we see it all the time as we -- i mean, this is a green city and when you ask residents of the city, what are some of the things that are important to you, having greening and then having clean public spaces. it always rises to the top. people want greening but they want that greening to be maintained because we have ahab ith in this city of doing these projects and then not planning for their maintenance. and the only way we can plan for their maintenance is to have enough staffing at dpw to actually do it. and then in terms of the enhanced cleaning services, so when you talk about the alleys and the bart stations, i can probably be more blunt than you are. when we walk into a bart station or into an alley and it smell like urine and feces, you're talking about that kind of situation. >> that's exactly what we're talking about. >> because it's really -- there are areas in the city that it is just -- it's unsanitary. it is just disgusting when you smell it. and, you know, to the extent that we can really have consistent thorough cleaning and not have puddles of urine everywhere and ha

maintaining the california, stewardship council and whereas he played a leading role managing the green cities california and a state wide coalition, and whereas he was instrumental in helping san francisco achieve ground breaking programs, such as the program and the energy and climate programs and, toxic reduction and the out reach program and the clean transportation program and whereas he served as acting director with the department of the environment on four separate occasions and whereas he was established a city first bio diversity program and provided the support to the staff throughout the transitions through the years and whereas he has continued to direct the program, and under the mayors, and was he will be retiring from the city and county of san francisco on june 30, 2014. and now, therefore, be it resolved, that the san francisco commissioner on the environment come mends him to the contribution for the department of the environment and the commission on the environment and the city and county of san francisco and be it further resolved that the san francisco commission on the

commissioners the matter is submitted >> i'll move to deny this this is in direct conflict with the city's greening effort. >> okay. we have the motion by wanting to deny the appeal and uphold the dependent on the basis the permit was appropriating denied and with the cities greening efforts. >> commissioner fong. commissioner hwang is absent and commissioner hurtado and that passes four to zero we're on our last item on one hundred thorton >> commissioners, i have a financial conflict and within 5 hundred feet of the project and prior to me departing i want to thank everyone for staying late especially my neighbors in the back. i think a lot of this at&t has consistently said the process is overly lengthy and unfair. at the same time this is a pretty good lesson that if at&t would do more outreach and identify additional areas that if 1, 2, 3 didn't work we wouldn't have this backlog of cases this is something we've discussed last time we we can only make the suggestion if they don't want to listen they don't have to that's my suggestion >> thank you, mr. johnson we can hear your opening argument.

green apple books have survived the amazon type of companies borders their fiercely independent they support san francisco and loma the locally owned merchants associations to keep the small property owners strong in the city. green apple books was given the prestige honor the leading trade association as the bookstore of the year their nationally known as well. many of the bay area to the local press uncommonly acknowledge them as the best independent bookstore in the area. also in the course among many businesses larger and small green apple engages in business practices they pay their employees strong health care benefits and generous other benefits and their union in his as well their unique i think. also i believe that the city should be doing much more to honor and incentive intents those high road businesses that respect their employees so co- owner pete pass has been involved in the ground level what the merchants association making clement street better as a dad, i know he rides with his kids often in the sunset where he lives and pete and green apple serve on the independent book ceilings association and they've revielthd the association with many, many family and other types of activities along

highway 101, seen there in green on the left. or take city streets, third street in green on the right. expect long waits. >>> 3 hikers rescued today from the south bay. they got stuck at anderson reservoir dam and called for help at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. rescuers appeared to struggle while bringing up one hiker. news chopper 2 was over the scene. you can see them start to slide but they are attached to a rope and they regain footing. two others were safely rescued and everyone is okay tonight. >>> new at 6:00 p.m. many people across the bay area are told to conserve water or face fines. some are complaining they didn't get the message till now. there are three cities dublin, livermore and pleasanton under restrictions. ktvu's noelle walker found out, those potential fines have phones ringing off the hook. >> reporter: pleasanton, what is not ideal is the water supply. if something doesn't change in the town, things could get ugly. >> could you imagine rolling water out and you went to turn your faucet on and there was no water? >> report

