i want to make sure i echo the sentiments to the general manager and his entire team without g.m. kelly coming out during the kickoff and allowing these people to see him in the position he is in, just gives them another ounce and another motivation that's not seen before, and when we are working with a.g.m. ellis and she and i are sitting on panels, and we are having conversations locally and nationwide about the work we are doing, it speaks to the innovation and the progressiveness of us here in san francisco and we continue to hope to do more work through

c.b.d. with the firms and the s.f. p.u.c. >> thank you for your leadership >> d.j., congratulations on your new appointment. [laughter] >> wonderful stories. okay, for the next three speakers, davis, franklin and phillips. >> good afternoon. here's a bit of a handout if you don't mind. a copy of our corporate social responsibility report and i have flagged our partnership with the p.u.c. thank you, commissioners, general manager kelly, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today. my name is robert davis nine the northern california regional

director for parsons corporation , we are an engineering firm that have been doing work in the bay area for over 60 years. i'm here and i feel fortunate enough that we were one of the first to be able to contribute to this community benefits program. since 2012, as the program management advisor for the sewer system improvement program, the joint venture has contributed and invested over $650,000 into the community. these funds supported various partners, including, but not limited to the labor community, the community training foundation, the house, and city works. city works alone has been appointed more than 150 internship opportunities in district ten, additionally additionally, as the recently selected as a construction manager at southeast plant, parsons has a significant commitment to community and i serve as executive in charge responsible for distributing

that commitments. i do want to close on a personal note, keep it brief. it was a time back when i had hair that i was in a very similar to city works, and they gave me a tremendous opportunity to really have exposure to professional engineering world, and put me on the path i am on today. programs like this really aligned with the values of parsons corporate social responsibility, and i'm fortunate to be part of it. thinking c thank you, and parsons, of course,. >> good afternoon. my name is dr. franklin. this is dr. rogers, and we are the principal and assistant principal at dr. charles drew elementary school located in bayview.

dr. rogers and i took over leading the school this year and being that we are both born and raised and educated in san francisco, and particularly in the bayview district, receptacle for our students when we came in we wanted every child to be a reader, and in education, everything is assessed and measured, so we set a target to have 40% of our students reading at grade level by the end of the year. we began the year at 10%, i'm so having a 30% jump was a lofty goal, but it is something that we were committed to you in terms of serving our students. our partnership with mw h. and

web coric, they were able to provide us with 20 laptops, and 20 ipad tablets that allowed students to practice the skills they learned in class, so we were able to utilize a program, which is a phonics program, if you allow me, i will start talking like an educator. [laughter]. >> it is a phonics program and students, not often times they get to practice the lessons that teachers teach, so teacher spent about 20 minutes conducting a lesson and then it is over. so we wanted to give students the opportunity to practice, and with the help of this partnership, we were able to do that. with the utilization of the eye read program, and also using what's called rev kids, which

provides books for students to read, because our classroom libraries are pretty limited, it just opened up doors. we were able to better engage students with text and as a result, we not only achieved that goal, but we surpass that goal by 5%. 45% of our students are reading at grade level that is just one example of what can happen when corporations invest in our children, and it is wonderful to hear college students from the bayview graduating from college, and it also starts at pre-k. it actually starts in the home, but it starts at pre-k. what does that sound mean? >> i'm sorry. it starts at pre-k and elementary, and we are so grateful to have had this

opportunity to benefit from that resource, and most importantly, our students are grateful. >> just a quick note from me, i am dr. espinoza jackson's granddaughter. my grandmother is living in the bayview, although she has passed away, we are going to continue to build relationships. so thank you. [applause] >> wonderful story. the laptops were put into the first grade? >> first grade students. we want to start a really solid foundation, so that is when we teach students how to read, and then in the later grades, they read to learn, so those foundational grades are super important. >> it's very exciting. >> thank you. >> thank you so much.

