medicine's packaging and anywhere where they have touched indoors. then i wipe down the front doorknob and, finally, i wash my hands again. that is it for this episode. i hope you enjoyed my story. thank you for watching. this special occasion. i am community ambassador for the hottest team in baseball right now. your san francisco giants. right, kids? right? i'm so happy to be here with you for this ceremony in honor of a new baseball field right

here at gillman playground. and now to begin our program for those of you that are seated, would you kindly please rise and remove your cap for the national anthem. for the latin jazz ensemble, mr. jorge elington. ♪ oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light. what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ whose broad stripes and

bright stars through the perilous fight. or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming ♪ and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave ♪ for the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ >> thank you, mr. elington. thank you, sir. thank you so much. and, everyone, i would like to acknowledge all of the v.i.p.s that are with us this morning.

we are pleased to be joined by san francisco mayor, the honorable london breed. state senator scott weiner. assembly member david chu. san francisco and recreation park commissioner andy jupiter jones. [cheers and applause] >> president and c.e.o. mr. larry bear. giants broadcaster and good tidings sports caster david flemming. co-chair of the giants community fund kelly larkin cooper. founder of the good tidings foundation, larry harper. [applause] >> giants community fund executive director sue

peterson. and, you know our giants players do so much community outreach and one of whom is very involved in the community all while raising her precious children and supporting her all star husband jenn crawford. >> and a three-time all star who's having one heck of a season, your giant's short stop number 35 brandon crawford. [cheers and applause] >> i also like to recognize staff members of the san francisco recreational parks department. staff members of the good tidings foundation along with the larry harper family. board members and staff of the

giants community fund. and, we have members of our giants front office staff as well. thank you all for being here and always show your support. oh, no. i have not forgotten you because it would not be a giants celebration without our very own mascot, the great lucille. now this is a great community project with many organizations and joining hands. we've got a great lineup of speakers celebrating today. in the leadoff spot, see what i did there she is really our true host for the day and we thank her for her bold and extraordinary leadership for this difficult year and a half.

it's my pleasure to bring to the podium the 45th mayor of the city and county of san francisco, the honorable london breed. >> thank you. it's so great to be here in the bayview hunter's point community. this is exactly what i hope for for communities like the bayview and all over the city. and, in fact, brandon, i was a short stop when i played softball. i wasn't so bad and you played at this field when we played teams when i was in junior high school and let me tell you, this field does not look like it does today so i am so happy for all of you. the junior giants and for the sf bayside. all girls, one of the largest

public baseball teams for girls in the country and annie jupiter jones is here. so if any of you want to play, any of the girls who are here today, please make sure that you talk to annie because we want to make sure that young people know there are no limits to what they can do. that they can be whatever they want, participate in whatever they want and so making sure that they have places like this to play, to grow, to thrive. it is so important because you know, like i was one of those kids, i didn't always listen. i wouldn't have been able to listen like some of the kids are doing right now because i always wanted to be into something. always playing. always active. always wanting to do what i wanted to do. and, in fact, when we provide spaces so that kids can do what they want to do, so that they can learn incredible sports. so they can learn about team work, this is what we're doing.

we're preparing them for the future. so if you want to hit a double like brandon crawford did just yesterday and be apart of a world championship team, you can do exactly that. so i want to thank the giants for their investment in this and i also want to thank the tidings. i want to thank the san francisco rec and parks department because they put together the resources to renovate this particular field and, in fact, i want to also say to all the voters of the city and county of san francisco, thank you for the parks fund in 2012 and continued support for park. we're able to renovate fields like this, but that playground that these kids are going to go play in after this is over, thank you so much that we are able to make these investments. and, i want to lastly say this to all the speakers, keep it

short because i know these kids don't want to sit here for that long, do you? >> you guys are ready to play, right? >> yes. >> okay. let's be patient. we've got a few run ups. be patient with us and we'll make sure we get out there and have a good time. everybody, thank you so much for the rec and park staff, to the community in the bayview hunter's point. to the elementary school and all the folks who are part of this amazing community. well, we can't play right now, but we will be soon. and thank you, for coming out here and hosting this great event. have a wonderful day everybody. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, madam mayor. i have a feeling you were an all star short stop when you were playing softball. and, now, we are joined by our state senator representing senate district 11 which