of 2005 and it says as a city we want to lead by example and we will only buy green products but there is a lot of work that gets into defining what makes a product green and we spent the time creating the specific identifications to identify the green products and we work with the end users to identify the products that work and to identify their needs. and so, what you see in front of you is a view of sf approved.org and it is a directory that includes the wisdom on the green purchasing and it has the specifications and the green products that we have for the city use and next we are going to talk about what we do with the residents and so with these residents, almost all residents, generate household space. and so because the chemicals that we talked about earlier, many of them are what we use every day like shampoo and the pesticide and cleaning products and we want to start by educating the people and the residents not to put the products improperly in the trash can or pure them down the drain and we will get the solutions to safely dispose of these products the

they were and so once we obviously got the green light from the city and the police we started the race. >> reporter: it only took the lead runners about 35 minutes to cross the finish line, but everyone was delayed by about 25 minutes. for the elite runners for this race, the delay was an issue. >> we're a little cold. i have to say when i started, my legs are a little tying because i warmed up but i got called again but it's fine. >> reporter: dyan johnson still managed to be the first run are across the finish line. the fastest male runner was jeffrey kanisti. you look back in late 80s, you had almost 80,000 runners. a couple of years ago, it became more of a spectacle. >> reporter: with that in mind, organizer and police clamped down on rules against back packs, wheel contrap shouldn'ts and nudity. >> they did a really good job and last year they did a great job. i think it's going to continue like that for now, it's a safer environment now i think. >> reporter: there were nearly 40,000 runners registered for this race. in san francisco, abc 7 news. >>> developing news tonight out o

city. i'm not sure if they're covered >> in certain receptors like placement greening and for the most part they're covered. they will not have the same level of progress as the utility companies >> uh-huh. >> w will and that's often the case because with traffic control signals they've got extremely limited processes to much, much more limit universe in terms of where me place the boxed. >> and a couple of others questions. and some feedback one feedback there was a suggestion that the abatement of graffiti is a 48 hour period we require that with 311 and i'm curious about that >> our starting point for the legislation the city administer ed lee issued a surface mounted facilities regulation that contains the fraction we operate under today. islanders is that order that regulation provides a 72 hour window but i'm flexible on that if folks want to go to 48 hours but we decided to stay at the 72 hours. given the experience i think that would be a sufficient improvement if the graffiti were held until 72 hours >> i think that's a good turn around period i want to make sure we're consistent w

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can't have better timing unvivid lecture with the best thing for bike on polk street green bike lanes leading to the cityall steps to buffalo designed physically separated with wonderful curb bulk outs and green and you wonderful plants in the medium polk street is a game-changer this is the future. congratulation on polk street everybody (clapping) and those changes polk street and market street and bart lift and bike share those changes are pga off already, we've seen the near doubling of bike trips that means that the cities investment is is making it more affordable in san francisco for everyone 90 in every neighborhood. we have a host of leaders and community leaders that are hard working. they know that biking is a key part to making sure our city can grow in an affordable way. our first speaker i'm hoernd or honored to have ridden with mayor ed lee rode from the glen parkway and we're thrilled to ride with them i'm excited he's going to talk about the change in the city and constituent to going forward to a better bike to work in san francisco >> mayor ed lee. >> thank you leann happy 20th (clappi

one other item that i will speak for on the green party and our city and also public net -- public net was the coalition that helped stop the earth link/google takeover. if that happens san francisco internet customers are going to be in a very bad place and it's definitely conceivable that public net will come to you and ask to do a broadband study to create a public broadband system in san francisco. so please allow yourself a little budget flexibility in case we ask for that. we're hoping that you can figure that in. >> thank you. colleagues we have a suggestion on moving the budget forward, should we take that without objection? >> yes. >> without objection the item carries. okay. can you call the next item, please. >> item no. 8 executive officer's report. >> no report. >> okay. next item, please. >> item no. 9, public comment. >> okay, no members of the public wishing to speak on this item. public comment is closed. okay. colleagues, any future agenda items? >> madame chair i need to call item no. 10 >> okay. >> item no. 10. >> no future agenda items? >> public comment on future

