, and the green business program. and my name is sueellen at tkinson and impart of the clean team and i manage the clean business ordinance. >> there we go. >> five years ago san francisco adopted the ordinance for the suitable transportation for the people commuting to and from the city. >> it requires employers with 20 or more employees nationwide to offer commuter benefit to all full and part time employees in san francisco. those commuter benefits could be as a pretax deduction and employer paid subsidy or a provided transportation program. >> the ordinance passed with strong support from the business community, and in a vote by the board of supervisors. over the past five years, we have engaged in very extensive out reach and education initiative including partnerships with the chamber of commerce. >> and these out reach in education, programs include our commuter benefits website and tabling events for both business and commuters and brochures, and free, one on one consultations with employers about our programs

if you look at the program, like the licensed vocational program, city college is a 18-month proo program. if you look at the same level of program it's $30,000. there is a cost barrier in terms of the program. in terms of the population we looked at esl students and graduated. in spring 2013, there were many students who did not have a high school diploma. just for the impact on student, if the city college were to close and they were not able to get a higher equivalency on program and we looked at data and compared to high school and non-graduate wages and it's almost $9,000 per year for individual. there is 16,000 non-esl students in the non-credit program, this is about half the enrollment. there are some non-profits. there are some other programs that do provide esl courses. but if city college were to close and students weren't able to access other programs there is a wage cost and we base this on a u.s. census bureau study that had 9 english workers. these had a good command of the language and the annual wage is about $13,000 per year. >> before you jump to the big picture economi

this is what a green power program should look like. through a combination of truly green power, mostly produced right here in california, san francisco's cca would have made great progress towards our city's shared environmental goals. but that's not the deal with the shell oil that the puc commission just rejected. the program that they said no to included only 25% true renewable energy. this is a serious degradation of the environmental benefits. the san francisco public utilities commission took a look at the deal that the staff had negotiated with shell and the commissioners decided that using 75% renewable energy credits or recs did not provide the green benefits this board of supervisors had repeatedly insisted upon. recs, as you know, supervisor, are like certificates. they can be traded from one wall street speculator to another. they derive their value from commodity trading just like stocks. by the time those recs reach our community choice aggregation program, their environmental benefits are far removed. we're not even sure

manager for the green building program. and with me is rami co-worker and he has been with the environmental justice program and he does a lot of multitasking and works with the energy program as well. but, we are here to present and ask for your approval of the resolution to grant an award to black coalition on aids to perform brown field's out reach services some background united states epa awarded the department a grant to perform a community-wide assessment, and we will use this federal funding, to perform an inventory of the sites on the eastern side of the bay view community. and this is to support the green way, awarded of the open space corridor, e tending the bay trail south ward from att park to candle stick park and we are going to conduct the side investigations and we have a technical contractor. and urs corporation and we issued an rfp to get the services of a non-profit group to help with out reach. earlier this year, in may, i stood before you seeking your approval for an out reach grant award, that was con

locking more into recircling back into the program. >> so the program has two criteria. so when it was amended to be eligible for t dr they put in the requirements that the revenue had to be used on

they are trying to do another template program on how it can join their program. it could potentially decide to join apa in marine and be part of that program. there would need to be discussions that occur with them and in the city and county. >> we can do that with the public utilities commissioners and not being part of that process. >> there is a commissioner there and if it's power related, what's in the charter. i'm not a lawyer. >> i think that would be something worth exploring and maybe at the lafco meeting can be presented to us as a possibility and what the process was for the richmond city council to be able to join the marine cca program. >> i can do research on behalf of that and i can ask the city attorneys office for guidance on that part. >> if i might add, the point is well-taken, i would suggest a two prong approach. i think, i think we should send a letter to the mayor pointing out the misrepresentations. if sf puc staff doesn't feel comfortable doing that, we should do that. i think lafco staff should do that and perhaps the chair would go to t

and, again, i want this program. i want to take advantage of this program. and i want to live in san francisco. again, i want to thank mayor lee, supervisor mark farrell, sheriff's department, our sheriff ross mirkarimi, the union, the [speaker not understood] association, managers association msa, for everything, they come up with a plan to help first responders. and i believe that it's a god send gift program for us because we want to live in the city because we want to serve the city. this is where we belong. and again, as i said, i made my decision when former sheriff mike hennessy swore me as a peace officer. i decided this is where i belong. and, again, i want to thank [speaker not understood] san francisco and everybody for being here today. and again, it's a lot of work. ~ voters of san francisco and i hope that the mayor of housing department and also mark farrell, supervisor mark farrell has enough money to assist us all who want to live in san francisco. not just 10 people or five people or two people. i believe that everybody deserves a chance. t