[laughter] >> the next three speakers i have, phillips, or have we heard from phillips? >> i believe he already spoke. >> and teresa gaines. and daniel romilly. >> good afternoon, commissioners , good to be with you all. my name is therese and i'm the founder and c.e.o. of old-school café, which if you haven't been, i brought some brochures because i hopefully will make you hungry , so you will come join us we are the first ever youth run jazz a restaurant supper club, and it started here in the

bayview's hunter's point. think of a 1920s speakeasy, but all run by young people ages 16 to 22 coming out of jail, foster care, and other traumatic life circumstances. my background is a corrections officer working with young men who are incarcerated due to gun violence, and being on the other side, you see quickly this is not the solution, so really i am honored to get a chance to share of the difference when we put money into the other side of the solution of actually investing in our young people and their healing, in hope and opportunities, job training and employment, as well as wraparound supports. that is what we do. the youth actually run the entire jazz restaurant, they are the host, the servers, the chefs , and the entertainment. we teach the management, we tried to get that entrepreneurial spirit and the desire to be leaders, and so one example, we had money that was

given to us through a con parsons investing in our program , and one young man who is a perfect example, jonathan, came to us, he got out of jail, came straight to us. we have a lot of referrals from probation officers. he was ready to turn his life around. a lot of our youth to go into the restaurant service industry, that is not the only place. we really try to get them to dream and expose them to all different kinds of careers. he was very entrepreneurial, and went to talk -- talk delicious, i think they were mentioned earlier and he ended up working for them is it a great job, i really wanted to start his own barber shop, he is now an entrepreneur, has a barbershop called to the barber head, you can go get your hair done they are, please to support our alumni, and so that is really the difference of breaking that immediately, that cycle of incarceration of poverty and violence, but not only giving job training, but the support

that is needed. we have had over 600 youth you have come to the program and they are everything from a master his in screenwriting, to becoming an entrepreneur. we are grateful for the community benefits and we hope you will continue. thank you. >> wonderful story. remarkable. >> good afternoon, my name is daniel. i'm the deputy director of urban at academy, real quick, you have heard a ton of people so i will try to keep it brief. parsons, the joint venture and brown and caldwell allowed us to jump into our newest program which is a culturally reflective and retort retort it -- restorative staffing model where we are migrating 100 black men to be teachers in elementary schools in the bayview hunters point community.

we are extremely happy, because at the baseline level, a partnership from those partners that i just mentioned allows us to get this thing off the ground at this time last year, right now, you can see two in particular instances of success, metrics that we would call success, one being with a young child, i won't mention his name, and the way that he sets the pace for the energy in the entire building, and helping him -- putting people of influence and of direction in front of him that look exactly like him has allowed him to see him in a different light. she wants to help kids younger than him stay online what they want to get out of line. the second point, there has been a steady bleed in the school that we have been anchored act, and part of our saturday school program that has been affected

by the presence and the influx of black men at the campus, no less than 12 families have expressed the fact that they are enrolling their students in that school because of an increased presence, and the malcolm x will start off with a more dollars than they had in over a decade due to that increased enrolment. that's really some of the nuggets that we are able -- that were able to be created by virtue of help from partners like brown and caldwell and parsons. i just wanted to say thank you, especially to commissioners as well for having this program on. >> thank you so much. are there any other speakers on this item? all i can say is i'm rather speechless, actually. i say this, i feel like i am smiling from the inside out when i hear about what the social

partnership program has done, it really is very exciting, and again, misses ellis, very good. any other comments? >> i have a question. when we are hearing about the origins of the program and how it is structured, and how various companies have taken that on, there was an emphasis on outcomes that were part of their proposals and program designs, and obviously what we have been hearing about today, is there a way, is there a scorecard that helps us and others keep track of what is going on? i recognize it is a little bit unusual and that this is not a program that we run, exactly, nonetheless, we have a stake in