green. >> sure. >> the city assigns watering days to control usage and also encourages xeriscaping, a landscapingyou don't get with the program, there's a hole out there in the desert for you. okay, not really. you get like a notice pinned to your door or something. >> but some people, they want the lawn? >> yeah. >> got to have it. >> and they can have it. just don't water on the wrong day. >> how critical is it? >> very. i mean, there's no snow on the western sierras, so we don't get any continued flow into the colorado dumping into lake mead. so unless something drastically changes, which there is no foreseeable relief in the near future. but you've got to stay positive. >> for the first 30, 40 years of the development of the town you just couldn't conceive of what was ahead. what we had, whatever was the newest thing that was happening was so spectacular and wonderful and oh, my gosh, we reached a new eastern edge, a western, northern edge. the odds are slim to zero that we're going to extend it to yet a further horizon. it was inconceivable. so there's the thing. what does the desert do? it

green. >> sure. >> the city assigns watering days to control usage and also encourages xeriscaping, a landscapingthere's a hole out there in the desert for you. okay, not really. you get like a notice pinned to your door or something. >> but some people, they want the lawn? >> yeah. >> got to have it. >> and they can have it. just don't water on the wrong day. >> how critical is it? >> very. i mean, there's no snow on the western sierras, so we don't get any continued flow into the colorado dumping into lake mead. so unless something drastically changes, which there is no foreseeable relief in the near future. but you've got to stay positive. >> for the first 30, 40 years of the development of the town you just couldn't conceive of what was ahead. what we had, whatever was the newest thing that was happening was so spectacular and wonderful and oh, my gosh, we reached a new eastern edge, a western, northern edge. the odds are slim to zero that we're going to extend it to yet a further horizon. so there's the thing. what does the desert do? it exceeds our ambition. >> in vegas, nothing is permanen

is about our issue to leave legacy for future generations. >> the group behind the greening of greensburg says the city'sstands as a real world rebuttal to the koch brothers' arguments against green energy. >> i think the reason the renewable portfolio standard bill was defeated was greensburg, because greensburg has been a model of what can happen when you embrace these new technologies. >> it's not just tiny cities like greensburg, it's happening on ranches across the state. >> we're standing on the highest point in the foothills, great place for a wind farm. wind blows here all the time. over there those trees are actually leaning. they've never had a windless day in their lives. >> pete's family has been on the land, raising cattle, since 1888. but of the past couple of years kansas has seen a severe drought. fortunately pete is raising more than just buy son and cattle on his ranch right now. >> wind is my most drought resilient cropment the wind blows even during the drought, even when i can't have livestock on the ranch. >> half of the wind turbines from the elk river wind farm are on his ranch. >

the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the be

city. i know that the artwork and the greening and maintenance of the boxes as they were grauld improved around the city is other than important improvement to the legislation i applaud supervisor wiener for and look forward to engage the planning association for the richmond i know has been working on the issue for a number of years to make sure if the boxes are approved we're doing our best to make sure they're not a blight and involve neighbors in making them fitting into the neighborhood so thank you very much to supervisor wiener and the co-sponsors as well >> any other comments colleagues. roll call vote >> item 33 supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. there are 11 i's. the ordinance is passed on the first reading let's 80 go to roll call >> supervisor wiener you're up to introduce new business. >> submitted. >> okay supervisor yee. commissioner dooley's supervisor breed. all right. >> all right. colleagues, i wasn't ready but now am

green hatch back. the student called the city for help.they sent over a local beekeeper to take care of the problem and everybody can relax. nobody was stung. that would be very frightening if you went outside to your car and there are bees everywhere. >> yeah, most definitely. for us we have some cooler weather headed our way. live doppler 7 hd picking up some coastal clouds starting to move in. the low clouds will move in overnight and we're wake up to partly cloudy conditions. from emeryville we have a nice view of the bay bridge and san francisco in the distance. 55 in san francisco, 61 in oakland and san carlos and 55 in half moon bay. he's check out sfo where we see the low clouds over the airport. it's currently 67 in santa rosa and dropping to 58 in napa, 64 in novato. you can see the breeze affecting the camera as we look south towards san francisco. here's what you need to know. we'll see increasing clouds overnight. tomorrow will be sunny and breezy, temperatures come down even a little bit more and then the cooling trend contin