includes all of san francisco, broadmore colma, please welcome state senator scott weiner. thank you. i was not an all star first off. first of all, let's hear did for our mayor for leading us through this pandemic and it's not over yet, but i know that mayor breed is going to lead us through. i thank the mayor and when we were on the board of supervisors. we fought so hard for funding for our parks. i think a lot of times, it gets criticized. the buses aren't on time. there's always criticisms of the city. but when you look at what the

city of san francisco has done with our park system over the last 20 years, it is extraordinary. as the partnership with the voters, it's a partnership with the community organizations like the giants, but we have been renovating every single park in san francisco. every rec center, every pool. every baseball field. everything has gotten renovated of what our government can do and what our city can do when we all come together and move in a common direction. and resources that this community deserves and our southeast neighborhoods are part of the heart of san francisco and it is amazing to see gilman or the work being done in the mcclaron park.

we are all in it together and we know from this pandemic, our parks matter. we're told you should be outside and the parks were a lifeline during this pandemic and it's going to continue to be a lifeline for our community. this is incredibly exciting. thank you to the giants for being such an amazing community partner. it's truly the heart of san francisco and let's just enjoy this baseball field. thank you everyone. [applause] >> thank you so much. appreciate you being here as well. next up is another tireless public servant and actually, we did a community event earlier this week on tuesday. it's great to see him out here again. please welcome my friend assembly member david chu. >> good afternoon san franciscans. i've always wanted to do this. boys and girls if i say "let's go" what do you say?

let's go. >> giants. >> i'm going to be very brief. when i'm in sacramento and senator weiner knows this. we have rivalries. we talk about democrats and republicans, we talk about red and blue, but there's one rivalry we often don't talk about. when our whole people crushed them i've got to tell you, we might of sent some texts. to say we beat l.a. this is what it's about. it's about our team taking the field. i just want to say all of you are part of a team here in san francisco that's making it happen for our city and not just our amazing giants.

i want to thank larry and our community. we have a team led by our c.e.o. and our coach mayor london breed who has hit that out of the park with so many of you representing the community, representing public safety, representing the nonprofit community, representing philanthropy. and let me just end with one final thing which is this is my neighborhood park. i live three minutes from here. my son and i come here on weekends to play and gilman has never looked better. [applause] >> and, as scott said, you know, under the leadership of mayor breed, the south neighborhoods of the bayview is getting the investments that it deserves. ten years ago, when we came to this playground, we thought will the bayview ever get the resources it needs.

and this year, this is the third playground revitalization playground that i've been to. just thank you to all of you. we're making sure that while these kids are junior giants. some day, someone on this park might be the next brandon crawford. someone in this park might be the next london breed. and we know that every kid in this park is a winner today thanks to the giants and thanks to all you're doing. have a wonderful afternoon, thank you. [applause] >> thank you, david. and now batting in the clean up spot, is a woman who loves her baseball. please welcome annie jupiter-jones. >> thank you. thank you everyone. my name is annie and i have the honor to represent the rec and park commission along with my fellow commissioners.

we are so excited to be here. we are so grateful to the giants community fund, the crawford family and the good tidings foundation to help us re-open this playground. as a city kid, i was born and raised in san francisco and that means i learned to love the giants right here. how many of you got to see a giants game at state park. maybe not as fancy as being at oracle park. i'm so happy in the giants in being able to make the adjustment where it was so important. please welcome board member of the good tidings foundation, your giants broadcaster dave flemming. >> mayor breed had the right idea. sometimes it's better just to grab that microphone, it's a little easier to do.

real quick from me because i am here. i am a proud san francisco resident. being here today just as somebody who loves the city makes me really proud. i'm the broadcaster for the giants. our giants have the best record in all of baseball. brandon crawford is having an amazing season. so i'm here on behalf of the giants and the city, but also on behalf of the good tidings foundation. it's a wonderful organization. those of you who don't know much. take a minute to learn as much as you can about all the great stuff that we do. i do want to acknowledge i don't know where larry and ronnie are hiding right now. can we just give them another round of applause. we really appreciate your efforts. also, the grass that you're

sitting on comes from west coast stir ups. i think that's pretty cool. i just want to say to brandon and jaylin, it has been a pleasure for me. i watched just about every game brandon's been in. our giants franchise goes back to 1883. but it has been even more of a pleasure for me to be around brandon as a person. he is a delightful young man who cares about this city, cares about his team, cares about kids and not just his own kids. i'm really proud of you today for all that you've done over the course of your giants career. and you should be proud too. thank you everybody for having me.