committed to making this program a success. and this pilot not only offers the last minute solutions for computers, in san francisco, san jose and along the cal tran corridor and also provides a fun alternative to driving around town, bicycling is also, incredibly healthy. and the us, and the surgeon general recommends 30 minutes a day. and finally the bike share, pilot program is one of the first multicity bike share systems in the nation, and so proven successful this system could expand to other cities in the future. and to all of the current and future cyclists, pedal on, and so again, at mtc, we are thrilled to bring bike share to the bay area, and i am looking forward to seeing all of these beautiful bicycles around town, there you go, and so i am pleased now, to again, thank you all for the opportunity to join you in this great celebration. thank you, with that funding from mta and leader without from your commission we would not be celebrating this occasion, and the partners have played such a critical role in launching

reserve officer program. before i do i would like to acknowledge some very important people in the audience. first we have first lieutenant david o'connor new to the police academy of the professional development unit. o'connor overseas the program. and officer who has done a great job over seeing the program. they told me, captain, we want to come here, we want to support you this evening. so they are here this evening and they look very sharp and i'm glad that they are here. >> welcome. >> with that, we'll go ahead and get started with the presentation. >> i would like to talk about the organizational chart of the reserve officer program. the program falls under the administration bureau directly to the training division, the police academy, deputy chin is the deputy chief. then you met deputy o'connor and yeager who is the supervisor in the professional development unit and jeff smith is the officer coordinator and there are 26 reserve officers. this program, to talk a little bit about the history, this pr

this is program you need and the program will do all the environmental things. then we touched on shell, one of the things i want to point out. even though i think shell has been a good partner in this case. they have been working with us and listening to us and taking all the concerns that people have been saying and pro actively saying that you have to give us a hundred percent renewable. we didn't say that. i said how close can you get? they said we think we can provide this product to you. i think that's important to understand that. even if we wanted to get away from shell, if we don't have to execute the contract. the puc staff that is extra keys to do the scheduling from energy from other sources if the city decided it was an issue. as commissioner chair avalos said it's one of those red herrings out this with the program and the final comment is the snapshot with the long-term goals and what does this program look like on day one. they refuse and ignore the fact that this is an every changing program that in the year 20 it going to change. we need to fig

i did want to say that programs like eops and the various coaching and counciling programs at city college provides isn't only about the education there, but also getting people on the right track to as chris jackson says to pull people out of the poverty or out of a difficult situation orren cars -- incarceration. i want to say how lives are transformed and how city college has that latter for some level of mobility for being held in and locked into poverty. it's by losing the accreditation and to losing a college would be like kicking the ladder out of the most vulnerable populations. , not only the english learners but the five thousands that don't dip -- diplomas. it's losing the accreditation that would be destroying the bridge that many people rely on. for those testifying, thank you for bringing that voice about how much it helps people and for the seniors and those that have testified how critical it is for their connection and protection against isolation as seniors and people with disabilities as well. i will continue to work with our budget and legislative office and special tru

it's an incredible program. i want to thank you first of all for the tremendous service you do for the city and county of san francisco and on a volunteer basis. you are a fabulous human being. thank you for your work. >> thank you for your terrific presentation and informing us on this on this important component of the department and then i would like to also echo commissioner turman's thanks and to put a face behind the presentation. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> so, welcome lieutenant o'connor to the department. it's nice to see the other officer, i don't want to mispronounce your name back there. it's good to see you from coming from this program into full time position with the department. so, welcome to you as well, officer. so, captain, how many people are like officer smothering who transition from the reserves into full time paid positions? is that somewhat of an objective for many of them? >> for some. for some they have decided they enjoy the current career they have. they just want to be part

they are going to talk about this program. let's give them some -- let's give them some relevant, strategic, targeted values or ideas. >> okay. so, i respect everybody's opinion. at this point in time, either we're crafting or we're dropping. so, i would like to say that, you know, towards the beginning of the statement that you were crafting, commissioner wald, i don't see there is necessarily a problem to say, you know, we will be monitoring or we have some concerns about the things that you mentioned. and then say the things that, you know, and then the list of things that came after that. i see no problem with saying that there are some -- you know, there are some concerns about some things. we are watching some things. we are evaluating some things because that gives us a foothold to come back to those things. if there is an issue in the future. so, i see no problem with that. what i'm asking everybody is u the next person that speaks, we are either crafting this thing or not ~. so, i say i like where commissioner wald's