it and i'm curious about what we can do in that regard. >> yolanda. >> i'm happy to answer that question. let's start with the basics. the firms are required to report twice a year on their activities , and let me take one step back, they submit a work plan when the contract is awarded, and that is what they report twice a year on, his on the community benefits team, our staff is involved to the extent that you would be on any other deliverable on a contract to make sure the work gets done, so we take the reporting at this point, it really takes the form of a template that we give them that is uploaded into an online database where we track and manage all of the commitments and whether or not they are done , and then we ask for verifications such as copies of the checks, for example, paid internships, if it is volunteer hours with the staff, we want to see the hours of the stuff that participated, so we have not

only the firm charge of reporting on what they've done twice a year, checked and manages -- managed in salesforce online, but we take that extra step to verify from official sources like those copies of the checks or payroll to make sure that those commitments were fulfilled the way they said they were. >> in terms of outcomes like the number of people who are graduating from college and getting college degrees, or i think francesca suggested, how many career jobs have been created, so that's not so much the process where you're hitting all the benchmarks, but what is coming out the other end. one of the challenges we have is you have a lot of truth coming through the program, but you want to see what happens further down the line, and so i think you have these internships going into college.

how many have gone to college, how many have graduated, how many are in the stem, to be have any examples of that. >> we do track -- where we track , on the community benefits program side, which is p.u.c. dollars and p.u.c. staff-a lead, we track and monitor. we are tracking how many kids participate to the college hill learning garden, or how many kids through the school district to get exposed to curriculum that we have developed working with the enterprise staff on what are the literacy outcomes based on water. do they have more knowledge coming out of the end of the school year? his on the community benefits program, we do a lot of tracking

and monitoring on the outcomes and are we achieving the outcomes that we have set forwards. on the community -- on the social impact partnership, which is the corporate social responsibility peace, there's really less longitudinal monitoring and oversight in the sense of are the long-term -- what is happening long-term really, in many ways, because it is being driven by the firms on the outside, so where we are holding folks accountable is what did they say they are going to do, and did they do that without prescribing who, what, how with them, and making sure if they say they have interest in education and literacy, we just really want to make sure that they're doing what they're doing. i don't know if you want to add to that. >> i mean unless there are follow-up questions. >> i do understand the difference in the two problem --

programs and how that would complicate the information that you get. it is tremendously valuable, though. if we could figure out a way of doing that, i mean, the most impressive thing about this is seeing the individual lives that have been changed in a very significant ways, and that doesn't just get reflected in the numbers, but numbers help. if there is a way that we could keep track of that, and graduating from college is just one. career in jobs is another. there are many others. if we can work with a part -- with private partners to figure out how we could do that, i think that would be great. >> definitely. we have been approached by a couple of foundations on the philanthropic side that have been interested in this model, so i think even if we think about the studying and oversight and monitoring over the long term, we're thinking through how we can do that. there definitely definitely has

been a lot of interest on the philanthropic side. they see this as philanthropy, and a really flexible way where it is just in time, and very similar to what they're doing on that side. so that might also be an option as we think about taking a step back. >> i know some of the challenges , even if you -- alumni for schools, trying to get caught up and figure out what the alumni his are doing, it has always been a challenge, and i know dana project pool, they are doing facebook alumni so that you can reconnect and see what folks are doing because , you know, once they're lost, it is hard to track folks down and see what they're doing. if you guys can figure out a way that we can, you know, be more proactive on our side, but maybe , you know, work with our social partners and see how they

can try to track how successful the efforts they put in individuals and how that helped them over time.