[applause] >> thank you so much. i appreciate you. and i want to take this opportunity to piggy back on what the mayor and assembly member chu and annie was saying. the there could be a future giants announcer out here as well. because momma's getting old. baseball is such a part of this community as you heard from all of our speakers in so many ways and these wonderful kids also participate in our junior giants programs and the city of san francisco as well as 85 other communities throughout the state of california.

it is a free program for more than 2,300 boys and girls and this program teaches our kids both baseball skills and important life skills because i know you all heard it before, baseball really is a metaphor for life. as they continue on with their education and their sports. now, it is my honor to introduce to you giants president and c.e.o. larry bear. >> thank you. i'm going to it take my cues from the boss, the mayor of san francisco and i'm going to keep remarks short because after me as they said is the greatest short stop in history of the san francisco giants and new york giants. so that's back 138 years. i just want to share a couple of things. one is how special it is to

come to this neighborhood where really most of my childhood memories were made. watching willy mays and barry bonds play. and at bayview hunter's park. there's a member of all the volunteering from giants staff would do and still does at brett heart school and incredible community relationship we have here. so it's just such a pleasure to return to gilman field. we had a situation back in 1992 where the office moved and we had a rally in one thousand nine hundred ninety-two and there was a four-year-old and this picture exists in our ball park, we had a four-year-old on the shoulders of his father

holding up a sign that said, "save my giants." you want to guess would that 4-year-old was? yes. pointing over here. brandon crawford. this is also giving back to this neighborhood and to our city for brandon crawford. just a round of applause for brandon. the greatest giants short stop in history. as we mentioned, this is 21 fields have been rebuilt. many in san francisco and it's just such a pleasure for the junior giants and the bay side to be able to use these fields and, you know, it's probably one of the greatest things that i think any of us from the giants can do. we're going to lose games. we're going to win games. we're going to open the world series a lot. we aspire every year.

this is something we can do that will live forever and i cannot thank enough mary and larry and ronnie harper. larry has literally lived here at this field to make sure it's as beautiful today. it just completely fulfills our dream of what gilman field could be. where david chu lives nearby. so thank you for your partnership with junior giants. it's been mentioned that san francisco rec and park is a very involved partner. working with phil ginsburg and we thank so much all the work that park and rec has done

because it's literally a partnership. and the public private partnershipses, you can talk about them, but you have to do them and this is done and several others in the city have done and our goal is to do one a year and if not in san francisco, we work with communities in east paloalto and richmond. but we really do believe that the focus should be as much as possible in our back yard in san francisco. so thank you to the city of san francisco and park and rec and thank you for the amazing partnership that i have to acknowledge the giants community fund board and kelly coover who has been is mazing with her leadership. and cassandra hoffman. russel maps who cannot be here today who has been truly a

leader for us in norwegianing these so now we can get to the person we all want to see and hear from to thank. someone who's leading us in a really powerful way on this field and we had a game tonight against houston. so let's hear from the man who at 4 years old said "save my giants" with a sign. brandon crawford. [cheers and applause] >> thanks, larry. and, thank you everybody for

being here and who helped put this thing together and helped at the field and just honored to be here with my family, all these special guests that we've heard speak, the junior giants and everybody here. as we -- as we're here to celebrate the opening of the gilman playground baseball field. it looks awesome. my relationship with the giants started 34 years ago. i was fortunate enough to go to a lot of games with my naernts. i was such a big fan that when i was your guys' age i did an