i know in my program that 70 percent of people that enter the program complete a program and graduate and are 80 percent of employed and housed at the end of the program. we think that's good. and there are serial neeb rate programs across the united states. we have a call from ireland and alaska which begs the question how can you be homeless in alaska? but there are. if i were brought to a conference for the police, we'd have a very different point of view. if i was at a conference for the district attorney we might have a different point of view . the nice thing about this program is we are going to have a job. the police are going to arrest these. the attorneys are going to prosecute their cases and the public defenders is going to defend their client and everybody gets to do their job. they are going to do it legally, ethically, but we ask more that they do it morally. so, if i'm walking down the street and i'm pulling my dog's chain or i leave my dog outside in the cold and i don't feed it and it has health problems or i kick it and make fun of it and treat it harshly, you can a

come back and say some of the issues, [inaudible] deal with this issue while you're building out the program over the next 6 months. >> mr. president? >> yes, commissioner? >> i would just like to point this out, if you look at the resolution that is in our packet, it clearly states many other things besides rates, we are considering more things because the way this resolution is written, it brings up every topic, everything we may disagree with or want further discussion about, so with that in consideration, i'll pass it along. >> point well taken. any other public comment? i just want to say thank you, we've mad a very robust dialog and conversations and communications and i want to thank each and every one of the witnesses who took the time to be here and to exercise your first amendment right to bring your grievance before a governmental body. i'd like to ask if any of the commissioners have anything they would like to add? vice-president courtney? >> thank you, president torres, i want to echo president torres' comments, i've learned a lot about the advocates, i've certainly learned lot

if they'd like to participate in this program as well. you know, i would like to let you know that what i went over the last couple of years, a come years in this role and leveraging our development team's expertise. typical life cycle of an 234tionv by a donor in a program like this really depends on the value of the asset and then their particular interest in it. when you look at what we'll be offering if this program, the bricks we think we would offer about 150 to $300. again, choosing that amount based on what else is available in the market and what we think resonates with the port's 150th anniversary and what could go quickly in an effort to sell up to a thousand. the benches we think were valued at about $25,000 that is comparable with what rec/park offers for their most valued assets at the house of fine arts, union square and harding park. they offer benches at 10 k and 5k at other locations, but we picked the highest level there. the terminal assets, we think, are somewhere between half a million to a million dollars apiece. th

the total transformation program is a step-by-step program that shows you exactly how to change your child's behavior, and it works. it's how i changed my life, and it's how i've been helping kids get back on the right track for over 30 years. >> what do you see as the most common problem in children? >> the most common problem with children is that they can't solve problems, that life's problems come up-- whether that problem is going to your room, whether that problem is talking in the right tone, whether that problem is not hitting your brother or sister, whether that problem is doing your homework, whether that problem is responding to parental authority-- kids don't know how to solve those problems. most kids solve it by becoming compliant, by accepting limits... >> doing what they're told. >> but there's a group of kids that learn to solve the problem of authority through defiance. they defy the parent, they defy the teacher, they defy authority, and so what tends to happen with those kids is, they look to get their way by being defiant. and they actually train adults and teach

community choice is what makes the clean power program possible. that is why cleanpowersf is so important. even if you don't agree or don't like the program, even if you think the pg&e should be our only option, consider what this process says about the board of supervisors. for nine years the board has consistently and overwhelmingly issued its policy directive in support of the clean power program. the votes have been unanimous on some occasion and the super majority on others. yet now the board's directive has been stopped and because of procedural delays by the puc and we have asked if the board is willing to stand up for its policy directives. this is why i've decided to introduce this resolution and i don't think that unaloe liquiditied commissioners should have the authority to rule elected body members of the san francisco board of supervisors. so, i hope you will join me in urging the public utilities commission to set not to exceed rates in advance cleanpowersf without any further delay. thank you, colleagues, for your support. >> supervi

in 1.1, we are unaware of any expansion program for beyond munis operators and taxi programs. the munis operators were commented and the 1 hour training sessions that bicycle incidents after this meeting. 1.2, we recommended further analysis, the bac unaware of any plans. there is a relative consensus on that. recommendation 1.3, the vac is unaware of any incentives to provide bicyclist who committee a workshop. currently those who complete a course receive a certify icate: i'm not sure we need to do a lot more in that area but we need to do a lot more in certainly promoting. 1.4 was publicized classes roadway behavior recommendation requires further analysis. i would comment because i teach those classes on the 4-hour ride that attendance has dropped off recently. the city has done a 1 hour course which is pretty good. it doesn't get into the detail handling in the road as well as getting the right type of bicycle and detail and that sort of authentic. -- thing. the 1 hour course is a great program. but the 4-hour is probably needed to build confidence as well as the ability

and we're really glad to see this program come along. i personally will be proposing to san francisco beautiful we buy some of these bricks. the first brick will be to name in honor of cruise man, the founder of our organization in 1947. she kept the city from ripping out its cable car system. and

