county of san francisco to join the californiafirst program; authorizing the california statewide communities development authority to accept applications from property owners, conduct contractual assessment proceedings, and levy contractual assessments within the territory of the city and county; and authorizing related actions as defined in the resolution. resolution consenting to the inclusion of properties within the city's jurisdiction in the california home energy renovation opportunity program to finance distributed generation renewable energy sources, energy and water efficiency improvements, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure; and approving the amendment to a certain joint powers agreement related thereto. >> thank you, madam clerk, so in front of us today we have a hearing which will be relatively short and two resolutions that i am co-responsering with mayor lee, to restart, degree ssf, we approved the legislation to have the department of the environment to take the steps to refinance, sf. and this program will apply, a property assessed clean energy advancing program for residential properti

the city and county of san francisco is a participating member of the california statewide community development authority, which is a joint powers authority. the authority is authorized to issue bonds, notes, certificates of participation or other forms of indebtedness including refunding previously issued debt. the federal tax law requires that the governing body of this jurisdiction in which the project is located approve the financing and the project after providing the opportunity for a duly noticed public hearing before the bonds can be issue order a tax exempt basis. pursuant to tefra the city is required to conduct a public hearing and to approve the financing by the authority. this project is located in district 10 and legislation is being sponsored by supervisor cohen. the amount of the bonds is not to exceed $26 million dollars. there is a hearing notice published in the examiner on september 19th, 2014 and the hearing was held at the office of public finance on september 23rd. 2014. we did not receive any comments from members of the public through the public hearing process and the project it