. >> eric brooks san francisco green party and our city. as we stated in the previous hearing we think the whole idea of flipping tic's and the condos should be eliminateed in san francisco. i mean what we should be voting on the board of supervisors within the next couple of weeks is ending the practice all together so there is no more incentive for this nonsense. with that said we do understand that tenants, advocates have been strongly involved in getting a fairly decent process to move forward to produce something they're happy with, so i would say that from the -- even though from the green party standpoint what we really need is -- for you to push the state to repeal costa hawkins, repeal the ellis act as quickly as possible and in san francisco we make some serious moves to reopen and change the deadline for rent control so that we move the 96 date much closer it to today's date so we can get a much larger pool of rent control property in san francisco. with all that said what i would say about what you're considering sending to the

eric brooks representing san francisco green party, local grass-roots organization our city and as the coordinator of the community ceqa improvement team. clearly there are a lot of issues being debated what are sort of three versions of the legislation. we of course still weigh heavily in version of supervisor kim's legislation and also supervisor chiu's direction that he's heading with amendments, but with that said even though there are a lot of different issues kicking around that are important especially with noticing and how it's going to happen really we're starting to get a good compromise on the table with the exception of one key issue and it's the one we keep things bringing it up and trigger on the last approval. what supervisor kim is now interestingly putting forward and a final approval which is different -- by the way i would flip the description of that and call it -- this is just an idea, the first approval for a whole project that is going to trigger physical changes or dbi permits, something to that effect. but anyway it looks like we're heading to a place where the

eric brooks with san francisco green party and local grassroots organization in our city. so, first i want to make sure that it's made clear on the pg&e question. a lot of very -- varied environmental and consumer groups made sure the settlement that was reached with pg&e was strong, which is good for us because it gives us something real competition and it gives us -- and they'll have to spend more on it and it gives us a rate we can maybe compete with. but explicitly in that agreement is that pg&e has committed that in its program it will build hundreds of megawatts of solar energy in california and hire people doing it. so, people need to be aware that that's part -- this is not a buildoutless pg&e program. and there is real buildout in it. it's statewide instead of local and it's solar instead of integrated. >>> now, as to the presentation today, a couple of quick things. one is that we need to reel back on the buildout question and ask a very fundamental question that we have been asking of staff that we asked in the last hearing, and that is advocates, many of which