>> i think it is important to keep a broad view on who we partner with and how we sponsor thing because getting people workforce ready in general is important to the utility and to the city. it is not specific for an engineer. there are many other important priorities you have kept in the front of your mind, so i really applaud that. >> chairwoman: wonderful. any other comments. let's move on to the next

item. >> item nine. >> a quick update on clean power s.f. >> barbara hail, assistant general manager for power. today i'm going to go over our enrollment and service status update, and i'll talk a little about some of the questions we got at our last session about the clean power s.f f. rates, and how it compares to pg&es. so we're moving along successfully. april has been a big month for us as clean power s.f. has been transferring costumers into the program on their regular meter-read dates. customer cutovers will continue through the month of april. by the end of april, clean power s. f. will have enrolled more than 4,000 customer accounts, including our april enrollment, the program opt-out percentage is

2.7%, and that's accumulative, since the program launch in may of 2016. we continue to have 97% retention rates. so that's great. just last month, i reported that the program had achieved a super green upgrade rate of 3.8%, with more than 4,000 accounts electing to receive 100% renewable energy. so that was a rate of 3.8%. today we have more than 5 5,300 customer accounts, and that is 1.4% of our now 350,000 active accounts we're serving. the super green participation rate has dropped, simply due to the very large number of additional costumers we've been enrolling. so it is still all good news. while we'll be working really hard to bring that rate up over time, what really counts is from a

climate perspective, is the amount of sales, the volume of clean kilowatt hours we're selling that comes from these super green costumers. when we look at our super green customer participation from that volume perspective, it is about 3.5% of the projected annual clean power electricity sales. so that's a good metric for you, 3.5% of our sales are 100% renewable. so on the rate changes, you know, we did get quite a few questions about the it pact of pg&e's march 1 rate change on super green costumers and whether it was costing mor. more.i have some figures for you today that help explain what costumers who sign up for the super green service would may relative to pg&e's default service. before i get into that, i

want to emphasize our clean power s.f. green service costumers currently pay less than pg&e's default service for all customer accounts. so if you're enrolled in clean power s.f., in our regular program, our green program, you're paying less than if you stayed with pg&e, and it's greener. our product is 48% renewable as compared to pg&e's at 39% renewable content. so cheaper and greener for everyone. let's talk about super green, and those are the costumers who opt up to receive 100% renewable product. if you're a residential customer, the typical residential customer pays an average of $771 a month for electricity charges. and if you enroll in clean power s.f. super green service, it costs about $2.70 more, 3.7% more per month to receive 100%

renewable electricity at your home than if you stayed with pg&e and received just their default electricity service. if you're a small commercial customer, like a corner store, the typical small commercial customer pays an average of about $450 a month for pg&e's default service. if they take that corner store and enroll in clean power s.f. super green, the cost to that customer is about $5 per month, 1.1% increase over what they would have paid if they stayed a typical pg&e small commercial customer. and then i have medium and large commercial customer data for you as well, if there is interest in hearing that. yes? for medium, a medium comer pays an average of about $400,000 a month$4,000 a month.

if they enroll in s.f. green power, it's about $4 more. than their typical pg&e electricity service. for a large commercial customer, they pay an average of $67,927, and this would be like a large office building or hotel, and that's each month. today clean power s.f. super green participation costs these costumers $720 more than their typical pg&e electric bill -- i'm sorry, i said more and it is actual less. $720 less per month than if they were a pg&e customer. >> chairwoman: for super green?

>> yes. >> chairwoman: how does that work out? >> it is partly because pg&e is going to change their rates again. so we're in a window here where our rates for some of our customer classes, even when you consider the p.c.i. aa. costs, and it is for the super green product, i it costs less than a pg&e default product. i'm going to report again when i know more about the pg&e changes, and those changes are expected in july. >> chairwoman: >> chairwoman: commissioner? >> those comparisons of super green compared to the default regular service? >> yes. >> and do they also offer their version of green? >> yes, pg&e does, yes.

