. -- eric brookes, representing the san francisco green party. the key here is that just based on the contract that you're looking at today, we're talking about a relatively small number of customers producing a relatively small revenue stream. they got off the ground, and the your just to be easy competing with pg&e to stay in the game. that is not completing a big revenue stream. what we're talking about with the scope of work that just got under way last month is that a large body of work needs to be done to show opportunities for building out local efficiency and things like solar, wind, so that over time, the course of 15 to 30 years, you have a bigger revenue stream, not just a little one with some customers at the beginning paying higher rates. and you're not depending on a stream from a small number of customers, but building about a big, new system. building out hundreds of megawatts, it is the key to why we keep saying that this resolution and this contract have a program that goes along with the project has to talk intrinsically about

eric brooks, representing the sand for cisco green party. -- representing the san francisco green party. talking about the build out fo a clean power csf, -- for clean power sf, when we met with south, we said we would step up to the play to help fight for these increases in. not only because of some kind of cynical tit-for-tat, but because getting renewable energy in the city, getting cca to work properly, is dependent on making sure we are paying cost. conserving electricity is less dependent on getting people to pay real costs for electricity. we have done that on water for decades. we need to do it with electricity. the other key reason that we, as advocates, are ready to step up, and we want to make sure we can step up, is to make sure that the task order for the scoping for the build out of work is fully engaged within the next couple of days so that we are under way. fully fleshing out all of the locations in the city, including city college building, hospitals, etc. where we can get strong efficiency installations, renewable installations, demand response, those things over the

i am eric brooks speaking on behalf of the san francisco green party and the local grass roots organization. first of all, it is very nice to come up to this podium and agree with staff completely. that is not often the case. i think the fact that this is the first time in who knows how long that the rest of the city family actually said, ok, we will do this. that is a big deal. even though it is not enough money, the fact that we have gotten that far is a big deal and we need to go with that. with that said, however, i think that it is really key to focus on especially energy efficiency and municipal rooftops for solar and small wind, demand response and et cetera. you know, right now basically we have a boat that is filling up with water very quickly. we have been bailing with a ladle. what staff negotiated is giving us a bucket instead of a ladle. but we are still not plugging the hole that. is what things like energy efficiency do. if we are letting the hole sit there by cutting the energy efficiency budget we are shooting off our nose to spite our face. i think what the commissioner sa

eric brooks, representing san francisco green party and the grass-roots organization our city. i want to concur with all the speakers, and add a little more to that. i am involved with various grass-roots organizations in the city. everyone of them i know of, and every grassroots and neighborhood organization involved in parks that i know of, is utterly outraged with the behavior of rec and park right now. rec and park has spent many years privatizing, raising funds, bringing in restaurant chains, and turning -- aiming at turning our public spaces that are free and open to the public for general use without cost into a virtual -- into a proto disneyland. that is not what the people of san francisco want to happen to our public spaces. we want to reverse privatization and defend the public use of spices. because the sfpuc has a long history with had ceci -- hetch hetchy, you understand the importance of watersheds and habitats at a place like lake merced. these places are primarily watershed have the parents that not places where rec and park makes money off of. whatever agreeme

>> eric brooks, standards as a green party, local grassroots organization. on item 10, at times, you have seen us at odds with the puc on various issues. at this time. we need to back them up on this request. i want to remind folks that climate scientists came out one week ago saying that we no longer have 10 or 20 years to get our global act together on the climate crisis. we have about five years to get our act together. when electricity -- when what we're charting for electricity is a lot less than what it actually costs, it is the same situation with gasoline in the u.s., where we have been subsidizing it for decades and people waste it. this may not be an easy step, but it is a necessary step for saving the planet. the other thing that stopped brought up that i want to highlight, this is key to the bond rating of the power enterprise of the sfpuc. as you know, i have been working extensively with the organizers on getting clean power sf, our community choice program, off the ground. that will require a big revenue bond issuance to get it off the ground.

. >> good evening, supervisors, eric brooks, as usual, representing san francisco green party and the local grass roots organization, our city. i also live in district 6 one block away from the proposed new location of the cathedral hill hospital. there will be traffic nightmares. but what i want to get to is something that's much more fundamental that we haven't fleshed out yet and i will stand up here and oppose this project because what we are talking about is in the big picture, is a hospital chain that's going to build one massive hospital at one of the worst traffic jam locations in the city on two major corridors, deer and van ness, which is frequently blocked up, and make all of its other locations smaller so it can focus everything into that one big hospital, especially st. luke's and also be in competition with other satellite hospitals likely making them smaller and scaling them down eventually if they become this big massive competitor. and it's really ironic that in hearing after hearing, cpmc and its allies have gotten up and said how important this is for earthquake saf

eric holder our attorney general. >>> more evidence this morning that the job market is actually getting better. >> yeah. all eyes on europe. here now is jason brooksith kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com. big day. good morning, jason. >> reporter: good morning. it certainly is seeing a fairly decent trend developing regarding the job market critical in getting the u.s. economy up and running. the first time weekly unemployment claims fell by 23,000 this past week to 381,000. that's the lowest level that they have been at since late february. the four-week average down to 393,000. when it's below 375,000 and staying there consistently, then we'll know that hiring is on the upswing. typically, news like that would be cheered by investors. but unfortunately, we are dealing with europe right now and europe is pretty much moving the markets every, single day on whatever rumors are coming out of there. big summit today dealing with the debt crisis. the european central bank cut its main interest rate by a quarter point. investors liked that as europe's economy is falling towards recession. this could help stimulate borrowing potentially but then the ecb's presi

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