assignment in kindergarten and that's what i wanteded to do when i got older and grew up. and that was an easy answer. and my parents always emphasized getting an education first, but they also supported me in every way of chasing my dreams. my dad was my little league coach. he emphasized the importance of fundamentals, discipline, and hard work. he taught me that if i wanted to be the best, i needed to not just show up for team practices, but put in the extra work. needed to take extra batting practice, extra fielding practice as well and work on speed and agility. i also need to be a good teammate and be respectful. i hope to instill these qualities into my own kids. the importance of hard work and

being respectful. and baseball has gotten me to the position i am in today. it's important to key life skills, a way to give back to the community. it gave me an opportunity to go to college and get an education. it's helped me meet some of my closest friends. taught me the importance of team work. to work together and be an unselfish team member. it taught me how to deal with pressure. learning how to adjust in life and embrace challenges. it helps all areas of life. teaches you to deal with failure as well as success. there's plenty of failure in baseball. you'll get out, strike out, make mistakes and make errors. but then you'll also make corrections, try harder, work

harder and be successful. our theme this year for the giants has been resilience. baseball teaches resilience and resilience helps you deal with the ups and downs of life. so my wife and i are so happy we're able to give back to the community in this way and bring young people together here and give them an opportunity to learn life lessons that will help them chase their dreams also. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you so much, brandon. we appreciate all dough on and off the field and lucille i think you'll help me on this. mvp! mvp! so now we thought it would be fun to do a little 7th inning

stretch. for the kids of the bayview and lead please welcome community member earnest east. earnest and the kids, take it away! yes. you guys ready? >> yeah. >> all right. you've got this. >> how's everybody. how about a wonderful hand for these wonderful children out here. i guarantee it's and

encouraging them to do their best. give me a round of applause, parents. you can join us if you will. ♪ take me out to the ball game take me out to the crowd ♪ buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks ♪ i don't care if i never get back. ♪ it's root root root for the giants ♪ if they don't win it's a shame ♪ it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game!

[cheers and applause] >> great job. check check. there we go. how about a round of applause for our kids. special cameo appearance. that was fantastic. all right. as we close out today's ceremonies everybody, it is time for a ceremony alfirst pitch just like we do every night before the baseball games. and, brandon, if you wouldn't mind, we'd like you to do the

catching. have you do the catch, brandon. everyone doing the pitching for us. headed to the mound as one special junior giants player. she is 11 years old. angel wisinger. whenever you're ready, angel. you know what to do. [cheers and applause] >> way to go, angel. good job. very well done. all right. we're almost about to wrap things up here if we can just

have you all be patient and wait a little while and then get to the car. brandon's got to take to the field tonight as you take on the houston astros. we're going to have a little time and let them get to the car and i wangt to thank all of you so much for coming and all of you kids, we want you to look to your camp leaders for instructions after the crawford family has. so be sure to look to your camp leaders. if anybody wants to go to the giants game, we have tickets. so look for our staff in the orange shirt.

if you can or anybody that would like to go tonight. they're going to be over here. okay. right outside the gate there as you exit, check in with them. game one of your san francisco giants. let brandon and the family get out.

>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and

we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in

this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here.

>> i'm london breed and i'm excited to be here at sf general. with a number of people to talk about and the city plans around climate change and thank you for being with us here today as well as state senator scott wiener and sophie maxwell and i know president walton will join us soon and today is a significant day. it's a major step for our city and towards being more independent and providing 100% renewable energy for san francisco. through clean power s.f. and hetchy power in our city we

provide 70% of the power to places like general, city hall, to our schools and treasure island and other locations throughout san francisco and i remember in 2012 or 2013 and senator wiener would remember how important clean power was to the people of the district i represented and so he and i worked very closely to fight to push san francisco in a direction where we finally rolled out a clean power program and in fact we worked to make sure that clean power program was provided to the residents of the bayview hunters community community first. the district that supervisor maxwell used to representative, because of many of the environmental injustice that's had occurred but more importantly, because we know it's possible. why do we need to continue to wait?