the line shows our transition program that is my program. it shows how many curb ramps have been constructed over the past 3 years. there is a little bit of a down turn in this past year, 2013, part because of the aura funding and the school district funding and that project that's been done. health and -- also, we had a delay in contracts. the curb ramps under those contracts, were not done during 2013, they are going to show up in 2013-2014. we have delays in getting that into the data base. one thing it shows is the paving program that provides quite a bit of curb ramps constructed throughout the city. you can see that most of the curb ramps throughout the city are done by the the paving program. also the bottom line, the totals actually show that we are exceeding our expectation of at least for right now of 1300 curb ramps per year. >> and thank you, ken. could you elaborate a little bit about the paving program actually builds curb ramps, describe the projects and constitutional right in a that gets set. -- criteria. >>> anytime a pavin

i think the tracking system will help everyone with these programs. its important that we will get the infrastructure and notice the ranch can be maintained in a way that will contribute to the self worth of these individuals. also we would really like to thank the partnership that we have with chief nance. he has been a wonderful addition to our team. the youth enjoys him and he's been open to all of our recommendations. so thank you very much. >> great. thank you. seeing there's no other members of the public that like to comment. public comment is closed. and so now we need to -- we have three findings and three recommendations that we need to respond to. supervisor tang. >> welcome new chief and his new role. i did have the privilege of visiting law cabin ranch so i got to see it firsthand. it was incredible. with that i'd like to recommend that for finding 3.1 that the board of supervisors and superior court agree with that finding. >> okay. four finding 3.2 agree in part and disagree in part since there's a needs assessment that is scheduled com

this program, to talk a little bit about the history, this program has been around a long time. it was established in 1900s. in the city charter it talks about this establishing an allowing 800 auxiliary police officers. that's the name of this program years ago and it's turned into what we now call the reserve officer program. doing a little history post world war ii in the 1950s we had over a hundred reserves in our department. so there are a lot of benefit to having a reserve program. i will talk about what we are doing here in san francisco and other programs that are happening in the state. reserve officers are individuals who have a desire to serve the public and contribute to the community by providing public safety services with no compensation. that's what's amazing about what they do. they really are the true believers, they are the ones that are committed to public safety, and want to make a difference in our community. it goes along with the saying that the public of the police and the police are the public. they are true examples of this by being reserve officers. o

around 47 million rely on the snap program, supplemental nutritional assistance program. others defend it as a critical safety net for many americans. we're joined on set by chrisy hanson, she is federal affairs manager for americans for pros prosperity. michael minnis. and policy analyst for bread for the world, and andy fitzgerald, an intern from guardian midwest, who is receiving snap benefits. chrisy, i'd like to start with you, over the past 50 years a version of snap has been a part of american culture. why this move now? what is the trigger to make the cuts? >> the trigger to make the cuts is the reauthorization of the farm bill. snap actually surprisingly is a huge part of what we call the farm bill that comes up in washington about every five years or so. the supplemental nutrition assistance program actually accounts for 80% of the spending this this bill. food stamp programs are set to expire at the end of this month and that's why congress addressed it this month. >> hasn't it always accounted for a huge portion of the farm bill? >> it has. >> why such a big d

they didn't ask what kind of program, what was taught in the program, how long the school had a programor whether students benefited from the program. it only asked did you have a program. that's really not an effective way to determine whether a program works. >> there are different types of programs and some may be more effective than others, but the fact that ther there was that kind of statistical outcome is significant. >> well, it's not significant because you haven't done a controlled study to see what bullying was like before the program was implemented. let me give a simple example of the study's design. if i went out to a group of people and asked if they were taking medication or not, and i found those taking medications were sicker than those not taking medication. you wouldn't conclude that medicatio before taking medication these people weren't sick. you need a group of subjects. some of them get the program or medication. some do not, and then you follow them over time. unless you do a scientifically valid control study, you're not entitled to conclude that a program does

this program has been designed to encourage different kinds of programs.ny cases, the ideal community college these days will be in and out of the community college getting some short term training. may be getting a job that are coming back to earn another next promotion. in terms of requiring they will be transferable credit, our population is increasingly mobile. they want to make sure student who start a community college can advance their education elsewhere if they do need or want a bachelors degree. a big emphasis on this program also has been to encourage close ties between community colleges gettingóp!:ñ the support and lol industry groups. they want to make sure these programs aren't just sort of theoretically good to those at the college but meet specific demands in local communities. host: let's give folks a sense of what the programs. the latest release from 2012 on nearly $500 million that went out the door for this trade assistance program was 297 schools were scheduled to receive grants as individual applicants or as members of a consortium.

we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after theyave their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do par