high-tech device that can change the timing of traffic lights at some of the city's busiest intersections. the light stays green if the commuter bus is approaching. >> what we are seeing is is significant savings. being on average 5-7 minutes on a trip that could be 50-55 minutes. >> i take the n-judah downtown every day for work. and it's really stop and go until i get to the tunnel. so i think if any additional time saving would be really nice. >> this is how it works. antenna on the bus signals an antenna near the traffic light which in turn signals san francisco's main traffic commuter. muni now making plans to expand the new systems across the entire city. >>> 4:46 is the time. sal, i wish i had one of those antennas. >> absolutely. >> make all the lights green. >> the sal or the little pam thing. the pam button. >> yes. the pam button when i'm late top work. >> good morning everybody. let's take a look at the commute now. traffic is moving along nicely. if you are going to work now, i don't think you will see a lot of slow traffic in your way if you go to work soon. this is a look at the bay bridge toll p

the city owned soccer field is green. val vista park is one of two verdant parks with purple irrigation system. reshaped water. >> it's a fabulous way the kids play on a beautiful lawn and it helps us save water. the fields just the beginning. water strapped pleasanton revealed plans. to be sustainable we have to use the water we have. in four weeks they finalize plans for a expansion of recycling. initially to irrigate next year. but possibly the year after for homes. drinking reclaimed waste water. it would go in the ground water and you could drink it in the regular system. >> technology is here, when you get over the yuck factor, all of our water is recycled. >> i'm hoping the drought will get rid of the yuck factor people have. >> pleasanton shares the treatment plant disposing millions of the gallons in the bay. >> to make the water safe for human consumption and irrigation. >> now to be using recycled water for my drinking water, that scares me. the state is expected to change rules in two years to allow treated se

city efforts. the program aims to have the stewart's involved as well as the pavement to parks program. while san francisco partnership has the greening of sidewalks and transformation of the parklets the city has yet to develop the systemic plaza outside the jurisdiction. for the plaza program the the appealable the potential at the words warts obey robust proposals to carry out the community support goals and include a scope of work and project letters of support. the plazas program is a program framework it didn't include specific plazas plazas will be adapted on a plaza a i plaza basis and also the program will design robust escalation robust programs to benefit everyone. directing the revenue this is a fundamental part of the program approach the program directs the monies back into the plaza and in addition when possible the revenues generated by the stewards could be directed back to the other plaza. the program supports the maintenance goals by working closely with the at the warts for the sustainability of the plaza. an important part of the aspect it is designed to educate a long term management approach for plaza for the co

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city pride. to be able to have that green space to enlarge the opportunity to have more trees in san francisco, that's the reason i feel that this should be a park and to broaden the neighborhood. thank you. >> thank you very much for coming today. >> oh no problem. >> i'm going to call 3 more. i'm going to start with abraham simmons lynn jefferson and robert gerrard. >> good afternoon. >> i come to you as a father who speaks in favor of this project. this park from the perspective of a father of 3 is truly a god sent i do not get out here enough and speak enough about the project i like and in opposition to the ones i don't but i'm almost always in favor of these projects for the families to have an easier time in san francisco and to stay in san francisco so i want to say this project is a god sent and i don't get a chance to thank all these people all the time to put in a word from the north beach neighbors and russian hill neighbors all the people we're hearing from today who have been in support of this project that make lives like mine so much easier in san francisco so i'm in support of the pro

eric brooks with san francisco green party, local grassroots organization. our city and san francisco clean energy advocates. first of all, i want to thank supervisor avalos for putting this forward because, you know, with what's going on in the mayor's office and what's now going on at the state level, we are starting to see that our options for cleanpowersf may be greatly curtailed unless we come up with some really creative solutions. with that said, we also want to make sure that we will retain what we worked for in the last 10 years in san francisco to make sure that san francisco's cca, cleanpowersf is based solidly on local jobs and local installations, hundreds of megawants of installations and thousands of jobs created over the next 10 years. we need to make sure we don't lose that because, you know, marin has been spectacular. so has sonoma. the things they accomplish against opposition from pg&e are incredible. however, we want to set an example in san francisco for a much more robust local build out of resource s from the beginning. california and the ent