why do we need to continue to be subjected to fossil fuel? is that are destroying san francisco and destroying our planet. we can't just be about instant gratification and what we see before us, we have this by will the future and what's being proposed in this world through the paris climate accord and i want to thank president joe biden for making sure we rejoin that pledge and what being done will be significant but what is going to be done in san francisco will be even more significant we can go further but sadly we've had obstructionist and pg&e that has

made it difficult to do so and so, while i want to work with this company as a partner, the fact is, it's been very charging. and one of the things i wasn't planning on talking about today is the fact we have hundreds of affordable housing units that are not only being delayed, because of bureaucracy, it's being delayed because we can't get power into those units and just imagine hundreds of units that could be made available to low income families that can't open and because we can't connect the power because of the delays, because of the excuses, because of the expense of providing new equipment that we weren't even aware that we had to provide in the beginning of the process.

the goalpost being moved throughout the game. at this time, what we know is important is for us to do what is in the best interest of the city and for us to take responsibility we've done it this pandemic, san francisco general, our frontline workers here at general, the work they had to do. that work didn't stop and the lights didn't go out and the power didn't get cut off in the middle of the day, and our clean power sf program and what we do through the public utility commission has been reliable and has been on point throughout this pandemic and we'll be reliable for the people of san francisco. we know that over 70% of san franciscans want to make sure that our clean power program is publicly run. reliable, clean, affordable.

those are the important things we need to think about doing and move forward aggressive lie to make it happen so what are we doing? what are we doing here today? we're taking significant step to invest in the future and when the people who came before us decided, san francisco, needed its own water systems, and they discovered a valley way out two and a half hours drive or something from san francisco. to build the hetchy reservoir and just think about it. this is what we're doing and of you go to any of the city you won't drink it out of san francisco. it's because the investments were made for better future to make sure that we had a reliable source of water that was clean

and good. that's what we're doing here today. we're asking the california public utilities to assess the assets, the power grid that provides power to san francisco because we have made, what essential, was a fair offer to pg&e to purchase those so we can control our own power here in san francisco and this is an important step towards a future, a future where just recently the board of supervisors voted to approve a more ambitious and i want to thank them and our plan to move aggressive and through the public utilities providing 100% renewable energy by 2025 and everyone in san francisco

having access to renewable having control of the distribution of power. we've proven that we can manage the system and we have proven we could make it work without rolling blackouts and the number of challenge that's continue to persist. we have proven it through our clean power program. as we move in this direction and i want to thank dennis her he is a and the members of the district attorney office for putting together this request and to the california utilities commission. this is the first step to get us to a better place. it's significant, it's an investment in the future. we may not be around as either elected officials or even alive

when the fruits of our labor from this moment, for the next generation, but our kids and our grandkids because of the work we're doing here today and with that aid like to introduce city attorney dennis her era to talk about what we're introducing >> thank you, madam mayor. i like that. well, first madam mayor, thank you for setting the stage and not just for what we're doing and to be invested in fighting the battle of climate change and thank you for your leadership along with senator scott wiener and i had the pleasure of working with him in my office

for eight or nine years and i thought he was the harded working deputy in the city attorney office and now the senator in the senate and thank you for your leadership on everything and to my deer friend going back to shutting undo the power plant and we find ourselves and here standing by each other and and since 1918 when we funded the construction of water and power in yo sem tee. pg&e is the poster child for

utilities that puts profits ahead of people and we have seen what happens when you don't put people first and focus on safety. that's why they need to take control of the future and why we are taking the action we're doing today as the mayor as said, with we have a fair offer for $2.5 billion to purchase their san francisco utility assets and they have rejected outright that proposal and said it does not represent a fair market value for their san francisco assets so today, our office filed with the california public utilities commission and eye vallation petition to assess the fair market value of their

san francisco assets so we can move forward with the goal of getting reliable public power here in san francisco and shouldn't be a surprise. under the law they have had the authority for 100 years to make evaluation of a utility as set that a public entity wants to purchase and it's probably occurred over 40 times in the last 100 years. and so this is not new. it is established. and let's set out the value. they say that we haven't made a fair offer. we are more than willing to go before the public utility commission and make a clear case why we want to acquire these assets and what we believe the value is and it is time to move forward and this filing today is the next step in demonstrating san francisco's commitment to purchasing these assets.

i think the mayor alluded to the failure of pg&e to come to the table has been compounded by its obstruction. whether it's affordable public housing, or even a children's museum, they have put unnecessary charges to the consumer to obstruct and get san francisco out of the power business. why are we standing here in san francisco? to dispute san francisco's ability to provide power for a ucsf research facility right here that is benefiting our heroes on the front line and what is that resulted? , a four-month delay and thousands and thousands of dollars extra costs because pg&e as object tracted san francisco's right to provide power to this facility and it

should not be a surprise when you look at how much construction has occurred over the last several years in projects across this city. madam mayor, mayor wiener, i thank you for your courage and your commitment to make sure we're taking the next step forward because, this obstruction, this delay needs to stop and we need to get moving forward to make sure we provide to everyone, reliable and affordable public power and with that i'd leung to ask my colleague, senator scott wiener to come up and say a few words.

>> so we can get on with this process and this is not a short term issue, this is going on forever and ever, san francisco has struggled with g and e for so long and we've seen the problems caused when you have a utility which is so massive, offering such an untenable geography that it's not keeping up its assets. it's so focused on performing for wall street it doesn't make basic say tvusd and infrastructure investments so san bruno, paradise, et cetera, et cetera, and you've heard the consequences here in san francisco. energy is not cheap from pg&e. we pay a lot. it's not like pg&e is somehow the low cost provider, it's not. it's the highest or among the highest in tractor-trailer

country because of its own negligence. we in san francisco have experience and you heard this from the mayor and the city attorney, firsthand, that the local obstruction and the children's museum it's my old supervisor directing. when i was on the board of supervisors, we worked very hard with the community to get that incredible community resource, rehabilitated and upgraded so that we can have access to science for our kids and including kids from all over the city. so that we can could have summer camps there and after school programs and amazing resources. we got it done. it was right as i was leaving the board of supervisors and going to the senate and i get a call from rec and park. pg&e was refusing to inter connect the randel museum to the power grid and refusing to turn on the lights. after all that work, by the

community, all that community in the city, pg&e in the most petty and vindictive way, it wasn't just random, we need to be very clear. it's not that they didn't have the time to get around to it, it was petty and vindictive because pg&e knew that the power. just like muni and museums and park facilities and that are becoming caught up and pg&e's power struggle to provide clean and renewable power. this is real, it matters and it's time to move forward and if

they dispute the evaluation let's have a third party perform that evaluation and let's move forward so san francisco can do what it's been doing for 100 years and that is to provide reliable, clean, renewable energy. sometimes when we talk about public power in san francisco, constituents can say, you know, the city doesn't do this well or that well, why would we have them run the power enterprise. the city has burning running that power enter surprise for 100 years and a regional water system for 100 years and a sewer system for 150 years and the toilet flush and the lights go on and the power comes out of the tap so i know that san francisco can do this well and it's time to take those next steps. and with that, i am would like to bring up former supervisor, for this drick, sophie maxwell. >> they stole everything i was

going to say i am so upset but i can do this. i'm speaking today as president of the san francisco public utilities commission and as a long time resident and former member of the san francisco board of supervisors and along with many communities leaders and environmental leaders and we closed two power plants. the have a view power plant and the portero power plant among the oldest, polluting power plants in the state. it was obvious it was about profits and not people. it was obvious injustice, environmental injustice was running with pg&e and it was long, hard fought and we won that one. with public power, it will be people before profit. with public power, the city will be responsible to the people they serve and the people who pay the bills. it's about time. it's been a long time.

it's something we must take responsibility for the local electric grid in san francisco. with clean sf, we will have reliable power, green, clean and renewable electric power. this is what we shall do and what we have been doing and when citizens understand we have been doing it. and as scott mentioned, when you turn on the lights they come in and when you flush it goes down. we will continue that in a better way. thank you.

>> 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 what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now.

if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part in your household to help the environment. >> clerk: good evening, everyone. this is commission on the environment and the time is 5:05p.-m. cell phones and pagers are prohibited. due to the covid-19 health emergency and pro detect commissioners, department staff and members of the public, the commission on the environment meeting room 416 is closed. however, commissioners and department staff will be