>> how do we compare them? >> we're cheaper than theirs for those costumers classes today. >> okay. >> chairman: when you refer to "default," i just want to clarify something. >> yes. >> chairman: is that any renewables in there? >> yes. so under state law, pg&e is required to have some renewable content. and today their default is 39% renewable. and that compares to our basic product, our green product at 48% renewable. so we continue to anticipate increases for commercial costumers in the p.c.i.a. rate, but lower increases than we began projecting back in december. if clean power s.f. can absorb the full exit fees for commercial costumers, as we expect we will, the rate relationships that i just reported will continue to be attractive. we're also anticipating

that the p.c.i.a., the exit fee, will go down for residential costumers, which will increase the savings these costumers realize from the clean power s.f. program over all. we ants anticipat anticipate wee more information on the rate change, and we'll come back to you. meanwhile, the green power s.f. costumers are saving across the board. >> chairman: any public comments? >> i want to add a couple of things. one, i just wanted to make sure that the mayor has directed us to give a report on the viability of three options with pg&e's status quo, built out gradually or require their

distribution. and so once we formulate a report, we want to make sure we provide that report to you, the commission, as well. and as you mentioned, we'll make sure we schedule that next meeting to talk about. so i just want to make sure we're very clear on that one. also, we've been having power outages at treasure island, and i know that we've been working with the mayor's office of emergency management, but we really want to make sure that we step it up and let folks know, and so i know we've been working on that. but we definitely want to partner with you, since you're over there, because that's something that is very challenging for us because we can't really make the investment that we really would like to make given the fact that, you know, the systems that we're repairing is very

old. there is the navy, and we're getting ready to take them out and put new ones in. so it is a fine balance. and so that is something that i just wanted to highlight, so as you transition the title, that's something we definitely want to work with you on. other than that, that is the end of my report. >> chairwoman: all right. thank you. next item, please. >> item 10 is a consent calendar. all matters are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a single vote of the commission. there will be no discussion of these items unless a member of the commission or the public requests, in which event the matter will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. >> chairman: commissioners? >> i'll move adoption. >> i'll second it. >> chairwoman: general public, any items to be removed? seeing none -- we're

getting to the end of the meeting. [laughter] >> chairwoman: all those in favor? >> yea. >> yea. >> chairwoman: all those opposed. >> item 11 is other new business. >> chairwoman: seeing none -- >> i have one item. so we've had just two very loyal watchers to s.f.gov tv, and given a shout to jenna and lauren for paying very close attention to these meetings. they've been very generous colleagues to me, and i want to thank you all. >> chairwoman: the meeting is adjourned at 3:13. >> thank you.

>> 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. 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 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 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]

. >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that said okay, 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and we're going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester greenhouse gas emission. the grants that we're giving, they're anywhere from 15,000 to, say, $80,000 for a two year grant. i'm shawn rosenmoss. i'm the development of community partnerships and carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year

to talk about, okay, what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. i'm a school education team. my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it to remove carbon in the public right-of-way on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. >> if it's a greening grant, 75% of the grant has to go for greening. it has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again, this is about permanent carbon savings. >> the dinosaur vegetable

gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. it was the seed funding for this whole project. the whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. >> we usually issue a greening rft every other year, and that's for projects that are going to dig up pavement, plant trees, community garden, school garden. >> we were awarded $43,000 for this project. the produce that's grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. in this garden we're growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce, and artichokes. we'll be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great

fruit and veggies. >> the first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. the reason for that is a lot of people in san francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to berkeley. we kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. one of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. >> pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. my name is david, and i'm the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation center. we were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in

san francisco san francisco. we also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and we also have one of the larger after school programs for children with special needs that serves the public school system. the sf carbon fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. we received about $15,000. the money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. we have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. we actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete so that we could expand the garden. this is where our participants, they come to learn about

gardening. they learn about our work in the greenhouse. we have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. we have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. one is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be, and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes, how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs, so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. >> the thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything, and so when we start looking at how we're going to solve climate programs, we solve a lot of other problems, too. this is a radical project, and

to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the sf carbon fund at the department of environment. >> san francisco carbon grant to -- for us, opened the door to a new -- a new world that we didn't really have before; that the result is this beautiful garden. >> when you look at the community gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. that's a huge impact, and we're just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling that